Billy Graham Is Ninety Years Old Today



William Franklin Graham Jr.,(born November 7, 1918) better known as Billy Graham, is an evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple U.S. presidents[1] and was number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a Southern Baptist.[2]

Graham has preached in person to more people around the world than any Protestant who has ever lived.[3] According to his staff, as of 1993 more than 2.5 million people had "stepped forward at his crusades to accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour".[4] As of 2002, Graham's lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped two billion.[3]
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"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

Marie Curie
(11/07/1867 – 07/04/1934)
French scientist

"It's all right, the white wine came up with the fish."

Herman J. Mankiewicz
(11/07/1897 – 03/05/1953)
US writer, producer (brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz) , on being sick after a formal dinner



"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

Konrad Lorenz
(11/07/1903 – 02/27/1989)
Austrian zoologist



"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Count Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
(08/28/1828 – 11/07/1910)
Russian writer



"A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers."

Albert Camus
(11/07/1913 – 01/04/1960)
French existential writer



"I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing."

Steve McQueen
(03/24/1930 – 11/07/1980)
US actor

BIRTHS:

680 - The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

* 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
* 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

* 1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
* 1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

* 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.

* 1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

* 1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.

* 1908 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

* 1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

* 1914 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
* 1916 - Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

* 1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia was still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show the date as October 25).

* 1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

* 1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

* 1940 - In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

* 1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia was sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

* 1941 - Holocaust: In Nemyriv, Ukraine, German fascists murder 2580 Jews.[citation needed]

* 1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

* 1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

* 1967 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

* 1973 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
* 1983 - 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building.

* 1989 - East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests. * 1990 - Mary Robinson becomes

* 1991 - Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

* 1994 - WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.

* 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

* 1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.

* 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.

* 2000 - Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.

* 2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

* 2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.

* 2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.

* 2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

* 2007 - Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

BIRTHS

* 630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
1765)

* 1750 - Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)

* 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
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* 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)

* 1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)

* 1903 - Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)

* 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)

* 1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist

* 1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer

* 1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress

* 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
Prize laureate
* 1944 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)

* 1952 - David Petraeus, American military commander

DEATHS


* 1550 - Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland (b. 1484)

* 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)

* 1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)

* 1978 - Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
* 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1921)
* 1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)

* 2000 - Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)

* 2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)

[edit] Holidays and observances

* Christianity - Saint Willibrord, Prosdocimus, Herculanus of Perugia, Vicente Liem de la Paz

* Northern Catalonia - National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.

* Belarus — Day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar. Formerly an official holiday in the Soviet Union; unofficially commemorated in modern Russia.
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