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I Love this thread, but I always forget to go look for stuff from different days. I did this morning.
Nov 1 is NOT a good day to be a composer:
1672 Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
1711 Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1750 Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1768 Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39
1788 Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
1810 Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64
1817 Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79
1825 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49
1844 August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
1895 Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
1942 Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34
1962 Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78
1975 Philip James, composer, dies at 85
1982 Leighton Lucas, composer, dies at 79
Also died this day:
1947 the racehorse, Man-O-War
1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead
1986 Paul Frees, animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1999 Walter Payton, football great, dies at 45
Misc on this day:
1783 Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"
1800 1st president to live in white house (John Adams)
1848 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston)
1914 German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1977 President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981
1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
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"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules."-Earl Butz, on the Pope's attitude toward birth control
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