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From: "harold kitching" <harold.kitching01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 22:02:18 -0000
: B-F today in history

------------------------------------ ! TODAY IN HISTORY ! 
------------------------------------ Today is Tuesday, Nov. 6, the 
311th day of 2012. There are 55 days left in the year. This is Election 
Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 6, 1888, Republican Benjamin 
Harrison won the presidential election, defeating Democratic incumbent 
Grover Cleveland with an electoral vote count of 233-168, even though 
Cleveland led in the popular vote. On this date: In 1632, King Gustavus 
Adolphus of Sweden was killed in battle. In 1860, former Illinois 
congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the 
presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In 1861, 
Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term of 
office. In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaik ovsky died in St. 
Petersburg, Russia, at age 53. In 1928, in a first, the results of 
Republican Herbert Hoover's election victory over Democrat Alfred E. 
Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York 
Times building. In 1934, Nebraska voters approved dissolving their 
two-chamber legislature in favor of a nonpartisan, single (or 
"unicameral") legislative body, which was implemented in 1937. In 1944, 
British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by 
members of the Zionist Stern gang. In 1947, "Meet the Press" made its 
debut on NBC; the first guest was James A. Farley, former postmaster 
general and former Democratic National Committee Chair; the host was 
the show's co-creator, Martha Rountree. In 1956, President Dwight D. 
Eisenhower won re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson. In 
1962, Democrat Edward M. Kennedy was elected Senator from 
Massachusetts. In 1977, 39 people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam 
burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College in Georgia. 
In 1990, about one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern 
California was destroyed in an arson fire. Ten years ago: A jury in 
Beverly Hills, Calif., convicted actress Winona Ryder of stealing 
$5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store 
(she ended up serving probation). Five years ago: Six lawmakers were 
killed by a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan during a visit to a 
sugar factory; 61 students also died as a result of the bombing and 
shots fired by guards. Country singer Hank Thompson died in Keller, 
Texas, at age 82. George Osmond, father of Donny and Marie Osmond and 
patriarch to the family's singing group The Osmond Brothers, died in 
Provo, Utah, at age 90. One year ago: Greece's embattled prime 
minister, George Papandreou, and its main opposition leader, Antonis 
Samaras, agreed to form an interim government to ensure the country's 
new European debt deal. Geoffrey Mutai (jahf-FRE E' MOO'-ty) of Kenya 
shattered the course record in the New York City Marathon, winning the 
men's title in 2:05:06, while Firehiwot (FRAY'-waht) Dado of Ethiopia 
made a stunning comeback for her first major marathon title in 2:23:15. 
Today's Birthdays: Director Mike Nichols is 81. Country singer 
Stonewall Jackson is 80. Singer Eugene Pitt (The Jive Five) is 75. 
Singer P.J. Proby is 74. Country singer Guy Clark is 71. Actress Sally 
Field is 66. Pop singer-musician Glenn Frey (The Eagles) is 64. Singer 
Rory Block is 63. Jazz musician Arturo Sandoval is 63. TV host 
Catherine Crier is 58. California's former first lady, Maria Shriver, 
is 57. Actress Lori Singer is 55. Actor Lance Kerwin is 52. Rock 
musician Paul Brindley (The Sundays) is 49. Education Secretary Arne 
Duncan is 48. Rock singer Corey Glover is 48. Actor Brad Grunberg is 
48. Actor Peter DeLuise is 46. Actress Kelly Rutherford is 44. Actor 
Ethan Hawke is 42. Actress Thandie Newton is 40. Model-actress Rebecca 
Romijn (roh-MAYN') is 40. Actress Zoe McLellan is 38. Actress Nicole 
Dubuc is 34. Actress Taryn Manning is 34. Singer-songwriter Ben Rector 
is 26. Actress Emma Stone is 24. Actress Mercedes Kastner is 23. 
Thought for Today: "I know nothing grander, better exercise, better 
digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of 
faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. 
Walt Whitman, American poet (1819-1892).
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