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Today in History: November 2

1355
English invasion army under King Edward lands at Calais

1570
A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed.

1880
James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.

1889
North Dakota is made the 39th state.

1889
South Dakota is made the 40th state.

1892
Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin.

1947
Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time.

1948
Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States.

1959
Charles Van Doren confesses that the TV quiz show 21 is fixed and that he had been given the answers to the questions asked him.

1960
A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene.

1976
Jimmy (James Earl) Carter elected the 39th president of the United States.

1984
Serial killer Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the US since 1962.

1993
Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965

2022
US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates for a fourth straight time to range of between 3.75% and 4.00%, its highest since 2008 in an effort to fight ongoing inflation

2023
Apple Records release the last Beatles song "Now and Then" as a double A-sided single, backed with their first "From Me To You"; the new song was built from an unfinished 1978 John Lennon demo and 1995 attempt to complete it that had been abandoned due to technical issues, resolved by new technology


Today in History: Born on November 2

1734
Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer.

1755
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, executed during the French Revolution.

1936
Rose Bird, first female Chief Justice of California (1977-87); also the first Chief Justice in California history to be removed from office by voters.

1938
Pat Buchanan, American conservative political commentator, syndicated columnist, author; a senior advisor to presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan.


JOTD

A Woman goes to buy a Parrot. The prices are $100, $200, and $15. She asks why the last one is so cheap?

"Because he used to live in a brothel" says the shopkeeper. She pays $15.

When she gets home the parrot says: "frick me, a new brothel!" The woman laughs.

When her daughters get home the parrot says: "frick me, 2 new prozzies!" The girls laughs too.

When the dad gets home the parrot says: "frick me Pete, haven't seen you for weeks!"