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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:907622700315996160", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Fri, 09th Nov: \t<br /><br />National Scrapple Day<br />National Greek Yogurt Day<br />Neon Signs Day<br />Chaos Never Dies Day<br />Kristallnacht<br />World Freedom Day<br />Go to an Art Museum Today Day<br />International Inventor's Day<br />Carl Sagan Day<br />Domino Day (Second Friday in November)<br />National Walk to Work Day in Australia (Second Friday in November)<br />Legal Services Day in India<br />Schicksalstag in Germany<br />Day of the Skulls in Bolivia<br /><br />09 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1330 – At the Battle of Posada, the Wallachian Voivode Basarab I defeated the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.<br /><br />1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.<br /><br />1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, was turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. She was believed to have been the first white child to travel to the Western Reserve. On May 21, 1758, at the age of ten, Campbell was abducted from a place in or near the town of Penn's Creek, Pennsylvania. Her captors were a band of Lenape, a Native American tribe also known as the Delaware. Campbell would have been 16 or 17 years of age at this time, having spent about six-and-a-half years with the Lenape. Family tradition among some of Campbell's descendants indicates that she was, at least initially, unhappy at being separated from the Lenape. Although it is estimated that approximately half of the captives turned over to Bouquet attempted to return to their Native captors, a development which reportedly puzzled both the army and the communities to which the captives were being returned, it is not known whether Campbell was one of them. While the Stockholm Syndrom has been advanced as an explanation of why so many of the former \"captives\" wanted to return to their \"captors\", for many of them the more egalitarian life among the natives was prefered to life among the more stratified English, especially for women. <br /><br />1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners took place off the coast of Cuba. <br /><br />1842 - The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City.<br /><br />1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate handed power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.<br /><br />1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.<br /><br />1888 – Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper. <br /><br />1906 – Theodore Roosevelt was the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.<br /><br />1907 – The Cullinan Diamond was presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.<br /><br />1960 – Robert McNamara was named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.<br /><br />1967 – Apollo program: NASA launched the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.<br /><br />1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was cancelled.<br /><br />1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium (atomic number 110) was discovered.<br /><br />2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1731 – Benjamin Banneker, American scientist and author.<br /><br />1801 – Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor, invented condensed milk.<br /><br />1853 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch.<br /><br />1883 – Edna May Oliver, American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing sharp-tongued spinsters. She was characturized many times in Looney Tunes cartoons.<br /><br />1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor, celebrated for her great beauty. Mathematically talented, she and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. <br /><br />1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. <br /><br />1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and professional bodybuilder. As an actor, he is best known for portraying The Incredible Hulk and vocally reprising the role in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. <br /><br />1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress best known for her role as Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1.<br /><br />1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on Star Trek: Voyager.<br /><br />1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress who appeared on NCIS (2006–2007) as Dr. Jeanne Benoit and in J.J. Abrams Star Trek. <br /><br />Happy birthday guys!", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/907622700315996160", "published": "2018-11-09T13:28:34+00:00", "source": { "content": "Fri, 09th Nov: \t\n\nNational Scrapple Day\nNational Greek Yogurt Day\nNeon Signs Day\nChaos Never Dies Day\nKristallnacht\nWorld Freedom Day\nGo to an Art Museum Today Day\nInternational Inventor's Day\nCarl Sagan Day\nDomino Day (Second Friday in November)\nNational Walk to Work Day in Australia (Second Friday in November)\nLegal Services Day in India\nSchicksalstag in Germany\nDay of the Skulls in Bolivia\n\n09 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1330 – At the Battle of Posada, the Wallachian Voivode Basarab I defeated the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.\n\n1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.\n\n1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, was turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. She was believed to have been the first white child to travel to the Western Reserve. On May 21, 1758, at the age of ten, Campbell was abducted from a place in or near the town of Penn's Creek, Pennsylvania. Her captors were a band of Lenape, a Native American tribe also known as the Delaware. Campbell would have been 16 or 17 years of age at this time, having spent about six-and-a-half years with the Lenape. Family tradition among some of Campbell's descendants indicates that she was, at least initially, unhappy at being separated from the Lenape. Although it is estimated that approximately half of the captives turned over to Bouquet attempted to return to their Native captors, a development which reportedly puzzled both the army and the communities to which the captives were being returned, it is not known whether Campbell was one of them. While the Stockholm Syndrom has been advanced as an explanation of why so many of the former \"captives\" wanted to return to their \"captors\", for many of them the more egalitarian life among the natives was prefered to life among the more stratified English, especially for women. \n\n1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners took place off the coast of Cuba. \n\n1842 - The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City.\n\n1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate handed power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.\n\n1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.\n\n1888 – Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper. \n\n1906 – Theodore Roosevelt was the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.\n\n1907 – The Cullinan Diamond was presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.\n\n1960 – Robert McNamara was named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.\n\n1967 – Apollo program: NASA launched the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.\n\n1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was cancelled.\n\n1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium (atomic number 110) was discovered.\n\n2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1731 – Benjamin Banneker, American scientist and author.\n\n1801 – Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor, invented condensed milk.\n\n1853 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch.\n\n1883 – Edna May Oliver, American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing sharp-tongued spinsters. She was characturized many times in Looney Tunes cartoons.\n\n1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor, celebrated for her great beauty. Mathematically talented, she and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. \n\n1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. \n\n1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and professional bodybuilder. As an actor, he is best known for portraying The Incredible Hulk and vocally reprising the role in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. \n\n1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress best known for her role as Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1.\n\n1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on Star Trek: Voyager.\n\n1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress who appeared on NCIS (2006–2007) as Dr. Jeanne Benoit and in J.J. Abrams Star Trek. \n\nHappy birthday guys!", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:907622700315996160/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:907289125278068736", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "<br />Thu, 08th Nov: \t<br /><br />National Cappuccino Day<br />National Harvey Wallbanger Day<br />Dunce Day<br />Abet and Aid Punsters Day<br />Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day<br />National Parents As Teachers Day<br />X-ray Discovery Day<br />International Day of Radiology<br />World Gift Day<br />International Cleaning Woman Day<br />Intersex Day of Remembrance<br />Try A New Recipe Day<br />National S.T.E.M. Day<br />Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day<br />National Ample Time Day<br />World Town Planning Day<br />World Usability Day (Second Thursday in November)<br />International Tempranillo Day (Second Thursday in November)<br />World Quality Day (2nd Thu)<br /><br />08 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1519 – Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomed him with a great celebration.<br /><br />1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford was opened to the public. This is the library used in the Harry Potter Series.<br /><br />1745 – Charles Edward Stuart, also known as \"Bonnie Prince Charlie\", invaded England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.<br /><br />1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, was first distilled from corn by Elijah Craig of Bourbon, KY.<br /><br />1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discoverd X-rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.<br /><br />1904 - Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell received the first US patent for a separable electric attachment plug.<br /><br />1910 - William H. Frost received the first US patent for an electrical insect destroyer (Bug zapper).<br /><br />1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic was signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.<br /><br />1968 - Pioneer 9 Launch into Solar Orbiter.<br /><br />1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovered the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.<br /><br />2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed.<br /><br />1836 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company.<br /><br />1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. He began writing novels in 1890 with \"The Snake's Pass\". He also wrote \"Dracula\" in 1897, \"The Lady of the Shroud\" in 1909, and \"The Lair of the White Worm\" in 1911.<br /><br />1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American author (Gone With The Wind).<br /> <br />1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African pioneer heart surgeon.<br /><br />1924 – Joe Flynn, American actor (Captain Binghamton).<br /><br />1927 – Patti Page, American singer and actress.<br /> <br />1931 – Darla Hood, American actress (Our Gang)<br /><br />1932 – Ben Bova, American author who worked as a technical writer for Project Vanguard in the 1950s. In 1972, Bova became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Campbell's death in 1971. <br /><br />1955 – Jeffrey Ford, American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. <br /><br />1961 – Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and has-been.<br /><br />1968 – Parker Posey, American actress (\"Queen of the Indies\").<br /><br />1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. <br /><br />1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist. He is best known for 666 Satan, which was serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2001 to 2007 and licensed by Viz Media in North America as O-Parts Hunter. <br /><br />1981 – Azura Skye, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).<br /><br />1983 – Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor actor who is best known for playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/907289125278068736", "published": "2018-11-08T15:23:04+00:00", "source": { "content": "\nThu, 08th Nov: \t\n\nNational Cappuccino Day\nNational Harvey Wallbanger Day\nDunce Day\nAbet and Aid Punsters Day\nCook Something Bold and Pungent Day\nNational Parents As Teachers Day\nX-ray Discovery Day\nInternational Day of Radiology\nWorld Gift Day\nInternational Cleaning Woman Day\nIntersex Day of Remembrance\nTry A New Recipe Day\nNational S.T.E.M. Day\nShakespeare Authorship Mystery Day\nNational Ample Time Day\nWorld Town Planning Day\nWorld Usability Day (Second Thursday in November)\nInternational Tempranillo Day (Second Thursday in November)\nWorld Quality Day (2nd Thu)\n\n08 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1519 – Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomed him with a great celebration.\n\n1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford was opened to the public. This is the library used in the Harry Potter Series.\n\n1745 – Charles Edward Stuart, also known as \"Bonnie Prince Charlie\", invaded England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.\n\n1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, was first distilled from corn by Elijah Craig of Bourbon, KY.\n\n1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discoverd X-rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.\n\n1904 - Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell received the first US patent for a separable electric attachment plug.\n\n1910 - William H. Frost received the first US patent for an electrical insect destroyer (Bug zapper).\n\n1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic was signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.\n\n1968 - Pioneer 9 Launch into Solar Orbiter.\n\n1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovered the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.\n\n2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed.\n\n1836 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company.\n\n1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. He began writing novels in 1890 with \"The Snake's Pass\". He also wrote \"Dracula\" in 1897, \"The Lady of the Shroud\" in 1909, and \"The Lair of the White Worm\" in 1911.\n\n1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American author (Gone With The Wind).\n \n1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African pioneer heart surgeon.\n\n1924 – Joe Flynn, American actor (Captain Binghamton).\n\n1927 – Patti Page, American singer and actress.\n \n1931 – Darla Hood, American actress (Our Gang)\n\n1932 – Ben Bova, American author who worked as a technical writer for Project Vanguard in the 1950s. In 1972, Bova became editor of Analog Science Fiction after John W. Campbell's death in 1971. \n\n1955 – Jeffrey Ford, American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. \n\n1961 – Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and has-been.\n\n1968 – Parker Posey, American actress (\"Queen of the Indies\").\n\n1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. \n\n1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist. He is best known for 666 Satan, which was serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2001 to 2007 and licensed by Viz Media in North America as O-Parts Hunter. \n\n1981 – Azura Skye, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).\n\n1983 – Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor actor who is best known for playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:907289125278068736/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:906876537308884992", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Wed, 07th Nov: \t<br /><br />Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day<br />International Merlot Day<br />Employee Brotherhood Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)<br />Hug a Bear day<br />Republican Elephant Day<br />Notary Public Day<br />Little League Girls Day<br />Magazine Day<br />National Eating Healthy Day (First Wednesday in November)<br />National Stress Awareness Day (First Wednesday in November)<br />Day of the Hungarian Opera in Hungary<br />Chocolate Mud Cake Day in Sweden<br />Gastrointestinal Day in Germany<br /><br />07 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.<br /><br />1872 - The cargo ship Mary Celeste sailed from NY to Genoa. It was mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later.<br /><br />1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, was considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.<br /><br />1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway was symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.<br /><br />1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, were train robbers, bank robbers, and leaders of the Wild Bunch Gang in the Old West. The pressures of being pursued by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced them to flee with Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place, first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout.<br /><br />1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) was undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.<br /><br />1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrated tube-launched solid propellant rockets.<br /><br />1919 – The first Palmer Raid was conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists were arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.<br /><br />1932 - The first broadcast of \"Buck Rogers in the 25th century\" on radio took place.<br /><br />1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.<br /><br />1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.<br /><br />1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1728 – James Cook, British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. <br /><br />1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America, and India. <br /><br />1861 – Jeff Milton, American sheriff. At age 15, he moved to Texas where he worked as a cowboy, then lied about his age and joined the Texas Rangers in 1878. After serving with the Rangers for four years, he moved through west Texas and into New Mexico, where he became a Deputy US Marshal in 1884. His real exploits were used by Louis L'Amour in several of his books. <br /><br />1867 – Marie Curie, Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.<br /><br />1879 – King Baggot, American actor. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era, and the first individually publicized leading man in America. Baggot was referred to as \"King of the Movies,\" \"The Most Photographed Man in the World\" and \"The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon.\"<br /><br />1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology.<br /><br />1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker).<br /><br />1913 – Albert Camus, French author, journalist, and philosopher.<br /><br />1914 – R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction and fantasy author known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. <br /><br />1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist. He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics.<br /><br />1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1).<br /><br />1945 – Earl Boen, American actor (Terminator Series).<br /><br />1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian author of fantasy fiction.<br /><br />1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedian, actress, and accordion player.<br /><br />1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor best known for his voice role as the title superhero of the 1994 animated television series Spider-Man, Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid, as well as his on-screen portrayal of Greg Brady in the films The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/906876537308884992", "published": "2018-11-07T12:03:35+00:00", "source": { "content": "Wed, 07th Nov: \t\n\nBittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day\nInternational Merlot Day\nEmployee Brotherhood Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)\nHug a Bear day\nRepublican Elephant Day\nNotary Public Day\nLittle League Girls Day\nMagazine Day\nNational Eating Healthy Day (First Wednesday in November)\nNational Stress Awareness Day (First Wednesday in November)\nDay of the Hungarian Opera in Hungary\nChocolate Mud Cake Day in Sweden\nGastrointestinal Day in Germany\n\n07 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.\n\n1872 - The cargo ship Mary Celeste sailed from NY to Genoa. It was mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later.\n\n1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, was considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.\n\n1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway was symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.\n\n1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, were train robbers, bank robbers, and leaders of the Wild Bunch Gang in the Old West. The pressures of being pursued by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced them to flee with Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place, first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout.\n\n1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) was undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.\n\n1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrated tube-launched solid propellant rockets.\n\n1919 – The first Palmer Raid was conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists were arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.\n\n1932 - The first broadcast of \"Buck Rogers in the 25th century\" on radio took place.\n\n1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.\n\n1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.\n\n1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1728 – James Cook, British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. \n\n1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America, and India. \n\n1861 – Jeff Milton, American sheriff. At age 15, he moved to Texas where he worked as a cowboy, then lied about his age and joined the Texas Rangers in 1878. After serving with the Rangers for four years, he moved through west Texas and into New Mexico, where he became a Deputy US Marshal in 1884. His real exploits were used by Louis L'Amour in several of his books. \n\n1867 – Marie Curie, Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.\n\n1879 – King Baggot, American actor. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era, and the first individually publicized leading man in America. Baggot was referred to as \"King of the Movies,\" \"The Most Photographed Man in the World\" and \"The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon.\"\n\n1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology.\n\n1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker).\n\n1913 – Albert Camus, French author, journalist, and philosopher.\n\n1914 – R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction and fantasy author known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. \n\n1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist. He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics.\n\n1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1).\n\n1945 – Earl Boen, American actor (Terminator Series).\n\n1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian author of fantasy fiction.\n\n1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedian, actress, and accordion player.\n\n1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor best known for his voice role as the title superhero of the 1994 animated television series Spider-Man, Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid, as well as his on-screen portrayal of Greg Brady in the films The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:906876537308884992/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:906552649467183104", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Tue, 06th Nov: \t<br /><br />Election Day in the U.S.A.<br />National Nachos Day<br />Stranger Things Day<br />Saxophone Day<br />Marooned without a Compass Day<br />National Basketball Day<br />UN International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict<br />Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland<br />Gustav Adolfsdagen in Sweden<br /><br />06 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot in Texas.<br /><br />1572 - A supernova was observed in the constellation of Cassiopeia.<br /><br />1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, was submitted for publication.<br /><br />1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link formed.<br /><br />1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah was the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.<br /><br />1897 - 'Peter Pan' opened in NY at the Empire Theater.<br /><br />1925 - British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') was executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.<br /><br />1935 – Edwin Armstrong presented his paper \"A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation\" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. <br /><br />1935 – Parker Brothers acquired the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.<br /><br />1944 – Plutonium was first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan.<br /><br />1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, invented the saxophone.<br /><br />1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer. Sousa's Liberty Bell March is arguably one of the world's most recognized pieces of music thanks in part to Monty Python.<br /><br />1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor of basketball.<br /><br />1882 – Thomas H. Ince, American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and, earlier, an actor. He was a pioneering studio mogul who made more than 600 films. Known as the \"Father of the Western\", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the \"assembly line\" system of film making. He wrote the screenplay for The Italian (1915), and directed Civilization (1916), both films selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry. He was a partner with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett in the Triangle Motion Picture Company, and built his own studios in Culver City, which later became the legendary home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ince is also known for his death aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst. Officially he died of heart trouble, but Hollywood rumor of the time suggested he had been shot by Hearst in a dispute over actress Marion Davies.<br /><br />1903 – June Marlowe, American actress, who appeared in six Our Gang short subjects as the schoolteacher Miss Crabtree. Unsubstantiated rumor has it that June Marlowe's character was the inspiration for the schoolteacher Edna Krabapple on the Simpsons.<br /><br />1914 – Jonathan Harris, American character actor. Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the TV version of The Third Man and Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s series Lost in Space. <br /><br />1924 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian transsexual whistler. <br /><br />1938 – P.J. Proby, American singer-songwriter and actor (lampooned by the Firesign Theater).<br /><br />1957 – Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer.<br /><br />1958 – Trace Beaulieu, American puppeteer, writer, and actor best known for his roles on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). <br /><br />1966 – Peter DeLuise, American actor and director.<br /><br />1988 – Emma Stone, American actress.<br /><br />1997 – Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor best known for his role as the 11-year-old Tom Riddle, the young version of antagonist Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/906552649467183104", "published": "2018-11-06T14:36:34+00:00", "source": { "content": "Tue, 06th Nov: \t\n\nElection Day in the U.S.A.\nNational Nachos Day\nStranger Things Day\nSaxophone Day\nMarooned without a Compass Day\nNational Basketball Day\nUN International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict\nFinnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland\nGustav Adolfsdagen in Sweden\n\n06 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot in Texas.\n\n1572 - A supernova was observed in the constellation of Cassiopeia.\n\n1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, was submitted for publication.\n\n1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link formed.\n\n1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah was the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.\n\n1897 - 'Peter Pan' opened in NY at the Empire Theater.\n\n1925 - British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') was executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.\n\n1935 – Edwin Armstrong presented his paper \"A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation\" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. \n\n1935 – Parker Brothers acquired the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.\n\n1944 – Plutonium was first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan.\n\n1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, invented the saxophone.\n\n1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer. Sousa's Liberty Bell March is arguably one of the world's most recognized pieces of music thanks in part to Monty Python.\n\n1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor of basketball.\n\n1882 – Thomas H. Ince, American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and, earlier, an actor. He was a pioneering studio mogul who made more than 600 films. Known as the \"Father of the Western\", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the \"assembly line\" system of film making. He wrote the screenplay for The Italian (1915), and directed Civilization (1916), both films selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry. He was a partner with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett in the Triangle Motion Picture Company, and built his own studios in Culver City, which later became the legendary home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ince is also known for his death aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst. Officially he died of heart trouble, but Hollywood rumor of the time suggested he had been shot by Hearst in a dispute over actress Marion Davies.\n\n1903 – June Marlowe, American actress, who appeared in six Our Gang short subjects as the schoolteacher Miss Crabtree. Unsubstantiated rumor has it that June Marlowe's character was the inspiration for the schoolteacher Edna Krabapple on the Simpsons.\n\n1914 – Jonathan Harris, American character actor. Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the TV version of The Third Man and Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s series Lost in Space. \n\n1924 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian transsexual whistler. \n\n1938 – P.J. Proby, American singer-songwriter and actor (lampooned by the Firesign Theater).\n\n1957 – Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer.\n\n1958 – Trace Beaulieu, American puppeteer, writer, and actor best known for his roles on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). \n\n1966 – Peter DeLuise, American actor and director.\n\n1988 – Emma Stone, American actress.\n\n1997 – Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor best known for his role as the 11-year-old Tom Riddle, the young version of antagonist Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.\n\nHappy birthday guys!", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:906552649467183104/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:906168739474038784", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Mon, 05th Nov: \t<br /><br />Doughnut Appreciation Day<br />National Chinese Take-Out Day<br />Guy Fawkes Day<br />National Sneaker Day<br />National Love Your Red Hair Day<br />Bank Transfer Day<br />Commercial TV Broadcast Day<br />American Football Day<br />Book Editors Day<br />Firewood Day<br />Fill Our Staplers Day<br />World Tsunami Awareness Day<br />Color the World Orange Day (First Monday in November)<br />Traffic Directors Day (First Monday in November)<br />Job Action Day (First Monday in November)<br />Recreation Day holiday in Tasmania (First Monday in November) <br /><br />05 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1605 – Guy Fawkes was arrested. Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.<br /><br />1605 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. For various reasons, however, the observations of the transit proved to be a disappointment. <br /><br />1872 – In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, and was later fined $100.<br /><br />1895 – George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.<br /><br />1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first \"super-spy\" of the 20th century, was executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.<br /><br />2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 went into orbit around the Moon.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet.<br /><br />1885 – Will Durant, American historian.<br /><br />1892 – J.B.S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist.<br /> <br />1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress.<br /><br />1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer.<br /><br />1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor.<br /><br />1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind).<br /><br />1938 – Jim Steranko, American graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator. His most famous comic book work was with the 1960s superspy feature \"Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.\" in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales and in the subsequent eponymous series. <br /><br />1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor.<br /><br />1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese mecha anime creator, animator, director, screenwriter, and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.<br /><br />1944 – Carole Nelson Douglas, American writer of sixty novels and many short stories. She has written in many genres, but is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian suspense novels and the Midnight Louie mystery series.<br /><br />1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor and voice actor known for playing the Ferengi bartender Quark in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.<br /><br />1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor, well known for his work in the science fiction genre. He is a Saturn Award-winner. He appeared in supporting roles in Die Hard 2, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as the T-1000; Wayne's World, Last Action Hero, Fire in the Sky, Bridge to Terabithia, and Spy Kids. Patrick also starred in several television shows such as The Outer Limits, and The X-Files, as FBI Special Agent John Doggett.<br /><br />1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor (Zaphod Beeblebrox).<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/906168739474038784", "published": "2018-11-05T13:11:03+00:00", "source": { "content": "Mon, 05th Nov: \t\n\nDoughnut Appreciation Day\nNational Chinese Take-Out Day\nGuy Fawkes Day\nNational Sneaker Day\nNational Love Your Red Hair Day\nBank Transfer Day\nCommercial TV Broadcast Day\nAmerican Football Day\nBook Editors Day\nFirewood Day\nFill Our Staplers Day\nWorld Tsunami Awareness Day\nColor the World Orange Day (First Monday in November)\nTraffic Directors Day (First Monday in November)\nJob Action Day (First Monday in November)\nRecreation Day holiday in Tasmania (First Monday in November) \n\n05 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1605 – Guy Fawkes was arrested. Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.\n\n1605 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. For various reasons, however, the observations of the transit proved to be a disappointment. \n\n1872 – In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, and was later fined $100.\n\n1895 – George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.\n\n1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first \"super-spy\" of the 20th century, was executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.\n\n2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 went into orbit around the Moon.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet.\n\n1885 – Will Durant, American historian.\n\n1892 – J.B.S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist.\n \n1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress.\n\n1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer.\n\n1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor.\n\n1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind).\n\n1938 – Jim Steranko, American graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator. His most famous comic book work was with the 1960s superspy feature \"Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.\" in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales and in the subsequent eponymous series. \n\n1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor.\n\n1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese mecha anime creator, animator, director, screenwriter, and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.\n\n1944 – Carole Nelson Douglas, American writer of sixty novels and many short stories. She has written in many genres, but is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian suspense novels and the Midnight Louie mystery series.\n\n1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor and voice actor known for playing the Ferengi bartender Quark in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.\n\n1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor, well known for his work in the science fiction genre. He is a Saturn Award-winner. He appeared in supporting roles in Die Hard 2, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as the T-1000; Wayne's World, Last Action Hero, Fire in the Sky, Bridge to Terabithia, and Spy Kids. Patrick also starred in several television shows such as The Outer Limits, and The X-Files, as FBI Special Agent John Doggett.\n\n1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor (Zaphod Beeblebrox).\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:906168739474038784/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:905442625850580992", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Sat, 03rd Nov: \t<br /><br />National Sandwich Day<br />Cliché Day<br />National Housewife's Day<br />Jellyfish Day<br />End Gossip Day<br />Give Someone a Dollar Today Day<br />Learn to Homebrew Day (First Saturday in November)<br />National Wine Tasting Day (First Saturday in November)<br />Fall Back Day (First Saturday in November)<br />Sadie Hawkins Day (First Saturday in November, one of many such days)<br />National Bison Day (First Saturday in November)<br />Sausage and Kraut Day (First Saturday in November)<br />Digital Scrapbooking Day (First Saturday in November)<br />National Pumpkin Destruction Day (First Saturday in November)<br />National Book Lovers Day (First Saturday in November)<br />Godzilla Day (Japan)<br />Culture Day in Japan<br />National Day in Dominica<br />Independence Day in Micronesia<br />Independence Day in Panama<br /><br />03 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />361 – Emperor Constantius II died of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he was baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.<br /><br />1493 – Christopher Columbus first sighted the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.<br /><br />1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, was the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.<br /><br />1883 – Black Bart the poet got away with his last stagecoach robbery, but left a clue that eventually led to his capture. Charles Earl Bowles, better known as Black Bart, was an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after two of his robberies. Bowles had fought in the American Civil War where he took part in numerous battles and campaigns, including Vicksburg and Sherman's March to the Sea. After the long years of war, a quiet life of farming held little appeal to Bowles, and he yearned for adventure. By 1867, he was prospecting in Idaho and Montana. Bowles, as Black Bart, perpetrated 28 robberies of Wells Fargo stagecoaches across northern California between 1875 and 1883. Black Bart was very successful, making off with thousands of dollars a year. Bowles was terrified of horses and committed all of his robberies on foot. <br /><br />1896 - J.H. Hunter patented portable weighing scales.<br /><br />1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah was elected the first female senator.<br /><br />1900 - The first US automobile show opened at Madison Square Garden in NYC.<br /><br />1911 – Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.<br /><br />1954 – The first Godzilla (Gojira) film was released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.<br /><br />1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.<br /><br />1973 – NASA launched the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it became the first space probe to reach that planet.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and painter (The Cellini Cup).<br /><br />1801 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, founded the Baedeker Publishing Company and Baedeker travel books.<br /><br />1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (Paul Kersey).<br /><br />1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese cartoonist, manga writer/artist, animator, producer, activist, and medical doctor, who never practiced medicine. He is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, and Black Jack. He is often credited as the \"Godfather of Anime\" and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during his formative years. His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as \"the father of manga\", \"the god of comics\", and \"kamisama of manga\".<br /><br />1933 – Jeremy Brett, English actor best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series.<br /><br />1946 – Tom Savini, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Monkey Shines, Friday the 13th (parts I and IV), Maniac, The Burning, The Prowler, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Knightriders, From Dusk till Dawn, Planet Terror, Machete, Django Unchained, Machete Kills).<br /><br />1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor and singer (Darkwing Duck, Dr. Eggman).<br /><br />1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian and actor.<br /><br />1954 – Adam Ant, English singer-songwriter (Adam and the Ants).<br /><br />1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer best known as the voice and puppeteer of Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Murphy also records audio commentary tracks with Michael J. Nelson and Bill Corbett for Nelson's RiffTrax website.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/905442625850580992", "published": "2018-11-03T13:05:44+00:00", "source": { "content": "Sat, 03rd Nov: \t\n\nNational Sandwich Day\nCliché Day\nNational Housewife's Day\nJellyfish Day\nEnd Gossip Day\nGive Someone a Dollar Today Day\nLearn to Homebrew Day (First Saturday in November)\nNational Wine Tasting Day (First Saturday in November)\nFall Back Day (First Saturday in November)\nSadie Hawkins Day (First Saturday in November, one of many such days)\nNational Bison Day (First Saturday in November)\nSausage and Kraut Day (First Saturday in November)\nDigital Scrapbooking Day (First Saturday in November)\nNational Pumpkin Destruction Day (First Saturday in November)\nNational Book Lovers Day (First Saturday in November)\nGodzilla Day (Japan)\nCulture Day in Japan\nNational Day in Dominica\nIndependence Day in Micronesia\nIndependence Day in Panama\n\n03 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n361 – Emperor Constantius II died of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he was baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.\n\n1493 – Christopher Columbus first sighted the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.\n\n1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, was the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.\n\n1883 – Black Bart the poet got away with his last stagecoach robbery, but left a clue that eventually led to his capture. Charles Earl Bowles, better known as Black Bart, was an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after two of his robberies. Bowles had fought in the American Civil War where he took part in numerous battles and campaigns, including Vicksburg and Sherman's March to the Sea. After the long years of war, a quiet life of farming held little appeal to Bowles, and he yearned for adventure. By 1867, he was prospecting in Idaho and Montana. Bowles, as Black Bart, perpetrated 28 robberies of Wells Fargo stagecoaches across northern California between 1875 and 1883. Black Bart was very successful, making off with thousands of dollars a year. Bowles was terrified of horses and committed all of his robberies on foot. \n\n1896 - J.H. Hunter patented portable weighing scales.\n\n1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah was elected the first female senator.\n\n1900 - The first US automobile show opened at Madison Square Garden in NYC.\n\n1911 – Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.\n\n1954 – The first Godzilla (Gojira) film was released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.\n\n1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.\n\n1973 – NASA launched the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it became the first space probe to reach that planet.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and painter (The Cellini Cup).\n\n1801 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, founded the Baedeker Publishing Company and Baedeker travel books.\n\n1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (Paul Kersey).\n\n1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese cartoonist, manga writer/artist, animator, producer, activist, and medical doctor, who never practiced medicine. He is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, and Black Jack. He is often credited as the \"Godfather of Anime\" and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during his formative years. His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as \"the father of manga\", \"the god of comics\", and \"kamisama of manga\".\n\n1933 – Jeremy Brett, English actor best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series.\n\n1946 – Tom Savini, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Monkey Shines, Friday the 13th (parts I and IV), Maniac, The Burning, The Prowler, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Knightriders, From Dusk till Dawn, Planet Terror, Machete, Django Unchained, Machete Kills).\n\n1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor and singer (Darkwing Duck, Dr. Eggman).\n\n1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian and actor.\n\n1954 – Adam Ant, English singer-songwriter (Adam and the Ants).\n\n1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer best known as the voice and puppeteer of Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Murphy also records audio commentary tracks with Michael J. Nelson and Bill Corbett for Nelson's RiffTrax website.\n\nHappy birthday guys!", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:905442625850580992/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:905090073247735808", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Fri, 02nd Nov: \t<br /><br />All Souls' Day<br />Day of the Dead (second day)<br />Dia De Los Muertos (second day)<br />National Deviled Egg Day<br />Look for Circles Day<br />Cookie Monster Day<br />Plan Your Epitaph Day<br />Practice Being Psychic Day<br />National Celibacy Day<br />International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists<br />National Traffic Professionals Day (The following Monday if the 2nd lands on Sat. or Sun.)<br />Fountain Pen Day (First Friday in November)<br />Love Your Lawyer Day (First Friday in November)<br />National Medical Science Liaison Awareness & Appreciation Day (First Friday in November)<br />World Community Day (First Friday in November)<br />Coronation of Haile Selassie Day (Rastafarian)<br />Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico<br /><br />02 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States took place. The first prize was $2,000.<br /><br />1920 – In the United States, KDKA (1020 AM) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. <br /><br />1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, \"high-definition\" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.<br /><br />1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performed the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules.<br /><br />1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generated national publicity.<br /><br />1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.<br /><br />2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.<br /><br />2016 - After 108 years, the Cubs won the series.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1734 – Daniel Boone, American explorer.<br /><br />1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer notable for his groundbreaking 1918 work using RR Lyrae stars to estimate the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and the sun's position within it as well as in 1953 proposing the \"Liquid Water Belt\" theory, now known as the concept of a habitable zone or the goldilocks zone of planet habitability around stars.<br /><br />1914 – Ray Walston, American actor best known as the title character on the 1960s sitcom My Favorite Martian.<br /><br />1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor began his acting career after serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a pilot during World War II. His most memorable movie role was probably that of the ill-fated \"Doc\" Ostrow in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956). <br /><br />1927 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. <br /><br />1932 – Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright.<br /><br />1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.<br /><br />1956 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor appeared in the last two Harry Potter films as Yaxley,<br /><br />1979 – Erika Flores, American actress guest-starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode \"Disaster\". She played Marissa, one of three young science-fair winners aboard the USS Enterprise. During a guided tour by Captain Picard, the ship was disabled and they were stuck in a turbolift.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/905090073247735808", "published": "2018-11-02T13:44:49+00:00", "source": { "content": "Fri, 02nd Nov: \t\n\nAll Souls' Day\nDay of the Dead (second day)\nDia De Los Muertos (second day)\nNational Deviled Egg Day\nLook for Circles Day\nCookie Monster Day\nPlan Your Epitaph Day\nPractice Being Psychic Day\nNational Celibacy Day\nInternational Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists\nNational Traffic Professionals Day (The following Monday if the 2nd lands on Sat. or Sun.)\nFountain Pen Day (First Friday in November)\nLove Your Lawyer Day (First Friday in November)\nNational Medical Science Liaison Awareness & Appreciation Day (First Friday in November)\nWorld Community Day (First Friday in November)\nCoronation of Haile Selassie Day (Rastafarian)\nDia De Los Muertos in Mexico\n\n02 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States took place. The first prize was $2,000.\n\n1920 – In the United States, KDKA (1020 AM) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. \n\n1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, \"high-definition\" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.\n\n1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performed the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules.\n\n1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generated national publicity.\n\n1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.\n\n2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.\n\n2016 - After 108 years, the Cubs won the series.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1734 – Daniel Boone, American explorer.\n\n1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer notable for his groundbreaking 1918 work using RR Lyrae stars to estimate the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and the sun's position within it as well as in 1953 proposing the \"Liquid Water Belt\" theory, now known as the concept of a habitable zone or the goldilocks zone of planet habitability around stars.\n\n1914 – Ray Walston, American actor best known as the title character on the 1960s sitcom My Favorite Martian.\n\n1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor began his acting career after serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a pilot during World War II. His most memorable movie role was probably that of the ill-fated \"Doc\" Ostrow in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956). \n\n1927 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. \n\n1932 – Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright.\n\n1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.\n\n1956 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor appeared in the last two Harry Potter films as Yaxley,\n\n1979 – Erika Flores, American actress guest-starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode \"Disaster\". She played Marissa, one of three young science-fair winners aboard the USS Enterprise. During a guided tour by Captain Picard, the ship was disabled and they were stuck in a turbolift.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:905090073247735808/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:904700775652847616", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Thu, 01st Nov: \t<br /><br />All Saints' Day <br />Day of the Dead <br />Hockey Mask Day<br />National Deep Fried Clams Day<br />National Calzone Day<br />National Vinegar Day<br />National Authors' Day<br />National Pate Day<br />National Cook For Your Pets Day<br />National Family Literacy Day<br />National Brush Day<br />National Family Caregiver Day<br />DM Your Crush Day<br />Extra Mile Day <br />Give Up Your Shoulds Day<br />Prime Meridian Day<br />World Vegan Day<br />Autistics Speaking Day<br />International Project Management Day (First Thursday in November)<br />International Stout Day (First Thursday in November)<br />Men Make Dinner Day (First Thursday in November)<br />National Non-Fiction Day in the UK (First Thursday in November)<br />Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico<br /><br />01 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />996 – Emperor Otto III issued a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).<br /><br />1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.<br /><br />1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.<br /><br />1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest was presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.<br /><br />1790 – Edmund Burke published Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicted that the French Revolution would end in a disaster.<br /><br />1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School, opened.<br /><br />1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens could be seen for about 19 miles / 30 kilometers in good conditions.<br /><br />1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) made its first official meteorological forecast.<br /><br />1894 – Thomas Edison filmed American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which was instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.<br /><br />1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time.<br /><br />1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.<br /><br />1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.<br /><br />1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened.<br /><br />1982 – Honda became the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord was the first car produced there.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1871 – Stephen Crane, American journalist, author, and poet. He won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, which he wrote without any battle experience. Crane died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium at the age of 28.<br /><br />1882 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor whose roles include Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932). In the first of these, he played Abraham Van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter. He played essentially the same role, this time as Dr. Muller, an occultist of Egyptology in The Mummy. He again played Van Helsing in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter. In Frankenstein, he played the character of Dr. Waldman, but he also stepped in front of a curtain before the film's opening credits to warn audience members that they now had a chance to escape the theatre if they were too squeamish to endure the film.<br /><br />1907 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor.<br /><br />1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author of science fiction and speculative fiction.<br /><br />1942 – Marcia Wallace, American actress (Edna Krabappel).<br /><br />1958 – Jim Steinmeyer, American magician and author.<br /><br />1959 – Susanna Clarke, British author author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. <br /><br />1964 – Karen Marie Moning, American author. She is a # 1 New York Times bestselling author of 15 novels, including the RITA award-winning Highlander novels and the internationally bestselling urban fantasy \"Fever\" series. <br /><br />1984 – Natalia Tena, English actress and singer best known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series, and the wildling Osha in Game of Thrones.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/904700775652847616", "published": "2018-11-01T11:57:53+00:00", "source": { "content": "Thu, 01st Nov: \t\n\nAll Saints' Day \nDay of the Dead \nHockey Mask Day\nNational Deep Fried Clams Day\nNational Calzone Day\nNational Vinegar Day\nNational Authors' Day\nNational Pate Day\nNational Cook For Your Pets Day\nNational Family Literacy Day\nNational Brush Day\nNational Family Caregiver Day\nDM Your Crush Day\nExtra Mile Day \nGive Up Your Shoulds Day\nPrime Meridian Day\nWorld Vegan Day\nAutistics Speaking Day\nInternational Project Management Day (First Thursday in November)\nInternational Stout Day (First Thursday in November)\nMen Make Dinner Day (First Thursday in November)\nNational Non-Fiction Day in the UK (First Thursday in November)\nDia De Los Muertos in Mexico\n\n01 November 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n996 – Emperor Otto III issued a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).\n\n1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.\n\n1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.\n\n1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest was presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.\n\n1790 – Edmund Burke published Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicted that the French Revolution would end in a disaster.\n\n1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School, opened.\n\n1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens could be seen for about 19 miles / 30 kilometers in good conditions.\n\n1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) made its first official meteorological forecast.\n\n1894 – Thomas Edison filmed American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which was instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.\n\n1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time.\n\n1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.\n\n1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.\n\n1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened.\n\n1982 – Honda became the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord was the first car produced there.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1871 – Stephen Crane, American journalist, author, and poet. He won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, which he wrote without any battle experience. Crane died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium at the age of 28.\n\n1882 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor whose roles include Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932). In the first of these, he played Abraham Van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter. He played essentially the same role, this time as Dr. Muller, an occultist of Egyptology in The Mummy. He again played Van Helsing in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter. In Frankenstein, he played the character of Dr. Waldman, but he also stepped in front of a curtain before the film's opening credits to warn audience members that they now had a chance to escape the theatre if they were too squeamish to endure the film.\n\n1907 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor.\n\n1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author of science fiction and speculative fiction.\n\n1942 – Marcia Wallace, American actress (Edna Krabappel).\n\n1958 – Jim Steinmeyer, American magician and author.\n\n1959 – Susanna Clarke, British author author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. \n\n1964 – Karen Marie Moning, American author. She is a # 1 New York Times bestselling author of 15 novels, including the RITA award-winning Highlander novels and the internationally bestselling urban fantasy \"Fever\" series. \n\n1984 – Natalia Tena, English actress and singer best known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series, and the wildling Osha in Game of Thrones.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:904700775652847616/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:904700422959104000", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "01 November<br /><br />Today's term from psychology is Hindsight Bias.<br /><br />Hindsight Bias: Sometimes called the \"I-knew-it-all-along\" effect, the tendency to see past events as being predictable at the time those events happened. <br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/904700422959104000", "published": "2018-11-01T11:56:21+00:00", "source": { "content": "01 November\n\nToday's term from psychology is Hindsight Bias.\n\nHindsight Bias: Sometimes called the \"I-knew-it-all-along\" effect, the tendency to see past events as being predictable at the time those events happened. \n\n#JEvHdailypost", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:904700422959104000/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:904372090387435520", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Wed, 31st Oct: \t<br /><br />Halloween<br />Samhain<br />National Magic Day<br />National Knock-Knock Jokes Day<br />Reformation Day<br />Scare a Friend Day<br />National Dress Like a Slut Day<br />Girl Scout Founder's Day<br />World Cities Day<br />National Candy Apple Day<br />National Caramel Apple Day <br />Increase Your Psychic Powers Day<br />Carve a Pumpkin Day<br />World Savings Day<br />Seven Billion Day<br />National Bug Busting Day in the UK<br />Feast of Saint Wolfgang in Germany<br /><br />31 October 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />475 – Romulus Augustulus was proclaimed the last Roman Emperor in the West.<br /><br />683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba caught fire and was burned down.<br /><br />1517 – Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.<br /><br />1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the United States. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Today, Interstate 80 is the cross-country highway most closely aligned with the original Lincoln Highway. <br /><br />1926 – Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.<br /><br />1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore was completed.<br /><br />2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launched, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.<br /><br />2011 – The global population of humans reached seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1760 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s (If you saw it you'd recognize it).<br /><br />1856 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist died on his 239th jump after water landing in the Tallinn Bay in Tallinn, Estonia. <br /><br />1912 – Ollie Johnston, American animator was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with Pinocchio, released in 1940. He contributed to most Disney animated features, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia and Bambi. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus. <br /><br />1912 – Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress, wife of Roy Rogers.<br /><br />1922 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress and author, known for the episode of Alfred Hitchkock Presents titled \"Lamb to the Slaughter\" written by Roald Dahl. When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon. Mary had killed her husband by bludgeoning him with a frozen leg of lamb, which she served to the police.<br /><br />1937 – Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.<br /><br />1942 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor (M.A.S.H., Perry Mason, ST:TNG).<br /><br />1959 – Neal Stephenson, American author and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. Stephenson explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury (\"J. Frederick George\"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. <br /><br />1961 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy and its prequel The Hobbit trilogy. Other notable films include King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners, Forgotten Silver, Braindead/Dead Alive and The Lovely Bones. He has also co-produced District 9.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/904372090387435520", "published": "2018-10-31T14:11:48+00:00", "source": { "content": "Wed, 31st Oct: \t\n\nHalloween\nSamhain\nNational Magic Day\nNational Knock-Knock Jokes Day\nReformation Day\nScare a Friend Day\nNational Dress Like a Slut Day\nGirl Scout Founder's Day\nWorld Cities Day\nNational Candy Apple Day\nNational Caramel Apple Day \nIncrease Your Psychic Powers Day\nCarve a Pumpkin Day\nWorld Savings Day\nSeven Billion Day\nNational Bug Busting Day in the UK\nFeast of Saint Wolfgang in Germany\n\n31 October 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n475 – Romulus Augustulus was proclaimed the last Roman Emperor in the West.\n\n683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba caught fire and was burned down.\n\n1517 – Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.\n\n1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the United States. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Today, Interstate 80 is the cross-country highway most closely aligned with the original Lincoln Highway. \n\n1926 – Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.\n\n1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore was completed.\n\n2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launched, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.\n\n2011 – The global population of humans reached seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1760 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s (If you saw it you'd recognize it).\n\n1856 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist died on his 239th jump after water landing in the Tallinn Bay in Tallinn, Estonia. \n\n1912 – Ollie Johnston, American animator was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with Pinocchio, released in 1940. He contributed to most Disney animated features, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia and Bambi. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus. \n\n1912 – Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress, wife of Roy Rogers.\n\n1922 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress and author, known for the episode of Alfred Hitchkock Presents titled \"Lamb to the Slaughter\" written by Roald Dahl. When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon. Mary had killed her husband by bludgeoning him with a frozen leg of lamb, which she served to the police.\n\n1937 – Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.\n\n1942 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor (M.A.S.H., Perry Mason, ST:TNG).\n\n1959 – Neal Stephenson, American author and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. Stephenson explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury (\"J. Frederick George\"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. \n\n1961 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy and its prequel The Hobbit trilogy. Other notable films include King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners, Forgotten Silver, Braindead/Dead Alive and The Lovely Bones. He has also co-produced District 9.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:904372090387435520/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:903995165210181632", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Tue, 30th Oct: \t<br /><br />National Candy Corn Day<br />Buy a Doughnut Day<br />Pumpkin Bread Day<br />Haunted Refrigerator Night<br />Devil's Night<br />Mischief Night <br />Doorbell Night<br />Beggars Night<br />Sugar Addiction Awareness Day<br />National Publicist Day<br />World Audio Drama Day<br />International Orthopaedic Nurses Day <br />Create a great funeral day<br />Checklist Day<br /><br />30 October 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans were in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.<br /><br />1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner was captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.<br /><br />1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd. <br /><br />1925 – John Logie Baird created Britain's first television transmitter. The theory underlying high definition television actually pre-dates the invention of analog television by more than 2 decades. While the development of television was the result of work by many inventors, 2 names are most associated with the early development of the first practical television: John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth. The first working television used a mechanically rotating disk with a line of holes to break down an image into a series of lines that could be reassembed by a picture tube producing an image. But the mechanical system quickly reached its limit, and was eventually replaced with an electrical system that broke down an image into a series of lines at a much faster rate than the mechanical system could. Baird achieved this by obtaining a better photo electric cell. Ironically, the same kind of photcells could have been used to produce an early version of hi def television without the need of picture tubes at all.<br /><br />1938 – Orson Welles broadcast of his radio play of H.G. Wells's \"The War of the Worlds\", resulted in a public apology and a huge jump in Welles' personal fame. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response may in fact be much less than previously thought. Despite these complaints - or perhaps in part because of them - the episode secured Welles' fame as a dramatist.<br /><br />1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.<br /><br />1987 – In Japan, NEC released the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1892 – Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder.<br /><br />1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist.<br /><br />1915 – Jane Randolph, American actress known for her roles in film noir and in two of Val Lewton's now well regarded B-picture horror films, Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944). One of her last movies was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).<br /><br />1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and The Great Society).<br /><br />1970 – Tory Belleci, American visual affects designer and television host best known for his work on MythBusters.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/903995165210181632", "published": "2018-10-30T13:14:02+00:00", "source": { "content": "Tue, 30th Oct: \t\n\nNational Candy Corn Day\nBuy a Doughnut Day\nPumpkin Bread Day\nHaunted Refrigerator Night\nDevil's Night\nMischief Night \nDoorbell Night\nBeggars Night\nSugar Addiction Awareness Day\nNational Publicist Day\nWorld Audio Drama Day\nInternational Orthopaedic Nurses Day \nCreate a great funeral day\nChecklist Day\n\n30 October 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans were in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.\n\n1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner was captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.\n\n1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd. \n\n1925 – John Logie Baird created Britain's first television transmitter. The theory underlying high definition television actually pre-dates the invention of analog television by more than 2 decades. While the development of television was the result of work by many inventors, 2 names are most associated with the early development of the first practical television: John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth. The first working television used a mechanically rotating disk with a line of holes to break down an image into a series of lines that could be reassembed by a picture tube producing an image. But the mechanical system quickly reached its limit, and was eventually replaced with an electrical system that broke down an image into a series of lines at a much faster rate than the mechanical system could. Baird achieved this by obtaining a better photo electric cell. Ironically, the same kind of photcells could have been used to produce an early version of hi def television without the need of picture tubes at all.\n\n1938 – Orson Welles broadcast of his radio play of H.G. Wells's \"The War of the Worlds\", resulted in a public apology and a huge jump in Welles' personal fame. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response may in fact be much less than previously thought. Despite these complaints - or perhaps in part because of them - the episode secured Welles' fame as a dramatist.\n\n1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.\n\n1987 – In Japan, NEC released the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1892 – Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder.\n\n1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist.\n\n1915 – Jane Randolph, American actress known for her roles in film noir and in two of Val Lewton's now well regarded B-picture horror films, Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944). One of her last movies was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).\n\n1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and The Great Society).\n\n1970 – Tory Belleci, American visual affects designer and television host best known for his work on MythBusters.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:903995165210181632/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:903995034188410880", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "30 October<br /><br />Availability Heuristic<br /><br />The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when making a decision. <br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/903995034188410880", "published": "2018-10-30T13:13:31+00:00", "source": { "content": "30 October\n\nAvailability Heuristic\n\nThe availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when making a decision. \n\n#JEvHdailypost", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:903995034188410880/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:903627329782468608", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264", "content": "Mon, 29th Oct: \t<br /><br />National Oatmeal Day<br />Hermit Day<br />Scary Clown Day<br />National Cat Day<br />International Internet Day<br />Frankenstein Day (There are three known such 'days', Frankenstein Friday on the last Friday in October, National Frankenstein Day on October 29, and Frankenstein Day on August 30)<br />World Stroke Day<br />World Psoriasis Day<br />Crash of 1929 Day<br />October Holiday in Ireland (Last Monday In October)<br />Republic Day in Turkey<br /><br />29 October 2018 - Interesting Tidbits<br /><br />On This Day:<br /><br />1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.<br /><br />1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.<br /><br />1675 – Leibniz made the first use of the elongated s as a symbol of the integral in calculus.<br /><br />1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni received its first performance in Prague.<br /><br />1886 – The first ticker-tape parade took place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty was dedicated.<br /><br />1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashed in what would be called the Crash of '29 or \"Black Tuesday\", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.<br /><br />1938 - Orson Welles' Broadcast of the \"War of the Worlds\", known as the Martian Broadcast, caused panic throughout the country on the eve of WWII. <br /><br />1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, was stolen by a group of thieves (among them was \"Murph the surf\") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.<br /><br />1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.<br /><br />1971 – In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident.<br /><br />1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.<br /><br />1997 – Anton Lavey, founder of the Church of Satan, died in San Francisco of pulmonary edema.<br /><br />1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.<br /><br />Today's birthday crew:<br /><br />1740 – James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author.<br /><br />1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie (husband of Marie Curie), he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.<br /><br />1891 – Fanny Brice, American actress and singer.<br /><br />1906 – Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer. He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the \"short short\" stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor carried over into his novels as well. His classic science fiction novel What Mad Universe (1949) is a parody of pulp SF story conventions. The novel functions both as a critique of its genre and a superior example of it. It may have provided a model for Philip K. Dick when he later created his own stories set in alternate personal realities. Martians, Go Home (1955) is both a broad farce and a satire on human frailties as seen through the eyes of a billion jeering, invulnerable Martians who arrive not to conquer the world but to drive it crazy. The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1952) tells the story of an aging astronaut who is trying to get his beloved space program back on track after Congress has cut off the funds for it - an accurate prediction of the actual conditions for a space program, at a time when many SF writers still tended to ignore or downplay the financial side of spaceflight. One of his most famous short stories, \"Arena\", was used as the basis for the episode of the same name in the original series of Star Trek. It is similar to a 1964 episode entitled \"Fun and Games\" of The Outer Limits. The \"Deep Thought\" episode in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams appears to be a parody of his short story \"Answer\". Personal favorites are \"Honeymoon in Hell\" (1958), an anthology of short short stories, and \"The Mind Thing\" (1961).<br /><br />1921 – Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist.<br /><br />1925 - Robert Hardy, English actor who played Cornelius Fudge in four of the Harry Potter films.<br /><br />1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson, he also voices Abraham \"Grampa\" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, and Hans Moleman.<br /><br />Happy birthday guys!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=JEvHdailypost\" title=\"#JEvHdailypost\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#JEvHdailypost</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/903627329782468608", "published": "2018-10-29T12:52:24+00:00", "source": { "content": "Mon, 29th Oct: \t\n\nNational Oatmeal Day\nHermit Day\nScary Clown Day\nNational Cat Day\nInternational Internet Day\nFrankenstein Day (There are three known such 'days', Frankenstein Friday on the last Friday in October, National Frankenstein Day on October 29, and Frankenstein Day on August 30)\nWorld Stroke Day\nWorld Psoriasis Day\nCrash of 1929 Day\nOctober Holiday in Ireland (Last Monday In October)\nRepublic Day in Turkey\n\n29 October 2018 - Interesting Tidbits\n\nOn This Day:\n\n1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.\n\n1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.\n\n1675 – Leibniz made the first use of the elongated s as a symbol of the integral in calculus.\n\n1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni received its first performance in Prague.\n\n1886 – The first ticker-tape parade took place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty was dedicated.\n\n1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashed in what would be called the Crash of '29 or \"Black Tuesday\", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.\n\n1938 - Orson Welles' Broadcast of the \"War of the Worlds\", known as the Martian Broadcast, caused panic throughout the country on the eve of WWII. \n\n1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, was stolen by a group of thieves (among them was \"Murph the surf\") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.\n\n1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.\n\n1971 – In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident.\n\n1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.\n\n1997 – Anton Lavey, founder of the Church of Satan, died in San Francisco of pulmonary edema.\n\n1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.\n\nToday's birthday crew:\n\n1740 – James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author.\n\n1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie (husband of Marie Curie), he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.\n\n1891 – Fanny Brice, American actress and singer.\n\n1906 – Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer. He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the \"short short\" stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor carried over into his novels as well. His classic science fiction novel What Mad Universe (1949) is a parody of pulp SF story conventions. The novel functions both as a critique of its genre and a superior example of it. It may have provided a model for Philip K. Dick when he later created his own stories set in alternate personal realities. Martians, Go Home (1955) is both a broad farce and a satire on human frailties as seen through the eyes of a billion jeering, invulnerable Martians who arrive not to conquer the world but to drive it crazy. The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1952) tells the story of an aging astronaut who is trying to get his beloved space program back on track after Congress has cut off the funds for it - an accurate prediction of the actual conditions for a space program, at a time when many SF writers still tended to ignore or downplay the financial side of spaceflight. One of his most famous short stories, \"Arena\", was used as the basis for the episode of the same name in the original series of Star Trek. It is similar to a 1964 episode entitled \"Fun and Games\" of The Outer Limits. The \"Deep Thought\" episode in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams appears to be a parody of his short story \"Answer\". Personal favorites are \"Honeymoon in Hell\" (1958), an anthology of short short stories, and \"The Mind Thing\" (1961).\n\n1921 – Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist.\n\n1925 - Robert Hardy, English actor who played Cornelius Fudge in four of the Harry Potter films.\n\n1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson, he also voices Abraham \"Grampa\" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, and Hans Moleman.\n\nHappy birthday guys!\n\n#JEvHdailypost", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/entities/urn:activity:903627329782468608/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458428843628171264/outboxoutbox" }