Archive for November 2nd, 2023

Nov

ICONIC BASKETBALL COACH REMEMBERED

11.2.23

                Iconic Basketball Coach Bob Knight Dies After Battling Dementia - 247 ... |
                   The Indiana college mens basketball coach
                was nicknamed "the General".

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Nov

THE CRYPT OF ‘’THE KING OF COOL”

Photos - The Official Dean Martin Site

Martin was interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Martin, a lifelong heavy smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer
at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in September 1993. He was told
that he would require surgery to prolong his life, but he rejected it.

He retired from public life in early 1995 and died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on
Christmas Day, 1995.

Dean Martin sings
Martin released the ballad “Everybody Loves Somebody” in 1964.

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Nov

HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1948

Dewey, Truman headline

In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history,
Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just
over two million popular votes. In the days preceding the vote,
political analysts and polls were so behind Dewey that on
election night, long before all the votes were counted, the
Chicago Tribune published an early edition with the banner
headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”(above).

Thomas Edmund Dewey
(March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971)

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Nov

IT FLEW FOR THE FIRST AND LAST TIME ~1947

Spruce Goose flies - Nov 02, 1947 - HISTORY.com

The Hughes Flying Boat—at one time the largest aircraft ever built—
is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight.

Built with laminated birch and spruce (hence the nickname the
Spruce Goose) the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan
longer than a football field and was designed to carry more
than 700 men to battle.

Howard Hughes Spruce Goose, Wooden Plane, Howard Hughes, Flying Boat, Vintage Aircraft, Aviation ...

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Spruce Goose pilot's controls - Picture of Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville ...
The aircraft is on display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum located in McMinnville, Oregon.