On November 1, 1946, the New York Knickerbockers beat 
the Toronto Huskies in the first NBA game, 68-66. 

The Knickerbockers were led by guard Leo Gottlieb, who
scored 14 points in the game played before 7,090 fans at
Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. 

Leo "Ace" Gottlieb (1920 – 1972) 

On October 31, 1950, 21-year-old Earl Lloyd became the
first African American to play in an NBA game when he took      
to the court in the season opener for the Washington Capitols.       

  
 

CARLATA BRADLEY

FROM LEFT: JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, LEE BOYD MALVO

   
Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio.

Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most prolific inventors in history, 
died in his home in West Orange, New Jersey of complications of
diabetes. He was 84.

By the time he died, Thomas Edison had amassed a record 1,093
patents: 389 for electric light and power, 195 for the phonograph.
150 for the telegraph, 141 for storage batteries and 34 for the
telephone.

The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company‘s new
steamship, the Columbia, was the first commercial
application for Edison’s incandescent light bulb in
1880.

On October 16, 1958, Chevrolet began to sell a car-truck hybrid
that it calls the El Camino. Inspired by the Ford Ranchero, which
had already been on the market for two years, the El Camino was
a combination sedan-pickup truck built on the Impala body, with
the same “cat’s eye” taillights and dramatic rear fins. It was, ads
trilled, “the most beautiful thing that ever shouldered a load!”
“It rides and handles like a convertible,” Chevy said, “yet hauls
and hustles like the workingest thing on wheels.”