- 1859: In Paris, the first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules
                 Leotard at the Cirque Napoleon without a safety net. The
                 body-hugging costume he used was later named after him.
               - 1912: A search party found the remains of British explorer Capt.
                 Robert Scott and his companions after the ill-fated 1912 South Pole
                 expedition.
               - 1915: Theodore W. Richards became the first American to win the
                 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
               - 1923: In Germany, Adolf Hitler was arrested for his failed attempt
                 to sieze power Nov. 8.
               - 1927: The first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel connecting
                 New York to New Jersey, opened. Josef Stalin became ruler of the
                 Soviet Union after the Communist Party expelled Leon Trotsky.
               - 1928: Grace Kelly, actress who became Princess of Monaco, was born
                 in Philadelphia (d: 1982; auto accident).
               - 1942: In World War II, the battle of Guadalcanal began.
               - 1944: The German battleship Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck
                 and Hitler's last major warship, was sunk by British bombers at
                 Tromso Fjord in northern Norway.
               - 1954: Ellis Island closed. More than 20,000,000 immigrants first
                 landed in the U.S. there.
               - 1956: The USS Glacier found the largest iceberg ever recorded at
                 208 miles long and 60 miles wide in the South Pacific.
               - 1968: The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the Arkansas law
                 that banned teaching evolution in public schools. The U.N. General
                 Assembly voted against admitting Communist China.
               - 1969: Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet
                 Writers Union for anti-social behavior. The U.S. army announced for
                 the first time that it was investigating William Calley for the
                 alleged massacre of civilians at the Vietnamese village of My Lai
                 in March, 1968.
               - 1970: Scientists performed the first artificial synthesis of a live
                 cell. In East Pakistan a cyclone and tidal wave hit several
                 districts, causing the death of at least 200,000 people.
               - 1974: South Africa was suspended from the U.N. General Assembly
                 over its racial policies.
               - 1979: After Islamic students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran Nov.
                 4, President Jimmy Carter announced an immediate halt to all
                 imports of Iranian oil.
               - 1981: The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time,
                 becoming the first space vehicle to be used more than once.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Nadia Comaneci, 37, Olympic gymnast
               - Joseph Coors, 81, head of Adolph Coors Co. brewery
               - Tonya Harding, 28, figure skater, 1991 U.S. women's champion,
                 involved in plot to harm fellow Olympian Nancy Kerrigan
               - Kim Hunter, 76, actress, "Planet Of The Apes," "Backstairs at the
                 White House"
               - Charles Manson, 64, jailed cult leader
               - Michael Moorer, 31, boxer, defeated Evander Holyfield to win world
                 heavyweight title in 1994; lost to Holyfield 11/8/97
               - David Schwimmer, 32, actor, "Friends"
               - Wallace Shawn, 55, actor, "My Dinner with Andre"