Good morning, it’s November 3, the 307th day of 2007. There are 58 days left in the year. It will be in the 50s at the start of the day, but by afternoon the temperature should rise into the 70s. Be sure to set your clocks back tonight! Standard Time returns early Sunday; clocks go back one hour.
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This month’s photo:
Children’s wagons filled with pumpkins greet visitors on Main Street in Salado at an annual fall fundraiser for St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church. The photo was taken by Fred Daschofsky of Gatesville and was selected for the 2007 KWTX Hometown Calendar. Click here for information about the 2008 KWTX Hometown Calendar.
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Today's Highlight in Local History:
On November 3, 1952, the epic novel “Sironia” by Waco author Madison Cooper was published.
Today's Highlight in History:
On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite, into orbit; on board was a dog named "Laika" (LY'-kah) who was sacrificed in the experiment.
On This Date:
In 1839, the first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.
In 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour.
In 1896, Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.
In 1903, Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
In 1936, President Roosevelt won a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred M. "Alf" Landon.
In 1964, President Johnson soundly defeated Republican challenger Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.
In 1970, Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of Chile.
In 1979, five radicals were killed when gunfire erupted during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, after a caravan of Klansmen and neo-Nazis had driven into the area.
In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair began to come to light as Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran.
Ten years ago:
The Supreme Court let stand California's groundbreaking Proposition 209, which banned race and gender preference in hiring and school admissions. Chinese President Jiang Zemin left the United States after an eight-day visit. Opening statements were presented in the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Terry Nichols.
Five years ago:
A CIA Predator drone fired a missile at a car in Yemen that was carrying several suspected al-Qaeda operatives, killing al-Qaeda's top operative in that country (Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi). Boston Marathon champion Rodgers Rop of Kenya won the New York City Marathon in 2:08:07. Joyce Chepchumba of Kenya finished in 2:25:56 to capture the women's title. Actor Jonathan
Harris died in Encino, California, at age 87.
One year ago:
U.S. Representative Bob Ney (Republican, Ohio), who'd pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, resigned from Congress. French conductor Paul Mauriat, whose arrangement of "Love is Blue" topped U.S. charts in the 1960s, died in Perpignan, France, at age 81.
Today's Birthdays:
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Bob Feller is 89. Actress Lois Smith is 77. Former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis is 74. Actor-dancer Ken Berry is 74. Movie composer John
Barry is 74. Actor Shadoe Stevens is 61. Singer Lulu is 59. Comedian-actress Roseanne Barr is 55. Actress Kate Capshaw is 54. Comedian Dennis Miller is 54. Actress Kathy Kinney is 54. Singer Adam Ant is 53.
Thought for Today:
"Love is never merely an amiable tolerance of whatever form human frailty and folly may take." – Josiah Royce, American philosopher (1855-1916).
(Source: Associated Press)
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