Today's reading: "On a Cat, Ageing" by Sir Alexander Gray from A BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE published by Oxford University Press.
"Sitting by the Fire on a Snowy Evening" by Henry Beard from POETRY FOR CATS, published by Villard Books.
Birthday of Nicolas Appert who invented canning, born in 1750.
John Heisman (Heisman Trophy) born on this day in 1869.
Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim English Channel, born in 1906.
Michael Crichton born in 1942.
Today's reading: "A Field Guide to Mosses" by Jeffrey Harrison from THE SINGING UNDERNEATH published by E. P. Dutton.
United Nations established in 1945.
Stock Market Panic in 1929.
Anna Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901.
First transcontinental electric telegraph sent in 1861.
Writer and editor Sarah Josepha Hale born on this day in 1788.
Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who made incredible discoveries with a simple microscope of his own design, born in 1632.
Today's reading: "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Stephen Mitchell from PARABLES AND PORTRAITS, published by Harper Perennial.
Poet Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400.
Birthday of Pablo Picasso, 1881.
Poet John Berryman born in 1914.
Birthday of novelist Anne Tyler, born in 1941.
Today's reading: "He attempts to Love His Neighbors" by Alden Nowlan from I MIGHT NOT TELL EVERYONE THIS, published by Stoddart Publishing.
Edgar Allan Poe Festival begins in Cornwall Penn.
Birthday of breakfast cereal manufacturer Charles William Post born in 1854.
Famous OK Corral gunfight in 1881.
Duke Ellington recorded Creole Love Song in 1927.
Underground newspaper Village Voice first published, backed by Norman Mailer.
Hungarian Rebellion in 1956.
Regular jet service over Atlantic began in 1958.
Today's reading: "The Song of the Mischievous Dog" by Dylan Thomas from A GREEN PLACE: MODERN POEMS, published by New Directions.
First of Federalist Papers appeared in 1787 arguing in favor of new constitution and federal government.
New York City subway began operation in 1904.
Birthday of English comedian John Cleese born in 1939.
Poet Sylvia Plath born in 1932.
Birthday of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, 1914.
Today's reading: "A Parting" by Wendell Berry from ENTRIES, published Pantheon Books.
Feast Day of St. Jude.
Halloween Festival in Brooklyn, New York.
Sorghum Day Festival in Wewoka, Oklahoma.
Harvard College established in 1638.
Statue of Liberty dedicated in 1886.
Jonas Salk, developer of polio vaccine, born in 1914.
Birthday of American composer Howard Hanson born in 1896.
Today's reading: "Psalm 1" by David Rosenburg from A POET'S BIBLE, published by Hyperron.
Reformation Sunday commemorating day on which Martin Luther nailed theses on Wittenberg Palace church.
Standard Time resumes.
Anniversary of stock market crash.
Birthday of writer James Boswell, born in 1740.
Singer Mahalia Jackson born in 1911.
Birthday of cartoonist, Bill Mauldin born in 1921.
