Thursday
Nov. 2, 1995
IV
Today's reading: "IV" by Wendell Berry from Sabbaths, published by North Point Press.
Birthday of Daniel Boone, born in 1734.
In 1863 David Wills, who was charged with cleaning up aftermath of Civil War, invited President Lincoln to speak at the consecration of a cemetery for the Union war dead.
The only Seneca Falls Convention survivor, Charlotte Woodward, exercised her right to vote in the 1920 election in Philadelphia. The 19th amendment gave women the vote.
In 1960 a British jury decided that controversial D.H. Lawrence book, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was not obscene.
Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose", world's largest aircraft, flew for first time in 1947.
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