On This Day November 2nd

 

OTD

November 2nd is the 306th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 59 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.

1795 – The French Directory, a five-person revolutionary government, is created.

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities."

1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

1936 – The BBC Television Service begins as the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.

1959 – Quiz shows scandals: Twenty-one game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

2008 – Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the race's final lap.

 

Birthdays

1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)

1799 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)

1844 – John J. Loud, American inventor of the ballpoint pen (d. 1916)

1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976)

1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)

1945 – J. D. Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1991 – Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player

Holiday Spotlight

  First — a note on the (subtle) difference between stouts and porters: According to VinePair: “The only main difference many brewers still agree on is the kind of malt that should be used to brew each type of beer. Porters use malted barley, and stouts are primarily made from unmalted roasted barley, where the coffee flavor most people associate with stout comes from.”

 Porters started in London during the early 1720s. The style attracted many beer drinkers (especially porters) with its intense flavor and ability to stay fresh longer. The cheaper price also helped. English breweries exported large volumes to Ireland; by 1776, it was brewed by Arthur Guinness at his St. James’s Gate Brewery. The beer gained its customary black color in the following century through black patent malt and became more robust in flavor.

 The first stouts were produced in the 1730s. Brewers inspired the Russian Imperial Stout back in the 1800s to win over the Russian Czar. “Imperial porter” came before “imperial stout,” and the earliest noted use of “Imperial” to describe a beer came in 1821.

 The adjective stout meant “proud” or “brave,” but it eventually took on the connotation of “strong.” The first known use of the word stout for beer occurred in 1677. The expression stout porter appeared during the 18th century. Stout applied to any beer as long as it was intense. (For example, in the UK, one might find “stout pale ale.” Only later did stout become synonymous with dark beer.

 Stouts come in many varieties today — including “milk,” “oatmeal,” and even “chocolate” — although these specific ingredients don’t always appear in the brew itself. But they sure sound good.

 

Others Include

All Soul's Day

Cookie Monster Day

Dynamic Harmlessness Day

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists

International Project Management Day

Look for Circles Day

National Cash Back Day

National Deviled Egg Day

National Men Make Dinner Day

Plan Your Epitaph Day

Practice Being Psychic Day

Stout Day