On This Day November 4th

 OTD

November 4th is the 308th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 57 days remain until the end of the year.

 Events

1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.

1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform.

1890 – City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opened between King William Street and Stockwell.

1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

1952 – The United States government established the National Security Agency, or NSA.

1973 – The Netherlands experienced the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.

 

Birthdays

1640 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1697)

1879 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1935)

1884 – Harry Ferguson, Irish engineer, invented the tractor (d. 1960)

1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

1916 – John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)

1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)

1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer

1969 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor

1992 – Julian Wießmeier, German footballer

 

Holiday Spotlight

Common Sense Day

  Common sense is ancient, first being brought to the limelight by the great philosopher Aristotle. He described it as the ability with which animals (including humans) process sense perceptions, memories, and imagination to reach many types of judgments. To his thinking, only humans have real reasoned thinking, which takes them beyond common sense. This was then carried forward in the Roman interpretation, which holds that man controls concepts like ideas and perceptions and makes them more sophisticated than animals.

 French philosopher René Descartes established the most common modern meaning and its controversies when he stated that everyone has a similar and sufficient amount of common sense, but it is rarely used well.

 Since the Age of Enlightenment, “common sense” has been used for a rhetorical effect both approvingly, as a standard for good taste, and as a source of scientific and logical axioms.

 In modern times, common sense is defined as ‘the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live reasonably and safely”. Without any doubt, applying common sense could save one a lot of problems.

 Common Sense Day was created by Bud Bilanich, a career mentor, motivational speaker, blogger, and author. He’s starred in some leading TV shows and magazines and has written 19 books that highlight how to succeed in life and how the application of common sense is vital to that success. Joint Sense Day was first celebrated in 2015.

 

 Others Include

Bison Day

King Tut Day

Learn to Homebrew Day

National Book Lovers Day

National Candy Day

National Chicken Lady Day

National Easy-Bake Oven

National Play Outside Day

National Skeptics Day

National Waiting for the Barbarians Day

National Wine Tasting Day

Pumpkin Destruction Day

Russia's Day of Unity

Sausage and Kraut Day

World Numbat Day 

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