Thought for the day

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who as the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt]

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Nov 2nd in History

1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting. 

1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.

1963 - The Beach Boys' "Be True To Your School" was released.

1966 - Mississippi John Hurt died at the age of 73.

Musical birthdays -
  • Jay Black (Jay and The Americans) 1938 
  • Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses) 1960 
  • k.d. lang 1961
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