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Date: Sunday, October 30, 1995
Weather Forecast: More of the same for Scotland today, scattered showers in the north and east, some of the showers wintry at times, while that low pressure area developing in England could produce torrential hailstorms. Flooding possible, so keep alert for hazardous conditions. Temperatures only reaching to about 1.6 C (35 F).
Special Notes: On this day in 1270 the eighth and last crusade was launched; in 1485 King Henry VII was crowned "Yeomen of the Guard"; in 1534 English Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church; in 1739 England declared war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear); in 1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patented the machine gun; in 1866 Jesse James gang robbed a bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000); in 1888 John J Loud patented the ballpoint pen; in 1922 Mussolini formed a government in Italy; in 1941 USS Reuben James was torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. was not in the war; in 1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) was deported from Auschwitz to Belsen and Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premiered in Washington
D.C.; in 1952 Clarence Birdseye sold his first frozen peas; and in 1968 Jaqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios. Today's birthdays include George II in 1683; John Adams in 1735; Russian novelist Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski in 1821; French impressionist painter Alfred Sisley in 1839; American poet Ezra Pound in 1885; composter Peter Warlock in 1894; actor Charles Bronson in 1921; actor Ken Berry (F Troop) in 1933; rock vocalist Grace Slick in 1939; actor/director Henry Winkler in 1945; actor Harry Hamlin (LA Law, Clash of the Titans) in 1951; and actress Monica Bellucci in 1960.
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