This Day In History: November 5

This Day In History

Special Events

On November 5, through the ages a wide variety of certain events happened, this includes:

* 1138 – Ly Anh Tong was enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
* 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the union.

The Crimean War

* 1854 – Crimean War: Despite being outnumbered, and fighting in heavy foggy conditions, the allied armies of the United Kingdom and France defeated the Russians at present-day Ukraine.
* 1984 – Morning Ireland, Ireland’s most listened to radio program, is broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 for the first time.
* 2007 – Chang’e 1, the first unmanned spacecraft of the China National Space Administration’s Lunar Exploration Program, entered into the moon’s orbit.

Holidays

* Diwali 2010 – (Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism) A holiday that is celebrated between mid-October and mid-November. Celebrated for what traditional things they do.

* Guy Fawkes Night – (Great Britain) A holiday that is celebrated on November 5. Festivities are centered on the use of fireworks and the lighting of bonfires

Mahmud Ghazan

Births

A lot of persons have been born this day in history many years ago. Some include:

* 1271 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
* 1494 – Hans Sachs, German mastersinger (d. 1576)
* 1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
* 1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
* 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
* 1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
* 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
* 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
* 1715 – John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
* 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
* 1742 – Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
* 1818 – Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
* 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
* 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
* 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
* 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)
* 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
* 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
* 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
* 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
* 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
* 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896. (d. 1935)
* 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
* 1884 – James Flecker, English writer (d. 1915)
* 1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
* 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961)
* 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
* 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
* 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)
* 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
* 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
* 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985)
* 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
* 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
* 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1944)
* 1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
* 1911 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress
* 1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
* 1914 – Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
* 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
* 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
* 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
* 1919 – Myron Floren, American accordianist The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2005)
* 1920 – Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 1994)
* 1921 – Princess Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
* 1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
* 1922 – Cecil Underwood, American politician (d. 2008)
* 1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
* 1934 – Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
* 1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey
* 1935 – Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
* 1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-born American computer scientist (d. 2001)
* 1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Chief Justice of Singapore
* 1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
* 1938 – Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980)
* 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
* 1938 – Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
* 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
* 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician
* 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
* 1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
* 1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007)
* 1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
* 1945 – Peter Pace, American military officer
* 1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
* 1946 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician and artist (d. 2001)
* 1946 – Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)
* 1947 – Quint Davis, American festival producer
* 1947 – Peter Noone, English musician (Herman’s Hermits)
* 1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist (d. 2010)
* 1948 – Peter Hammill, British musician (Van der Graaf Generator)
* 1948 – Hridayananda dasa Goswami, ISKCON guru
* 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
* 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel laureate
* 1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
* 1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
* 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
* 1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian statesman
* 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
* 1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
* 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
* 1953 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino judge
* 1953 – Joyce Maynard, American writer
* 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and political analyst
* 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
* 1955 – Nestor Serrano, American actor
* 1957 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984)
* 1958 – Don Falcone, American musician and producer
* 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
* 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
* 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
* 1961 – Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
* 1962 – Abédi Pelé, Ghanaian footballer
* 1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer software designer
* 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress
* 1963 – Tatum O’Neal, American actress
* 1963 – Brian Wheat, American musician (Tesla)
* 1964 – Helga van Niekerk, South African radio presenter
* 1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
* 1965 – Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte of Bulgaria
* 1966 – Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
* 1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer
* 1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper
* 1967 – Judy Reyes, Dominican American actress
* 1968 – Sam Rockwell, American film actor
* 1968 – Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
* 1970 – Javy López, baseball player
* 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
* 1971 – Dana Jacobson, ESPN’s First Take hostess
* 1971 – Rob Jones, English footballer
* 1971 – Corin Nemec, American actor
* 1971 – Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
* 1971 – Sergei Berezin, National Hockey League player
* 1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer
* 1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
* 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1973 – Daniella Westbrook, English actress
* 1974 – Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy)
* 1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
* 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
* 1974 – Ryan Adams, American musician
* 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
* 1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American voice actor
* 1976 – Jeff Klein, American musician
* 1977 – Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress
* 1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer
* 1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player
* 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek/Cypriot songwriter and singer
* 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
* 1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
* 1980 – Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
* 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
* 1983 – Rob Swire, Australian record producer, singer and keyboardist (Pendulum)
* 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
* 1983 – Andrew Hayden-Smith, British TV presenter and actor
* 1983 – Alexa Chung, British TV presenter and former fashion model
* 1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
* 1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish hockey player
* 1984 – Nikolai Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player
* 1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer (Young Divas)
* 1985 – Koki Tanaka, Japanese singer (KAT-TUN)
* 1986 – BoA, Korean singer
* 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
* 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American guitarist (Jonas Brothers)
* 1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
* 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer

Felix Luna

Deaths

* 1370 – Casimir III the Great king of Poland (b. 1310)
* 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
* 1559 – Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)
* 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
* 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
* 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (b. c.1659)
* 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
* 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
* 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
* 1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
* 1836 – Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
* 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
* 1923 – Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
* 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
* 1933 – Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
* 1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
* 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
* 1942 – George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
* 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
* 1951 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
* 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
* 1956 – Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
* 1960 – Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
* 1960 – Johnny Horton, country music singer (b. 1925)
* 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b. 1880)
* 1964 – Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland’s 5th District (b. 1893)
* 1964 – Buddy Cole, American jazz pianist and orchestra leader (b. 1916)
* 1971 – Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
* 1974 – Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
* 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
* 1975 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
* 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
* 1977 – René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
* 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
* 1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
* 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
* 1982 – Edward Hallett Carr, historian (b. 1892)
* 1982 – Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)
* 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
* 1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
* 1986 – Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
* 1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1925)
* 1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish Television Presenter (b. 1922)
* 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
* 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
* 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
* 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
* 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
* 1997 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
* 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)
* 1997 – Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959)
* 2000 – Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
* 2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
* 2000 – Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899)
* 2001 – Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
* 2001 – Milton William Cooper, American writer, shortwave broadcaster (b. 1943)
* 2001 – Barry Horne, a British animal liberation activist. (b. 1952)
* 2002 – Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
* 2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
* 2005 – Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
* 2005 – John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
* 2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
* 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister and poet (b. 1925)
* 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (b. 1922)
* 2009 – Félix Luna, Argentine historian (b. 1925)
* 2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet and politician (b. 1943)

Reference: Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Piciforme Post: A Toucan Article

The genus of toucan, Ramphastos, is portrayed here.

This post is all about the very specialized    birds called toucans.

Birds are members of the Aves, a class of  chorates that are unique because of their keel bone structure.

You can divide the classification of toucans into many more groups, including the order Piciformes. Piciformes have two main subdivisions: Galbulae – puffbirds, nunbirds, jacamars and nunlets – and Pici – barbets, toucans, toucan-barbets, woodpeckers, piculets, honeybirds and wrynecks.

Toucans, as was told in the last paragraph, are members of the suborder Pici, along with barbets, woodpeckers and a number of  others. Ramphastidae is the scientific name for the toucan family.

When discussing toucans most would think of the most common genus in the whole family, the most familiar toucan out of the whole family. That ramphastid is called Ramphastos. These toucans are commonly called “typical toucans”.

The Keel Billed Toucan from Costa Rica, a common member of the genus Ramphastos.

Fun Facts

These toucans have some interesting fun facts up their feathery sleeves. Like what their long, thick beaks are used for.

Do you know what they were used for?

You see, the beak is used mostly for its diet purposes, for the omnivorous eatings of this ave are really chewy. The fruits that toucans eat usually have tough seeds, so the bill comes in handy. It’s so robust that it will crush the fruit. The bill is especially needed when the bird eats nuts.

The bird will sometimes, occasionally, eat lizards and insects but their bones are chewy, so what other way to digest them? Use that beak!

After the birds eats bones, it will usually cough, or regurgitate, them up in a form of a bird pellet. The most famous types of birds for producing pellets are owls.

Did you know that almost every species of Ramphastos (typical toucans) has been found to be infested with a louse parasite called Austrophilopterus cancellosus? The only species that hasn’t been discovered with the louse was R. vitellinus.

Conclusion

So that ends our discussion on the toucans – the most interesting types of piciformes. We’ve talked about their classification, their bill’s uses and their parasite infestation. The conclusion is: They are very specialized, interesting and, in some ways, unusual. Never will we forget the icons of the colorful and tropical birds known as toucans.

Reference: Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

How to Group Plants

Plants are important modern fauna. Plants are the ones that made history by being the first multicellular organisms to get their energy from the Solar System’s Sun, some of the first ever biological life on the small portion of land on the planet and the only life-forms that depend on other life-forms to to reproduce (by pollination).

So know I’m discussing important groups of the kingdom of plants.

The moss, Ctenidium molluscum, is a nonvascular plant.

Plants belong to the kingdom of Plantae and the study of these multicellular marvels is called phytology or botany.

Plants can be broken down into two categories: vascular and nonvascular. Nonvascularity is when plants reproduce with spores, not seeds, and grow low to the ground. An example of a nonvascular plant is the common, but pesty, moss.

An example of a vascular plant is a giant redwood tree.

Vascular plants are plants that reproduce with seeds, whether they’re in bulbs or not, and most of them grow high of the ground’s surface. An example of a vascular plant includes the eye-catching giant redwood tree, Sequoia.

You can break down the classification of vascular plants into many more groups including spermatophytes – cycads, conifers, ginkgos, gnetophytes (woody plants) and angiosperms (flowering plants) – and non-seed bearing plants – rhyniophytes, zosterophyllaceaeans, lycopodiophytans, trimerophytophytans and pteridophytans.

Reference: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

I Know Its Closer to Halloween but Lets Do Easter

Easter Island Head

You know those giant statues on the Island of Easter about 1800 miles west of South America? What could those of been used for?

They were carved faces of their gods and dead and they honored them with these statues. Just like the Tlingits Native American’s totem poles were used for.

A lot of them were maid out of rock and volcanic ash. But as competition arose everybody made bigger and better moai. This eventually dwindled their important resources.

When today’s Polynesians settled in the 18th century, it is believed they wiped out the Rapa Nuians that were actually native to the island. Today, polynesians live there in harmony, showing of the ancient Rapa Nui in their culture and beliefs.

Reference: FactMonster.com