1930-11-05 - The World’s first television commercial
Was it “Cars For Kids”?
The Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
History of nuclear energy - https:// www.world-nuclear. org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/outline-history-of-nuclear-energy.aspx
November 9 is a mixed bag…
I believe that John Adams, Sam Adams and Thomas Paine are the only Founding Fathers who never enslaved people.
Franklin was an abolitionist later, but it appears he did own slaves at one point and sold ad space for the slave trade:
Well, if it’s air-time busting half-hour Canadian folk songs you’re wanting, I see “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and raise you Loreena McKennit’s “Lady of Shallot”, released this month of November in 1991 and running 11:34. She wrote it at request of her music producer who was looking for a hit that would get lots of radio time… historicity of the tale in question is dubious… poem itself duly tweaked from Tennyson’s version… remains a song for which I have a soft spot…
Followed on the same album by a song which I’m not alone in considering to be her worst…
I counter with Sonny Rollins albums. Full LP side songs. My choice for bathroom breaks when I did community radio
Note to self: buy cigarettes.
Menthol cigarettes.