Monday, November 5, 2007—We skipped posting for a couple of days because we feared our slacker credentials might otherwise tarnish.

2004—A Franklin Co. (OH) official reports that Pres. Bush’s 3,893 vote total in one district is erroneous—only 638 ballots were cast.

1994—File under “Non-News:” Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer’s.

1949—Deranged WW II vet Howard Unruh shoots and kills 12 in Camden, NJ.

1940—The crew of the flaming tanker San Demetrio, set ablaze by shells from the Admiral Scheer, abandons ship.

1930—Told over the phone by a Swedish newspaper reporter that he’s won the Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis, thinking it’s a hoax, imitates the man’s accent.

1920—Socialist Eugene V. Debs gets a million votes for President while in jail.

1872—In Rochester, N.Y., Susan B. Anthony is arrested; she had the gall to vote.

1857—Birth of Ida Tarbell, muckraker.

1855—Birth of Eugene V. Debs.

1765—Two Boston gangs, instead of indulging in their usual Guy Fawkes Day dust-up, join forces for a demonstration against the Stamp Act.

1605—Had Guy Fawkes not been betrayed and apprehended, Parliament would have been rubble on this day.