Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Sun, 1 Nov 92 20:06:09 EST Message-ID: \SE A;PAGE 2: FREEZE FRAMES \SS (WS) INTESTATE Number of presidents who died without leaving a will: 4 (Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant and Garfield) A STEP UP Number of incumbent vice presidents who won election to the presidency: 4 (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, George Bush) HAD HIS PREFERENCES Number of words George Washington wrote in his diaries about trees from 1760 to 1788:10,000 Number of words in his first inaugural address:125 TOO YOUNG Number of presidents who were survived by both their parents: 1 (John Kennedy) TODAY IN HISTORY On this date, Nov. 1: In 1765, the Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists. In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations, using reports gathered by telegraph from 24 locations. In 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Truman. The attempt failed, and one of the pair was killed. In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. In 1973, in the wake of the "Saturday Night Massacre," Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox. In 1991, Clarence Thomas took his place as the newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM