Random News and Notes 1 November

On this date:

• 79 AD – The city of Pompeii is buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
• 1512 – Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is exhibited for the first time.
• 1582 – Maurice of Nassau, the son of William of Orange, becomes the governor of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht.
• 1755 – A great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, kills over 50,000 people.
• 1765 – The Stamp Act goes into effect in the British colonies.

• 1777 – The USS Ranger, with a crew of 140 men under the command of John Paul Jones, leaves Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the naval port at Brest, France, where it will stop before heading toward the Irish Sea to begin raids on British warships.
• 1800 – President John Adams, in the last year of his only term as president, moved into the newly constructed President’s House, the original name for what is known today as the White House.
• 1861 – Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 50 year-veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the onset of the Civil War, retires. General George McClellan is appointed general-in-chief of the Union armies.
• 1869 – Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion.
• 1911 – Italian army lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, while flying over Libya, tosses three grenades out of his plane over a Turkish camp, effectively dropping the world’s first aerial bomb.

• 1924 – Legendary Oklahoma marshal Bill Tilghman, 71, is gunned down by a drunk in Cromwell, Oklahoma.
• 1936 – Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini announces the Rome-Berlin axis after Count Ciano’s visit to Germany.
• 1943 – American troops land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
• 1950 – Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement attempt to assassinate President Harry S Truman.
• 1951 – Algerian National Liberation Front begins guerrilla warfare against the French.
• 1959 – Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens revolutionizes hockey by donning a facemask, the first NHL goaltender to do so in a regular-season game. Plante wears the custom-made fiberglass mask after suffering a badly cut nose and lip on a first-period shot by the New York Rangers’ Andy Bathgate.

• 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson calls a halt to bombing in Vietnam, hoping this will lead to progress at the Paris peace talks.
• 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1982 – Honda opens a plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US.

We start the news at the MVAP Sports desk with what is the early front-runner for college football play of the year. It came during USC’s shocking 30-18 upset of #2 ranked the Ohio State University last night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. USC jumped to an early lead with a 69-yard touchdown screen to freshman Trent Mosley, then pulled away in the third quarter after Ohio State’s fumble led to Mark Bowman’s electric play and another score, putting the Trojans up 27-9.

Ohio State outgained USC 464-339 yards and held the ball longer, but 11 penalties and red-zone flops doomed the Buckeyes, who got 260 passing yards and a touchdown from freshman QB Luke Fahey in his first start. USC coach Lincoln Riley notched his biggest win yet, improving to 7-2 while dropping Ohio State to 6-2 in a result that shook the Big Ten race.

There is an interesting change happening across central and south American governments. No longer are they coddling the narcos and commie groups in the region as they have for decades. The latest example comes from Columbia where the newly elected President, Abelardo “El Tigre” de la Espriella has begun an expansive crackdown on the cartels and the commies. Recently, “Keko” the leader of a gang called “Los del Freseo,” boasting that de la Espirella had nothing on him. “The Tiger’s got nothing. Let him come out, and we’ll put lead in him,” Keko allegedly said on the recording.

Not long after, Keko was face to face with El Tigre while cuffed to a fence:

Translation: YOU DON’T MESS WITH ABELARDO: This is how President Abelardo de la Espriella delivered a tremendous takedown to alias “Keko,” the criminal who was threatening him with death over the phone and who, after being captured in this morning’s mega-operation in Barranquilla, ended up broken and on the verge of tears, confessing that he was “standing firm for the homeland” and willing to cooperate with justice.
“Look, this is how you tame a bandit. Welcome to Miracle Homeland.”

Noted action movie auteur Michael Mann somehow shot himself in the leg. The filmmaker was at The Range LA around 4 p.m. when his firearm discharged into his leg as he tried to holster it. Emergency services rushed him to a hospital. LAPD called it a training accident with no intent to harm.

The injury seems non-life-threatening.

Sitting here some 2500 miles away, I predict the firearm involved was a Sig Sauer P320. Make your predictions in the comments.