Random News and Notes 7 November

On this Date:

• 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1811 – Rebellious Indians in a conspiracy organized in defiance of the United States government by Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, are defeated during his absence in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe) by William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory.

• 1814 – Andrew Jackson attacks and captures Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force.
• 1846 – Zachary Taylor, one of the heroes of the Mexican War, is elected president.
• 1861 – Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches an unsuccessful raid on Belmont, Missouri.
• 1876 – Rutherford B. Hayes is elected 19th president of the United States.
• 1881 – Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona’s, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near.
• 1885 – At a remote spot called Craigellachie in the mountains of British Columbia, the last spike is driven into Canada’s first transcontinental railway.

• 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11.
• 1916 – Jeannette Rankin (R-Montana) is elected the first congresswoman.
• 1917 – The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take power in Russia.
• 1917 – British General Sir Edmond Allenby breaks the Turkish defensive line in the Third Battle of Gaza.
• 1921 – Benito Mussolini declares himself to be leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy.
• 1932 – The Supreme Court hands down its decision in the matter of Powell v. Alabama. The case arose out of the infamous Scottsboro case. Nine young Black men were arrested and accused of raping two white women on train in Alabama. The boys were fortunate to barely have escaped a lynch mob sent to kill them, but were railroaded into convictions and death sentences. The Supreme Court overturned the convictions on the basis that they did not have effective representation.
• 1940 – The Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State collapses.

• 1943 – British troops launch a limited offensive along the coast of Burma.
• 1944 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey.
• 1944 – Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German Soviet spy, who had used the cover of a German journalist to report on Germany and Japan for the Soviet Union, is hanged by his Japanese captors.
• 1956 – UN General Assembly calls for France, Israel and the UK to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
• 1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 1972 – President Richard Nixon is re-elected.
• 1973 – Congress overrides Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution that limited presidential power to wage ware without congressional approval.
• 1975 – A uprising in Bangladesh kills Brig. Gen. Khaled Mosharraf and frees Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman, future president of the country, from house arrest.
• 1983 – A bomb explodes in the US Capitol’s Senate Chambers area, causing $250,000 damages but no one is harmed; a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed the bomb was retaliation for US military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.

We start the news in Georgia with an election related note. In Georgia’s District 154, Democrat Harry James initially led Republican Gerald Greene by 58 votes, but Seminole County officials found and uploaded Election Day results from a missing memory card holding about 388 ballots. This shifted the tally to Greene with 10,193 votes (50.65%) over James’s 9,931 (49.35%).

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger launched an investigation into the oversight, as it could preserve Republicans’ chance to block a narrow Democratic House majority; certification is due by Monday.

An Iowa judge has been charged with multiple felonies after a fatal crash. On September 25, District Associate Judge Lynn Poschner (D) 45, struck two pedestrians while looking down at her phone to adjust audio, according to court records and a forensic check showing her screen active. Jasmira Kadic, 60, died from injuries on October 28, while the other pedestrian suffered serious harm; Poschner faces felony charges of homicide by vehicle and serious injury by vehicle.

Voters retained her on November 3 with 95,762 yes votes over 43,313 no votes, unaware of the ongoing investigation, and she was arrested November 4, booked on $15,000 bond. She has been placed on leave with all of her cases reassigned.

The Secret Service arrested an Illegal outside the White House. Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos, who illegally crossed the Texas border in March 2024 and was released, was arrested Thursday night on Constitution Avenue. Officers found an AR-15-style rifle, MAC-10 handgun, Glock 43X pistol, and ammunition in his parked stolen Ford F-150. When questioned, he allegedly said that he “heard voices in his head” telling him to kill Donald Trump.

He faces charges including unlawful firearms transport, unregistered weapons, and theft. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin praised the Secret Service for stopping him before harm could occur.

There was a mass shooting in Krakow Poland today. Around 3 p.m. local time, a man in military-style attire drove into the historic square, shot at people from his car, then fled before police shot and wounded him nearby. Five people died, about a dozen were injured including officers.

According to authorities, the suspect acted alone. This is a breaking story and will be updated as more info becomes available.