Sunday, November 1, 2015
![Writer Stephen Crane](pix/crane-stephen4.jpg)
[1871 - Stephen Crane, novelist, poet, born in Newark, New Jersey]
![Sportswriter Grantland Rice](pix/rice-grantland.jpg)
[1880 - Grantland Rice, sportswriter, born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee]
![Writer Sholem Asch](pix/asch-sholem.jpg)
[1880 - Sholem Asch, novelist, essayist, playwright, born in Kutno, Poland]
![Library of Congress as completed](pix/library-congress-1900.jpg)
[1897 - The first Library of Congress building is opened to the public]
![James J. Kilpatrick](pix/kilpatrick-james-j2.jpg)
[1920 - James J. Kilpatrick, journalist, columnist, editor, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]
![Victoria de los Angeles as Butterfly](pix/de_los_angeles-butterfly.jpg)
[1924 - Victoria de los Angeles Lopez Garcia, opera soprano, born in Barcelona, Spain]
![Rockefeller Center](pix/rockefeller-center1.jpg)
[1939 - Rockefeller Center opens in Manhattan]
[1941 - President Roosevelt by executive order places the Coast Guard under the Department of the Navy for the duration of WW-II]