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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Happy November 5th!!!

Today is a red letter day in science. Can anyone tell me what historical scientific event happend on this day in 1955?

posted by Kaplin at 11/05/2005 12:42:00 PM

5 Comments:

  • My god your right. This is the day in 1955 when Dr. Emmit Brown was standing on his toilet hanging a clock. He slipped and fell banging his head and had a dream, a vision of the Flux Cappasiter. It took him 30 years to finaly put it in a Delorean so Marty McFly could travel through time and make sure his parents kiss at the Fish Under the Sea dance... I mean the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

    Or is there a "Real" scientific achivement?

    By Blogger Psycho, at 11/06/2005 06:30:00 PM  

  • What do you mean "real"?
    Time travel IS real!!

    By Blogger Kaplin, at 11/06/2005 09:45:00 PM  

  • November 5th is the same day Jack the Ripper traveled to the 1970s in HG wells time machine in "Time After Time"

    A lot of time travel seems to revolve around November 5th

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8/28/2008 05:18:00 PM  

  • The actor Jon-Erik Hexum, who played Phineas Bogg the time traveler, in the 1982 TV series Voyager, killed himself accidentally on Nov. 5th.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/13/2008 07:51:00 PM  

  • Jon-Erik Hexum (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor and model, best known for accidentally killing himself on the set of Cover Up, a television series in which he was a central cast member.

    [edit] Death
    On October 12, 1984, in between filming scenes on the set of Cover Up, Hexum was critically wounded after he placed a .44 Magnum prop gun loaded with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger. The accident happened during the filming of a scene where Hexum’s character (Mac Harper) was supposed to unload a handgun and replace the bullets with blanks – as the script required. However, the shooting was delayed and Hexum – being overworked and tired due to his tight filming schedule and various TV appearances – fell asleep. Hexum awoke, realizing that the scene still was not ready to be shot, and put the gun to his head. Of all the crewmembers in the studio that day, no one claims to have seen the shooting.[5]

    Hexum was apparently unaware that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired within a few inches of the body, especially if pointed at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. Although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, the wad struck him in the temple with enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain causing massive hemorrhaging.[6][2]

    Hexum was rushed to the Beverly Hills Medical Center where he underwent five hours of surgery to repair his wounds.[6]On October 18, six days after the accident, Hexum was declared brain dead. Hexum's mother Greta allowed his body, still connected to life support, to be flown to San Francisco for organ transplants.[3] Hexum's heart was then implanted into a then 36-year old Las Vegas escort service owner who was awaiting a heart transplant.[7]Hexum's kidneys and corneas were also harvested and placed in organ transplant banks before his body was flown back to Los Angeles for autopsy and burial.[3]

    Hexum's death was ruled accidental.[8]Hexum's mother later received an out of court settlement from Twentieth Century Fox Television and Glenn Larson Productions, the production team behind Cover Up.[2]

    Four weeks after Hexum's death, Cover Up resumed airing without Hexum's character, Mac Harper, who was killed in action. The return episode also featured a tribute to Hexum.[9]Actor Antony Hamilton eventually replaced Hexum, but Cover Up was canceled after one season.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2008 05:11:00 AM  

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