Almanac of Absurdities for 11/4

On this day in 1922, British Egyptologist Howard Carter found the long-lost entrance to the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, a minor Pharaoh. Carter waited nearly a month for his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, to arrive from England before opening it on the 26th, and finding a historic horde, and some say, triggering an ancient curse. It's Walter Cronkite's Birthday as well as that of Delbert McClinton who taught John Lennon how to play the harmonica.