November 15
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Born on this Day
1316: John I, King of France
1397: Pope Nicholas V, ended schism, founded
Vatican Library
1708: British statesman William Pitt
("the elder")
1738: British astronomer Sir William
Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus
1874: Nobel Prize-winning physiologist
August Krogh of Denmark
1882: Jurist Felix Frankfurter
1874: Nobel Prize-winning physiologist
August Krogh of Denmark
1886: Actor/actress George (Georgina)
Spelvin (pseudonym for an actor or actress performing in more than one role; 1st
performance: Karl the Peddler; over 10,000 Broadway appearances)
1887: Georgia O'Keefe
(Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, A Cross by the Sea, Canada, Black Iris, Farmhouse Window
and Door, Lake George)
1891: W. Averell Harriman (U.S. diplomat,
Governor of New York [1954-1958])
1919: Judge Joseph Wapner
1919: Actress Carol Bruce (WKRP in
Cincinnati)
1925: Former White House Chief of Staff
Howard H. Baker Junior
1928 - Singer (William Fries) C.W. McCall
(Convoy, Old Home, Filler-up, Keep on Truckin' Cafe, Wolf Creek Pass, Classified, There
Won't be No Country Music, Roses for Mama)
1929: Actor Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore
Show, Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots-Part One, Lou Grant, Thunder Alley, Hearts Afire, Change
of Habit, The Doomsday Flight, Fort Apache The Bronx, JFK, They Call Me Mr.
Tibbs!)
1932: Singer Petula Clark (Downtown, I Know
a Place, This is My Song, My Love)
1933: Comedian Jack Burns
1933: Singer Clyde McPhatter (Treasure of
Love, Long Lonely Nights, A Lovers Question, Lover Please; groups: Dominoes: Do Something
for Me, Sixty Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby; Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night/Lucille,
Honey Love)
1934: Actress Joanna Barnes (The Trials of
O'Brien, 21 Beacon Street, Spartacus, Parent Trap, Goodbye Charlie)
1937: Singer Little Willie John (Sleep, Talk
to Me Talk to Me, Fever)
1940: Actor Sam Waterston (The Killing
Fields, Law & Order, Friendly Fire, I'll Fly Away, The Great Gatsby, Serial Mom)
1940: Golfer Fred Marti
1942: Pianist Daniel Barenboim
1945: Pop singer Frida (Anni-Frid) Lyngstad (group-ABBA:Fernando, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, Waterloo)
1946: Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon
Sisters)
1947: Basketball player Bob Dandridge
1949: Actor Yaphet Kotto
1950: Denver Broncos running back Otis
Armstrong
1953: Singer Alexander O'Neal
1954: Rock singer-producer Mitch Easter
1954: Actress Beverly D'Angelo (Coal Miner's
Daughter, Paternity, Hair, Annie Hall, Every Which Way but Loose, National Lampoon's
Vacation series, Captains and the Kings)
1957: "Tonight Show" bandleader
Kevin Eubanks
1967: Singer Mari Fernandez (group: Sweet
Sensation: If Wishes Came True)
1967: Rapper E-40
1970: Country singer Jack Ingram
0309 Martyrdom of Sts.
Shmona and Garia, the "Confessors of Edessa"
0878 Death of St. Fintan of
Rhienau
1136: Death of St. Leopold,
Prince of Austria
1202: Zara, a Christian
city, falls to the 4th Crusade
1280: Death of St. Albertus
Magnus
1492: Columbus makes the
first recorded observation of the use of tobacco
1501: Arthur, Prince of
Wales, marries Catherine of Aragon
1539: Thomas Whiting, Abbot
of Glastonbury, and two other monks of the Abbey, "Arthur" and Roger James, hung
drawn and quartered on Glastonbury Tor (beatified 13 May 1896)
1591: Execution of Barnabe Brisson, President of the Parliament of Paris
1626: The Plymouth Colony
buys out its London investors
1748: Haydn was replaced by
his younger brother Michael in a choral performance because his voice was changing, and
the Kapellmeister of St. Stephen's Church in Vienna tried to talk him into becoming a
castrato. Haydn's dad found out in time to rush to Vienna and save the family jewels.
1777: The Continental
Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the
United States.
1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike
sighted the mountaintop now known as "Pikes Peak."
1864: Union Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman began his Civil War march from Atlanta to the sea.
1881: The Federation of
Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was formed on this day
in Pittsburgh, PA. Five years later the organization would become the American Federation
of Labor (AFL).
1884: Samuel Sidney McClure,
of New York City, started the first newspaper chain on this date.
1889: Brazil's monarchy was
overthrown.
1904: This was the day that
one of Broadway's most famous phrases was uttered for the first time by Ethel
Barrymore.
Appearing in the play, "Sunday", Barrymore spoke the famous line, "That's
all there is. There isn't any more," as the curtain fell.
1904: King Camp Gillette
patented the razor with disposable blades.
1920: The first assembly of
the League of Nations was called to order in Geneva, Switzerland.
1926: The National
Broadcasting Company debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The program was a gala 4
1/2 hour broadcast from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Two remote pickups
were also on the program as opera star, Mary Garden sang from Chicago and Will Rogers
presented a humorous monologue from Independence, Kansas. Charles Lindbergh was among the
luminaries who attended the NBC broadcast.
1937: Congress enjoyed air
conditioning in both the House and Senate chambers for the first time as the second
session of the 75th U.S. Congress convened this day.
1938: Television's first
on-the-scene program took place. A fire on Ward's Island, New York, was seen by the
cameras of NBC's W2XBT. The cameras caught the unexpected fire as it broke out.
1939: President Roosevelt
laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.
1939: The Social Security
Administration approved the first unemployment check.
1940: The first 75:000 men
were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1956: "Love Me
Tender" - the first Elvis Presley film - premiered on this day. It was termed a
"rock and roll western".
1959: A famous classical
quote was published. Metropolitan Opera boss Rudolph Bing, in an interview with the New
York Times, dismissed a question about the Met's operating deficit by saying, "Opera
has no business making money."
1965: The fastest man on
wheels, Craig Breedlove, set a world speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah,
with a speed of 600.601 mph.
1966: The flight of
"Gemini 12" ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin
"Buzz" Aldrin Junior splashed down safely in the Atlantic.
1969: The first album
featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter, "Offering", was released by A&M
Records on this day. It would not be a big seller, but a single from the disc, a remake of
The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride", would gain national attention. Their next album,
however, would establish them as major international stars. Its title: "Close to
You".
1969: A quarter of a million
protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.
1969: Janis Joplin was
arrested for using ``vulgar and indecent'' language on stage in Tampa, Florida...and also
for allegedly threatening to kick a police officer in the face.
1980: After years of success
on the music charts with the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition, Kenny Rogers got
his first #1 song this day. "Lady", written by Lionel Richie, stayed at the top
for six weeks.
1982: Funeral services were
held in Moscow's Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I.
Brezhnev.
1984: Five-week-old Baby Fae
died after her body rejected the baboon heart she had lived with for 20 days at
California's Loma Linda University Medical Center.
1985: Britain and Ireland
signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern
Ireland.
1986: A government tribunal
in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in
delivering arms to Contra rebels, and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
(Hasenfus was
pardoned a month later.)
1987: Twenty-eight of 82
people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and co-pilot, were killed
when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking off from Denver's Stapleton International
Airport.
1988: The Palestine National
Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent
Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers.
1988: The Soviet Union
launched its first space shuttle, "Buran," on an unmanned, three-and-a-half-hour
flight.
1988: The Dalai Lama said he
would settle for less than full independence for Tibet in order to prevent full
assimilation by China.
1989: Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa was cheered by American lawmakers as he told a joint meeting of Congress that U.S.
aid to Poland "will not be wasted, and will never be forgotten."
1990: Milli Vanilli's German
producer revealed that the Grammy- winning pop duo did not sing a note on their 1989 debut
album...and also lip-synched their way through live and video performances.
1990: The ``Keating Five''
-- Sens. Alan Cranston, D- Calif.; Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.; John Glenn, D-Ohio; John
McCain, R- Ariz.; and Donald Riegle, D-Mich. -- maintained their innocence at the opening
of Senate hearings into charges of influence peddling on behalf of S&L kingpin Charles
Keating.
1990: The space shuttle
Atlantis was launched on a secret military mission.
1990: The first major United
States-Saudi Arabia military exercise, "Imminent Thunder" began.
1991: A federal appeals
panel threw out former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter's felony convictions
in the Iran-Contra affair, saying his immunized testimony to Congress was improperly used
against him.
1991: The Justice Department
revealed criminal indictments of BCCI and three businessmen associated with it.
1992: President-elect
Clinton and his wife, Hillary, hosted a dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas, for Democratic
congressional leaders in the first such meeting since the presidential election.
1993: An unauthorized
biography of Barbra Streisand claimed she kept her mother in a rundown condo and sent her
one-thousand dollars a month.
1993: A judge in Mineola,
New York, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy
Fisher, who is serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary
Jo.
1993: The State Department
announced that Secretary Warren M. Christopher would travel to the Mideast to try to
mediate differences between Israel and the PLO.
1994: Stevie Wonder
announced plans for his first national concert tour since 1989...with the benefits going
to those organizations working to end world hunger.
1994: The Federal Reserve
increased key interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, the largest hike in
13 years.
1994: The 18-member
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group concluded a two-day summit in Indonesia by
adopting a sweeping resolution to remove trade and investment barriers in the region by
2020.
1995: A partial government
shutdown stretched into the second day.
1995: The space shuttle
Atlantis docked with the orbiting Russian space station Mir.
1996: Texaco agreed to pay
$176.1 million to settle a two-year-old race discrimination suit.
1996: Former State
Department official Alger
Hiss, who fell from grace in a Communist spy scandal, died in New York just four days
after his 92nd birthday.
1996: Singer Michael Jackson
married the woman carrying his baby - his plastic surgeon's nurse, Debbie Rowe - in a
ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
1997: A day after moving to
halt the import of modified assault weapons, President Clinton defended the action in his
weekly radio address, saying such weapons did nothing but "inspire fear and wreck
deadly havoc on our streets."
1998: Kwame Ture, the civil
rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57.
1999: The Clinton administration claimed
victory in a seven-year struggle to persuade Congress to pay nearly $1
billion in back dues to the United Nations. Once again the U.S. looses
and Clinton claims victory. Do we really need an United Nations?
1999: Chinese and U.S. negotiators
reached a breakthrough agreement to remove trade barriers, clearing the
biggest hurdle to China's entry into the World Trade Organization.
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