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Born on this Day
1635: Marquise de Mainteon, mistress and 2nd wife of Louis XIV, King of
France
1701: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor of the centigrade
thermometer
1843: Cornelius Vanderbilt (Started the Staten Island Ferry)
1874: American historian Charles Beard
1874: Israeli statesman Chaim Weizmann
1909: The Southern novelist and film critic James Agee
1912: Broadway producer David (Margulois) Merrick (Hello, Dolly!,
Beckett)
1917: Children's entertainer "Buffalo Bob" Smith (Howdy Doody
Time)
1925: Actor Marshall Thompson
1927: Former Treasury Secretary William Simon
1932: Gail Sheehy, the American author who wrote the pop-psychology book
Passages
1935: Drummer Al Jackson
1935: Boxer Willie (Wilfred) Pastrano (Light Heavyweight Champion
1963-1965)
1937: Author Gail Henion Sheehy (The Silent Passage: Menopause,
Pathfinders)
1940: Actor Bruce Lee (Liu Yuen Kam)
1942: Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix Schulz (Foxy Lady, Purple Haze)
1944: Eddie Rabbitt
1948: Actor James Avery
1950: Swimmer Hans Fassnacht
1952: Football player Ike Harris
1953: Russian rock musician Boris Grebenshikov
1957: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
1959: Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds)
1962: Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax)
1962: Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More)
1963: Actor Fisher Stevens
1964: Actress Robin Givens (Head of the Class, A Rage in Harlem)
1970: Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX)
1972: Black Entertainment Television host Rachel
1976: Actor Jaleel White ("Family Matters")
43 BC: Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the
triumvirate of Rome.
8 BC: Horace, Latin poet,
satirist, dies
0450: Death of Galla Placida
0511: Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his
kingdom is divided between his four sons.
0602: Byzantine troops in the Balkans mutiny
0784: Death of St. Fergil of Salzburg
"the Geometer"
1198: Death of Constance, widow of Henry IV,
Holy Roman Emperor
1382: The French nobility, led by Olivier de
Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders.
1346: Death of St. Gregory of Sinai
1520: Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean
1582: William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway
were married
1592: Death of John II, King of Sweden
1633: Death of Sir John Elliot in the Tower of
London
1655: Cromwell issues an Edict against the
Royalist clergy
1779: The College of Pennsylvania became the
University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in
America.
1839: The American Statistical Association was
founded in Boston.
1852: Augusta Ada King, Lady Lovelace, died,
heavily in debt, addicted to strong drink. She had been the assistant to the
mathematical engineer Charles Babbage (the father of the computer).
1862: George Armstrong Custer meets his future
bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
1868: Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s
7th Cavalry kills Chief Blackkettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and
children) on the Washita River.
1887: U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton,
brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort
Smith, Ark.
1889: Curtis P. Brady was issued the first
permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr.
Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the
horses in the park.
1896: "Also Sprach Zarathustra" was
premiered in Frankfurt with Strauss himself conducting. Strauss said at the
time that it was his best work, but today it's not played much. The very
beginning of it is famous, though, because it was used in the movie
"2001."
1901: The War Department authorized creation
of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in
Leavenworth, Kan.
1910: New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
1924: The largest crowd to see a high school
football game went through the turnstiles in Los Angeles. Los Angeles High
and Polytechnic High fought to a 7-7 tie. The attendance? 57,000 people.
1926: Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong recorded
"You Made Me Love You" on Okeh Records.
1928: A Stravinsky ballet was premiered.
"The Fairy's Kiss" is an homage to Tchaikovsky.
1931: Paul Wittgenstein played the premiere of
Ravel's left-handed piano concerto. Wittgenstein lost his right hand in
wartime but decided to pursue his concert career anyway.
1935: "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" was
recorded by Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer. The tune was recorded at Decca
Records in Los Angeles.
1937: The stage play, "Pins and
Needles" opened in New York City. The cast consisted of members of the
ILGWU (the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union). The show ran two
years. We bet it was a stitch.
1939: The play "Key Largo," by
Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.
1942: During World War Two, the French navy at
Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of
the Nazis.
1953: Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston
at age 65.
1954: Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet
spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1967: Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara
to presidency of the World Bank.
1967: Charles DeGaulle vetoes Britain’s
entry into the Common Market again.
1967: The Association, a California group,
earned a gold record for the hit, "Never My Love" on Warner Bros.
Records. The group also earned worldwide fame for other hits including
"Windy", "Cherish" and "Along Comes Mary."
1970: Syria joins the pact linking Libya,
Egypt and Sudan.
history.
1970: Pope Paul the Sixth, visiting the
Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding
Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973: The Senate voted 92-to-three to confirm
Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and
City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death
inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
1983: 183 people were killed when a Colombian
Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
1984: The Treasury Department proposed a
sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Tax Code.
1984: Artificial heart recipient William J.
Schroeder speaking for the first time since the implant, asked for a can of
beer -- a wish that was granted two days later.
1985: The British House of Commons approved
the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of
British-ruled Northern Ireland.
1986: Published reports said the FBI was
investigating whether fired National Security Council aide Oliver L. North
had destroyed papers from his personal files as the Iran-Contra affair began
to unravel.
1986: Lou Holtz signed a five-year pact to
lead the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Holtz left the head coaching job with
the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota to take the position.
1987: French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and
Roger Auque were freed by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.
1988: The United States was hit by a flood of
worldwide criticism for its refusal a day earlier to allow PLO Chairman
Yasser Arafat to address the United Nations.
1988: Actor John Carradine, known for his
roles in horror films, died in Milan, Italy, at age 82.
1989: 107 people were killed when a bomb
blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Boeing 727.
1989: University of Chicago doctors implanted
part of a woman's liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the nation's first
living donor liver transplant.
1990: British Conservatives chose John Major
to succeed Margaret Thatcher as party leader. Subsequently, he would be
named prime minister.
1990: The Senate Armed Services Committee
opened hearings on the Persian Gulf crisis.
1991: Israel signaled its anger with what it
regarded as the high-handedness of the United States by rejecting an
invitation to attend Mideast peace talks in Washington on Dec. 4.
1991: The UN Security Council unanimously
adopted a resolution paving the way for the establishment of a UN
peacekeeping operation in war-ravaged Yugoslavia.
1992: President-elect Clinton met for more
than an hour with former President Reagan in Los Angeles.
1992: Rebel forces in Venezuela tried but
failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten
months.
1993: In his weekly radio address, President
Clinton said enacting comprehensive anti-crime legislation was the first
priority for 1994, saying, "We have to be concerned that in both our
cities and our rural areas, the value of life has been cheapened."
1994: Defense Secretary William Perry,
appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," suggested the Bosnian
government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was
powerless to stop the Serbs.
1995: President Clinton presented his case for
sending 20,000 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia, saying in a
prime-time address that "in the choice between peace and war, America
must choose peace.""
1995: House Speaker Newt Gingrich ruled out a
1996 presidential run.
1996: A federal judge blocked enforcement of a
California initiative to dismantle affirmative action, saying civil rights
groups had a "strong probability" of proving it unconstitutional.
1996:Evan C. Hunziker, an American jailed by
North Korea on spy charges, was set free, ending a three-month ordeal.
1997: A day after saying it would open its
presidential palaces to international observers, Iraq declared that UN
weapons monitors were not included in the invitation.
1997: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New
York was marred when a gust of wind knocked part of a lamppost onto a
34-year-old woman, fracturing her skull and leaving her in a coma for almost
a month.
1998: Falsely answering 81 questions put to
him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary
Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not
false and misleading."
1999: Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, cleared the way for the speedy formation of an unprecedented Protestant-Catholic administration.
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