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Born on this Day
1592: Abahai, Manchurian leader; established Ch'ing dynasty
1628: John Bunyan, English preacher and writer who wrote Pilgrim’s
Progress.
1682: French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer of ballets and
introducer of ballets into opera.
1757: English poet William Blake
1829: Anton Rubenstewas born. Rubenstewas an important figure Russian
musical life the 19th century and one of his symphonies was one of the most frequently
performed classical works for several generations.
1837: John Hyatt, inventor of celluloid
1866: Architect Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Memorial
1895: The pianist Jose Iturbi was born Valencia. Iturbi recorded a piano
version of "Ritual Fire Dance" from "El Amor Brujo" that was one of
the best-selling 78 rpm records of all time, and started a tradition of arranging that
work for virtuosos on various instruments.
1908: Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929: Motown Records founder Berry Gordy
1931: Actress Hope Lange
1936: Former presidential hopeful Gary Hart
1938: Movie director Michael Ritchie ("Downhill Racer,"
"The Candidate")
1940: Singer-songwriter Bruce Channel
1943: Singer Randy Newman
1946: CBS News correspondent Susan Spencer
1949: "Late Show" orchestra leader Paul Shaffer
1950: Actor Ed Harris
1956: Country singer Kristine Arnold (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
1959: Actor Judd Nelson
1962: Rock musician Matt Cameron (Soundgarden)
1968: Rhythm-and-blues singer Dawn Robinson (En Vogue)
0749: Abu'l'Abbas declared Caliph
0765: Death of St. Stephen the Younger
1095: Urban calls for the First Crusade at the Council of
Clermont: "God Wills It!"
1494: End of the French occupation of Florence
1520: Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
1572: Death of Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino), painter
1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the
Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
1729: Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French
settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana.
1859: Washington Irving, one of the most important figures
of early National American literature, died. ("Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
Today's History Focus
1868: Violent eruption of Mt. Etna, Sicily.
1872: The Modoc War of 1872-73 begins northern California
when fighting breaks out between Modoc Chief CaptaJack and a cavalry detail led by
CaptaJames Jackson.
1895: The first automobile race took place between Chicago
and Waukegan, Illinois. America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7
MPH. The winner was James FranklDuryea, who won $2,000 from the Chicago
"Times-Herald."
1919: Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor became the first
woman member of the British Parliament.
1925: The Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's famed home of
country music, made its radio debut on station WSM.
1941: The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise depart Pearl
Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to Wake Island.
1942: A fire at the Coconut Grove nightclub Boston killed
491 people. Most victims suffocated or were trampled to death.
1943: President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalmet Tehran during World War Two.
1948: Edward Land's instant camera went on sale.
1950: Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN
forces.
1958: The African nation of Chad became an autonomous
republic withthe French community.
1958: The United States fired an intercontinental
ballistic missile at full range for the first time.
1961: Ernie Davis become s the first African American to
wthe Heisman Trophy.
1963: Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy
1964: The United States launched the space probe
"Mariner Four" on a course to Mars.
1971: The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as
priests.
1975: President Ford nominated Federal Judge John Paul
Stevens to the US Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.
1977: Larry Bird was introduced as "College
Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story Sports Illustrated. The rest is
history.
1979: An Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole
crashed into a mountaAntarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
1981: Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
won his 315th game to become college football's all-time career victory leader surpassing
Amos Alonzo Stagg's record.
1982: An 88-nation world trade conference meeting Geneva
agreed on a new set of guidelines for encouraging free trade and halting a tide of global
protectionism.
1983: The space shuttle Columbia blasted into orbit,
carrying six astronauts who conducted experiments using the $1 billion Spacelab the
shuttle's cargo bay.
1983: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir met with
President Reagan at the White House to discuss ways to strengthen U.S.-Israeli military
and economic ties.
1984: Senate Republicans elected Bob Dole of Kansas to be
Senate majority leader the 99th Congress.
1985: Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis
celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner of irradiated turkey and freeze-dried vegetables,
and launched a satellite from the cargo bay.
1985: The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord
concerning Northern Ireland.
1986: The United States violated ceilings the unratified
SALT II nuclear arms treaty as another Air Force B-52 bomber capable of carrying
atomic-tipped cruise missiles became operational.
1987: A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the
Indian Ocean with the loss of all 159 people aboard, shortly before it was due Mauritius
for refueling.
1988: Major U.S. banks boosted their prime lending rate a
half a percentage point to 10.5 percent.
1988: President-elect Bush announced that MarlFitzwater,
President Reagan's chief spokesman, was staying on for his administration.
1989: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived New York
after escaping her homeland by way of Hungary.
1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of
Britaduring an audience with Queen Elizabeth the Second, who conferred the premiership on
John Major.
1991: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev expressed
unhappiness over reports that the United States might move toward diplomatic recognition
of Ukraine after the republic's upcoming independence referendum.
1994: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered a
Wisconsprison by a fellow inmate.
1987: A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the
Indian Ocean with the loss of all 159 people aboard.
1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime
minister of Britain during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, who
conferred the premiership on John Major.
1992: Bosnia-Herzegovina, a breakthrough the relief effort
came with the delivery of 137 tons of food and supplies to the isolated town of
Srebrenica.
1992: King William's Town, South Africa, four people were
killed, about 20 injured, when black militant gunmen attacked a country club.
1993: The British government confirmed reports of contacts
with the Irish Republican Army that were aimed at ending the violence British-ruled
Northern Ireland.
1993: TV personality Garry Moore died on Hilton Head,
South Carolina, at age 78.
1994: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was clubbed to death a
Wisconsprison by a fellow inmate; while cleaning a toilet.
1994: Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.
1994: Sixties war protester Jerry Rubdied Los Angeles, two
weeks after being hit by a car; he was 56.
1995: President Clinton continued to press his case for
sending 20,000 U.S. ground troops to Bosnia.
1995: President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that
ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.
1996: Defense Secretary William Perry joined US soldiers
the mud and freezing raof Bosnia-Herzegovina to deliver a Thanksgiving message of
discipline and patience for their still-unfinished peacekeeping mission.
1996: A stuck hatch on the space shuttle
"Columbia" prevented two astronauts from going on a spacewalk (a second planned
spacewalk also had to be canceled; engineers later discovered a loose screw had jammed the
hatch mechanism).
1997: India's powerful Congress Party withdrew its support
from India's ruling coalition, forcing Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral to resign.
1998: Some Republicans expressed disappointment and outrage over President Clinton's written responses to 81 questions from the House Judiciary Committee concerning the Monica Lewinsky affair, with one accusing the president of "word games."
1999: Hsing-Hsing, the popular giant
panda who arrived at the National Zoo in 1972 as a symbol of U.S.-China
detente, was euthanized at age 28 because of his deteriorating health.
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