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Celebrate Today:
Captain Kangaroo's Birthday - This kiddie TV show premiered on this day in 1955 on
CBS-TV.
German Reunification Day - East and West Germany came together on this day in 1990, after
41 years apart.
Mickey Mouse Club Day - This first appeared on TV in 1955, on this day.
Born on this Day
1605: Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary who dethroned last Ming
emperor
1613: Marion Delorme, Paris, celebrated French courtesan
1790: Cherokee Chief John Ross, who led the opposition to the forced
move of his people to what is now Oklahoma
1800: Historian George Bancroft (historian, known as the "Father of
American History" for his 10-volume A History of the United States.)
1803: John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
1804: Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1832: Hymnwriter Carolina Berg. (Lina Sandell) She was known as the
"Fanny Crosby of Sweden," her most enduring songs which survive today are:
"Day by Day (And With Each Passing Moment)" and "Children of the Heavenly
Father."
1900: North Carolina author Thomas Wolfe
19??: Eddie DeGarmo
19??: Doug Riley (Gold City)
19??: Billy Williams (Legend Seven)
19??: Derek Jan (Novella)
1909: Political cartoonist Herblock (Herbert Block)
1916: English veterinarian and author James Herriot
1925: Novelist Gore Vidal
1934: Actress Madlyn Rhue
1940: Singer Alan O'Day
1941: Rock and Roll star Chubby Checker
1943: Senator Jeff Bingaman (Democrat, New Mexico)
1947: Singer Lindsey Buckingham
1950: Jazz musician Ronnie Laws
1951: Former All-star outfielder Dave Winfield
1956: Actor Peter Frechette ("Profiler")
1959: Actor Jack Wagner
1962: Rock musician Tommy Lee (Motley Crue)
1971: Pop singer Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys)
1973: Actress Neve Campbell ("Party of Five")
1982: Actor Erik Von Detten (movie "Leave It to Beaver")
0959: Death of St. Gerard of Brogne
1190: Richard I, King of England, sacks Messina, Sicily
1226: St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan
order, died; he was canonized in 1228. See
Today's History Focus
1582: Gregorian Calendar introduced
1632: The Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted a tobacco tax
1656: Death of Myles Standish of Plymouth Colony
1692: In Massachusetts, Increase Mather published his
"Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits," which effectively brought an end
to the Salem Witch Trials which had begun earlier this year.
1739: Russia sings a treaty with the Turks, ending a
three-year conflict between the two countries.
1776: Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the
rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies.
1789: Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving
Day on Nov 26
1816: Schubert finished his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, just
a few months after finishing the C minor symphony that he subtitled, "Tragic."
We know when Schubert composed most of his music because he was very particular about
dating almost everything he wrote.
1857: The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, pioneer in deaf
education, held the first church services for the deaf in a chapel at New York University.
1862: At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union
army defeats the Confederates. A Rebel battery's first salvo was the prelude to the Battle
of Shilo, near Corinth.
1863: President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in
November, Thanksgiving Day.
1873: Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are
hanged in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby.
1875: Hebrew Union College was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio
under Jewish auspices. It was the first Jewish college in America to train men for the
rabbinate.
1876: John L. Routt, the Colorado Territory governor, is
elected the first state governor of Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S.
1899: The patent was issued for the motor-driven vacuum
cleaner.
1906: The first conference on wireless telegraphy in
Berlin adopts SOS as warning signal.
1913: Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
1922: Rebecca L. Felton (Democrat, Georgia) became the
first woman to be seated in the U-S Senate. (Mrs. Felton had been appointed to serve out
the remaining term of Senator Thomas E. Watson.) She attended only two sessions of the
Senate before an election was held for her successor.
1929: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally
changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1936: The American Minimalist Steve Reich was born in New
York. He rode transcontinental trains to see both parents during World War II, and later
composed "Different Trains" to contrast that experience with the very different
trains that took Jews to concentration camps.
1940: U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers.
Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and
infiltrating agents into enemy territory.
1941: Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that
Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1942: President Roosevelt established the Office of
Economic Stabilization and authorized controls on farm prices, rents, wages and salaries.
1942: Germany conducts the first successful test flight of
a V-2 missle, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course. When the anticipated invasion
of Britain failed to materialize in 1940, Londoners relaxed, but soon they faced a
frightening new threat.
1944: German troops evacuate Athens, Greece.
1952: The Ozzie and Harriet Show premiers on TV.
1955: The children's show, "Captain Kangaroo",
with Bob Keeshan in the title role, was broadcast for the first time. The show ran for 29
years.
1955: The Mickey Mouse Club premiers.
1960: The Andy Griffith Show began on TV and ran until
1968 with Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor It then continued three more without him as
Mayberry RFD. It was spinoff from the Danny Thomas Show, when Danny is stopped in North
Carolina for speeding by Sheriff Taylor.
1961: The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of the most widely
watched classic TV sitcoms, premiered. It ran until 1967.
1962: astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape
Canaveral aboard the "Sigma Seven" on a nine-hour flight.
1967: Folk singer Woody Guthrie died of Huntington's
Chorea.
1972: President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko signed strategic arms limitation agreements, putting the first restrictions on the
two countries' nuclear weapons.
1974: Frank Robinson was named major-league baseball's
first black manager as he was placed in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1981: Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast,
Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed ten lives.
1987: Negotiators for the United States and Canada reached
agreement in Washington on a framework to eliminate all tariffs between the world's two
largest trading partners.
1988: "Discovery" completed a four-day mission,
the first American shuttle flight since the "Challenger" disaster.
1988: Lebanese kidnappers released Indian educator
Mithileshwar Singh, who'd been held captive with three Americans for more than 20 months.
1989: Art Shell becomes the first African-American to
coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders.
1989: In a move to stem the flow of refugees to the West,
East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia.
1989: Panamanian officers launched an unsuccessful coup
against Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1990: West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of
postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country with 78 million
citizens.
1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made his first known
visit to Kuwait since his country seized control of the oil-rich emirate.
1991: Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination.
1991: South African author Nadine Gordimer was named
winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
1992: Relief flights to Bosnia-Herzegovina resumed with
the arrival of an American plane in Sarajevo.
1992: President Bush vetoed a measure to re-regulate cable
television (however, Congress overrode the veto two days later).
1993: In Moscow, thousands of anti-government protesters
armed with rocks, clubs and machine guns sent police fleeing in battles across the
capital.
1993: President Clinton expressed sorrow at the deaths of
American soldiers in Somalia, but reaffirmed that US forces would stay in the African
nation.
1994: U.S. soldiers in Haiti raided the headquarters of a
hated pro-army militia.
1994: Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his
resignation because of questions about gifts he'd received.
1994: South African President Nelson Mandela addressed the
U.N., urging the world to support his country's economy.
1994: Voters in Brazil elected Fernando Henrique Cardoso
their new president.
1995: The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the
former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown
Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable in a civil
proceeding).
1996: Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won the Nobel Prize
for Literature.
1997: Attorney General Janet Reno said Justice Department
investigators had no evidence President Clinton violated the law with White House coffees
and overnight stays for big contributors. However, Reno did extend a probe of Vice
President Al Gore's telephone fund-raising.
1998: Australian Prime Minister John Howard's conservative
government was narrowly re-elected.
1998: Pope John Paul II beatified Cardinal Alojzije
Stepinac, the World War II archbishop of Zagreb and a controversial figure because many
Serbs and Jews accused him of sympathizing with the Nazis.
1999: Sony co-founder Akio Morita, the entrepreneur,
engineer and savvy salesman who helped give new meaning to the words "Made in
Japan," died in Tokyo at age 78.
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