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Born on this Day
1086: Henry V, last Salian Holy Roman Emperor
1622: Charles X Gustav - King of Sweden
1656: British astronomer Edmond Halley (1st to
calculate a comet's orbit).
1732: John Dickinson - American statesman
often referred to as the "penman of the Revolution."
1847: Bram Stoker - Author of the popular
horror tale Dracula. Although an invalid in early childhood--he could not stand or walk
until he was seven--he outgrew his weakness to become an outstanding athlete and football
player at the University of Dublin.
1866: Herbert Austin Austin, Baron - Founder
and first chairman of the Austin Motor Company, whose Austin Seven model greatly
influenced British and European light-car design.
1881: Frank Gouldsmith Speck- American
cultural anthropologist known for his work on the Algonquin Indian tribes of the eastern
United States.
1884: Hermann Rorschach - Swiss psychiatrist
who devised the inkblot test that bears his name and that is widely used clinically for
diagnosing psychopathology.
19??: Susie Luchsinger
19??: Joel Hanson (PFR)
1900: Author Margaret Mitchell ("Gone
With the Wind")
1909: Actress Katharine Hepburn
1914: Actor Norman Lloyd (St. Elsewhere,
Journey of Honor, Jaws of Satan, Saboteur, The Southerner)
1916: Actress June Havoc (Brewster's Millions,
Gentlemen's Agreement, Sing Your Worries Away, Willy)
1921: Actor-director Gene Saks (A Fine
Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand Clowns; director: Barefoot in the Park,
Mame, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower)
1921: Producer- Walter Mirisch (The Apartment)
1922: Heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christian
Barnard
1922: Actress Esther Rolle
1924: Actor Joe Flynn ( The Tim Conway Show,
McHale's Navy, The Joey Bishop Show, The George Gobel Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The
Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Superdad, Million Dollar Duck, The Barefoot Executive,
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)
1927: Singer (Clara Ann Fowler) Patti Page
(Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny
Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; in film: Elmer Gantry)
1927: Singer Chris Conner
1931: CBS newsman Morley Safer
1933: Actress Esther Rolle (Summer of My
German Soldier, Good Times, Maude, Good Times, Scarlett, Driving Miss Daisy, A Rasin in
the Sun, The Mighty Quinn)
1935: Actor Alain Delon
1942: National Horse Racing Hall of Fame
Jockey Angel Cordero
1944: Singer Bonnie Bramlett (Never Ending
Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know)
1946: Musician and songwriter Roy (Ulysses)
Wood formed Electric Light Orchestra
1948: Singer Minnie Riperton (Lovin' You; LP:
Come to My Garden, Adventure in Paradise)
1949: Singer Bonnie Raitt (Runaway, The Boy
Can't Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgivenesst)
1951: TV personality Mary Hart
1952: Playboy Enterprises chairman and chief
executive Christie Hefner
1953: Actress Alfre Woodard
1954: Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones
1961: Singer-actor Leif Garrett (Spirit of
'76, Thunder Alley, Kid Vengeance, Three for the Road; singer: I Was Made for
Dancin')
1968: Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith
1968: Actress Parker Posey
1969: Rock musician Jimmy Chaney (Jimmie's
Chicken Shack)
1969: Actress Roxana Zal
1970: Singer Diana King
1975: Actress Tara Reid
1981: Actress Azura Skye
0306: Martyrdom of the Four
Crowned Ones
0618: Death of St. Deusdedit, Pope
0641: Fall of Alexandria,
Egypt, to Islam
0789: Death of St. Willihad
0911: Election of Conrad I
as King of Germany
1115: Death of St. Godfrey
(Geoffrey) of Amiens
1286: Death of Pedro III,
King of Aragon
1307: Rebellion erupts in
Switzerland, to oust the Austrians
1519: Cortez enters Tenochtitlan, capitol of the Aztecs
1520: The Danish king
Christian II begins mass executions of Swedish nobles in what becomes known as the
Stockholm Bloodbath.
1620 :The King of Bohemia is
defeated at the Battle of Prague.
1674: John Milton dies. Today's History Focus
1793: The Louvre, in Paris,
was opened to the public.
1837: Mount Holyoke Seminary
in Massachusetts became the first American college founded exclusively for women.
1864: As the Civil War
raged, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president.
1880: The New York Post
reported that the finale of Brahms' First Symphony was so much like Beethoven's Ninth that
"it should be put in quotation marks."
1880: Sarah Bernhardt made
her American stage debut in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" - in New York City.
1883: The composer Arnold
Bax was born in London. Bax traveled to Ireland a lot and was drawn to Irish as well as
Celtic mythology. He composed a lot of music with mythical or impressionistic overtones,
and wrote poems and stories.
1884: The Boston Gazette
declared on this date that Brahms' Third Symphony was, quote, "painfully dry,
deliberate and uncongenial." As for the Third Symphony, the Boston reviewer may have
simply heard a bad performance of it.
1887: Doc Holliday, who
fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral sixty years
earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
1889: Montana was admitted
to the Union as the 41st state.
1890: Cesar Franck died six
months after being hit by a horse-drawn carriage. He was 67.
1892: former President
Cleveland defeated incumbent Benjamin Harrison, becoming the first (and, to date, only)
chief executive to win non-consecutive terms to the White House.
1904: Theodore Roosevelt
elected president.
1910: William H. Frost of
Spokane, Washington patented the insect exterminator
1923: Adolf Hitler launched
his first attempt at seizing power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany that came to be
known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch."
1932: New York Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency. (elected as
32nd president)
1932: The team of Jerome
Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II debuted with their show, "Make Mine Music". The
Broadway production continued for 342 performances.
1933: President Roosevelt
created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million
unemployed.
1939: "Life With
Father" premiered on Broadway in New York City this day. Eight years later, the show
broke the existing record for longest-running stage production.
1942: Operation
"Torch" began during World War Two as US and British forces landed in French
North Africa. (More than 400,000 Allied soldiers invaded North Africa).
1950: During the Korean
conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as US Air Force Lieutenant Russell J.
Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.
1954: The American League
approved the transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team to Kansas City, MO this
day. Charles O. Finley, of Chicago, would later tire of Kansas City and move the A's to
Oakland, California.
1960: Massachusetts Senator
John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency in a
cliffhanger. (becomes 35th president)
1964: Judy Garland and her
daughter, Liza Minnelli appeared together at the London Palladium. The program was shown
on U.S. TV and the LP, "Live at the London Palladium" became a classic on
Capitol Records.
1965:- "Like sands
through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives..." The voice of McDonald
Carey introduced the popular soap opera, "Days of Our Lives" which debuted on
NBC-TV.
1966: Edward W. Brooke of
Massachusetts became the first black to be elected to the US Senate by popular vote.
1966: Ronald Reagan was
elected governor of California.
1978: Illustrator Norman
Rockwell, best known for his covers of The Saturday Evening Post, dies in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts.
1982: A smoky fire set by a
prisoner in a Biloxi, Miss., jail killed 28 people.
1983: Democrat Martha Layne
Collins was elected the first female governor of Kentucky
1984: The first attempt to
rescue two crippled satellites took place, as the space shuttle, Discovery lifted off from
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (The mission was accomplished on November 14th.)
1985: A letter signed by
four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. In the
letter, Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland pleaded
with President Reagan to negotiate a release.
1986: Vyacheslav M. Molotov
died at age 96. During World War II, Molotov ordered the mass production of bottles filled
with flammable liquid to be used against German tanks, giving rise to the term
"Molotov cocktail."
1987: Eleven people were
killed when a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in
Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead.
1988: Republican George Bush
is elected, the 41st president, defeating Massachusetts Governor Michael
Dukakis.
1989: Douglas Wilder is
elected governor of Virginia, becoming the first African-American governor in the United
States.
1989: In an attempt to
strengthen his 3-week-old leadership, East German Communist Party chief Egon Krenz ousted
the old guard of the ruling Politburo, replacing them with reformers.
1990: President Bush ordered
a new round of troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding up to 150,000 soldiers to the
multinational force facing off against Iraq.
1991: The European Community
and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil
war.
1992: Volunteers began
reading aloud the 58,183 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC as part
of a tribute marking the tenth anniversary of the monument. Some 350,000 people rallied in
Berlin against racist violence.
1992: Some 350,000 people
rallied in Berlin against racist violence.
1993: Thieves stole five
Picasso paintings and other artwork valued at $52 million from the Museum of Modern Art in
Stockholm, Sweden.
1993: Russian President
Boris Yeltsin approved a draft constitution that would strengthen executive power; it was
ratified in a referendum the following month.
1994: Midterm elections
resulted in Republicans winning a majority in the Senate while at the same time gaining
control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
1994: California voters
approved Proposition 187, designed to deny education and social services and non-emergency
health care to illegal aliens.
1995: Retired General Colin
Powell embraced the Republican Party, but said he would not run for president or any other
political office in 1996 because it was "a calling that I do not yet hear."
1996: Three days after
winning re-election, President Clinton told a news conference there always are "a lot
of hard feelings" after elections, but he urged Republicans to put aside politically
charged investigations and work with him to balance the budget and enact campaign finance
reform.
1997: Chinese engineers
diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, the most ambitious
construction project in modern China's history.
1997: Evander Holyfield won
the IBF heavyweight title in a fierce fight against Michael Moorer in Las Vegas.
1998: US Representative Bob
Livingston (Republican, Louisiana) predicted he would succeed Newt Gingrich as House
Speaker. (However, Livingston later resigned before he could become speaker after
admitting to marital infidelities.)
1999: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators launched landmark talks, giving themselves an ambitious 100-day deadline to craft the broad outlines of a peace agreement.
1999: Former President Bush was honored in Germany for his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 10 years earlier.
1999: President Clinton participated in a "virtual town hall meeting" on the Internet, answering questions from pre-screened online users.
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