November 16

May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!

Psalm 20:1 NASB

November is:

Aviation History Month Diabetic Eye Disease Month Epilepsy Awareness Month National Adoption Month National Diabetes Month National Marrow Awareness Month Religion and Philosophy Books Month

Born on this Day

 

	0042 B.C.: Tiberius, emperor of Rome
	1873: American composer W.C. (William Christopher) Handy, known as the "Father of the Blues" (St. Louis Blues)
	1889: Broadway director and playwright George S. Kaufman (The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It with You)
	1896: Actor Jim Jordan ( Fibber McGee and Molly)
	1901: George Gallop
	1904: Jazz guitarist and band leader Eddie (Albert) Condon (promoter of Dixieland Jazz)
	1909: Actor Burgess Meredith (The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe, Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm's Way, Of Mice and Men; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir)
	1920: Golfer Gene Littler (U.S. Open winner 1961)
	1922: Actor Royal Dano (Mr. Lincoln, Ghoulies 2, The Red Badge of Courage, Huckleberry Finn, The Right Stuff, Johnny Guitar, The Trouble with Harry)
	1928: Actor Clu Gulager
	1930: Football player Bob Watson
	1931: Singer and sonwriter of folk songs Bob Gibson
	1931: Blues musician Hubert Sumlin
	1935: Journalist Elizabeth Drew
	1944: Actress Joanna Pettet (Best Sellers, Casino Royale, Double Exposure, Captains and the Kings, Knots Landing)
	1945: Dancer Martine Van Hammel (American Ballet Theatre)
	1946: Basketball player Jo Jo White (Boston Celtics: MVP 1976 playoffs)
	1948: Actor Steve Railsback
	1950: Actor David Leisure (Empty Nest)
	1950: Football player
	1959: Master champion 1987, golfer Larry Mize
	1962: Rock musician Mani (The Stone Roses)
	1963: Tennis player Zina Garrison-Jackson
	1964: Baseball player Dwight Gooden ("The Doctor": NY Mets pitcher: record for most strikeouts in a rookie season: Rookie of the Year [1984]: youngest to achieve that award, Cy Young Award-winner 1985)
	1967: Actress Lisa Bonet (The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Bank Robber)
	1969: Actress Tammy Lauren ("Martial Law")
	1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer Bryan Abrams (Color Me Badd)
	1970: Actress Martha Plimpton (The Goonies, Parenthood, The Mosquito Coast)
	1977: Olympic gold medal figure skater Oksana Baiul
	1984: Actress Kimberly J. Brown

Events in History on this day
  

• 1093: Death of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland
  
  

• 1240: Death of St. Edmund of Abingdon
  
  

• 1272: Death of Henry III, King of England
  
  

• 1302: Death of St. Gertrude of Helfta
  
  

• 1326: Edward II, King of England, captured by his wife and Barons
  
  

• 1532: Fall of the Inca Empire to Pizarro and the Spanish; Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
  
  

• 1621: The Papal Chancery first adopted January 1st as the beginning of the calendar year. Previously, March was the first month, which explains why our modern names for the 9th and 12th months begin with prefixes meaning "7" (sept), "8" (oct) "9" (nov) and "10" (dec).
  
  

• 1776: British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.
  
  

• 1801: Beethoven wrote another one of his poignant letters about his deafness. In this one, to a friend named Wegeler, Beethoven said, quote, "I will wrestle fate; it shall never drag me down." At this point Beethoven still had eight of his nine symphonies ahead of him.
  
  

• 1841: Napoleon Guerin of New York City patented the cork life preserver (a jacket containing 18 to 20 quarts of grated cork)
  
  

• 1864: Union General William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the Civil War.
  
  

• 1875: Dr. William G. Arlington Bonwill of Philadelphia, PA patented the dental mallet used to impact gold into cavities.
  
  

• 1885: Canadian rebel Louis Riel was executed for high treason.
  

• 1894: James McCosh dies. He was a Scottish-born theologian and educator. He was one of the first orthodox clergymen in the United States to accept and defend the theory of Evolution.
  
  

• 1900: The Philadelphia Orchestra was launched.
  
  

• 1901: Henry Fournier drove a mile in 51 4/5 seconds, becoming the first auto racer to drive more than a mile a minute in competition -- in Brooklyn, NY.
  
  

• 1907: Oklahoma became the 46th state admitted to the Union.
  
  

• 1908: Conductor Arturo Toscanini made his debut in the United States. He appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, conducting "Aida".
  
  

• 1932: The Palace in New York City closed its doors. It was the most famous vaudeville theatre in America. Later, it became a movie house with live performances preceding the flicks; notable acts included: the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in their heyday and Abboty & Costello.
  
  

• 1933: The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that US-Soviet relations would "forever remain normal and friendly."
  
  

• 1935: The Rodgers and Hart musical, "Jumbo" opened in New York City, for a run of 233 performances.
  
  

• 1958 - Six inches of snow fell on Tucson, Arizona, catching many by surprise
  
  

• 1959: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.
  
  

• 1961: House Speaker Samuel T. Rayburn died in Bonham, Texas, having served as speaker since
  

• 1940 except for two terms.
  
  

• 1966: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he'd murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
  
  

• 1968: B-J Thomas's ``Hooked On A Feeling'' was released.
  
  

• 1970: Anne Murray received a gold record for "Snowbird". She became the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.
  
  

• 1973: "Skylab Three," carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.
  
  

• 1973: President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
  
  

• 1974: NBC-TV began a two-night showing of the award-winning motion picture, "The Godfather", starring Marlon Brando. The film represented the highest price ever paid for a movie shown on TV. NBC paid Paramount Pictures $10 million for the showing of the picture.
  
  

• 1975: Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushed for 105 yards in a game against the San Francisco '49ers. It was Payton's first game of 100 plus yards. He did it over 50 times throughout his career and added two 200-yard games, as well.
  
  

• 1981: Actor William Holden was found dead in his apartment in Santa Monica, California; he was 63.
  
  

• 1982: An agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.
  
  

• 1984: The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth with the first two satellites ever plucked from space.
  
  

• 1985: Joan Baez sang for Polish labor leader Lech Walesa at his home in Gdansk. The two also discussed human rights.
  
  

• 1986: Frank Sinatra left a Rancho Mirage, California, hospital one week after undergoing surgery for diverticulitis .
  
  

• 1986: Gerber Products announced intentions to produce baby food in plastic jars, instead of glass - a first for the industry.
  
  

• 1986: The first comic miniseries was presented, as "Fresno" poked fun at soap operas -- on CBS-TV.
  
  

• 1987: The US Supreme Court upheld, eight-to-zero, the federal mail and wire fraud convictions of former "Wall Street Journal" reporter R. Foster Winans and two co-defendants in connection with an insider-trading scheme.
  
  

• 1988: Voters in Pakistan cast ballots in their first open election in more than a decade, resulting in victory for populist candidate Benazir Bhutto.
  
  

• 1988: Estonia's parliament declared the Baltic republic "sovereign," but stopped short of complete independence.
  
  

• 1989: Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter were shot to death at their residence in San Salvador, capital of the Central American nation of El Salvador. Scandal ensued when it became evident that the Salvadoran government, closely allied with Washington, included military officers capable of doing things like this if they suspected missionaries of aiding rebels.
  
  

• 1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told an angry Soviet legislature he would fire government and military officials blocking his reform plans.
  
  

• 1990: Four of the so-called "Keating Five" went before the Senate Ethics Committee to deny any wrongdoing in helping failed savings-and-loan owner Charles H. Keating Jr.
  
  

• 1991: Boris Yeltsin issued a series of decrees that effectively transferred control of his republic's economy from Soviet central government to the Russian Federation.
  
  

• 1991: Former Democratic Gov. Edwin Edwards of Louisiana was overwhelming elected, defeating former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke.
  
  

• 1991: House Democrats reported that Salvadoran Defense Minister Gen. Rene Ponce had planned the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.
  
  

• 1992: The UN Security Council voted to authorize a naval blockade on the Danube River and the Adriatic coast to tighten economic sanctions on Yugoslavia.
  
  

• 1992: President-elect Clinton and Democratic congressional leaders held a news conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, in which they pledged a "new era" of action.
  
  

• 1992: A federal judge in Los Angeles refused to reconsider the Navy's appeal of an injunction that forced the service to reinstate sailor Keith Meinhold, the first openly homosexual person on active duty in the U.S. military.
  
  

• 1993: The Senate voted, 69-to-30, to approve a measure designed to protect people who provide or seek abortions from physical attacks or intimidation by abortion opponents.
  
  

• 1994: The government reported consumer prices rose one-tenth of one percentage point in October.
  
  

• 1994: A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting California from implementing most provisions of Prop 187, the voter-approved measure that would deny most public services to illegal aliens.
  
  

• 1994: President Clinton, ending a five-day trip to Asia, discussed human rights with Indonesian President Suharto.
  
  

• 1995: President Clinton threatened anew to veto the latest Republican offer to end a three-day partial government shutdown. 
  
  

• 1995: Democrats savaged House Speaker Newt Gingrich for claiming Clinton had snubbed him recently aboard Air Force One.
  
  

• 1995: U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed she had Parkinson's disease. 1996: President Clinton spent the first full day of a shortened vacation in Hawaii that preceded a trip to Australia, Thailand and the Philippines.
  
  

• 1997: China's most prominent pro-democracy campaigner, Wei Jingsheng, arrived in the United States after being released from a prison where he'd spent nearly 18 years.
  
  

• 1998: House Democrats re-elected Dick Gephardt as their leader. 1998: The Supreme Court ruled that union members can file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration.
  

• 1999: 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham, among the youngest murder defendants in U.S. history, was convicted in Pontiac, Michigan, of second-degree murder for shooting a stranger outside a convenience store with a rifle when he was 11. (He was sentenced to juvenile detention; the decision on whether he will serve adult prison time was deferred.)    
  
  

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