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Born on this Day
1515: Mary of Guise, wife of James V, King of Scotland 1643: French
explorer of North America Rene Robert de la Salle
1819: English novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
1890: French statesman and military leader Charles de Gaulle President
of France 1958-1969
1898: Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world
1899: Composer Hoagy Carmichael (Stardust)
1914: Founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters Lew Hays
1921: Comedian Rodney (Jacob Cohen) Dangerfield (Caddyshack, Easy Money,
Back to School, Natural Born Killers, The Dean Martin Show)
1923: Movie director Arthur Hiller (The Americanization of Emily,
Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)
1924 - Actress Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)
1932: Actor Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
1935: Actor Michael (Calinieff) Callan
1940: Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python series,
And Now for Something Completely Different )
1941: Actor Tom Conti (American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series,
The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace)
1942: Astronaut Guion S. Bluford
1943: Tennis player Billie Jean (Moffitt) King
1949: Singer musician Steve Van Zandt
1950: Rock musician Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club)
1950: Baseball player Greg Luzinski
1953: Pianist Craig Hundley
1958: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis (A Fish Called Wanda, Forever Young,
Halloween '78, Halloween 2: The The Nightmare Isn't Over!, Trading Places, True Lies)
1958: Rock singer Jason Ringenberg (Jason & the Scorchers)
1961: Actress Mariel Hemingway (Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick,
Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace)
1964: Actor Stephen Geoffreys
1966: Actor Nicholas Rowe
1967: Tennis player Boris Becker (youngest Wimbledon Men's Champat age
17)
1984: Actress Scarlett Johannson ("The Horse Whisperer")
1220: After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth
Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III. 1247:
Death of Robin Hood (according to Winken de Ward, printer, 1n 1495)
1307: Pope Clement orders the arrest of all Templars
1316: Death of John I, King of France
1542: New laws are passed in Spain giving protection
against the enslavement of Indians in America.
1621: Poet John Donne is elected dean of St. Paul's
1633: First settlers for Maryland sailed from England
1718: English pirate Edward Teach -- better known as
"Blackbeard" -- was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
1828: Schubert's estate was valued at 63 florins, about a
tenth of the cost of his cut-rate funeral.
1847: In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city's
first operatic theater, is opened.
1873: American lawyer Horatio G. Spafford's four daughters
drowned when their passenger ship, while crossing the Atlantic, collided with another and
sank. One month later, as his own ship passed over the spot of the earlier tragedy,
Spafford penned the words to the enduring hymn, "It is Well With My Soul."
1880: On this day, Lillian Russell made her vaudeville
debut in New York City.
1899 : The Marconi Wireless Company of America was
incorporated under laws of the State of New Jersey.
1906: The "S-O-S" distress signal was adopted at
the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1909: Helen Hayes appeared for the first time on the New
York stage this day. She was a member of the cast of "In Old Dutch", which
opened at the Herald Square Theatre.
1918: Prokofiev took it on the chin from the New York
Tribune. The Trib's music critic blasted Prokofiev for writing a piece called "Hircus
Nocturnus," only to discover that Prokofiev did not write it. The next day the critic
apologized to Prokofiev.
1919: A Labor conference committee in the U.S. urges an
eight hour work day and a 48-hour week.
1928: "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel made its debut
in Paris.
1928: British King George is confined to bed with
congested lung; the queen is to take over duties.
1937: Dmitri Shostakovich got out of trouble when his
Fifth Symphony premiered. Shostakovich billed it as "a Soviet artist's response to
just criticism," and the official critics who previously attacked his music for
decadence accepted the apology and the symphony.
1943: Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48.
1950: A train wreck in New York City killed 79 people.
1961: The film, "A Man for All Seasons" opened
this day in New York City.
1963: President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a
motorcade in Dallas. Texas Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee
Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th president of
the United States.
1963: Death of C.S. Lewis, 65, Anglican scholar, novelist
and Christian apologist. Author of: "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The
Screwtape Letters," "The Great Divorce," "Perlandria."
1965 : The production of "Man of LaMancha",
including the classic, "The Impossible Dream", opened in New York City for the
first of 2,328 performances.
1967: The UN Security Council approved Resolution 242,
which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly
called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1972: The State Department ended a 22-year ban on U.S.
travel to China.
1973: Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants
and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland.
1975: Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain.
1975 : "Dr. Zhivago" appeared on TV for the
first time. The production, including, "Somewhere My Love" had earned $93
million from theatre tickets over ten years. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.
1977: The Anglo-French supersonic Concorde jetliner began
scheduled flights to New York from London and Paris.
1977: Tony Orlando returned to the concert stage after a
self-imposed three month retirement following the suicide death of his good friend,
Freddie Printz. Orlando appeared in concert in San Carlos, California.
1980: Actress Mae West died in Hollywood at age 87.
1984: Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr. Rogers'
Neighborhood" presented a sweater, knitted by his mother, to the Smithsonian
Institution as "a symbol of warmth, closeness and caring," according to museum
officials.
1985: The largest swearing-in ceremony, ever, took place
as 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States, after six days of rallies
around the country. Chrysler Corporation's Lee Ioccoca helped preside over the event.
1986: Mike Tyson was only 20 years and 4 months old on
this day, becoming the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown. He knocked out
Travor Berbick in Las Vegas, NV.
1986: Justice Department finds memo in Lt. Col. Oliver
North’s office on the transfer of $12 million to contras from Iran arms sale.
1987: The government of Nicaragua released 985 political
prisoners in a show of compliance with a Central American peace plan.
1988: Americans honored President Kennedy on the 25th
anniversary of his assassination, with 25-hundred people turning out in Dallas, and
visitors stopping by his gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery.
1989: The president of Lebanon, Rene Moawad, was
assassinated less than three weeks after taking office.
1989: The space shuttle "Discovery" blasted off
at night.
1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having
failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot,
announced her resignation.
1990: President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and top
congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
1991: Egypt's Bhoutros Bhoutros-Ghali was chosen to be the
next United Nations Secretary-General.
1991: In an attempt to break a deadlock, the Bush
administration proposed that Middle East peace talks resume in Washington, D.C.
1992: President-elect Bill Clinton met in Little Rock,
Arkansas, with sometime-critic Jesse Jackson, who praised the future chief executive as a
leader who could "make the nation whole."
1993: Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North
American Free Trade Agreement.
1993: Striking flight attendants at American Airlines
called off their four-day-old job action after President Clinton helped broker an
agreement to submit the dispute to binding arbitration.
1994: A gunman opened fire inside the District of
Columbia's police headquarters; the resulting gunbattle left two FBI agents, a city
detective and the gunman dead.
1994: Serb fighters in northwest Bosnia set villages
ablaze in response to a retaliatory airstrike by NATO.
1995: Acting swiftly to boost the Balkan peace accord, the
U.N. Security Council suspended economic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms
embargo against the states of the former Yugoslavia.
1995: The Commerce Department reported the U.S. trade
deficit had narrowed to its lowest level in nine months.
1996: O.J. Simpson took the stand as a hostile witness in
the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it was "absolutely not
true" that he'd killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1996: Martin Bryant, who'd gunned down 35 people at Port
Arthur, Australia, was sentenced to life behind bars with no chance for parole.
1997: UN weapons experts returned to work in Iraq,
searching eight sites for signs the Iraqis might have worked on biological, chemical or
other banned arms during a three-week forced halt in inspections.
1998: The CBS News program "60 Minutes" aired videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an advocate of assisted suicide, administering lethal drugs to Thomas Youk (yowk), a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian, who challenged prosecutors to charge him, was later convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to ten to 25 years in prison.
1999: During a visit to the former communist country of Bulgaria, President Clinton promised tens of thousands of cheering Bulgarians in Sofia that "you too shall overcome" in their difficult struggle for democracy and prosperity.
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