Today In History

1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed in America.

1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."

1795 - The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo. The treaty is also known as "Pinckney's Treaty."

1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.

1878 - The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City was robbed of over $3,000,000. The robbery was credited to George "Western" Leslie even though there was not enough evidence to convict him, only two of his associates were convicted.

1880 - Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.

1904 - The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.

1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.

1927 - The first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York.

1931 - Chuhei Numbu of Japan set a long jump record at 26' 2 1/4".

1938 - Du Pont announced "nylon" as the new name for its new synthetic yarn.

1947 - "You Bet Your Life," the radio show starring Grouch Marx, premiered on ABC. It was later shown on NBC television.

1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced. They had been married on January 14, 1954.

1954 - The first Walt Disney television show "Disneyland" premiered on ABC.

1962 - The Soviet Union adds to the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for the dismantling of U.S. missile basis in Turkey. U.S. President Kennedy agreed to the new aspect of the agreement.

1978 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.

1994 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population had exceeded one million for the first time in American history.

1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan.

1998 - The reunion episode "CHiPs '99" aired for the first time on the cable network TNT.

1998 - A car bomb exploded in the car of a Palestinian leader Mahmoud Majzoub. Majzoub, his wife, and his nine-month-old ***, and a passerby were injured in the blast.

1998 - "Lion King II: Simba's Pride" was released on video.

1998 - Two boats hit head-on in India. One of the boats suffered no damage. The other sank and 60 people were missing.

1999 - Armenia's Prime Minister and seven other government officials were ****** during a parliamentary session. It was the believed that the gunmen were staging a coup.

2002 - The Anaheim Angels won their first World Series. The beat the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 of the series.

2002 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) became the all-time leading rusher in the NFL when he extended his career yardage to 16,743. He achieved the record in his 193rd game. He also scored his 150th career touchdown.

2002 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff. He was the country's first elected leftist leader.

2003 - Bank of America Corp. announced it had agreed to buy FleetBoston Financial Corp. The deal created the second largest banking company in the U.S.

Current Birthdays


John Cleese turns 69 years old today.

88 Nanette Fabray
Actress


86 Ralph Kiner
Baseball Hall of Famer


84 Ruby Dee
Actress


83 Warren Christopher
Former secretary of state


66 Lee Greenwood
Country singer


62 Ivan Reitman
Director, producer


59 Jack Daniels
Country musician


59 Garry Tallent
Rock musician (The E Street Band)


58 Fran Lebowitz
Author


57 K.K. Downing
Rock musician (Judas Priest)


56 Roberto Benigni
Actor, director ("Life is Beautiful")


55 Peter Firth
Actor


55 Robert Picardo
Actor


50 Simon LeBon
Singer (Duran Duran)


44 J.D. McFadden
Rock musician


41 Scott Weiland
Rock singer (Stone Temple Pilots)


41 Jason Finn
Rock musician (Presidents of the United States of America)


40 Sean Holland
Actor


31 Sheeri Rappaport
Actress


24 Kelly Osbourne
Rock singer, TV personality ("The Osbournes")


Historic Birthdays


Sylvia Plath

10/27/1932 - 2/11/1963
American poet

35 Catherine of Valois
10/27/1401 - 1/3/1437
French princess and wife of King Henry V


50 James Cook
10/27/1728 - 2/14/1779
British naval captain


57 Niccolo Paganini
10/27/1782 - 5/27/1840
Italian composer


63 Isaac Merrit Singer
10/27/1811 - 7/23/1875
American inventor; developed Singer sewing machine


79 Marcellin Berthelot
10/27/1827 - 3/18/1907
French chemist


60 Theodore Roosevelt
10/27/1858 - 1/6/1919
26th president of the United States (1901-9)


56 Alfred Whitney Griswold
10/27/1906 - 4/19/1963
American educator; president of Yale University (1950-63)


39 Dylan Marlais Thomas
10/27/1914 - 11/9/1953
Welsh writer


75 Oliver Tambo
10/27/1917 - 4/24/1993
South African president of the African National Congress (1969-91)


73 Roy Lichtenstein
10/27/1923 - 9/29/1997
American artist


67 H. R. Haldeman
10/27/1926 - 11/12/1993
American businessman and White House chief of staff (1969-73); convicted of Watergate crimes
 
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was ******** under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.

1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.

1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.

1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.

1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.

1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died.

1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.

1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.

1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S.

1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.

1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.

1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced "The Camel News Caravan."

1959 - General Mills became the first corporation to use close-circuit television.

1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.

1964 - Three men stole the star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The men were later convicted of the crime.

1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.

1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.

1973 - O.J. Simpson, of the Buffalo Bills, set two NFL records. He carried the ball 39 times and he ran 157 yards putting him over 1,000 yards at the seventh game of the season.

1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status

1985 - It was announced that Maj. Gen. Samuel K. Doe had won the first multiparty election in Liberia.

1989 - A public mourning, involving over 20,000 East Berliners, was observed with a minute of silence for the people who had been ****** while trying to flee over the Berlin Wall.

1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein's regime liable for human rights ****** and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait.

1991 - The U.S. Galileo spacecraft became the first to visit an asteroid (Gaspra).

1991 - Trade sanctions were imposed on Haiti by the U.S. to pressure the new leaders to restore the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

1992 - Depo Provera, a contraceptive, was approved by the Food and **** Administration.

1993 - A group of U.S. athletes were attacked by skinheads in Germany.

1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Ave. Duran was later convicted of trying to **** U.S. President Clinton.

1995 - Palestinians swore revenge for the assassination of Dr. Fathi Shakaki.

1995 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers became the NFL's career leader in receiving yards with 14,040 yards.

1996 - An auction was held to sell the artwork that had been stolen by the Nazis during the German occupation of Austria during World War II.

1998 - South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and ******** committed by the African National Congress.

1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

1998 - A Turkish Airlines flight was hijacked and ordered to fly to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The plane had 39 people on board.

1998 - In Freehold, NJ, Melissa Drexler was sentenced to 15 years in prison for ********** her baby after giving birth in the bathroom at her senior prom.

1998 - In London, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman accepted a substantial settlement from the Express Newspapers for an article that was run on October 5, 1997. The article claimed that both were homosexual and their marriage was a sham to cover the truth.

1998 - James Orr was sentenced to 3 years probation and ordered to do 100 hours of community service for slamming Farrah Fawcett's head to the ground and ******* her during a fight.

1998 - A dance hall in Goteborg, Sweden, was gutted with fire ******* 60 people. 173 were also injured in the fire.

1998 - The oldest known copy of Archimedes' work sold for $2 million at a New York auction.

2001 - KTLA broadcasted the first coast to coast HDTV network telecast

Current Birthdays


Gabrielle Union turns 35 years old today.

71 Sonny Osborne
Bluegrass musician (The Osborne Brothers)


68 Connie Mack III
Former U.S. senator, R-Fla.


66 Lee Clayton
Country singer


64 Denny Laine
Rock musician (Wings, Moody Blues)


63 Melba Moore
Singer


62 Peter Green
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)


61 Richard Dreyfuss
Actor


60 Kate Jackson
Actress ("Charlie's Angels")


57 Dirk Kempthorne
Secretary of the Interior


55 Denis Potvin
Hockey Hall of Famer


51 Dan Castellaneta
Actor ("The Simpsons")


51 Steve Kellough
Country musician (Wild Horses)


47 Randy Jackson
Singer (The Jackson Five)


43 Peter Timmins
Rock musician (Cowboy Junkies)


41 Joely Fisher
Actress


41 Paris
Rapper


41 Rufus Sewell
Actor


39 SA Martinez
Rock singer (311)


38 Toby Smith
Musician (Jamiroquai)


37 Winona Ryder
Actress


36 Tracee Ellis Ross
Actress


35 Trevor Lissauer
Actor ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")


32 Milena Govich
Actress


31 Brendan Fehr
Actor


28 Ben ******
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Fanny Brice
10/29/1891 - 5/29/1951
American singing commedian

75 William Hayley
10/29/1745 - 11/12/1820
English poet, biographer, patron of the arts


88 Daniel Decatur Emmett
10/29/1815 - 6/28/1904
American minstrel entertainer


69 Thomas Francis Bayard
10/29/1828 - 9/28/1898
American statesman, diplomat and lawyer


89 Franz Von Papen
10/29/1879 - 5/2/1969
German chancellor (1932)


88 Fred Lazarus Jr.
10/29/1884 - 5/27/1973
American merchandiser


47 Joseph Goebbels
10/29/1897 - 5/1/1945
Minister of propaganda for **** Germany
 
Holy cow minidog.


Today I make history by being me.
 
1735 - John Adams, the second President of the United States, was born in Braintree, MA. His *** became the sixth President of the U.S.

1817 - The independent government of Venezuela was established by Simon Bolivar.

1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.

1875 - The constitution of Missouri was ratified by popular vote.

1893 - The U.S. Senate gave final approval to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

1894 - The time clock was patented by Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, NY.

1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.

1943 - In Moscow, a declaration was signed by the Governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and China called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security. The goal was supported on December 1, 1943, at a meeting in Teheran.

1944 - Martha Graham's ballet "Appalachian Spring" premiered at the Library of Congress.

1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.

1953 - General George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a ***** of approximately 58 megatons.

1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved an order to remove Joseph Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.

1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon approved legislation to increase Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.

1972 - In Illinois, 45 people were ****** when two trains collided on Chicago's south side.

1975 - Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain as dictator Francisco Franco was near death.

1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.

1984 - In Poland, police found the body of ********* pro-Solidarity priest ****** Jerry Popieluszko. His death was blamed on four security officers.

1989 - Mitsubishi Estate Company announced it would buy 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York.

1993 - Martin Fettman, America's first veterinarian in space, performed the world's first ****** dissections in space, while aboard the space shuttle Columbia.

1993 - The United Nations deadline concerning ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide ****** with country's military still in control.

1995 - Federalist prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a referendum concerning secession from the federation of Canada.

1997 - The play revival "The Cherry Orchard" opened.

1998 - The terrorist who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane and the 39 people on board was ****** when anti-terrorist squads raided the plane.

2001 - In New York City, U.S. President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

2001 - Michael Jordan returned to the NBA with the Washington Wizards after a 3 1/2 year retirement. The Wizards lost 93-91 to the New York Knicks.

Nastia Liukin turns 19 years old today.

72 Dick Vermeil
Football coach


71 Dick Gautier
Actor


71 Claude Lelouch
Movie director


69 Eddie Holland
Songwriter


69 Grace Slick
Rock singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)


68 Ed Lauter
Actor


67 Otis Williams
R&B singer (The Temptations)


63 Henry Winkler
Actor ("Happy Days")


62 Chris Slade
Rock musician (Asia)


61 Timothy B. Schmit
Rock musician (The Eagles)


59 Leon Rippy
Actor


57 Harry Hamlin
Actor ("L.A. Law")


55 Charles Martin Smith
Actor


54 T. Graham Brown
Country singer


51 Kevin Pollak
Actor


48 Diego Maradona
Soccer player


45 Michael Beach
Actor


41 Gavin Rossdale
Rock musician (Bush)


38 Ben Bailey
Comedian, TV host ("Cash Cab")


38 Nia Long
Actress


32 Kassidy Osborn
Country singer (SHeDAISY)


30 Gael Garcia Bernal
Actor ("The Motorcycle Diaries")


16 Tequan Richmond
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")

Historic Birthdays


Fred Friendly
10/30/1915 - 3/3/1998
American broadcast journalist

90 John Adams
10/30/1735 - 7/4/1826
Second president of the United States (1797-1801)


59 Alfred Sisley
10/30/1839 - 1/29/1899
French Impressionist painter


64 Louis Winslow Austin
10/30/1867 - 6/27/1932
American physicist


76 William F. Halsey Jr.
10/30/1882 - 8/16/1959
American naval commander; led World War II Pacific naval campaigns


87 Ezra Loomis Pound
10/30/1885 - 11/1/1972
American poet and literary critic


79 Charles Atlas
10/30/1892 - 12/24/1972
Italian-born American bodybuilder; co-created mail-order bodybuilding course


77 Dickinson Woodruff Richards
10/30/1895 - 2/23/1973
American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (1956)


88 Ruth Gordon
10/30/1896 - 8/28/1985
American actress


71 Daniel Nathans
10/30/1928 - 11/16/1999
American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist (1978)


63 Louis Malle
10/30/1932 - 11/23/1995
French film director
 
Wow, Henry Winkler reaches 63? If he looks that good as on Roald's avatar.....then, he still rocks!:banger:
 
1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church. The event marked the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

1860 - Juliette Low, the founder off the Girl Scouts, was born.

1864 - Nevada became the 36th state to join the U.S.

1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.

1887 - Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek was born. He was the first constitutional President of the Republic of China.

1914 - The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) joined the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria).

1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.

1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lecture Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows.

1940 - The British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading Britain.

1941 - Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.

1941 - The U.S. Navy destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed by a German submarine near Iceland. The U.S. had not yet entered World War II. More than 100 men were ******.

1952 - The U.S. detonated its first hydrogen bomb.

1954 - The Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) began a revolt against French rule.

1955 - Britain's Princess Margaret announced she would not marry Royal Air ***** Captain Peter Townsend.

1956 - Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek become the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole. Dufek also became the first person to set foot on the South Pole.

1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine from Fort Worth, TX, announced that he would never return to the U.S. At the time he was in Moscow, Russia.

1961 - In the Soviet Union, the body of Joseph Stalin was removed from Lenin's Tomb where it was on public display.

1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.

1983 - The U.S. Defense Department acknowledged that during the U.S. led invasion of Grenada, that a U.S. Navy plane had mistakenly bombed a civilian hospital.

1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards. Her ***, Rajiv, was sworn in as prime minister.

1992 - In Liberia, it was announced that five American nuns had been ****** near Monrovia. Rebels loyal to Charles Taylor were blamed for the *******.

1993 - River Phoenix died at the age of 23 after collapsing outside The Viper Room in Hollywood.

1993 - The play "Wonderful Tennessee" closed after only 9 performances.

1994 - 68 people were ****** when an American Eagle ATR-72, plunged into a northern Indiana ****.

1997 - Louise Woodward, British au pair, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree ****** in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. She was released after her sentence was reduced to manslaughter.

1998 - Iraq announced that it was halting all dealings with U.N. arms inspectors. The inspectors were investigating the country's weapons of mass destruction stemming from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the coast of Nantucket, MA, ******* all 217 people aboard.

1999 - Leaders from the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church signed the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. The event ended a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.

2001 - Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the antitrust case againt the software company.


Current Birthdays


Dermot Mulroney turns 45 years old today.

88 Dick Francis
Author


78 Michael Collins
Astronaut


77 Dan Rather
Broadcast journalist


71 Tom Paxton
Folk singer


69 Ron Rifkin
Actor ("Alias")


66 David Ogden Stiers
Actor ("M.A.S.H.")


62 Stephen Rea
Actor


60 Deidre Hall
Actress


58 Jane Pauley
Broadcast journalist


50 Brian Stokes Mitchell
Actor


47 Peter Jackson
Director ("Lord of the Rings" movies)


47 Larry Mullen Jr.
Rock musician (U2)


45 Mikkey Dee
Rock musician (Motorhead)


45 Johnny Marr
Rock musician (The Smiths, Modest Mouse)


45 Fred McGriff
Baseball player


44 Rob Schneider
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")


44 Darryl Worley
Country singer


43 Mike O'Malley
Actor, comedian


42 Adam Horovitz (Adrock)
Musician (The Beastie Boys)


41 Adam Schlesinger
Rock musician (Fountains of Wayne)


40 Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice)
Rapper


38 Linn Berggren
Rock singer (Ace of Base)


32 Piper Perabo
Actress


28 Eddie Kaye Thomas
Actor ("American Pie" movies)


27 Frank Iero
Rock musician (My Chemical Romance)

Chef Chi celebrates today :glugglug:

Historic Birthdays


Chiang Kai-shek
10/31/1887 - 4/5/1975
Chinese president of Nationalist government (1928-49) and leader of Taiwan (1949-75)

43 Jan Vermeer
10/31/1632 - 12/15/1675
Dutch painter


68 Clement XIV
10/31/1705 - 9/22/1774
Italian Roman Catholic pope (1769-74)


58 William Paca
10/31/1740 - 10/23/1799
American signer of the Declaration of Independence


25 John Keats
10/31/1795 - 2/23/1821
British poet


85 Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
10/31/1828 - 5/27/1914
English physicist and chemist


49 Galileo Ferraris
10/31/1847 - 2/7/1897
Italian physicist


66 Juliette Gordon Low
10/31/1860 - 1/18/1927
American founder of Girl Scouts of America


86 Andrew Volstead
10/31/1860 - 1/20/1947
American Congressman from Minnesota (1903-23); introduced National Prohibition Act


83 Eugene Meyer
10/31/1875 - 6/17/1959
American publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46)


70 Sir George Hubert Wilkins
10/31/1888 - 12/1/1958
Australian-born British explorer


80 Ethel Waters
10/31/1896 - 9/1/1977
American jazz and blues singer and film actress


51 Wilbur Shaw
10/31/1902 - 10/30/1954
American race-car driver


54 Michael Landon
10/31/1936 - 7/1/1991
American television actor
 
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.

1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.

1611 - "The Tempest," Shakespeare's romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.

1755 - At least 60,000 people were ****** in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami.

1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament ****** the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.

1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.

1848 - The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.

1856 - The first photography magazine, Daguerreian Journal, was published in New York City, NY.

1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.

1864 - The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to payments by mail.

1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.

1879 - Thomas Edison executed his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898).

1894 - "Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It later became known as "Billboard."

1894 - Russian Emperor Alexander III died.

1904 - The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.

1911 - Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing.

1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and **** Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.

1937 - "Hilltop House" was aired for the first time on CBS Radio.

1937 - "Terry and the Pirates" debuted on NBC Radio.

1940 - "A Night in the Tropics" was released. It was the first movie for Abbott and Costello.

1944 - "Harvey," by Mary Chase, opened on Broadway.

1947 - The famous racehorse Man o' War died.

1949 - In Washington, 55 people were ****** when a fighter plane hit an airliner.

1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was ****** when they tried to ***** their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.

1950 - Charles Cooper became the first black man to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

1954 - Algeria began to rebel against French rule.

1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.

1962 - "The Lucy Show" premiered.

1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.

1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.

1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.

1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.

1985 - In the village of Ignacio Aldama, 22 members of a Mexican anti-narcotics squad were ****** by alleged **** traffickers.

1987 - Deng Xiaoping retired from China's Communist Party's Central Committee.

1989 - Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.

1989 - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced the end of a cease-fire with the Contra rebels.

1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect.

1995 - In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.

1998 - Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch.

1998 - Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system

Current Birthdays


Penn Badgley turns 22 years old today.

82 Betsy Palmer
Actress


73 Gary Player
Golfer


71 Bill Anderson
Country singer


69 Barbara Bosson
Actress ("Hill Street Blues")


67 Robert Foxworth
Actor


66 Larry Flynt
Magazine publisher


66 Marcia Wallace
Actress ("The Bob Newhart Show")


64 Kinky Friedman
County singer


59 Jeannie Berlin
Actress


58 Dan Peek
Singer, musician (America)


57 Ronald Khalis Bell
Saxophonist (Kool and the Gang)


54 Keith Stegall
Country singer


51 Lyle Lovett
Country musician


50 Rachel Ticotin
Actress


49 Eddie MacDonald
Rock musician (The Alarm)


46 Mags Furuholmen
Rock singer, musician (a-ha)


46 Anthony Kiedis
Rock singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)


45 Rick Allen
Rock musician (Def Leppard)


45 Big Kenny
Country musician (Big and Rich)


42 Willie D
Rapper (Geto Boys)


41 Sophie B. Hawkins
Singer


39 Dale Wallace
Country musician (Emerson Drive)


36 Toni Collette
Actress


36 Andrew Gonzales
Rock musician


36 Jenny McCarthy
Actress


36 David Berman
Actor ("CSI")


35 Aishwarya Rai
Actress


33 Bo Bice
Rock singer ("American Idol")


Historic Birthdays


Stephen Crane
11/1/1871 - 6/5/1900
American novelist, poet and short story writer

67 Sir Matthew Hale
11/1/1609 - 12/25/1676
English legal scholar


69 Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness
11/1/1798 - 5/19/1868
Irish brewer


62 Crawford W. Long
11/1/1815 - 6/16/1878
American physician; pioneered use of anesthetics


66 William Merritt Chase
11/1/1849 - 10/25/1916
American painter


73 Grantland Rice
11/1/1880 - 7/13/1954
American columnist


76 Sholem Asch
11/1/1880 - 7/10/1957
Polish-born American novelist and playwright


? Alfred Wegener
11/1/1880 - 11//1930
German meteorologist and geophysicist


76 Anton Flettner
11/1/1885 - 12/29/1961
German inventor


55 Sakutaro Hagiwara
11/1/1886 - 5/11/1942
Japanese poet


92 Philip Noel-Baker
11/1/1889 - 10/8/1982
British statesman


72 Sir Gavin de ****
11/1/1899 - 6/21/1972
British zoologist


41 Nordahl Brun Grieg
11/1/1902 - 12/2/1943
Norwegian lyric poet
 
1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.

1776 - During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.

1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.

1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" magazine was founded.

1883 - Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031).

1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.

1895 - In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered contest took place in America.

1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine.

1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.

1921 - Margaret Sander's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.

1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1930 - The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene.

1937 - The play "I'd Rather be Right" opened in New York City.

1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.

1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers.

1959 - Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program "Twenty-One" admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 - In London, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover," was found not guilty of obscenity.

1962 - U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.

1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.

1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S.

1979 - Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she'd been serving a life sentence for the 1973 ****** of a New Jersey state trooper.

1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1984 - Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend.

1985 - The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists.

1986 - The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was purchased for $30,800.

1986 - American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.

1989 - Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ.

1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.

1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.

1993 - Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey.

1995 - The play "Sacrilege" opened.

1995 - The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses.

1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley."

2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.

2003 - In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church's first openly gay bishop.
 
1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.

1631 - The Reverend John Eliot arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.

1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born. He was the principle founder of Texas.

1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President.

1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.

1892 - The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte, IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger.

1900 - The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1903 - Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia.

1934 - The first race track in California opened under a new pari-mutuel betting law.

1941 - Japanese Ambassador John Grew warned that the Japanese may be planning a sudden ****** on the U.S.

1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a supermarket in Chester, NY.

1953 - The Rules Committee of organized baseball restored the sacrifice fly. The rule had not been used since 1939.

1957 - Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second manmade satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an ****** into space, a dog named Laika.

1973 - The U.S. launched the Mariner 10 spacecraft. On March 29, 1974 it became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury.

1975 - "Good Morning America" premiered on ABC-TV.

1979 - Five members of the Communist Workers' Party are shot to death in broad daylight at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, NC. Eight others were wounded.

1986 - The Ash-Shiraa, pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran to secure the release of seven American hostages. The story turned into the Iran-Contra affair.

1987 - China told the U.S. that it would halt the sale of arms to Iran.

1991 - Israeli and Palestinian representatives held their first-ever face-to-face talks in Madrid, Spain.

1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman U.S. senator.

1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, was arrested for drowning her two sons. Nine days earlier Smith had claimed that the ******** had been ******** by a black carjacker.

1995 - U.S. President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

1998 - Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, died at the age of 83.

1998 - A state-run newspaper in Iraq urged the country to prepare for to battle "the U.S. *******."

1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor.

2003 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, a post-Taliban draft constitution was unveiled.

2004 Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election.


2005 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. (Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison; President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.)


2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, who had pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, resigned from Congress.


2007 Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan.


Current Birthdays


Bob Feller turns 90 years old today.

78 Lois Smith
Actress


75 John Barry
Film composer


75 Ken Berry
Actor, dancer


75 Michael Dukakis
Former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate


72 Roy Emerson
Tennis Hall of Famer


62 Shadoe Stevens
Actor


60 Lulu
Singer, actress ("To Sir, With Love")


56 Roseanne Barr
Actress, comedian ("Roseanne")


55 Dennis Miller
Comedian


55 Kate Capshaw
Actress


55 Kathy Kinney
Actress ("The Drew Carey Show")


54 Adam Ant
Rock singer


51 Dolph Lundgren
Actor


36 C.J. Pierce
Rock musician (Drowning Pool)


26 Evgeni Plushenko
Figure skater


Historic Birthdays


Walker Evans
11/3/1903 - 4/10/1975
American photographer

48 Annibale Carracci
11/3/1560 - 7/15/1609
Italian artist


43 Stephen Austin
11/3/1793 - 12/27/1836
American founder of Republic of Texas


83 William Cullen Bryant
11/3/1794 - 6/12/1878
American poet


57 Karl Baedeker
11/3/1801 - 10/4/1859
German publisher


33 Vincenzo Bellini
11/3/1801 - 9/23/1835
Italian composer


75 Edward White
11/3/1845 - 5/19/1921
American jurist


55 Marcelino Menendez
11/3/1856 - 5/19/1912
Spanish historian


83 Joseph Martin
11/3/1884 - 3/6/1968
American politician


81 Leopold III
11/3/1901 - 9/25/1983
Belgian king (1934-51)


75 Andre Malraux
11/3/1901 - 11/23/1976
French novelist


86 James Reston
11/3/1909 - 12/6/1995
American columnist
 
1842 - Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, IL.

1846 - The patent for the artificial leg is granted to Benjamin Palmer.

1880 - James and John Ritty patented the first cash register.

1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter discovered the entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected America's first woman governor so she could serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross.

1939 - During World War II, the U.S. modified its neutrality stance with the Neutrality Act of 1939. The new policy allowed cash-and-carry purchases of arms by belligerents.

1939 - At the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display.

1942 - During World War II, Axis ****** retreated from El Alamein in North Africa. It was a major victory for the British.

1956 - Soviet ****** enter Hungary in order to supress the uprising that had begun on October 23, 1956.

1965 - Lee Ann Roberts Breedlove became the first woman to exceed 300 mph when she went 308.5 mph.

1970 - Former King Peter II of Yugoslavia died in Denver, CO. He was the first European king or queen to die and to be buried in the U.S.

1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.

1985 - Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko announced he was returning to the Soviet Union. He had charged that he had been ********* by the CIA.

1989 - About a million East Germans filled the streets of East Berlin in a pro-democracy rally.

1990 - Iraq issued a statement saying it was prepared to fight a "dangerous war" rather than give up Kuwait.

1991 - Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, CA. The dedication ceremony was attended by President Bush and former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon. It was the 1st gathering of 5 U.S. chief executives.

1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73 years old, was assassinated by right-wing Israeli Yigal Amir after attending a peace rally.

1999 - Cristina Saralegui received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

2001 - Hurrican Michelle hit Cuba destroying crops and thousands of homes. The United States made the gesture of sending humanitarian aid. On December 16, 2001, Cuba received the first commercial food shipment from the U.S. in nearly 40 years.

Current Birthdays

Laura Bush

Walter Cronkite
Broadcast journalist

Doris Roberts
Actress ("Everybody Loves Raymond")

Loretta Swit
Actress ("M*A*S*H")

Harry Elston
R&B singer (Friends of Distinction)

Delbert McClinton
Blues singer

Markie Post
Actress ("Night Court")

Carlos Gutierrez
Secretary of commerce

Chris Difford
Rock singer, musician (Squeeze)

Steve Mariucci
Football coach

Kathy Griffin
Comedian ("My Life on the D List")

Kim Forester
Country singer (The Forester Sisters)

Ralph Macchio
Actor (The "Karate ***" movies)

Jeff Probst
TV personality ("Survivor")

Diddy
Rapper, producer

Matthew McConaughey
Actor

Shawn Rivera
R&B singer (Az Yet)

Orlando Pace
Football player

Heather Tom
Actress ("The Bold and the Beautiful")

George Huff
R&B, gospel singer ("American Idol")

Historic Birthdays

Will Rogers

Guido Reni
11/4/1575 - 8/18/1642
Italian painter

Thomas Johnson
11/4/1732 - 10/26/1819
American Revolutionary War leader; governor of Maryland (1777-9); associate justice (1792-93) of U.S. Supreme Court

Gaspard Gourgaud
11/4/1783 - 7/25/1852
French historian

James Douglas
11/4/1837 - 6/25/1918
Canadian industrialist

George Edward Moore
11/4/1873 - 10/24/1958
British philosoher

Charles Despiau
11/4/1874 - 10/30/1946
French sculptor

Harry George Ferguson
11/4/1884 - 10/25/1960
British designer

Carlos Garcia
11/4/1896 - 6/14/1971
Philippine president (1957-61)

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1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.

1844 - In California, a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden.

1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.

1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.

1911 - Italy officially annexed Tripoli.

1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.

1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.

1944 - Lord Moyne, a British official, was assassinated by the Zionist Stern gang in Cairo, Egypt.

1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.

1955 - The Vienna State Opera House in Austria formally opened.

1956 - British and French ****** began landing in Egypt during the Suez Canal Crisis. A cease-fire was declared 2 days later.

1959 - The American Football League was formed.

1963 - Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.

1974 - Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman in the U.S. to win a governorship without succeeding her husband.

1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.

1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.

1987 - In South Africa, Goban Mbeki was released after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority government of South Africa.

1998 - Scientists published a genetic study that showed strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one ***** (Eston Hemings) of his slave, Sally Hemings. (for more information)

1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the ****** and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.

1992 - Malice Green, a black motorist, was beaten to death in Detroit during a struggle with police. Two officers were later convicted in his death and sentenced to prison.

1994 - Former U.S. President Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer's disease.

1994 - George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas, NV.

1998 - In the U.S., Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry.

1998 - The U.N. announced that the Taliban militia had ****** up to 5,000 civilians in a takeover of an Afghani town.

1999 - A 12-day conference on global warming, attended by delegates from 170 nations, ended in Bonn, Germany.

1999 - Dennis Rodman (NBA) and Carmen Electra were both arrested and charged with battery and domestic ******** in a hotel in Miami Beach, FL.

1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".

2001 - It was announced that European aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Dubai-based Emirates airlines set up a joint venture specializing in airline services.

Current Birthdays



70 Chris Robinson
Actor


68 Elke Sommer
Actress


68 Ted Kulongoski
Governor of Oregon


67 Art Garfunkel
Singer


65 Sam Shepard
Actor, playwright


61 Peter Noone
Singer (Herman's Hermits)


56 Bill Walton
Basketball Hall of Famer


53 Nestor Serrano
Actor ("24")


51 Kellen Winslow
Football Hall of Famer


50 Mo Gaffney
Actress, comedian


50 Robert Patrick
Actor


49 Bryan Adams
Rock singer


45 Andrea McArdle
Actress


45 Tatum O'Neal
Actress


43 Angelo Moore
Rock singer (Fishbone)


41 Judy Reyes
Actress ("Scrubs")


40 Mark Hunter
Rock musician (James)


40 Sam Rockwell
Actor


38 Heather Kinley
Country singer (The Kinleys)


38 Jennifer Kinley
Country singer (The Kinleys)


37 Jonny Greenwood
Rock musician (Radiohead)


37 Corin Nemec
Actor


35 Johnny Damon
Baseball player


34 Ryan Adams
Country musician


32 Sam Page
Actor


26 Jeremy Lelliott
Actor


21 Kevin Jonas
Rock musician (The Jonas Brothers)

Historic Birthdays

Ida Tarbell
11/5/1857 - 1/6/1944
American journalist
(Go to obit.)



79 Anna Leonowens
11/5/1834 - 1/19/1914
English writer and governess to ******** of king Mongkut of Siam


86 Paul Sabatier
11/5/1854 - 8/14/1941
French chemist


70 Eugene V. Debs
11/5/1855 - 10/20/1926
American socialist labor leader


74 Will Hays
11/5/1879 - 3/7/1954
American politician and president of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (1922-45)


96 Will Durant
11/5/1885 - 11/7/1981
American writer


92 Raymond Loewy
11/5/1893 - 7/14/1986
French-born American industrial designer


71 Martin Dies
11/5/1901 - 11/14/1972
American politician; first chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities


53 Vivien Leigh
11/5/1913 - 7/8/1967
British film and stage actress




Im taking this over for a few days whilst MiniD is away :hatsoff:
 
1789 - ****** John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.

1832 - Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the *** of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.

1851 - Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.

1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.

1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.

1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.

1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1917 - During World War I, Candian ****** take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.

1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.

1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.

1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies. The resolution also called for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa.

1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.

1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years.

1975 - King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass migration of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, that march into the nation of Western Sahara.

1977 - 39 people were ****** when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.

1983 - U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion.

1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.

1985 - Leftist guerrillas belonging to Columbia's April 19 Movement seized control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota.

1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a ****** spy ring.

1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.

1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.

1990 - About 20% of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.

1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.

1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. (NFL)

1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.

1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career.

1998 - The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb ******* the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.

1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.

2001 - In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been ****** to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War II.

2001 - In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.

2001 - Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.

Current Birthdays

77 Mike Nichols
Director


76 Stonewall Jackson
Country singer


71 Eugene Pitt
Singer (The Jive Five)


70 P.J. Proby
Rock singer


67 Guy Clark
Country singer


62 Sally Field
Actress


59 Rory Block
Blues singer


59 Arturo Sandoval
Jazz trumpeter


53 Maria Shriver
First Lady of California


51 Lori Singer
Actress ("Fame")


48 Lance Kerwin
Actor


45 Paul Brindley
Rock musician (The Sundays)


44 Corey Glover
Rock singer (Living Colour)


42 Peter DeLuise
Actor


40 Kelly Rutherford
Actress ("Gossip Girl," "Melrose Place")


38 Ethan Hawke
Actor


36 Thandie Newton
Actress ("W")


36 Rebecca Romijn
Model, actress ("Ugly Betty")


34 Zoe McLellan
Actress ("Dirty Sexy Money")


30 Nicole Dubuc
Actress


21 Ana Ivanovic
Tennis player


19 Mercedes Kastner
Actress

Historic Birthdays

81 Hans Sachs
11/5/1494 - 1/19/1576
German meistersinger


68 Philips Koninck
11/5/1619 - 10/4/1688
Dutch painter


63 Washington Allston
11/5/1779 - 7/9/1843
American painter


79 Adolphe Sax
11/6/1814 - 2/7/1894
Belgian-born French maker of musical instruments; inventor of the saxophone


72 Charles Garnier
11/6/1825 - 8/3/1898
French architect


82 Joseph Smith III
11/6/1832 - 12/10/1914
American religious leader; president of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1860-1914)


51 Charles Henry Dow
11/6/1851 - 12/4/1902
American journalist


78 James Naismith
11/6/1861 - 11/28/1939
Canadian-born American inventor of basketball


59 Walter Johnson
11/6/1887 - 12/10/1946
American professional baseball player


59 Harold Ross
11/6/1892 - 12/6/1951
American editor of The New Yorker (1925-51)


27 Sir John William Alcock
11/6/1892 - 12/18/1919
British aviator


55 James Jones
11/6/1921 - 5/9/1977
American novelist
 
1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.

1665 - "The London Gazette" was first published.

1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).

1837 - In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction.

1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.

1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.

1877 - "The Sorcerer" was performed for the first time of 178 total performances.

1893 - The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.

1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.

1914 - The "New Republic" magazine was printed for the first time.

1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by ****** led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

1918 - During World War I, a false report through the United Press announced that an armistice had been signed.

1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.

1932 - "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was broadcast for the first on CBS Radio.

1933 - Voters in Pennsylvania eliminated sports from Pennsylvanian "Blue Laws."

1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.

1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.

1963 - The comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" premiered in Hollywood.

1963 - Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees, became the first black player to be named the American League's Most Valuable Player.

1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.

1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor Cleveland, OH, becoming the first black mayor of a major city.

1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1967 - The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments.

1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.

1973 - The U.S. Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.

1983 - A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured.

1985 - The Colombian army stormed the country's Palace of Justice. The siege claimed the lives of 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices. The Palace had been seized by leftist guerrillas belonging to the April 19 Movement.

1987 - Tunisia's president Habib Bourguiba was overthrown. He had been president since the country's independence in 1956.

1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Donnie LaLonde.

1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American state governor in U.S. history.

1989 - David Dinkins was elected and become New York City's first African-American mayor.

1989 - Richard Ramirez, convicted of California's "Night Stalker" killings, was sentenced to death.

1991 - Magic Johnson (NBA) announced that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring from basketball.

1991 - Pro- and anti-Communists rallies took place in Moscow on the 74th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

1991 - Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. *** Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theater.

1995 - In a Japanese courtroom, three U.S. military men admitted to the **** of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.

1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.

2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.

2001 - The new .BIZ domain extension was officially launched.

2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.


Current Birthdays

90 Billy Graham
Evangelist


82 Joan Sutherland
Opera singer


70 Barry Newman
Actor


66 Johnny Rivers
Rock singer


57 Nick Gilder
Singer


51 Christopher Knight
Actor ("The Brady Bunch")


41 Julie Pinson
Actress ("As the World Turns")


40 Greg Tribbett
Rock musician (Mudvayne)


36 Christoper Daniel Barnes
Actor


36 Jason London
Actor


36 Jeremy London
Actor ("7th Heaven")


35 Yunjin Kim
Actress ("Lost")


25 Zach Myers
Rock musician (Shinedown)

Historic Birthdays

85 Andrew White
11/7/1832 - 11/4/1918
American educator and diplomat; founder and first president of Cornell University


89 Lise Meitner
11/7/1878 - 10/27/1968
Austrian physicist


60 Leon Trotsky
11/7/1879 - 8/21/1940
Russian revolutionary


63 Eleanor Medill Patterson
11/7/1884 - 7/24/1948
American publisher


82 Sir Chandrasekhara Raman
11/7/1888 - 11/21/1970
Indian physicist


55 Herman Mankiewicz
11/7/1897 - 3/5/1953
American screenwriter


85 Konrad Lorenz
11/7/1903 - 2/27/1989
Austrian zoologist


46 Albert Camus
11/7/1913 - 1/4/1960
French novelist
 
Great job filling in for MiniD, BlueBalls! :hatsoff:
 
1656 - Edmond Halley was born. Halley, an astronomer-mathmatician, was the first to calculate the orbit that was named after him. The comet makes an appearance every 76 years.

1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.

1805 - The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was lead by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory.

1880 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her American stage debut in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" in New York City.

1887 - Doc Holliday died at the age of 35. The *** fighting dentist died from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, CO.

1889 - Montana became the 41st U.S. state.

1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first X-ray pictures.

1910 - William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator.

1923 - Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the "****-Hall Putsch."

1933 - The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the U.S.

1939 - "Life With ******" premiered on Broadway in New York City.

1942 - The U.S. invaded Morocco and Algeria.

1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as U.S. and British ****** landed in French North Africa.

1950 - During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air ***** Lt. 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.

1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only ***.

1959 - The 'Big E', Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers, scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring record.

1965 - The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV.

1966 - Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.

1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.

1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in March of 1980.

1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1980 - Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn.

1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to 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 later called the "Molotov ********."

1987 - A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead. Eleven people were ******.

1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national ***** fighting against Iraq.

1991 - The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.

1992 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist ********.

1993 - Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.

1997 - Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.

2000 - In Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

2000 - Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 seige of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.

2001 - The "Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend" exhibit opened at the Appleton Museum of Art in Florida.

Current Birthdays

96 June Havoc
Actress


94 Norman Lloyd
Actor


81 Chris Connor
Jazz singer


81 Patti Page
Singer


64 Bonnie Bramlett
Rock singer, actress


59 Bonnie Raitt
Rock musician


58 Mary Hart
TV host ("Entertainment Tonight")


56 Christie Hefner
CEO of Playboy Enterprises


55 Alfre Woodard
Actress


54 Rickie Lee Jones
Singer, songwriter


51 Porl Thompson
Rock musician (The Cure)


47 Leif Garrett
Singer


41 Courtney Thorne-Smith
Actress ("According to Jim")


40 Parker Posey
Actress


39 Roxana Zal
Actress


38 Diana King
Singer


35 Gretchen Mol
Actress ("Life on Mars")


33 Tara Reid
Actress


31 Bucky Covington
Country singer ("American Idol")


29 Dania Ramirez
Actress ("Heroes")


27 Azura Skye
Actress


25 Chris Rankin
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)


23 Jack Osbourne
TV personality ("The Osbournes")

Historic Birthdays

37 Gustav X Charles
11/8/1622 - 2/13/1660
Swedish king (1654-60)


85 Edmond Halley
11/8/1656 - 1/14/1742
English astronomer and mathematician


64 Bram Stoker
11/8/1847 - 4/20/1912
Irish author; wrote "Dracula"


76 Gottlob Frege
11/8/1848 - 7/26/1925
German mathematician and logician


74 Herbert Austin, Baron Austin
11/8/1866 - 5/23/1941
Enligh automotive engineer; founder and first chairman of Austin Motor Company


37 Hermann Rorschach
11/8/1884 - 4/2/1922
Swiss psychiatrist


78 Esther Rolle
11/8/1920 - 11/17/1998
American actress
 
1857 - The "Atlantic Monthly" first appeared on newsstands and featured the first installment of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

1872 - A fire destroyed about 800 buildings in Boston, MA.

1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president.

1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.

1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.

1923 - In Munich, the **** Hall Putsch was crushed by German troops that were loyal to the democratic government. The event began the evening before when Adolf Hitler took control of a **** hall full of Bavarian government leaders at gunpoint.

1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.

1938 - **** troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, ****** 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."

1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.

1961 - Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph.

1961 - The Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) eliminated is "caucasians only" rule.

1963 - In Japan, about 450 miners were ****** in a coal-dust explosion.

1963 - In Japan, 160 people died in a train crash.

1965 - The great Northeast ******** occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.

1967 - A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.

1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning the apartheid government in South Africa.

1979 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages "without delay." Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.

1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. In 1984 Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a boxing commentator for NBC.

1984 - A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.

1989 - Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany.

1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany.

1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting London, appealed for assistance in rescheduling his country's debt, and asked British businesses to invest.

1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) became the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in nine straight seasons. In the same game Sanders ****** former Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorsett for third place on the all-time rushing list.

1998 - A federal judge in New York approved the richest antitrust settlement in U.S. history. A leading brokerage firm was ordered to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over price-rigging of Nasdaq stocks.

1998 - PBS aired its documentary special "Chihuly Over Venice."

2004 - U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.

Current Birthdays

79 Imre Kertesz
Nobel Prize-winning author


77 Whitey Herzog
Baseball manager


73 Bob Gibson
Baseball Hall of Famer


72 Bob Graham
Former U.S. senator, D-Fla.


72 Mary Travers
Folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)


63 Charlie Robinson
Actor ("Night Court")


60 Bille August
Director


60 Robert David Hall
Actor ("CSI")


56 Lou Ferrigno
Actor ("The Incredible Hulk")


56 Sherrod Brown
U.S. senator, D-Ohio


49 Donnie McClurkin
Gospel singer


48 Dee Plakas
Rock musician (L7)


39 Pepa
Rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)


39 Scarface
Rapper (Geto Boys)


38 Susan Tedeschi
Blues singer


36 Eric Dane
Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")


35 Nick Lachey
Singer (98 Degrees)


30 Sisqo
R&B singer (Dru Hill)


Historic Birthdays

74 Benjamin Banneker
11/9/1731 - 10/25/1806
American mathematician, astronomer, inventor and writer


72 Gail Borden
11/9/1801 - 1/11/1874
American businessman


34 Elijah Lovejoy
11/9/1802 - 11/7/1837
American abolitionist


52 Stanford White
11/9/1853 - 6/25/1906
American architect


64 Marie Dressler
11/9/1869 - 7/28/1934
Canadian-born American actress


81 Florence Sabin
11/9/1871 - 10/3/1953
American anatomist


79 Ed Wynn
11/9/1886 - 6/19/1966
American actor


37 Mabel Normand
11/9/1892 - 2/23/1930
American actress


77 Spiro Agnew
11/9/1918 - 9/17/1996
American politician; 39th vice president of the United States (1969-73)


67 James Schuyler
11/9/1923 - 4/12/1991
American poet, playwright and novelist


42 Dorothy Dandridge
11/9/1922 - 9/8/1965
American actress


45 Anne Sexton
11/9/1928 - 10/4/1974
American poet
 
1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.

1801 - The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling.

1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1879 - Western Union and the National Bell Telephone Company reached a settlement over various telephone patents.

1917 - 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House.

1919 - The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis, MN.

1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.

1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA.

1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.

1957 - 102,368 people attended the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams game. The crowd was the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history.

1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.

1970 - The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.

1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991.

1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.

1976 - The Utah Supreme Court gave approval for Gary Gilmore to be executed, according to his wishes. The convicted ******** was put to death the following January.

1977 - The Major Indoor Soccer League was officially organized in New York City.

1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been ********* in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.

1982 - Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart ****** at age 75. He was suceeded by Yuri V. Andropov.

1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.

1984 - The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1986 - Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, two Frenchmen were released by the captors that held them in Lebanon.

1988 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Texas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of the U.S. Congress in Oct. 1993.

1990 - Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India's new prime minister.

1991 - Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands.

1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually ********* him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband.

1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives ****** the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.

1994 - U.S. officials that it planned to stop enforcing the arms embargo against the Bosnian government the following week. The U.N. Security Council was opposed to lifting the ban.

1994 - Iraq recognized Kuwait's borders in the hope that the action would end trade sanctions.

1995 - Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with several other anti-government activists.

1995 - In Katmandu, Nepal, searchers rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan foothills. The disaster left 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese dead.

1996 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 50,000 yards.

1997 - WorldCom Inc. acquired MCI Communication Corporation. It was the largest merger in U.S. history valued at $37 billion.

1997 - A jury in Virginia convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of the ****** of two CIA employees in 1993.

1997 - A judge in Cambridge, MA, reduced Louise Woodward's ****** conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time served. She had served 279 days in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.

1998 - At the White House, U.S. Vice President Al Gore unveiled "The Virtual Wall" website (www.thevirtualwall.org) that enables visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet.

1999 - Ted Danson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.

2001 - The musical "Lady Diana - A Smile Charms the World" opened in Germany.

2004 - Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) was awarded the "Man for Peace" prize in Rome at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

Current Birthdays

84 Russell Johnson
Actor ("Gilligan's Island")


80 Ennio Morricone
Film composer


74 Bobby Rush
Blues singer


71 Albert Hall
Actor


67 Donna Fargo
Country singer


65 Saxby Chambliss
U.S. senator, R-Ga.


64 Tim Rice
Lyricist


62 Alaina Reed Hall
Actress


61 Greg Lake
Rock singer, musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)


59 Ann Reinking
Actress, dancer


57 Jack Scalia
Actor


53 Roland Emmerich
Director


52 Matt Craven
Actor


52 Sinbad
Actor, comedian


49 Mackenzie Phillips
Actress ("One Day at a Time")


48 Neil Gaiman
Author


45 Tommy Davidson
Actor, comedian ("In Living Color")


45 Mike McCarthy
Football coach


44 Kenny Rogers
Baseball player


44 Michael Jai White
Actor


40 Chris Cagle
Country singer


40 Tracy Morgan
Actor ("30 Rock," "Saturday Night Live")


38 Warren G
Rapper, producer


36 Shawn Green
Baseball player


33 Jim Adkins
Rock singer, musician (Jimmy Eat World)


31 Brittany Murphy
Actress


30 Eve
Rapper, actress


29 Chris Joannou
Rock musician (Silverchair)


26 Heather Matarazzo
Actress


25 Miranda Lambert
Country singer


22 Josh Peck
Actor ("Drake and Josh")

Historic Birthdays

66 Henry Percy Northumberland
11/10/1341 - 2/20/1408
English statesman


62 Martin Luther
11/10/1483 - 2/18/1546
German religious leader and reformer


33 Robert Devereux Essex
11/10/1567 - 2/25/1601
English soldier


64 Francois Couperin
11/10/1668 - 9/12/1733
French composer


66 William Hogarth
11/10/1697 - 10/26/1764
English artist


43 Oliver Goldsmith
11/10/1730 - 4/4/1774
Irish-born English writer


74 Samuel Gridley Howe
11/10/1801 - 1/9/1876
American educator and social reformer


30 Francis Maitland Balfour
11/10/1851 - 7/19/1882
British zoologist and embryologist


52 Vachel Lindsay
11/10/1879 - 12/5/1931
American poet


51 El Lissitzky
11/10/1890 - 12/30/1941
American artist


66 John Phillips Marquand
11/10/1893 - 7/16/1960
American novelist


85 John Knudsen Northrop
11/10/1895 - 2/18/1981
American aircraft designer
 
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