Today In History

[BlueBalls]

1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws.

1831 - Nat Turner, a slave and educated minister, was hanged in Jerusalem, VA, after inciting a violent slave uprising.

1851 - The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.

1868 - The first indoor amateur track and field meet was held by the New York Athletic Club.

1880 - Australian outlaw and bank robber Ned Kelly was hanged at the Melbourne jail at age 25.

1887 - Labor Activists were hanged in Illinois after being convicted of being connected to a bombing that killed eight police officers.

1889 - Washington became the 42nd state of the United States.

1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.

1918 - Poland was reestablished shortly after the surrender of Germany.

1920 - The body of an unknown British soldier was buried in Westminster Abbey. The service was recorded with the first electronic recording process developed by Lionel Guest and H.O. Merriman.

1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.

1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.

1940 - The Jeep made its debut.

1942 - During World War II, Germany completed its occupation of France.

1946 - The New York Knickerbockers (now the Knicks) played their first game at Madison Square Garden.

1952 - The first video recorder was demonstrated by John Mullin and Wayne Johnson in Beverly Hills, CA.

1965 - The government of Rhodesia declared its independence from Britain. The country later became known as Zimbabwe.

1965 - Walt Disney announced a project in Florida.

1966 - The U.S. launched Gemini 12 from Cape Kennedy, FL. The craft circled the Earth 59 times before returning.

1972 - The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army. The event symbolized the end of direct involvement in the Vietnam War by the U.S. military.

1975 - Civil war broke out when Angola gained independence from Portugal.

1981 - Stuntman Dan Goodwin scaled the outside of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in about six hours.

1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan accepted the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a gift to the nation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

1984 - Gary Coleman, at age 13, underwent his second kidney transplant in Los Angeles. He had his first transplant at age 5.

1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to form "Unisys," becoming the second largest computer company.

1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Irises" was sold for a then record 53.9 million dollars in New York.

1988 - Police in Sacramento, CA, found the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a boardinghouse. Dorothea Puente was later charged in the deaths of nine people, convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.

1990 - Stormie Jones, the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13.

1991 - The U.S. stationed its first diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years to help the nation arrange democratic elections.

1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators in a letter that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II. Some were "summarily executed," but others were still living in his country voluntarily.

1992 - The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.

1993 - Walt Disney Co. announced plans to build a U.S. history theme park in a Virginia suburb of Washington. The plan was halted later due to local opposition.

1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.

1994 - In Gaza, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at an Israeli military checkpoint killing three soldiers.

1996 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund unveiled "The Wall That Heals." The work was a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that would tour communities throughout the United States.

1997 - The Eastman Kodak Company announced that they were laying off 10,000 employees.

1997 - Roger Clemens (Toronto Blue Jays) became the third major league player to win the Cy Young Award four times.

1998 - Jay Cochrane set a record for the longest blindfolded skywalk. He walked on a tightrope between the towers of the Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas, NV. The towers are 600 feet apart.

1998 - Vincente Fernandez received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998 - Israel's Cabinet ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.

2002 - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged $100 million to fight AIDS in India.


Current Birthdays

83 Jonathan Winters
Comedian


81 Mose Allison
Jazz singer, musician


70 Narvel Felts
Country singer


68 Barbara Boxer
U.S. senator, D-Calif.


63 Vince Martell
Rock musician (Vanilla Fudge)


57 Paul Cowsill
Pop singer, musician (The Cowsills)


57 Fuzzy Zoeller
Golfer


55 Marshall Crenshaw
Rock singer


55 Andy Partridge
Rock musician (XTC)


53 Dave Alvin
Rock singer (The Blasters)


52 Ian Craig Marsh
Rock musician (Human League)


48 Stanley Tucci
Actor


44 Calista Flockhart
Actress ("Ally McBeal")


44 Philip McKeon
Actor ("Alice")


44 Scott Mercado
Rock musician


39 Carson Kressley
TV personality ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy")


37 David DeLuise
Actor


36 Adam Beach
Actor


34 Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor


28 Willie Parker
Football player


27 Jonathan Pretus
Rock musician (Cowboy Mouth)


Historic Birthdays

47 Paracelsus
11/11/1493 - 9/24/1541
German-Swiss physician


61 George Savile Halifax
11/11/1633 - 4/5/1695
British statesman


67 Johann Albert Fabricius
11/11/1668 - 4/30/1736
German bibliographer


71 Philip John Schuyler
11/11/1733 - 11/18/1804
American soldier and politician


71 Paul Signac
11/11/1863 - 8/15/1935
French painter


78 Victor Emmanuel III
11/11/1869 - 12/28/1947
Italian king (1900-47)


80 Maude Adams
11/11/1872 - 7/17/1953
American actress


62 Rabbit Maranville
11/11/1891 - 1/5/1954
American professional baseball player


65 Lucky Luciano
11/11/1896 - 1/26/1962
Italian-born American gangster


82 Rene Clair
11/11/1898 - 3/15/1981
French film director


84 Sam Spiegel
11/11/1901 - 12/31/1985
Austrian-born American film producer


92 Alger Hiss
11/11/1904 - 11/15/1996
American official accused of Communist affiliation (1948); convicted of perjury

 

[BlueBalls]

1799 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.

1815 - American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, NY.

1840 - Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are "The Kiss" and "The Thinker."

1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.

1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.

1915 - Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard University, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

1918 - Austria was declared an independent republic only one day after the end of World War I.

1920 - Judge Keneshaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.

1921 - Representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.

1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party leading to Stalin coming to power.

1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was to be the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL).

1933 - In Philadelphia, the first Sunday football game was played.

1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."

1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.

1944 - During World War II, the German battleship "Tirpitz" was sunk off the coast of Norway.

1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, IL.

1948 - The war crimes tribunal sentenced Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death.

1953 - The National Football League (NFL) policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.

1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.

1964 - Paula Murphy set the female land speed record 226.37 MPH.

1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.

1975 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36½-year term.

1979 - U.S. President Carter ordered a halt to all oil imports from Iran in response to 63 Americans being taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4.

1980 - The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.

1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snared the Palapa B-2 satellite in history's first space salvage.

1985 - In Norfolk, VA, Arthur James Walker was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a spy ring run by his brother, John A. Walker Jr.

1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement that said it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.

1990 - Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.

1991 - In the U.S., Robert Gates was sworn in as CIA director.

1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

1997 - Four Americans and their Pakistani driver were shot to death in Karachi, Pakistan. The Americans were oil company employees.

1997 - The UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iraq for constraints being placed on UN arms inspectors.

1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

1998 - Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler AG.

2001 - American Airlines flight 587 crashed just minutes after take off from Kennedy Airport in New York. The Airbus A300 crashed into the Rockaway Beach section of Queens. All 260 people aboard were killed.

2001 - It was reported that the Northern Alliance had taken the Kabul, Afghanistan, from the ruling Taliban. The Norther Alliance at this point was reported to have control over most of the northern areas of Afghanistan.

2002 - Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.

Current Birthdays

77 Norman Y. Mineta
Former secretary of transportation


69 Ruby Nash Curtis
R&B singer


65 Jimmy Hayes
R&B singer (Persuasions)


65 Brian Hyland
Singer


65 Wallace Shawn
Actor, playwright


64 Booker T. Jones
Rock musician (Booker T. & the MGs)


63 Neil Young
Rock musician


61 Donald Roeser
Rock musician (Blue Oyster Cult)


59 Jack Reed
U.S. senator, D-R.I.


58 Barbara Fairchild
Country singer


50 Megan Mullally
Actress ("Will and Grace")


47 Nadia Comaneci
Olympic gold medal gymnast


44 David Ellefson
Rock musician (Megadeth)


41 Sam Lloyd
Actor ("Scrubs")


40 Sammy Sosa
Baseball player


35 Radha Mitchell
Actress


34 Lourdes Benedicto
Actress


34 Tamala Jones
Actress


34 Angela Watson
Actress


32 Tevin Campbell
R&B singer


30 Ashley Williams
Actress


28 Ryan Gosling
Actor


24 Omarion
Singer


16 Macey Cruthird
Actress ("Hope and Faith")



Historic Birthdays

66 Baccio Bandinelli
11/12/1493 - 2/7/1560
Italian sculptor


53 Aleksandr Borodin
11/12/1833 - 2/27/1887
Russian composer


77 Auguste Rodin
11/12/1840 - 11/17/1917
French sculptor


74 Jack Oakie
11/12/1903 - 1/23/1978
American actor


90 Harry Blackmun
11/12/1908 - 3/4/1999
American jurist; associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)


80 Buck Clayton
11/12/1911 - 12/8/1991
American musician


64 Roland Barthes
11/12/1915 - 3/25/1980
French essayist


52 Grace Kelly
11/12/1929 - 9/14/1982
American actress

 

[BlueBalls]

1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.

1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."

1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

1909 - 250 miners were killed in a fire and explosion at the St. Paul Mine at Cherry, IL.

1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.

1933 - In Austin, MN, the first sit-down labor strike in America took place.

1940 - The Walt Disney movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere at New York's Broadway Theater.

1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

1971 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars.

1977 - The comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.

1984 - A libel suit against Time, Inc. by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon went to trial in New York.

1985 - About 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a gigantic mudslide buried the city. The slide was triggered by a mild eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.

1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged that the U.S. had sent "defensive weapons and spare parts" to Iran. He denied that the shipments were sent to free hostages, but that they had been sent to improve relations.

1991 - Roger Clemens won his third Cy Young Award for the American League.

1994 - In San Francisco, CA, a heavily armed gunman traded fire with police, hitting two police officers, a paramedic and another person before being killed.

1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union.

1995 - Greg Maddox (Atlanta Braves) became the first major league pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.

1995 - Seven people, including five Americans are killed in a car bomb attack at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

1997 - Iraq expelled six U.N. arms inspectors that were U.S. citizens.

1998 - "The Wizard of Oz" was released on the big screen by Warner Bros. 59 years after its original release.

1998 - Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1998 - U.S. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to throw out her sexual harassment lawsuit.

2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would allow for military tribunals to try any foreigners captured with connections to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was the first time since World War II that a president had taken such action.

Current Birthdays

86 Madeleine Sherwood
Actress


74 Peter Arnett
Journalist


74 Garry Marshall
Producer, director


62 Ray Wylie Hubbard
Country singer, songwriter


61 Joe Mantegna
Actor


60 Sheila Frazier
Actress


55 Frances Conroy
Actress ("Six Feet Under")


55 Andrew Ranken
Rock musician ("The Pogues")


55 Tracy Scoggins
Actress


54 Chris Noth
Actor ("Law and Order," "Sex and the City")


52 Rex Linn
Actor ("CSI: Miami")


49 Caroline Goodall
Actress


48 Neil Flynn
Actor ("Scrubs")


45 Vinny Testaverde
Football player


44 Walter Kibby
Rock musician (Fishbone)


41 Jimmy Kimmel
Comedian, talk show host ("Jimmy Kimmel Live")


41 Steve Zahn
Actor


30 Nikolai Fraiture
Rock musician (The Strokes)


28 Monique Coleman
Actress ("High School Musical")



Historic Birthdays

75 Saint Augustine
11/13/354 - 8/28/430
Roman bishop and theologian


64 Edward III
11/13/1312 - 6/21/1377
English king (1327-77)


56 Johann Eck
11/13/1486 - 2/10/1543
German theologian


88 Edward Trelawny
11/13/1792 - 8/13/1881
English author


59 Edwin Booth
11/13/1833 - 6/7/1893
American actor


84 Louis Brandeis
11/13/1856 - 10/5/1941
American jurist; associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916-39)


37 Mary Henrietta Kingsley
11/13/1862 - 6/3/1900
English traveler and writer


40 Jean Seberg
11/13/1938 - 9/8/1979
American actress

 

[BlueBalls]

1832 - The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.

1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.

1881 - Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.

1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.

1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began domestic radio service.

1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.

1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.

1943 - Ernie Nevers of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first professional football player to score six touchdowns in a single game.

1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.

1968 - Yale University announced it was going co-educational.

1969 - Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon from Cape Kennedy, FL.

1969 - During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.

1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.

1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.

1973 - Britain's Princess Anne married a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1992, and Princess Anne re-married.

1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.

1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.

1986 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a record $100 million penalty against Ivan F. Boesky for insider-trading and barred him from working again in the securities industry.

1987 - In the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital a bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded. Seven people were killed including the woman carrying the box.

1988 - Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government.

1989 - The U.S. Navy ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the wake of a recent string of serious accidents.

1990 - Simon and Schuster announced it had dropped plans to publish Bret Easton Ellis novel "American Psycho."

1991 - U.S. and British authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

1991 - Thomas McIlvane fatally shot four workers at the Royal Oak, MI, Post Office before killing himself. He had been fired from the location.

1991 - After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland.

1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.

1995 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.

1998 - Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman were married in Las Vegas, NV. (why is this so significant? I have no idea but its on the site so here is goes)

Current Birthdays

60 Prince Charles

86 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Former U.N. secretary-general


80 Kathleen Hughes
Actress


74 Ellis Marsalis
Jazz pianist


61 P.J. O'Rourke
Writer


61 Buckwheat Zydeco
Zydeco musician


60 Robert Ginty
Actor


59 James Young
Rock musician (Styx)


57 Stephen Bishop
Rock singer


54 Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of state


54 Anson Funderburgh
Blues musician


54 Yanni
Pianist


47 Laura San Giacomo
Actress ("Just Shoot Me")


47 D.B. Sweeney
Actor


44 Nic Dalton
Rock musician


44 Reverend Run
Rapper (Run-DMC)


44 Patrick Warburton
Actor


43 Jeanette Jurado
Singer


42 Curt Schilling
Baseball player


40 Brian Yale
Rock musician (Matchbox Twenty)


39 Butch Walker
Rock singer


36 Josh Duhamel
Actor


35 Lawyer Milloy
Football player


33 Travis Barker
Rock musician


31 Shyheim
Rapper


29 Tobin Esperance
Rock musician (Papa Roach)


29 Olga Kurylenko
Actress

Historic Birthdays

77 Johann von Hildebrandt
11/14/1668 - 11/16/1745
Austrian architect


49 Robert Fulton
11/14/1765 - 2/24/1815
American inventor


70 Henri Dutrochet
11/14/1776 - 2/4/1847
French physiologist


35 James McPherson
11/14/1828 - 7/22/1864
American general


86 Claude Monet
11/14/1840 - 12/5/1926
French painter


86 Yekaterina Geltzer
11/14/1876 - 12/12/1962
Russian ballerina


74 Jawaharlal Nehru
11/14/1889 - 5/27/1964
Indian independence leader and prime minister (1947-64)


82 Mamie Eisenhower
11/14/1896 - 11/1/1979
American first lady (1953-1961)


90 Aaron Copland
11/14/1900 - 12/2/1990
American composer


83 Michael Ramsey
11/14/1904 - 4/23/1988
English archbishop


48 Joseph R. McCarthy
11/14/1908 - 5/2/1957
American politician; investigated Communist influence in U.S. government


36 Edward White
11/14/1930 - 1/27/1967
American astronaut

 

[Dawn]

1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.

Hush! :cussing:

 

[BlueBalls]

1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.

1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.

1889 - Brazil's monarchy was overthrown.

1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.

1902 - Anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium.

1920 - The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.

1926 - The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour "spectacular."

1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.

1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription.

1965 - The Soviet probe, Venera 3, was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On March 1, 1966, it became the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet when it crashed on Venus.

1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.

1985 - Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.

1986 - A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was pardoned a month later.

1986 - Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC.

1988 - The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers.

1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.

1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.

1995 - Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit.

1999 - Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).

2000 - Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti-gang unit.

2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.

2006 - Andy Warhol's painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction "Orange Marilyn" sold for $16.2 million and "Sixteen Jackies" sold for $15.6 million.

Current Birthdays

89 Joseph Wapner
TV personality ("The People's Court")


83 Howard Baker
Former U.S. senator, R-Tenn.


79 Ed Asner
Actor ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant")


76 Petula Clark
Singer


75 Jack Burns
Comedian


74 Joanna Barnes
Actress


63 Frida Lyngstad
Pop singer (ABBA)


63 Bob Gunton
Actor


61 Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico


57 Beverly D'Angelo
Actress


55 James Widdoes
Director


54 Mitch Easter
Rock producer


51 Kevin Eubanks
Bandleader ("The Tonight Show With Jay Leno")


46 Judy Gold
Comedian


41 E-40
Rapper


39 Rachel True
Actress


36 Jonny Lee Miller
Actor


35 Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Actress


34 Chad Kroeger
Rock musician (Nickelback)


34 Jesse Sandoval
Rock musician (The Shins)


32 Virginie Ledoyen
Actress

Historic Birthdays

69 William Pitt the elder
11/15/1708 - 5/11/1778
English statesman


83 William Herschel
11/15/1738 - 8/25/1822
German-born English astronomer


75 Jerome Bonaparte
11/15/1784 - 6/24/1860
French King of Westphalia and marshal of France


70 James O'Neill
11/15/1849 - 8/10/1920
Irish-born American actor


78 Franklin Pierce Adams
11/15/1881 - 3/23/1960
American newspaper columnist, radio commentator and poet


82 Felix Frankfurter
11/15/1882 - 2/22/1965
American legal scholar and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1939-62)


84 Marianne Moore
11/15/1887 - 2/5/1972
American poet


94 Averell Harriman
11/15/1891 - 7/26/1986
American statesman


52 Erwin Rommel
11/15/1891 - 10/14/1944
German field marshal


83 Curtis LeMay
11/15/1906 - 10/1/1990
American airforce officer

 

[BlueBalls]

November 16

1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.

1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War.

1885 - Canadian rebel Louis Riel was executed for high treason.

1907 - Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.

1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.

1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time.

1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.

1957 - Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns) set an NFL season rushing record of 1163 yards after only eight games.

1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.

1969 - The U.S. Army announced that several had been charged with massacre and the subsequent cover-up in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission.

1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.

1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.

1982 - An agreement was announced on the 57th day of a strike by National Football League (NFL) players.

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

1994 - Major League Soccer announced that it would start its inaugural season in 1996.

1997 - China released Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident from jail for medical reasons. He had been incarcerated for almost 18 years.

1998 - In Burlington, Wisconsin, five high school students, aged 15 to 16, were arrested in an alleged plot to kill a carefully selected group of teachers and students.

1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton.

1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration.

1999 - Johnny Depp received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - Chrica Adams, the pregnant girlfriend of Rae Carruth, was shot four times in her car. She died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived. Carruth was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the murder.

2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam.

2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.

Current Birthdays

89 Joseph Wapner
TV personality ("The People's Court")


83 Howard Baker
Former U.S. senator, R-Tenn.


79 Ed Asner
Actor ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant")


76 Petula Clark
Singer


75 Jack Burns
Comedian


74 Joanna Barnes
Actress


63 Frida Lyngstad
Pop singer (ABBA)


63 Bob Gunton
Actor


61 Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico


57 Beverly D'Angelo
Actress


55 James Widdoes
Director


54 Mitch Easter
Rock producer


51 Kevin Eubanks
Bandleader ("The Tonight Show With Jay Leno")


46 Judy Gold
Comedian


41 E-40
Rapper


39 Rachel True
Actress


36 Jonny Lee Miller
Actor


35 Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Actress


34 Chad Kroeger
Rock musician (Nickelback)


34 Jesse Sandoval
Rock musician (The Shins)


32 Virginie Ledoyen
Actress


Historic Birthdays

69 William Pitt the elder
11/15/1708 - 5/11/1778
English statesman


83 William Herschel
11/15/1738 - 8/25/1822
German-born English astronomer


75 Jerome Bonaparte
11/15/1784 - 6/24/1860
French King of Westphalia and marshal of France


70 James O'Neill
11/15/1849 - 8/10/1920
Irish-born American actor


78 Franklin Pierce Adams
11/15/1881 - 3/23/1960
American newspaper columnist, radio commentator and poet


82 Felix Frankfurter
11/15/1882 - 2/22/1965
American legal scholar and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1939-62)


84 Marianne Moore
11/15/1887 - 2/5/1972
American poet


94 Averell Harriman
11/15/1891 - 7/26/1986
American statesman


52 Erwin Rommel
11/15/1891 - 10/14/1944
German field marshal


83 Curtis LeMay
11/15/1906 - 10/1/1990
American airforce officer

 

[BlueBalls]

November 17

1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor.

1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason.

1796 - Catherine the Great of Russia died at the age of 67.

1798 - Irish nationalist leader Wolfe Tone committed suicide while in jail awaiting execution.

1800 - The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building.

1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.

1880 - The first three British female graduates received their Bachelor of Arts degrees from London University.

1903 - Russia's Social Democrats officially split into two groups - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight.

1913 - The steamship Louise became the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal.

1913 - In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm banned the armed forces from dancing the tango.

1922 - Siberia voted for union with the U.S.S.R.

1962 - Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by U.S. President Kennedy.

1968 - NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32.

1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. The vehicle was released by Luna 17.

1973 - U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."

1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman leader of an Islamic country. She was elected in the first democratic elections in Pakistan in 11 years.

1990 - A mass grave was discovered by the bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand. The bodies were believed to be those of World War II prisoners of war.

1990 - The Soviet government agreed to change the country's constitution.

1997 - 62 people were killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt. The attackers were killed by police.

1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.

2001 - "Toys "R" Us Times Square - The Center of the Toy Universe" opened in New York City.

2006 - Sony's PlayStation 3 went on sale in the United States.

Current Birthdays

74 James Inhofe
U.S. senator, R-Okla.


70 Gordon Lightfoot
Singer


66 Martin Scorsese
Director


65 Lauren Hutton
Actress


64 Jim Boeheim
College basketball coach


64 Danny DeVito
Actor


64 Tom Seaver
Baseball Hall of Famer


63 Elvin Hayes
Basketball Hall of Famer


63 Roland Joffe
Director


60 Howard Dean
Democratic Party chairman


57 Stephen Root
Actor


51 Jim Babjak
Rock musician (The Smithereens)


50 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Actress


49 William Moses
Actor


48 RuPaul
Entertainer


45 Dylan Walsh
Actor


42 Daisy Fuentes
Actress, model


42 Sophie Marceau
Actress


41 Ronnie DeVoe
R&B singer (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe)


41 Ben Wilson
Rock musician (Blues Traveler)


35 Leslie Bib
Actress


32 Brandon Call
Actor


31 Aaron Lines
Country singer


30 Rachel McAdams
Actress ("The Notebook," "Mean Girls")


30 Reggie Wayne
Football player


28 Isaac Hanson
Rock musician (Hanson)


25 Ryan Braun
Baseball player


20 Justin Cooper
Actor

Historic Birthdays

69 Angelo Bronzino
11/17/1503 - 11/23/1572
Italian painter


91 Joost van den Vondel
11/17/1587 - 2/5/1679
Dutch poet


64 Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye
11/17/1685 - 12/5/1749
French-Canadian soldier, fur trader and explorer


68 Louis XVIII
11/17/1755 - 9/16/1824
French king (1814-24)


71 Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes
11/17/1895 - 12/10/1966
Mexican novelist


84 Isamu Noguchi
11/17/1904 - 12/30/1988
American sculptor


61 Mischa Auer
11/17/1905 - 3/5/1967
American actor


59 Rock Hudson
11/17/1925 - 10/2/1985
American actor

 

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1477 - William Caxton produced "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres," which was the first book to be printed in England.

1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica.

1865 - Samuel L. Clemens published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" under the pen name "Mark Twain" in the New York "Saturday Press."

1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.

1903 - The U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that granted the U.S. rights to build the Panama Canal.

1928 - The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon premiered in New York. It was Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse.

1916 - Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I, calls off the Battle of the Somme in France. The offensive began on July 1, 1916.

1936 - Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.

1942 - "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder opened on Broadway.

1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."

1959 - William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" premiered at Loew's Theater in New York City's Times Square.

1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.

1976 - The parliament of Spain approved a bill that established a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

1978 - In Jonestown, Guyana, Reverend Jim Jones persuaded his followers to commit suicide by drinking a death potion. Some people were shot to death. 914 cult members were left dead including over 200 children.

1985 - Joe Theismann (Washington Redskins) broke his leg after being hit by Lawrence Taylor (New York Giants). The injury ended Theismann's 12 year National Football League (NFL) career.

1987 - The U.S. Congress issued the Iran-Contra Affair report. The report said that President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.

1987 - 31 people died in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station.

1987 - CBS Inc. announced it had agreed to sell its record division to Sony Corp. for about $2 billion.

1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.

1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.

1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities, staff and patients.

1993 - American Airlines flight attendants went on strike. They ended their strike only 4 days later.

1993 - Representatives from 21 South African political parties approved a new constitution.

1994 - Outside a mosque in the Gaza Strip, 15 people were killed and more than 150 wounded when Palestinian police opened fire on rioting worshipers.

1997 - The FBI officially pulled out of the probe into the TWA Flight 800 disaster. They said the explosion that destroyed the Boeing 747 was not caused by a criminal act. 230 people were killed.

1997 - First Union Corp. announced its purchase of CoreStates Financial Corp. for $16.1 billion. To date it was the largest banking deal in U.S. history.

1999 - 12 people were killed and 28 injured when a huge bonfire under construction collapsed at Texas A&M in College Station, TX.

1999 - In Jasper, TX, Shawn Allen Berry was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the racial murder of James Byrd Jr. John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer both received the death penalty earlier in the year for their roles in the crime.

2001 - Nintendo released the GameCube home video game console in the United States.

2002 U.N. arms inspectors returned to Iraq after a four-year hiatus, calling on Saddam Hussein's government to cooperate with their search for weapons of mass destruction.


2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.


2004 Bill Clinton's presidential library opened in Little Rock, Ark.


2004 Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales.


2006 Actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes were married in Italy.

Current Birthdays


David Ortiz turns 33 years old today.

85 Ted Stevens
U.S. senator, R-Alaska


77 Brad Sulllivan
Actor


69 Brenda Vaccaro
Actress


66 Linda Evans
Actress ("Dynasty")


62 Jacky Ward
Country singer


61 Jameson Parker
Actor


60 Andrea Marcovicci
Actress, singer


59 Herman Rarebell
Rock musician (The Scorpions)


58 Graham Parker
Singer


56 Delroy Lindo
Actor


55 Kevin Nealon
Actor, comedian ("Weeds," "Saturday Night Live")


52 Warren Moon
Football Hall of Famer


50 Oscar Nunez
Actor ("The Office")


48 Elizabeth Perkins
Actress ("Weeds")


48 Kim Wilde
Rock singer


46 Kirk Hammett
Rock musician (Metallica)


43 Tim DeLaughter
Rock singer


40 Gary Sheffield
Baseball player


40 Owen Wilson
Actor


39 Duncan Sheik
Rock singer


38 Peta Wilson
Actress


34 Chloe Sevigny
Actress


33 Jason Williams
Basketball player


32 Jessi Alexander
Country singer


32 Steven Pasquale
Actor


29 Fabolous
Rapper


29 Nate Parker
Actor


28 Mike Jones
Rapper

Historic Birthdays


Alan B. Shepard

11/18/1923 - 7/21/1998
American astronaut

39 Carl Maria von Weber
11/18/1786 - 6/5/1826
German composer


63 Louis-Jacques Daguerre
11/18/1787 - 7/10/1851
French inventor of the daguerreotype


74 Sir William Gilbert
11/18/1836 - 5/29/1911
English lyricist for comic operas; collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan


80 Ignacy Paderewski
11/18/1860 - 6/29/1941
Polish pianist and composer


61 Clarence Day
11/18/1874 - 12/28/1935
American writer


90 Jacques Maritain
11/18/1882 - 4/28/1973
French philosopher


87 Gio Ponti
11/18/1891 - 9/15/1979
Italian architect


76 Patrick Blackett
11/18/1897 - 7/13/1974
English physicist


85 Eugene Ormandy
11/18/1899 - 3/12/1985
Hungarian-born American conductor


82 George Gallup
11/18/1901 - 7/26/1984
American statistician and pioneering opinion researcher


90 George Wald
11/18/1906 - 4/13/1997
American chemist


66 Johnny Mercer
11/18/1909 - 6/25/1976
American composer

 

[BlueBalls]

Welcome back :bowdown:

 

[minidog]

1794 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War.

1850 - The first life insurance policy for a woman was issued. Carolyn Ingraham, 36 years old, bought the policy in Madison, NJ.

1863 - U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

1893 - The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.

1895 - The "paper pencil" was patented by Frederick E. Blaisdell.

1919 - The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles with a vote of 55 in favor to 39 against. A two-thirds majority was needed for ratification.

1928 - "Time" magazine presented its cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was the magazine's first cover subject.

1942 - During World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.

1954 - Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.

1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.

1966 - Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers) announced his retirement from major league baseball.

1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.

1970 - Hafiz al-Assad seized power in Syria.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit.

1979 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) signed a four-year contract for $4.5 million. At the time, Ryan was the highest paid player in major league baseball.

1984 - Almost 500 people died in a firestorm after a series of explosions at a Mexico City petroleum storage plant.

1984 - Dwight Gooden, 20-year-old, of the New York Mets, became the youngest major-league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National League. (MLB)

1985 - U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.

1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression.

1993 - The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.

1994 - The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.

1997 - In Carlisle, IA, septuplets were born to Bobbi McCaughey. It was only the second known case where all seven were born alive.

1998 - The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.

1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sold at auction for more than $71 million.

1998 - Michelle Lee received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - In Istanbul, Turkey, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded a two-day summit after adopting a new arms accord. During the conference, Russia was criticized for its military campaign against Chechnya's separatist movement.

2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.

2002 - The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13th and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.

2002 - The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.

2003 - Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.

2004 Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with fans during an NBA game in Detroit. (Artest was suspended for the rest of the season and Jackson for 30 games. A fan was sentenced to 30 days in jail for assaulting Artest.)


2006 British authorities said they were investigating the apparent poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who had been critical of the Russian government. (Litvinenko died in London four days later of polonium poisoning.)

Current Birthdays


Ryan Howard turns 29 years old today.

89 Alan Young
Actor ("Mister Ed")


75 Larry King
Talk show host


72 Dick Cavett
Talk show host


70 Ted Turner
Broadcasting and sports mogul


69 Tom Harkin
U.S. senator, D-Iowa


69 Pete Moore
R&B singer (The Miracles)


69 Garrick Utley
Broadcast journalist


67 Dan Haggerty
Actor


67 Tommy Thompson
Former cabinet member, Wisconsin governor


66 Calvin Klein
Fashion designer


59 Ahmad Rashad
Sportscaster


55 Robert Beltran
Actor


54 Kathleen Quinlan
Actress


53 Glynnis O'Connor
Actress


52 Ann Curry
Broadcast journalist ("Today")


48 Allison Janney
Actress ("The West Wing")


48 Matt Sorum
Rock musician


47 Meg Ryan
Actress


46 Jodie Foster
Actress


45 Terry Farrell
Actress


42 Jason Scott Lee
Actor


39 Travis McNabb
Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)


37 Tony Rich
R&B singer


35 Jason Albert
Country singer (Heartland)


35 Billy Currington
Country singer


35 Savion Glover
Dancer, choreographer


33 Chad Jeffers
Country musician


33 Tamika Scott
R&B singer (Xscape)


31 Lil' Mo
R&B singer


29 Larry Johnson
Football player


25 DeAngelo Hall
Football player


Historic Birthdays


Indira Gandhi

11/19/1917 - 10/31/1984
Indian prime minister (1966-77; 1980-4)

48 Charles I
11/19/1600 - 1/30/1649
English king (1625-49)


53 Mikhail Lomonosov
11/19/1711 - 4/15/1765
Russian scientist and poet


89 Ferdinand Lesseps
11/19/1805 - 12/7/1894
French diplomat


49 James Garfield
11/19/1831 - 9/19/1881
20th president of the United States (1881)


52 Richard Avenarius
11/19/1843 - 11/18/1896
German philosopher


72 Billy Sunday
11/19/1862 - 11/6/1935
American evangelist


79 Allen Tate
11/19/1899 - 2/9/1979
American poet and literary critic


66 Nathan Leopold
11/19/1904 - 8/29/1971
American murderer


51 Tommy Dorsey
11/19/1905 - 11/26/1956
American band leader


71 Roy Campanella
11/19/1921 - 6/26/1993
American baseball player

 

[minidog]

1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay. White was the first child to be born of English parents in present-day New England.

1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.

1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.

1889 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born. Hubble discovered and developed the concept of an expanding universe. In 1924 he proved the existence of galaxies other than our own.

1901 - The second Hay-Pauncefoot Treaty provided for construction of the Panama Canal by the U.S.

1910 - Francisco I. Madero led a revolution that broke out in Mexico.

1925 - Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Brookline, MA.

1929 - The radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs," later known as "The Goldbergs," made its debut on the NBC Blue Network.

1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.

1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.

1959 - Britain, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden met to create the European Free Trade Association.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.

1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.

1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.

1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase out of the substance.

1970 - The majority in U.N. General Assembly voted to give China a seat, but two-thirds majority required for admission was not met.

1975 - After nearly 40 years of absolute rule Spain's General Francisco Franco died.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.

1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.

1986 - Dr. Halfdan Maher, the director of the World Health Organization, announced the first coordinated global effort to fight the disease AIDS.

1987 - Police investigating the fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station, said that arson was unlikely to be the cause of the event that took 31 lives.

1988 - Egypt and China announced that they would recognize the Palestinian state proclaimed by the Palestine National Council.

1989 - Over 200,000 people rallied peacefully in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding democratic reforms.

1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.

1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, FL, after completing a secret military mission.

1992 - A fire seriously damaged the northwest side of Windsor Castle in England.

1993 - The U.S. Senate passed the Brady Bill and legislation implementing NAFTA.

1994 - The Angolan government and rebels signed a treaty in Zambia to end 19 years of war.

1995 - Princess Diana admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles in an interview that was broadcast on BBC Television.

1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

1998 - Forty-six states agreed to a $206 billion settlement of health claims against the tobacco industry. The industry also agreed to give up billboard advertising of cigarettes.

2001 - The U.S. Justice Department headquarters building was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy building by President George W. Bush. The event was held on what would have been Kennedy's 76th birthday.

2003 Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.)


Current Birthdays


Joe Biden turns 66 years old today.

91 Robert Byrd
U.S. senator, D-W.Va.


85 Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize-winning author


83 Kaye Ballard
Actress


81 Estelle Parsons
Actress


76 Richard Dawson
Actor, game show host ("Hogan's Heroes," "Family Feud")


70 Dick Smothers
Comedian (The Smothers Brothers)


66 Norman Greenbaum
Singer


65 Veronica Hamel
Actress ("Hill Street Blues")


62 Judy Woodruff
Broadcast journalist (PBS, CNN)


62 Samuel E. Wright
Actor


61 Joe Walsh
Rock singer (The Eagles)


60 Richard Masur
Actor ("One Day at a Time")


52 Bo Derek
Actress ("10")


51 Jim Brown
Reggae musician (UB40)


49 Sean Young
Actress


47 Jim Brickman
Pianist


46 Todd Nance
Rock musician (Widespread Panic)


45 Ming-Na
Actress


43 Mike D
Rapper (The Beastie Boys)


43 Sen Dog
Rapper (Cypress Hill)


38 Matt Blunt
Governor of Missouri


39 Callie Thorne
Actress


38 Sabrina Lloyd
Actress ("Sports Night")


34 Marisa Ryan
Actress


33 Joshua Gomez
Actor ("Chuck")


33 Dierks Bentley
Country singer


32 Laura Harris
Actress


31 Josh Turner
Country singer


30 Nadine Velazquez
Actress ("My Name is Earl")


19 Cody Linley
Actor ("Hannah Montana'' ''Dancing with the Stars")

Historic Birthdays


Robert F. Kennedy
11/20/1925 - 6/6/1968
American politician; U.S. attorney general (1961-4), U.S. senator from New York (1964-8 ), presidential candidate (1968)


64 St.Edmund of Abington
11/20/1175 - 11/16/1240
English archbishop


83 Otto von Guericke
11/20/1602 - 5/11/1686
German physicist


71 Oliver Wolcott
11/20/1726 - 12/1/1797
American public official


81 Selma Lagerlof
11/20/1858 - 3/16/1940
Swedish writer


78 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
11/20/1866 - 11/25/1944
American federal judge and baseball commissioner (1920-44)


70 Patrick Hayes
11/20/1867 - 9/4/1938
American archbishop of New York (1919-39)


83 James M. Curley
11/20/1874 - 11/12/1958
American politician; mayor of Boston (1914-8, 1922-6, 1930-4, 1947-50) and governor of Massachusetts (1935-7)


84 Norman Thomas
11/20/1884 - 12/19/1968
American social reformer; frequent Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president


74 Albert Kesselring
11/20/1885 - 7/16/1960
German field marshal during World War II


63 Edwin Powell Hubble
11/20/1889 - 9/28/1953
American astronomer


84 Chester Gould
11/20/1900 - 5/11/1985
Americn cartoonist


93 Alexandra Danilova
11/20/1903 - 7/13/1997
Russian ballerina


68 Emilio Pucci
11/20/1914 - 11/29/1982
Italian fashion designer

 

[minidog]

1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.

1694 - French author and philosopher Jean Francois Voltaire was born. At age 65 he spent only three days writing "Candide."

1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris.

1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1871 - M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter.

1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.

1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.

1929 - Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit.

1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.

1942 - The Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.

1953 - British Natural History Museum authorities announced that "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.

1962 - U.S. President Kennedy terminated the quaratine measures against Cuba.

1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.

1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.

1979 - The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked by a mob that set the building afire and killed two Americans.

1980 - An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out "who shot J.R." on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun.

1980 - 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, NV.

1982 - The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day player's strike.

1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He was later sentenced to life in prison.

1987 - An eight-day siege began at a detention center in Oakdale, LA, as Cuban detainees seized the facility and took hostages.

1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.

1992 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years.

1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state.

1994 - NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian "safe area" of Bihac.

1995 - France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific.

1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000-mark (5,023.55) for the first time.

1999 - China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight.

2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going.

2001 - Microsoft Corp. proposed giving $1 billion in computers, software, training and cash to more than 12,500 of the poorest schools in the U.S. The offer was intended as part of a deal to settle most of the company's private antitrust lawsuits.

2002 - NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

Current Birthdays


Dr. John turns 68 years old today.

88 Stan Musial
Baseball Hall of Famer


81 Joseph Campanella
Actor


75 Jean Shepard
Country singer


74 Laurence Luckinbill
Actor


71 Marlo Thomas
Actress ("That Girl")


69 Rick Lenz
Actor


68 Natalia Makarova
Ballet dancer


67 Juliet Mills
Actress


65 Phil Bredesen
Governor of Tennessee


64 Marcy Carsey
TV producer


64 Richard Durbin
U.S. senator, D-Ill.


64 Earl Monroe
Basketball Hall of Famer


64 Harold Ramis
Writer, actor


63 Goldie Hawn
Actress


62 Andrew Davis
Director


60 Lonnie Jordan
Rock musician (War)


58 Livingston Taylor
Singer


56 Lorna Luft
Actress


52 Cherry Jones
Actress


48 Brian Ritchie
Rock musician (Violent Femmes)


46 Steven Curtis Chapman
Gospel singer


45 Nicollette Sheridan
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")


43 Bjork
Rock singer, actress


42 Troy Aikman
Football Hall of Famer, sportscaster


40 Chauncey Hannibal
R&B singer (BLACKstreet)


40 Alex James
Rock musician (Blur)


39 Ken Griffey Jr.
Baseball player


37 Pretty Lou
Rapper (Lost Boyz)


37 Michael Strahan
Football player, sportscaster


34 Kelsi Osborn
Country singer (SHeDAISY)


24 Jena Malone
Actress

Historic Birthdays


Coleman Hawkins
11/21/1904 - 5/19/1969
American jazz musician


83 Francois Voltaire
11/21/1694 - 5/30/1778
French writer


67 William Beaumont
11/21/1785 - 4/25/1853
American army surgeon


77 Sir Samuel Cunard
11/21/1787 - 4/28/1865
British shipbuilder


80 Hetty Green
11/21/1834 - 7/3/1916
American financier


81 Sir Harold Nicolson
11/21/1886 - 5/1/1968
English author and diplomat


68 Rene Magritte
11/21/1898 - 8/15/1967
Belgian painter


69 Eleanor Powell
11/21/1912 - 2/11/1982
American dancer


81 Sid Luckman
11/21/1916 - 7/5/1998
American football coach

 

[Dawn]

1980 - An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out "who shot J.R." on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun.

I remember that :1orglaugh

My mother was one of the 83 million viewers!

 

[pastyphil]

Thank you BlueBalls & minidog for the time and effort spent on this thread. I enjoy reading it and boring my workmates with some of the info.

 

[minidog]

1699 - A treaty was signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for the partitioning of the Swedish Empire.

1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.

1880 - Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut in New York City.

1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated in New Jersey.

1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal.

1909 - Helen Hayes appeared on stage for the first time. She was a member of the cast of "In Old Dutch."

1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.

1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.

1928 - In Paris, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed publicly.

1935 - The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, CA, when the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila. The craft was carrying over 110,000 pieces of mail.

1942 - During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad began.

1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the measures for defeating Japan.

1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.

1961 - The film, "A Man for All Seasons", opened in New York City.

1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.

1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved resolution 242. The resolution called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967 and called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.

1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon lifted a ban on American travel to Cuba. The ban had been put in place on February 8, 1963.

1974 - The U.N. General Assembly gave the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

1975 - Juan Carlos I was proclaimed King of Spain upon the death of Gen. Francisco Franco.

1975 - "Dr. Zhivago" appeared on TV for the first time. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.

1977 - Regular passenger service on the Concorde began between New York and Europe.

1983 - The Bundestag approved NATO's plan to deploy new U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany.

1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" presented a sweater to the Smithsonian Institution.

1985 - Anne Henderson-Pollard was taken into custody a day after her husband Jonathon Jay Pollard was arrested for spying for Israel.

1985 - 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States. It was the largest swearing-in ceremony.

1986 - An Iranian surface-to-surface missile hit a residential area in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, wounding 20 civilians.

1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.

1988 - The South African government announced it had joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.

1989 - Rene Moawad, the president of Lebanon, was assassinated less than three weeks after taking office by a bomb that exploded next to his motorcade in West Beirut.

1990 - U.S. President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.

1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign.

1993 - Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement.

1993 - American Airlines flight attendants ended their strike that only lasted four days.

1994 - Inside the District of Columbia's police headquarters a gunman opened fire. Two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman were killed in the gun battle.

1994 - In northwest Bosnia, Serb fighters set villages on fire in response to a retaliatory air strikes by NATO.

1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.

2005 - Angela Merkel was elected as Germany's first female chancellor.

2005 - Microsoft's XBOX 360 went on sale.

Current Birthdays


Scarlett Johansson turns 24 years old today

90 Claiborne Pell
Former U.S. senator, D-R.I.


85 Arthur Hiller
Director


76 Robert Vaughn
Actor


73 Michael Callan
Actor


69 Allen Garfield
Actor


68 Terry Gilliam
Director, animator (Monty Python)


67 Tom Conti
Actor


67 Jesse Colin Young
Rock singer


66 Guion S. Bluford
Astronaut


65 Billie Jean King
Tennis Hall of Famer


58 Steve Van Zandt
Rock musician, actor (E Street Band, "The Sopranos")


58 Tina Weymouth
Rock musician (Talking Heads)


52 Richard Kind
Actor ("Spin City," "Mad About You")


50 Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress


50 Jason Ringenberg
Rock singer (Jason & the Scorchers)


47 Mariel Hemingway
Actress


44 Stephen Geoffreys
Actor


42 Charlie Colin
Rock musician


42 Nicholas Rowe
Actor


41 Boris Becker
Tennis Hall of Famer


41 Mark Ruffalo
Actor


34 Joe Nathan
Baseball player


25 Tyler Hilton
Actor, singer


Historic Birthdays


Charles de Gaulle
11/22/1890 - 11/9/1970
French World War II resistance leader and president (1958-69)


42 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
11/22/1428 - 4/14/1471
English nobleman; powerful during Wars of the Roses


43 Rene-Robert La Salle
11/22/1643 - 3/19/1687
French explorer of North America


73 Abigail Adams
11/22/1744 - 10/28/1818
American first lady (1797-1801)


61 George Eliot
11/22/1819 - 12/22/1880
British novelist


81 Justin M'Carthy
11/22/1830 - 4/24/1912
Irish politician and historian


98 John Nance Garner
11/22/1868 - 11/7/1967
American politician; U.S. vice president (1933-41)


81 Andre Gide
11/22/1869 - 2/19/1951
French writer


35 Wiley Post
11/22/1898 - 8/15/1935
American aviator; made first solo flight around the world


82 Hoagy Carmichael
11/22/1899 - 12/27/1981
American composer


69 Joe Adonis
11/22/1902 - 11/26/1971
American crime boss


63 Benjamin Britten
11/22/1913 - 12/4/1976
British composer


62 Geraldine Page
11/22/1924 - 6/13/1987
American actress

 

[Fresno]

Thank ever so much for your hard work on this thread minidog!

 

[minidog]

1765 - Frederick County, MD, repudiated the British Stamp Act.

1835 - Henry Burden patented the horseshoe manufacturing machine.

1889 - The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.

1890 - Princess Wilhelmina became Queen of the Netherlands at the age of 10 when her father William III died.

1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.

1943 - During World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin from the Japanese during the Central Pacific offensive in the Gilbert Islands.

1945 - The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.

1948 - Dr. Frank G. Back patented the "Zoomar" lens.

1961 - The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.

1971 - The People's Republic of China was seated in the United Nations Security Council.

1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Earl Mountbatten.

1980 - In southern Italy, approximately 4,800 people were killed in a series of earthquakes.

1985 - Larry Wu-tai Chin, a retired CIA analyst, was arrested and accused of spying for China. He committed suicide a year after his conviction.

1985 - Gunmen hijacked an Egyptian jetliner en route from Athens to Cairo. The plane was forced to land in Malta.

1986 - In Manila, President Aquino dismissed Defense Minister Enrile.

1988 - Wayne Gretzky scored his 600th National Hockey League (NHL) goal.

1989 - Lucia Barrera de Cerna, a housekeeper who claimed she had witnessed the slaying of six Jesuit priests and two other people at the Jose Simeon Canas University in El Salvador, was flown to the U.S.

1991 - Yugoslavia's rival leaders agreed to a new cease-fire, the 14th of the Balkan civil war.

1991 - The Sacramento Kings ended the NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games.

1992 - The play "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opened.

1994 - About 111 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western city of Nagpur.

1995 - Charles Rathbun, free-lance photographer, was booked in Hermosa Beach, CA, for investigation of murder in the disappearance of model Linda Sobek. He was later convicted.

1998 - Dennis Rodman filed for an annulment from Carmen Electra. The two had been married on November 14, 1998.

1998 - The tobacco industry signed the biggest U.S. civil settlement. It was a $206-billion deal to resolve remaining state claims for treating sick smokers.

1998 - A U.S. federal judge rejected a Virginia county's effort to block pornography on library computer calling the attempt unconstitutional.

2001 - A crowd of 87,555 people watched the Texas Longhorns beat the Texas A&M Aggies 21-7. The crowd was the largest to see a football game in Texas.

 

[Skyraider22]

Hey that is great to know I'm intrested in history:glugglug::thumbsup:

 

[minidog]

1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.

1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.

1863 - During the Civil War, the battle for Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee.

1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S.

1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.

1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.

1944 - During World War II, the first raid against the Japanese capital of Tokyo was made by land-based U.S. bombers.

1947 - The "Hollywood 10," were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in their industry.

1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was published for the first time.

1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.

1969 - Apollo 12 landed safely in the Pacific Ocean bringing an end to the second manned mission to the moon.

1971 - Hijacker Dan Cooper, known as D.B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom.

1983 - The Palestine Liberation Organization released six Israeli prisoners in exchange for the release of 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese held by the Israelis.

1985 - In Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed an Egyptian jetliner. 60 people died in the raid.

1987 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap short- and medium-range missiles. It was the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.

1989 - Czechoslovakia's hard-line party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies.

1992 - In China, a domestic jetliner crashed, killing 141 people.

1993 - The U.S. Congress gave its final approval to the Brady handgun control bill.

1993 - Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (both 11 years old) were convicted of murdering 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. They were both sentenced to "indefinite detention."

1995 - In Ireland, the voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing divorce.

1996 - Rusty Wallace won the first NASCAR event to be held in Japan.

1996 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) set an NFL record when he recorded his eighth straight 1,000-yard season.

1998 - AOL (America Online) announced a deal for their purchase of Netscape for $4.21 billion

Current Birthdays


Katherine Heigl turns 30 years old today.

73 Ron Dellums
Former U.S. Rep., D-Calif.


70 Oscar Robertson
Bsaketball Hall of Famer


68 Johnny Carver
Country singer


67 Pete Best
Rock musician


67 Donald "Duck" Dunn
Rock musician (Booker T. and the MG's)


66 Billy Connolly
Actor, comedian


66 Marlin Fitzwater
Former White House press secretary


64 Dan Glickman
President of the Motion Picture Association of America


63 Lee Michaels
Rock singer


61 Dwight Schultz
Actor


58 Stanley Livingston
Actor ("My Three Sons")


53 Clem Burke
Rock musician (Blondie)


52 Terry Lewis
Record producer


52 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Actor


51 Denise Crosby
Actress


46 Shae D'Lyn
Actress


46 John Squire
Rock musician (The Stone Roses)


46 Gary Stonadge
Rock musician (Big Audio)


44 Garret Dillahunt
Actor


38 Chad Taylor
Rock musician (Live)


37 Lola Glaudini
Actress


31 Colin Hanks
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Dale Carnegie

11/24/1888 - 11/1/1955
American author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People


44 Benedict Spinoza
11/24/1632 - 2/21/1677
Dutch philosopher


54 Laurence Sterne
11/24/1713 - 3/18/1768
Irish-born English novelist


70 Junipero Serra
11/24/1713 - 8/28/1784
Spanish missionary


65 Zachary Taylor
11/24/1784 - 7/9/1850
12th president of the United States (1849-50)


74 Cass Gilbert
11/24/1859 - 5/17/1934
American architect; designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building


36 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
11/24/1864 - 9/9/1901
French artist


48 Scott Joplin
11/24/1868 - 4/1/1917
American ragtime composer


78 Alben Barkley
11/24/1877 - 4/30/1956
American vice president under President Harry S. Truman


78 Itzhak Ben-Zvi
11/24/1884 - 4/23/1963
Second president of Israel (1952-63)


86 Margaret Anderson
11/24/1886 - 10/18/1973
American founder and editor of The Little Review magazine