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Today In History
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1715 - Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1758 - During the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne at what is now known as Pittsburgh.
1783 - During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S.
1837 - William Crompton patented the silk power loom.
1850 - Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1882 - The first of 400 performances of "lolnathe" took place.
1884 - J.B. Meyenberg received the patent for evaporated milk.
1920 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
1936 - The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement between Japan and Germany, was signed.
1947 - Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1952 - Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opened in London.
1955 - In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke.
1970 - Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide after giving a speech attacking Japan's post-war constitution.
1973 - Greek President George Papadapoulos was ousted in military coup.
1976 - O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions.
1983 - Mediators from Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli, Lebanon.
1985 - Ronald W. Pelton was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was a former employee of the National Security Agency. He was later convicted of 'selling secrets' to Soviet agents.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan and Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to rebels in Nicaragua.
1990 - Poland held its first popular presidential election.
1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
1993 - Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when a bomb was detonated by Islamic militants near his motorcade.
1995 - Serbs protested in the streets of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo The protest was against a peace plan.
1998 - Britain's highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule.
1998 - President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II.
1998 - The IMF (International Monetary Fund) approved a $5.5 billion bailout for Pakistan.
Current Birthdays
Christina Applegate turns 37 years old today.
88 Ricardo Montalban
Actor ("Fantasy Island")
88 Noel Neill
Actress
75 Kathryn Crosby
Actress
72 Matt Clark
Actor
68 Joe Gibbs
Hall of Fame football coach
68 Percy Sledge
R&B singer
64 Bob Lind
Singer
64 Ben Stein
Actor, game show host
61 Jonathan Kaplan
Director
61 John Larroquette
Actor ("Night Court")
56 John Lynch
Governor of New Hampshire
48 Amy Grant
Country-gospel singer
44 Eric Grossman
Rock musician (K's Choice)
44 Mark Lanegan
Rock singer
43 Tim Armstrong
Rock musician (Rancid)
42 Stacy Lattisaw
R&B singer
42 Rodney Sheppard
Rock musician (Sugar Ray)
40 Erick Sermon
Rapper, producer
39 Jill Hennessy
Actress ("Crossing Jordan," "Law and Order")
35 Eddie Steeples
Actor
32 Donovan McNabb
Football player
27 Barbara Bush
Daughter of President George W. Bush
27 Jenna Bush
Daughter of President George W. Bush
Historic Birthdays
Andrew Carnegie
11/25/1835 - 8/11/1919
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
72 Lope de Vega
11/25/1562 - 8/27/1635
Spanish dramatist
59 Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
11/25/1609 - 9/10/1669
French wife of King Charles I of England
94 John Bigelow
11/25/1817 - 12/19/1911
American diplomat, author and editor of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography
64 Carry Nation
11/25/1846 - 6/9/1911
American temperance advocate
35 Joe Gans
11/25/1874 - 8/10/1910
American boxer
81 John XXIII
11/25/1881 - 6/3/1963
Italian pope (1958-63)
76 Joseph Krutch
11/25/1893 - 5/22/1970
American naturalist and author
92 Virgil Thomson
11/25/1896 - 9/30/1989
American composer, conducter and music critic
80 Lewis Thomas
11/25/1913 - 12/3/1993
American physician and essayist
84 Joe DiMaggio
11/25/1914 - 3/8/1999
American baseball player
1758 - During the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne at what is now known as Pittsburgh.
1783 - During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S.
1837 - William Crompton patented the silk power loom.
1850 - Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1882 - The first of 400 performances of "lolnathe" took place.
1884 - J.B. Meyenberg received the patent for evaporated milk.
1920 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
1936 - The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement between Japan and Germany, was signed.
1947 - Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1952 - Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opened in London.
1955 - In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke.
1970 - Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide after giving a speech attacking Japan's post-war constitution.
1973 - Greek President George Papadapoulos was ousted in military coup.
1976 - O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions.
1983 - Mediators from Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli, Lebanon.
1985 - Ronald W. Pelton was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was a former employee of the National Security Agency. He was later convicted of 'selling secrets' to Soviet agents.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan and Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to rebels in Nicaragua.
1990 - Poland held its first popular presidential election.
1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
1993 - Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when a bomb was detonated by Islamic militants near his motorcade.
1995 - Serbs protested in the streets of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo The protest was against a peace plan.
1998 - Britain's highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule.
1998 - President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II.
1998 - The IMF (International Monetary Fund) approved a $5.5 billion bailout for Pakistan.
Current Birthdays
Christina Applegate turns 37 years old today.
88 Ricardo Montalban
Actor ("Fantasy Island")
88 Noel Neill
Actress
75 Kathryn Crosby
Actress
72 Matt Clark
Actor
68 Joe Gibbs
Hall of Fame football coach
68 Percy Sledge
R&B singer
64 Bob Lind
Singer
64 Ben Stein
Actor, game show host
61 Jonathan Kaplan
Director
61 John Larroquette
Actor ("Night Court")
56 John Lynch
Governor of New Hampshire
48 Amy Grant
Country-gospel singer
44 Eric Grossman
Rock musician (K's Choice)
44 Mark Lanegan
Rock singer
43 Tim Armstrong
Rock musician (Rancid)
42 Stacy Lattisaw
R&B singer
42 Rodney Sheppard
Rock musician (Sugar Ray)
40 Erick Sermon
Rapper, producer
39 Jill Hennessy
Actress ("Crossing Jordan," "Law and Order")
35 Eddie Steeples
Actor
32 Donovan McNabb
Football player
27 Barbara Bush
Daughter of President George W. Bush
27 Jenna Bush
Daughter of President George W. Bush
Historic Birthdays
Andrew Carnegie
11/25/1835 - 8/11/1919
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
72 Lope de Vega
11/25/1562 - 8/27/1635
Spanish dramatist
59 Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
11/25/1609 - 9/10/1669
French wife of King Charles I of England
94 John Bigelow
11/25/1817 - 12/19/1911
American diplomat, author and editor of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography
64 Carry Nation
11/25/1846 - 6/9/1911
American temperance advocate
35 Joe Gans
11/25/1874 - 8/10/1910
American boxer
81 John XXIII
11/25/1881 - 6/3/1963
Italian pope (1958-63)
76 Joseph Krutch
11/25/1893 - 5/22/1970
American naturalist and author
92 Virgil Thomson
11/25/1896 - 9/30/1989
American composer, conducter and music critic
80 Lewis Thomas
11/25/1913 - 12/3/1993
American physician and essayist
84 Joe DiMaggio
11/25/1914 - 3/8/1999
American baseball player
That would be more of a "Trivia Today" thread entry, not really "Today in History". :hatsoff:
1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.
1731 - English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task."
1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City.
1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.
1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1.
1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
1943 - The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.
1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.
1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
1958 - Maurice Richard (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 600th NHL career goal.
1965 - France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A.
1973 - Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon's personal secretary.
1975 - Lynette"Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.
1979 - The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.
1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men have been convicted in the heist.
1985 - The rights to Ronald Reagan's autobiography were acquired by Random House for $3,000,000.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.
1988 - The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.
1990 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.
1995 - Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.
1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
1998 - British Prime Minister Toney Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.
1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.
2003 - The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.
Current Birthdays
Natasha Bedingfield turns 27 years old today.
90 Ellen Albertini Dow
Actress
70 Samuel Bodman
Secretary of energy
70 Porter Goss
Former CIA director
70 Rich Little
Comedian
69 Tina Turner
Rock singer
63 John McVie
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
62 Art Shell
Football Hall of Famer
55 Harry Carson
Football Hall of Famer
49 Jamie Rose
Actress
46 Linda Davis
Country singer
43 Bernard Allison
Blues musician
43 Steve Grisaffe
Country musician
35 Kristin Bauer
Actress
35 Peter Facinelli
Actor
32 Maia Campbell
Actress
32 Joe Nichols
Country singer
28 Jessica Bowman
Actress
23 Lil Fizz
R&B singer
21 Aubrey Collins
Country singer
Historic Birthdays
Charles Schulz
11/26/1922 - 2/12/2000
American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip
68 William Cowper
11/26/1731 - 4/25/1800
English poet
81 Sarah Grimke
11/26/1792 - 12/23/1873
American abolitionist and early feminist
96 Katharine Drexel
11/26/1858 - 3/3/1955
American founder of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
73 Willis H. Carrier
11/26/1876 - 10/7/1950
American inventor and industrialist
84 Heinrich Bruning
11/26/1885 - 3/30/1970
German statesman, chancellor and foreign minister
69 Norbert Wiener
11/26/1894 - 3/18/1964
American mathematician
36 Bruno Hauptmann
11/26/1899 - 4/3/1936
Kidnapper of the son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
84 Eugene Ionesco
11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994
Romanian-born French dramatist
79 Eric Sevareid
11/26/1912 - 7/9/1992
American journalist
1731 - English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task."
1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City.
1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.
1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1.
1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
1943 - The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.
1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.
1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
1958 - Maurice Richard (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 600th NHL career goal.
1965 - France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A.
1973 - Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon's personal secretary.
1975 - Lynette"Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.
1979 - The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.
1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men have been convicted in the heist.
1985 - The rights to Ronald Reagan's autobiography were acquired by Random House for $3,000,000.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.
1988 - The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.
1990 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.
1995 - Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.
1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
1998 - British Prime Minister Toney Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.
1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.
2003 - The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.
Current Birthdays
Natasha Bedingfield turns 27 years old today.
90 Ellen Albertini Dow
Actress
70 Samuel Bodman
Secretary of energy
70 Porter Goss
Former CIA director
70 Rich Little
Comedian
69 Tina Turner
Rock singer
63 John McVie
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
62 Art Shell
Football Hall of Famer
55 Harry Carson
Football Hall of Famer
49 Jamie Rose
Actress
46 Linda Davis
Country singer
43 Bernard Allison
Blues musician
43 Steve Grisaffe
Country musician
35 Kristin Bauer
Actress
35 Peter Facinelli
Actor
32 Maia Campbell
Actress
32 Joe Nichols
Country singer
28 Jessica Bowman
Actress
23 Lil Fizz
R&B singer
21 Aubrey Collins
Country singer
Historic Birthdays
Charles Schulz
11/26/1922 - 2/12/2000
American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip
68 William Cowper
11/26/1731 - 4/25/1800
English poet
81 Sarah Grimke
11/26/1792 - 12/23/1873
American abolitionist and early feminist
96 Katharine Drexel
11/26/1858 - 3/3/1955
American founder of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
73 Willis H. Carrier
11/26/1876 - 10/7/1950
American inventor and industrialist
84 Heinrich Bruning
11/26/1885 - 3/30/1970
German statesman, chancellor and foreign minister
69 Norbert Wiener
11/26/1894 - 3/18/1964
American mathematician
36 Bruno Hauptmann
11/26/1899 - 4/3/1936
Kidnapper of the son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
84 Eugene Ionesco
11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994
Romanian-born French dramatist
79 Eric Sevareid
11/26/1912 - 7/9/1992
American journalist
1684 - Japan's shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa was born.
1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer.
1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.
1839 - The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.
1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City.
1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.
1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
1939 - The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York.
1951 - Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida.
1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.
1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.
1983 - 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas airport in Madrid.
1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
1987 - French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.
1991 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.
1992 - In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.
Current Birthdays
Jimmy Rollins turns 30 years old today.
60 James Avery
Actor
53 Bill Nye
TV personality
52 William Fichtner
Actor
51 Caroline Kennedy
Daughter of President John F. Kennedy
50 Mike Scioscia
Baseball manager
49 Charlie Burchill
Rock musician (Simple Minds)
48 Tim Pawlenty
Governor of Minnesota
46 Charlie Benante
Rock musician (Anthrax)
46 Mike Bordin
Rock musician (Faith No More)
45 Fisher Stevens
Actor
44 Robin Givens
Actress
40 Michael Vartan
Actor ("Alias")
38 Skoob
Rapper (DAS EFX)
37 Kirk Acevedo
Actor
36 Twista
Rapper
32 Jaleel White
Actor
23 Alison Pill
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Chaim Weizmann
11/27/1874 - 9/9/1952
Zionist pioneer and first president of Israel
42 Anders Celsius
11/27/1701 - 4/25/1744
Swedish astronomer and inventor of the Celsius thermometer scale
66 Robert Livingston
11/27/1746 - 2/26/1813
American landowner, politician and merchant
83 Fanny Kemble
11/27/1809 - 1/15/1893
English author and actress
73 Charles Beard
11/27/1874 - 9/1/1948
American historian
45 James Agee
11/27/1909 - 5/16/1955
American writer
70 Alexander Dubcek
11/27/1921 - 11/7/1992
Czech communist leader; initiated reforms put down by Soviets in 1968
50 Benigno Aquino Jr.
11/27/1932 - 8/21/1983
Phillipine opposition leader under Pres. Ferdinand Marcos
27 Jimi Hendrix
11/27/1942 - 9/18/1970
American rock guitarist
1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer.
1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.
1839 - The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.
1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City.
1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.
1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
1939 - The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York.
1951 - Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida.
1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.
1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.
1983 - 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas airport in Madrid.
1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
1987 - French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.
1991 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.
1992 - In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.
Current Birthdays
Jimmy Rollins turns 30 years old today.
60 James Avery
Actor
53 Bill Nye
TV personality
52 William Fichtner
Actor
51 Caroline Kennedy
Daughter of President John F. Kennedy
50 Mike Scioscia
Baseball manager
49 Charlie Burchill
Rock musician (Simple Minds)
48 Tim Pawlenty
Governor of Minnesota
46 Charlie Benante
Rock musician (Anthrax)
46 Mike Bordin
Rock musician (Faith No More)
45 Fisher Stevens
Actor
44 Robin Givens
Actress
40 Michael Vartan
Actor ("Alias")
38 Skoob
Rapper (DAS EFX)
37 Kirk Acevedo
Actor
36 Twista
Rapper
32 Jaleel White
Actor
23 Alison Pill
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Chaim Weizmann
11/27/1874 - 9/9/1952
Zionist pioneer and first president of Israel
42 Anders Celsius
11/27/1701 - 4/25/1744
Swedish astronomer and inventor of the Celsius thermometer scale
66 Robert Livingston
11/27/1746 - 2/26/1813
American landowner, politician and merchant
83 Fanny Kemble
11/27/1809 - 1/15/1893
English author and actress
73 Charles Beard
11/27/1874 - 9/1/1948
American historian
45 James Agee
11/27/1909 - 5/16/1955
American writer
70 Alexander Dubcek
11/27/1921 - 11/7/1992
Czech communist leader; initiated reforms put down by Soviets in 1968
50 Benigno Aquino Jr.
11/27/1932 - 8/21/1983
Phillipine opposition leader under Pres. Ferdinand Marcos
27 Jimi Hendrix
11/27/1942 - 9/18/1970
American rock guitarist
1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.
1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married.
1757 - English poet, painter and engraver William Blake was born. Two of his best known works are "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience."
1919 - American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.
1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut on station WSM.
1934 - The U.S. bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.
1942 - 491 people died in a fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove in Boston.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.
1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers due to a strike of photoengravers.
1958 - The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1964 - The U.S. launched the space probe Mariner IV from Cape Kennedy on a course set for Mars.
1977 - Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated. (NBA)
1978 - The Iranian government banned religious marches.
1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10 flying to the South Pole crashed in Antarctica killing all 257 people aboard.
1985 - The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland.
1987 - A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean. All 159 people aboard were killed.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica.
1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.
1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" closed after 48 performances.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
1994 - Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.
Current Birthdays
Jon Stewart turns 46 years old today.
Comedian Jon Stewart ("The Daily Show") turns 46 years old today.
79 Berry Gordy Jr.
Motown Records founder
72 Gary Hart
Former U.S. senator, D-Colo.
68 Bruce Channel
Singer, songwriter
66 Paul Warfield
Football Hall of Famer
65 Randy Newman
Singer, songwriter
62 Joe Dante
Movie director
59 Paul Shaffer
Bandleader ("Late Show With David Letterman")
58 Ed Harris
Actor
56 S. Epatha Merkerson
Actress ("Law and Order")
55 Michael Chertoff
Secretary of homeland security
52 Kristine Arnold
Country singer (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
49 Judd Nelson
Actor
47 Alfonso Cuaron
Director ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban")
46 Matt Cameron
Rock musician
46 Jane Sibbett
Actress
42 Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon
Actress
40 Dawn Robinson
R&B singer
34 apl.de.ap
Hip-hop artist (Black Eyed Peas)
30 Aimee Garcia
Actress ("George Lopez")
29 Chamillionaire
Rapper
24 Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actress
20 Scarlett Pomers
Actress ("Reba")
Historic Birthdays
Nancy Mitford
11/28/1904 - 6/30/1973
English writer of social commentary
54 Jean-Baptiste Lully
11/28/1632 - 3/22/1687
Italian-born French composer
69 William Blake
11/28/1757 - 8/12/1827
English poet and painter
68 William Froude
11/28/1810 - 5/4/1879
English naval architect
74 Friedrich Engels
11/28/1820 - 8/5/1895
German socialist philosopher
82 John Wesley Hyatt
11/28/1837 - 5/10/1920
American inventor
90 Helen Magill White
11/28/1853 - 10/28/1944
American educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D. degree
57 Henry Bacon
11/28/1866 - 2/16/1924
American architect and designer of the Lincoln Memorial
84 David Warfield
11/28/1866 - 6/27/1951
American actor
77 Jose Iturbi
11/28/1895 - 6/28/80
Spanish pianist
45 Alexander Godunov
11/28/1949 - 5/18/1995
Russian ballet dancer
1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married.
1757 - English poet, painter and engraver William Blake was born. Two of his best known works are "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience."
1919 - American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.
1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut on station WSM.
1934 - The U.S. bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.
1942 - 491 people died in a fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove in Boston.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.
1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers due to a strike of photoengravers.
1958 - The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1964 - The U.S. launched the space probe Mariner IV from Cape Kennedy on a course set for Mars.
1977 - Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated. (NBA)
1978 - The Iranian government banned religious marches.
1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10 flying to the South Pole crashed in Antarctica killing all 257 people aboard.
1985 - The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland.
1987 - A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean. All 159 people aboard were killed.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica.
1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.
1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" closed after 48 performances.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
1994 - Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.
Current Birthdays
Jon Stewart turns 46 years old today.
Comedian Jon Stewart ("The Daily Show") turns 46 years old today.
79 Berry Gordy Jr.
Motown Records founder
72 Gary Hart
Former U.S. senator, D-Colo.
68 Bruce Channel
Singer, songwriter
66 Paul Warfield
Football Hall of Famer
65 Randy Newman
Singer, songwriter
62 Joe Dante
Movie director
59 Paul Shaffer
Bandleader ("Late Show With David Letterman")
58 Ed Harris
Actor
56 S. Epatha Merkerson
Actress ("Law and Order")
55 Michael Chertoff
Secretary of homeland security
52 Kristine Arnold
Country singer (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
49 Judd Nelson
Actor
47 Alfonso Cuaron
Director ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban")
46 Matt Cameron
Rock musician
46 Jane Sibbett
Actress
42 Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon
Actress
40 Dawn Robinson
R&B singer
34 apl.de.ap
Hip-hop artist (Black Eyed Peas)
30 Aimee Garcia
Actress ("George Lopez")
29 Chamillionaire
Rapper
24 Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actress
20 Scarlett Pomers
Actress ("Reba")
Historic Birthdays
Nancy Mitford
11/28/1904 - 6/30/1973
English writer of social commentary
54 Jean-Baptiste Lully
11/28/1632 - 3/22/1687
Italian-born French composer
69 William Blake
11/28/1757 - 8/12/1827
English poet and painter
68 William Froude
11/28/1810 - 5/4/1879
English naval architect
74 Friedrich Engels
11/28/1820 - 8/5/1895
German socialist philosopher
82 John Wesley Hyatt
11/28/1837 - 5/10/1920
American inventor
90 Helen Magill White
11/28/1853 - 10/28/1944
American educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D. degree
57 Henry Bacon
11/28/1866 - 2/16/1924
American architect and designer of the Lincoln Memorial
84 David Warfield
11/28/1866 - 6/27/1951
American actor
77 Jose Iturbi
11/28/1895 - 6/28/80
Spanish pianist
45 Alexander Godunov
11/28/1949 - 5/18/1995
Russian ballet dancer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
One of my favorite english poet.
In the Moon is a certain Island near by a mighty continent, which small island seems to have some affinity with England, &, what is more extraordinary, the people are so much alike, & their language as much the same, that you would think you was among your friends. In this Island dwells three Philosophers - Suction the Epicurean, Quid the Cynic, & Sipsop the Pythagorean. I call them by the names of those sects, tho' the sects are not ever mention'd there, as being quite out of date; however, the things still remain, and the vanities are the same.
(from An Island on the Moon)
And an example of his drawings: The Great Red Dragon
1016 - English King Edmund II died.
1700 - 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated an army of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. King Charles XII died on this day.
1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1803 - Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France.
1804 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial accused of political bias. He was later acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born. He wrote "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" under the name Mark Twain.
1838 - Three days after the French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico declared war on France.
1853 - During the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed the Turkish fleet at the battle of Sinope.
1875 - A.J. Ehrichson patented the oat-crushing machine.
1897 - Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.
1936 - London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. The structure had been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.
1939 - The Russo-Finnish War began when 20 divisions of Soviet troops invaded Finland.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking.
1954 - In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds.
1956 - CBS replayed the program "Douglas Edward and the News" three hours after it was received on the West Coast. It was the world's first broadcast via videotape.
1962 - U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1966 - The former British colony of Barbados became independent.
1967 - Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announced their engagement.
1971 - ABC-TV aired "Brian's Song." The movie was about Chicago Bears' Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gale Sayers.
1981 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva that were aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.
1982 - The motion picture "Ghandi" had its world premiere in New Delhi.
1986 - "Time" magazine published an interview with U.S. President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a "national hero."
1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. took over RJR Nabisco Inc. with a bid of $24.53 billion.
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen was killed in a bombing. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility of killing Herrhausen the chairman of West Germany's largest bank.
1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
1993 - Richard Allen Davis was arrested by authorities in California. Davis confessed to abducting and slaying 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
1995 - President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
1998 - The Deutsche Bank AG announced that it would acquire Bankers Trust Corp. for $10.1 billion creating the world's largest financial institution.
2000 - David Spade was assaulted with a stun gun by his longtime personal assistant, David Warren Malloy. Malloy attacked Spade during a burglary of Spade's home in Beverly Hills.
2001 - For the first time in its history, McDonald's teamed up with a retail partner on its Happy Meal promotions. Toys R Us provided plush figures from its Animal Alley.
2001 - In Seattle, WA, Gary Leon Ridgeway was arrested for four of the Green River serial killings. He was pled innocent on December 18, 2001.
2004 - In Stockholm, Sweden, the Carl Larsson painting "Boenskoerd" ("Bean Harvest") was sold at auction for $730,000. The work had been in a private collection for more than a century. The Larsson work "Vid Kattegatt" ("By Kattegatt") sold for $640,000 at the same auction.
Current Birthdays
Don Cheadle turns 44 years old today.
81 Vin Scully
Sportscaster
76 Jacques Chirac
Former president of France
75 John Mayall
Blues singer, musician
73 Diane Ladd
Actress
68 Chuck Mangione
Musician, composer
67 Jody Miller
Country singer
64 Felix Cavaliere
Pop singer, musician (The Rascals)
62 Suzy Chaffee
Skier
59 Garry Shandling
Actor, comedian ("The Larry Sanders Show")
54 Joel Coen
Director ("Fargo")
56 Jeff Fahey
Actor
53 Howie Mandel
Comedian, game show host ("Deal or No Deal")
51 Janet Napolitano
Governor of Arizona
48 Cathy Moriarty
Actress
47 Kim Delaney
Actress ("NYPD Blue")
47 Tom Sizemore
Actor
46 Andrew McCarthy
Actor
43 Neill Barry
Actor, producer
43 Wallis Buchanan
Musician (Jamiroquai)
40 Martin Carr
Rock musician (Boo Radleys)
40 Jonathan Knight
Singer (New Kids on the Block)
39 Mariano Rivera
New York Yankees pitcher
38 Larry Joe Campbell
Actor ("According to Jim")
37 Gena Lee Nolin
Actress
36 Brian Baumgartner
Actor ("The Office")
32 Anna Faris
Actress
32 Julian Ovenden
Actor
29 The Game
Rapper
27 Ringo Garza
Rock musician (Los Lonely Boys)
26 Lucas Black
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
11/29/1832 - 3/6/1888
American writer
70 Pierre-Andre Latreille
11/29/1762 - 2/6/1833
French zoologist
50 Gaetano Donizetti
11/29/1797 - 4/8/1848
Italian opera composer
49 Christian Doppler
11/29/1803 - 3/17/1853
Austrian physicist and discoverer of the Doppler effect
71 Morrison Waite
11/29/1816 - 3/23/1888
Seventh chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-88)
80 Busby Berkeley
11/29/1895 - 3/14/1976
American film director and choreographer
75 William Tubman
11/29/1895 - 7/23/1971
Liberian statesman and president for 27 years
64 C.S. Lewis
11/29/1898 - 11/22/1963
English writer and scholar
87 Mildred Gillars
11/29/1900 - 6/25/1988
American Nazi radio propagandist
85 Marcel Lefebvre
11/29/1905 - 3/25/1991
French Roman Catholic archbishop
63 Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
11/29/1908 - 4/4/1971
American minister and civil-rights leader; congressman from New York (1945-70)
51 Billy Strayhorn
11/29/1915 - 5/31/1967
American pianist and composer
1700 - 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated an army of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. King Charles XII died on this day.
1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1803 - Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France.
1804 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial accused of political bias. He was later acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born. He wrote "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" under the name Mark Twain.
1838 - Three days after the French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico declared war on France.
1853 - During the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed the Turkish fleet at the battle of Sinope.
1875 - A.J. Ehrichson patented the oat-crushing machine.
1897 - Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.
1936 - London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. The structure had been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.
1939 - The Russo-Finnish War began when 20 divisions of Soviet troops invaded Finland.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking.
1954 - In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds.
1956 - CBS replayed the program "Douglas Edward and the News" three hours after it was received on the West Coast. It was the world's first broadcast via videotape.
1962 - U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1966 - The former British colony of Barbados became independent.
1967 - Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announced their engagement.
1971 - ABC-TV aired "Brian's Song." The movie was about Chicago Bears' Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gale Sayers.
1981 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva that were aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.
1982 - The motion picture "Ghandi" had its world premiere in New Delhi.
1986 - "Time" magazine published an interview with U.S. President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a "national hero."
1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. took over RJR Nabisco Inc. with a bid of $24.53 billion.
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen was killed in a bombing. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility of killing Herrhausen the chairman of West Germany's largest bank.
1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
1993 - Richard Allen Davis was arrested by authorities in California. Davis confessed to abducting and slaying 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
1995 - President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
1998 - The Deutsche Bank AG announced that it would acquire Bankers Trust Corp. for $10.1 billion creating the world's largest financial institution.
2000 - David Spade was assaulted with a stun gun by his longtime personal assistant, David Warren Malloy. Malloy attacked Spade during a burglary of Spade's home in Beverly Hills.
2001 - For the first time in its history, McDonald's teamed up with a retail partner on its Happy Meal promotions. Toys R Us provided plush figures from its Animal Alley.
2001 - In Seattle, WA, Gary Leon Ridgeway was arrested for four of the Green River serial killings. He was pled innocent on December 18, 2001.
2004 - In Stockholm, Sweden, the Carl Larsson painting "Boenskoerd" ("Bean Harvest") was sold at auction for $730,000. The work had been in a private collection for more than a century. The Larsson work "Vid Kattegatt" ("By Kattegatt") sold for $640,000 at the same auction.
Current Birthdays
Don Cheadle turns 44 years old today.
81 Vin Scully
Sportscaster
76 Jacques Chirac
Former president of France
75 John Mayall
Blues singer, musician
73 Diane Ladd
Actress
68 Chuck Mangione
Musician, composer
67 Jody Miller
Country singer
64 Felix Cavaliere
Pop singer, musician (The Rascals)
62 Suzy Chaffee
Skier
59 Garry Shandling
Actor, comedian ("The Larry Sanders Show")
54 Joel Coen
Director ("Fargo")
56 Jeff Fahey
Actor
53 Howie Mandel
Comedian, game show host ("Deal or No Deal")
51 Janet Napolitano
Governor of Arizona
48 Cathy Moriarty
Actress
47 Kim Delaney
Actress ("NYPD Blue")
47 Tom Sizemore
Actor
46 Andrew McCarthy
Actor
43 Neill Barry
Actor, producer
43 Wallis Buchanan
Musician (Jamiroquai)
40 Martin Carr
Rock musician (Boo Radleys)
40 Jonathan Knight
Singer (New Kids on the Block)
39 Mariano Rivera
New York Yankees pitcher
38 Larry Joe Campbell
Actor ("According to Jim")
37 Gena Lee Nolin
Actress
36 Brian Baumgartner
Actor ("The Office")
32 Anna Faris
Actress
32 Julian Ovenden
Actor
29 The Game
Rapper
27 Ringo Garza
Rock musician (Los Lonely Boys)
26 Lucas Black
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
11/29/1832 - 3/6/1888
American writer
70 Pierre-Andre Latreille
11/29/1762 - 2/6/1833
French zoologist
50 Gaetano Donizetti
11/29/1797 - 4/8/1848
Italian opera composer
49 Christian Doppler
11/29/1803 - 3/17/1853
Austrian physicist and discoverer of the Doppler effect
71 Morrison Waite
11/29/1816 - 3/23/1888
Seventh chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-88)
80 Busby Berkeley
11/29/1895 - 3/14/1976
American film director and choreographer
75 William Tubman
11/29/1895 - 7/23/1971
Liberian statesman and president for 27 years
64 C.S. Lewis
11/29/1898 - 11/22/1963
English writer and scholar
87 Mildred Gillars
11/29/1900 - 6/25/1988
American Nazi radio propagandist
85 Marcel Lefebvre
11/29/1905 - 3/25/1991
French Roman Catholic archbishop
63 Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
11/29/1908 - 4/4/1971
American minister and civil-rights leader; congressman from New York (1945-70)
51 Billy Strayhorn
11/29/1915 - 5/31/1967
American pianist and composer
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1909 - The Pennsylvania Trust Company, of Carlisle, PA, became the first bank in the in the U.S. to offer a Christmas Club account.
1913 - Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production.
1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh, PA.
1919 - Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.
1925 - The Locarno Pact finalized the treaties between World War I protagonists.
1934 - Sergei M. Kirov, a collaborator of Joseph Stalin, was assassinated at the Leningrad party headquarters.
1941 - In the U.S., the Civil Air Patrol was created. In April 1943 the Civil Air Patrol was placed under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Forces.
1942 - In the U.S., nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect.
1943 - In Teheran, leaders of the United States, the USSR and the United Kingdom met to reaffirm the goal set on October 30, 1943. The previous meeting called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security.
1952 - In Denmark, it was announced that the first successful sex-change operation had been performed.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was arrested marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.
1959 - 12 countries, including the U.S. and USSR, signed a treaty that set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, which would be free from military activity.
1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began.
1969 - The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of Israel and its first prime minister, died at the age of 87.
1981 - 180 people were killed when a chartered Yugoslav DC9 jetliner crashed into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica.
1983 - Rita M. Lavelle, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, was convicted in Washington of perjury and trying to obstruct a congressional inquiry.
1984 - A remote-controlled Boeing 720 jetliner was deliberately crashed into California's Mojave Desert to test an anti-flame fuel additive. The test proved to be disappointing.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan said he would welcome an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair if it were recommended by the Justice Department.
1987 - NASA announced four companies had been given contracts to help build a space station. The companies were Boeing Aerospace, G. E.'s Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas Aeronautics, and Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International.
1989 - Dissidents in the Philippine military launched an unsuccessful coup against Corazon Aquino's government.
1989 - East Germany's Parliament abolished the Communist Party's constitutional guarantee of supremacy.
1990 - Iraq accepted a U.S. offer to talk about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis.
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met under the English Channel.
1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers pledged to release American hostage Joseph Cicippio within 48 hours.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived an impeachment attempt by hard-liners at the opening of the Russian Congress.
1992 - Amy Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
1993 - In Minnesota, 18 people were killed when a Northwest Airline commuter plane crashed.
1994 - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval to the 124-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
1997 - Michael Carneal, 14 years old, fired upon a morning prayer group at Heath High School in West Paducah, KY. Three students were killed and five were wounded. Carneal plead guilty but insane and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for 25 years.
1998 - Exxon announced that it was buying Mobil for $73.7 billion creating the largest company in the world to date.
Current Birthdays
Sarah Silverman turns 38 years old today.
86 Paul Picerni
Actor
85 Stansfield Turner
Former CIA director
74 Billy Paul
R&B singer
73 Woody Allen
Writer, director
69 Lee Trevino
Golfer
69 Dianne Lennon
Singer (The Lennon Sisters)
66 Casey Van Beek
Country musician
65 David Salzman
TV producer
64 Eric Bloom
Rock musician (Blue Oyster Cult)
64 John Densmore
Rock musician (The Doors)
63 Bette Midler
Actress, singer
62 Gilbert O'Sullivan
Singer
57 Treat Williams
Actor
52 Kim Richey
Country singer
50 Charlene Tilton
Actress ("Dallas")
48 Carol Alt
Model, actress
47 Jeremy Northam
Actor
42 Larry Walker
Baseball player
41 Nestor Carbonell
Actor ("Lost")
38 Golden Brooks
Actress
36 Ron Melendez
Actor
33 Sarah Masen
Singer
31 Brad Delson
Rock musician (Linkin Park)
20 Ashley Monique Clark
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Gerard Swope
12/1/1872 - 11/20/1957
American industrialist
74 Etienne-Maurice Falconet
12/1/1716 - 1/24/1791
French sculptor
73 Martin Heinrich Klaproth
12/1/1743 - 1/1/1817
German chemist and discoverer of uranium
88 Marie Tussaud
12/1/1761 - 4/16/1850
French-born museum proprietress
77 Sir Dominic Corrigan
12/1/1802 - 2/1/1880
Irish physician and author
88 Rex Stout
12/1/1886 - 10/27/1975
American author
72 Walter Alston
12/1/1911 - 10/1/1984
American manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team
73 Minoru Yamasaki
12/1/1912 - 2/6/1986
American architect
76 Mary Martin
12/1/1913 - 11/3/1990
American actress
Cyril Ritchard
12/1/ - 12/18/1977
British actor
1909 - The Pennsylvania Trust Company, of Carlisle, PA, became the first bank in the in the U.S. to offer a Christmas Club account.
1913 - Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production.
1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh, PA.
1919 - Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.
1925 - The Locarno Pact finalized the treaties between World War I protagonists.
1934 - Sergei M. Kirov, a collaborator of Joseph Stalin, was assassinated at the Leningrad party headquarters.
1941 - In the U.S., the Civil Air Patrol was created. In April 1943 the Civil Air Patrol was placed under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Forces.
1942 - In the U.S., nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect.
1943 - In Teheran, leaders of the United States, the USSR and the United Kingdom met to reaffirm the goal set on October 30, 1943. The previous meeting called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security.
1952 - In Denmark, it was announced that the first successful sex-change operation had been performed.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was arrested marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.
1959 - 12 countries, including the U.S. and USSR, signed a treaty that set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, which would be free from military activity.
1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began.
1969 - The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of Israel and its first prime minister, died at the age of 87.
1981 - 180 people were killed when a chartered Yugoslav DC9 jetliner crashed into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica.
1983 - Rita M. Lavelle, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, was convicted in Washington of perjury and trying to obstruct a congressional inquiry.
1984 - A remote-controlled Boeing 720 jetliner was deliberately crashed into California's Mojave Desert to test an anti-flame fuel additive. The test proved to be disappointing.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan said he would welcome an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair if it were recommended by the Justice Department.
1987 - NASA announced four companies had been given contracts to help build a space station. The companies were Boeing Aerospace, G. E.'s Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas Aeronautics, and Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International.
1989 - Dissidents in the Philippine military launched an unsuccessful coup against Corazon Aquino's government.
1989 - East Germany's Parliament abolished the Communist Party's constitutional guarantee of supremacy.
1990 - Iraq accepted a U.S. offer to talk about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis.
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met under the English Channel.
1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers pledged to release American hostage Joseph Cicippio within 48 hours.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived an impeachment attempt by hard-liners at the opening of the Russian Congress.
1992 - Amy Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
1993 - In Minnesota, 18 people were killed when a Northwest Airline commuter plane crashed.
1994 - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval to the 124-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
1997 - Michael Carneal, 14 years old, fired upon a morning prayer group at Heath High School in West Paducah, KY. Three students were killed and five were wounded. Carneal plead guilty but insane and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for 25 years.
1998 - Exxon announced that it was buying Mobil for $73.7 billion creating the largest company in the world to date.
Current Birthdays
Sarah Silverman turns 38 years old today.
86 Paul Picerni
Actor
85 Stansfield Turner
Former CIA director
74 Billy Paul
R&B singer
73 Woody Allen
Writer, director
69 Lee Trevino
Golfer
69 Dianne Lennon
Singer (The Lennon Sisters)
66 Casey Van Beek
Country musician
65 David Salzman
TV producer
64 Eric Bloom
Rock musician (Blue Oyster Cult)
64 John Densmore
Rock musician (The Doors)
63 Bette Midler
Actress, singer
62 Gilbert O'Sullivan
Singer
57 Treat Williams
Actor
52 Kim Richey
Country singer
50 Charlene Tilton
Actress ("Dallas")
48 Carol Alt
Model, actress
47 Jeremy Northam
Actor
42 Larry Walker
Baseball player
41 Nestor Carbonell
Actor ("Lost")
38 Golden Brooks
Actress
36 Ron Melendez
Actor
33 Sarah Masen
Singer
31 Brad Delson
Rock musician (Linkin Park)
20 Ashley Monique Clark
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Gerard Swope
12/1/1872 - 11/20/1957
American industrialist
74 Etienne-Maurice Falconet
12/1/1716 - 1/24/1791
French sculptor
73 Martin Heinrich Klaproth
12/1/1743 - 1/1/1817
German chemist and discoverer of uranium
88 Marie Tussaud
12/1/1761 - 4/16/1850
French-born museum proprietress
77 Sir Dominic Corrigan
12/1/1802 - 2/1/1880
Irish physician and author
88 Rex Stout
12/1/1886 - 10/27/1975
American author
72 Walter Alston
12/1/1911 - 10/1/1984
American manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team
73 Minoru Yamasaki
12/1/1912 - 2/6/1986
American architect
76 Mary Martin
12/1/1913 - 11/3/1990
American actress
Cyril Ritchard
12/1/ - 12/18/1977
British actor
1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
1816 - The first savings bank in the U.S., the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business.
1823 - U.S. President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
1859 - John Brown, a militant abolitionist, was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October.
1862 - Circus entrepreneur Charles Ringling was born.
1901 - Gillette patented the first disposable razor.
1917 - During World War I, hostilities were suspended on the eastern front.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model A automobile. It was the successor to the Model T.
1939 - New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at 12:01 a.m.
1942 - A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr. Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.
1943 - "Carmen Jones" opened on Broadway.
1954 - The U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy's controversial investigation of suspected communists in the U.S. government, military and civilian society.
1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.
1969 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people flew from Seattle, WA, to New York City, NY. Most of the passengers were reporters and photographers.
1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency began operating under its first director, William Ruckelshaus.
1980 - The Central Committee of Poland’s Communist Party announced major Politburo changes. The changes were apparently aimed at coping with labor unrest.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Barney Clark. He lived 112 days with the device. The operation was the first of its kind.
1985 - A Philippine civilian court acquitted armed forces chief Gen. Fabian C. Ver of charges related to the 1983 shooting death of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino. 25 other defendants were also acquitted.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.
1989 - V.P. Singh was sworn in as prime minister of India.
1990 - Chancellor Hekmut Kohl's coalition won the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1990 - The Midwest section of the U.S. prepared for a massive earthquake predicted by Iben Browning. Nothing happened.
1991 - American hostage Joseph Cicippio was released by his kidnappers. He had been held captive in Lebanon for over five years.
1992 - Germany's lower house of parliament voted in favor of the Maastricht Treaty on European unity.
1993 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.
1993 - An unemployed man opened fire at an unemployment agency in Oxnard, CA. He killed three workers at the location and a police officer during a chase that ended in Ventura, where the man himself was gunned down.
1993 - The space shuttle Endeavor blasted off on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.
1994 - The U.S. government agreed not to seek a recall of allegedly fire-prone General Motors pickup trucks. Instead a deal was made with GM under which the company would spend more than $51 million on safety and research.
1994 - "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of pandering.
1994 - In Pensacola, FL, Paul Hill was given two life sentences for murdering a doctor and security guard outside an abortion clinic in July 1994.
1995 - NASA launched a U.S.-European observatory on a $1 billion dollar mission intended to study the sun.
1997 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of telephone fund-raising by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. It was concluded that they had not violated election laws.
1997 - Actress Anat Elimelech was killed by her boyfriend David Afuta. Afuta then killed himself.
1998 - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates donated $100 million to help immunize children in developing countries.
1999 - The British government transferred political power over the province of Northern Ireland to a the Northern Ireland Executive.
2001 - Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. The filing came five days after Dynegy walked away from a $8.4 billion buyout. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Current Birthdays
Lucy Liu turns 40 years old today.
94 Bill Erwin
Actor
84 Alexander M. Haig
Former secretary of state
83 Julie Harris
Actress
77 Edwin Meese III
Former attorney general
69 Harry Reid
Senate majority leader, D-Nev.
65 Wayne Allard
U.S. senator, R-Colo.
64 Cathy Lee Crosby
Actress
63 Penelope Spheeris
Director
59 Ron Raines
Actor
58 John Wesley Ryles
Country singer
56 Keith Szarabajka
Actor
54 Dan Butler
Actor
54 Stone Phillips
Broadcast journalist
53 Dennis Christopher
Actor
52 Steven Bauer
Actor
48 Joe Henry
Country singer
48 Rick Savage
Rock musician (Def Leppard)
40 Jimi Haha
Rock singer (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
40 Nate Mendel
Rock musician (Foo Fighters)
40 Rena Sofer
Actress
38 Treach
Rapper (Naughty by Nature)
35 Monica Seles
Tennis player
30 Nelly Furtado
Rock singer
27 Britney Spears
Singer
25 Aaron Rodgers
Football player
Historic Birthdays
Maria Callas
12/2/1923 - 9/16/1977
Greek-American opera singer
46 John Breckinridge
12/2/1760 - 12/14/1806
American politician
57 Rene Waldeck-Rousseau
12/2/1846 - 8/10/1904
French premier
31 Georges Seurat
12/2/1859 - 3/29/1891
French painter
63 Charles Ringling
12/2/1863 - 12/3/1926
American circus owner
72 Ruth Draper
12/2/1884 - 12/30/1956
American entertainer
64 George Richards Minot
12/2/1885 - 2/25/1950
American physician and Nobel Prize winner
70 Sir John Barbirolli
12/2/1899 - 7/29/1970
English conductor and cellist
71 Peter Carl Goldmark
12/2/1906 - 12/7/1977
Hungarian-American engineer; developed the first commercial color television
50 Gianni Versace
12/2/1946 - 7/15/1997
Italian-American fashion designer
1816 - The first savings bank in the U.S., the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business.
1823 - U.S. President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
1859 - John Brown, a militant abolitionist, was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October.
1862 - Circus entrepreneur Charles Ringling was born.
1901 - Gillette patented the first disposable razor.
1917 - During World War I, hostilities were suspended on the eastern front.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model A automobile. It was the successor to the Model T.
1939 - New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at 12:01 a.m.
1942 - A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr. Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.
1943 - "Carmen Jones" opened on Broadway.
1954 - The U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy's controversial investigation of suspected communists in the U.S. government, military and civilian society.
1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.
1969 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people flew from Seattle, WA, to New York City, NY. Most of the passengers were reporters and photographers.
1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency began operating under its first director, William Ruckelshaus.
1980 - The Central Committee of Poland’s Communist Party announced major Politburo changes. The changes were apparently aimed at coping with labor unrest.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Barney Clark. He lived 112 days with the device. The operation was the first of its kind.
1985 - A Philippine civilian court acquitted armed forces chief Gen. Fabian C. Ver of charges related to the 1983 shooting death of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino. 25 other defendants were also acquitted.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.
1989 - V.P. Singh was sworn in as prime minister of India.
1990 - Chancellor Hekmut Kohl's coalition won the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1990 - The Midwest section of the U.S. prepared for a massive earthquake predicted by Iben Browning. Nothing happened.
1991 - American hostage Joseph Cicippio was released by his kidnappers. He had been held captive in Lebanon for over five years.
1992 - Germany's lower house of parliament voted in favor of the Maastricht Treaty on European unity.
1993 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.
1993 - An unemployed man opened fire at an unemployment agency in Oxnard, CA. He killed three workers at the location and a police officer during a chase that ended in Ventura, where the man himself was gunned down.
1993 - The space shuttle Endeavor blasted off on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.
1994 - The U.S. government agreed not to seek a recall of allegedly fire-prone General Motors pickup trucks. Instead a deal was made with GM under which the company would spend more than $51 million on safety and research.
1994 - "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of pandering.
1994 - In Pensacola, FL, Paul Hill was given two life sentences for murdering a doctor and security guard outside an abortion clinic in July 1994.
1995 - NASA launched a U.S.-European observatory on a $1 billion dollar mission intended to study the sun.
1997 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of telephone fund-raising by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. It was concluded that they had not violated election laws.
1997 - Actress Anat Elimelech was killed by her boyfriend David Afuta. Afuta then killed himself.
1998 - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates donated $100 million to help immunize children in developing countries.
1999 - The British government transferred political power over the province of Northern Ireland to a the Northern Ireland Executive.
2001 - Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. The filing came five days after Dynegy walked away from a $8.4 billion buyout. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Current Birthdays
Lucy Liu turns 40 years old today.
94 Bill Erwin
Actor
84 Alexander M. Haig
Former secretary of state
83 Julie Harris
Actress
77 Edwin Meese III
Former attorney general
69 Harry Reid
Senate majority leader, D-Nev.
65 Wayne Allard
U.S. senator, R-Colo.
64 Cathy Lee Crosby
Actress
63 Penelope Spheeris
Director
59 Ron Raines
Actor
58 John Wesley Ryles
Country singer
56 Keith Szarabajka
Actor
54 Dan Butler
Actor
54 Stone Phillips
Broadcast journalist
53 Dennis Christopher
Actor
52 Steven Bauer
Actor
48 Joe Henry
Country singer
48 Rick Savage
Rock musician (Def Leppard)
40 Jimi Haha
Rock singer (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
40 Nate Mendel
Rock musician (Foo Fighters)
40 Rena Sofer
Actress
38 Treach
Rapper (Naughty by Nature)
35 Monica Seles
Tennis player
30 Nelly Furtado
Rock singer
27 Britney Spears
Singer
25 Aaron Rodgers
Football player
Historic Birthdays
Maria Callas
12/2/1923 - 9/16/1977
Greek-American opera singer
46 John Breckinridge
12/2/1760 - 12/14/1806
American politician
57 Rene Waldeck-Rousseau
12/2/1846 - 8/10/1904
French premier
31 Georges Seurat
12/2/1859 - 3/29/1891
French painter
63 Charles Ringling
12/2/1863 - 12/3/1926
American circus owner
72 Ruth Draper
12/2/1884 - 12/30/1956
American entertainer
64 George Richards Minot
12/2/1885 - 2/25/1950
American physician and Nobel Prize winner
70 Sir John Barbirolli
12/2/1899 - 7/29/1970
English conductor and cellist
71 Peter Carl Goldmark
12/2/1906 - 12/7/1977
Hungarian-American engineer; developed the first commercial color television
50 Gianni Versace
12/2/1946 - 7/15/1997
Italian-American fashion designer
1818 - Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the union.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio opened as the first truly coeducational school of higher education in the United States.
1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
1910 - The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges Claude.
1917 - The Quebec Bridge opened for traffic after almost 20 years of planning and construction. The bridge suffered partial collapses in 1907 (August 29) and 1916 (September 11).
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1947 - The Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
1950 - Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers. Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) broke the record with 20 catches for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears on December 17, 2000.
1964 - Police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The arrest took place one day after the students staged a massive sit-in inside an administration building.
1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
1967 - The famed luxury train, "20th Century Limited," completed its final run from New York to Chicago.
1968 - The rules committee of Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that in 1969 the pitcher's mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches. This was done in order to "get more batting action."
1973 - Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972.
1980 - U.S. Representatives Frank Thompson, Jr. (D-NJ) and John Murphy (D-NY) were convicted on Abscam charges.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark. The retired dentist had become the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart only one day before.
1983 - 3-foot-high concrete barriers were installed at two White House entrances.
1984 - In Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people were killed after a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant. The plant was operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan said there was a good chance of progress toward a treaty on long-range weapons with Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners were slain in Natal Province in an attack blamed on security forces.
1988 - Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State University won the Heisman Trophy.
1990 - A collision, on the ground, of a Northwest Airlines DC-9 and a Northwest Boeing 727 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, resulted in a fire that claimed eight lives.
1991 - After nearly five years, Shiite Muslim radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Allen Sutten.
1992 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalians.
1992 - The Greek tanker "Aegean Sea" ran aground at La Coruna, Spain and spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil.
1993 - Britain's Princess Diana announced she would be limiting her public appearances because she was tired of the media's intrusions into her life.
1993 - Angola's government and its rebel enemies agreed to a cease-fire in their 18-year war.
1994 - Rebel Serbs in Bosnia failed to keep a pledge to release hundreds of UN peacekeepers.
1994 - AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser died at the age 47. She and her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion.
1995 - Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan was arrested for his role in a 1979 coup.
1997 - Pierce Brosnan received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, more than 120 countries were represented to sign a treaty prohibiting the use and production of anti-personnel land mines. The United States, China and Russia did not sign the treaty.
1997 - South Korea received $55 billion from the International Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.
1998 - In Manilla, 28 people were killed in an orphanage that caught fire. Most of the victims were children.
1999 - Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
1999 - The World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded a four-day meeting in Seattle, WA, without setting an agenda for a new round of trade talks. The meeting was met with fierce protests by various groups.
1999 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it entered Mars' atmosphere. The spacecraft was unmanned.
Current Birthdays
Brendan Fraser turns 40 years old today.
83 Ferlin Husky
Country singer
81 Andy Williams
Singer
78 Jean-Luc Godard
Director
77 Jaye P. Morgan
Singer ("The Gong Show")
67 Mary Alice
Actress
60 Ozzy Osbourne
Rock singer (Black Sabbath)
59 Heather Menzies
Actress
54 Paul Gregg
Country musician (Restless Heart)
53 Steven Culp
Actor
48 Julianne Moore
Actress
48 Daryl Hannah
Actress
40 Montell Jordan
R&B singer
39 Royale Watkins
Actor, comedian
38 Paul Byrd
Baseball player
35 Bruno Campos
Actor
35 Holly Marie Combs
Actress ("Charmed")
33 Lauren Roman
Actress
29 Daniel Bedingfield
Singer
28 Anna Chlumsky
Actress ("My Girl" movies)
27 Brian Bonsall
Actor
23 Amanda Seyfried
Actress ("Mamma Mia," "Big Love")
21 Michael Angarano
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Anna Freud
12/3/1895 - 10/9/1982
Austrian/English psychoanalyst
72 Gilbert Stuart
12/3/1755 - 7/9/1828
American portrait painter
58 George Brinton McClellan
12/3/1826 - 10/29/1885
American general
77 Cleveland Abbe
12/3/1838 - 10/28/1916
American meteorologist
73 Octavia Hill
12/3/1838 - 8/13/1912
English activist and leader of the British open-space movement
56 Charles Alfred Pillsbury
12/3/1842 - 9/17/1899
American flour miller and food products manufacturer
68 Ellen Swallow Richards
12/3/1842 - 3/30/1911
American chemist
66 Joseph Conrad
12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924
English novelist
86 Carl Koller
12/3/1857 - 3/21/1944
Czech-born American eye surgeon
61 Anton von Werbern
12/3/1883 - 9/15/1945
Austrian composer
65 Hayato Ikeda
12/3/1899 - 8/13/1965
Japanese prime minister (1960-4)
66 Richard Kuhn
12/3/1900 - 8/1/1967
German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
53 John von Neumann
12/3/1903 - 2/8/1957
Hungarian-American mathematician
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio opened as the first truly coeducational school of higher education in the United States.
1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
1910 - The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges Claude.
1917 - The Quebec Bridge opened for traffic after almost 20 years of planning and construction. The bridge suffered partial collapses in 1907 (August 29) and 1916 (September 11).
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1947 - The Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
1950 - Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers. Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) broke the record with 20 catches for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears on December 17, 2000.
1964 - Police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The arrest took place one day after the students staged a massive sit-in inside an administration building.
1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
1967 - The famed luxury train, "20th Century Limited," completed its final run from New York to Chicago.
1968 - The rules committee of Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that in 1969 the pitcher's mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches. This was done in order to "get more batting action."
1973 - Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972.
1980 - U.S. Representatives Frank Thompson, Jr. (D-NJ) and John Murphy (D-NY) were convicted on Abscam charges.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark. The retired dentist had become the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart only one day before.
1983 - 3-foot-high concrete barriers were installed at two White House entrances.
1984 - In Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people were killed after a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant. The plant was operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan said there was a good chance of progress toward a treaty on long-range weapons with Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners were slain in Natal Province in an attack blamed on security forces.
1988 - Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State University won the Heisman Trophy.
1990 - A collision, on the ground, of a Northwest Airlines DC-9 and a Northwest Boeing 727 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, resulted in a fire that claimed eight lives.
1991 - After nearly five years, Shiite Muslim radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Allen Sutten.
1992 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalians.
1992 - The Greek tanker "Aegean Sea" ran aground at La Coruna, Spain and spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil.
1993 - Britain's Princess Diana announced she would be limiting her public appearances because she was tired of the media's intrusions into her life.
1993 - Angola's government and its rebel enemies agreed to a cease-fire in their 18-year war.
1994 - Rebel Serbs in Bosnia failed to keep a pledge to release hundreds of UN peacekeepers.
1994 - AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser died at the age 47. She and her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion.
1995 - Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan was arrested for his role in a 1979 coup.
1997 - Pierce Brosnan received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, more than 120 countries were represented to sign a treaty prohibiting the use and production of anti-personnel land mines. The United States, China and Russia did not sign the treaty.
1997 - South Korea received $55 billion from the International Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.
1998 - In Manilla, 28 people were killed in an orphanage that caught fire. Most of the victims were children.
1999 - Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
1999 - The World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded a four-day meeting in Seattle, WA, without setting an agenda for a new round of trade talks. The meeting was met with fierce protests by various groups.
1999 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it entered Mars' atmosphere. The spacecraft was unmanned.
Current Birthdays
Brendan Fraser turns 40 years old today.
83 Ferlin Husky
Country singer
81 Andy Williams
Singer
78 Jean-Luc Godard
Director
77 Jaye P. Morgan
Singer ("The Gong Show")
67 Mary Alice
Actress
60 Ozzy Osbourne
Rock singer (Black Sabbath)
59 Heather Menzies
Actress
54 Paul Gregg
Country musician (Restless Heart)
53 Steven Culp
Actor
48 Julianne Moore
Actress
48 Daryl Hannah
Actress
40 Montell Jordan
R&B singer
39 Royale Watkins
Actor, comedian
38 Paul Byrd
Baseball player
35 Bruno Campos
Actor
35 Holly Marie Combs
Actress ("Charmed")
33 Lauren Roman
Actress
29 Daniel Bedingfield
Singer
28 Anna Chlumsky
Actress ("My Girl" movies)
27 Brian Bonsall
Actor
23 Amanda Seyfried
Actress ("Mamma Mia," "Big Love")
21 Michael Angarano
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Anna Freud
12/3/1895 - 10/9/1982
Austrian/English psychoanalyst
72 Gilbert Stuart
12/3/1755 - 7/9/1828
American portrait painter
58 George Brinton McClellan
12/3/1826 - 10/29/1885
American general
77 Cleveland Abbe
12/3/1838 - 10/28/1916
American meteorologist
73 Octavia Hill
12/3/1838 - 8/13/1912
English activist and leader of the British open-space movement
56 Charles Alfred Pillsbury
12/3/1842 - 9/17/1899
American flour miller and food products manufacturer
68 Ellen Swallow Richards
12/3/1842 - 3/30/1911
American chemist
66 Joseph Conrad
12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924
English novelist
86 Carl Koller
12/3/1857 - 3/21/1944
Czech-born American eye surgeon
61 Anton von Werbern
12/3/1883 - 9/15/1945
Austrian composer
65 Hayato Ikeda
12/3/1899 - 8/13/1965
Japanese prime minister (1960-4)
66 Richard Kuhn
12/3/1900 - 8/1/1967
German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
53 John von Neumann
12/3/1903 - 2/8/1957
Hungarian-American mathematician
1783 - Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
1791 - Britain's Observer newspaper was first published.
1812 - Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.
1867 - The National Grange of Husbandry was founded.
1875 - William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson became the first chief executive to travel to Europe while in office.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration. The program had been created in order to provide jobs during the Great Depression.
1942 - U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first time during World War II.
1943 - Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players.
1945 - The U.S. Senate approved American participation in the United Nations.
1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.
1973 - Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter.
1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.
1978 - Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered.
1979 - For the second time, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had been taken on November 4.
1980 - The bodies of four American nuns slain in El Salvador two days earlier were unearthed. Five national guardsmen were later convicted of the murders.
1983 - U.S. jet fighters struck Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon in retaliation for attacks directed at American reconnaissance planes. Navy Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was shot down and captured by Syria.
1984 - A five-day hijack drama began as four men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran. Two American passengers were killed by the hijackers.
1986 - Both U.S. houses of Congress moved to establish special committees to conduct their own investigations of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - Cuban inmates at a federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89 hostages, peacefully ending an 11-day uprising.
1988 - The government of Argentina announced that hundreds of heavily armed soldiers had ended a four-day military revolt.
1990 - Iraq promised to release 3,300 Soviet citizens it was holding.
1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
1992 - U.S. President Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
1993 - The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated 1,000 people per day.
1994 - Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
1997 - The play revival "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened.
1997 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
2000 - O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses.
2001 - O.J. Simpson's home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an ongoing two year international investigation into drug trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. Some satellite equipment was taken from Simpson's home and no drugs were found.
Current Birthdays
Jeff Bridges turns 59 years old today.
87 Deanna Durbin
Actress
74 Wink Martindale
Game show host
71 Max Baer Jr.
Actor, producer
66 Gemma Jones
Actress
66 Bob Mosley
Rock musician (Moby Grape)
64 Chris Hillman
Rock singer, musician (The Byrds)
61 Terry Woods
Musician (The Pogues)
60 Johnny Lyon
Rock singer (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes)
60 Mary Peters
Secretary of transportation
57 Gary Rossington
Rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
57 Patricia Wettig
Actress
54 Tony Todd
Actor
53 Brian Prout
Country musician (Diamond Rio)
53 Cassandra Wilson
Jazz singer
49 Bob Griffin
Rock musician (The BoDeans)
46 Vinnie Dombroski
Rock singer (Sponge)
44 Marisa Tomei
Actress
44 Chelsea Noble
Actress
42 Fred Armisen
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
39 Jay-Z
Rapper
38 Kevin Sussman
Actor ("Ugly Betty")
35 Tyra Banks
Model, TV host ("America's Next Top Model")
27 Lila McCann
Country singer
24 Lindsay Felton
Actress
21 Orlando Brown
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Francisco Franco
12/4/1892 - 11/20/1975
Spanish dictator
67 John Cotton
12/4/1585 - 12/23/1652
American Puritan leader
85 Thomas Carlyle
12/4/1795 - 2/5/1881
English philosopher and historian
27 Crazy Horse
12/4/1849 - 9/5/1877
American Indian Chief
60 Lillian Russell
12/4/1861 - 6/6/1922
American singer and actress
78 Wassily Kandinsky
12/4/1866 - 12/13/1944
Russian abstract painter
50 Rainer Maria Rilke
12/4/1875 - 12/29/1926
German poet
94 Fung Yu-lan
12/4/1895 - 11/26/1990
Chinese philosopher
88 Alfred Hershey
12/4/1908 - 5/22/1997
American psychologist
75 Pappy Boyington
12/4/1912 - 1/11/1988
American flying ace
1791 - Britain's Observer newspaper was first published.
1812 - Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.
1867 - The National Grange of Husbandry was founded.
1875 - William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson became the first chief executive to travel to Europe while in office.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration. The program had been created in order to provide jobs during the Great Depression.
1942 - U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first time during World War II.
1943 - Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players.
1945 - The U.S. Senate approved American participation in the United Nations.
1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.
1973 - Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter.
1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.
1978 - Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered.
1979 - For the second time, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had been taken on November 4.
1980 - The bodies of four American nuns slain in El Salvador two days earlier were unearthed. Five national guardsmen were later convicted of the murders.
1983 - U.S. jet fighters struck Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon in retaliation for attacks directed at American reconnaissance planes. Navy Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was shot down and captured by Syria.
1984 - A five-day hijack drama began as four men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran. Two American passengers were killed by the hijackers.
1986 - Both U.S. houses of Congress moved to establish special committees to conduct their own investigations of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - Cuban inmates at a federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89 hostages, peacefully ending an 11-day uprising.
1988 - The government of Argentina announced that hundreds of heavily armed soldiers had ended a four-day military revolt.
1990 - Iraq promised to release 3,300 Soviet citizens it was holding.
1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
1992 - U.S. President Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
1993 - The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated 1,000 people per day.
1994 - Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
1997 - The play revival "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened.
1997 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
2000 - O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses.
2001 - O.J. Simpson's home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an ongoing two year international investigation into drug trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. Some satellite equipment was taken from Simpson's home and no drugs were found.
Current Birthdays
Jeff Bridges turns 59 years old today.
87 Deanna Durbin
Actress
74 Wink Martindale
Game show host
71 Max Baer Jr.
Actor, producer
66 Gemma Jones
Actress
66 Bob Mosley
Rock musician (Moby Grape)
64 Chris Hillman
Rock singer, musician (The Byrds)
61 Terry Woods
Musician (The Pogues)
60 Johnny Lyon
Rock singer (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes)
60 Mary Peters
Secretary of transportation
57 Gary Rossington
Rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
57 Patricia Wettig
Actress
54 Tony Todd
Actor
53 Brian Prout
Country musician (Diamond Rio)
53 Cassandra Wilson
Jazz singer
49 Bob Griffin
Rock musician (The BoDeans)
46 Vinnie Dombroski
Rock singer (Sponge)
44 Marisa Tomei
Actress
44 Chelsea Noble
Actress
42 Fred Armisen
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
39 Jay-Z
Rapper
38 Kevin Sussman
Actor ("Ugly Betty")
35 Tyra Banks
Model, TV host ("America's Next Top Model")
27 Lila McCann
Country singer
24 Lindsay Felton
Actress
21 Orlando Brown
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Francisco Franco
12/4/1892 - 11/20/1975
Spanish dictator
67 John Cotton
12/4/1585 - 12/23/1652
American Puritan leader
85 Thomas Carlyle
12/4/1795 - 2/5/1881
English philosopher and historian
27 Crazy Horse
12/4/1849 - 9/5/1877
American Indian Chief
60 Lillian Russell
12/4/1861 - 6/6/1922
American singer and actress
78 Wassily Kandinsky
12/4/1866 - 12/13/1944
Russian abstract painter
50 Rainer Maria Rilke
12/4/1875 - 12/29/1926
German poet
94 Fung Yu-lan
12/4/1895 - 11/26/1990
Chinese philosopher
88 Alfred Hershey
12/4/1908 - 5/22/1997
American psychologist
75 Pappy Boyington
12/4/1912 - 1/11/1988
American flying ace
1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered Hispaniola (now Haiti).
1560 - Charles IX succeeded as King of France on the death of Francis II.
1766 - James Christie, founder of the famous auctioneers, held his first sale in London.
1776 - In Williamsburg, VA, at the College of William and Mary the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized.
1782 - The first native U.S. president, Martin Van Buren, was born in Kinderhook, NY.
1792 - The trial of France's King Louis XVI began.
1797 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris to command forces for the invasion of England.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte left his army as they were retreating from Russia.
1839 - General George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, OH.
1848 - U.S. President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.
1876 - The Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson. The device was the first practical pipe wrench.
1901 - Movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago. He created his first Mickey Mouse cartoon at the age of 27.
1904 - The Russian fleet was destroyed by the Japanese at Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War.
1908 - At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on football uniforms worn by college football players.
1913 - Britain outlawed the sending of arms to Ireland.
1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa making it possible for him to travel to the U.S.
1933 - Prohibition came to an end when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1934 - Fighting broke out between Italian and Ethiopian troops on the Somalian border.
1934 - The Soviet Union executed 66 people charged with plotting against Joseph Stalin's government.
1935 - In Montebello, CA, the first commercial hydrophonics operation was established.
1936 - The Soviet Union adopted a new Constitution under a Supreme Council.
1944 - During World War II, Allied troops took Ravenna, Italy.
1945 - The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again.
1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
1956 - British and French forces began a withdrawal from Egypt during the Suez War.
1958 - Britain's first motorway, the Preston by-pass, was opened by Prime Minister Macmillan.
1961 - United Nations forces launched an attack in Katanga, the Congo, near Elizabethville.
1962 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to cooperate in the peaceful uses of outer space.
1971 - The Soviet Union, at United Nations Security Council, vetoed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in hostilities between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
1976 - Jacques Chirac re-founded the Gaullist party as the RPR (Rassemblement pour la République).
1977 - Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen due to peaceful relations with Israel.
1978 - The American space probe Pioneer Venus I, orbiting Venus, and began beaming back its first information and picture of the planet.
1979 - Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church due to her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
1983 - In west Beirut, Lebanon, more than a dozen people were killed when a car bomb shattered a nine-story apartment building.
1983 - The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the National Football League.
1984 - Iran's official news agency quoted the hijackers of a Kuwaiti jetliner parked at Tehran airport as saying they would blow up the plane unless Kuwait released 14 imprisoned extremists.
1985 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 for the first time.
1986 - The Soviet Union said it would continue to abide by the SALT II treaty limits on nuclear weapons. This was despite the decision by the U.S. to exceed them.
1988 - Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch were indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on fraud and conspiracy charges.
1989 - Israeli soldiers killed five heavily armed Arab guerrillas who crossed the border from Egypt. The guerrillas were allegedly going to launch a terrorist attack commemorating the anniversary of the Palestinian uprising.
1989 - East Germany's former leaders were placed under house arrest.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin kept the power to appoint Cabinet ministers, defeating a constitutional amendment that would have put his team of reformers under the control of Russia's Congress.
1998 - James P. Hoffa became the head of the Teamsters union, 23 years after his father was the head. His father disappeared and was presumed dead.
2001 - In Germany, Afghan leaders signed a pact to create a temporary administration for post-Taliban Afghanistan. Two women were included in the cabinet structure. Hamid Karzai and his Cabinet were planned to take over power in Afghanistan on December 22.
Current Birthdays
Cliff Floyd turns 36 years old today.
76 Little Richard
Rock singer, musician
74 Joan Didion
Author
73 Calvin Trillin
Author
70 J.J. Cale
Rock musician
64 Jeroen Krabbe
Actor
62 Jose Carreras
Opera singer
61 Jim Messina
Rock singer (Loggins and Messina, Poco)
57 Morgan Brittany
Actress ("Dallas")
52 Brian Backer
Actor
51 Art Monk
Football Hall of Famer
45 Ty England
Country singer
43 John Rzeznik
Rock musician (The Goo Goo Dolls)
41 Gary Allan
Country singer
40 Margaret Cho
Comedian-actress
39 Alex Kapp Horner
Actress ("The New Adventures of Old Christine")
36 Regina Zernay
Rock musician (Cowboy Mouth)
33 Paula Patton
Actress
32 Amy Acker
Actress ("Angel")
29 Nick Stahl
Actor
23 Frankie Muniz
Actor ("Malcolm in the Middle")
20 Ross Bagley
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Walt Disney
12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966
American television producer and creator of Mickey Mouse
69 Pope Julius II
12/5/1443 - 2/21/1513
Italian pope
79 Martin Van Buren
12/5/1782 - 7/24/1862
Eighth President of the United States (1837-41)
84 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
12/5/1822 - 6/27/1907
American naturalist and educator
64 Christina Rossetti
12/5/1830 - 12/29/1894
English poet
36 George Armstrong Custer
12/5/1839 - 6/25/1876
American cavalry officer
58 Marcus Daly
12/5/1841 - 11/12/1900
American mining tycoon
74 Clyde Vernon Cessna
12/5/1879 - 11/20/1954
American aircraft manufacturer
85 Fritz Lang
12/5/1890 - 8/2/1976
Austrian-American motion picture director
74 Werner Heisenberg
12/5/1901 - 2/1/1976
German physicist and philosopher
77 Kate Simon
12/5/1912 - 2/4/1990
American travel writer
1560 - Charles IX succeeded as King of France on the death of Francis II.
1766 - James Christie, founder of the famous auctioneers, held his first sale in London.
1776 - In Williamsburg, VA, at the College of William and Mary the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized.
1782 - The first native U.S. president, Martin Van Buren, was born in Kinderhook, NY.
1792 - The trial of France's King Louis XVI began.
1797 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris to command forces for the invasion of England.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte left his army as they were retreating from Russia.
1839 - General George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, OH.
1848 - U.S. President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.
1876 - The Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson. The device was the first practical pipe wrench.
1901 - Movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago. He created his first Mickey Mouse cartoon at the age of 27.
1904 - The Russian fleet was destroyed by the Japanese at Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War.
1908 - At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on football uniforms worn by college football players.
1913 - Britain outlawed the sending of arms to Ireland.
1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa making it possible for him to travel to the U.S.
1933 - Prohibition came to an end when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1934 - Fighting broke out between Italian and Ethiopian troops on the Somalian border.
1934 - The Soviet Union executed 66 people charged with plotting against Joseph Stalin's government.
1935 - In Montebello, CA, the first commercial hydrophonics operation was established.
1936 - The Soviet Union adopted a new Constitution under a Supreme Council.
1944 - During World War II, Allied troops took Ravenna, Italy.
1945 - The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again.
1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
1956 - British and French forces began a withdrawal from Egypt during the Suez War.
1958 - Britain's first motorway, the Preston by-pass, was opened by Prime Minister Macmillan.
1961 - United Nations forces launched an attack in Katanga, the Congo, near Elizabethville.
1962 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to cooperate in the peaceful uses of outer space.
1971 - The Soviet Union, at United Nations Security Council, vetoed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in hostilities between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
1976 - Jacques Chirac re-founded the Gaullist party as the RPR (Rassemblement pour la République).
1977 - Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen due to peaceful relations with Israel.
1978 - The American space probe Pioneer Venus I, orbiting Venus, and began beaming back its first information and picture of the planet.
1979 - Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church due to her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
1983 - In west Beirut, Lebanon, more than a dozen people were killed when a car bomb shattered a nine-story apartment building.
1983 - The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the National Football League.
1984 - Iran's official news agency quoted the hijackers of a Kuwaiti jetliner parked at Tehran airport as saying they would blow up the plane unless Kuwait released 14 imprisoned extremists.
1985 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 for the first time.
1986 - The Soviet Union said it would continue to abide by the SALT II treaty limits on nuclear weapons. This was despite the decision by the U.S. to exceed them.
1988 - Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch were indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on fraud and conspiracy charges.
1989 - Israeli soldiers killed five heavily armed Arab guerrillas who crossed the border from Egypt. The guerrillas were allegedly going to launch a terrorist attack commemorating the anniversary of the Palestinian uprising.
1989 - East Germany's former leaders were placed under house arrest.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin kept the power to appoint Cabinet ministers, defeating a constitutional amendment that would have put his team of reformers under the control of Russia's Congress.
1998 - James P. Hoffa became the head of the Teamsters union, 23 years after his father was the head. His father disappeared and was presumed dead.
2001 - In Germany, Afghan leaders signed a pact to create a temporary administration for post-Taliban Afghanistan. Two women were included in the cabinet structure. Hamid Karzai and his Cabinet were planned to take over power in Afghanistan on December 22.
Current Birthdays
Cliff Floyd turns 36 years old today.
76 Little Richard
Rock singer, musician
74 Joan Didion
Author
73 Calvin Trillin
Author
70 J.J. Cale
Rock musician
64 Jeroen Krabbe
Actor
62 Jose Carreras
Opera singer
61 Jim Messina
Rock singer (Loggins and Messina, Poco)
57 Morgan Brittany
Actress ("Dallas")
52 Brian Backer
Actor
51 Art Monk
Football Hall of Famer
45 Ty England
Country singer
43 John Rzeznik
Rock musician (The Goo Goo Dolls)
41 Gary Allan
Country singer
40 Margaret Cho
Comedian-actress
39 Alex Kapp Horner
Actress ("The New Adventures of Old Christine")
36 Regina Zernay
Rock musician (Cowboy Mouth)
33 Paula Patton
Actress
32 Amy Acker
Actress ("Angel")
29 Nick Stahl
Actor
23 Frankie Muniz
Actor ("Malcolm in the Middle")
20 Ross Bagley
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Walt Disney
12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966
American television producer and creator of Mickey Mouse
69 Pope Julius II
12/5/1443 - 2/21/1513
Italian pope
79 Martin Van Buren
12/5/1782 - 7/24/1862
Eighth President of the United States (1837-41)
84 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
12/5/1822 - 6/27/1907
American naturalist and educator
64 Christina Rossetti
12/5/1830 - 12/29/1894
English poet
36 George Armstrong Custer
12/5/1839 - 6/25/1876
American cavalry officer
58 Marcus Daly
12/5/1841 - 11/12/1900
American mining tycoon
74 Clyde Vernon Cessna
12/5/1879 - 11/20/1954
American aircraft manufacturer
85 Fritz Lang
12/5/1890 - 8/2/1976
Austrian-American motion picture director
74 Werner Heisenberg
12/5/1901 - 2/1/1976
German physicist and philosopher
77 Kate Simon
12/5/1912 - 2/4/1990
American travel writer
1492 - Columbus discovered Hispaniola (now Haiti) and the Dominican Republic.
1774 - Austria became the first nation to introduce a state education system.
1790 - The U.S. Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
1876 - The city of Anaheim was incorporated for a second time.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
1883 - "Ladies' Home Journal" was published for the first time.
1884 - The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
1889 - Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans. He was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1907 - In Monongah, WV, 361 people were killed in America's worst mine disaster.
1917 - More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1917 - Finland proclaimed independence from Russia.
1921 - The Catholic Irish Free State was created as a self-governing dominion of Britain when an Anglo-Irish treaty was signed.
1923 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to give a presidential address that was broadcast on radio.
1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by U.S. President Truman.
1957 - AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.
1957 - America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed when the satellite blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FL.
1960 - Gene Autry and Bob Reynolds were granted the Los Angeles Angels baseball franchise by the American League.
1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
1982 - 11 soldiers and 6 civilians were killed when a bomb exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. The Irish National Liberation Army was responsible for planting the bomb.
1983 - In Jerusalem, a bomb planted on a bus exploded killing six Israelis and wounding 44.
1985 - Congressional negotiators reached an agreement on a deficit-cutting proposal that later became the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law.
1989 - The worst mass shooting in Canadian history occurred when a man gunned down 14 women at the University of Montreal's school of engineering. The man then killed himself.
1989 - Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East Germany.
1990 - Iraq announced that it would release all its 2,000 foreign hostages.
1990 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle was enshrined in the Little League Museum's Hall of Excellence.
1992 - Germany's primary political parties agreed to tighten postwar asylum laws.
1992 - In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque. The following two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting resulted in at least 2,000 people being killed.
1993 - Former priest James R. Porter was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison. Porter had admitted molesting 28 children in the 1960s.
1994 - Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the richest in the U.S. and became to largest municipality to file for bankruptcy.
1997 - A Russian Antonov 124 military transport crashed into a residential area in Irkutsk, Russia, shortly after takeoff. 70 people were killed.
1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier.
1998 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour connected the first two building blocks of the international space station in the shuttle cargo bay.
2002 - Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution.
2002 - Officials released the detailed plans for a $4.7 million memorial commemorating Princess Diana. The large oval fountain was planned to be constructed in London's Hyde Park.
1774 - Austria became the first nation to introduce a state education system.
1790 - The U.S. Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
1876 - The city of Anaheim was incorporated for a second time.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
1883 - "Ladies' Home Journal" was published for the first time.
1884 - The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
1889 - Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans. He was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1907 - In Monongah, WV, 361 people were killed in America's worst mine disaster.
1917 - More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1917 - Finland proclaimed independence from Russia.
1921 - The Catholic Irish Free State was created as a self-governing dominion of Britain when an Anglo-Irish treaty was signed.
1923 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to give a presidential address that was broadcast on radio.
1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by U.S. President Truman.
1957 - AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.
1957 - America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed when the satellite blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FL.
1960 - Gene Autry and Bob Reynolds were granted the Los Angeles Angels baseball franchise by the American League.
1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
1982 - 11 soldiers and 6 civilians were killed when a bomb exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. The Irish National Liberation Army was responsible for planting the bomb.
1983 - In Jerusalem, a bomb planted on a bus exploded killing six Israelis and wounding 44.
1985 - Congressional negotiators reached an agreement on a deficit-cutting proposal that later became the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law.
1989 - The worst mass shooting in Canadian history occurred when a man gunned down 14 women at the University of Montreal's school of engineering. The man then killed himself.
1989 - Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East Germany.
1990 - Iraq announced that it would release all its 2,000 foreign hostages.
1990 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle was enshrined in the Little League Museum's Hall of Excellence.
1992 - Germany's primary political parties agreed to tighten postwar asylum laws.
1992 - In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque. The following two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting resulted in at least 2,000 people being killed.
1993 - Former priest James R. Porter was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison. Porter had admitted molesting 28 children in the 1960s.
1994 - Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the richest in the U.S. and became to largest municipality to file for bankruptcy.
1997 - A Russian Antonov 124 military transport crashed into a residential area in Irkutsk, Russia, shortly after takeoff. 70 people were killed.
1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier.
1998 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour connected the first two building blocks of the international space station in the shuttle cargo bay.
2002 - Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution.
2002 - Officials released the detailed plans for a $4.7 million memorial commemorating Princess Diana. The large oval fountain was planned to be constructed in London's Hyde Park.
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