~ On This Day in History ~

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This Day in History for 9th November


Historical Events

                                   
Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                 Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                                 Adolf Hitler

                                   
33rd US President Harry Truman              Artist & Musician Yoko Ono                Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery
1282 - Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 - Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1492 - Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France)
1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence
1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles
1526 - Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg
1541 - Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London
1569 - Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland
1580 - Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1673 - British king Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury
1681 - Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
1697 - Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 - Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1729 - Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to
           forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1794 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1848 - Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1848 - Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana,
           and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1853 - Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
1854 - Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres
1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 - 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 - 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1861 - Battle of Piketon, Ky
1862 - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 - 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1877 - American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 - Opera "Ermine," premieres in London
1888 - Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1905 - Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)
1907 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at
           Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1912 - Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest
1913 - Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
1918 - Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1918 - Republic Germany proclaimed
1921 - Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
1923 - Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 - German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS)
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1927 - Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors
1930 - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 - Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1935 - Japan invades Shanghai, China
1936 - Albanian government of Frasheri falls
1937 - Japanese army conquers Shanghai
1937 - St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1939 - "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1941 - Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster
1942 - German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1942 - Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1944 - Walcheren purged of nazi troops
1946 - Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1949 - Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1950 - Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
1950 - Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 - White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1953 - Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union
1953 - KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1955 - Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC
1955 - NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
1955 - UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics
1956 - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1961 - PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
1961 - Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1962 - Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
1963 - 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1964 - "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
1964 - Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1965 - 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 - Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
1965 - Willie Mays named NL MVP
1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13
           hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London
1966 - "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs
1966 - Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
1967 - 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 - Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971 - David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London
1971 - John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 - Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
1973 - Ringo Starr releases "Ringo" album
1976 - Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
1976 - UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1977 - Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
1978 - NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
1980 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1980 - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 - Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1983 - Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1983 - Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 - 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
1984 - Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43
1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1985 - "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
1985 - Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
1985 - Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
1986 - Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 - Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
1988 - "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1988 - MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
1989 - East Berlin opens its borders
1990 - Tanzania government of Malecela forms
1990 - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
1991 - Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
1992 - Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
1992 - Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"
1993 - "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
1993 - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993 - Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of
           bombing.
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1995 - "Danny Gans on Broadway" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC
1997 - "Cherry Orchard," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - "Scarlet Pimpernel," opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
1997 - Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship
1997 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1997 - Toray Japan Queens Cup
1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to
           compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely
           abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1999 - TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico
           City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2004 - Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur
           Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2009 - Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker's main event.
2012 - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air
           space
2012 - 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
2012 - An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people

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This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Weddings

1935 - "Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune
           Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1968 - Former "Led Zepellin" lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson
2002 - Eighties pop princess Sheena Easton (43) weds Beverly Hills plastic surgeon John Minoli (44)
           at Las Vegas City Hall
2007 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Ellen Pompeo (38) weds music producer Chris Ivery (38) in New
           York, New York
2012 - Tennis player James Blake (32) weds publicist Emily Snider (37) Del Mar, California

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This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Divorces

2004 - Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister
           (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage

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This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress and Inventor                                Author/Nobel Laureate                        Folk Singer Mary Travers (1936)
Hedy Lamarr (1913)                                 Imre Kertész (1929)


Rocker Tom Fogerty (1941)


1389 - Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]
1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1541 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist
1656 - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
1664 - Johannes Speth, composer
1697 - Claudio Casciolini, composer
1710 - Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1732 - Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1760 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1795 - Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
1799 - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1802 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1809 - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877
1810 - Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1872
1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1812 - Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
1817 - Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1820 - Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1821 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer
1823 - William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1825 - Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865
1832 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1835 - Davorin Jenko, composer
1835 - Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1835 - Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer
1837 - Alfred Holmes, composer
1837 - Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 - [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1854 - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer
1868 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer
1868 - Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken)
1869 - Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short)
1871 - Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins
1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher
1877 - Jesus Castillo, composer
1877 - Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1879 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 - Rudolph Karel, composer
1882 - Joe Hardstaff Sr, cricketer ("Hotstuff" in 1907-08 MCC tour of Aust)
1883 - Edna May Oliver, [Nutter], Malden MA, actress (Little Women)
1884 - Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 - Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1887 - Gertrude Astor, Lakewood OH, actress (Carnival Lady)
1887 - Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress (Happiest Days of Your Life)
1888 - Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman (EGKS)
1889 - Snub Pollard, Melbourne Australia, actor (Don't Shove, Arizona Days)
1890 - George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 - Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
1897 - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1898 - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language
1901 - John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial))
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Apr 9]
1903 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/Cardinal
1904 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 - Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann
1905 - James William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Mo)
1906 - Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1907 - Burrill Phillips, Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball)
1907 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince
1909 - Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder (Vrij Netherland)
1909 - Robert Douglas, [Finlayson], Bletchley England, actor (Adv of Don Juan)
1911 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1913 - Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps)
1914 - Colin Gray, New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War
1915 - Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1915 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1918 - Howard Shanet, Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics)
1918 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), resigns on tax evasion charges
1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor
1921 - Silvio O Conte, (Rep-R-MA, 1959- )
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, Cleveland, Ohio, American actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess)
1922 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 - Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1927 - Carel W H Boshoff, South African head (Broederbond/Volkswag)
1928 - Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967)
1928 - Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 - Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, composer
1929 - Severn Darden, actor (Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th)
1929 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
1929 - Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002)
1930 - Charlie Jones, Ft Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes)
1931 - Tommy Greenhough, cricketer (English leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1959-60)
1931 - Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 - Marian Christy, Ridgefield Ct, author (Invasions of Privacy)
1934 - Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden (1986-91, 94- )
1934 - Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser)
1935 - Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 - Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
1936 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Roger McCough, British poet
1937 - Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
1938 - Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
1939 - Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1940 - Sergio Cervetti, composer
1941 - Tom Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), (d. 1990)
1942 - Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1942 - Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon OH, PGA golfer (British Open 1973)
1943 - John Shepherd, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa)
1943 - Lee Graziano, Chicago Ill, rock drummer (American Breed)
1944 - Bill Hendon, (Rep-R-NC, 1981-83, 85-87)
1944 - Phil May, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 - Roger Lee Jones, WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List)
1947 - Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 - Alan Gratzer, Syracuse NY, rock drummer (Reo Speedwagon)
1948 - Bille August, director (Best Intentions, Twist & Shout)
1948 - Sharon Stouder, US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964), (d. 2013)
1948 - Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
1948 - Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
1951 - Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, Brooklyn New York, American body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk)
1951 - Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1952 - Sherrod Brown, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1953 - Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1954 - Dennis Stratton, London England, rock guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1954 - Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
1955 - Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
1959 - Karin Mundinger, Toronto Canada, LPGA golfer (1985 Singapore Open-2nd)
1959 - Tony Phillips, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Chicago White Sox)
1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 - Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
1959 - Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
1960 - Joëlle Ursull, a Guadeloupean singer
1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1962 - Teryl Rothery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian actress (Stargate SG-1)
1963 - Anthony Bowie, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1963 - Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
1964 - John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor (Young Dan'l Boone)
1964 - Leah Pells, Vancouver BC, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 - Todd Gill, Cardinal, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1966 - Stefen Edberg, Sweden, tennis star
1966 - Virgil Robertson, CFL defensive end (BC Lions)
1967 - Scott Bianco, Kamloops BC, 90 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics-96)
1967 - Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 - David Jones, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Jeff Brady, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1969 - Angel Miranda, Arecieo Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Pepa, rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 - Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1970 - Bill Guerin, Wilbraham MA, NHL right wing (NJ Devils, Oilers)
1970 - Chad Ogea, Lake Charles LA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Chantal Brunner, Wellington NZ, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Melanie Roche, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1970 - Scarface, American rapper
1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
1971 - David Robert Duval, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope)
1971 - Jimmy Hitchcock, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1971 - Michael Barber, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Steve Rhem, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1971 - Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1972 - Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park)
1972 - Mark Fields, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1972 - Ron Rice, NFL cornerback/safety (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Victoria Keil, Miss Universe-Cook Islands (1996)
1972 - Eric Dane, American actor
1972 - Doug Russell, American radio personality
1973 - Fred Lindberg, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 - Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
1974 - Dah-ve Chodan, actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)
1974 - Traci Toguchi, Honolulu Hawaii, Miss America-Hawaii (1996)
1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 - Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
1974 - Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
1976 - Laura Csortan, Miss Universe-Congeniality (Australia, 1997)
1977 - Patricia Campbell, Pennsylvania, Miss Teen USA (1996-2nd place)
1978 - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 - Todd Self, American baseball player
1978 - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 - Caroline Flack, British television presenter
1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 - Vanessa Minillo, Filipino television personality
1980 - James Harper, English footballer
1980 - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
1981 - Scottie Thompson, American actress
1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 - Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1988 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1996 - Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)

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This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Deaths

                                   
Soviet Union Premier                    French President Charles de Gaulle (1970)
Joseph Stalin (1932)


959 - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 - Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1580 - Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
1620 - Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1623 - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1641 - Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32
1677 - Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1754 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1829 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1874 - Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1897 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
1906 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1911 - Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1925 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
1927 - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1932 - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1939 - Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1942 - Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1943 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1948 - Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1951 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the
           Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1955 - Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1959 - Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
1968 - Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37
1968 - Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies
1970 - William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1971 - Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90
1974 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976 - Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1977 - Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1978 - Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1978 - Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 - Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
1985 - Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1988 - Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
1988 - John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1991 - Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 - William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 - Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72
1993 - Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
1994 - Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1994 - Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
1995 - Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88
1995 - Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81
1996 - Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
1996 - Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2011 - Joel J. Tyler, judge who pronounced 'Deep Throat' obscene, dies of a heart attack at 90
2012 - Bill Tarmey, English actor, dies at 71

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th November


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                  Playwright George Bernard Shaw                       Animator Walt Disney

                                   
Author and Nobel Laureate                Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat            Tennis Player Martina Navratilova
 William Faulkner


44th US President Barack Obama


911 - Conrad I elecect German King
1444 - Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 - John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 - Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 - Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1584 - Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1630 - Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu
1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1687 - Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 - English parliament accept army reduction
1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's
           College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 - Congress forms US Marine Corps
1785 - Netherlands & France sign treaty
1793 - France ends forced worship of God
1801 - Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 - Osage Treaty signed
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
1847 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of
           Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet
           Rock lighthouse.
1864 - Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to the Sea
1866 - Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encounters David Livingstone with the immortal
           words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
1878 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
1883 - Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled
1891 - 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1891 - Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1892 - 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
1894 - Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
1898 - Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt, Russia
1908 - 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the
           official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 - Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 - 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 - Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 - New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)
1918 - German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
1918 - Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
1918 - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message
           from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November
           11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 - 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1920 - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
1923 - German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1924 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members
           of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1926 - Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
1926 - Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 - Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 - Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 - Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo"
1938 - 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 - Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 - Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to
           report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1942 - Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
1942 - US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
1942 - US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
1944 - German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 - US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty
           Islands
1945 - "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 - College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 - General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 - Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after
           World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 - Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 - After 9 years, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 - Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in NYC
1950 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala
1950 - Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1951 - 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1952 - Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1953 - Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)
1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 - Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 mph in a rocket sled
1955 - "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 - Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in NYC
1957 - NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1957 - Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run
           (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1958 - Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres
1958 - WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1960 - US Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1962 - "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1963 - Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 - "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 - Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 - Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1965 - Willie Mays wins NL MVP
1966 - Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach)
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 - KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 - Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 - "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1970 - "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
1970 - Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1970 - R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two" premieres in NYC
1971 - Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP
1971 - US table tennis team arrived in China
1974 - 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 - Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 - Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 - Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
1975 - UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 - Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 - Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1977 - Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
1978 - Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 - Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez,
           Jemison & Griffin
1980 - Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 - Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1981 - "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
1981 - Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in NYC
1982 - IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 - Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in NYC
1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 - "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
1983 - Federal government shut down
1984 - Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
1984 - Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40
1984 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess
           Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 - Bangladeshi Constitution restored
1987 - Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
1988 - China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 - MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
1988 - NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 - Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
1989 - Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigns
1989 - Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 - Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 - Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 - Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception
1991 - Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Phila 32-30
1991 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1991 - Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1991 - Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 - South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day v India
1993 - "Joseph & the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
1993 - Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from
           the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government
           forces.
1997 - "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1997 - Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served
1997 - Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter
2006 - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
2007 - ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president
           Hugo Chávez.
2012 - 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
2012 - 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 - Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
2012 - 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2012 - The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to
           defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
2084 - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th November


Famous Weddings

1926 - Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1965 - Neth 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
2001 - "Four Weddings and A Funeral" actress Andie MacDowell (43) weds businessman Rhett
           Hartzog (42) at Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina
2006 - "The Grudge" actor Jason Behr (32) weds actress KaDee Strickland (30) in Ojai, California
2007 - Former "E.R." actress Julianna Margulies (41) weds lawyer Keith Lieberthal in Lenox,
           Massachusetts
2012 - Actor Ben Hollingsworth (28) weds lingerie designer Nila Myers in Malibu

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Founder of Protestanism                         Singer Jane Froman (1907)                  Economist Robert F. Engle (1942)
Martin Luther (1483)


Lyricist Tim Rice (1944)


745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 - Charles of Charolais, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy/polyglot
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]
1480 - Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1483 - Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism, (d.1546)
1565 - Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1577 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck)
1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1636 - Francesco Passarini, composer
1668 - Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1679 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1683 - George II [August], king of England (1727-60)
1694 - Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 - William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
1704 - Carlo Zuccari, composer
1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1719 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
1730 - Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1735 - Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813)
1759 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1772 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1786 - Carl Eberwein, composer
1793 - Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 - George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1811 - Louis Kufferath, composer
1819 - Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1827 - Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1830 - Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 - Dobri Voynikov, composer
1834 - Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
1834 - Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1844 - John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
1846 - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1846 - Paul Kuczynski, composer
1855 - Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
1861 - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1864 - Alexandre Levy, composer
1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1871 - Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)
1873 - Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1875 - Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
1879 - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 - Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
1880 - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
1880 - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 - Max Mell, Austria officer/literary (Donauweibchen)
1883 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer
1884 - Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix)
1885 - Esther Dale, Beaufort SC, actress (Unfinished Business)
1887 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun)
1888 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 - Hugh Wakefield, Wanstead England, actress (Blithe Spirit)
1889 - Claude Rains, London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca)
1891 - Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1896 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1902 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1902 - Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao)
1904 - Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1906 - Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
1907 - Jane Froman, St Louis Mo, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), (d. 1980)
1907 - John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
1908 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1911 - Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1912 - Salvador Contreras, composer
1913 - Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 - Arthur Mullard, comedian
1913 - Thelma Hulbert, painter
1916 - Billy May, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 - Guido Turchi, Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 - Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1918 - Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1918 - Martin Hanley, cricketer (took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for S Afr)
1918 - Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1919 - Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 - Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1919 - François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Tod Andrews, NYC, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage)
1920 - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
1924 - Russell Johnson, actor, (professor-Gilligan's Island)
1925 - Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1927 - Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery 8th earl of Radnor/art collector
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Rome Italy, composer/musician
1928 - Norma Crane, NY, actress (Tea & Sympathy, Fiddler on the Roof)
1928 - William Staveley, British admiral
1929 - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1930 - Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1930 - Gene Conley, MLB player/NBA player
1930 - Toma Prosev, composer
1932 - Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
1932 - Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
1933 - Seymour Nurse, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 258 v NZ 1969)
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1934 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer
1934 - Norm Cash, Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1935 - Pippa Scott, Los Angeles California, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky)
1935 - Ronald Ellwin Evans, St Francis Ks, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1937 - Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4)
1938 - H J de Royen, director (Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra)
1939 - Tommy "Bubba" Facenda, rocker
1939 - Russell Means, Native American activist, (d. 2012)
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, rocker
1941 - John Geoghegan, Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1942 - Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer/conductor
1942 - Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1943 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician
1943 - George Sauer, Jr., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, AFL player (New York Jets), (d. 2013)
1944 - Dave Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 - Tim Rice, Amersham, England, lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1945 - Donna Fargo, NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 - Alaina Reed, Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227)
1946 - Bill Bryson, Evanston Ill, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1946 - David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director
1947 - Bechir Gemayel, pres Lebanon (8/23-9/14, 1982)
1947 - Greg Lake, rock vocalist/bassist (King Crimson, ELP)
1948 - Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao)
1948 - Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
1948 - Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
1949 - Ann Reinking, Seattle, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude)
1950 - Jack Scalia, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat)
1950 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1951 - Morris Hatalsky, San Diego CA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE White Rose-2nd)
1952 - Pat Severs, Camden SC, country singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1952 - Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
1954 - Mario Cipollina, California, rock bassist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1955 - Jack Clark, Penns, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1955 - James Chapman, American novelist
1955 - Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
1956 - Matt Craven, Port Colborne Ontario, actor (Juror, Killer, K2)
1956 - Sinbad, comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1956 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
1957 - Chris Joyce, rocker (Simply Red)
1957 - Jodi Anderson, Chicago Ill, US long jump champ (1978-81)
1958 - George Lowe, American voice actor
1958 - Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
1958 - Brooks Williams, American musician
1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director
1959 - Frank Maudsley, rock bassist/vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1959 - MacKenzie Phillips, Alexandria Va, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1959 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1960 - Lee Cross Rinker, Stuart FL, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-6th)
1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer
1960 - Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1961 - Junior, [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1961 - Ramona Pagel, Los Angeles California, shot putter
1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
1961 - John Walton, English darts player
1962 - Cathy Boswell, Joliet Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Michael Anthony Powell, Philadelphia, long jumper (world record 1991, Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1963 - Hugh Bonneville, English actor
1964 - Jushin Liger, [Keiichi Yamada], wrestler (WCW/NJPW)
1964 - Keith Lockhart, Whittier CA, infielder (KC Royals)
1964 - Kenny Rogers, Savannah GA, pitcher (Texas Rangers, NY Yankees)
1964 - Tish Certo, Niagara Falls NY, LPGA golfer (1981 Erie County (NY Champ)
1964 - Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
1965 - Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver
1965 - Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
1966 - Vanessa Angel, London, England, actress (Weird Science, Kingpin)
1966 - Kyle Kopp, San Bernardino Ca, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1966 - Bill DeMott, American professional wrestler
1967 - Donya Fiorentino, US model
1967 - Jed Roberts, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - Michael Jai White, American actor
1968 - Calvin Tiggle, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1968 - Jeffrey Kooistra, soccer player (SC Heerenveen/NEC)
1968 - Lissa Maria Sneck, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 - Lonnie Marts, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs, Tennessee Oilers)
1968 - Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
1969 - Arjan van der Laan, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 - Dan Farthing, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Ed Ward, Edmonton, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 - Rod Milstead, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1969 - Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1969 - Ellen Pompeo, American actress
1969 - Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1970 - Trent Dimas, NM, gymnast (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1970 - Warren G, American rapper
1970 - Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
1971 - Butch Huskey, Anadarko OK, infielder (NY Mets)
1971 - Heather Williams, Miss USA-Oregon (1997)
1971 - Jennifer McFalls, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Kate Slatter, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996)
1972 - Dick Kooijman, Dutch soccer player (Heracles, FC Groningen, Az)
1972 - Isaac Bruce, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Shawn Green, Des Plaines IL, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 - Virag Csurgo, Siofok Hungary, tennis star (1993 Futures-Freeport)
1973 - Cale Hulse, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1973 - Darius Holland, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - John Solomon, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Khiry Abdul Samad, Los Angeles California, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm)
1973 - Zahid Fazal, Pakistani cricket batsman (occasional Tests since 1992)
1973 - Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
1974 - Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
1975 - Jim Adkins, American musician
1976 - Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
1976 - Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
1977 - Stephanie Berger, Miss Universe-Switzerland (1996)
1977 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
1977 - Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
1977 - Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
1978 - Eve, American rapper
1979 - Chris Joannou, Australian musician
1980 - Calvin Chen, One of the four members of the Taiwanese boy band, Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenhiet
1980 - Troy Bell, American basketball player
1980 - Donté Stallworth, American football player
1981 - Tony Blanco, American baseball player
1981 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
1981 - Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
1982 - Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1982 - Heather Matarazzo, American actress
1983 - Miranda Lambert, American singer
1983 - Craig Smith, American basketball player
1984 - Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
1985 - David Lee Rohr Jr, transplant donor
1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1985 - Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
1986 - Josh Peck, American actor
1987 - Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
1988 - Chisaki Hama, former Japanese actress and model
1991 - Inseong Cho, South Korean actor

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This Day in History for 10th November


Famous Deaths

                                   
Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1891)             Politician Neville Chamberlain (1940)          Novelist Norman Mailer (2007)


461 - St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 - Celestine IV, [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1285 - Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies
1299 - Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
1444 - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20
1549 - Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
1670 - Geory Horn, [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1673 - Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1779 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies of a bone cancer at 37
1909 - Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 - Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1940 - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1948 - Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1954 - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1959 - Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1960 - Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 - Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 - Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1970 - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1971 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
1972 - Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies
1973 - Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 - Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
1978 - Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
1979 - Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
1981 - Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
1982 - Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
1982 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77
1984 - Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1984 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 - Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1990 - Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry), dies at 40
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies
1991 - Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 - Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
1992 - Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1993 - Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1994 - Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
1994 - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1995 - Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29
1995 - Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54
1995 - Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
1996 - Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
1996 - Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
1997 - William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American novelist, dies at 84
2008 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
2009 - Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2009 - Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (b. 1977)
2009 - John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
2010 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
2010 - Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2010 - Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
2011 - Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
2011 - Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)

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This Day in History for 11th November


Historical Events

                                   
The Warrior Pope Julius II                  Composer George Friedrich Handel           Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong

                                   
Theoretical Physicist                         Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin         Musician and Beatle John Lennon
Albert Einstein

                  
US President & Actor                               264th Pope John Paul II
Ronald Reagan


308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders
         of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine
         I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
887 - Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
1158 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
1208 - Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
1215 - 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1417 - Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Saba
1500 - Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide Naples
1503 - Pope Julius II elected
1572 - Duke of Alva's son Don Fredrik begins siege for Haarlem
1606 - Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes
           "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1640 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of
           John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
1648 - Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
1671 - Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the
           command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz
           Siemienowicz were successfully used.
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the
           graph of y = f(x) function.
1688 - Prince Willem III's invasion fleet sails to England
1714 - A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and
           thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. (b. c. 1700)
1725 - Georg F Handel's opera "Tamerlano," premieres in London
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England
1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern,
           Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
1752 - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of
           a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1811 - Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
1813 - Dresden surrenders to allied armies
1836 - Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru
1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1851 - Alvan Clark patents telescope
1862 - Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
1864 - Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL
1865 - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1865 - Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London
1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the
           British East India Company.
1868 - 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol
1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph
           Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1889 - Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
1890 - D McCree patents portable fire escape
1895 - Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1896 - Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War
1899 - Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones' "Floradora," premieres in London
1901 - Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres
1906 - Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig
1909 - Construction of US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, begins
1909 - J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London
1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a
           strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
1918 - Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
1918 - Poland declares independence
1918 - Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00
           am
1919 - Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views
1921 - President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery
1922 - Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
1923 - Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph
1924 - Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
1924 - Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
1925 - Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
1925 - Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 - Night of Kersten - Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
1925 - Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1926 - Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
1928 - France's 5th government of Poincaré forms
1928 - KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1928 - WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1928 - WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1928 - WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention,
           the Einstein refrigerator.
1931 - Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
1933 - "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains
1934 - 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 - WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
1935 - Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1937 - Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph
1937 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson & GP Thomson
1938 - German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
1938 - Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David
1939 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1940 - Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1940 - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
1940 - Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
1941 - Czech premier general Eliasjarrested by nazis
1942 - -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
1942 - 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
1942 - During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
1942 - Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
1942 - Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1942 - Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1943 - Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP
1943 - US air raid on Rabaul
1944 - NY Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
1946 - NY Knicks' 1st game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chic Stags
1949 - WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1957 - Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (SF)
1958 - "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 835 perfs
1958 - AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1959 - 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1959 - Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
1960 - Largest NY Knick 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-18,499
1961 - Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding
1961 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1961 - Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj expelled from USSR's communist party
1961 - Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1963 - Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for Beatles
1963 - Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
1964 - Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in NYC
1965 - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
1965 - Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith
1965 - William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat," premieres in NYC
1966 - Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
1966 - Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
           (USA)
1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
1968 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album
1968 - Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
1968 - Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England
1969 - Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness
1970 - Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1971 - Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
1971 - Neil Simon's "Prisoner of Second Avenue" premieres in NYC
1972 - Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
1972 - US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
1975 - Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 - Australian PM Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr (1st
           elected PM removed in 200 yrs)
1977 - Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
1978 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
1979 - Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
1980 - Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1980 - Islanders' Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
1981 - "Oh, Brother!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 3 performances
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
1982 - 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars
1982 - 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight
1982 - Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
1982 - Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 - 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain
1983 - President Reagan became 1st US president to address Japanese legislature
1983 - Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan at WACA
1984 - "Three Musketeers" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 9 performances
1985 - 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
1985 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985 - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1986 - Houston's Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
1986 - Suriname government proclaims gold purification
1987 - "Roza" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
1987 - Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
1987 - Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 - Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1989 - "Prince of Central Park" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1989 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1990 - "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
1990 - Calif's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game
           between US & Japanese all-star teams
1992 - Anglican Church & Church of England OK female priests
1993 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
1994 - Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
1994 - Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
1996 - Braves' John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award
1997 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather renews his contract to 2002
1997 - Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award
1997 - WNBA expands to Detroit & Washington DC
1999 - Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine
           tunnel.
2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during
           an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial,
           Wellington.
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified
           causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in
           London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army
           and the British Army.
2008 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
2012 - 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma

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This Day in History for 11th November


Famous Weddings

1100 - Anglo Norman King Henry I marries Princess Matilda of Scotland at Westminster Abbey
1838 - Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal (English Naturalist later author
           of Origin of the Species)
1860 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1971 - Swedish director and writer Ingmar Bergman (53) weds actress Ingrid von Rosen (41)
1977 - "Three's Company" actress Suzanne Somers (30) weds host Alan Hamel (40)
2005 - Millionaire Nasir Khan weds "Footballers' Wives" actress Laila Rouass (34) in London
2006 - Dutch Formula One racer Christijan Albers (27) weds Liselore Kooijman at The Grand in
           Amsterdam
2011 - Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson (33) weds model Christina Evangeline at George
           Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia
2011 - TV personality Kim Zolciak (33) weds Atlanta Falcons football player Kroy Biermann (26) in
           Roswell, Georgia
2011 - Sixteen-time Grammy Award-winning hit producer and songwriter David Foster (62) weds
           model Yolanda Hadid in Beverly Hills

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This Day in History for 11th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Physician/Alchemist                          Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821)      US General George S. Patton (1885)
Paracelsus (1493)   

                 
Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1922)              Actress Demi Moore (1962)


995 - Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)
1050 - Henry IV, Goslar, Kaiserpfalz, Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105)
1154 - Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212)
1155 - Alfonso VIII, the Noble One, king of Castilia
1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
1493 - Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (Zinc, laudanum), (d. 1541)
1523 - Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician
1569 - Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
1579 - Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter
1599 - Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian/Spanish marshal
1633 - George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer)
1636 - Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
1657 - Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1675 - Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru
1679 - Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist
1688 - Lorenzo Somis, composer
1690 - Gerhard Hoffmann, composer
1696 - Andrea Zani, composer
1722 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer
1724 - Willem A Alting, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97)
1731 - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer
1736 - Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver
1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
1744 - Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady (1797-1801)
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) Reigned 1788-1808
1767 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster
1771 - Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
1788 - Michal Wielhorski, composer
1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1811 - Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1821 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment), (d. 1881)
1832 - Paolo Giorza, composer
1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)
1868 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist
1869 - Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
1869 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1870 - Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)
1872 - Maude K Adams, US, actress (Baldwin's Theatre)
1872 - David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Vevey Switzerland, conductor (Ruilles de Printemps)
1885 - George S Patton, San Gabriel, California, US general (Sicily/Italy/Normandy) "Old Blood &
           Guts", (d. 1945)
1887 - Roland Young, London England
1888 - Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India
1891 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1893 - Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author
1894 - Aaron Avshalomov, composer
1894 - Winifred Kingston, England, silent screen actress (David Garrick)
1895 - Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor
1895 - Jacov Gotovac, composer
1897 - Gordon W Allport, US, psychologist (personalities)
1898 - Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher
1898 - Rene Clair, director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow)
1899 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1899 - Pat O'Brien, Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)
1900 - Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928)
1900 - Hugh Scott, (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip
1900 - John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)
1901 - Sam Spiegel, producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
1903 - Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine
1904 - Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin
1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1905 - Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer
1909 - Robert Ryan, Chicago, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day)
1910 - Arnold D W Tilanus, Dutch MP (CHU)
1910 - Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952)
1910 - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist
1910 - Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician
1911 - Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], Horsforth, Yorkshire, English actor (Chisum,
           Arnold, Mutiny)
1912 - Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch
1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
1913 - German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer
1913 - Peter Black, TV critic
1914 - Daisy Bates, publisher/head (Arkansas NAACP)
1914 - Hansje Toussaint, [Hermina A Schenk], singer (Sing of the Cross)
1914 - Howard Fast, NYC, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)
1914 - Perry Bass, Texas billionaire
1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
1915 - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor
1915 - William Proxmire, (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88) (Golden Fleece Awards)
1916 - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman
1917 - Julien-Francois Zbinden, composer
1917 - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, US, sci-fi author (Earth War)
1918 - Jurg Baur, composer
1918 - Stubby Kaye, NYC, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou)
1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920 - Roy Jenkins, British MP (Labour)
1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Ind, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
1924 - Piet J A van der Sanden, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 - Rusi Modi, cricketer (strong Indian batsman in post-War years)
1925 - Jonathan Winters, Dayton OH, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), (d. 2013)
1925 - June Whitfield, British comedian
1926 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1926 - Richard Tufeld, Los Angeles, California, voice actor (Lost in Space), (d. 2012)
1927 - Lord Wolfson, English multi-millionaire
1927 - Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist (Black Country Suite)
1928 - Arthur Cunningham, composer
1928 - Edward Zorinsky, (Sen-D-NB, 1976-88)
1928 - Ernestine Anderson, jazz vocalist
1928 - Trevor Meale, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v England 1958)
1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Panama City, Panama, author (The Death of Artemio Cruz), (d. 2012)
1928 - Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
1929 - H M Enzensberger, writer
1929 - LaVern Baker, Chicago, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear)
1930 - Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion designer
1930 - Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
1930 - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
1930 - Vernon Handley, English conductor
1931 - Fortney H [Pete] Stark, (Rep-D-CA, 1973- )
1932 - Al Levitt, drummer
1934 - Bibi Andersson, Sweden, actress (Scenes From a Marriage)
1934 - Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - Paula Myers-Pope, US, platform diver, 2 silver, 1 bronze (Oly 1952-60)
1934 - Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
1936 - Susan Kohner, LA CA, actress (Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story)
1937 - Buddy Jimmy Lee Land Ace, singer
1937 - Warner Wolf, Wash DC, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV)
1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
1938 - Narvel Felts, country singer
1938 - John Reilly, Chicago, actor (Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons)
1938 - Josef Odozil, Czech, 1500m (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 - Roger Laver, [Jackson], rock keyboardist (Tornados)
1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1939 - Claudia Boyarskikh, USSR, 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 - Denise Alexander, actress (Mary McKinnon-Another World)
1940 - Barbara Boxer, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-92/Sen-D-CA, 1993- )
1942 - Roy Fredericks, cricketer (brilliant WI lefty opener 169 v Aust 1975)
1943 - Chas Hodges, rocker
1943 - Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
1943 - Karin Kent, [Janneke Kanteman], Dutch singer
1944 - Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor
1945 - Chris Dreja, London, rocker (Yardbirds)
1945 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-90)
1945 - Denise Alexander, NYC, actress (General Hospital, Another World)
1945 - Niaz Ahmed, cricketer (1st & last East Pakistani to play Test cricket)
1945 - Vince Martell, NYC, rock guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
1946 - Chip Hawkes, rocker
1946 - Corrine Brown, (Rep-D-Florida)
1946 - Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10, T-15, TM-10)
1947 - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist
1947 - Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian
1947 - Pat "Dirty" Daugherty, rocker (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, actor (Playroom, Waiting for the Light)
1949 - Kathy Postlewait, Norfolk VA, LPGA golfer (1989 Sara Lee)
1950 - Jim Peterik, rocker (Survivor)
1950 - Otis Armstrong, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1950 - Rex Samuel Sellers, Auckland NZ, Tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
1950 - Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver
1950 - Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist
1951 - Fuzzy [Frank] Zoeller, New Albany IN, PGA golfer (Masters 1981)
1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
1952 - Paul Cowsill, Newport RI, rock keyboardist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1953 - Andy Partridge, English rock vocalist/guitarist (XTC-Oranges & Lemons)
1953 - Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
1954 - Gail Marquis, WBL forward (NY Stars, Olympic-silver-1976)
1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
1955 - Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972- )
1956 - Billy Smith, Reidsville NC, country singer (Billy & Terry Smith)
1956 - Ian Craig Marsh, England, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
1958 - Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American Actor
1959 - Vincent Irizarry, Queens NY, actor (Guiding Light, Santa Barbara)
1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1960 - Lisa Welch Semler, Aberdeen Md, playmate (Sep, 1980)
1960 - Peter Parros, American actor
1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
1961 - Matt Ghaffari, Tehran Iran, US greco-roman wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1961 - Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1962 - Demi Moore, [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane)
1962 - Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician
1963 - Vinnie Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buckineers)
1964 - Jon Hough, Royal Oak MI, Nike golfer (1986 NAIA Individual Natl Champ)
1964 - Philip McKeon, Westbury NY, actor (Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High)
1964 - Robert Haynes, cricketer (Jamaica & WI leggie, one-dayer but no Tests)
1964 - Roberto Hernandez, Santurce Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
1964 - Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
1965 - Brian Wilson, NYC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 - Ruthie Matthes, Sun Valley Idaho, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer
1966 - Benedicta Boccoli, Milan Italy
1966 - Gina Pillitiere, Akron Oh, WPVA volleyballer (National-25th-1994)
1967 - Bill Musgrave, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1968 - Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1968 - John Jett, NFL punter (Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions)
1968 - Lin Elliott, NFL kicker (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Wyatt Pauley, Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1968 - David L Cook, American singer and comedian
1969 - Damion Easley, NYC, infielder (California Angels)
1969 - Dave Moore, NFL tight end/fullback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Jeff Sydner, NFL wide receiver/punt returner (NY Jets)
1969 - LaRee Pearl Sugg, Petersburg VA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-15th)
1969 - Michael Owens, cricket pace bowler (NZ Test)
1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality
1970 - Derry Brownson, rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 - Jeff Ware, Norfolk VA, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 - Lee Parkin Starsky, daughter of Ringo
1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author
1971 - Melvin Tuten, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Ryan Hancock, Santa Clara CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1971 - Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
1971 - Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator
1972 - Cornell Thomas, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Jack Jackson, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Steve Konowalchuk, Salt Lake City, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1972 - Adam Beach, Canadian actor
1972 - Leslie Mann, American actress
1973 - Jason Bowen, Port Alice, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1973 - Stacy Perrone, Wolcott Conn, Meet Miss America-Connecticut (1997)
1973 - Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, LA, actor (Luke-Growing Pains, Romeo & Juliet)
1974 - Phillip Ward, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Static Major, American singer (d. 2008)
1976 - Lisa Gleave, American actress and model
1976 - Jason Grilli, American baseball player
1976 - Jesse Keeler, Canadian musician
1977 - Maniche, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
1978 - Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Willie Parker, American football player
1981 - Natalie Glebova, Miss Universe 2005
1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1982 - Lil' Dave, [Davis Shelton], Boston Mass, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1982 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1983 - Matt Garza, American baseball player
1985 - Jessica Sierra, American Idol season 4 finalist
1985 - Robin Uthappa, Indian cricket player
1986 - François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
1987 - Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS and Tegomass)
1988 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
1989 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer
1991 - Christa B. Allen, American actress
1992 - Trey Smith, American actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th November


Famous Deaths

Palestinian Leader
Yasser Arafat (2004)


307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies
397 - Martinus, (St Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81
405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
511 - Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45
826 - Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies
865 - Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
1150 - Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1331 - Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia (1322-31), dies
1528 - Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 - Cornelis Cornelisz, "of Haarlem", painter, dies at about 76
1641 - Ferdinand van Austrian, cardinal of Spain, dies
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1755 - Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, dies at 91
1772 - John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84
1810 - Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77
1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 - Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1861 - Pedro V van Alcantara, King of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24
1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1880 - Lucretia Mott, US quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 - Haymarket defenda
1895 - Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68
1901 - Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72
1907 - Henry Gadsby, composer, dies at 64
1912 - Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75
1912 - Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1917 - Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
1918 - Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies
1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
1929 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
1930 - W W Whysall, cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies
1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1936 - Edward German, composer, dies at 74
1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
1939 - Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague
1942 - Anton H Blaauw, botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1942 - Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1945 - Jerome Kern, US composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60
1947 - Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
1954 - John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81
1955 - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
1956 - Victor Young, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 - Joseph Allen Jr, actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44
1962 - René Coty, pres of France, dies at 80
1964 - Edward Steuermann, composer, dies at 72
1964 - H[enry] Beam Piper, US, sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
1965 - Gaston Glass, actor (Opening Your Eyes), dies after long illness at 65
1967 - Harry Seymour, composer/actor (Tenderfoot), dies of heart attack at 76
1967 - Jordan Whitfield, actor (Swamp Fox), dies of heart attack at 50
1968 - Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47
1969 - Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker), dies at 83
1972 - Berry Oakley, US rock bassist (Allman Bro), dies in car crash at 24
1973 - Stringbean, [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1974 - Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80
1974 - Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1975 - Marty May, (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79
1976 - Alexander Calder, US sculptor, dies at 78
1976 - E Q Davies, cricketer (9 runs & 7 wickets in 5 Tests for S Afr), dies
1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1977 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (b. 1950)
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1984 - Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar/father of MLK Jr, dies at 84
1984 - Jan Novak, composer, dies at 63
1986 - Roger C Carmel, actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
1987 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86
1987 - Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
1990 - Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1990 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
1992 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 - Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies
1993 - Erskine Hawkins, US trumpeter/composer (After Hours), dies at 79
1993 - Harry R "Rob" Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon), dies at 67
1994 - Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87
1994 - Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82
1994 - Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81
1994 - Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22
1994 - John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of
           Transportation (b. 1908)
1995 - Charles Scribner Jr, publisher, dies at 74
1995 - Cornelie Coposu, politician, dies at 79
1995 - Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68
1996 - Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47
1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
1998 - Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
2004 - Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
           revolutionary and nobel prize winner dies in Paris at 75
2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
2006 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
2006 - Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
2008 - Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 - Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
2010 - Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
2010 - William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 12th November


Historical Events

                                   
Naval Officer and Explorer          Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1821)     Nazi Politician Hermann Goering
Robert Scott 

                                   
First Israeli Prime Minister                    Musician & member of the Beatles    Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
 David Ben-Gurion                                              Paul McCartney


295 - Origin of Era of Ascension
764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
954 - Lotharius becomes king of France
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1591 - Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 - Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 - Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 - France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1813 - Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
1823 - Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that
           bears his name
1873 - Bay District Race Track opens
1885 - Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in
           CRFU Championship game
1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 - Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the
           Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two
           sister nations.
1899 - British troops reach Durban Natal
1900 - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over
           republic.
1906 - C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 - Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica
1914 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 - Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis,
           Indiana.
1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1924 - Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 - British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1931 - Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1932 - 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 - 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 - St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
1938 - Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 - Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 - WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 - Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 - RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway
1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller
           windows.
1947 - KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 - Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 - Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
1951 - "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1952 - Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 - White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel
1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 - 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 - E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1958 - Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1959 - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
1960 - Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 - Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 - Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 - General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 - Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 - Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 - Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of
           Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1968 - KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
           unconstitutional
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 - Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 - US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese
           village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 - WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1970 - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1973 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 - NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1978 - "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1979 - Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 - Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 - Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 - 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 - Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in NYC
1981 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1981 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1982 - Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983 - 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 - NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
1985 - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud
           Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 - "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1988 - Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th
           Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
1991 - Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 - 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995 - Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
1995 - Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1995 - NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1996 - Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 - Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1997 - Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 - NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing
           Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican
           Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all
           260 on board and five on the ground.
2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial
           railway systems.
2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the
           2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from
           Georgia.
2011 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European
           sovereign debt crisis.
2012 - Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize

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This Day in History for 12th November


Famous Weddings

1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the
           dying Constantine VIII.
1656 - English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine
           Woodcock
1969 - Director Blake Edwards (47) weds "The Sound of Music" actress Julie Andrews (34) in Beverly
           Hills
2005 - Businessman Donald Trump Jr. (27) weds model Vanessa Haydon at the Mar-A-Lago estate in
           Palm Beach, Florida
2011 - Actress Tiffany Thornton (26) weds Christopher Carney at Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs,
           Arkansas