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This Day in History for 16th November


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                             Spanish Conquistador                     President and Dictator of Brazil
                                                                         Francisco Pizarro                                 Getulio Vargas

                                   
Gangster Al Capone                                 Basketball Player Bill Russell             Musician and Beatle John Lennon

                 
Musician & member of the Beatles         Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Paul McCartney                                       Mike Tyson


13 - General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
1491 - An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the
           Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1572 - Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and
           plunder Zutphen, Nmetherlands
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein
1676 - 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
1677 - French troops occupy Freiburg
1700 - Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
1763 - English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel
1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1771 - West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
1776 - 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Ft St Eustatius
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1798 - Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 - 1st edition of New York Evening Post
1805 - Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French
1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1841 - Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked
           to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1856 - Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1859 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
1863 - Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
1864 - Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1864 - Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1870 - Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
1875 - Battle of Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1875 - William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1882 - British HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger
1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason
           aged 41.
1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1894 - French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1901 - 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who
           drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1903 - V Herbert & H Smith' musical "Babette" premieres in NYC
1905 - Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1907 - Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
1908 - Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1909 - EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
1914 - Federal Reserve System formally opens
1914 - Pope Benedict XV calls for peace
1916 - Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" premieres in NYC
1916 - I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC
1916 - Russian La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000
1917 - British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared
1919 - Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Béla Kuns Soviet Republic
1920 - Australia's Qantas airways founded in Winton, Queensland as Queensland and Northern
           Territory Aerial Services Limited
1920 - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1922 - Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1922 - Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1924 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL &
           major-league football record)
1925 - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925 - Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in NYC
1926 - NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
1933 - Brazilians President Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1935 - Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in NYC
1936 - German air force begins bombing of Madrid
1938 - K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
1938 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in
           Basel, Switzerland.
1939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1939 - German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the
           Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1941 - German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1942 - Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory
           in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1944 - US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
1945 - Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
1945 - UNESCO is founded.
1947 - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 - Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops
1950 - UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1950 - US pres Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1952 - Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
1955 - 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (Donald Campbell)
1955 - Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"
1955 - KLM orders 8 DC-8's
1955 - Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
1957 - "Copper & Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1957 - Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Phila 111-89
1957 - Ed Gein butchers last victim
1957 - Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0
1959 - "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs
1960 - NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
1961 - Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1962 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY Knicks
1963 - Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
1964 - Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
1966 - Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1966 - Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1969 - 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
1972 - "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
1973 - John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1973 - Pres Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1973 - Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of
           stars some 25,000 light years away
1974 - John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1974 - Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open
1976 - René Levesque's "Parti Québécois" wins elections in Quebec
1976 - Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1977 - Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
1979 - Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1980 - Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
1981 - "Merrily We Roll Along" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
1981 - Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis
1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
1982 - Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 - Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight
1982 - Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing" premieres in London
1983 - Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose
1984 - 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
1984 - Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 - Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket
1984 - John Lennon releases 'Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him'
1987 - Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 - Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
1988 - Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson
1988 - Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
1988 - Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1989 - "Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances
1989 - 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
1989 - South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General
           Conference.
1990 - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
1993 - "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
1993 - Jim Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
1993 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1995 - US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson's disease
1995 - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery
1996 - "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1996 - 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards
1997 - "1776" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Saskatchawan, 47-23
1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng,
           a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam
           War.
2012 - 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest
            entertainment launch of all time

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This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Weddings

1683 - Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henriette Amalia
1981 - Luke marries Laura on TV soap "General Hospital" (16 million watch)
1987 - Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
1996 - "What Part of No" country singer Lorrie Morgan (37) weds singer Jon Randall (29) in Nashville

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This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Divorces

1973 - Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) divorces Gertrude Blugerman after 31 years of marriage
1993 - James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
2010 - Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne (24) divorces "Sum 41" lead singer and guitarist Deryck
           Whibley (29) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
2011 - Second season American Idol winner Rubben Studdard (33) divorces Surata Zuri McCants due
           to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Enlightenment Philosopher                     Actor Burgess Meredith (1907)                Novelist and Poet
Jean-Baptiste                                                                                                         Chinua Achebe (1930)
Le Rond d'Alembert (1717)


Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977)


42 BC - Tiberius, Roman Emperor (d. 37 AD)
1436 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521)
1569 - Paul Sartorius, composer
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha)
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1609 - Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1615 - Guillaume Dumanoir, composer
1642 - Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt admiral of Zeeland
1643 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
1653 - Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1707-09)
1684 - Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg)
1715 - Girolamo Abos, composer
1717 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French Enlightenment philosophe/mathematician
           (Encyclopédie), (d. 1783)
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
1730 - Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician
1757 - Daniel Read, composer
1758 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1762 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1766 - Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv)
1780 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer
1793 - Francis Danby, Irish painter
1807 - Francois Hainl, composer
1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
1822 - Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1827 - James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49)
1829 - Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
1835 - Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1840 - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
1841 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1854 - Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
1860 - Edmund Schuecker, composer
1861 - Vaclav Suk, composer
1862 - Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
1870 - Alfred Hill, composer
1873 - William Christopher Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) (d. 1958)
1874 - Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons
1880 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28]
1883 - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/composer (In Tempore Belli)
1885 - Michael Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1887 - Philip Frohman, US architect
1888 - Burnet Corwin Tuthill, NYC, composer (Laurentia)
1888 - Clinton Golden, Penn, founder (United Steelworkers of America)
1888 - Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author/poet (Gogol)
1889 - August Croegaert, Flemish liturgist
1889 - George S Kaufman, Pittsburgh Pa, playwright (This is Show Business)
1889 - Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer
1890 - Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer
1890 - Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53)
1890 - George Seldes, journalist
1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)
1892 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
1893 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist
1894 - Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician
1894 - Mabel Normand, [Muriel Fortescue], Boston MA, comedienne (Mickey)
1895 - Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West)
1895 - Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict)
1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield California, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50)
1896 - Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi
1896 - Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984)
1897 - Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon England, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
1899 - Mary Margaret McBride, Paris Mo, radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC)
1902 - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist
1904 - Eddie Condon, Goodland Ind, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show)
1904 - Frederik van der Meer, Dutch archaeologist/art historian
1904 - Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician
1905 - Astrid SLT Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden
1907 - Burgess Meredith, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), (d. 1997)
1912 - Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, author (Weird White)
1912 - George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners)
1916 - Daws Butler, Toledo OH, animation voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound)
1917 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Saint's Day)
1919 - Udo Kasemets, composer
1920 - Betty Hicks, LPGA golfer
1922 - Royal Dano, NYC, actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II)
1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Joep J P de Boer, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete
1926 - Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer
1927 - Barbara Payton, Cloquet MN, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde)
1928 - Clu Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man)
1929 - Renate Rubinstein, [Tamar], German/Ned's author/columnist (Tamar)
1930 - Alice Adams, sculptor
1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra), (d. 2013)
1930 - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
1931 - Bob Gibson, rocker
1931 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
1932 - Barbara Romack, LPGA golfer
1933 - Guy Stockwell, NYC, actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise)
1935 - Elizabeth Drew, journalist (Politics & Money: The Road to Corruption)
1935 - France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles (1977- )
1936 - Shirvani Chalayev, composer
1936 - John Moore, Australian politician
1938 - Richard Landry, composer
1938 - Toni Brown, US guitarist/singer/keyboardist (Joy of Cooking)
1938 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1940 - Chris Balderstone, cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976)
1941 - Ann Dore McLaughlin, US Secretary of Labor (1987- )
1941 - Dan Penn, US songwriter/producer/gospel singer (Out in Left Field)
1942 - Donna McKechnie, Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer (Company)
1942 - Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1943 - Winfred "Blue" Lovett, US singer (Manhattans-One Life to Live)
1944 - Charles Jay Hammer, actor (Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light)
1944 - David O'Sullivan, NZ cricket left-arm spinner (in 11 Tests 1973-76)
1944 - Hugo Dittberner, writer
1944 - Joanna Pettit, London, actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent)
1944 - Oliver Braddick, British psychologist
1945 - Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1945 - Steve Railsback, Dallas, Texas, American actor (The Stunt Man, Escape 2000)
1946 - Barbara Leigh, Ringgold Ga, actress (Vampirella)
1947 - Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
1948 - Aline Issermann, director (Amant Magnifiquew)
1948 - Chi Coltrane, US pianist/singer
1948 - Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
1949 - Pattie Santos, rocker
1949 - William Ackerman, composer
1950 - Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 38, STS 50, 64)
1950 - David Leisure, actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest)
1950 - John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist
1951 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
1952 - Robin McKinley, American writer
1952 - Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist, Biblioteca Marciana
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1953 - Griff Rhys Jones, British humorist/actor (Morons From Outer Space)
1954 - Andrea Barrett, American author
1954 - Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004)
1954 - Dick Gross, Australian politician
1955 - Pierre Larouche, Canadian National Hockey League player
1956 - Terry Labonte, American NASCAR driver
1957 - Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, VP (Microsoft Desktop)
1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor
1958 - Harry Rushakoff, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach)
1958 - Roberto Guerrero, Medelin Colombia, Indy racer (Rookie of Year 1984)
1958 - Boris Krivokapić, Serbian academic
1959 - Bert Cameron, Spanish Town Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silv-1988)
1959 - Corey Allen Pavin, Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1995 US Open)
1961 - Frank Bruno, British boxer (European champ)
1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
1961 - Bruno Amato American actor
1962 - Chuck Finley, pitcher (Angels)
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 - Gay "Mani" Mournfield, English pop bassist (Stone Roses)
1963 - Zina Garrison Jackson, Houston Texas, tennis star (1988/90 Wimbledon)
1964 - Dwight Gooden, Tampa FL, pitcher (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian Jazz pianist and singer
1964 - Harry J. Lennix, American actor
1964 - Maeve Quinlan, American actress
1965 - Glen Edward Day, Mobile AL, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-2nd)
1965 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress (Normal People)
1966 - Dan Nowosielski, Montreal Quebec, fencing epee (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lisa Brown Miller, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1966 - Tammy Lauren, SD California, actress (Angie, Out of the Blue)
1966 - Tim Scott, Hanford California, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Tricia Cast, Medford NY, actr (Amanda-Bad News Bear, Young & Restless)
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 - Dean McDermott, Canadian actor
1966 - Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer
1967 - Lawrence Dawsey, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Lisa Bonet, SF, actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart)
1967 - Craig Arnold, American poet
1968 - Chris Haney, Baltimore MD, pitcher (KC Royals)
1968 - Ebrahim Essop-Adam, cricketer (one ODI for Zimbabwe 1992)
1968 - Melvin Stewart, US butterfly swimmer (200m record)
1968 - Suzi Simpson, Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)
1968 - Vlado Šola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
1969 - Mike Devlin, NFL guard/center (Buffalo Bills, Cardinals)
1969 - Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs (108+ kg) US weightlifter (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Jason Carthen, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Martha Plimpton, NYC, actress (Goonies, Mosquito Coast)
1971 - Donald Wolf, computer game creator
1971 - Waqar Younis, cricketer (brilliant Pakistani fast/swing bowler)
1971 - Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer
1971 - Koshi Rikdo, Japanese mangaka
1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress
1973 - Howard Smothers, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Joe Hudepohl, US, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Sedrick Shaw, running back (New England Patriots)
1973 - Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner
1973 - Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
1974 - Eric Judy, American Musician
1974 - Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
1974 - Paul Scholes, British footballer
1976 - Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer
1976 - Danny Wallace, British author
1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1994)
1977 - Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, New York, actress (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight)
1978 - Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
1978 - Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
1978 - Carolina Parra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1979 - Michael Faustino, actor (brother of David)
1979 - Salli Wills, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Tony Frias, American footballer
1979 - Bruce Irons, American surfer
1980 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
1980 - Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
1980 - Carol Huynh, 2008 Canadian Gold Medalist,48 kg. wrestling
1981 - Allison Crowe, Canadian singer
1981 - Caitlin Glass, American voice actress
1981 - Osi Umenyiora, English-born NFL football player
1982 - Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player
1982 - Ronald Pognon, French athlete
1982 - Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player
1983 - Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
1983 - Britta Steffen, German swimmer
1983 - K, South Korean singer
1984 - Gemma Atkinson, British actress and model
1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
1986 - Saeko, Japanese actress
1992 - Adam Robert Worton, Newark DE, twin actor (Baby's Day Out)
1992 - Jacob Joseph Worton, Newark DE, twin actor (Baby's Day Out)
1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American child actor

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This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Deaths

                     
Actor Clark Gable (1960)                       Economist Milton Friedman (2006)


1271 - Henry III, King of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies
1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
1512 - Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded
1512 - Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1548 - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44
1603 - Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies
1613 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
1628 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer
1667 - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer, dies at 34
1668 - Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79
1695 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
1706 - Cornelis Evertsen, mutineer/ltalian-admiral of Zeeland, dies at 64
1706 - Godfried Schalcken, painter/etcher/engraver, dies
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged
1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
1766 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81
1773 - John Hawkesworth, English writer
1775 - Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28
1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) Reigns 1786-97
1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1808 - Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
1831 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
1835 - Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48
1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
1884 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
1890 - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71
1893 - George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87
1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
1909 - Francis Thome, composer, dies at 59
1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
1922 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1924 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78
1924 - Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75
1932 - Carry van Bruggen, [de Haan], Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51
1934 - Joachim Ringelantz, writer, dies
1935 - Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53
1939 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866)
1943 - Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Charles Kellaway, cricketer (26 Tests 1910-1928), dies
1945 - Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43
1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1955 - Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88
1957 - Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67
1958 - Warner Fabian, [S Adams], US author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87
1960 - Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59
1961 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79
1964 - Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
1964 - John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59
1964 - Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champion cyclist (1921-24, 26), dies at 71
1965 - Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66
1968 - Greet Hofmans, faith healer of Dutch queen Juliana, dies at 74
1971 - Charlie Dell, comedian, dies at 90
1971 - Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28
1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
1972 - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87
1973 - Alan Watts, writer/popularizer of Zen, dies in Calif
1974 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91
1975 - Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president, dies at 83
1978 - Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75
1980 - Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37
1981 - Enid Markey, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy), dies at 85
1981 - Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy Detective), dies
1981 - William Holden, actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy), dies at 63
1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82
1982 - Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
1984 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
1985 - John J Sparkmann, (Sen-D-Ala), dies at 85
1986 - Siobhan McKenna, actress (Dr Zhivago, Hungry Hill), dies at 63
1987 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
1987 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (b. 1907)
1988 - Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Neth architect, dies at about 85
1989 - Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
1991 - Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33
1993 - Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54
1993 - Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
1994 - Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter, dies at 57
1994 - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer, dies at 83
1994 - David Rayner, cyclist, dies
1994 - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95
1994 - Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer, dies at 64
1994 - John Boylan, US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
1994 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943)
1995 - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70
1995 - Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84
1996 - George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73
1996 - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87
1996 - John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88
1997 - George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday
1997 - Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1997 - Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 74
1999 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (b. 1928)
2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
2000 - Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
2001 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
2003 - Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
2005 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
2005 - Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
2006 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 94
2006 - Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
2007 - Harold Alfond, American businessman (b. 1914)
2007 - Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1947)
2007 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)
2008 - Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2009 - Edward Woodward, British actor (The Equalizer) (b. 1930)
2009 - Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
2010 - Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (b. 1952)
2010 - Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (b. 1912)
2010 - Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
2010 - Britton Chance, American molecular biologist and yachtsman (b. 1913)
2012 - Bob Scott, New Zealand Rugby player, dies at 91

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This Day in History for 17th November


Historical Events

                                   
Composer Giuseppe Verdi                   Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky                Marxist Revolutionary
                                                                                                                         and Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin

                 
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin         Musician and Beatle John Lennon


473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
1278 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scots.
1511 - England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign anti-French covenant The Treaty of
           Westminster
1555 - William of Orange becomes member of Council of State
1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Mary "Bloody Mary", Queen of
           England (1553-58), aged 42
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1734 - John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted
1785 - Church of England organizes in New England
1796 - Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1798 - -21) Snow storms in New England, hundreds die
1800 - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow
1827 - The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union
           College in Schenectady, New York.
1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di" premieres in Milan
1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer captured in Boston
1842 - Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1853 - Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day
           Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 - On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes
           Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1858 - Origin of Modified Julian Period
1862 - Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns
1863 - -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN
1863 - Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
1866 - Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1869 - Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)
1869 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean & Red seas
1874 - Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, NZ
1875 - Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm
           reception by the Russian people.
1877 - Gilbert and Sullivan's operette "Sorcerer" premieres in London
1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
1884 - Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
1888 - Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg
1889 - Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & SF
1894 - Daily Racing Form founded
1903 - Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
1904 - George Cohans musical "Little Johnny Jones," premieres in NYC
1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1913 - 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct
1914 - US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
1917 - Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
1918 - Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1922 - Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship
1926 - NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1
1927 - Tornado hits Washington DC
1928 - Boston Garden officially opens
1928 - Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
1929 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
1929 - Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
1930 - Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
1931 - Bradman scores 135 NSW v South Africa, 128 mins, 15 fours
1932 - German government of von Papen, resigns
1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
1936 - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1937 - Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938 - Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1939 - German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
1939 - Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in NYC
1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
1940 - Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
1941 - Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1944 - -Nov 19] Nazi raids in Dutch NE Polder
1945 - "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1945 - New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1948 - Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
1953 - St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the
           mainland.
1956 - Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
1956 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1957 - WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 - De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
1959 - Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
1959 - William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
1960 - New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
1962 - "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 perfs
1962 - President Kennedy dedicates Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC
1962 - Simon/Coleman/Leigh's musical "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 257
           performances
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 - British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
1965 - General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of China PR
1965 - William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
1966 - Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1967 - Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
1967 - French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
1967 - Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
1968 - "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 305 performances
1968 - John Kander/Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in NYC
1968 - KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 - NBC cuts to show "Heidi" and misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator
           George Papadopoulos.
1969 - SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
1970 - British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1970 - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1972 - Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1973 - Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1973 - Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse"
1973 - Pres Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.
           Well, I'm not a crook"
1974 - Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic
1974 - Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of
           PCP(m-l).
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 - Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" premieres in London
1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1977 - Miss World Contest - Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini
1979 - Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball
1979 - Khomeini frees most black & female US hostages
1979 - NY Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1979 - On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
1980 - John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
1981 - "1st" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 37 performances
1981 - NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
1982 - Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
1983 - "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 perfs
1983 - Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
1983 - Phila Flyers win 13th straight NHL game
1984 - Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
1984 - Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
1985 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM NY
1985 - NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
1986 - "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 56 performances
1987 - George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
1988 - Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World
1988 - Neil Simon's "Rumors" premieres in NYC
1989 - Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
1991 - "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 12 performances
1991 - 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
1991 - Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams
1992 - "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 55 performances
1992 - Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
1992 - Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later
           revealed NBC rigged test
1992 - Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
1993 - "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 perfs
1993 - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
1993 - US House of Representatives approve Nafta
1994 - "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 977 performances
1994 - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
1994 - Irish government of Reynolds resigns
1996 - "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational
1997 - Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut,
           known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of
           damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming
           the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first
           time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
2012 - 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut,
           Egypt

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th November


Famous Weddings

1934 - Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1978 - Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin
2003 - Singer Blake Shelton (27) weds Kaynette Williams in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2008 - Heartthrob finalist from Top Chef's second season Sam Talbot (30) weds Colombian model
           and t-shirt designer Paola Guerrero in a secret wedding ceremony at City Hall in New York City
2012 - Award-winning Chinese actress Chen Yao (33) weds cinematographer Yu Cao in Queenstown,
           New Zealand

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Roman Emperor Vespasian (9)                  Director Martin Scorsese (1942)               Actor Danny Devito (1944)


9 - Vespasian, Falacrina, Italy, Roman Emperor (AD 69-79), (d. AD 79)
331 - Flavius Claudius Julianus, [Julian the Apostate], Emperor
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 - Il Bronzino, Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1594 - Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer (Treasure of Health)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1690 - Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist
1704 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet
1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1755 - Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24)
1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
1771 - Jonathan Huntington, composer
1787 - Michele Carafa, composer
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1794 - John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1873
1799 - Titian Ramsey Peale, US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology)
1808 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer
1814 - Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1816 - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist (History of Music)
1826 - John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
1834 - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1835 - Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1837 - David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
1837 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
1837 - Willem Coenen, composer
1854 - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)
1859 - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
1865 - John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins)
1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1876 - Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor (Brussels, Belgium)
1877 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
1878 - Grace Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau)
1879 - Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar
1881 - Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh Dutch/MP
1883 - Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1913)
1885 - Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman (Belgian Workers Party)
1886 - Crane Wilbur, Athens NY, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo)
1887 - Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1888 - Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje, It Hippie)
1890 - Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs)
1891 - Guido Pannain, composer
1891 - Jean Del Val, [Gautier], France, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces)
1892 - Max Deutsch, composer
1894 - Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs (1939-46)/diplomat
1894 - Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51)
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1897 - Ed Baker, Davis WV, actor (Keystone Kops)
1897 - Frank Fay, San Francisco, California, American actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest)
1897 - Sara Haden, Galveston Tx, actress (A Family Affair)
1899 - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Coup of Trafalgar)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
1900 - Marcel Dalio, Paris, actor (Casablanca)
1901 - Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer (4 time British Amateur champ)
1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austria, acting coach/actor (Somewhere in the Night)
1901 - Max Zehnder, composer
1901 - Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer
1901 - Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU) (Hallstein doctrine)
1902 - Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist (A Bomb, Nobel 1963)
1902 - Lee Strasberg, Austria, acting coach/actor (And Justice for All)
1903 - Joseph Kaminski, composer
1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal)
1905 - Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (Aus batsman & leggie 99 on Test debut)
1905 - Astrid Bernadotte, Princess of Sweden
1905 - Mischa Auer, [Ounskowsky], St Petersburg Russia, actor (My Man Godfrey)
1905 - Wazyk, [Adam Wagman], Polish poet/author (Eyes & Mouth)
1906 - Betty Bronson, Trenton NJ, actress (Evel Knievel, One Stolen Night)
1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO (Honda Motor Co)
1906 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1909 - Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (Heart of the Matter)
1911 - Charles Walters, US, actor/choreographer/director (Easter parade)
1911 - Nobutaka Shikanai, Japans media CEO (Fujisankei Com Group)
1911 - William Tannen, NYC, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull)
1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
1914 - Archie Campbell, Bullsgap Tenn, comedian (Hee Haw)
1916 - Winson Hudson, community activist (rural Mississippi)
1917 - Jack Lescoulie, Sacramento California, TV host (Jackie Gleason Show)
1919 - Hershy Kay, Philadelphia Penn, composer/arranger (Olympic Hymn)
1919 - Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1921 - Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
1922 - Emile Noel, international civil servant
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, cricketer (all-time great NZ left-handed bat)
1923 - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law
1923 - Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1924 - Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Hague Comedy)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Schenectady NY, Australian conductor
1925 - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier
1925 - Libby Newman, painter/printmaker/curator
1925 - Rock Hudson, Winnetka, Ill, actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms)
1927 - Ellis Hillman, politician
1928 - Colin McDonald, cricketer (stalwart Australian opening bat for 1950's)
1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
1929 - Edgar White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba
1929 - Sumner White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Mathias, Tulare, California, American decathlete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1930 - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician
1930 - David Werner Amram, Philadelphia Pa, composer (Splendor in the Grass)
1933 - Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
1934 - James M Inhofe, (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
1934 - Fenella Fielding, English actress
1935 - Anton Sailer, Austria, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1956)
1936 - Leni van Rijn-Vellekoop, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1937 - Peter Edward Cook, Torquay England, actor/comedian (Bedazzled)
1938 - Alvaro Leon Cassuto, composer
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Ontario Canada, folksinger (Sundown)
1938 - Peter Snell, NZ, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1938 - Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1941 - Gene Clark, Los Angeles California, rock vocalist/guitarist (Byrds)
1941 - Peter Hoagland, (Rep-D-Nebraska)
1942 - Annemarie Oster, Dutch actress (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1942 - Bob Gaudio, Bronx NY, rocker (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1942 - Martin Scorsese, Queens, New York, director (Raging Bull, The Departed)
1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton, [Mary], Charleston SC, model/actress (American Gigolo)
1944 - Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins)
1944 - Eugene Clarke, Tipton Missouri, rock guitarist
1944 - Lorne Michaels, [Lipowitz], Toronto Ontario, comedian (SNL)
1944 - Tom Seaver, Fresno, California, American MLB pitcher (NY Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young
           '69 '73 '75)
1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1945 - Elvin Hayes, NBA star (San Diego, Houston, Baltimore)
1945 - Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member
1945 - Roland Joffe, director (City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields)
1946 - Martin Barre, British pop guitarist (Jethro Tull)
1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1947 - Rod Clements, rocker
1947 - Stewkey, [Robert Antoni], rocker
1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1948 - Jaime Huelamo, Spain, cyclist (Olympic-bronze-1972) drug disqualified
1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
1949 - John Boehner, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1949 - Thomas Lionel Hill, New Orleans, 110m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1950 - Roland Matthes, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Oly-gold-1968, 72)
1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, Santa Monica California, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science)
1951 - Jack Vettriano, Methil Scotland, Scottish painter ( The Singing Butler)
1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
1951 - Butch Davis, American football coach
1952 - M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union
1952 - Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler (Olympic-1980)
1953 - Dino Martin Jr, rocker
1953 - Jilly Johnson, England, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde)
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1955 - Bill McCreary, Ontario, NHL referee
1955 - Peter Cox, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1955 - Yolanda King, actress (Fluke, Ghosts of Mississippi)
1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
1958 - Allison Finney, Winnetka IL, LPGA golfer (1989 Standard Register)
1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Oak Park Ill, actress (Color of Money)
1959 - William R Moses, Los Angeles California, actor (Cole-Falcon Crest)
1959 - Terry Fenwick, English footballer
1960 - Jonathan Ross, British talk show host (Tall Guy)
1960 - RuPaul, drag queen/model/actor (RuPaul Show)
1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1961 - Merete Van Kemp, Denmark, actress (Grace-Dallas, Princess Daisy)
1961 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
1962 - Eric Olson, Santa Monica California, actress (Apple's Way)
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1963 - Marco T Dawson, Freising Germany, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milw-2nd)
1963 - Pedro Luis Estrada, Brooklyn New York, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1964 - Marina Tcherkasova, US, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1964 - Michelle Knox-Zaloom, Annapolis MD, rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
1965 - Grant Connell, Regina Saskatchawan, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1965 - Paul Sorrento, Somerville MA, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 - Raffaella Reggi, Italy, tennis star
1965 - Rob Koll, Bellefonte PA, 163 lbs/74 kg freestyle wrestler (Olymp-96)
1965 - Winthrop Graham, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America's Funniest Videos)
1966 - Jeff Nelson, Baltimore MD, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1966 - Sophie Marceau, Paris France, actress (Braveheart, L'Amour Braque)
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1967 - Howard Griffith, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Ronnie Devoe, Boston, vocals (New Edition, Bell Div Devoe-Candy Girl)
1967 - Sheila Lussier, La Mesa California, actress (Reform School, My Chauffeur)
1968 - Cacho Conde, WLAF tight end/running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1968 - Sean Miller, American basketball coach
1969 - Takako Inque, Toride Japan, wrestler (Japan)
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1970 - Chris Tamer, Dearborn, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1970 - Max Huiberts, soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1971 - Audra Keller, Macon Georgia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Evansville IN)
1972 - Ron Lewis, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
1972 - Kimya Dawson, American singer
1973 - Scott Rehberg, tackle (New England Patriots)
1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1974 - Abbygale Williamson Arenas, Miss Universe-Photogenic (Phil, 1997)
1974 - Brandon Call, actor (Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step)
1974 - Marc Edwards, NFL fullback (SF 49ers)
1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
1974 - Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
1976 - Dafne Zeledon, Miss Universe-Costa Rica (1996)
1976 - Diane Neal, American actress
1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 - Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress
1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
1980 - Isaac Hanson, vocalist (Hansons-Do Wah)
1980 - [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1980 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1982 - Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
1983 - Christopher Paolini, American novelist
1983 - Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Ryan Braun, Los Angeles, California, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers)
1983 - Scott Moore, American baseball player
1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
1983 - Harry Lloyd, English actor
1984 - Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
1985 - Patrick Quinn, Personal Trainer
1986 - Nani, Portuguese football player
1987 - Darren McKillion, Northern Irish sportsman
1988 - Justin Cooper, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Liar, Liar, General Hospital)
1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress

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This Day in History for 17th November


Famous Deaths

                                   
Chronicler/Bishop                                    Empress of Russia                                Sculptor Auguste Rodin (1917)
 Gregory of Tours (594)                            Catherine the Great (1796)


Physicist Robert Hofstadter (1990)


375 - Valentinian I "The Great", Roman Co-Emperor and Ruler of Western Roman Empire (336-75),
         dies at 54
474 - Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (474), dies
594 - St Gregory of Tours, Frankisch bishop of Tours, dies at 55
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard
1093 - Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1512 - Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1558 - Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1608 - Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, composer, dies
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75
1770 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia (1762-96), dies of a stroke at 67
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, dies
1826 - Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47
1848 - Jozef B "Olim" Cannaert, Flemish lawyer, dies
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker
           (b. 1794)
1856 - William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1875 - Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies
1893 - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolf WAKF, duke of Nassau/grand duke of Luxembourg, dies at 88
1905 - Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77
1921 - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1927 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
1929 - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
1931 - Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50
1931 - John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, cricketer (Australian batsman 1885-99, 11 Tests), dies
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1941 - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1943 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74
1944 - A C MacLaren, cricketer (England batsman from turn of century), dies
1947 - Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James Price Johnson, composer, dies at 64
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72
1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 95 in Miami
1968 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer, dies at 86
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1970 - Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69
1971 - Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83
1971 - Jackie Cooper, actor (People's Choice), dies at 49
1971 - Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of Joy), dies of cancer at 75
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1974 - Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval), dies at 87
1975 - Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70
1976 - Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60
1978 - Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct), dies at 75
1978 - James J "Gene" Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80
1979 - John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery
1981 - Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65
1982 - Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 69
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead
1982 - Eduard Tubin, composer, dies at 77
1982 - Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at 86 in NYC
1985 - Jimmy Ritz, actor (Ritz Brothers), dies of heart failure at 81
1986 - Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71
1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1987 - Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81
1988 - Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84
1989 - Billy Lee, actor (Sons of Legion, Biscuit Eater), dies
1989 - Emerson Buckley, composer, dies at 73
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80
1991 - Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide at 33
1991 - Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55
1992 - Audre Lorde, St Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies
1993 - Jthm de Vreeze, Dutch MP (KVP, 1956..77), dies at 80
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1994 - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
1995 - Alan Hull, singer/composer, dies at 50
1995 - Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng, dies at 66
1995 - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88
1995 - Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60
1996 - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45
1996 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, broadcaster, dies at 54
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2008 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2008 - George Stephen Morrison, American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison
2011 - Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
2011 - Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
2012 - Margaret Yorke, English crime fiction writer, dies at 88

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This Day in History for 18th November


Historical Events

                                   
French Enlightenment Philosopher          Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Playwright George Bernard Shaw
 Voltaire

                                   
Entertainer Bob Hope                            Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini             First President of South Korea
                                                                                                                                      Syngman Rhee

                                   
First Director of the FBI                            Chemist & Peace Activist                 Musician & member of the Beatles
J. Edgar Hoover                                           Linus Pauling                                             Paul McCartney


Actor Denzel Washington


326 - Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th - 16th century. Replaced by current St
          Peter's Basilica in Rome.
794 - Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
1105 - Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1307 - William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1424 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1477 - 1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
1494 - French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
1497 - Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Replaced an earlier basilica. Largest Christian basilica
1667 - Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
1686 - Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practising the
           surgery on several peasants.
1718 - Voltaire's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris
1738 - France & Austria sign peace
1742 - Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle
1755 - Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 - Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 - 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1793 - Louvre officially opens in Paris
1803 - Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1804 - Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
1805 - 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female
           Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1820 - Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1833 - Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1835 - -20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti
1852 - State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul's Cathedral, London)
1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
1865 - Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1871 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in
           Rochester NY
1874 - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883 - Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska" premieres
1883 - Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
1889 - Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1893 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
1894 - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1894 - 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species" by Richard Outcault
1899 - Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
1902 - Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1903 - Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1904 - General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to
           stage a coup.
1905 - George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" premieres in London
1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1906 - Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea" premieres in NYC
1909 - US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
1911 - Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1911 - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1912 - Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 - Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1916 - Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1917 - Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1918 - Brussels free Stofnar
1918 - Latvia declares independence from Russia
1919 - H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in NYC
1920 - Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
1922 - Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
1926 - Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1929 - Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
1929 - Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
1929 - Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1930 - Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1930 - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose" premiers in Lenningrad
1930 - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by
           Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1932 - "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1932 - 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March
1936 - Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936 - Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1938 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial
           Organizations.
1939 - Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1940 - George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office
           building used by Consolidated Edison.
1941 - British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa
1941 - Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in NYC
1941 - Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1942 - Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
1943 - 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1943 - 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 - U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1945 - Arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orchestra & mixed choir, premieres
1949 - NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
1950 - South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1951 - "See it Now" premieres on TV
1951 - British troops occupy Ismailiya Egypt
1951 - Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1953 - Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1954 - Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley,
           Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 - Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1956 - Morocco gains independence
1957 - Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1958 - 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1958 - Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
1959 - Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1960 - Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
1960 - Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 - "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
1961 - "Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances
1961 - JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1961 - US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 - Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
1963 - England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under RiverThames opens
1963 - King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
1964 - Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
1964 - J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1965 - Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
1966 - Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow
1966 - US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1970 - Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 - Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
1970 - Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1970 - Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1970 - Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1973 - Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1975 - Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1975 - Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 - Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1976 - Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under
           leadership of cult leader Jim Jones
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1980 - "Heaven's Gate" premieres
1980 - Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
1980 - Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
1981 - Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1982 - Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
1982 - Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray
           Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1984 - "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1984 - 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17
1984 - Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
1984 - Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 - NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
1985 - Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
1985 - Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
1985 - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1985 - Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
1987 - 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station
1987 - Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1987 - Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP
1989 - Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1990 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
1990 - 1st Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA
1990 - NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1990 - Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 - France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 - Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1991 - Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations & is not
           eligble for post-season play in 1991-92
1992 - "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
1993 - 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993 - Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
1993 - NAFTA passes House
1993 - North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
1993 - Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 - WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
1994 - "Star Trek VII - Generations" premieres
1995 - Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
1995 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen
1996 - Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
1997 - Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
1997 - FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 - 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn
           probe
1997 - Mavericks' A C Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games
1997 - Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 - Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing Women" sold for $4,182,500
1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a
           massive bonfire under construction collapses.
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 - The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the
           party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).
2003 - In tEngland, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment
           Section 28, becomes effective.
2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
2012 - Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
2012 - Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
2012 - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup

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This Day in History for 18th November


Famous Weddings

1952 - "Rock Around The Clock" rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley (27) weds Barbara Cupchak
2000 - Actor and producer Michael Douglas (67) weds Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning
           Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (42) at The Plaza Hotel in New York City
2000 - "Queen" guitarist Brian May (53) weds "EastEnders" actress Anita Dobson (51) in a civil
           ceremony at Richmond Register Office
2006 - American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at
           Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy

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This Day in History for 18th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Photographer and Inventor                              English Dramatist                         Scientist George Wald (1906)
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787)              William Schwenck Gilbert (1836)

                 
Lyricist and Songwriter                            Actor Owen Wilson (1968)
Johnny Mercer (1909)


1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
1527 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1630 - Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1727 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
1736 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1742 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1772 - Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
1774 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
1781 - Felice Blangini, composer
1785 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1786 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz), [or 19]
1787 - Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], Swartekill, New York, US abolitionist/feminist
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Cormeilles-en-Parisis France, inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1803 - Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet
1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
1808 - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1810 - Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
1810 - Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1812 - Jesse Johnson Finley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1824 - Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1824 - Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
1835 - Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1835 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist
1836 - William Schwenck Gilbert, London, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert &
           Sullivan)
1839 - August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt)
1845 - John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde)
1846 - Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician
1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1860 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1861 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
1863 - Richard Dehmel, writer
1869 - James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)
1871 - Amadeo Vives, composer
1874 - Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116)
1874 - Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father)
1874 - Riccardo Martin, composer
1877 - Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Wealth & welfare)
1881 - Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove)
1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds)
1882 - Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas)
1882 - Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter (Tarr, Apes of God)
1883 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
1888 - Frances Marion, SF CA, screenwriter/actress (Pollyanna)
1889 - Maria Realino, [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Curacao)
1895 - Ernst Levy, composer
1897 - Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
1897 - Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
1898 - Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain)
1898 - Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
1899 - Eugene Ormandy, [Blau], Budapest Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch)
1900 - Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters)
1900 - Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger)
1901 - George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll)
1902 - Barbara Giuranna, composer
1902 - Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels)
1903 - Lillian Fuchs, composer
1904 - Guido Santorsola, composer
1904 - Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer
1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1906 - George Wald, US, physiologist/biologist (eye, Nobel 1967)
1906 - Klaus Mann, German/US author (Mephisto)/son of Thomas Mann
1906 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
1907 - Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author/poetess
1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1908 - Imogene Coca, Phila, comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl)
1909 - Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic)
1910 - Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist
1911 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1912 - Arthur Peterson, Mandan ND, actor (Major-Soap, Crisis)
1912 - Jaap Meijer, [Saul van Messel], Dutch historian/rabbi in Paramaribo
1915 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
1916 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter
1918 - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
1919 - Jocelyn Brando, San Francisco, actress (Ugly American)
1920 - Alfred William Bedford, test pilot
1920 - Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
1920 - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
1921 - Peter Pocklington, NHL team owner (Edmonton Oiler)
1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63)
1922 - Marjorie Gestring, US, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1936)
1922 - Viktor Afanasiev, editor (Pravda)
1922 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
1923 - Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14)
1923 - Ted Stevens, American politician
1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
1925 - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
1925 - William Robert Mayer, composer
1926 - Dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 - Kim Besly, activist
1926 - Estanislao Basora, Catalonia, Spain, footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain,
           301 matches for Barcelona), (d. 2012)
1927 - Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer
1927 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Mickey Mouse, cartoon strip
1928 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
1929 - William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot (X-15)
1932 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
1933 - Jacques Charpentier, composer
1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
1935 - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer
1935 - Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
1935 - Rodney Hall, Australian author
1936 - Don E Cherry, US jazz trumpeter
1936 - Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker (The Twist (pre Chubby Checker)
1937 - Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v England, 0-22)
1938 - Karl Schranz, Austria, slalom (Olympic-1968)
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls)
1939 - John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate
1939 - Margaret E Atwood, author/poet
1939 - Tom Johnson, composer
1940 - Qaboos bin Sa'id, Sultan of Oman
1941 - David Hemmings, Guilford England, actor (Blow-up, Barbarella)
1942 - Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph)
1942 - Linda Evans, Hartford, actr (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1942 - Susan Sullivan, NYC, actress (Dharma & Greg, Falcon Crest)
1945 - Glen Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Leave it to Larry)
1946 - Alan Dean Foster, US, sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
1946 - Amanda Lear, French singer
1947 - Jameson Parker, Balt Md, actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon)
1948 - Andrea Marcovicci, NYC, actress (Gloria-Berrengers, Fran-Trapper John)
1948 - Jack Tatum, Cherryville NC, NFL defensive back (Raiders)
1948 - Ural Nazibovich Sultanov, Russian cosmonaut
1949 - Bonnie St Claire, [Cornelia Swart], Dutch singer (Tame me Tiger)
1949 - Ted Sator, Utica NY, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres)
1950 - Graham Parker, musician (Live Sparks, Mercury Poisoning)
1950 - Eric Pierpoint, American actor
1951 - Marga Stubblefield, LPGA golfer
1951 - Mark N Brown, Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, 48, 66)
1951 - Justin Raimondo, American author
1952 - Delroy Lindo, actor (Get Shorty, Ransom)
1952 - Peter Beattie, Australian politician
1953 - John McFee, rock guitarist (Doobie Brothers, Clover)
1953 - Kevin Nealon, Bridgeport Conn, actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads)
1953 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1954 - Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe, English large landowner
1954 - John Parr, British pop singer
1954 - Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
1955 - Carter Burwell, American composer
1956 - Sinbad, [David Adkins], Benton Harbor MI, actor (1st Kid, Vibe)
1956 - Tony Franklin, NFL kicker (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots)
1956 - Warren Moon, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Seahawks, Vikings)
1956 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
1957 - Jenny Burton, NYC, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do)
1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
1957 - J.C. Watts (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district, in
           office Jan 3, 1995 - Jan 3, 2003
1958 - Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor
1959 - Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1960 - Elizabeth Perkins, Queens NY, actress (About Last Night, Big)
1960 - Kim Wilde, [Smith], England, rock vocalist (You Keep Me Hanging On)
1961 - Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, St Paul Minn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Jamie Moyer, Sellersville PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1962 - Jill Briles-Hinton, Elmhurst IL, LPGA golfer (1995 Women's Open-16th)
1962 - Kirk Hammett, US heavy-metal guitarist (Metallica-Master of Puppets)
1962 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Karashtin, Russian cosmonaut
1963 - Dante Bichette, W Palm Beach FLA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1963 - Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1964 - Mike Withycombe, CFL corner (BC Lions)
1964 - Seth Joyner, NFL linebacker (Ariz, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1965 - Mark Petkovsek, Beaumont TX, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 - Matt Kabayama, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 - Darren Flutie, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Gwendolyn Hajek, Shreveport La, playmate (September, 1987)
1966 - Ron Coomer, Crest Hill IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1966 - Tommie Stowers, WLAF tight end (Rhein Fire)
1966 - Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux, Mont Laurier, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Tom Gordon, Sebring FL, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 - Gary Sheffield, Tampa FL, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1968 - Lubomir Sekeras, Liptovsky CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1968 - Mel Stewart, NC, 200m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 - Milica Vukadinovic, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1968 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1968 - Romany Malco, American actor and music producer
1968 - Owen Wilson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
1969 - Cheryl Bachman, Jacksonville Fla, playmate (October, 1991)
1969 - Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee Fla, female pitcher (Silver Bullets)
1969 - Raghib Ismail, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Sam Cassell, NBA guard (NJ Nets, Houston Rockets)
1969 - Duncan Sheik, American singer
1969 - Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
1970 - Allen Watson, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 - Phil Buckman, Queens NY, actor (Slash-Drexell's Class)
1970 - Toby Wright, safety (St Louis Rams)
1970 - Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
1970 - Mike Epps, American actor
1970 - Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
1970 - Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1971 - Kylie Hanigan, Australian 200m/400m runner (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jason Arnberger, cricketer (NSW opening batsman 1994-95 -)
1972 - Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
1972 - Robert Shapiro, American politician/humorist
1973 - Steve Christopher Petree, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 - Autumn Smith, Miss USA-Alabama (1997, top 10)
1974 - Christian Schmidt, actor (Mullers Baro)
1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
1975 - Jason Williams, American basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter
1975 - Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1976 - Sandy Zubrin, Tamuning Guam, US diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
1976 - Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
1977 - Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
1978 - Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
1980 - François Duval, Belgian rally driver
1980 - Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
1980 - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
1980 - Luke Chadwick, English footballer
1981 - Christina Vidal, American actress
1981 - Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
1983 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
1983 - Travis Buck, American baseball player
1984 - Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 - Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer w-inds.
1985 - Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
1986 - Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
1988 - Jeffrey Jordan, American college basketball player; son of Michael Jordan
1988 - Montanna Thompson, English actress
1992 - Nathan Kress, American actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th November


Famous Deaths

 
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
Niels Bohr (1962)


942 - Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1170 - Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1603 - Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
1630 - Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
1678 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1771 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1822 - Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1822 - George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
1827 - Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24
1841 - Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1851 - Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
1852 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
1883 - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1886 - Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
1887 - Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
1887 - Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
1887 - Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
1889 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1904 - Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
1911 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1917 - Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
1918 - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
1919 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1922 - Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1929 - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1941 - Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1946 - Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1946 - John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1950 - Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1951 - John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57
1951 - Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60
1951 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1958 - Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1962 - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 - Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 - Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
1966 - Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1968 - Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74
1969 - Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1969 - Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 - Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
1972 - Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose
1972 - Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90
1976 - Man Ray, US artist (Dada), dies at 86
1977 - Victor Francen, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1978 - Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 - Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple,
           followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 - Donald Dillaway, actor (Min & Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78
1982 - H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60
1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53
1989 - Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
1990 - Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
1991 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992 - Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1992 - Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1992 - Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
1993 - Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1994 - Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
1994 - Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
1994 - Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
1995 - Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86
1995 - Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
1996 - David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
1996 - John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 - Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
2009 - Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2010 - Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
2012 - Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain
           cancer at 55

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th November


Historical Events

                                   
Poet Alfred Tennyson                             Explorer of the New World                      Nazi Minister of Propaganda
                                                                  Christopher Columbus                                     and Information
                                                                                                                                         Joseph Goebbels                   

                                   
37th US President                                    Cuban President Fidel Castro         Supermodel & Actress Brooke Shields
Richard Nixon

                 
General Secretary of the Communist     42nd US President Bill Clinton
Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev


461 - St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
615 - Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
1367 - League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1521 - Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy
           Milan
1523 - Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1530 - Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms
1544 - Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1621 - Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1644 - 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1700 - Battle at Narva: Swedish King Karel XII defeats Russians
1794 - Jakobin Club forms in Paris
1794 - Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent
1816 - Warsaw University is established.
1824 - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1837 - Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1850 - Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1861 - Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1863 - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..."
1873 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M,
           sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 - Natl Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894 - 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
1894 - Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 - Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1903 - Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1906 - London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1909 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1910 - Ferenc Molnàrs "Tester," premieres in Budapest
1911 - NY receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one
           of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1922 - Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1923 - Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite," premieres
1926 - British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1928 - 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1932 - Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 - Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1933 - Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1939 - Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1940 - Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 - German air raid on Birmingham fails
1942 - Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
1942 - Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
1943 - U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at
           selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1946 - Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours
1947 - 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1948 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1949 - Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1951 - Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 - Spain joins UNESCO
1953 - US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1953 - US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1955 - KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.
1957 - Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1958 - First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1959 - "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
1959 - Ford cancels Edsel
1960 - Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1961 - Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 - KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in NYC
1962 - Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1965 - ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
1965 - Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1966 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 - The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1968 - Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees
1968 - Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1969 - Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon
1969 - WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Ft Wilderness opens
1972 - "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
1972 - "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 - Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 - KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
1972 - Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1973 - Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1975 - Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1976 - George Harrison releases "This Song"
1976 - Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1976 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of
           Madeira, Portugal.
1977 - -21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 - Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1978 - Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
1979 - Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1979 - Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1983 - Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse
           organization"
1984 - Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1984 - NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1985 - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
1985 - US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1986 - Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1986 - Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances," premieres in NYC
1987 - France performs nuclear test
1989 - US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification
           since 1950
1990 - Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990 - Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
1991 - Balt Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1992 - "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1993 - Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1994 - Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1994 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1995 - "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV
1995 - "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1995 - "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances
1995 - 83rd CFL Grey Cup: Balt Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20
1995 - CNET lauches www.shareware.com
1995 - Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
1995 - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1996 - "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
1996 - "Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC
1996 - Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
1996 - The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
1996 - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1997 - "Eugene Onegin," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 - STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case
           where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of
           septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.
1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins
           impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit
           by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

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This Day in History for 19th November


Famous Weddings

1939 - Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds "Freshies" actress Dorothy Arnold at St. Peter and
           Paul Church in San Francisco
1986 - Hall of Famer boxing champ Muhammad Ali (44) weds Yolanda Williams
1988 - LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
2005 - Singer and actress Christina Aguilera (28) weds music executive Jordan Bratman (32) under a
           mountainside tent at the Staglin Family Vineyards in Rutherford, California
2005 - "Corner Gas" actor Brent Butt (39) weds actress Nancy Robertson (34) at Vancouver's Cin
            Cin Ristorante
2005 - "KISS" lead singer Paul Stanley (53) weds Erin Sutton at The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel
           and Spa in Pasadena, California
2005 - Indianapolis 500 racer Danica Patrick (23) weds physical therapist Paul Hospenthal in
           Scottsdale, Arizona