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Post by Huckleberry on Nov 1, 2005 8:58:03 GMT -5
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome were revealed to the public for the first time. Michelangelo painted the frescoes, considered some of the finest pictorial images of all time, while lying on his back on a scaffolding high above the chapel floor.
1700 - Charles II of Spain died and was succeeded by Philip V, marking the start of the War of Spanish Succession.
1755 - An earthquake felt across the European continent destroyed Lisbon. The earthquake caused the destruction of property, fires, and a tsunami. Most of the over 60,000 people that died drowned in the enormous tidal wave.
1762 - French troops capitulated at Cassel and evacuated the right bank of the Rhine during the Seven Years War.
1765 - The Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1848 - 12 students were admitted to the first medical school exclusively for women, the Boston Female Medical School, founded by Samuel Gregory. Twenty-six years later, the school would combine with Boston University School of Medicine to become one of the first coed, medical colleges in the world.
1856 - Following a Persian invasion of Afghanistan to occupy Herat, Britain declared war on Persia.
1864 - As a safe way to pay by mail, money orders were sold by the United States Post Office.
1870 - The United States Weather Bureau made its first observations on the weather. Until then, observations were the responsibility of the Signal Corps of the United States War Department.
1894 - The magazine Billboard began publication, devoting itself at the time to the "interests of advertisers, poster printers, bill posters, advertising agents and secretaries of fairs." It evolved from a 19th-century trade paper covering current issues to an international newsweekly of music and home entertainment.
1913 - Knute Rockne and Notre Dame's Fighting Irish beat Army at West Point, 35-7. Until then, Notre Dame had been unknown in college football, but the attention of thousands turned toward the Irish when Rockne gave Army its first loss of the season, thanks to a new weapon: the forward pass.
1914 - At the Battle of Coronel off Chile, the British ships Good Hope and Monmouth were sunk by five German cruisers including the Scharnhorst with the loss of 1,600 lives.
1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis after a visit to Berlin by Italian foreign secretary Ciano.
1937 - On CBS radio, the first broadcast of "Hilltop House" aired; while NBC radio debuted the comic strip character "Terry and the Pirates".
1940 - "A Night in the Tropics," comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's the first movie as released. This film was soon followed by "Buck Privates," and when that second feature film was a hit, their long and successful film career was assured.
1944 - Mary Chase's play about a large invisible rabbit, Harvey, debuted in New York. The play was later awarded the Pulitzer Drama Award.
1946 - Walt Disney's Song of the South, starring child-actor Bobby Driscoll and James Baskett as Uncle Remus, was released to theaters on this date. The film relied more on live-action dramatic footage than any previous Disney film. The song "Zip-a-dee Doo-Dah" later received the Academy Award for Best Song, and the film became a major money-maker.
1947 - Man o' War, famous racehorse, died. Over 2,500 people went to his funeral. Man o’ War was so famous, while a stud in retirement, his guest book recorded over 2,000,000 names!
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D.C. to assassinate President Truman. The attempt failed, and one of the pair was killed.
1950 - The first black man to play in the National Basketball Association did so today. At a game in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Charles Cooper joined the Boston Celtics lineup.
1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
1954 - Steve Allen hosted the new nationally-broadcast show Tonight, after it had had great success in local broadcasts.
1954 - Algeria began a rebellion against French rule.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed in a military coup.
1965 - Elvis Presley's Blue Christmas single was released. On the B side was Santa Claus is Coming to Town. The single was later certified platinum.
1968 - The Production Code Administration began handing out ratings for movies with the current movie rating system of G, M, R, X followed by PG-13 and now NC-17.
1968 - George Harrison’s soundtrack LP, "Wonderwall", the first solo album by a Beatle, was released. The album was the first on the new Apple label.
1969 - Warner Brothers Records added the group, Faces, to its lineup. The did OK, but did even better when lead singer Rod Stewart became a superstar on his own. The group’s former label, Mercury, capitalized on Rod's success by releasing "Maggie Mae" and three other Faces tunes before Stewart went solo for Warner.
1969 - The Beatles last album, "Abbey Road," reached #1 on the album chart. It was the top LP for eleven nonconsecutive weeks.
1973 - In the wake of the Saturday Night Massacre, Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1975 - Elton John’s "Island Girl" stopped at #1 on the "Billboard Hot 100" chart. The song spent 3 weeks at #1.
1976 - A bloodless coup in Burundi ousted President Micombero, who was replaced by Colonel J.B. Bagaza.
1981 - The islands of Antigua and Barbuda became a single independent state, ending 30 years of British rule.
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Indian prime minister amid anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
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Post by Huckleberry on Nov 2, 2005 8:10:47 GMT -5
1483 - Britain's Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was beheaded at Salisbury for his rebellion against King Richard III.
1721 - Peter I was proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias.
1783 - General George Washington issued his ``Farewell Address to the Army'' near Princeton, New Jersey.
1785 - The first lifeboat was patented by London coachbuilder Lionel Lukin.
1841 - Following the British occupation of Kabul, Afghans revolted and murdered Sir Alexander Burnes and 23 others heralding the start of the second Afghan War.
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1917 - Arthur James Balfour, British foreign secretary, submitted a declaration of intent, known as the Balfour Declaration, to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1920 - Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania began broadcasting weekly. It was the first station in the world to be organized and licensed as a fully commercial radio station, broadcasting regularly to the public.
1929 - The Embassy Theatre, a new type of motion-picture theater specializing only in newsreels, opened in New York City. It was the first of its kind in film history.
1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1931 - On CBS radio, "Myrt and Marge" was heard for the first time. The program focused on two chorus girls competing for the same parts and the same men. The role of Myrt was played by series creator and writer, although Cliff Thomas wrote some, Myrtle Vail. The original Marge was played by Vail’s daughter, Donna Fick. After Donna died giving birth, three other performers played the part. "Myrt and Marge" aired 11 years.
1931 - The DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware announced DuPrene, the first synthetic rubber.
1935 - Notre Dame beat the Buckeyes of Ohio State, 18-13, in their first meeting. A forward pass by Bill Shakespeare aided the Fighting Irish in their defeat of Ohio State as 81,000 fans watched. Sports writers of the time called it, "The greatest game ever played."
1936 - The first public regular high definition television service was inaugurated by the BBC at Alexander Palace on this day using 240 and 405 lines.
1937 - In New York City, "I’d Rather Be Right", a humorous play about the United States Presidency satirizing Franklin Roosevelt opened.
1938 - Hungary annexed southern Slovakia following the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at the Munich agreement in September.
1947 - The Hughes H-4 Hercules, an eight-engined flying boat, built by Howard Hughes, made its one and only flight of just over a mile in Los Angeles harbor.
1948 - President Harry Truman, in an upset for prognosticators, won re-election by a narrow margin over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1950 - Playwright George Bernard Shaw died in England, at age 94, of a kidney bladder infection.
1953 - Pakistan's parliament declared the country "the Islamic Republic of Pakistan."
1955 - Julie London's first pop song, a sultry version of "Cry Me a River," made its appearance on the charts. The song spent 5 months on the charts, but only reached #9 at its peak. Julie is the former wife of both Dragnet's Jack Webb and songwriter/trumpeter Bobby Troup.
1958 - "Billboard" magazine introduced a new chart ranking top singles, in order, from number 1 to 100. Before this invention, only 30 records were on weekly hit lists.
1959 - Charles Van Doren, when questioned on this date about winning $129,000 on a television quiz show, told a congressional investigation committee that he was given the answers in advance by program staff members. His testimony was the most dramatic to date in the ongoing investigation of quiz show scandals. Van Doren had been a low-salaried college assistant professor who appeared on the show Twenty-One. It was revealed that rigging was prevalent on many television quiz shows during the early 1950s in order to boost viewership. Van Doren benefitted from the rigging not only by receiving the huge amount of money, but by later earning a regular spot on the Today television show.
1960 - In London, the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover was found not to be obscene.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, United States President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
1963 - After years giving benefit performances, singer Kate Smith gave a paying crowd her first full concert performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed and replaced by Prince Faisal.
1968 - Another Stevie Wonder hit went on sale, "For Once in My Life" would reach #2 on the pop charts on December 28, 1968.
1974 - The first of the former Beatles to attempt a nationwide concert tour of the United States, George Harrison, gave his debut performance in Los Angeles, California at the Forum. Only half the house was filled, and Harrison shortly thereafter stopped touring.
1976 - Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first United States president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
1978 - Two Soviet cosmonauts returned to earth from the Salyut 6 space station after setting a new endurance record of 139 days, 14 hours.
1980 - The Iranian parliament voted for the release of American hostages held at the United States embassy, but set conditions. They were eventually released in January 1981.
1983 - United States president Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1984 - The Kremlin announced that Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the United States in 1967, had returned to Moscow.
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Post by Huckleberry on Nov 3, 2005 10:06:56 GMT -5
1492 - The Treaty of Etaples was signed between Charles VIII of France and Henry VII of England. Under the pact England renounced its claims to French territory in return for an indemnity.
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Dominica. Also on this day, the country became independent in 1978.
1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned to paint the portrait that became known as the Mona Lisa.
1534 - England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church -- a role formerly held by the Pope.
1591 - The Lord of Leitrim in Ireland, Sir Brian O'Rourke, was executed for sheltering Spaniards from the defeated Armada.
1760 - Frederick the Great of Prussia with 44,000 men defeated 65,000 Austrian troops at Torgau under Count Daun in the Seven Years War; more than 13,000 Prussians died in the attack.
1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain began when two British frigates destroyed several Chinese junks. The antecedents of the war involved a trade imbalance favoring China: while western consumers demanded tea, silk, spices, and porcelain from China, Chinese desired few western products. To reverse the trade balance, Britain started exporting opium to China, despite prohibitions by the Chinese government.
1852 - Emperor Meiji of Japan born. Known as Prince Mutsuhito until he acceded to the throne in 1867, he was responsible for moving the capital from Kyoto to Edo, which he renamed Tokyo.
1863 - J.T. Alden of Cincinnati, Ohio received a patent for an improvement for yeast preparation.
1868 - Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour.
1892 - In Laporte, Indiana, the first automatic telephone system to be successful was introduced. It was invented by Almond Strowger, who came up with the idea because non-automatic systems allowed his competitor to intercept his customers calls. Strowger's job? He ran a funeral parlor.
1896 - Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.
1900 - The autoware from 31 car makers went on display for the first National Automobile Show, which opened in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1901 - King Leopold III of Belgium born. He became king in 1934, led the army during the German conquest of the country in World War Two and abdicated in favor of his son Baudouin in 1951.
1903 - Following a revolt engineered by the United States and triggered by the arrival of the cruiser Nashville in Panamanian waters, Panama declared itself independent of Colombia.
1908 - Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan.
1918 - Part of the German fleet mutinied at Kiel.
1934 - Bay Meadows, the first race track in California, opened under a new parimutual betting law. Located in San Mateo, the track is still a favorite with the Bay Area's pony players.
1935 - A plebiscite in Greece returned George II to the throne. He had been in exile since 1923.
1936 - President Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican challenger Alfred M. ``Alf'' Landon
1941 - The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded the classic Jerry Gray arrangement of "String of Pearls" on Bluebird 78s. The recording had Bobby Hackett featured on trumpet.
1942 - In Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel began a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the allies under Montgomery.
1952 - For the first time, frozen bread was sold. The bread could be found at a supermarket in Chester, New York. It was an invention of a local baker using the quick-freeze technology Clarence Birdseye of frozen food developed.
1952 - New York Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle was ruled unfit for military duty because of a knee defect.
1952 - More than 600 friends, including Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Johnny Mercer, were present at the funeral of Dixie Lee Crosby, wife of movie star and crooner Bing Crosby.
1953 - Nanette Fabray, aunt of Donna Reed's Shelley Fabray, starred in the first color television program sent coast to coast in the United States. Telecast from Colonial Theatre in New York City, the show was broadcast by WNBT, New York, to Burbank, California.
1953 - Baseball's Rules Committee restored the sacrifice fly, credited to a batter who flies out to drive in a run. Since 1939, the rule had not been used.
1954 - United States Chemist Linus Pauling won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for research into the nature of the chemical bond. A peace activist, Pauling was investigated by federal authorities for his alleged communist links. His efforts against nuclear war and testing eventually led to his reception of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963.
1956 - Love Me Tender, recorded by Elvis Presley, rocketed to the Number 1 slot on Billboard's pop charts, and stayed there for 5 weeks.
1956 - The classic MGM film, "The Wizard of Oz", made its first stint on television. It cost CBS $250,000 to show the film, which aired 18 times between 1956 and 1976.
1957 - A mongrel dog named Laika became the first animal to be launched into space. Laika, projected inside the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2, died after a few days in orbit because the craft was not designed for recovery and the batteries of her life-support system eventually went down.
1957 - Sun Records released Jerry Lee Lewis's Great Balls of Fire, backed with You Win Again. It became his biggest hit, reaching Number 2 on the pop charts, Number 3 on the rhythm and blues charts, and Number 5 on the country and western charts.
1960 - On Broadway, the play, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", opened. It would go on to become a theater standard in the United States and launched the career of its star Shirley MacLaine.
1961 - The General Assembly unanimously elected U Thant acting secretary general of the United Nations, following the death of Dag Hammarskjoeld.
1962 - "Billboard" magazine dropped "Western" from chart titles, and the list has been the "Hot Country Singles" ever since.
1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson was elected United States president by a huge margin over Barry Goldwater.
1970 - Salvador Allende was sworn in as president of Chile.
1970 - Film actress Jane Fonda was charged with smuggling pills and kicking a police officer in Cleveland.
1972 - Singers Carly Simon and James Taylor wed in Carly’s Manhattan, New York apartment. The couple, said to be the world's highest-paid couple next to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, would divorce years later, but remain good friends.
1975 - ABC' "Good Morning America" got a new coanchor, actor David Hartman, who shared hosting duties with actress Nancy Dussault.
1975 - Queen Elizabeth opened an underwater pipeline to bring the first of Britain's North Sea oil ashore.
1978 - South African prime minister set up a judicial commission to investigate what became known as the "Muldergate Scandal"; cabinet minister Connie Mulder was accused of corruption.
1979 - Five radicals were killed when gunfire erupted during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, after a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis had driven into the area.
1982 - Up to 1,000 Soviet soldiers and Afghan civilians died in an accident in the Salang tunnel in Afghanistan when a tanker exploded near Soviet military convoys.
1983 - South Africans voted by a large majority to allow Indians and "Coloreds" some limited power-sharing in the government, but not blacks.
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Post by Huckleberry on Nov 4, 2005 8:23:33 GMT -5
1307 - The Swiss Confederation declared itself independent of Austria.
1520 - Christian II of Denmark was crowned King of Sweden, and granted an amnesty to his opponents.
1605 - In London, Guy Fawkes was arrested under the House of Commons preparing gunpowder to blow up the building when Parliament re-assembled the next day.
1842 - 16th United States President Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
1846 - B.F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire patented an artificial leg.
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a team of 38 nurses arrived in the Crimea to set up a hospital for British troops at Scutari.
1862 - The first rapid-fire machine gun was patented by Richard Jordan Gatling in Indianapolis, and named after him.
1873 - A gold crown for teeth was patented by Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California.
1879 - The first cash register was patented by James J. Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
1884 - Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine.
1890 - The first electrified underground railway system was officially opened in London.
1918 - The allied powers in World War I agreed on peace terms for Germany based on United States President Wilson's "Fourteen Points."
1921 - Takashi Hara, prime minister of Japan, was assassinated by a rightist fanatic.
1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter found the first signs of what proved to be King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Tombs of Kings in Egypt.
1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor; she was to serve the remaining term of William B. Ross, her husband who died in office.
1928 - Charlie Chaplin's silent film classic, The Kid, with 12-year-old Jackie Coogan, opened in Paris.
1935 - Frances Shields, tennis star, signed a 7-year acting contract with MGM's Samuel Goldwyn. She spent a lot of time on the set and she netted a sizable portion of fame by playing great characters.
1938 - On Decca records, Bing Crosby recorded "You’re a Sweet Little Headache", from the movie "Paris Honeymoon".
1942 - British troops defeated the Germans under General Rommel at El Alamein after a 12-day battle.
1946 - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was formed.
1947 - Tennessee William's gripping play, A Streetcar Named Desire, opened in New York.
1949 - On NBC-TV, "One Man’s Family" debuted for the first of its 3 seasons. It was also one of radio's longest running programs from 1933 to 1959.
1950 - The Oklahoma Sooners won their 27th straight victory without loss or tie by defeating the University of Colorado, 27-18, breaking Cornell's 1921-24 uninterrupted winning streak for a major college football team.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president of the United States.
1954 - 20 year old Florence Henderson joined Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak in the Broadway production of "Fanny". The show lit up the stage 888 times.
1955 - Legendary baseball pitcher, Cy Young, died at age 88.
1956 - Soviet troops moved in to crush the Hungarian uprising. Imre Nagy was ousted as prime minister and replaced by Janos Kadar.
1956 - A survey said the average football coaches' salary at state universities was $11,005.
1962 - It was Bob Dylan's his first major concert outside Greenwich Village, but the solo appearance at Carnegie Hall was not well attended.
1963 - As part of an evening of entertainment for England's Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles played a Royal Command Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. David Frost acted as the emcee.
1966 - The worst floods in Italy's history affected a third of the country. Florence was cut off and many of the city's art treasures were damaged.
1970 - The rock band Jethro Tull became the first group to perform at Carnegie Hall. The band's name came from the inventor of the seed drill.
1973 - Ben Crenshaw, golfing great, won his first pro-tour tournament at the Texas Open.
1973 - The Chicago Bears set a National Football League record when they held the Green Bay Packers to a minus 12 yards passing.
1977 - The United Nations imposed a mandatory ban on arms supplies to South Africa in an effort to force the country out of Namibia.
1978 - You Don't Bring Me Flowers, recorded by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond, debuted on Billboard's Top 40 pop charts, and remained there for 15 weeks. It was in the Number 1 position for 2 weeks, and eventually went gold.
1979 - Iranian militants seized the United States embassy in Tehran and captured 90 hostages; 52 were held captive for 444 days.
1980 - Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States.
1980 - Sadaharu Oh, first baseman of the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, retired from professional baseball after hitting a record 868 home runs during his 22-year playing career.
1982 - The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Argentina and Britain to discuss sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
1983 - In Lebanon, over 40 Israeli soldiers were killed when an Arab suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives into their camp.
1984 - Rockstar Prince started his fall tour in Detroit, Michigan, breaking the record for sold-out performances at the 20,000-seat Joe Louis Arena. The previous record-holder was Neil Diamond in 1983.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 5, 2005 16:17:15 GMT -5
1556 - Akhbar the Great Mughal routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat in the Hindu revolt.
1605 - The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
1733 - Printer and journalist John Peter Zenger published the first issue of the "New York Weekly Journal".
1854 - In the Crimean War, British and French armies defeated a Russian force of 50,000 at the battle of Inkerman; 12,000 Russians were killed in the battle.
1872 - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election.
1895 - George Seldon got a patent for the automobile, which he sold four years later, for $200,000. Real smart guy.
1911 - Italy announced the annexation of Libya, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.
1911 - The first transcontinental flight across the United States ended at Pasadena. Pilot C.P. Snow took off from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17 and covered a distance of 3,417 miles.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson won the United States presidential election, becoming the only president to defeat two former presidents in one election.
1914 - France declared war on Turkey.
1928 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted, destroying a large area. The village of Mascali was completely buried.
1929 - McKinney’s Cotton Pickers recorded "Plain Dirt" at the Victor studio. Among those playing were Fats Waller on piano, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins.
1932 - Out of respect for the nearby football team, London Transport agreed to change the name of Gillespie Road Underground Staion to "Arsenal".
1934 - "The Gumps" first broadcast was heard on CBS radio. The cast had Wilmer Walter play Andy Gump, Agnes Moorehead as Gump’s wife Min, and Jackie Kelk as son Chester. Sponsers for the show were Karo syrup and Pebico toothpaste/tooth powder.
1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by the Parker Brothers Company.
1940 - President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office, beating Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
1946 - 29-year old John F. Kennedy started his political career when today he was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Congressman from Massachusetts.
1946 - Republicans took control of the Senate and the House in midterm elections. In 1956, Britain and France started landing troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal.
1950 - Actress Tallulah Bankhead gave the introduction "The greatest stars of our time on one big program" as she opened was the 90-minute "Big Show" on NBC radio. The peacock saw losses exceed a million dollars during the three years the program aired.
1955 - Formally opened today was the Vienna State Opera House in Austria, celebrating the close of 17 years of foreign occupation.
1956 - In the Suez Crisis, British and French troops began to land at Port Said, Egypt.
1965 - Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith declared a state of emergency in preparation for his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain.
1966 - The Motown hit, You Keep Me Hangin' On, recorded by The Supremes, debuted on Billboard's pop charts, and was Number 1 for 2 weeks. It was on the charts for a total of 10 weeks. The song was The Supremes' eighth Number 1 record.
1968 - Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
1971 - The Los Angeles Lakers began professional sport's longest winning streak in the history by winning the first of 33 consecutive basketball games.
1977 - American band leader Guy Lombardo died on this date at age 75. Countless people remember fondly the tradition of Guy Lombardo with his Royal Canadians playing at New York's Waldorf Astoria on New Year's Eve on radio and then television.
1978 - Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigned following riots and demonstrations against the Shah.
1979 - Beloved cartoonist Al Capp died from emphysema at age 70. Capp's "Li'l Abner" had a huge and devoted following, and Capp was as nationally known as his strip. Capp was born Alfred Caplin, and began his cartooning career at the age of 23, doing a little known syndicated panel strip called "Mister Gilfeather" for a few months. While working on Palooka, Capp created some very successful hillbilly characters, inspiring him to come up with "Li'l Abner," beginning in syndication in 1934. By the 1940s, it was one of the most popular strips of all time, appearing in hundreds of newspapers. Eventually, it evolved into animated cartoons, stage, movies, comic books, toys, and even a soft-drink called "Kickapoo Joy Juice." He was the 1947 winner of the National Cartoonists Society Cartoonist of the Year Award.
1984 - The Supreme Court ruled the NFL could not block future franchise moves. Furthermore, the Court said the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles, California.
1986 - Dick Clark registered for initial public stock offerings for his televison production company, DCP. On registration forms he called his product "mind candy".
1987 - In South Africa, Nelson Mandela, former leader of the African National Congress, was released from prison after 23 years.
1989 - Lebanon's Syrian-backed acting Prime Minister Selim Hoss, a Sunni Muslim, resigned after parliament elected Rene Muawad as Lebanon's new president.
1990 - Meir Kahane, an American-born rabbi who advocated expelling all Arabs from Israel, was shot dead in New York.
1991 - Czech-born British media tycoon Robert Maxwell died after falling overboard off his yacht.
1994 - Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1995 - Former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti was charged with complicity in murder.
1996 - Voters returned President Clinton to the White House for a second term but kept Congress in Republican control.
1996 - Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was sacked by the country's president, who accused her beleaguered government of corruption, nepotism and misrule.
1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin came through seven hours of open heart surgery. He resumed full presidential duties the next day.
1996 - Democrat Bill Clinton was re-elected United States president, defeating Republican Bob Dole.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 6, 2005 6:54:19 GMT -5
1429 - Henry VI was crowned king of England, seven years after acceding to the throne at the age of eight months.
1632 - Sweden's King Gustavus II was killed during the Battle of Lutzen in the Thirty Years' War.
1860 - Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the United States presidency.
1860 - The New Princess's Theatre opened in London with the performance of Hamlet, with Edwin Booth, the distinguished and famous actor-brother of John Wilkes Booth, as the Prince of Denmark.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first intercollegiate football game was played. Rutgers defeated Princeton 6-4.
1882 - "The Jersey Lily of England", Lily Langtry, debuted in America starring in "An Unequal Match" which opened in New York City.
1883 - The New York Athletic Club sponsored the first American cross-country championships were held today.
1888 - Benjamin Harrison of Indiana won the presidential election, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland on electoral votes although Cleveland led in the popular vote.
1893 - Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
1899 - In New York City, William Gillette starred in "Sherlock Holmes" at the production’s debut. Later, Gillette take the same part on radio.
1900 - President McKinley was re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1903 - In New York, the original stage production of Sir James Barrie’s "Peter Pan" opened. The play ran for 2 years with Maude Adams as its star.
1911 - After leading the revolution against dictator Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero assumed the office of president of Mexico.
1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - After five months, the third battle of Ypres finally ended when the Canadians and Australians took Passchendaele. The advance was only five miles at a cost of at least 240,000 men.
1928 - Jacob Schick patented the first electric razor.
1928 - Herbert Hoover was elected United States president.
1928 - The first Motogram machine was installed - on the New York Times Building. It showed presidential election results via an electric flasher. (Herbert Hoover beat Alfred E. Smith)
1932 - In German elections, the Nazis lost 34 seats and two million votes but still remained the largest party in the Reichstag with 196 seats.
1936 - Big band icon Woody Herman played his first recording session when he recorded "Wintertime Dreams" as Decca disc #1056.
1943 - After more than two years of German rule, the Russians recaptured Kiev.
1955 - On television, the first motion picture premiere was seen coast to coast in the United States as viewers watched Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton star in "The Constant Husband".
1955 - Police dispersed soccer fans in Naples, Italy, who tried to kill an umpire for awarding a tying penalty kick to the visiting Bologna team. The brawl claimed 152 casualties.
1956 - President Eisenhower was re-elected, beating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
1962 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommending member states apply economic sanctions.
1967 - In Dayton, Ohio, Phil Donahue began a televiosn talk show which would later move to Chicago, Illinois once syndicated by Multimedia Productions. It had high ratings for years.
1969 - It was the first tie for votes in the Cy Young Award. Pitchers Denny McLain, of the Detroit Tigers, and Mike Cuellar, of the Baltimore Orioles, both won for best pitcher in the American League.
1970 - Italy and China established diplomatic relations.
1975 - King Hassan launched the "Green March" with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran crossing into Western Sahara. Spain agreed days later to transfer administration to Morocco and Mauritania.
1976 - Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen executive director of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.
1977 - An earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia, killing 39 people.
1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange was open during a on the day of the presidential election. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped almost 15 points on sales of 101.2 million shares.
1985 - In New York City, sixteen males in tuxedos without shirts, joined 52 bunnies for the first time in the 25-year history of the Playboy Clubs.
1986 - For the fall 1988 season, WOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey paid $182,000 per episode of "The Cosby Show". The price was a record for a syndicated show, beating previous marks of $80,000 per show for "Cheers".
1986 - Edy’s Ice Cream Company took out a $250,000 insurance on the taste buds of ice cream taste-tester John Harrison.
1986 - A Chinook helicopter carrying oil workers crashed into the North Sea; 45 of the 47 on board died.
1986 - Former United States Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for leading a family spy ring.
1988 - Norway's Grete Waitz won her ninth New York Marathon, completing it in 2:28.07.
1990 - Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister amid charges of vote-rigging from ousted premier Benazir Bhutto.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
1995 - Israel buried Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians.
1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.
1996 - Croatia became the 40th member of the Council of Europe.
1996 - More than 2,000 people were killed or lost at sea when a cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Post by Huckleberry on Nov 7, 2005 7:51:51 GMT -5
1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
1659 - The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.
1811 - 1,000 Americans led by General William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippencanoe Creek near what is now Lafayette, Indiana.
1837 - United States abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was attacked and killed by a pro-slavery mob at his printing works in Alton, Illinois.
1872 - The United States cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it was found mysteriously abandoned the following month.
1874 - The Republican party elephant was born on this date. It was created by Thomas Nast's political cartoon in Harper's Weekly, attacking a possible third term for Republican President Ullyses S. Grant.
1876 - Albert H. Hook of New York City patented the cigarette manufacturing machine.
1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed as the final spike was driven in at Craigellachie, British Columbia. The 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad began in Montreal, Quebec, and ran between Montreal and Port Moody, B.C.
1893 - The state of Colorado granted women residents the right to vote.
1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.
1914 - For the first time, the "New Republic" magazine was printed.
1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 - Russian Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City was opened to the public.
1930 - Wayne King recorded what would become his theme song, "The Waltz You Save for Me", on Victor records.
1932 - CBS radio first aired "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". Between 1932 to 1947, Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played Buck over the years.
1937 - On CBS radio, "Dr. Christian" debuted. Jean Hersholt played elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on air until 1954. Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp at one point all played his nurse, Judy. The "Dr. Christian" theme song was "Rainbow on the River". Sponsors included Vaseline petroleum jelly, hair tonic and lip ice.
1938 - The soap opera, "This Day is Ours", was first heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had problems: her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer and many other traumas during the show's 2 year run.
1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm.
1944 - President Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt only lived long enough to serve 53 days of this fourth term.
1946 - In New York a coin-operated television receiver was displayed. To see various test patterns and a model of Felix the Cat, folks paid a quarter.
1947 - "Billboard" magazine started listing the 15 top popular records. Before this only 10 songs were listed.
1948 - "The Storm", became the first production of CBS-TV's "Studio One". Margaret Sullivan starred in it for $500. "Studio One" continued to 1958.
1951 - Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and film actress Ava Gardner were married in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1956 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling upon Britain, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Egypt immediately.
1956 - Elvis Presley hit the charts with "Love Me", the first million-seller to chart without being a single. It was an EP (extended play) 45 rpm, with three other songs: "Rip It Up", "Paralyzed" and "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" all on RCA Victor.
1961 - President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador resigned after months of increasing popular unrest.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1963 - New York Yankee Elston Howard, was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player making him the first black player to receive the award.
1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major city - Cleveland, Ohio.
1967 - President Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1970 - "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" was released by Chicago on Columbia. It was the group's third tune to hit the pop music charts, "Make Me Smile" and "25 or 6 to 4" were previous hits. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" reached #7 on the charts on January 7, 1971.
1972 - United States President Richard Nixon was re-elected for a second term, in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern. He became the first president to resign office.
1973 - United States and Egypt announced restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.
1973 - New Jersey became the first state in the United States that allowed girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1976 - Gone With the Wind (Part I) had its world-wide television debut on NBC, and raked in a 47.7 Neilsen rating. Part II aired the next day, and did almost as well.
1979 - "The Rose", starring Bette Midler, premeired in California. The movie was designed after the life of Janis Joplin.
1980 - Steve McQueen, famous for roles in "The Getaway", "Papillon", "The Sand Pebbles" and others, passed away at age 50.
1984 - New York Jets quarterback, Joe Namath, married Deborah Lynn Mays.
1985 - Troops stormed Colombia's Palace of Justice to end a 24-hour siege by gunmen of the M-19 guerrilla movement; 95 people were killed.
1986 - The longest high school football winning streak to date ended. Canyon High, of Canyon Country, California, lost to Antelope Valley High 21-20. Canyon High racked up 46 consecutive wins before this.
1987 - Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in office since independence in 1956, was overthrown in a bloodless coup.
1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Donny Lalonde in Las Vegas to win both the WBC light heavy-weight and super middleweight titles. He, and Thomas Hearns, were the only two boxers to hold five separate world crowns in their careers.
1989 - The East German government resigned after pro-democracy protests.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected black governor in United States history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first black mayor.
1989 - Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg asked President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the United States Supreme Court, citing the clamor that arose over Ginsburg's admission that he had smoked marijuana on occasion.
1990 - Mary Robinson was elected in Ireland's first presidential election in 17 years, becoming the country's first woman president.
1991 - NATO leaders approved an unprecedented formal link with their former East European foes and adopted a new post-Cold War strategy.
1991 - In a startling press conference, basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced that he had tested HIV-positive, and that he was retiring from the Los Angeles Lakers. The news upset the world.
1991 - A San Francisco Superior Court judge scheduled a trial date in a $6.2-million suit against comedian Robin Williams, which was filed five years earlier by ex-lover Michelle Tish Carter. Carter claimed that Williams gave her herpes in 1982.
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, Czech leader who sought to install "socialism with a human face" in the Prague Spring of 1968, died from injuries suffered in a car crash.
1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 142 people crashed some 25 miles from Lagos, killing all on board.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 8, 2005 7:21:22 GMT -5
1520 - King Christian II ordered the massacre of Swedish bishops and nobles in what became known as the "Stockholm Bloodbath," helping to incite a Swedish war of liberation against Danish rule.
1793 - In Paris, the Louvre Museum opened.
1830 - Ferdinand II became King of the Two Sicilies.
1880 - The internationally-famous French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, made her American stage debut in New York, playing the leading role in Adrienne Lecouvreur.
1889 - Montana became the 41st state in the United States.
1884 - Samuel Sidney McClure established McClure's Syndicate in New York City, the first newspaper syndicate.
1900 - Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, a realistic book, was published by Doubleday & Company. Worried about the immorality of the book, and suffering public pressure, the publisher pulled the book off the stands. Depressed, Dreiser was unable to write another novel for over a decade.
1917 - In Russia, the Council of People's Commissars was established as the new government of Russia, and it named Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as foreign commissar and Stalin as commissar of nationalities.
1923 - Adolf Hitler attempted to start a putsch in Munich's largest beer hall but was arrested two days later.
1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected U.S. president. Re-elected three times, he was to remain in power until his death in 1945.
1932 - The Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II team made their debut with their show, "Make Mine Music" on Broadway. The production continued for 342 performances.
1933 - Nadir Shah, ruler of Afghanistan, was assassinated and succeeded by his son, Mohammed Zahir Shah.
1939 - Frank Sinatra had his last recording session with the Harry James Band. "Every Day of My Life" and "Ciribiribin" were recorded.
1939 - On Broadway, "Life With Father" premiered. The show would break the record for the longest running stage production eight years later.
1942 - Allied forces began landings in North Africa, beginning the Algeria-Morocco Campaign of World War II.
1951 - Quo Vadis, the MGM pageant of ancient Rome which was produced at a cost of nearly $7 million, premiered in New York.
1954 - The American League approved transferring the baseball's Philadelphia Athletics team to Kansas City, Missouri. Charles O. Finley of Chicago, Illinois would eventually tire of Kansas City and relocate the A’s to Oakland, California.
1956 - Cecil B. DeMille's cinema classic, The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner, premiered in New York. It later won an Oscar for Best Special Effects, and received a Best Picture nomination.
1959 - Elgin Baylor, the Minneapolis Lakers' "Big E", scored 64 points to set a National Basketball Association scoring mark. The Lakers defeated Boston 136-115.
1960 - John F. Kennedy was elected United States president, with Lyndon Johnson as his vice president.
1964 - Judy Garland and daughter, Liza Minnelli gave a joint appearance at the London Palladium. The program was shown on television in the United States, and was recorded on the LP, "Live at the London Palladium" that became a classic for Capitol Records.
1965 - The daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives, starring MacDonald Carey as Dr. Tom Horton, premiered.
1966 - Actor and future United States President Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1967 - John Lennon’s "How I Won the War" opened in the United States. The film marked the first solo movie by a Beatle.
1970 - Placekicker Tom Dempsey of the New Orleans Saints kicked the longest field goal in NFL history at 63 yards. Dempsey's right kicking foot was artificial, and he had to wear a special shoe approved by the league. The kick was the last play of the game, and the Saints beat the Detroit Lions, 19-17. Dempsey also was missing his right hand.
1972 - West and East Germany ended 23 years of Cold War antagonism by initialing a good-neighbor treaty which pledged mutual respect for the existence of two sovereign German states.
1979 - On ABC-TV, a new late-night news program debuted, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage". Expected to be on the air temporarily, the program, hosted by Ted Koppel, became "Nightline" in March of 1980.
1984 - The first rescue attempt made on two crippled satellites occurred when space shuttle "Discovery" lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The mission's goal was accomplished on November 14th.
1987 - 11 people were killed when a bomb ripped through a crowd gathered for a Remembrance Day service at a war memorial in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
1988 - George Bush won the United States presidential election, defeating Michael Dukakis.
1989 - Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, the first black to become a U.S. state governor.
1998 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence.
1998 - Television's precocious Punky Brewster of the 1980s, Soleil Moon Frye, then age 22, married independent film producer Jason Goldberg in a traditional Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles.
1998 - CBS aired the first of two parts of Alex Haley's Mama Flora's Family, starring Cicely Tyson. The mini-series was based on Haley's final book, which was completed after his death in 1992 by writer David Stevens. A spin-off of Roots, Mama Flora's Family followed the events of Kunta Kinte's mother's side of the family.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 9, 2005 6:56:28 GMT -5
1857 - The new magazine, the "Atlantic Monthly", featured the first installment "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1872 - A fire destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston.
1906 - United States President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama on the first overseas trip by a United States president.
1911 - Applying for a patent on neon advertising signs was George Claude of Paris, France. You may have seen his handiwork for advertisers appearing on the Eiffel Tower at various times.
1912 - Pop Warner was a legendary coach for the Carlisle School for Indians in Pennsylvania when their team defeated Army 27-6. Future United States president Dwight D. Eisenhower played right halfback on the Army team, while Jim Thorpe played for Carlisle.
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and a council of People's Delegates assumed power.
1938 - "Jack and Jill", the children's magazine was published its first edition with 40,000 copies. By the late 1950s, the magazine had a circulation of 702,000.
1938 - This night into the early morning hours of the next day saw store and house windows smashed throughout Germany's Jewish neighborhoods. Thousands of books including volumes of history, philosophy, poetry and religion became fuel for bonfires set throughout the ghettoes. Synagogues and the Torah scrolls inside burned to the ground during the destruction. 91 Jews were killed and over 30,000 arrested on what came to be called Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), a sign of the unconscionable death and destruction to come at the hands of the Nazis.
1948 - On NBC radio, "This is Your Life" debuted. the host for that first episode was Ralph Edwards who hosted the radio show for two years before giving the show nine more years from 1952 to 1961 on television.
1953 - Maurice Richard scored his 325th career goal, setting a National Hockey League record. Richard sent his record breaking puck to Queen Elizabeth of England.
1955 - For RCA Victor, Harry Belafonte recorded "Jamaica Farewell" and "Come Back Liza", completing the "Calypso" album that led to Belafonte’s nickname, "Calypso King".
1961 - Brian Epstein first saw The Beatles perform at The Cavern, a Liverpool basement night club which was the "in" spot during the early 1960s.
1963 - In Japan, about 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion.
1965 - A blackout in the northeast United States left millions of people without electricity. There were 800,000 people trapped in New York subways, elevators and skyscrapers, and riots broke out in New York City. Pictures taken that night showed the a moonlit, lightless, Manhattan skyline. Power was not returned to the city until the next morning.
1967 - With John Lennon on the cover, the first issue of "Rolling Stone" was published. The magazine said it was not just a music magazine but was also about “...the things and attitudes that music embraces.”
1967 - The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
1982 - Five month after having retinal surgery on his left eye, Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. Leonard would come out of retirement in 1984 to fight one more time before becoming an NBC fight commentator.
1983 - At an auction at Sotheby's, an 82-inch by 118-inch silkscreen mural of singer Elvis Presley, painted by Andy Warhol, sold for $148,500.
1984 - Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics and Dr. J (Julius Irving) started a fight at the old Boston Garden in Massachusetts. The Celtics won the game 130-119, but the two players lost $7,500 each in fines along with the 16 other players who joined in the melee who paid a grand total of $15,500.
1984 - Donna Reed joined the cast of "Dallas" as the Ewing family's new matriarch, on CBS-TV. It was Reed’s first return to television since her own show ended in 1966, but she did not rate well with viewers attached to Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie. Reed was written out and in 1985 Bel Geddes returned.
1984 - Frederick Hart's sculpture "Three Servicemen", was unveiled in Washington, DC as the final addition to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The statue faces the wall of names listing over 58,000 Americans who were either killed or reported missing in action during the Vietnam War.
1984 - Actress Vanessa Redgrave was awarded $100,000 in damages on this date from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which had cancelled her scheduled performance as narrator in Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. Redgrave, known to be outspoken and an active supporter of controversial causes, sued for breach of contract and violation of her civil rights. The latter charge was dropped.
1986 - Racecar driver Bobby Rahal won his first national auto racing driving title. During his career he earned $300,000 for six victories, including an Indy 500 win.
1989 - The Berlin Wall, the 27.9-mile-long symbol of the Cold War, that kept East and West Germany apart for 28 years, was opened. German citizens from both sides celebrated their freedom as once again they could walk freely between the two states.
1990 - King Birendra of Nepal proclaimed a new Constitution that restored multi-party democracy to the Himalayan kingdom and stripped him of his absolute power.
1990 - Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany.
1998 - Funk singer Rick James, 50, was hospitalized with a stroke, just days after a blood vessel in his neck ruptured during a concert in Denver.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 10, 2005 6:13:29 GMT -5
1483 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer who began the Protestant Reformation, born.
1775 - The United States Marine Corps was authorized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1801 - In the United States the state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling.
1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone, a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa, and delivered his now famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1885 - Paul Daimler became the world's first motor-cyclist when he rode his father Gottlieb's new invention for six miles.
1888 - 13-year-old violinist from Austria, Vienna, Fritz Kreisler, made his United States debut in New York City.
1900 - The play, "Floradora", opened in New York City, received by cheering audiences.
1917 - 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House.
1928 - Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan. He had effectively become head of state and named Regent when his father became ill in 1920. He ruled until his death in 1989.
1939 - On Bluebird Records, Muggsy Spanier and his band recorded "Dipper Mouth Blues".
1939 - At the Auto Show in Chicago, Illinois, the first air-conditioned automobiles were displayed.
1942 - Buoyant after the desert victory at El Alamein, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
1950 - "The Magnificent Montague", debuted on NBC radio starring Monty Woolley.
1950 - The Country Girl, written by Clifford Odets, opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. Uta Hagen, in the lead role, won a Best Actress Tony for her performance. A few years later, the play was made into a film, and Grace Kelly received the Best Actress Oscar for the same role.
1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey, called his counterpart in Alameda, California.
1953 - Walt Disney's The Living Desert was released to theaters. It was very popular and became a box-office smash, later winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Critics, however, felt there were too many gags and humor with music, which weakened its documentary claim. Disney toned down the comedic antics with subsequent nature documentaries.
1953 - The film How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall, premiered in New York on this date. It later received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design.
1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1956 - After a 3 year absence, Billie Holiday returned to Carnegie Hall in New York City to give a concert called a high point in jazz history.
1960 - Britain and Romania signed a financial agreement providing for final settlement of British claims arising from their 1947 peace treaty.
1964 - Kenya became a one-party state by consent.
1969 - Twenty years after the first release of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Gene Autry was awarded a gold record for the single.
1969 - Sesame Street premiered on PBS, featuring Jim Henson's Muppet characters and lie actors and cartoons. The teachings and antics of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster filled the minds and hearts of thousands of preschool children, and the award-winning educational series was a tremendous success. Sesame Street was produced by the Children's Television Workshop.
1972 - Mickey (Arthur) McBride owner of the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s, and a taxicab company, died today. Browns' coach Paul Brown had a special squad of five non-roster players that could practice with the team in case a regular player was injured. The squad's salaries were paid by McBride's taxi company giving rise to the term, "taxi squad". According to Terry Pluto, in "When All the World was Browns Town", taxi squad members never drove cars.
1975 - The sinking of the "Edmund Fitzgerald", the worst Great Lakes shipwreck of the day occurred. It was a cold, stormy Lake Superior, known to Native Americans as Gitche Gumee, that caused the deaths of 29 crew members of the ore carrier. When the ship was launched, it was the largest bulk carrier on the Great Lakes.
1975 - The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism. However, the world body repealed the resolution in December 1991.
1976 - The Utah Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for convicted murderer Gary Gilmore to be executed, according to his wishes. The sentence was carried out the following January.
1982 - The newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.
1984 - The Maryland Terrapins set an NCAA football record when they came from a 31-0 halftime deficit to beat Miami’s Hurricanes, 42-40. The game broke the previous record set on October 20, 1984, when Washington State came from 28 points behind to beat Stanford, 49-42.
1986 - "Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85", the highly watched for, long-anticipated album by "The Boss", wemt on sale in record stores. Fans made the LP a sellout in one-day, buying over a million copies and generating more first-day money than any record in 30 years. The hit album was a five-disc, 40-song set.
1989 - Bulgarian leader Todor Zhikov stepped down as Communist Party chief and head of state after 35 years in power.
1990 - Veteran socialist leader Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India's new prime minister at the head of its second minority government in less than a year.
1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband.
1995 - President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia initialled an agreement shoring up their federation in the first breakthrough of United States-led talks aimed at ending four years of war in the former Yugoslavia.
1995 - Hsu You-shend and Gary Harriman were partners in the first (not legally binding) gay wedding in Taiwan.
1997 - WorldCom Inc. and MCI Communications Corp. agreed to a $37 billion merger, the biggest in United States history.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 11, 2005 6:29:51 GMT -5
1500 - France's King Louis XII and Ferdinand of Aragon signed secret Treaty of Granada for conquest and partition of Naples.
1606 - A peace treaty was signed at Zeitva-Torok between Turks and Austrians.
1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal" laws.
1673 - Poland's King John Sobieski defeated the Turks at Korzim, Poland.
1778 - British forces took St. Lucia, West Indies, from the French.
1817 - Senaa Samma appeared at St. John’s Hall in New York City in an exhibition of juggling and sword swallowing. The admission price for one adult was $1.
1831 - Nat Turner, a minister and slave, was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, for inciting a slave uprising.
1836 - Chile declared war on Peru-Bolivia federation.
1851 - Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Massachusetts patented the telescope.
1905 - "Ladies' Home Journal" editor William Bo called the Morris chair, selling for $31.00, “a hideous piece of furniture.” The popular Morris chair was named for William Morris, of Morris & Company who produced home furnishings. The chair had an adjustable back and removable cushions which evolved into the recliners of.
1918 - An armistice for World War I was signed between Allies and Germany.
1926 - The University of Wisconsin announced women could earn college credits for a dance course the school offered.
1928 - Knute Rockne used the phrase, “Win one for the Gipper,” in a halftime speech to the Notre Dame football players. After the speech, the team went out and beat Army, 12-7.
1929 - In kansas City, Missouris, Andy Kirk and his orchestra recorded "Froggy Bottom".
1932 - The National Broadcasting Company opened new studios at Radio City in New York City, celebrating the event with a gala at Radio City Music Hall.
1938 - For the first time Kate Smith sang what would become her signature song, "God Bless America". In 1917, Irving Berlin wrote the tune, but never released it until Miss Smith sang it this first time on her radio broadcast.
1939 - The American public heard Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time when Kate Smith sang it on her Armistice Day radio broadcast. The song was written 22 years earlier, but was never used, in a World War I soldier show by Berlin.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1940 - The chant, “invovo legem magicarum,” was first heard when "Mandrake the Magician" debuted on New YorkCity's WOR Radio.
1942 - During World War II, Germany completed its occupation of France.
1944 - Frank Sinatra began his long, successful career with Columbia Records.
1944 - The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame got a serious beating by Army, 59-0, in the worst margin of defeat for any Notre Dame team.
1945 - Composer Jerome Kern died in a New York hospital on this date. He had been unconscious for several days after collapsing on the corner of 57th Street and Park Avenue. Good friend Oscar Hammerstein II tried in vain to revive Kern by singing "Ol' Man River" in his ear.
1946 - A crowd of 17,205 showed up at Madison Square Garden to see the new NBA team, the New York Knickerbockers, or Knicks, as they are known. The new guys lost to Chicago 78-68.
1951 - Juan Peron was elected for the second of three presidential terms.
1964 - Food shortages in India provoked riots in Kerala State.
1965 - Ian Smith declared Rhodesian independence, and Britain said the regime was illegal.
1967 - Clinton Shaw set the world’s distance roller skating record. He arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundland from Victoria, British Columbia after a trip of 4,900 miles to start his skating venture on April Fool’s Day.
1968 - John Lennon's first recording effort without The Beatles, his album Two Virgins, was released in the United States on this date under the Apple label.
1969 - While on a Continental Airlines flight from Los Angeles, on their way to see a Rolling Stones concert in Phoenix, lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison, and a friend were arrested by the FBI. They were charged with drunk and disorderly conduct and interfering with personnel aboard a commercial aircraft, the latter carrying a federal skyjacking penalty of a $10,000 fine and/or 10 years in prison. They were later found innocent of the felony charge, but guilty of "assaulting, threatening, intimidating and interfering with the performance of" two stewardesses. The stewardess who made most of the accusations later changed her testimony, and the charges were ultimately dropped.
1971 - The United States Senate ratified a treaty to return the island of Okinawa to Japan.
1972 - The United States turned over its big base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese, symbolizing the end of direct United States participation in the Vietnam War.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 12, 2005 15:51:35 GMT -5
1812 - In their retreat from Moscow, the remnants of Napoleon's Grand Armee crossed the River Berezina; 10,000 stragglers were left behind.
1859 - A flying trapeze act was performed for the first time in a circus.
1867 - A major eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy began and lasted for several months.
1893 - An agreement was signed between Afghanistan and Britain marking the boundary between Afghan tribal lands and British territories.
1912 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Canalejas was assassinated by anarchist gunman Manuel Pardinas, who then shot himself.
1912 - A search party found the remains of British explorer Captain Robert Scott and his companions after the ill-fated South Pole expedition.
1915 - Harvard University's Theodore W. Richards became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry. He was given his award in Stockholm, Sweden.
1918 - Austria was declared an independent republic, one day after the end of World War I.
1919 - The first flight from England to Australia, flown by Ross and Keith Smith, took off from Hounslow, near London. They landed at Darwin on December 13.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis accepted a contract to be the first commissioner of baseball, taking office after the Black Sox scandal of 1919, remaining commissioner for seven years.
1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler was arrested for failed attempt to seize power.
1925 - Louis Armstrong began his world famous career when he recorded "My Heart".
1927 - Joseph Stalin became ruler of the Soviet Union.
1927 - After forty years in blue jerseys, Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish got a new uniform of bright green jerseys and stockings. They played against Army in New York City, and have been wearing the lucky green uniforms ever since.
1931 - In Toronto, Canada, Maple Leaf Gardens opened as the new home of the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs.
1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia"; called by one critic “As terrific as anything that has ever happened on the screen.”
1941 - On RCA Victor records, Hot Lips Page provided vocals for Artie Shaw’s very long and very slow version of "St. James Infirmary".
1942 - The naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces during World War II.
1942 - The British Eighth Army under Gen. Bernard Montgomery captured Tobruk, Libya, taking at least 30,000 prisoners.
1944 - The German battleship Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck and Hitler's last major warship, was sunk by Lancaster bombers at Tromso Fjord in northern Norway.
1946 - The first drive-up bank facility, with ten teller windows with slide-out drawers, opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois.
1948 - A war crimes tribunal sentenced Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death.
1954 - Ellis Island, the United States immigration station in New York harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants to the United States since 1892.
1955 - Jockeys Eddie Arcaro, Earl Sande, and George Woolf became the first three members of the Jockey Hall of Fame in Pimlico, Maryland.
1955 - The worst recorded attendance to a football game occurred in the Washington State vs San Jose State game at Pullman, Washington. The game was played as scheduled, despite high winds and a temperature of 0 degrees F. The total paid attendance was 1.
1967 - On Broadway, Pearl Bailey took over the lead role in the musical, "Hello Dolly". "Pearlie Mae", as Buck was called, was a hit.
1967 - The Detroit Lions set an NFL record by fumbling the football 11 times and losing it 5 of those times.
1968 - The United Nations General Assembly voted against admission of Communist China.
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union for anti-social behavior.
1969 - The United States army announced for the first time that it was investigating William Calley for the alleged massacre of civilians at the Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 1968.
1970 - After a successful run in London, Anthony Quayle starred in "Sleuth's" Broadway opening.
1970 - In East Pakistan a cyclone and tidal wave hit several districts, causing the deaths of at least 200,000 people.
1974 - South Africa was suspended from the United Nations General Assembly over its racial policies.
1977 - In West Germany Ingrid Schubert, a founding member of the Baader-Meinhof gang, committed suicide in her prison cell.
1979 - After Islamic students seized the United States Embassy in Tehran on November 4, President Jimmy Carter announced an immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil.
1980 - John Lennon’s "Starting Over" was released featuring Lennon and Yoko kissing on the cover.
1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time; it was the first space vehicle to be used more than once.
1982 - Yuri Andropov was elected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist party following the death of Leonid Brezhnev.
1982 - Polish Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa was freed after 11 months detention in a state-owned hunting lodge.
1983 - Lionel Richie started the first of four consecutive weeks at #1 on the music charts as "All Night Long (All Night)" became the United States most popular song.
1984 - Joseph Allen became the first astronaut to rescue a satellite. Allen was on board the "Discovery" space shuttle to make the $35 million rescue.
1986 - For the first time in the history of the NBA both head coaches were absent from the game when coached K.C. Jones and Don Nelson were too sick to be at the Boston-Milwaukee game. The Boston Celtics had their 44th straight home victory as they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 124-116.
1990 - Emperor Akihito was enthroned in Japan.
1991 - Leroy Witucki, a 10-year police veteran in Indiana, pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of tickets to a George Thorogood rock concert off the body of a motorist killed in a car crash. He gave the tickets to a family member, who sold them to friends. Relatives of the crash victim were surprised when the ticket holders sat next to them at the concert 3 weeks after the fatal accident. Witucki resigned from the police force, and faced up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
1996 - 349 people were killed when a Saudi Arabian jumbo jet and a Kazakh airliner collided in mid-air over India.
1997 - The United Nations Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iraq for constraints being placed on United Nations arms inspectors.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 13, 2005 12:07:23 GMT -5
1093 - Malcolm III of Scotland, son of King Duncan, died during his fifth attempt to invade England at Alnwick, Northumberland
1775 - During the American Revolution, American forces captured Montreal.
1887 - Socialist demonstrators rioted at London's Trafalgar Square in what was the first "Bloody Sunday."
1907 - The first helicopter to achieve free flight carrying a man, designed by Paul Cornu, rose six feet above the ground at Lisieux, France.
1913 - The first modern elasticized brassiere was patented in the United States by its inventor Mary Phelps Jacob.
1921 - The silent film classic, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released to theaters.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel, connecting New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey, opened to traffic after seven years of construction and over $48 million. It was named for the chief engineer of construction, Clifford Milburn Holland, who died before completion.
1930 - In Plainsboro, New Jersey, the first revolving milk platform was used, allowing 1,680 cows to be milked in seven hours.
1933 - When the United States Workers at the Hormel Packing Company plant in Austin, Minnesota, home of Spam, took action against management, they started the first sit-down strike.
1940 - Tennis star Alice Marble turned professional when she signed for $25,000 plus a percentage of the gate receipts.
1940 - Walt Disney's new film Fantasia was released to the public. Despite Disney's wish to unite classical music with animation, the critics hated it and the public was confused by its unique format. The film would not be appreciated for many years, when its re-release in the 1970s made it a hit with young people who were looking for a "psychedelic experience." The film, which cost $2.5 million to make, did not recoup its costs for many years.
1941 - The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal was hit by a torpedo off Gibraltar and sank early the following day.
1943 - Leonard Bernstein began his legendary career when he replace an ill Bruno Walter as conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
1945 - General Charles De Gaulle was elected president of the French provisional government with the vote of all 555 deputies.
1946 - Vincent J. Schaefer produced the first artificial snow on Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts.
1948 - The Archbishop of Canterbury got the original manuscript of "Alice in Wonderland" from the Library of Congress. A United States citizen outbid others in an attempt to win the document, but donations allowed the British to buy the manuscript back for the British Museum.
1955 - NBC employed the scatter system of relaying a telecast by "bouncing" the signal off an airplane as it made the first overseas broadcast in television history, from Havana to Miami.
1956 - The United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation of the races on public buses was unconstitutional.
1965 - Julie Harris starred in the musical, "Skyscraper", which opened on Broadway in New York City. The show ran for seven months.
1968 - The Beatles movie, "Yellow Submarine", premiered in the United States while the single, "Hey Jude", topped the pop music charts in its 7th of 9 weeks at #1.
1970 - Hafez al-Assad seized power in Syria in a bloodless military coup.
1973 - A state of emergency was declared in Britain after power workers and coal miners began industrial action.
1973 - The "cod war" between Britain and Iceland subsided when the Icelandic parliament approved terms of settlement.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, a union activist at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a mysterious car accident on this date. Silkwood was leading the efforts towards investigating radiation poisoning at the plant, and speculators felt that her death not accidental, as she was driving to meet with reporters at the time of the fatal accident. The film Silkwood, starring Academy-award-winning actress Meryl Streep in the title role and co-starring Cher and Kurt Russell, was later released about Silkwood's life and her courageous battle against the plant.
1975 - The song, "Feelings", by Morris Albert, went gold.
1977 - After 43 years in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, "Li’l Abner", to a close.
1982 - United States President Ronald Reagan lifted sanctions against European firms supplying components for a Soviet gas pipeline.
1985 - In Colombia, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted; an estimated 25,000 people died.
1986 - Fricot City went on the auction block for $8.8 million. The California town, about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento, featured a motel, 20 homes, and two swimming pools to the buyer.
1989 - The Pakistani cabinet resigned, giving Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto a free hand to form a new government.
1992 - A group of retired military officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and overthrow the government.
1994 - Swedes voted by 52.2 percent in a referendum to join the European Union.
1995 - A bomb attack on a United States-run military center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed seven people, five of them Americans.
1995 - Israel began pulling troops out of the West Bank city of Jenin to end 28 years of occupation.
1998 - United States President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 14, 2005 10:08:39 GMT -5
1770 - Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile on Lake Tana in northwest Ethiopia.
1832 - The first horsecar, a streetcar pulled by horses, went on display in New York City. The vehicle could transport 30 people in three compartments. It traveled Fourth Avenue between Prince and Fourteenth Streets.
1851 - Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick, was published in New York by Harper and Brothers.
1864 - During the United States Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman began his march through Georgia to the sea.
1889 - Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set off on her quest to voyage around the world in less then 80 days.
1910 - Captain Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss biplane, made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship.
1918 - Tomas Masaryk was elected the first president of Czechoslovakia.
1921 - KYW radio in Chicago, Illinois gave the first broadcast of an opera by a professional company. "Samson Et Dilila" was brought to listeners as it was being performed at the Chicago Auditorium.
1935 - The "Call Bulletin" of San Francisco, California had a first, when today they ran a life-size portrait of a human being. Two day old Larry Quinn was the subject.
1940 - An air raid by about 500 German warplanes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.
1941 - The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal was sunk in a German submarine attack off Gibraltar.
1944 - An array of musicians gathered in Hollywood, California to record what would become a classic: Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra's "Opus No. 1", Victor record number 20-1608. On drums was Buddy Rich, Al Klink and Buddy DeFranco played sax and Nelson Riddle played trombone on the Sy Oliver arrangement.
1945 - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker sold the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the Toney Holman family. Former Indy winner Wilbur Shaw became president and manager of the speedway.
1951 - The first world lightweight boxing title fight was telecast across the United States. In Los Angeles, California, Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon.
1963 - A new island was created off the Icelandic coast by an undersea volcanic eruption.
1964 - Detroit Red Wing Gordie Howe set a National Hockey League record when he scored his 627th career goal in a game against Montreal.
1966 - Boxing’s largest indoor crowd gathered at the Houston Astrodome in Texas to see Cassius Clay defeat and TKO Cleveland William.
1967 - The Monkees were awarded a gold record for "Daydream Believer".
1968 - Yale University announced it was going co-educational.
1969 - The team which was to make the second moon landing, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean, took off aboard Apollo 12 from Cape Kennedy.
1972 - For the first time in its 76-year existence, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,000 mark: 1003.16.
1973 - Britain's Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips were married in Westminster Abbey.
1975 - The Spinners got a gold record for "They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play)". Their other hits include: "Then Came You" (with Dionne Warwicke), "Could It Be I’m Falling in Love", "The Rubberband Man", "Working My Way Back to You", "Cupid", "It’s a Shame" and "I’ll Be Around" for Motown.
1976 - Sybil, the acclaimed made-for-television production, aired for the first time on NBC. Sally Field won a Best Actress Emmy for playing a young woman so disturbed by her childhood experiences that she developed 16 distinct personalities, and critics were amazed at the depth of her acting abilities.
1981 - Paul "Bear" Bryant tied Amos Alonzo Stagg's record for most football wins. The Alabama Crimson Tide got win #314 for Coach Bryant, beating Penn State, 31-16.
1981 - For the second consecutive week, Daryl Hall and John Oates held the top spot on the pop music charts with "Private Eyes".
1981 - Senegal and Gambia formed a confederation known as Senegambia and headed by the president of Senegal, Abdou Diouf.
1983 - The first United States cruise missiles arrived at Greenham Common airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
1988 - Pablo Picasso's "Motherhood" sold for $24.8 million in New York City, a record for a 20th-century piece of art and the third-highest price in history paid for a single artwork.
1988 - The sitcom "Murphy Brown" premiered, starring Candice Bergen as a newswoman.
1991 - Michael Jackson's worldwide television premiere of his Black or White music video outraged thousands of home viewers with its gratuitous violence and sexual innuendo. During a 4-minute dance segment at the end of the video, Jackson simulated masturbation, smashed a car with a crowbar, and grabbed his crotch repeatedly. Following the weighty criticism from parents and religious organizations, Jackson released a formal apology through his press agent, and announced that he would delete the offensive footage. The music video, which was directed by John Landis and used an extensive amount of computer graphics, cost $4 million to produce.
1991 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia made a triumphant return home after 13 years in exile.
1993 - Puerto Rico's pro-statehood Gov. Pedro Rossello conceded narrow defeat in the island's plebiscite on whether to become the 51st American state.
1994 - The first fare-paying passengers on the new rail service traveled through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France.
1995 - The United States government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.
1998 - Basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman married ex-Baywatch actress Carmen Electra in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rodman's agent questioned whether the marriage was legal, saying the Chicago Bulls star was drunk at the time. The agent said Rodman was taken advantage of by Electra and people he called "leeches." But Rodman professed his love for Electra, and told the media that he was happy with the marriage.
1998 - The greatly anticipated animation feature, A Bug's Life, premiered in the United States, and was in limited release 6 days later. Featuring the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Phyllis Diller, David Hyde Pearce, and Madeline Kahn, the newest Pixar/Disney collaborative flick was praised for its story line, its characters, and its energy. Critic Leonard Maltin called it "a treat for young and old alike." The story was about Flik, a misfit ant, who was in search for warriors to save his colony from grasshoppers. He recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troup, but they save the day in the film's final minutes. The film, which cleaned up at the box office, won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for Best Animation - Feature-Length, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Randy Newman's musical score.>
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 15, 2005 10:21:25 GMT -5
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution. 1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak. 1864 - Civil War General Sherman burned Atlanta, Georgia. 1869 - Free postal delivery was formally inaugurated. 1881 - In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was formed. The organization would become the American Federation of Labor (AFL) five years later. 1884 - New York's Samuel Sidney McClure started the first newspaper chain. 1889 - Brazil became a republic. 1901 - Miller Reese of New York, patented the first hearing-aid. Unlike the hearing aids that we know today - this original was not portable. 1904 - The first razor with disposable blades was patented by King Camp Gillette. 1904 - One of Broadway’s most famous phrases was first spoken when Ethel Barrymore, appearing in the play, "Sunday", said the line, "That’s all there is. There isn’t any more," as the curtain fell. 1907 - The comic strip, "Mutt and Jeff," created by Bud Fisher, debuted in United States newspapers. 1920 - The League of Nations met for the first time. 1926 - NBC began operations. 1937 - Congress enjoyed air conditioning in both the House and Senate chambers for the first time as the second session of the 75th United States Congress convened. 1938 - Television’s first on-the-scene news telecast took place as a fire on Ward’s Island, New York was caught on tape by the cameras of NBC’s W2XBT. The unexpected fire was taped as it broke out. 1939 - The New York Giants, once opposed to night baseball, made plans to install a lighting system at the Polo Grounds for the 1940 season. 1939 - President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. 1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to United States Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription. 1950 - Arthur Dorrington became the first black player in organized hockey when he signed on this date with the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern Amateur League. 1954 - CBS-TV's "Studio One", had Joan Weber singing "Let Me Go, Lover". The song enjoyed a bit of popularity before the television show aired, but skyrocketed to fame after. 1956 - Elvis Presley's first film, "Love Me Tender", premiered. 1958 - Screen actor Tyrone Power died at age 44 on this date. 1962 - Irene, the executive designer at MGM who had created beautiful gowns for Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr, Judy Garland and many others, jumped to her death from the window of a 14th floor room at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles. She had been secretly in love with actor Gary Cooper who had died the previous year, and had been overcome with depression. 1964 - Len Dawson of Kansas City set an NFL record for number of fumbles by a single player in a single game. On this date, he fumbled seven times. 1965 - Craig Breedlove, set a world speed record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats with a speed of 600.601 mph. 1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin ``Buzz'' Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic. 1968 - The Queen Elizabeth (the largest passenger ship ever built to this time) completed her final voyage. 1969 - A quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War. 1969 - Bird's Eye frozen peas were the subject of the first color television advertisement in Britain. 1969 - Someday We'll Be Together, recorded by Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations, debuted on Billboard's Top 40 pop charts, hitting Number 1 for a week and staying on the charts for 15 weeks. 1969 - The first album featuring musical brother and sister act Karen and Richard Carpenter, "Offering", was released by A&M Records. While this Carpenter's tune was not a big seller, a single on the album, a remake of The Beatles’ "Ticket to Ride", gained national attention. Their next album, would establish them as international stars with "Close to You". 1969 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was accused of vulgar and indecent language and was arrested in Tampa, Florida. She was later released on a fifty-dollar bond. 1974 - On Casablanca Records, the most expensive 2-record album was released, the comedy disc titled, "Here’s Johnny - Magic Moments from the Tonight Show". 1974 - The group, Faces, released their longest titled tune: "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)". 1979 - The British government publicly identified Sir Anthony Blunt as the "fourth man" of a Soviet spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby. 1980 - Kenny Rogers got his first #1 solo song after years of success on the charts with the New Christy Minstrels and First Edition. The song was "Lady", written by Lionel Richie, which stayed at the top for six weeks. 1980 - West Germany has its first papal visit in 200 years. 1982 - Funeral services were held in Moscow's Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev. 1983 - The Equal Rights Amendment failed in the House. 1985 - Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland. 1986 - The first major operetta in 20 years to be written by Gian Carlo Menotti was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. "Goya", starring tenor Placido Domingo, was said by critics to be only "intermittently good." 1986 - A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels, and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. He was pardoned a month later. 1986 - Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. This was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC. Read the original AP story 1988 - The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers. 1990 - Rumors were confirmed by the press that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, the dreadlocked singer of Milli Vanilli, did not do any of the singing on the duo's hit debut album, Girl You Know It's True. Later that same week, the pair were stripped of its Grammy award, which they had won for best new artist. Pilatus and Morvan said they wanted to give up the Grammy and return it to the artists that actually sang on their hit album. 1991 - Cheyenne Brando, the 21-year-old daughter of actor Marlon Brando, was arrested in France and ordered returned to Tahiti as part of an investigation into the slaying of her 26-year-old lover, Dag Drollet. Drollet was shot to death in Marlon Brando's mansion in southern California. Before leaving the country to avoid testifying against Christian, Cheyenne told authorities that her brother had talked about killing Drollet for some time. In January, 1995, her half-brother Christian Brando pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the May, 1990 death of Drollet, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Christian was released on January 10, 1996, after serving five years of his sentence. In 1995, four years after Drollet was murdered, Cheyenne committed suicide. 1993 - A judge in Mineola, New York, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who served seven years of a 5- to 15-year sentence for first-degree assault in the shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. 1995 - Lee Jee-yung of South Korea, became the first woman to bungee-jump from a flying paraglider. 1998 - The most "Useless" site on the internet was launched - www.UselessKnowledge.com became a fixture for Triviots worldwide.
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