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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 16, 2005 8:22:05 GMT -5
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.
1841 - New York City's Napoleon Guerin patented the cork life preserver, a jacket filled with 18 to 20 quarts of grated cork.
1864 - Union General William T. Sherman and his troops began their ``March to the Sea'' during the Civil War.
1875 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native, Dr. William G. Arlington Bonwill patented the dental mallet used to impact gold into cavities.
1885 - Canadian rebel Louis Riel was executed for high treason.
1901 - In Brooklyn, New York, Henry Fournier drove a mile in 51 4/5 seconds, making him the first auto racer to drive over a mile-a-minute in competition.
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union.
1908 - Conductor Arturo Toscanini debuted in the United States when he conducted "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
1918 - After the break up of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Hungary was proclaimed an independent republic.
1932 - The Palace, New York City's most famous vaudeville theatre in the United States, closed its doors. Later, it became a movie house with live performances before the films; most notably the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
1935 - In New York City, the Rodgers and Hart musical, "Jumbo", opened for the first of 233 performances.
1937 - On Decca Records, Bob Crosby and his orchestra recorded "South Rampart Street Parade".
1958 - Golfers enjoying an autumn day got a surpries when six inches of snow fell on Tucson, Arizona.
1959 - The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ``The Sound of Music'' opened on Broadway.
1965 - The Soviet Union launched its Venus III spacecraft en route to Venus. It arrived in March 1966; the first spacecraft to land on another planet.
1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1967 - Retired harness racehorse Native Dancer died following stomach surgery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1969 - The United States Army brought charges against several soldiers accused in the massacre and subsequent cover-up at My Lai, Vietnam, in March 1968.
1970 - Anne Murray got a gold record for "Snowbird", becoming the first Canadian recording artist to receive the honor.
1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.
1973 - President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
1974 - NBC-TV began a two-night showing of the award-winning film, "The Godfather", starring Marlon Brando. The film was the highest price paid for a shown on television movie when NBC paid Paramount Pictures $10 million to show it.
1975 - Chicago Bear Walter Payton rushed for 105 yards in a game against the San Francisco 49ers, for his first game of 100 plus yards. He would reach this feat over 50 times throughout his career, adding two 200-yard games, as well.
1981 - Film actor William Holden died on this date at age 63.
1982 - The National Football League ended its 57-day strike, the longest in the history of professional sports.
1986 - Gerber Products had a first for the baby food industry when it announced intentions to produce baby food in plastic jars, instead of glass.
1986 - "Fresno," the first comic miniseries aired on CBS-TV. It poked fun at soap operas.
1988 - Estonia's parliament declared the Baltic republic ``sovereign,'' but stopped short of complete independence.
1988 - Television actress Robin Givens filed a $125 million libel suit against her former husband, boxing great Mike Tyson.
1989 - Six Jesuit priests and two other people were slain by uniformed gunmen at the Jose Simeon Canas University in El Salvador. The attack later was blamed on Salvadoran army troops.
1992 - In their first post-Soviet elections, Lithuania's Democratic Labor Party of ex-communists, won a crushing victory.
1995 - United Nations tribunal charged Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic with genocide.
1997 - China's most prominent pro- democracy campaigner, Wei Jingsheng, arrived in the United States after being released on medical parole after nearly 18 years in prison. Below, Wei speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles in June.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 17, 2005 11:03:16 GMT -5
1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
1800 - The United States Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building. President John Adams became the first occupant of the Executive Mansion, later called the White House.
1851 - The United States Post Office issued a 1-cent carrier stamp to make paying delivery fees easier. It was a first and last for stamps: the first to depict an American eagle; and the last to make paying fees easier.
1855 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls in Africa.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1877 - In London, the first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, "The Sorcerer", was presented.
1891 - Poland’s first and best known piano player, Ignace Jan Paderewski, made his United States debut at New York's Carnegie Hall. Paderewski, who suffered from arthritis, later settled in Paso Robles, California, where the hot mineral baths there eased some of his pain. He would only play Steinway grand pianos custom-built to his specifications, had five built just for his use.
1933 - The movie The Invisible Man opened to audiences. Actor Claude Rains made his film debut in it.
1934 - Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird."
1937 - Britain's Lord Halifax arrived in Germany for talks with Adolf Hitler on Sudetenland.
1938 - Orchestra leader Kay Kyser, spoke to a College of the City of New York (CCNY) audience about the "inner workings and artistic features of swing music." It was the first of a series of lectures on swing music given by Kyser, who went on to radio to present "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge".
1941 - Less than a month before Pearl Harbor, Japanese Prime Minister General Tojo outlined a three-point plan he said was aimed at peace in East Asia.
1941 - Ernst Udet, head of the German Luftwaffe Ordnance Department, committed suicide after disagreements with the Nazi leadership.
1950 - Roberta Peters made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she filled in for the lead in Mozart’s "Don Giovanni". Eventually, she would become one of the Met’s stars.
1952 - Hawaii's first television station, KONA in Honolulu, began operation.
1954 - Golfer Arnold Palmer turned professional when he signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods.
1954 - General Gamal Abdel Nasser became Egyptian head of state following the fall of President Mohamed Naguib.
1958 - The civilian government of Sudan was overthrown by the military; Ibrahim Abboud became prime minister.
1962 - Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President Kennedy.
1962 - Big Girls Don't Cry, recorded by The Four Seasons, jumped to Number 1 on Billboard's record charts on this date, and stayed in the top spot for 5 weeks.
1966 - Opening on Broadway was Woody Allen’s first play, "Don’t Drink the Water".
1968 - On television, the "Heidi Game" occurred when the New York Jets vs. the Oakland Raiders football game was cut off on NBC to show the family oriented "Heidi". The audience missed Oakland’s two touchdowns in nine seconds to win the game 43-32. NBC was bombarded with calls from football fans and the concept of program delay was immediately begun by the networks. Wonder what the "Heidi" fans thought?
1969 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and the United States opened in Helsinki.
1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1.
1970 - On the former WABC-FM in New York, Elton John recorded an album live, marking the first time a concert was aired live while it was being recorded for release. It was titled, "11/17/70".
1971 - The Thai armed forces and Revolutionary Party staged a bloodless coup, proclaimed martial law and dissolved parliament.
1972 - Argentine ex-president Juan Peron arrived in Buenos Aires after 17 years of exile.
1973 - President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida, that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
1974 - The first general election in Greece for over 10 years ended with a decisive victory for the New Democracy Party of Constantine Karamanlis.
1977 - The Egyptian foreign minister and his deputy resigned over President Sadat's proposed visit to Israel.
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the United States Embassy in Tehran.
1979 - The Rose, starring Bette Midler and Alan Bates, premiered in New York City. The lead character was modeled after the late rock singer Janis Joplin. Midler was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
1980 - Roger Mudd started work as NBC's chief Washington correspondent. Mudd left CBS after being passed over as a replacement for Walter Cronkite’s on "The CBS Evening News".
1981 - On ABC's daytime drama, "General Hospital," Luke Spencer married Laura Baldwin in what was called "the wedding of the year". A television audience of 14 million viewers watched as they exchanged vows. The television couple would divorce in 2001.
1986 - In Paris the managing director of the car firm Renault, Georges Besse, was shot dead by "Action Directe" terrorists.
1986 - Court hearings began in Australia on Britain's attempt to stop former spy Peter Wright publishing his memoirs.
1986 - Rick Mears, racecar driver, set a United States closed-course record at the Michigan International Speedway. He was clocked at an average speed of 233.934 mph, breaking Mark Donahue's 1975 record.
1986 - The creator of the "baby boomer", term released the first issue of "Quality" magazine. Landon Jones subtitled his work, "America’s Guide to Excellence".
1989 - Tens of thousands of people marched through Prague demanding an end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia but riot police and army paratroopers crushed the protest.
1991 - The eastern Croatian town of Vukovar fell to the Serb-dominated federal army after an 86-day siege.
1991 - Son Sen, a leader of the Khmer Rouge responsible for the deaths of a million Cambodians in the 1970s, returned to Phnom Penh to take his seat in a power-sharing administration.
1993 - Military rule was reimposed in Nigeria when General Sani Abacha ousted civilian leader Ernest Shonekan.
1993 - Judges from 11 nations were sworn in at the inaugural session of the United Naitons Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal -- the first such forum since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials judged World War II criminals.
1993 - The United States House of Representatives passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994 - Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds resigned to avoid defeat in parliament over his government's handling of a child sex-abuse case.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran was indicted on a charge of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton.
1995 - Former Italian prime minister Bettino Craxi and 74 other people were ordered to stand trial on corruption charges.
1995 - Algeria's military-backed leader Liamine Zeroual was declared winner of the November 16 presidential election.
1995 - Directed by Rob Reiner, The American President opened in United States theaters. The comedy-drama about a widowed US president and a lobbyist who fall in love, starring Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, and Michael J. Fox, did very well at the box office; critic Leonard Maltin called it "slick, entertaining Hollywood concoction." The film was nominated for five Golden Globe awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
1997 - Six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them foreign tourists. The attackers were killed by police. Below, Egyptian soldiers carry the body of one of the militants.
1999 - Israel's parliament overwhelmingly approved the Wye River land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 18, 2005 9:51:00 GMT -5
1189 - William II, the last Norman king of Sicily, died and was succeeded by Tancred the Bastard.
1477 - William Caxton produced the first printed book in the English language, "The Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers."
1626 - In Rome, Urban VIII dedicated St. Peter’s Basilica.
1803 - Haiti's revolutionary army of freed slaves defeated French troops at Vertieres.
1820 - United States Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer discovered the frozen continent of Antarctica.
1865 - Mark Twain's short tale, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," was first published on this date in The New York Saturday Press. The short story's publication launched his success as a writer.
1883 - The United States adopted standard time and divided the country into four time-zones.
1894 - The first regular comic section in a Sunday paper was published by "New York World".
1903 - Panama and the United States signed a treaty on the proposed Panama Canal.
1905 - Prince Charles of Denmark was elected first king of Norway after the restoration of its independence. He took the old Norse name of Haakon VII.
1916 - General Douglas Haig called off the first Battle of the Somme in Europe after five months of futile battle, which included the first use of tanks in battle. The Allied advance of just 125 square miles claimed 420,000 British and 195,000 French casualties. German losses were over 650,000.
1918 - The Latvian National Council proclaimed the independent Republic of Latvia, with Janis Cakste as president.
1918 - The Belgian army reoccupied Brussels after four years of German occupation.
1919 - In New York City, ticker tape was first used as part of a parade to welcome the Prince of Wales to the city.
1921 - The first international fencing championships held in the United States was host in Washington, DC. The Racquet Club sponsored the competition with light swords.
1928 - After much resistance from movie distributors, Walt Disney arranged for the premier viewing of his first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound. Titled Steamboat Willie, it debuted at the Manhattan's Colony Theater. It was the first cartoon with a fully synchronized sound track. Mickey was not only a huge success, but the cartoon was a major breakthrough for the animation industry.
1932 - For the first time the Oscars had a tie for the Best Actor Academy Award. Wallace Beery and Fredric March were separated by only one vote so the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled it a tie, giving both actors an Oscar. March thought funny the two were honored for "best male performance of the year" when they had each adopted a child that year.
1935 - Economic sanctions imposed on Italy by the League of Nations for its invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) took effect.
1936 - Germany under Adolf Hitler and Italy under Benito Mussolini both recognized General Francisco Franco's provisional government in Spain.
1941 - Britain opened its second Western Desert offensive in Libya when the Eighth Army advanced into Cyrenaica.
1942 - In New York City, Thornton Wilder’s play, "The Skin of Our Teeth", opened starring Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Montgomery Clift and E.G. Marshall. One critic wrote, "As of last evening, the theatre was looking up."
1945 - The communist-led Fatherland Front won the Bulgarian general election after opposition parties abstained.
1948 - United States Vice President Alben W. Barkley married Elizabeth J. Rucker in St. Louis, Missouri, for what was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office.
1951 - Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly launched one of television's most highly praised productions in history, when "See It Now" debuted on CBS. Murrow showed a live camera shot of the Atlantic Ocean, followed by a live shot of the Pacific, saying, "We are impressed by a medium through which a man sitting in his living room has been able to look at two oceans at once." In April of 1952, "See It Now" left afternoons for an evening time slot.
1959 - The epic film, Ben-Hur, starring Charleton Heston, premiered in New York. The movie later set a new industry record with 11 Academy Awards from 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.
1966 -United States Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1967 - Starting its 5th and final week at #1 on "Billboard's Hot 100" chart was Lulu’s "To Sir with Love", from the movie of the same name. Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on November 3, 1948, but early in her career she changed her name to Lulu in Scotland.
1969 - Financier-diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at age 81.
1970 - Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling said large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colsd.
1970 - West Germany and Poland initialed a treaty recognizing the Oder-Neisse line as a common border and pledging each other to territorial integrity.
1974 - Frank Sinatra left retirement to do a television special with dancer Gene Kelly. The show was a hit, reviving Sinatra’s career.
1975 - John Denver earned a gold record for the song, "I’m Sorry".
1976 - United States Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1976 - Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1978 - Jim Jones, a United States pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the liquid were shot.
1986 - In New York City, the Roseland Ballroom reopened. The 67-year-old home for those wanting to dance featured Lester Lanin, the United States' dean of society music, who played for patrons wanting to cut a rug on the 112-by-55-foot floor..
1986 - For the first time since leaving his own late-night television show, Jack Parr was a guest on "The Tonight Show". One of television’s greatest lines came from this show, when after a long ramble by Parr, Carson quipped, "Why is it that I feel I’m guesting on your show?"
1986 - Roger Clemens, became the first American League starter in 15 years to be named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. The Boston Red Sox pitcher won the honor a week after winning the Cy Young Award.
1987 - The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.
1987 - 31 people died in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station.
1988 - President Reagan signed legislation creating a Cabinet-level drug czar and providing the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1989 - Star defensive end Dexter Manley of the Washington Redskins was barred on this date from the National Football League due to repeated drug test failures.
1991 - British peace envoy Terry Waite and United States academic Thomas Sutherland were released from five years of captivity in Lebanon by Islamic Jihad.
1992 - Police arrested Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto when she tried to lead a march on parliament to demand the government's removal.
1993 - Black and white leaders in South Africa approved the new democracy constitution, which gave blacks the right to vote and ended white minority rule.
1993 - Ukraine's parliament overwhelmingly ratified the START-1 disarmament treaty but placed stiff conditions on giving up nuclear weapons on its territory.
1995 - The Vatican said the Roman Catholic ban on the ordination of women as priests was a definitive, infallible and unquestionable part of the Church's doctrine.
1997 - The FBI officially pulled out of the probe into the TWA Flight 800 disaster, saying the explosion that destroyed the Boeing 747, killing all 230 people aboard, was not caused by a criminal act.
1997 - In the biggest banking deal in United States history, First Union Corp. announced its purchase of CoreStates Financial Corp. for $16.1 billion.
1998 - House Republicans endorsed Louisiana Republican Bob Livingston to succeed Newt Gingrich as House speaker.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 19, 2005 17:17:26 GMT -5
1521 - in Italy, Milan was invaded by papal armies under Colonna, which heralded the start of the war between Hapsburg and Valois.
1600 - Charles I, King of Scotland and England, born; his authoritarian rule led to civil war and his eventual execution.
1703 - The "Man in the Iron Mask," a prisoner in the Bastille prison in Paris, died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue and is celebrated in the literary works of Francois Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
1794 - A treaty signed by American Chief Justice John Jay and British foreign secretary Lord Grenville was signed in Philadelphia. under the treaty, British forces pulled out of the Northwest Territory.
1809 - In the Peninsular War, 30,000 French defeated over 50,000 Spaniards at the battle of Ocana.
1850 - 36-year-old Carolyn Ingraham of Madison, New Jersey purchased the first life insurance policy issued to a female.
1863 - President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1874 - The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized.
1893 - The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday paper "New York World".
1895 - Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented the paper pencil, which was a pencil that writes on paper.
1919 - The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor to 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
1928 - Published for five years, "TIME" magazine presented its first cover portrait. The subject of the cover was Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
1932 - Football halfback Joe Kershallo scored 71 points leading West Liberty State College of West Virginia to a 127-0 win over Cedarville College, Ohio.
1941 - The Australian warship Sydney engaged the German raider Kormoran in a fierce battle in the Indian Ocean some 300 miles off the western coast of Australia. The Sydney sailed off and was never seen again, with 645 presumed dead.
1942 - Soviet Red Army troops began a massive counter-offensive against the Germans at Stalingrad.
1943 - Stan Kenton and his orchestra recorded Capitol Record #159, "Artistry in Rhythm", which would later become the Kenton theme. The flip side of the album was titled, "Eager Beaver".
1946 - The first UNESCO conference opened in Paris at which the organization attained full status as an agency.
1949 - Prince Rainier was sworn in as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco.
1954 - Nightclub singing star Sammy Davis, Jr. suffered a shattered face and the loss of his left eye in an auto accident while driving in the California desert. Following a lengthy hospitalization, Davis, who had considered retiring from show business, re-emerged as an even greater entertainer.
1954 - On New Jersey's Garden State Parkway, two automatic toll collectors were placed in service as the United States' first automatic toll collectos that only accepted correct change.
1955 - Carl Perkins recorded Blue Suede Shoes at Sun Studios in Memphis. It became his biggest pop hit.
1959 - After 2 years and 110,847 cars, the last Edsel rolled off the assembly line. Ford Motor Company stopped production of the vehicle beacuse of poor sales.
1959 - The famed cartoon series "Rocky and His Friends" premiered on American television.
1961 - A year after Chubby Checker hit #1 with "The Twist", the singer appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to again perform the song. "The Twist" shot to #1 again on January 13, 1962, becoming the first record to reach #1 a second time.
1962 - The first jazz concert was presented at the White House. Before this, jazz had only been used as background music.
1966 - Six weeks before his 31st birthday, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, suffering from arthritis, announced his retirement. During his career, Koufax racked up a 12-season record of 165 wins, 87 losses and 2,396 strikeouts.
1969 - The United States Apollo 12 lunar module landed on the moon, carrying astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean.
1972 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt won a second term with an increased majority.
1976 - Algeria voted for a new constitution with a national assembly and increased powers for an elected president.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
1978 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1984 - 20-year-old New York Met Dwight Gooden became the youngest major-league pitcher named Rookie of the Year in the National League. The pitcher led the major leagues with 276 strikeouts.
1985 - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
1986 - Philadelphia’s Mike Schmidt became the third player in National League history to win the Most Valuable Player award three times. His predecessors were Roy Campanella of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Stan Musial of the Cardinals.
1990 - The pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's True" album.
1990 - Leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact marked the end of the Cold War when they signed the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, slashing their Cold War arsenals.
1994 - The United Nations Security Council authorized NATO warplanes to strike targets in Croatia used by Serbs to launch air attacks against United Nations-designated safe areas in neighboring Bosnia.
1995 - A suicide bomber blasted his way into the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, setting off a powerful explosion that killed 16 people and wounded more than 60, including diplomats.
1996 - A historic first meeting in the Vatican took place between the pope and veteran revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
1996 - Paternal Home Alone actor John Heard was charged with stalking Homicide television actress Melissa Leo and their 9-year-old son and assaulting her current boyfriend. Heard, age 50, was freed on $50,000 bail. Leo wrote that she feared for the safety of her son and her own safety, and that Heard was stalking the boy and must be stopped. Leo's boyfriend said in his complaint that Heard assaulted him in front of the Baltimore school that Heard's son attended and harassed him with threatening phone calls.
1997 - In Hyderbad, India, 800 miles south of New Delhi, a car bomb tore through a film studio's gala kickoff for the filming of a new movie, killing 23 people and injuring 31 among a throng of moviemakers, fans, and journalists. Police suspected the bombing was the work of political rivals of the movie's producer, a state lawmaker. The bomb punched a crater 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep in the ground outside the studio. It detonated as hundreds were leaving the festivities.
1997 - Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to four boys and three girls - only the second set of septuplets known to be born alive.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 20, 2005 8:10:35 GMT -5
1759 - In the battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years War, the British fleet with 23 warships under Admiral Hawke destroyed the French invasion fleet of 21 warships under Admiral Conflans.
1780 - After the Dutch had supplied French and Spanish arms to American rebels, the British declared war on Holland.
1789 - The United States Constitution's Bill of Rights was ratified.
1818 - Simon Bolivar declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1866 - Pierre Lallemont of Paris, France patented the rotary-crank bicycle known as the bone shaker.
1873 - In Hungary, the rival cities of Buda and Pesth were joined together to form the capital of the country.
1873 - In France, the National Assembly passed the law of Septennate which gave presidential powers to Maurice Comte de Mac-Mahon for seven years. He became second president of the Third French Republic in succession to Adolphe Thiers.
1888 - William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
1914 - Photographs became a requirement on passports from the United States State Department.
1917 - 324 tanks under the command of General Elles struck at the German lines in the battle of Cambrai, France -- the first major battle to involve tanks. By the end of the battle no gains had been made and the British lost 43,000 casualties.
1919 - In Tucson, Arizona, the first municipally-owned airport in the United States opened.
1922 - The Lausanne Conference began in Switzerland to resolve differences between the Allied powers and Turkey following World War One.
1929 - On the NBC Blue Radio network, "The Rise of the Goldbergs" was first broadcast with Gertrude Berg as Molly. Later, the title was shortened to "The Goldbergs". For her work as writer of the first scripts for the 15-minute program and as the show's star, Berg was paid $75 a week. The program continued until 1945, but returned for one season in 1949-1950. In 1949, "The Goldbergs" came to television with motherly phrases like, "Button up your neck. It’s cold outside."
1929 - Three weeks after the stock market crash that plunged the United States into the Great Depression Leo Reisman and his orchestra recorded "Happy Days are Here Again" for Victor Records.
1931 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company introduced the first commercial teletype service.
1941 - General Rommel with his Afrika Korps checked an advance of British armor at the battle of Sidi Rezegh.
1941 - The Western drama They Died With Their Boots On, with Errol Flynn as General George Armstrong Custer, opened in United States theaters. The film, directed by Raoul Walsh, was highly inaccurate in its accounting of the legendary Custer. The film also starred Olivia da Havilland and Arthur Kennedy, and Anthony Quinn was cast as Crazy Horse.
1943 - The United States army landed on Makin and Tarawa Atolls in the Gilbert Islands and captured them from the Japanese after five days.
1945 - The Allied Control Commission approved the transfer of six million Germans from Austria, Hungary and Poland back to West Germany.
1945 - The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg.
1947 - Princess Elizabeth (future Queen of England in 4 years) married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
1947 - Meet the Press, which ran for over 29 years on television, aired for the first time.
1959 - WABC radio in New York firted one of America’s great rock jocks; the ‘Moondoggy’ himself, Alan Freed. The firing was part of the payola music scandal.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.
1966 - "Cabaret", opened on Broadway for the first of 1,166 performances. Joel Gray starred in the hit which was an adaptation of both the play, "I Am a Camera", and the novel, "Goodbye to Berlin".
1969 - In Rio de Janeiro, soccer star Pelé collected his 1,000th career goal.
1971 - Isaac Hayes of Memphis, Tennessee saw his first #1 hit as "Theme from Shaft" started its two-week stay at the top of the charts.
1974 - The first crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet occurred when a Lufthansa airliner crashed after takeoff at Nairobi airport in Kenya, killing 59 people.
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with a stellar cast headed by Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, opened across the country. The film and its lead actors later won many awards, including the top four Oscars and the top four British Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director. The film, about a man who is sent to an asylum to avoid prison time but finds the head nurse more demeaning and oppressive than any prison warden, was a box office sensation.
1979 - Some 300 armed Shi'ite rebels seized the Great Mosque at Mecca and occupied it until December 4 when they were driven out by the army with many casualties.
1980 - In China, Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Zedong, went on trial on charges of treason.
1981 - Anatoly Karpov retained the World Chess Championship, beating Viktor Korchnoi in Italy.
1981 - Ragtime, starring James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Pat O'Brien, and Donald O'Connor, opened in U.S. theaters.
1984 - 35 years and 11 months after McDonald’s first hamburger sold, Edward Rensi then president of McDonald's made the 50 billionth burger. The milestone was celebrated at the New York City's Grand Hyatt Hotel.
1984 - The largest crowd to see the unveiling of a Hollywood Walk-of-Fame star watched as Michael Jackson's star took its place right in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California. With this event, ‘The Gloved One’ became star number 1,793 on the walk.
1986 - In its annual list of Products of the Year, "Fortune" magazine congratulated "Risk takers and innovators who reached for the brass rings and grabbed gold." The list included: Uncle Sam’s gold eagle coin, Kodak’s lithium batteries, and the toy Laser Tag with light-emitting pistols.
1992 - 20 paintings by Adolf Hitler went unsold at an auction after they failed to attract a single bid.
1992 - Fire swept through Queen Elizabeth's residence at Windsor Castle, causing extensive damage to its ancient fabric.
1995 - Polish President Lech Walesa suffered bitter defeat in a re-election bid at the hands of ex-Communist Aleksander Kwasniewski.
1995 - The European Union slapped an arms embargo and aid freeze on Nigeria to punish it for the execution of nine human rights activists.
1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered safe haven to Osama bin Laden, accused of planning two United States Embassy bombings in Africa.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 21, 2005 9:55:15 GMT -5
1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon when Frenchmen Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes above Paris for a distance of some 5 1/2 miles.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1871 - M.F. Gale of New York City patented the cigar lighter.
1877 - Thomas A. Edison, his ‘talking machine’ (phonograph). On February 19, 1878, Edison received a patent for it.
1918 - The German High Seas Fleet surrendered at the Firth of Forth in Scotland, one of the key conditions of the armistice signed on November 11.
1920 - The Irish Republican Army shot and killed 14 British soldiers in what became known as the country's first "Bloody Sunday."
1925 - Harold "Red" Grange played his final game for the University of Illinois, joining the Chicago Bears the next day. Grange was so famous two months later he was offered $120,000 and a real estate company.
1934 - In New York City, Cole Porter’s "Anything Goes" opened at the Alvin Theatre. The show would run for 420 performances.
1937 - Following performances at Carnegie Hall in 1906 and 1919, Artur Rubinstein gave another highly acclaimed performance at the arts center.
1938 - WBOE in Cleveland, Ohio got a license from the FCC, becoming the first school-operated radio station, owned by a municipality, to receive such a license. WBOE started as a 500-watt AM station and later became an FM station.
1938 - "Central City", the adventure-mystery show set at a newspaper, had its first broadcast. Elspeth Eric played crime reporter Emily Olson; and Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger, the part later played by Myron McCormick. "Central City" stayed on air until 1941.
1942 - The United States Army Corps of Engineers completed the Alcan Highway to the Alaskan territory.
1944 - On the Mutual Broadcasting System "The Roy Rogers Show" was first heard. Singing with Roy ‘The King of the Cowboys’, were the Whippoorwills and The Sons of the Pioneers.
1944 - "I’m Beginning to See the Light", the eventual theme song for Harry James and his orchestra, was recorded. The song featured the vocals of Kitty Kallen ("Little Things Mean a Lot").
1953 - The British Museum published a scientific report proving that the Piltdown Man discovery by Charles Dawson in 1912 was a hoax.
1955 - The first lady of the American stage, Helen Hayes, was honored for her years in show business, when New York's Fulton Theatre was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre.
1959 - After being fired from WABC Radio in New York the day before, Alan Freed refused "on principle" to sign a statement saying he never received money or gifts, payola, for promoting certain records. Freed left WABC while on the air, replaced in mid-record by Fred Robbins, who later in the United States became a nationally known entertainment reporter for Mutual Radio.
1964 - New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.
1970 - I Think I Love You, recorded by The Partridge Family of the television series with the same name, hit Number 1 on Billboard's record charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
1973 - An 18 1/2-minute gap was discovered in a taped Watergate conversation between United States President Richard Nixon and White House aide H.R. Haldeman.
1980 - The "Who Shot J.R?" episode of the prime time drama, Dallas, aired and captured the highest television rating ever recorded at that time: a 53.3 rating and a 76 percent share of the total viewing audience. Internationally, over 100 million people watched the telecast. CBS charged advertisers a record $500,000 per 60-second commercial, a price tag matched only by the Super Bowl advertisers.
1981 - Physical, by Olivia Newton-John, rocketed to the top of the charts on this date, and it remained in the Number 1 spot for 10 weeks. Billboard named it "the number one single of 1982." Many radio stations banned it for its suggestive lyrics and it was censored in South Africa.
1985 - United States authorities arrested Naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard for spying for Israel.
1986 - Billy Joel's album Piano Man was certified platinum on this date.
1990 - Lebanon's strongest Christian militia agreed to surrender its Beirut stronghold, rescuing a bid by the Syrian-backed government to end 15 years of civil war.
1991 - Gerard d'Aboville of France completed a four-month solo rowing journey across the Pacific Ocean.
1991 - An arrest warrant was issued for Randy Jackson, brother of entertainer Michael Jackson, after he failed to surrender to authorities in Los Angeles to begin serving a 30-day jail sentence for beating his wife and baby.
1992 - The Anglican Church of Australia voted to allow women to become ordained as priests.
1995 - Parties at the Bosnia peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, agreed to an accord ending the bloody Balkan conflict.
1995 - France conducted an underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific.
1997 - Challenging Disney Studios as the world's reigning animation film studio, 20th Century Fox released Anastasia, its first feature-length cartoon produced at its new Phoenix, Arizona Fox Animation Studios. A big-scale musical tale about the legendary lost Russian princess, featuring the voice talents of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Angela Lansbury, and Bernadette Peters, was produced much in the Disney style. In retaliation, Disney re-released its 1989 The Little Mermaid a week earlier to deflect film-going audiences, and Flubber with Robin Williams was released five days later.
1997 - On the eve of a homecoming tour and with a new love in his life, fans and family members were shocked that INXS singer Michael Hutchence apparently killed himself. Hutchence, age 37, hung himself with a leather belt in a Sydney Ritz-Carlton hotel. News reports cited that Prozac, a common prescription drug used to treat depression, was found in his room. His suicide seemed improbable, as Hutchence, an Australian native, brought "a cheerful sexiness to rock and roll." His fiancee was flamboyant British TV personality Paula Yates.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 22, 2005 9:09:07 GMT -5
1497 - Portugal's Vasco Da Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.
1718 - Edward Teach, known as "Blackbeard" the pirate, was killed off the coast of North Carolina.
1774 - Robert Clive, soldier and colonial administrator, committed suicide. The first British administrator of Bengal, Clive was instrumental in the foundation of British rule in India.
1830 - The Belgian Congress voted to turn the country into a monarchy.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington erupted and became the the first volcano to erupt in America for which a date could be established.
1878 - In Afghanistan, the British under Sir Samuel Browne bombed and captured the Ali Masjid fortress thus heralding the start of Second Afghan War.
1880 - In New York City, Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut.
1899 - Under the laws of the State of New Jersey, the Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated.
1906 - Delegates atthe International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin, Germany voted to use SOS (...---...) as the letters for the new international signal. It stands for "Save Our Souls". SOS pads are named after a patented process, Soap on Steel.
1909 - Helen Hayes made her first appearance on the New York stage as a member of the cast of "In Old Dutch"; which opened at the Herald Square Theatre.
1910 - Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, New York patented the steel shaft golf club.
1917 - The National Hockey League came into being, officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1935 - 20,000 people waved good-bye to the first transpacific airmail flight that left San Francisco, California. The "China Clipper", piloted by Captain Edwin Musick, began its 8,000 mile journey with 110,865 letters on board. The Pan American Martin 130 took off from San Francisco and in 59 hours and 48 minutes, landed at Manila in the Philippines.
1938 - For Victor Records, Bunny Berigan and his orchestra recorded "Jelly Roll Blues".
1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, United States President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan.
1943 - After 23 years of French rule, Lebanon achieved independence.
1950 - The lowest score in the National Basketball Association was posted when the Fort Wayne Pistons, later Detroit Pistons, beat the Minneapolis Lakers, later Los Angeles Lakers, 19-18.
1955 - RCA Records paid the then unheard of sum, $25,000, to Sam Phillips of Memphis, Tennessee for the rights to the music of truck driver Elvis Presley from Tupelo, Mississippi.
1957 - In New York, the Miles Davis Quintet debuted with a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1965 - The "Man of LaMancha", including the "The Impossible Dream", opened for the first of 2,328 performances in New York City.
1966 - The film, "A Man for All Seasons", opened in New York City.
1967 - The United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 242, calling for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967.
1968 - The Beatles released their so-called White Album, a record called simply "The Beatles."
1974 - Gunmen hijacked a British Airways VC10 at Dubai; three days later they abandoned the plane at Tunis after murdering a passenger and securing the release of Palestinians from jails in Cairo and The Hague.
1975 - King Juan Carlos was sworn in as King of Spain, the first Spanish monarch since Alfonso XIII went into exile in 1931. General Francisco Franco, who had ruled Spain since 1939, died two days earlier.
1975 - For the first time "Dr. Zhivago" appeared on television. The production earned $93 million from tickets over ten years. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.
1975 - Barry Manilow's second Number 1 recording entered the Billboard record charts on this date, I Write The Songs. It was on the charts for 16 weeks and was certified gold.
1977 - The Anglo-French Concorde began regular flights to New York from London and Paris.
1977 - After a self-imposed, three-month retirement following the suicide of his friend, Freddie Prinze, Tony Orlando returned to the concert stage in San Carlos, California.
1980 - Actress and writer, Mae West, died at age 88. West was best-known for her clever sexual innuendoes during the earlier part of the century, making her a target for criticism and arrest. West's style of vulgar eroticism has never been equaled, although it has been often imitated. She was one of the biggest movie box office attractions of the 1930s. West was famous for her sexual innuendoes, which included "Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?" and "When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better." Her films included She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Klondike Annie, and My Little Chickadee.
1984 - "Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood" presented a sweater, knitted by Fred Roger's, the show's star, mother, to the Smithsonian Institution as "a symbol of warmth, closeness and caring," according to museum officials.
1985 - The largest swearing-in ceremony was held as 38,648 immigrants became United States citizens after six days of rallies around the country. Chrysler Corporation’s Lee Iacocca helped preside over the swearing ins.
1986 - Mike Tyson, only 20 years and 4 months old, became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown when he knocked out Travor Berbick in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1989 - The newly-elected president of Lebanon, Rene Muawad, was assassinated in west Beirut while passing through the city in a motorcade to celebrate Independence Day. Sixteen others died in the attack.
1989 - In Minneapolis, Kirby Puckett signed a three-year, $9 million contract, becoming the first baseball player to earn $3 million a year.
1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned after 11 years in office.
1991 - The United Nations Security Council picked Egyptian deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros Ghali to be United Nations secretary general to succeed Javier Perez de Cuellar.
1993 - Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1995 - British housewife Rosemary West was found guilty of killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter. She was sentenced to life in prison for each of them.
1996 - Television co-star Tisha Campbell walked off the set of Martin, and later filed charges against Martin Lawrence, the star of the show. In court papers, Campbell said Lawrence touched, groped and kissed, forced his tongue into her mouth, and simulated intercourse during the taping of the show in front of a live audience. She said it was the latest act in an ongoing pattern of sexual harassment and sexual battery. Campbell played Lawrence's love interest and became his television wife during the fifth season of the sit-com. Lawrence said he was being "used as a pawn" and would vigorously fight the lawsuit.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 24, 2005 9:42:45 GMT -5
1639 - The transit of Venus (its passage across the Sun's disc) was first observed by astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks.
1642 - Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, named after his captain and later renamed Tasmania.
1859 - Charles Darwin's controversial "Origin of Species” was published. His revolutionary theory of evolution had its critics, notably the church, which feared the book undermined religious belief.
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1874 - Joseph Farwell Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois patented barbed wire.
1903 - D.J. Coleman of New York City patented the automatic self-starter.
1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish author and nationalist, was executed for his support of the republican cause.
1937 - NBC Radio broadcast music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts across the United States. Special guests during this broadcast were Glenn Miller and his Orchestra.
1937 - The Andrews Sisters, recorded Decca record number 1562, one of their biggest hits: "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen".
1938 - It was decided that for a national tournament played in Wichita, Kansas in 1939, the National Semipro Baseball Congress would use a yellow baseball.
1939 - Imperial Airways and British Airways merged to form the British Overseas Airways Corporation.
1944 - Strasbourg was re-captured by a French armoured division under Leclerc with help from the United States Seventh Army.
1947 - The Cleveland Indians renewed Lou Boudreau's contract as manager for an additional two years.
1947 - The first United States Postmaster General to be promoted from the within the postal service was named. J.M. Donaldson who became a letter carrier in 1908, got a promotion.
1950 - Frank Loesser's musical comedy, "Guys and Dolls", opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. The show ran for 1,200 performances.
1952 - Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opened in London.
1958 - Jackie Wilson’s "Lonely Teardrops" was released, as was a Richie Valens' album featuring "Donna" on one side and "La Bamba" on the other.
1958 - Harold Jenkins, who became Conway Twitty, got his first #1 hit with "It’s Only Make Believe", which was the United States' most popular song for one week.
1961 - The Lion Sleeps Tonight became the first African song to hit the Number 1 spot on the American pop chart. The American version, recorded by the Tokens, was a translation of a South African folk song known variously as "Mbube" or "Wimoweh".
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President Kennedy, was shot dead by Jack Ruby at Dallas Police headquarters.
1964 - For the first time since 1800, residents of the District of Columbia were permitted to vote in a presidential election.
1965 - Sheikh Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah became ruler of Kuwait following the death of his brother.
1967 - Gary Collins, actor and television host, married former Miss America 1959, Mary Ann Mobley.
1969 - United States Army Lieutenant William L. Calley, charged with the massacre of over 100 civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in March 1968, was ordered to stand trial by court martial.
1969 - Apollo 12 returned to Earth after its moon landing.
1970 - The United States’s outstanding collegiate football player of the year was awarded the Heisman Memorial Trophy. The winner was Jim Plunkett, quarterback for the Stanford Cardinal, who later went on to a sterling career in the NFL.
1972 - A Friday night show to compete with NBC’s "Midnight Special" premiered, "In Concert" featuring Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Blood Sweat and Tears, Seals and Crofts and Poco. Robert W. Morgan of KHJ, Los Angeles, California was the offstage announcer for ABC-TV's show staged before a live audience. "In Concert" was created by the man who thought up fictitious group, The Archies, and brought fame to The Monkees, rock promoter, Don Kirshner.
1973 - After more than two years of retirement, Frank Sinatra returned with a NBC television special titled, "Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back". Despite finishing third in the ratings, in a three-show race, one critic called the program, "the best popular music special of the year."
1976 - An earthquake struck Turkey's Van Province, killing nearly 5,300 and injuring more than 5,000 others.
1976 - At an appearance at Winterland in San Francisco, California, the group, The Band, aannounced this was to be their last public performance.
1986 - Buffalo Sabres center Gilbert Perreault announced he was hanging up his skates after 17 seasons.
1986 - The American Eagle silver dollar, like its gold counterpart, sold out on its first day of issue. Coin dealers ordered an additional 250,000 coins.
1989 - Elias Hrawi was elected president of Lebanon following the assassination two days earlier of the newly elected Rene Muawad.
1989 - The entire presidium and secretariat of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, including leader Milos Jakes, resigned following mass demonstrations in Prague. Karol Urbanek succeeded as General Secretary.
1991 - Flamboyant British rock star, Freddie Mercury, died in his sleep in England at age 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was suffering from AIDS. The charismatic lead singer of the group Queen, Mercury's death was the result of bronchopneumonia brought on by the AIDS virus. His sudden death stunned the rock world.
1993 - In England, two 11-year-old boys were sentenced to be detained indefinitely after they were found guilty of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger.
1994 - The film comedy "Junior," starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson, opened in United States theaters. Schwarzenegger and Thompson were later both nominated for Golden Globe acting awards.
1995 - Director, writer, and cinematographer Louis Malle died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 63, from cancer. One of the French Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") directors of the 1950s and 1960s, he made Pretty Baby in 1978, which introduced newcomer Brooke Shields. Jacques-Yves Cousteau hired him as a camera operator on the "Calypso". Cousteau soon promoted him to be co-director of Le Monde du silence (1956) aka "The Silent World". For that film, they collaboratively won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Years later, Cousteau called Malle the best underwater cameraman he ever had. Malle had been honored for his films many times, including receiving a British Academy Award and César award for Au revoir les enfants, and a British Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination for directing Atlantic City. Malle was married to actress Candice Bergen.
1995 - Ireland voted in a referendum on whether to end a 70-year-old ban on divorce. It passed 50.28 percent to 49.72 percent.
1996 - Following its United States opening weekend, Star Trek: First Contact brought in $30.7 million at the box office.
1998 - The Spice Girls' "Live at Wembley" video was released by Virgin Music Video, and the following year was certified platinum.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 25, 2005 8:38:16 GMT -5
1715 - Thomas Masters became the first American granted an English patent. He was the first to master cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1783 - The last British troops left New York City at the end of the American War of Independence.
1837 - The silk power loom was patented by William Crompton of Taunton, Massachusetts.
1882 - Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta "Iolanthe" opened simultaneously in New York and London.
1884 - J.B. Meyenberg, of St. Louis, Missouri patented evaporated milk.
1894 - The Boston Globe issued the first color newspaper supplement for the Harvard vs Yale football game.
1901 - Gustav Mahler conducted the world premiere of his "Fourth Symphony" in Munich.
1903 - "Sunny" Bob Fitzsimmons beat George Gardner in a bareknuckle boxing match in San Francisco, California. Sunny Bob became the first boxer win three different championships. This time he won the light heavyweight crown; in 1891 he won the middleweight crown and, in 1897, he won the heavyweight crown.
1920 - WTAW radio in College Station, Texas broadcast the first play-by-play coverage of a football game; in which Texas University beat the Aggies of Texas A&M, 7-3.
1935 - King George II returned to Greece after 12 years of exile, restored to his throne by a referendum.
1936 - The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement between Japan and Germany to collaborate in opposition to the spread of Communism, was signed.
1940 - Football great Tom Harmon's uniform, number 98, was retired by athletic officials at the University of Michigan.
1941 - The British battleship Barham was sunk by a German U-boat off Sollum killing 848.
1944 - For the first time CBS radio presented "The FBI in Peace and War". It became one of radio's longest-running crime shows, lasting 14 years.
1944 - At age 87, the first commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died after serving as czar of baseball for 24 years. While his appointment and terms were questioned early on, he is considered one who helped save the game.
1945 - A parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic, "H.M.S. Pinafore", was broadcast on radio's "The Fred Allen Show". The spoof was called, "The Brooklyn Pinafore". Shirley Booth and baseball great Leo ‘The Lip’ Durocher acted in the skit.
1947 - The American Motion Picture industry voted on this date to blacklist ten professionals who were held in contempt of Congress. They would not declare under oath about not being Communists. The barring was an unprecedented act of self-censorship. The blacklisted members, referred to as the Unfriendly Ten, were among the most talented and creative writers, directors and actors in the industry. They were deprived of the right to work, though they were found guilty of nothing. A group of Hollywood's top celebrities banded together to protest the unfair blacklisting, among them John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, William Wyler, Sterling Hayden, Billy Wilder, Philip Dunne, Ira Gershwin, and Jane Wyatt. A petition with 500 signatures was sent to Washington.
1949 - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" hit the music charts, becoming THE musical hit for the Christmas season. Gene Autry’s rendition is the most popular, but 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with almost 20,000,000 copies sold.
1952 - In London, England, Agatha Christie's play, "The Mousetrap" opened at the Ambassadors’ Theatre.
1952 - England suffered their first ever soccer defeat at Wembley stadium, losing 6-3 to Hungary.
1955 - After spending the summer at the top of the United State's pop charts, "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets hit #1 in Great Britain.
1960 - Radio actors lost their jobs when CBS radio cancelled five serials (soap operas). Gone from the airwaves were: "The Second Mrs. Burton" after 14 years, "Young Doctor Malone", "Whispering Streets" after 8 years, "Right to Happiness" after 21 years, and "Ma Perkins" after 27 years. Radio soaps' heyday was in 1940, when there were as many as 45 on the air each day.
1961 - The Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy, scored his 15,000th career point in the NBA. Only one other player scored more, Dolph Schayes.
1963 - United States President John F. Kennedy was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, three days after his assassination.
1969 - Beatle John Lennon returned his MBE, awarded in 1965, to the queen to protest Britain's policy in Biafra -- now incorporated into Nigeria -- and its support of the United States in Vietnam.
1970 - Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed public ritual suicide in Tokyo, a protest against the westernization of Japan and the weakness of its post-World War II constitution.
1971 - Denmark and Norway became the first NATO members to establish full diplomatic relations with North Vietnam.
1972 - New Zealand's Labour Party swept to power with a huge majority.
1973 - In Greece, military dictator George Papadopoulos was overthrown by rival officers in a bloodless coup.
1973 - The United States' maximum speed limits were reduced to 55 miles and hour by an act of Congress as a form of energy conservation. It was also intended to save an estimated 9,000 lives each year.
1974 - The Irish Republican Army was outlawed in Britain following the deaths of 21 people in a pub bombing in Birmingham three days previously.
1975 - Suriname achieved independence from the Netherlands.
1984 - "Golden Bear", Jack Nicklaus, sunk an 8-foot birdie putt on the last hole to win the $240,000 second Skins Game. He beat Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer and 1983 winner Gary Player.
1985 - A California judge ordered Cathy Smith, the woman who gave comedian John Belushi heroin before his untimely drug-induced death, to stand trial for murder.
1986 - The Miami Dolphin's Don Shula ended rumors about his possible move to another NFL franchise when he signed with the Dolphins again.
1986 - John Poindexter resigned as United States national security adviser and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North was dismissed from the National Security Council after the Iran-Contra scandal broke.
1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics from January 1, 1993.
1995 - Ireland voted to legalize divorce in the closest result in the nation's polling history, a margin of less than 1 percent.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 26, 2005 9:12:48 GMT -5
1703 - A two-day "Great Storm" raged throughout southern England, flooding the Thames and Severn rivers and killing at least 8,000 people.
1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in the United States, then a Britsh colony, was seen in Boston, Massachusetts.
1825 - The United States's first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
1832 - A horse-drawn streetcar was used for the first time to carry passengers in the United States. It was introduced in New York on Fourth Avenue between Prince Street and 14th Street.
1860 - A newspaper print of recently elected President Abraham Lincoln showed the beginnings of a beard.
1864 - Charles L. Dodgson, pen named Lewis Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddel, titled "Alice’s Adventures Underground", as an early Christmas present to the 12-year-old. The manuscript was later renamed "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".
1867 - J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1896 - At the Chicagp Coliseum in Illinois, the University of Chicago defeated the University of Michigan, 7-6, at the first major college football game played indoors.
1914 - The British battleship Bulwark, carrying 750 men, blew up as it was loading ammunition; there were only 12 survivors.
1922 - Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States discovered the tomb of The Boy King, Tutankhamen, in Egypt. The find was called, "The greatest archaeological discovery of all time." People in America shortened his name to Tut.
1940 - Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, sealing in its 400,000 inhabitants.
1940 - The Belgian Congo declared war on Italy in World War II.
1940 - On the Columbia label, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra recorded "Orchids in the Moonlight".
1941 - Bobby Riggs national, amateur, singles tennis champion, turned professional today.
1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
1944 - The port of Antwerp was reopened and the Germans began attacking it with their new V-1 and V-2 rockets.
1945 - The program, "Bride and Groom", debuted on the NBC Blue network. Estimates show 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it went off air in 1950.
1949 - India's Constituent Assembly passed the country's constitution; it came into force two months later.
1950 - China entered the Korean conflict, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea.
1956 - Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at age 51. His records sold over 110,000,000 copies.
1958 - Maurice Richard scored career goal #600 for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1965 - France launched its first satellite into orbit.
1966 - French President Charles De Gaulle opened the world's first tidal power station at the Rance estuary in Brittany.
1967 - The birth of the People's Republic of South Yemen was proclaimed in Aden by the National Liberation Front.
1968 - In a performance filmed by the BBC, the rock group, Cream, performed. It was a farewell concert before a capacity crowd at Royal Albert Hall in London.
1969 - The Band earned a gold record for their album, "The Band".
1969 - Steve Owens, of Oklahoma was awarded the Heisman Trophy as the United States's outstanding college football player. Owens scored more touchdowns and gained more yardage than any other previous player in collegiate history.
1970 - Pope Paul VI was attacked with a dagger by a Bolivian artist dressed as a priest at Manila airport, but was unhurt.
1973 - President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she had accidentally caused part of an 18 1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
1974 - Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka resigned following allegations of irregularities in his private business affairs.
1975 - A federal jury in Sacramento, California, found Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford.
1979 - A Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 707 crashed in Jeddah; all 156 passengers and crew were killed.
1979 - Rhe International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after an absence of 21 years.
1980 - The movie, "Wings Over America", about the first American tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, premiered in New York City.
1984 - After 14 years and 518 goals with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy Lafleur "the Flower" retired from hockey.
1984 - During a surgery at Louisville's Humana Hospital, William Schroeder became the second recipient of an artificial heart.
1987 - Rebel guerrillas massacred 16 whites at a mission near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
1988 - The United States, citing terrorist attacks on Americans, denied a request by PLO leader Yasser Arafat for a visa so he could address a session of the United Nations in New York.
1989 - President Alfredo Cristiani announced the suspension of "all relations" with Nicaragua, accusing the left-wing government there of fanning El Salvador's civil war.
1989 - Opposition candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle of the Blanco (National) Party was elected president in Uruguay's first free elections since 1971.
1989 - In a national referendum, voters decided that Hungary's next president would be chosen by parliament, following free elections.
1993 - Belgium's first general strike in almost half a century brought industry and transport to a standstill and forced the government to agree to talks with the unions.
2005 - JJC7655 makes post #1800 in the CrazyCompany.exe forums.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 27, 2005 8:27:25 GMT -5
8 BC - The Latin poet Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, died. He composed his "Satires" in 35 BC and the three books of "Odes" in 19 BC.
1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. Inventor of the Celsius temperature scale and the Celsius thermometer, he became professor of astronomy at the University of Uppsala in 1730.
1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania, making it America's first legally recognized university.
1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through New York City's Central Park. To get such a privelege, Brady had to pledge to New York’s police that he would not scare the horses in the park.
1907 - Aviator Santos-Dumont set the first airborn speed record by traveling 220 meters in 21 seconds. He wore the first wristwatch in history, made especially for him for this event by his friend, Louis Cartier. The wristwatch rose in popularity later during World War I with French soldiers.
1910 - Pennsylvania Station or, Penn Station, opened to traffic. In the early 1900s, the 28-acre train and transportation facility was the world's largest railway station. Today Penn Station is still the busiest Amtrak rail station in the United States
1919 - The Treaty of Neuilly was signed between the victors of World War I and Bulgaria.
1924 - The largest crowd (to date) to see a high school football game went through the turnstiles in Los Angeles. Los Angeles High and Polytechnic High fought to a 7-7 tie. The attendance? 57,000 people.
1926 - On Okeh Records, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong recorded "You Made Me Love You".
1930 - The introduction to the debut epsiode of radio's "The First Nighter," the show was broadcast from "...a little theatre off Times Square." The program, which originated from Chicago, Illinois, then from Hollywood, California aired for 23 years, featuring dramas and comedies.
1935 - At Decca Records in Los Angeles, Calfornia, "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" was recorded by Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer.
1937 - The stage play, "Pins and Needles", opened in New York City, to start a 2 year run. The cast consisted of members of the ILGWU (the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union).
1940 - In Romania, the pro-Nazi Iron Guard slaughtered more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Jorga.
1941 - The last Italian forces in Ethiopia surrendered at Gondar.
1942 - The German army entered Toulon and the French fleet anchored there was scuttled by its own crews.
1951 - Florida licensed the first, black, horse-racing jockey, Hosea Richardson, then sixteen years.
1953 - Directed by John Farrow, the Western Hondo opened in theaters across the country. The film, based on Louis L'Amour's story "Gift of Cochise," starred John Wayne, Geraldine Page, and Ward Bond. Page was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.
1966 - The Washington Redskins and the New York Giants scored a combined total of 113 points in a game.
1967 - French President Charles de Gaulle ruled out negotiations for an early British entry into the European Common Market.
1967 - The Association, a California group, got a gold record for their hit "Never My Love". The group earned world fame for other hits including "Windy", "Cherish" and "Along Comes Mary".
1968 - Hellfighters, starring John Wayne and Katharine Ross, opened in United States theaters.
1973 - The United States Senate confirmed Gerald R. Ford vice president. Ford succeeded Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to bribery charges.
1975 - Ross McWhirter, co-editor and compiler of the Guinness Book of World Records, was shot dead by Irish Republican Army gunmen at his home.
1978 - Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda resigned after defeat in a party poll.
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
1982 - The United States' #1 song was "Truly" by former Commodore, Lionel Richie. The love song stayed 2 weeks at the top of the charts, and was Richie's first solo hit following "Endless Love", 1981's duet with Diana Ross.
1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 of Avianca Airlines crashed near Barajas Airport in Madrid, killing 181 people.
1986 - Lou Holtz signed a five-year contract to lead Notre Dame's Fighting Irish. To do so, Holtz left his head coaching job with the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota.
1989 - A Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 727 was destroyed on an internal flight by a mid-air explosion possibly caused by a bomb; all 107 aboard were killed.
1990 - Britain's ruling Conservative Party chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as party leader and prime minister.
1990 - It was reported on this date that former President Ronald Reagan's autobiography, A Life, was a financial catastrophe. Publisher Simon and Schuster paid the former actor and government leader $7 million as advance money for the book and a collection of his speeches. Out of the 500,000 copies produced, nearly 300,000 were returned to the publisher, forcing them to amend their advance-payment policy.
1992 - The Venezuelan government quashed a coup attempt by rebel soldiers in which up to 50 people were killed, hundreds wounded and the presidential palace bombed.
1996 - The live-action remake of the Disney animated favorite, 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, and Joan Plowright, opened in United States theaters.
1998 - Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading."
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 28, 2005 15:12:44 GMT -5
1520 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific Ocean.
1582 - Poet and playwright William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
1821 - Panama declared itself independent from Spain and joined the Republic of Colombia.
1895 - The United States' first automobile race stared as six cars traveled from Jackson Park in Chicago, Illinoise to Waukegan, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Dureyea, traveling at a speed of 7 and 1/2 miles per hour, taking him 7 hours and 53 minutes to make the trip. He won $2,000.
1899 - In the Second Boer War, the British, under Lord Methuen, defeated a force of 9,000 Boers in the Battle of Modder River.
1905 - The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith.
1912 - After more than 400 years of Turkish rule, Albania declared its independence.
1919 - Lady Nancy Astor was elected as the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons.
1922 - The first skywriting display, done today, read, "Hello USA" in the sky over New York City. A short time later Cyril Turner's invention was put to commercial use.
1925 - The "Grand Ole Opry" originated, airing for the first time on radio station WSM.
1929 - Adm. R.E. Byrd made the first flight to the South Pole.
1932 - Groucho Marx gave his first radio performance. With his fast-paced, ingenious patter, he gave birth to a new form of comedy.
1934 - The United States bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was killed near Barrington, Illinois, by FBI agents.
1942 - In the United States, coffee rationing began, lasting until the end of World War II.
1942 - A fire at the Coconut Grove night club in Boston, Massachusetts killed nearly 500 people.
1943 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin gathered at Tehran for their first meeting to chart the future Allied course for World War II.
1951 - The film version of Charles Dickens' short story, A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim, premiered in New York.
1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers when a photoengravers strike shut down publication.
1956 - Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues" held the #1 spot on the music charts, remaining at the top of the Hit Parade for 10 weeks. Ray Conniff whistled the introduction to "Singing the Blues".
1958 - Mauritania became an autonomous republic within the French community.
1960 - Elvis Presley's single, "Are You Lonesome Tonight," jumped into the Number 1 spot on Billboard's pop record charts on this date, and stayed there for 6 weeks.
1963 - United States President Lyndon Johnson changed the name of Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Cape Kennedy, in honor of his assassinated predecessor. Residents changed the name back to Cape Canaveral in 1973.
1964 - The United States space probe Mariner 4 was launched on a journey to Mars; it passed within 5,400 miles of Mars in July 1965.
1966 - The New Vaudeville Band was given a gold record for "Winchester Cathedral".
1971 - The prime minister of Jordan, Wasfi Tell, was shot by Black September terrorists outside the Hilton Hotel in Cairo where he was on an official visit.
1974 - Elton John was joined on stage by John Lennon at Elton's Madison Square Garden concert. They performed three numbers together: "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," and "I Saw Her Standing There." Lennon had promised the flamboyant rocker that he would make a stage appearance with him if his "What Gets You Through the Night" became a Number 1 hit. Following the concert that same night, Lennon and estranged wife Yoko Ono reconciled backstage after being separated for one year.
1974 - Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for two years.
1979 - An Air Zealand DC-10 from Auckland to the South Pole hit Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
1981 - Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, Alabama football coach, won his 315th victory, becoming college football’s all-time career victory leader; surpassing Amos Alonzo Stagg with the win. Four years later, in October 1985, this record was broken by Grambling and head coach Eddie Robinson.
1982 - The Executioner's Song, starring Tommy Lee Jones cast as real-life convicted killer Gary Gilmore, aired its first of two parts on NBC. Jones later won an Emmy as Outstanding Actor in a Drama Special and Rosanna Arquette, who portrayed Gilmore's teenage girlfriend Nicole Baker, received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
1984 - Leaving Chicago, Illinois, Phil Donahue moved his daily talk show to New York. Until then, Phil and actress/wife Marlo Thomas commuted for four years to be together.
1986 - NBC’s Ahmad Rashad heard Phylicia Ayers-Allen accepte his marriage proposal, given during halftime of the Detroit Lions-New York Jets football game.
1994 - Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was clubbed to death in prison as he was cleaning a toilet.
1995 - Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and John Bruton of Ireland unveiled a new initiative for all-party talks on the future of the British-ruled province of Northern Ireland.
1996 - General Ratko Mladic formally gave up leadership of the Bosnian Serb army.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 29, 2005 9:37:03 GMT -5
1825 - In New York City, Rossini’s "Barber of Seville" was presented, making it the first Italian opera presented in the United States.
1864 - At Sand Creek, Colorado, an army force led by Colonel John Chivington attacked and massacred at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians who had surrendered and been given permission to camp.
1887 - United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
1887 - Child prodigy pianist, Josef Hofmann, at 11 years of age, made his American debut at a concert held in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
1890 - At West Point, New York, the first Army-Navy football game was played. The midshipmen from Annapolis won, shutting out the cadets, 25-0.
1890 - The first Imperial Diet was opened in Japan. It consisted of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives.
1895 - America's first race featuring gasoline-powered automobiles was held in Chicago, Illinois.
1904 - President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to a distant cousin named Franklin, saying he approved of Franklin’s intended marriage to the President’s niece, Eleanor.
1929 - After finishing his first flight over the North Pole on this date in 1926, Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole today, exactyl three years later; becoming the first American to achieve this feat.
1932 - In New York City, Cole Porter's musical, "The Gay Divorcee," opened. It featured the classic, "Night and Day".
1934 - The Chicago Bears beat Detroit in the first NFL game broadcast nationally.
1938 - For Victor Records, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra recorded "Hawaiian War Chant".
1939 - The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to the Soviet attack on the country.
1944 - Albania was liberated from Nazi control.
1945 - The newly elected Constituent Assembly in Yugoslavia proclaimed a federal republic.
1947 - The United Nations General Assembly allowed for a Jewish state in Palestine.
1947 - Louis Armstrong and his sextet entertained Carnegie Hall in New York City with a night of jazz.
1948 - The first televised opera, Verdi's "Othelle," was broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, by WJZ-TV in New York.
1950 - "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes as cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC Radio for its only season.
1955 - Ohio State halfback Howard "Hopalong" Cassady received the Heisman Memorial Trophy on this date as the year's best college football player.
1962 - Major League Baseball made the decision to return to playing only one All-Star Game a year as of 1963. Since 1959, there had been two games each year.
1963 - Beatles released "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
1963 - United States President Lyndon Johnson named a commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of President John Kennedy.
1966 - King Ntare IV was overthrown in Burundi and a republic was proclaimed.
1974 - A bill to outlaw the Irish Republican Army became law in Britain.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupted in Hawaii.
1975 - Silver Convention had the United States' #1 pop tune, with "Fly, Robin, Fly".
1975 - Graham Hill, Formula One World Champion in 1962 and 1968, and father of champion racer Damon Hill, was killed in a light plane crash.
1981 - Film actress Natalie Wood drowned off the California coast. Wood, her husband Robert Wagner, and actor Christopher Walken, were aboard the Wagners' yacht, Splendour. Sometime during the night, Wood fell overboard, unbeknownst to those on board. Her body was found after a seven-hour search, 200 yards from a small, motorized dinghy in a rocky cove off Catalina Island. Her death was believed to be alcohol-related, and foul play was ruled out. The beautiful Oscar-nominated actress was 43 at the time of her death. Wood's list of film credits included Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, Splendour in the Grass, Love with the Proper Stranger, Inside Daisy Clover, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and, her last film, which was still in production at the time of her death, Brainstorm.
1983 - It was a new record when the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 1287.20.
1986 - Debuting at #1 on the album charts was the blockbuster five-record set, "Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85". Prior to this, no five-record set had hit the top 25, and no five-record set had ever gone platinum. The price for the set was $25.
1989 - Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comenci reportedly defected to Hungary with six other people.
1990 - Bulgarian Prime Minister Lukanov and his government resigned following a general strike
1990 - The United Nations Security Council voted to authorize military action against Iraq if Baghdad failed to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991.
1991 - Screen actor Ralph Bellamy died at age 87, after suffering a long bout with respiratory illness.
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Nov 30, 2005 10:07:00 GMT -5
30 B.C. - Cleopatra died.
1016 - English King Edmund II died. Known as "Ironside" for his fierce resistance to the invading Canute who eventually defeated him and became King on Edmund's death.
1700 - Eight thousand Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated a force of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. At least 10,000 Russians died. The army lost 600. Charles XII died on this day in 1718 during an invasion of Norway.
1782 - The United States and Britain signed a treaty in Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
1838 - After the French occupation of Vera Cruz three days earlier, Mexico declared war on France.
1853 - In the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed the Turkish fleet and part of the harbor at the battle of Sinope.
1864 - The United States Civil War Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, took place.
1875 - Akron, Ohio's A.J. Ehrichson patented the oat-crushing machine.
1887 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first softball game was played. It was actually called indoor baseball; using a broomstick for a bat and a boxing glove for a ball.
1922 - Actress Sarah Bernhardt made her last stage appearance in the final performance of "Daniel", in Turin, Italy.
1936 - London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire.
1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Finland.
1939 - More than 20 Russian divisions - almost half a million men - invaded Finland in the "Winter War."
1939 - On Columbia 78s, Harry James and his big band recorded "Concerto for Trumpet".
1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz married. They would divorce in the 1950s, after the 1954 season run of "I Love Lucy".
1943 - On Capitol Records, Nat ‘King’ Cole and his trio recorded "Straighten Up and Fly Right", the first recording for the King Cole trio.
1947 - Only one day after the United Nations decrees Israel's right to exist, Jewish settlements are attacked.
1950 - Clover Dairy of Wilmington, Delaware offered Sealtest concentrated milk for sale.
1953 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston, Massachusetts, at age 65. His vast collection of plays included Anna Christie, Ah! Wilderness, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Mourning Becomes Electra. O'Neill was awarded the Nobel prize of literature in 1936. His daughter, Oona, married silent film star Charlie Chaplin. He left several unpublished plays and an autobiography. O'Neill's will stipulated that these were not to be produced until 25 years after his death.
1954 - In London, England, Sir Winston Churchill celebrated his 80th birthday. The festivities were supossedly the greatest ever held for a British subject.
1954 - The first meteorite known to have struck a woman lands in Sylacauga, Alabama.
1956 - New York's Floyd Patterson became the youngest man, at 21, to win the world heavyweight boxing championship when he knocked-out light-heavyweight champ Archie Moore in the fifth round of their Chicago bou.
1958 - The Dewey - the first guided missile destroyer was launched in Bath, Maine.
1959 - Joe Foss was named American Football League commissioner and made about $30,000 a year as his salary for the job.
1962 - U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations after the death of Dag Hammarskjold.
1964 - The unmanned Soviet spaceship "Zond 2" took off for Mars but communication was lost in May 1965.
1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain.
1967 - Yemen, then Aden, gains independence from Britain.
1968 - Diana Ross and the Supremes hit t#1 on the music charts with "Love Child", a controversial song for the times. It stayed at #1 for two weeks.
1971 - As the "ABC Movie of the Week", ABC-TV presented "Brian’s Song". The story was about Chicago Bears Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gayle Sayers, who watched him die a tragic death. The movie rated a 32.9 and a 48 share. "Brian’s Song", performed by Michel Legrand, was the movie's theme.
1974 - The Eagles released their hit, "Best of My Love", but it would take until March 1, 1975 for it to hit #1 on the top 40 charts.
1977 - Eric Severied retired from CBS-TV after 38 years in television news. Among those he worked with were: Morrow, Collingwood, Trout, Cronkite, Edwards, Rather, Kuralt, Wallace, Dean and others.
1982 - The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 36.43 points, giving the fourth largest gain in the it’s 87-year history.
1986 - Ivan Lendl became the world's first tennis player to have career earnings over $10 million.
1988 - Radio Liberty, the American-financed Soviet radio station with an audience of 16 million, was opened to the airwaves on this date, along with two other radio stations. The Russians began jamming foreign radio broadcasts in the early 1950s after declaring them tools of subversion.
1989 - A bomb killed Alfred Herrhausen, the chairman of West Germany's largest bank. The Red Army Faction terrorist group claimed responsibility for the killing.
1991 - Archaeologists unearthed a statue of Pharaoh Ramses II in Akhimim, Egypt.
1995 - Bill Clinton became the first United States president to visit Northern Ireland. He was greeted like a hero by protestants and Roman Catholics alike and said: "The time has come for the peacemakers to triumph in Northern Ireland."
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Post by JJC7655... aka JJ on Dec 1, 2005 12:57:27 GMT -5
1521 - Pope Leo X died. One of the most extravagant of Renaissance popes, he made Rome a center of European culture and contributed to the dissolution of a unified church.
1640 - In a nationalist revolution, Spanish garrisons were driven out of Portugal. Two weeks later, the Duke of Braganca was crowned as John IV.
1821 - The Dominican Republic, comprising the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, declared independence from Spain.
1822 - Dom Pedro, founder of the Brazilian Empire was crowned as first emperor of Brazil and ruled as Pedro I.
1879 - H.M.S. Pinafore Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, opened. Arthur Sullivan conducted the orchestra and William Gilbert played a sailor in the chorus.
1906 - The Cinema Omnia Pathe, considered the world's first cinema, opened in Paris.
1909 - The Pennsylvania Trust Company, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, became the first United States bank to offer a Christmas Club account.
1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town west of Omaha, Nebraska, as a farm village for wayward boys, and since 1979, for girls too. In 1938, Spencer Tracy played Father Flanagan in, "Boys Town", winning an Oscar.
1918 - The Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence as a sovereign state.
1918 - The province of Transylvania, previously part of Hungary, voted unanimously for union with Romania.
1919 - Lady Nancy Astor became the first woman member to take her seat in the British House of Commons.
1924 - In New York City, the play, "Lady Be Good", opened. George Gershwin wrote the music, and Fred and Adele Astaire danced.
1925 - The Locarno Treaties, guaranteeing peace and frontiers in Europe were signed by France, Belgium and Germany and its terms guaranteed by Britain and Italy.
1934 - Sergei Kirov, Communist Party leader and associate of Josef Stalin, was shot in his office in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.
1940 - The ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers) called Glen Miller to for tell him he couldn’t use "Moonlight Serenade" as his band’s theme song. Because of an ASCAP ban, he had to use "Slumber Song".
1941 - The United States Civil Air Patrol was officially created.
1942 - The welfare state was officially envisaged in Britain with the publication of the Beveridge Report. It was hailed as a charter for social security by bringing the whole population into an insurance scheme.
1945 - Burl Ives made his concert debut at New York’s Town Hall.
1945 - The New York premier of Paramount's The Lost Weekend, starring Ray Milland in a brilliant performance, was on this date. The film earned Oscars and Golden Globe awards for Best Picture, Best Actor for Milland, and Best Director for Billy Wilde. Milland and the film were also honored at the Cannes Film Festival.
1952 - George Jorgensen, a former G.I. who had gone to Denmark in 1950, prepared to return to the United States - as Christine Jorgensen. She, or, he had undergone 2,000 hormone injections and six operations performed by sex change surgeons.
1953 - Playboy magazine was launched in Chicago by publisher Hugh Hefner.
1953 - Marilyn Monroe appeared as the first Playboy centerfold.
1953 - The Brooklyn Dodgers named Walter Alston manager on this, his 42nd birthday. Before retiring in 1976, he became the dean of baseball managers.
1954 - The United States signed a mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a black woman from Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested when she refused to give up her seat in the front section of a bus so that a white man might be seated.
1959 - 12 nations signed the Antarctic Treaty preserving the area for peaceful purposes and scientific research.
1968 - "Promises, Promises" opened on Broadway for the first of its 1,281 performances, earning it $35,000 in profits each week of 1969. Dionne Warwick had a hit with her cover of the title song.
1970 - In Italy, parliament gave final approval to a law granting divorce in certain circumstances.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus, ‘The Golden Bear’, won the Walt Disney World Open Golf Tournament , becoming the first golfer to win career earnings of $2 million.
1976 - Angola was admitted to the United Nations.
1980 - George Rogers of the University of South Carolina was chosen as the Heisman Trophy winner, he went on to great success with the Washington Redskins.
1981 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Oscar Robertson as professional basketball’s second all-time leading scorer, taking a back seat only to Wilt Chamberlain. Kareem totaled 26,712 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat Utah Jazz 117-86. In 1984, Chamberlain’s record fell when Kareem’s scores reached 31,259. When Kareem finished his career in 1989 he had 38,387 points.
1984 - Eight days after his miracle pass led Boston College to beat Miami, Doug Flutie was named the year's Heisman Trophy winner. Flutie was the 13th quarterback to earn the award.
1985 - Singer/actress Barbi Benton set a record when she appeared for her fourth time as a "Playboy" magazine playmate.
1986 - The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California offered visitors the world’s most expensive hotel suite. The eight-room accommodations included four fireplaces, three bedrooms and a library with secret passage all for $20,000 a night.
1987 - Comedienne Joan Rivers filed a $50 million suit in Los Angeles, California against the publication Gentleman's Quarterly for reporting that she had wished her husband dead. Rivers's husband, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide earlier that year.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman elected to govern a Muslim nation when acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan nominated her to be prime minister of Pakistan.
1988 - The United States launched the Atlantis spy satellite.
1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican and meet the Pope. This meeting ended 72 years of Kremlin atheist ideology.
1990 - Engineers digging a railway tunnel under the English Channel broke through the last dividing rock and joined Britain to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age.
1991 - A referendum took place in Ukraine and voters backed independence from Russia by 9 to 1. The result confirmed parliament's earlier declaration of independence.
1994 - The head of the United Nations commission on Rwanda concluded that genocide in the country in this year cost 500,000 lives and that murdered President Juvenal Habyarimana and his entourage were behind the slaughter.
1994 - The United States Senate approved the Uruguay Round provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
1995 - NATO ambassadors unanimously picked Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana as new head of the alliance.
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