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October 29th
1911 ~ Death of Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist.
1923 ~ The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. 1929 ~ New York Stock Exchange stock prices collapsed amid panic selling. 1947 ~ Birthday of Richard Dreyfuss, American actor. 1948 ~ Birthday of Kate Jackson, American actress. 1957 ~ Death of Louis B. Mayer, film producer. The second “M” in “MGM”. 1969 ~ The first computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET. 1975 ~ General Franco’s dictatorship of Spain came to an end. 1982 ~ Lindy Chamberlain was found guilty of the murder of her nine-week-old daughter. 2004 ~ In a videotaped statement, Osama bin Laden directly admitted for the first time that he'd ordered the Sept. 11 attacks. |
October 30th
1831 ~ Nat Turner was arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history.
1839 ~ Birthday of Alfred Sisley, one of the creators of French Impressionism. 1885 ~ Birthday of Ezra Pound, Poet. 1922 ~ Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy. 1939 ~ Birthday of Grace Slick, singer with Jefferson Airplane. 1961 ~ The Soviet Union detonated the 58 megaton hydrogen bomb "Tsar Bomba". 1945 ~ Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. 1974 ~ Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship. 2003 ~ Wicked opened on Broadway. 2005 ~ The reconsecration of the Dresden Frauenkirche, which was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. |
Tsar (or Czar) Bomba, how it didn't set fire to the atmosphere I still cannot imagine.
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October 31st
1517 ~ Protestant Reformation got under way: Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. For a unique insight to this happening, click here.
1795 ~ Birthday of John Keats, Poet. 1892 ~ Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". 1926 ~ Death of Harry Houdini, Magician. 1930 ~ Birthday of Michael Collins, the 3rd astronaut of Apollo 11. 1956 ~ Suez Crisis: The UK and France began bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. 1973 ~ Birthday of Beverly Lynne, Porn Star 1984 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed). 1987 ~ Death of Joseph Campbell, Author and expert on mythology. |
November 1st
1512 ~ The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, was exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604 ~ At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello was presented for the first time. 1755 ~ Lisbon, Portugal was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people. 1923 ~ Birthday of Gordon R. Dickson, Science Fiction author. 1935 ~ Birthday of Gary Player, South African golfer. 1952 ~ The U.S. successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed Mike, at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll. 1963 ~ The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened. 1993 ~ The Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union. 1999 ~ Death of Theodore Alvin Hall, Soviet Spy. 2007 ~ Death of Paul Tibbets, US Air Force, ret. |
November 2nd
1739 ~ Birthday of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Composer.
1815 ~ Birthday of George Boole, Mathematician & Philosopher. 1930 ~ Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. 1936 ~ The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established. 1950 ~ Death of George Bernard Shaw, Playwright. 1976 ~ Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford. 1964 ~ In a family coup, King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. 1981 ~ Birthday of Avy Scott, Porn Star. 1983 ~ President Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 1988 ~ The Morris worm was launched from MIT. |
November 3rd
1801 ~ Birthday of Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer.
1838 ~ The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper was founded. 1903 ~ Panama proclaimed itself independent from Colombia. 1936 ~ Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. ''Alf'' Landon. 1954 ~ Death of Henri Matisse, French artist. 1957 ~ Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika. 1964 ~ Incumbent President Lyndon Johnson defeated challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote. 1978 ~ Birthday of Julia Taylor, European Porn Star. 1986 ~ Iran-Contra Affair : The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. 1992 ~ U.S. presidential election: Challenger Bill Clinton defeated incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush & independent candidate Ross Perot. 1993 ~ Death of Leon Theremin, Russian inventor. |
November 4th
1847 ~ Death of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer.
1869 ~ The first issue of scientific journal Nature was published. 1900 ~ Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams was published. 1922 ~ British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 1924 ~ Death of Gabriel Fauré, French composer. 1948 ~ T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1956 ~ Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands were killed, more were wounded, and nearly a quarter million left the country. 1979 ~ Students storm the US embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages. 1979 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hollander, Porn Star 1995 ~ The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. |
November 5th
1605 ~ A plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar below the building.
1872 ~ Suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time. She was fined $100 for the privilege. 1892 ~ Birthday of J. B. S. Haldane, Geneticist. 1911 ~ Birthday of Roy Rogers, American actor. 1930 ~ Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1942 ~ The Second Battle of El Alamein was won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt. 1977 ~ Death of Guy Lombardo, Conductor. 1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan". 1989 ~ Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist. 1999 ~ Federal Judge Thomas Jackson declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly, saying the software giant's aggressive actions were ''stifling innovation'' and hurting consumers. |
Remember, remember the fifth of November.
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November 6th
1789 ~ Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1854 ~ Birthday of John Philip Sousa, composer of the official march of the U.S., The Stars and Stripes Forever (requires RealPlayer) 1861 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1869 ~ Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. 1893 ~ Death of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer. 1913 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1962 ~ The UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and called for all member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 1975 ~ Birthday of Anastasia Blue, former Porn Star. 1999 ~ Australians voted to keep the British queen as their head of state. 2000 ~ Death of L. Sprague De Camp, Science Fiction writer. |
November 7th
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911. 1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster. 1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. 1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. 1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer. 1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" at Baltimore, Maryland. 1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm. 1981 ~ Birthday of Lily Thai, Porn Star. 1989 ~ Protests force the resignation of East Germany’s Communist government. |
I remember doing L'Etranger in class. Wonderful stuff made mundane by the education system.
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It IS a small world! L’Étranger, was required reading in one of my French courses. :)
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I read La Peste later on. We were better off with L'Etranger.
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November 8th
1674 ~ Death of John Milton, English poet.
1847 ~ Birthday of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist. 1884 ~ Birthday of Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist. 1895 ~ Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays. 1942 ~ World War II: Operation Torch – U.S. and UK forces landed in French North Africa. 1950 ~ The first dog fight between jet aircraft. 1986 ~ Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician. 1987 ~ An IRA bomb killed 11 people during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. 2002 ~ Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, requiring Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". (requires Adobe Acrobat) 2008 ~ John Key is voted the new New Zealand Prime Minister. |
November 9th
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1921 ~ Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. 1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer. 1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion. 1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began. 1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet. 1953 ~ Death of Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia. 1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts. 1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician. 1995 ~ Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to become the world chess champion. |
November 10th
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47. 1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor. 1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States. 1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy. 1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public. 1983 ~ Birthday of Sammie Rhodes, Porn Star. 1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and human rights activist. 2007 ~ Death of Norman Mailer, American author. |
November 11th
1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne.
1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, Spy. 1918 ~ Death of Henry Gunther, the last American to die in World War I. 1918 ~ The end of World War I: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. 1922 ~ Birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist. 1938 ~ Death of Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary", carrier of the typhoid disease. 1965 ~ Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain. 1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests. 2000 ~ A cable car full of skiers and snowboarders, many of them children, caught fire in Austria, killing 155 people. 2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
November 12th
1035 ~ Death of King Canute.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. 1942 ~ The Battle of Guadalcanal began. 1944 ~ The German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off the coast of Norway. 1954 ~ Ellis Island closed. 1955 ~ Hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell. 1970 ~ The famous exploding whale incident. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. 2001 ~ Taliban forces abandoned Kabul ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. |
November 13th
1850 ~ Birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, Novelist.
1868 ~ Death of Gioacchino Rossini, Composer. 1940 ~ The animated film Fantasia was released. 1955 ~ Birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, American actress. 1956 ~ U.S. Supreme Court declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal. 1971 ~ Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. 1985 ~ A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first known World Wide Web page. 1998 ~ President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, ending the four-year legal battle over her sexual harassment lawsuit that spurred impeachment proceedings against him. Clinton did not admit guilt or apologize. 2002 ~ Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq. |
November 14th
1719 ~ Birthday of Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1832 ~ Death of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence signer. 1851 ~ Herman Melville's novel “Moby-Dick” was first published in the U.S. 1922 ~ The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began radio service in the UK. 1948 ~ Birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales. 1954 ~ Birthday of Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State. 1968 ~ Birthday of Janine Lindemulder, Porn Star. 1972 ~ The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,000 mark yesterday for the first time. 1991 ~ Indictments handed down against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. 2001 ~ Northern Alliance fighters entered Kabul. |
November 15th
1787 ~ Death of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer.
1887 ~ Birthday of Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter. 1920 ~ First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva. 1940 ~ The Luftwaffe destroyed most of the English city of Coventry during World War II. 1942 ~ Birthday of Daniel Barenboim, Pianist & Conductor. 1960 ~ The Polaris missile became operational on the USS George Washington (SSBN-598). 1969 ~ The Soviet submarine K-19 collided with the American submarine USS Gato. 1971 ~ Intel released the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 1978 ~ Death of Margaret Mead, American anthropologist. 1998 ~ Death of Stokely Carmichael, American Black Power activist. |
November 16th
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason.
1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer. 1920 ~ Qantas was registered under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. 1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist. 1933 ~ The U.S. and the USSR established diplomatic relations. 1938 ~ LSD was synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann. 1959 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway. 1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor. 1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the fourth man in the "Philby affair". 2006 ~ Death of Milton Friedman, American economist. |
November 17th
1871 ~ The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1917 ~ Death of Auguste Rodin, Sculptor. 1929 ~ Death of Herman Hollerith, Statistician. 1959 ~ Death of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian Composer. 1968 ~ Birthday of Amber Michaels, German Porn Star. 1970 ~ In one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program, The USSR landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. 1970 ~ Douglas Engelbart received a patent for the first computer mouse. 1997 ~ An Islamic extremist group killed 60 tourists at Luxor, Egypt. 2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor of California. |
November 18th
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist. 1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, ended in stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing. 1945 ~ Operation Paperclip: The first of more than 700 German scientists arrived in the U.S. to help the development of rocket technology. 1968 ~ Death of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, awarded the The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922. 1976 ~ Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after the dictatorship of General Franco. 1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children. 2002 ~ UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. 2003 ~ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry. 2004 ~ Fox hunting outlawed in England and Wales. |
November 19th
1493 ~ Christopher Columbus became the first European to go ashore on what would become Puerto Rico.
1805 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Suez Canal engineer. 1828 ~ Death of Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer. 1863 ~ U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1884 ~ Birthday of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban Chess Grand Master. 1917 ~ Birthday of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. 1941 ~ World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sank each other off the coast of Western Australia. 1969 ~ The second Apollo mission, Apollo 12, landed on the Moon – in “the Ocean of Storms”. 1977 ~ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement. 1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against President Clinton. |
November 20th
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1908 ~ Birthday of Alistair Cooke, Journalist. 1910 ~ Death of Leo Tolstoy, Novelist. 1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician. 1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. 1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London. 1995 ~ Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted to adultery during a television interview. 1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched. 1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. 2003 ~ Michael Jackson was arrested charges of child molestation. |
November 21st
1695 ~ Death of Henry Purcell, Composer.
1787 ~ Birthday of Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate. 1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter. 1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax. 1964 ~ Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. 1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established. 1979 ~ The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was attacked by a mob and razed. 1980 ~ Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. 1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison. 1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created using only computer-generated imagery. |
November 22nd
1718 ~ English pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard was killed in battle off the coast of Virginia.
1890 ~ Birthday of Charles de Gaulle, General, President of France. 1900 ~ Death of Arthur S. Sullivan, Composer. 1913 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Britten, Composer. 1963 ~ Death of C. S. Lewis, Author. 1963 ~ Death of Aldous Huxley, Author. (Brave New World) 1963 ~ President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. 1968 ~ The Beatles released The White Album. 1977 ~ British Airways began London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. 1990 ~ UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned. |
November 23rd
1860 ~ Birthday of Billy the Kid, Outlaw.
1869 ~ The "Cutty Sark" was launched. It is the last example of a Clipper ship. 1887 ~ Birthday of Boris Karloff, Actor. 1888 ~ Birthday of Harpo Marx, Comedian. 1936 ~ The first edition of Life was published. 1943 ~ U.S. Marines seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese. 1955 ~ Death of Shemp Howard, actor, comedian (The Three Stooges) 1963 ~ The first episode of the science fiction TV series "Doctor Who" aired on the BBC. 1993 ~ Rachel Whiteread won both the Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year. 2002 ~ Sectarian violence force the Miss World contest to move to London from Nigeria. |
November 24th
1642 ~ Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the island of Tasmania.
1853 ~ Birthday of Bat Masterson, Gunslinger, Policeman, Sports Reporter. 1859 ~ British naturalist Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species", a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection. 1868 ~ Birthday of Scott Joplin, Musician. 1941 ~ Birthday of Pete Best, original drummer of The Beatles. 1947 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 after they refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. 1963 ~ Death of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassination suspect. 1991 ~ Death of Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen). 1993 ~ Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger. 1998 ~ America Online announced it would acquire Netscape Communications. |
November 25th
1844 ~ Birthday of Karl Benz, Engineer.
1867 ~ Alfred Nobel patented dynamite. 1913 ~ Birthday of Lewis Thomas, Physician & Essayist. 1926 ~ Birthday of Poul Anderson, Science Fiction writer. 1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film "Knock Knock" 1968 ~ Death of Upton Sinclair, Journalist, Politician, Writer. 1974 ~ Death of U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General. 1986 ~ The Iran-Contra affair became public knowledge. 1998 ~ The Turkish government led by PM Mesut Yilmaz collapsed after losing a no-confidence motion over corruption allegations. 1999 ~ Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. |
November 26th
1862 ~ Lewis Carroll sent the handwritten manuscript of “Alice's Adventures Underground” to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
1922 ~ Birthday of Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist. 1939 ~ Birthday of Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock & Roll. 1942 ~ President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning in December. 1968 ~ Cream played their farewell concert. 1976 ~ The Band played their farewell concert. 1981 ~ Birthday of Aurora Snow, Porn Star. 1981 ~ Death of Max Euwe, World Chess Master. 1983 ~ £25m in gold was stolen from a warehouse near Heathrow airport. 2003 ~ Last ever flight by Concorde. |
November 27th
8 BC ~ Death of Horace, poet. Remembered for, among other things, “Carpe Diem” (seize the day).
1095 ~ Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. 1895 ~ Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he died. 1921 ~ Birthday of Alexander Dubcèk, Czech politician. 1942 ~ Birthday of Jimi Hendrix, musician. 1946 ~ Indian P.M. Jawaharlal Nehru appealed to the U.S. and the USSR to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster". 1973 ~ The U.S. Senate confirmed President-to-be Gerald Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew, who'd resigned. 1977 ~ Birthday of Mika Tan, American Porn Star. 1978 ~ Birthday of Shy Love, Porn Star. 1990 ~ John Major followed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the UK. |
November 28th
1520 ~ Ferdinand Magellan became the first to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1632 ~ Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer. 1820 ~ Birthday of Friedrich Engels, social philosopher. 1859 ~ Death of Washington Irving, writer. 1943 ~ President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II. 1954 ~ Death of Enrico Fermi, Physicist. 1969 ~ The Rolling Stones released the classic album Let It Bleed. 1969 ~ Birthday of Lexington Steele, Porn Actor. 1994 ~ Norway voted to reject membership in the European Union for the second time. 2000 ~ The eighth tar drop fell in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment. |
November 29th
1643 ~ Death of Claudio Monteverdi, Composer.
1832 ~ Birthday of Louisa May Alcott, Writer. 1898 ~ Birthday of C. S. Lewis, Writer. 1947 ~ The UN passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews. 1975 ~ The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen. 1981 ~ Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California. 1982 ~ The UN General Assembly passed Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan. 1982 ~ Birthday of Krystal Steal, Porn Actress. 1990 ~ The UN Security Council passed Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991. 2001 ~ Death of George Harrison, musician. |
November 30th
1667 ~ Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Writer & Satirist.
1804 ~ The impeachment trial of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase began. 1835 ~ Birthday of Mark Twain, Writer (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court). 1872 ~ First international soccer match played at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland. 1874 ~ Birthday of Sir Winston Churchill, British political leader & Writer. 1936 ~ In London, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. It had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition. 1900 ~ Death of Oscar Wilde, Writer. 1994 ~ the burning Achille Lauro abandoned off east Africa. 1995 ~ President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland. 1999 ~ The anti-globalization movement caught police unprepared and forced the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a WTO meeting. |
December 1st
1083 ~ Birthday of Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian.
1824 ~ U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the House of Representatives was given the task to decide the winner, as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment. 1835 ~ Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales. 1919 ~ Lady Astor became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons. 1935 ~ Birthday of Woody Allen, Film Director & Actor & Comedian. 1955 ~ Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws. 1959 ~ The Antarctic Treaty signed, which set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned military activity. 1964 ~ Death of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist. 1990 ~ English and French Channel Tunnel workers met beneath the English Channel. 1991 ~ Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. |
December 2rd
1547 ~ Death of Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror.
1814 ~ Death of Marquis de Sade, Writer. 1859 ~ Militant abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry. 1923 ~ Birthday of Maria Callas, Opera Singer. 1942 ~ Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. 1954 ~ Senator McCarthy was censured for conduct unbecoming to a senator. 1961 ~ Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism. 1981 ~ Birthday of Isabella Soprano, Porn Actress. 1990 ~ War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín. 1991 ~ Apple release the first version of QuickTime. |
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