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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.
1989 ~ The Velvet Revolution: The leadership of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigned.
1991 ~ Death of Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen).
1998 ~ America Online announced it would acquire Netscape Communications.
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November 25th
1844 ~ Birthday of Karl Benz, Engineer.
1867 ~ Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1913 ~ Birthday of Lewis Thomas, Physician & Essayist.
1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film "Knock Knock"
1952 ~ Birthday of Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer.
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.
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November 26th
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.
2008 ~ Ten coordinated terrorist attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
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11-27-2009, 11:20 AM
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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".
India would later develop its indigenous nuclear WMD.
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 actress.
1978 ~ Birthday of Shy Love, Porn Star.
1990 ~ John Major followed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the UK.
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November 28th
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November 29th
1643 ~ Death of Claudio Monteverdi, Composer.
1832 ~ Birthday of Louisa May Alcott, Writer.
1890 ~ At West Point, New York, the U.S. Naval Academy defeated the U.S. Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army–Navy football game.
1898 ~ Birthday of C. S. Lewis, Writer.
1944 ~ The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
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.
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.
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November 30th
1667 ~ Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Writer & Satirist.
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.
1939 ~ Soviet forces crossed the Finnish border in several places and bombed Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
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.
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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.
1935 ~ Birthday of Woody Allen, Film Director & Actor & Comedian.
1954 ~ Birthday of Annette Haven, Porn actress.
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.
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December 2nd
1814 ~ Death of Marquis de Sade, Writer.
1859 ~ Militant abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
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.
1971 ~ Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain formed the United Arab Emirates.
1981 ~ Birthday of Isabella Soprano, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
1991 ~ Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
2001 ~ Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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December 3rd
1815 ~ Death of John Carroll - First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1857 ~ Birthday of Joseph Conrad, Writer.
1894 ~ Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer.
1919 ~ Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter.
1947 ~ ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1967 ~ At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Lewis Washkansky became the first human to receive a heart transplant. The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
1984 ~ Bhopal Disaster: A leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed nearly 3,000 people in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1989 ~ Formal end of the Cold War.
1999 ~ NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander just before it entered the Martian atmosphere.
1999 ~ Death of Madeline Kahn, Actress & Comedian.
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25 years since Bhopal?
Amazing.
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December 4th
1110 ~ The Crusaders captured Sidon.
1642 ~ Death of Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman.
1674 ~ Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan which would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois.
1679 ~ Death of Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher.
1849 ~ Birthday of Crazy Horse, American Indian leader.
1872 ~ The Mary Celeste was found by the British brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged.
1945 ~ The U.S. Senate approved United States participation in the United Nations.
1976 ~ Death of Benjamin Britten, Composer.
1980 ~ Led Zeppelin announced its breakup.
1981 ~ Birthday of Courtney Cummz, Porn actress.
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November 5th
1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1847 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected to the U.S. Senate.
1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director.
1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Heisenberg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932.
1901 ~ Birthday of Walt Disney, film producer.
1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, debuted.
1933 ~ Prohibition ended: The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the inter-state sale of alcohol.
1969 ~ Life Magazine reported the My Lai Massacre.
1995 ~ The Sri Lankan armed forces took Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers.
2006 ~ Death of David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster.
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12-04-2009, 10:37 PM
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1909 ~ Foundation of les Canadiens de Montréal!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.
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December 6th
1884 ~ The Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, banning slavery, was ratified.
1889 ~ Death of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1917 ~ A munitions explosion killed more than 1,900 people and destroyed part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1920 ~ Birthday of Dave Brubeck, jazz musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor.
1947 ~ Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman.
1957 ~ The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit, Vanguard TV3, was renamed 'Flopnik'.
1989 ~ Marc Lépine killed 14 women in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 ~ In Ayodhya, India, Hindus demolished the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque.
2002 ~ Death of Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist.
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