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Born on this Day
1594: Sir James Ware
1607: John Harvard
1731: English poet William Cowper, best known for "The Poplar
Trees" and "The Task,"
1832: Surgeon and women's rights leader Mary Walker Edwards
1858: Scholar Israel Abrahams. He was one of the most distinguished
Jewish scholars of his time, who wrote a number of enduring works on Judaism, particularly
Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.
1871: Italian priest Luigi Sturzo He was a public official, and
political organizer who founded a party that was a forerunner of the Italian Christian
Democrat movement.
1876: Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
1876: Air conditioning engineer Willis Carrier
1894: Norbert Weiner, American mathematician who is considered the
father of automation. He established the science of cybernetics, which is concerned with
the common factors of control and communication in living organisms, automatic machines,
and organizations.
1898: German chemist Karl Ziegler. He shared the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry with Giulio Natta for research that greatly improved the quality of plastics.
19??: Mary Tiller (Anointed)
19??: Mark Fain (Gold City)
1912: French playwright Eugene Ionesco
1912: Eric Sevareid, American broadcast journalist.
1922: "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles M. Schulz
1924: American sculptor George Segal. He sculpted monochromatic, cast
plaster figures often situated in environments of mundane furnishings and objects.
1933: Singer Robert Goulet (Stanley Applebaum)
1937: Boris Borisovich Yegorov. Soviet physician who, with cosmonauts
Vladimir M. Komarov and Konstantin P. Feoktistov, was a participant in the first
multimanned spaceflight, that of Voskhod 1, on Oct. 12-13, 1964. He was also the first
practicing physician in space.
1938: Impressionist Rich Little
1939: Singer Tina Turner
1944: Singer Jean Terrell
1945: Pop musician John McVie
1959: Actress Jamie Rose
1962: Country singer Linda Davis
1965: Country singer-musician Steve Grisaffe (River Road)
1966: Actress Garcelle Beauvais
1976: Actress Maia Campbell ("The House")
0311: Martyrdom of St. Peter of Alexandria
0399: Death of St. Siricius, Pope (not to be canonized for
1400 years)
0885: Vikings attack Paris
1120: Death of Prince William of England, son of Henry I
1346: Coronation of Charles IV as King of Germany
1377: Charter issued for the founding of St. Mary's
College at Oxford, England
1504: Death of Isabella, Queen of Castile-Leon
1621: Death of St. John Berchmans
1688: Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands.
1716: The first lion exhibited in America was seen in
Boston, MA this day.
1778: Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich
Islands).
1789: George Washington proclaims this a National
Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the
date for Thanksgiving.
1825: The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha,
was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
1832: Public streetcar service began in New York City. The
fare: 12
1832: The first streetcar railway in America started
public service in New York City from City Hall to 14th Street. The car was pulled by a
horse and the fare was 12 and a-half cents.
1862: President Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe,
the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and called her "the little lady that started this
big war."
1863: The first National Thanksgiving is celebrated.
1864: Charles L. Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis
Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddel this day. The manuscript was
titled, "Alice's Adventures Underground". It was an early Christmas present to
the 12-year-old. Later, the manuscript was renamed "Alice in Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking Glass".
1867: On this day, the refrigerated railroad car was
patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan.
1893: A critical review of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D
was published in "Le Menestral" of Paris. The reviewer said: "The master
has little to say but says it with the conviction of the Pope defining dogma!"
1901: The Hope diamond is brought to New York.
1922: A team of archeologists led by Howard Carter
discovered the tomb of the teenage Pharaoh, nearly 3,000 years after it had been concluded
that not a single royal burial room remained intact.
1940: German Nazis forced 500,000 Jews in Warsaw to live
in a ghetto surrounded by an eight-foot concrete wall.
1941: Secretary of State Cordell Hull submitted American
proposals to the Japanese peace envoys in Washington.
1942: The motion picture "Casablanca," starring
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New
York.
1942: President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline
rationing: beginning December first.
1950: China entered the Korean conflict, launching a
counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the US and South Korea.
1956: Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died on this day, at the age
of 51. His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies.
1956: THE PRICE IS RIGHT game show debuted on NBC.
1959: Albert Ketelby died. He wrote, "In a Persian
Market."
1965: France launched its first satellite, sending a
92-pound capsule into orbit.
1969: The Heisman Trophy was awarded to Steve Owens, of
Oklahoma as the nation's outstanding college football player. Owens scored more touchdowns
and gained more yardage than any previous player in collegiate history.
1973: President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary
Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the
18-and-a-half-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.
1977: DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE by Crystal Gayle
peaked at #2 on the pop singles chart.
1979: The International Olympic Committee voted to
re-admit China after an absence of 21 years.
1979 :Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves is found in
Venezuela.
1982: Yasuhiro Nakasone elected 71st Japanese prime
minister.
1986: President Reagan appointed a commission headed by
former Senator John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake
of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987: Cuban detainees concerned about the possibility of
being sent back to Cuba continued to hold hostages at a prison in Atlanta and a detention
center in Oakdale, Louisiana.
1988: The United States denied an entry visa to PLO
Chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the UN
General Assembly.
1989: Hungary held a national referendum in which voters
decided that the country's next president would be chosen by parliament, following free
elections.
1990: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.
1990: President Bush, on a visit to Mexico, met with the country's president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Japanese business giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
1992: The British government announced that Queen
Elizabeth the Second had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and
would take her children off the public payroll.
1993: The first session of the 103rd Congress concluded as
lawmakers adjourned for the year.
1993: Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony performed
in their home town for the first time since getting back from their European tour. George
Silfies soloed in a Clarinet Concerto by Dan Welcher.
1994: Thirty clergymen were elevated to the rank of
cardinal in a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope John Paul the Second.
1994: Margaret Garrish, a 72-year-old Detroit woman,
committed suicide in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
1995: Senior U.S. officials declared the Dayton treaty on Bosnia was final, rejecting demands from Bosnian Serbs that provisions relating to the future of Sarajevo be changed. Two men set fire to a subway token booth in Brooklyn, N.Y., fatally burning the clerk inside.
1996: O.J. Simpson finished three days of testimony at a
civil trial in Santa Monica, California. President Clinton ended his 12-day Pacific trip
with a stopover in Thailand. Major-league baseball owners reversed course, approving the
same collective bargaining agreement they had rejected just three weeks earlier.
1997: Under heavy international pressure, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein said he would allow visits to presidential palaces where UN weapons experts
suspected he might be hiding chemical and biological weapons.
1997: In a small but symbolic step, the United States and
North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
1998: In India, at least 211 people died when two trains
collided in the northern state of Punjab.
1998: In the first speech ever by a British prime minister to an Irish parliament, Tony Blair predicted that Northern Ireland's troubled peace accord would ultimately work because of a strengthened cooperative spirit uniting Britain and Ireland.
1999: Sixteen people were killed when a Norwegian high-speed passenger ferry hit a shoal and sank off Boemla Island, 250 miles west of Oslo.
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