| 451 | * | At the 15th Session of the Council of Chalcedon, Canon 28 was adopted, granting Constantinole a patriarchate extending over the civil dioceses of Pontus, Asia, and Thrace. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1517 | * | (Protestant Reformation) German Augustinian monk Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1803 | * | Congress ratifies the purchase of the entire Louisiana area in North America, adding territory to the U.S. which will eventually become 13 more states. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1832 | * | American Episcopal scholar George Washington Doane, 33, was consecrated as second Bishop of the Diocese of NJ. Doane is better remembered today as author of the hymn, "Softly Now the Light of Day." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: George Donner's axle breaks. The Donner wagon falls behind. The Party camps 1000 feet below the summit waiting for Donner to catch up. It never catches up. By morning there is 5 feet of snow and the Indian guides cannot find the road. The Party becomes trapped in what is now known as Donner Pass in the Sierra Mountains in what will become the worst winter on record. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1864 | * | (new state) Nevada is admitted as the 36th state. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approves a standard uniform for postal carriers. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1883 | * | World Women's Christian Temperance Union organized at convention in Detroit. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1922 | * | Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Mount Rushmore was ‘completed’ this day. Actually, the money ran out. Work on the monument, honoring Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, had begun August 10, 1927. It was dedicated March 3, 1933 although work continued. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum died in 1941 and his son, Lincoln, continued the project until funds ran out on this day. Since then, no additional carving has been done, nor is any further work (other than maintenance) on the memorial planned. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Princess Margaret (Rose) of England announced that she would not be marrying her love, Captain Peter Townsend. The entire world had been waiting for weeks, speculating about whether the sister of the Queen would marry a commoner. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | The body of Joseph Stalin is removed from public display (in Stalin’s Tomb). The longtime dictator of the former Soviet Union was reburied in a simple grave. This incident was the beginning of the USSR’s ‘destalinization’ policy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Reza Pahlavi, eldest son of the late shah, proclaimed himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1982 | * | Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship caught fire. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The French and English channel tunnel teams meet by using a 2 inch probe. The tunnels are off by only 20 inches | Ref: 62 |
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| 1997 | * | ST. LOUIS: A student with a gun critically wounds another student in a school hallway. | |
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| 2001 | * | Microsoft and the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic antitrust case against the software giant. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to report that it appears safe to eat cloned livestock and their offspring. (WSJ, p A2, 10/31/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 1815 | * | Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop patents his pneumatic bicycle tyre. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1956 | * | George J. Dufek of Admiral Robert Byrd’s expedition party became the first American to land by air at the South Pole. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | First internal heart pacemaker was implated by Swedish doctor Ake Senning. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1980 | * | Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Launch of Excel 2.0 for MS-DOS version 3.0. Ref | |
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| 1988 | * | OS/2 1.1 with Presentation Manager ships. | Ref: 80 |
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| 1803 | * | The US frigate Philadelphia runs aground near Tripoli and is captured by the Barbary pirates. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1917 | * | Beersheba, in Palestine, occupied by British. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1940 | * | Battle of Britain ends with a Royal air force loss of 915 planes, Luftwaffe 1,733. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1944 | * | Allied forces take the peninsula of South Beveland, Belgium. | |
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| 1956 | * | Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as first pres of S Vietnam 2nd Rep. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | President Johnson orders a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1971 | * | Saigon begins the release of 1,938 Hanoi POW’s. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1908 | * | 4th Olympic games end in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | The Cardinals release the last legal spitballer and future Hall of Famer, Burleigh Grimes. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1943 | * | Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Brooklyn (48-10). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | After touring Japan with the Giants, Commissioner Ford Frick compares the level of Japanese play to that of Class A of the American minors. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1957 | * | Yogi Berra says the Yankees returned fine money to players involved in the Copacabana fight. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1966 | | Mirhir Sen of Calcutta, India swam the length of the Panama Canal on this day. Previously, the distance swimmer had conquered the Palk Strait from India to Ceylon, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Dardanelles. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Milwaukee Bucks win their first game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Orioles' Mike Flanagan (23-9, 3.08) wins the Cy Young Award outdistancing Tommy John (21-9, 2.97). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1983 | | Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | First jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | U.S. Senators from eight states announce they have formed a congressional task force to investigate baseball expansion. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1988 | * | First Monday Night NFL game in Indpls, Colts beat Denver 55-23. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | John Labatt Limited purchases portion of the Toronto Blue Jays owned by Imperial Trust and thus obtained a 90% ownership of the club (10% Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce). | Ref: 86 |
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| 1994 | * | Pat Gillick steps down as General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1994 | * | Colorado Rockies promotes Dick Balderson to vice president/player personnel and Tony Siegle is hired to replace Walt Jocketty as assistant general manager. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2001 | * | For the first time since Philadelphia A's Mule Haas hit a game-tying two run homer in Game 5 of the 1929 World Series, a team comes from behind to tie a Fall Classic game in the ninth and goes on to win in extra innings. Tino Martinez sends the game into overtime with a two-out homer off Diamondback's closer Byung-Hyun Kim and Derek Jeter, dubbed Mr. November, wins it after the stroke of midnight with a full count two-out round tripper giving the Bronx Bombers a 3-2 victory and knots the series at two games apiece. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | Major League Baseball agrees to sell television rights in Japan to advertising powerhouse Dentsu for $275M over 6 years. (WSJ, p B4, 10/31/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2003 | | Bethany Hamilton, a 13-year old surfer, loses all but four inches of her left arm and half her blood to a tiger shark on the north shore of Kauai, HI. When taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, she bumped her father, Tom Hamilton, out of surgery (a knee operation). All reports indicate that Bethany never panicked. (Dayton Daily News, p A3, 11/21/2003) | |
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| 1903 | * | John Barrymore made his stage debut in Magda in the Cleveland Theatre in Chicago. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1905 | * | Shaw's play "Mrs. Warren's Profession"opens on Broadway; critics call it ‘vicious,' ‘indecent'. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1921 | | Rudolph Valentino's movie "The Sheik"a sensation in NY Rivoli theatre opening. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1930 | * | In a rare recording, William ‘Count’ Basie sang with Bennie Moten’s orchestra, Somebody Stole My Gal, on Victor. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | | The day after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed "deep regret" but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the simulated Martian invasion was real. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1942 | * | One of the great wartime radio shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the wartime programs. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip make American TV debut on NBC. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1953 | * | NBC televised Carmen on Opera Theatre -- in living color. It was the first major opera televised in anything other than black and white. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles & their fans at London Airport. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | The Supremes Baby Love was the number one single (for four weeks), while Barbra Streisand’s People was #1 on U.S. album charts (for five weeks). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Curtis Mayfield received a gold record for Freddie’s Dead from the flick, Superfly. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Caribbean Queen became a gold record for Billy Ocean. It was Ocean’s second hit song and the only one of his 11 hits to become a million-seller. He would have two other #1 songs and a pair of #2 hits, but none as big as Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run). Billy’s from Trinidad, you know. His real name: Leslie Sebastian Charles. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | | For the first time, Universal Studios in Hollywood opened at night -- to give fans a scare. Halloween Horror Night included Dracula, the Mummy, King Kong, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wolfman, and Rick Dees. Scary! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1620 | * | John Evelyn British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1632 | * | Jan Vermeer Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1705 | * | Giovanni Vincenzo Ganganelli (later Pope Clement XIV) is born. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1740 | * | (Declaration of Independence) William Paca, judge, American signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Abingdon, MD. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1795 | * | John Keats London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1802 | * | Benoit Fourneyron, inventor of the water turbine, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1815 | * | Karl Weierstrass Germany, mathematician (theory of functions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1828 | * | Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, English physicist and chemist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1847 | * | Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1860 | * | Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of Girl Scouts of America, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1860 | * | (Prohibition) Andrew Volstead, American Congressman from Minnesota (1903-23); introduced National Prohibition Act, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1870 | * | Birth of Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Scottish theologian. Teaching systematics at Edinburgh 1904-35, Mackintosh had a firm grasp of the German theological writers of his day and sought to make their teachings known in Britain, for which he was unfairly judged a liberal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Eugene Meyer, American publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1886 | * | Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province, China, president of Nationalist China, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1887 | * | Edouard Lalonde Canada, NHLer (Mont Candiens)/lacrosse player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Sir George Hubert Wilkins Aust, polar explorer (Flying the Arctic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Sara Allgood Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Ethel Waters, actress and blues singer, is born in Chester PA. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1897 | * | Wilbur (Pete) Henry NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Ethel Waters, American jazz and blues singer and film actress, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1902 | * | Willie Shaw race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, journalist and short story writer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1902 | * | Eduard Franz Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Zorro), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Louise Talma Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | | Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1912 | * | Dale Evans (Frances Butts) singer, songwriter: Happy Trails to You; actress: The Roy Rogers Show, Roy Rogers movies; wife of ‘King of the Cowboys’ Roy Rogers; is born in Uvalde TX. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | William H. McNeil, historian (The Rise of the West), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1920 | * | Dick Francis Wales, jockey/novelist (Whip Hand, High Stakes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Barbara Bel Geddes NYC, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Illinois (Battiste) Jacquet, musician: tenor saxophone: Flyin’ Home, I Didn’t Know About You; played with Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Count Basie; in film: Jammin’ the Blues, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Hicks B Waldron Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Dee (Virgil) Fondy baseball: Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Redlegs; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Charles Moore, influential post-modern architect, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | Shirley Dinsdale SF CA, ventriloquist (Judy Splinters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Lee Grant [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal], NYC, actress (Shampoo, Landlord), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Anita Kerr musician: piano, singer, record producer: group: The Anita Kerr Singers: The Sea, The Earth; Mexicali Singers; Anita & Th’ So-And-So’s: Joey Baby; composer: The Sky [w/poet, Rod McKuen and The San Sebastian Strings], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Andrew Sarris movie critic (Village Voice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Michael Collins, Major General, NASA astronaut: Apollo 11 command module pilot on first moon landing mission [he remained in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on lunar surface]; author: Apollo 11 First Moon Landing [Countdown to Space], is born in Rome Italy. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1930 | | Lee Grant is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1931 | * | Dan (Irvin) Rather Jr. Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: The Watergate Affair [1972-73], The Agnew Resignation [10/10/73]; The CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Phil Goyette hockey: NHL: Montreal Royals, NY Rangers, SL Blues, Buffalo Sabres, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz) actor: Bonanza, Sam’s Son, The Loneliest Runner, I was a Teenage Werewolf, God’s Little Acre; actor, writer, producer, director: Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven; screen play writer, director: Sam’s Son, Killing Stone; Television Hall of Famer [1996]; is born in Forest Hills NY. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1937 | * | Tom Paxton folk singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Dave (Arthur) McNally baseball: pitcher: Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1969, 1970, 1972/World Series: 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971], Montreal Expos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | David Ogden Stiers actor: The Accidental Tourist, Harry’s War, Oh, God!, M*A*S*H (Charles Emerson Winchester III), North and South, Doc, is born in Peoria IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Brian Piccolo football: Chicago Bears RB; subject of movie: Brian’s Song; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Sally Kirkland NYC, actress (Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Kinky (Richard) Friedman singer, bandleader: Texas Jewboys: Let Saigons be Bygones, We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You, They Ain’t Making Jews like Jesus Anymore, Asshole from El Paso, is born in Palestine TX. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Russ Ballard singer, songwriter: musician: guitar: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; Roulettes, Unit 4+2, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Frank Shorter National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: gold medalist: marathon [1972], silver medalist [1976]; Sullivan Award [1972]; founded company: designs & manufactures running apparel; TV sports commentator, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Deidre Hall, actress (Days of our Life, Our House), is born in Milwaukee WI. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1948 | * | Mickey (John Milton) Rivers baseball: California Angels, NY Yankees [World Series: 1976, 1977, 1978/all-star: 1976/holds individual career record for batting average in league championship series: .386 (1976-78): 22 hits in 57 at-bats in 14 games], Texas Rangers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Terrence W Wilcutt Russellville Ky, Major USMC/astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Jane Pauley TV host: Today, Real Life with Jane Pauley; news anchor: NBC Weekend News, Dateline NBC; married to cartoonist, Gary Trudeau is born in Indianapolis IN. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | John Candy Ontario Canada, comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Lynda Goodfriend actress: Who’s Watching the Kids, Happy Days, Blansky’s Beauties, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Dan Spring hockey: Dallas Black Hawks, Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers, Cranbrook Royals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Bernard Edwards musician: bass: group: Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance, Le Freak, Everybody Dance, I Want Your Love, Good Times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Joe West baseball: umpire, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | John Lucas NBA guard (Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Xavier Roberts toy mogul: created Cabbage Patch Dolls, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Tony Bowers musician: bass: group: Simply Red: Money’s Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Reza Pahlavi Iran, son of Shah of Iran, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Larry Mullen Jr. Grammy Award-winning musician: drums: group: U2, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Rob Schneider actor: Saturday Night Live, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Johnny Marr musician: guitar: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, This Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, William, It Was Really Nothing, Reel Around the Fountain, Suffer Little Children, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Fred (Frederick Stanley) McGriff baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [1989 AL Home Run Champion], San Diego Padres [all-star: 1992], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1994, 1995, 1996], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Dermot Mulroney actor: Longtime Companions, Young Guns, My Best Friend's Wedding, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Amanda Sandrelli Rome Italy, actress (The Key), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Annabella Lwin (Myant Aye) singer: group: Bow Wow Wow, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Ad-Rock [Adam Horowitz], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), son of playwright Israel Horowitz, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) singer: Ice Ice Baby; first rap singer to have a #1 song on the Billboard singles chart, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Mike O’Malley actor: Yes, Dear, Deep Impact, Pushing Tin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1147 | | Robert, Earl of Gloucester dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1723 | * | Cosimo III, Italian 6th duke of Tuscany, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1759 | * | Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundreds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | A mob of about 200 attacks a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | * | William Parson 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Dan Leno, English entertainer, dies at age 43. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1918 | * | Count Stephen Tisza Hungarian PM assassinated by soldiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1928 | * | Albert Bartholom, French sculptor, dies at age 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage and screen director, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1961 | * | Augustus John, Welsh artist, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1963 | * | Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (IN). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Henry Daniell actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Theodore C Freeman astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Rita Johnson actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | The remains of nuclear-powered US submarine "Scorpion,' are found. It was last heard from on May 21st. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1968 | | Ramon Novarro murdered | Ref: 10 |
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| 1974 | * | Bundy victim (?) Laura Aime disappears in Utah. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Joseph Calleia actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | George Halas [Papa Bear], Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears owner/coach: 40 seasons, seven NFL titles, 324 coaching wins; pioneer of the National Football League: only person associated with NFL throughout first 50 years; dies at age 88. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1984 | * | Indira Gandhi (Nehru) Prime Minister of India [1966-1977 and 1980-84] is assassinated by her security guards, two Sikh men. Her position as prime minister was filled by her son, Rajiv. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Joseph Campbell, American editor and author of many works on mythology, dies at age 83. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1988 | * | John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann) Academy Award-winning actor: The Paper Chase [1973]; Seven Days in May, Three Days of the Condor, The Winds of War, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad; dies of spinal cancer at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Carl (Robert) Belew country singer: Welcome Back to My World, songwriter: Am I That Easy to Forget?, Stop the World and Let Me Off, Lonely Street, What’s He Doing in My World?; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | Joseph Papp (Papirofsky) Pulitzer Prize-winning [3] producer; also winner of 28 Tony awards and 6 NY Critics Circle Awards; over 400 productions including: Hair, A Chorus Line, Two Gentlemen of Verona, That Championship Season; dies of cancer at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | Theatrical producer Joseph Papp died in New York at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1992 | * | It was announced that five American nuns in Liberia had been shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | River Phoenix, actor, at age 23 in Los Angeles CA of a drug overdose. (TWA, 1995) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1993 | * | Federico Fellini director, screenwriter: Oscar-winning Best foreign-language [Italian] films: La Strada [1956], The Nights of Cabiria [1957], 8 1/2 [1963], Amarcord [1974]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | A Chicago-bound American Eagle ATR-72 crashed in northern IN, killing all 68 people aboard. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1995 | * | Rosalind Cash Atlantic City NJ, actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right), dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | EgyptAir flight 990, a Cairo-bound Boeing 767-300ER with 217 people aboard, crashes at 1:52 a.m, less than an hour after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. (2 Nov 1999) | Ref: 9 |
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| 2000 | * | Oscar-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. died at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Art Wall Jr. golf champion: Masters [1959]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | A 61-year-old NY hospital worker became the fourth person to die from inhalation anthrax. The source of the anthrax remains unknown, though authorities suspect she came into contact with contaminated mail. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Raf (Raffaele) Vallone actor: The Godfather, Part 3, Harlow, El Cid, Bitter Rice, Obsession; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2003 | * | Richard Neustadt, presidential advisor and historian who helped found the Kennedy School of Government, dies at age 84 in England. (WSJ, p A1, 11/03/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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