| 1095 | * | Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200 bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a pilgrimage to Jerusalem made every other penance superfluous. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1105 | * | Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester IV. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1210 | * | Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1302 | * | (or 19th) Pope Boniface VIII published the bull "Unam Sanctam." It was the first papal writing to decree that spiritual power took precedent over temporal power, and that subjection to the pope was necessary to salvation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1307 | | The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young son’s noggin is said to have taken place on this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1518 | * | Cortez leaves Cuba for Mexico with 10 armed vessels. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1626 | * | In Rome, the newly completed St Peter's Basilica was consecrated by Urban VIII. St. Peter's is presently the largest church in Christendom, with a length of 619 feet. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1755 | * | The worst quake in the Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths are reported. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1787 | * | First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1840 | * | The last boatload of British convicts land in Australia. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1850 | * | Ellen Elizabeth Quinn and John "Red" Kelly are married in in St. Francis's Church, Melbourne by Fr. Gerald Ward. They will become the parents of Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly. Ref | |
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| 1872 | * | Susan B. Anthony is arrested at her home and charged with "illegal voting." | Ref: 87 |
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| 1874 | * | The National Women's Christian Temperance Union is started in Cleveland, Ohio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | Standard time in time zones is instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads. Previously there were over 300 local times in the USA. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1889 | * | Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Battleship U.S.S. Maine launched. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1901 | * | The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1903 | * | The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed, granting the United States a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama and the right to build and fortify the Panama Canal. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1905 | * | The Norwegian Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles takes the name Haakon VII. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | * | Anarchists bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1912 | * | Albania declares independence from Turkey. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | Latvia declares independence from Russia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | | Ticker tape was first used in a parade to welcome the Prince of Wales to New York City. Ticker tape came from Wall Street, you know. Rolls of paper were used to record stock trades long before computers were invented. As the paper rolled over pins that punched stock information read by stock brokers, it would leave holes. When a big parade was organized, the shredded tape was scooped up and thrown out of windows on the marchers below. We now call the stuff confetti, since ticker tape isn't used anymore. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | Pope Pius XI encyclical On the persecution of the Church in Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | | Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1936 | * | The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1939 | * | The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Picadilly Circus. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Alben W. Barkley married Elizabeth J. Rucker in St. Louis. It was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1949 | * | Alben W. Barkley married Jane Rucker Hadley in St. Louis. It was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1958 | | First true reservoir in Jerusalem opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | First Touch-Tone telephone with ten push buttons goes into service in Pennsylvania. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1964 | * | J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as a "most notorious liar". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | American Stock Exchange admits women members for the first time. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1966 | * | This was the last required meatless Friday for American Roman Catholics, in accordance with a decree made by Pope Paul VI earlier this year. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | British government devalues œ from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | (Manson) Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi is assigned the Tate-LaBianca case. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1970 | * | Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling declared that large doses of Vitamin C could ward off the common cold. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak 58 games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | | Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1977 | * | Microsoft announces the termination of an exclusive license to MITS, Inc. for Microsoft's BASIC product. BASIC has been the subject of an extended legal dispute between the two companies. | |
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| 1983 | * | Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1984 | * | The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1987 | * | The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | * | President Reagan signed legislation creating a Cabinet-level drug czar and providing the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1990 | * | Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and educator Thomas Sutherland. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | The US House of Representatives joined the Senate in approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities and staff. (XDG, p 4A, 11/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 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. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | House Republicans endorse US Representative Bob Livingston of Louisiana to be their next speaker, succeeding Newt Gingrich. (However, Livingston later resigned from the House before he could take over the speakership after admitting to marital infidelities.) (XDG, p 4A, 11/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | * | A jury in Jasper, TX, convicted Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., but spared him the death penalty. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Phillips Petroleum Co. and Conoco Inc. announced they were merging in a deal that created the third-largest U.S. oil and gas company. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Weapons inspectors arrive in Iraq after a 4-year absence. (USA Today, p11A, 11/19/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | Charles Wang, Computer Associates founder, resigns as chairman of that company. (USA Today, p 1B, 11/19/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | (I-270 Sniper) A woman is driving a Ford Explorer around 9:30PM on US 23 north of Rathmell Rd when a bullet strikes the driver's side door. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | John Hinckley Jr, who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, has asked US District Judge Paul L Friedman to permit unsupervised, overnight visits to his parents home in Williamsburg VA, 300 miles from St Elizabeth Hospital in Washington DC, where he is currently confined. (XDG, p 5A, 11/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1497 | * | Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | * | Captain Nathaniel Palmer, aboard the Hero, a forty-four-foot sloop, becomes the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1822 | * | A steam locomotive, by George Stephenson, takes to the road for the first time. Ref | |
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| 1911 | * | Britain's first seaplane flies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | The Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1970 | * | Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2003 | * | (actual date unstated) Scientists at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research organization announce the discovery of a tetraquark (a 4-quark combination) after finding a pentaquark (a 5-quark combination) in July, 2003. The significance of these sub-atomic particles is not yet understood. (USA Today, p 7D, 11/18/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1738 | | Treaty of Vienna terminates War of the Polish succession. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1776 | * | Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | | Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1909 | * | US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | The end of The Battle of the Somme results in an estimated one million casualties and no breakthrough for the Allies. The battle began on July 1. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1918 | * | Wilson announces that he will attend peace conference personally. | |
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| 1936 | * | Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa. | Ref: 26 |
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| 1943 | * | 444 heavy British bombers attack Berlin, Germany, in the first attack of the Battle of Berlin. Nine British planes are lost. | |
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| 1886 | * | Pittsburgh leaves the American Association to join the National League. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1914 | * | The Cubs name Roger Bresnahan to manage the team. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1921 | | Washington, DC hosted the first international fencing championships held in America. The competition with light swords was sponsored by the Racquet Club. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Heisman Trophy winner halfback Nile Knnick of Iowa throws 2 TD passes, kicks an extra point and intercepts a pass in a 13-9 win over Minnesota.(Sports Illustrated, 11/19/2001) | |
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| 1947 | * | The Browns trade All-Star shortstop Vern Stephens and pitcher Jack Kramer to the Red Sox for six players and $310,000. The dealing will continue tomorrow as Ellis Kinder and Billy Hitchcock also go to Boston in exchange for three more St. Louis players and $65,000 making the total number of players traded 13 (4 Browns, 9 Red Sox) with $375,000 going to the cash deprived Browns. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1949 | * | Jackie Robinson (.342, 16, 124) becomes the first black player to win the MVP Award. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1951 | * | Wanting to stay in California, PCL LA Angels first baseman Chuck Connors becomes the first player to refuse to participate in the ML draft; the former Cub first baseman and future star of the TV series The Rifleman refusal allows the minor league to ask for more money for ML talent. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1954 | * | The A's hire Lou Boudreau as manager replacing Eddie Joost who is given his unconditional release. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1954 | * | Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | The A's announce Bob Elliott will replace Harry Craft as the team's manager. 'Wildfire' compiled a 162-196 (.453) during his three-year tenure in Kansas City. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1966 | * | The Mets name former Giant catcher Wes Westrum as the team's second manager in the franchise's brief history. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1966 | * | After posting a 27-9 record with a 1.73 ERA, Dodger great Sandy Koufax unexpectedly retires. The Brooklyn native cites the fear of permanent damage of his arthritic elbow as the reason. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | Light-heavyweight champion Bob Foster is KO'd by heavyweight champion Joe Frazier in the second round. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1976 | * | Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | After batting nearly .400 all season, Royal third baseman George Brett (.390, 24, 118) is named AL MVP. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | Dick Williams is named manager of the San Diego Padres, replacing Frank Howard. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1984 | * | Devils shutout Rangers 6-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Roger Clemens was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. He was the first American League starter to be so named in 15 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Bobby Witt, Texas Rangers, strikes out 4 batters in the 2nd inning. (Sporting News Complete Baseball Record Book, 2002, ISBN 0-89204-668-0) | |
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| 1987 | * | Cub outfielder Andre Dawson (.287, 49, 137) becomes the first player to win the MVP award as a member of a last place club. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Dick Williams replaces Frank Howard as manager of the last place Padres. Williams has won three pennants and two World Series in last 14 years as a major league skipper. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1990 | * | NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | The Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays begin taking shape with 35 selections apiece in baseball’s expansion draft. Both the Diamondbacks and Devil Rays began their baseball lives with sufficient funds to contend quickly. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | For the second time in three seasons, Juan Gonzalez is voted the AL Most Valuable Player becoming the first Latin American native to win two MVP awards. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox ( 23-4 with a 2.07 ERA) became only the fourth pitcher to win the American League Cy Young award unanimously and joined Gaylord Perry and Randy Johnson as the only pitchers to win the honor in each league. | Ref: 9 |
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| 1999 | * | Texas Ranger Ivan Rodriguez wins the 1999 BBWAA A.L. Most Valuable Player Award. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | The Mariners sign Orix Blue Wave's Ichiro Suzuki to a three-year deal making him the first Japanese position player in major league history. Although terms of the contract were not disclosed, Seattle agrees to pay $13 million to his former team for the right to negotiate with Japan's best hitter. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Lennox Lewis KOs Hasim Rahman to regain world heavyweight title winning $12 million. | Ref: 10 |
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| 2003 | * | Barry Bonds (.345, 45, 90) wins his 6th National League MVP Award (a record) and the first play to capture the honor in three consecutive years. (XDG, p 3B, 11/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1477 | * | William Claxton publishes the first dated book printed in England. It is a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosopers, by Earl Rivers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | | Mark Twain's first story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the NY Saturday Press. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1866 | * | English devotional writer Katherine Hankey, 32, penned the verses that we sing today as the hymn, "I Love to Tell the Story." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus (guidelines for biblical research) | Ref: 69 |
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| 1894 | * | The New York World publishes the first regular Sunday color comic section. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | The opera "Lobetanz" first American performance. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Amelita Galli-Curci makes U.S. debut in "Lucia" in Chicago. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1928 | * | Walt Disney debuted his talking, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theatre in NY. The short film featured a character who had been named Mortimer. Walt changed the name to Mickey Mouse. Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | For the first time, a tie occurred for the Best Actor Academy Award. Wallace Beery and Fredric March were only one vote apart so the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled it a tie. Both received an Oscar at the Fifth Annual Academy Awards, March for his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beery for his role in The Champ. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, opened in NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | On this, a Sunday afternoon, Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly launched one of the most highly-praised TV productions in history. See It Now debuted on CBS. On that first program, Murrow showed a live camera shot of the Atlantic Ocean, followed by a live shot of the Pacific, then he said, “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 moved into an evening time slot. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | "Ben-Hur," the Biblical-era spectacle starring Charlton Heston, premiers in New York. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1967 | * | Lulu's To Sir with Love, from the movie of the same name, started its fifth and final week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (November 3, 1948). She changed her name to Lulu (and The Luvvers) in Scotland, early in her career. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Frank Sinatra emerged from retirement to do a TV special with dancer Gene Kelly. The show was a smash hit and revived Sinatra’s career. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | John Denver received a gold record for I'm Sorry. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | | "Heaven's Gate" premiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | For the first time since his departure from his own late-night TV show, Jack Paar was a guest of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. One of TV’s great lines came from the show, when Carson quipped (after one of Paar’s long, long spiels), “Why is it that I feel I’m guesting on your show?” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | The Roseland Ballroom reopened in NY City. The 67-year-old home for those wanting to dance cheek to cheek featured America’s dean of society music, Lester Lanin. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for record $1.6 million at Rhode Island auction. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1993 | | WWF boss Vince McMahon is charged with steroid distribution. | Ref: 26 |
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| 1994 | * | "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres. | Ref: 26 |
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| 1997 | | Two Willem de Kooning paintings topped the lots at Christie’s blue-chip contemporary sale in NY City. Two Standing Women (1949), sold for $4,182,500 and Woman (Blue Eyes) (1953), which went for about $2 million. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1786 | * | Carl Weber composer: Der Freischutz, Euryanthem Oberon, Invitation to the Dance; began the era of German romantic music; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1789 | * | Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1810 | * | Asa Gray Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1832 | * | Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold Sweden, Arctic explorer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1836 | * | Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, comic opera libretto writer: team: Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1836 | * | Maximo Gomez Banff, general (Cuba), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1860 | * | Ignace Jan Paderewski composer: musician: piano: Minuet in G; Polish patriot: first Premier of Poland [1919]; brought white Zinfandel wine grapes to U.S. for the first time; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1869 | * | James E Sullivan founder (Amateur Athletic Union), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Dorthea Dix, pseudonym for Elizabeth Gilman, who wrote syndicated advice, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1874 | * | Clarence Shepard Day NYC, writer (Life with Father), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Percy Lesueur hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Jacques Maritain France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Wyndham Lewis English writer/painter (Tarr, Apes of God), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Amelita Galli-Curci opera soprano: "If not the greatest coloratura soprano of all time, she must surely be recognized as among the world?s finest examples of true operatic artistry", is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1889 | * | Amelita Galli-Curci Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Gio Ponti, Italian architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1897 | * | Patrick Blackett, English physicist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1897 | * | Jules Buffano St Louis MO, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Joris Ivens Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Music conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra), Eugene Ormandy is born in Budapest, Hungary. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Dr. Howard Thurman, theologian and first African American to hold a full-time position at Boston University, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1900 | * | Constantin Alajalov Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Craig Wood golf champion: PGA Hall of Famer: Masters [1941], U.S. Open [1941: he had entered 15 times before the win], is born in Jefferson IA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | George (Horace) Gallup pollster whose opinion polls became famous by predicting FDR's win in 1936; is born in Jefferson IA. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1906 | * | George Wald, American chemist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1908 | * | Imogene Coca Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Your Show of Shows [1951]; Sid Caesar Invites You, It?s about Time, Grindl, Admiral Broadway Revue, National Lampoon?s Vacation; is born in Philadelphia PA. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1909 | * | Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I?m An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs; is born in Savannah GA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Arthur Peterson Mandan ND, actor (Major-Soap, Crisis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Jocelyn Brando San Francisco, actress (Ugly American), sister of Marlon Brando, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Peter Pocklington NHL team owner (Edmonton Oilers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Marjorie Gestring US, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1936), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3: first American astronaut to travel in space, Ap 14), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Ted Stevens (Sen-R-Alaska), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Gene (William) ‘Skip’ Mauch, Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, SL Cardinals, Boston Red Sox; manager: Philadelphia Phillies, LA Angels, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Roy (Roy Edward) 'Squirrel' Sievers baseball: SL Browns: [Rookie of the Year: 1949], Washington Nationals [all-star: 1956], Washington Senators [all-star: 1957, 1959], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1961], Philadelphia Phillies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) singer: My Boy Flattop, Your Hit Parade, sang with Benny Goodman band; actress: Follies; is born in Windsor Ontario. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | William (Pete) Knight X-15 pilot, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Sonja Ruthstrom Swed, cross country relay skier (Olympic-gold-1960), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Roberto Goizueta businessman: CEO of Coca-Cola Company; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Hank Ballard Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, songwriter: group: The Midniters: The Twist, Finger Poppin' Time, Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, Work with Me Annie, Sexy Ways, Annie Had a Baby, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Karl Schranz Austria, slalom (Olympic-1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Brenda Vaccaro Emmy Award-winning actress: The Shape of Things [1973-74]; Once is Not Enough, Cactus Flower, The Goodbye People, How Now Dow Jones, Midnight Cowboy, Airport ’77, Ten Little Indians, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer (The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | Gary Bettenhausen auto racer: fastest Indy 500 qualifying time ever: 224.468 mph [1991] | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | David Hemmings actor: The Deadly Game, Islands in the Stream, The Old Curiosity Shop, Blow Up, Charge of the Light Brigade, Camelot, Barbarella, L.A. Law, is born in England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Linda Evans (Evanstad) actress: Dynasty, The Big Valley, Standing Tall, Hunter, North and South, Book II, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago IL, pianist (Chicago Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Susan Sullivan NYC, actress (Having Babies, Falcon Crest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Susan Sullivan actress: It's a Living, Falcon Crest, Rich Man Poor Man Book II, Having Babies, The George Carlin Show, The Dark Ride, The Incredible Hulk, Deadman's Curve; commercial spokesperson: Tylenol, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Glen Walken Astoria Queens, actor (Leave it to Larry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Jameson Parker actor: Simon and Simon, Curse of the Crystal Eye, Prince of Darkness, American Justice, A Small Circle of Friends, The Gathering: Part 2, Anatomy of a Seduction, is born in Baltimore MD. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Andrea Marcovicci actress: Trapper John, M.D., Berrenger's, Jack the Bear, The Water Engine, The Stuff, Kings and Desperate Men, The Concorde: Airport '79, The Devil's Web, is born in New York City. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Jack Tatum football: Oakland Raiders safety: longest fumble return in history: 104 yards [1972, against the Green Bay Packers]; Super Bowl XI, is born in Cherryville NC. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Ted Sator Utica NY, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Graham Parker singer: group: Graham Parker and The Rumour: Between You and Me, Back to Schooldays, Hey Lord Don?t Ask Me Questions, Discovering Japan, Local Girls, Passion is No Ordinary Word, Stupefaction, The Beating of Another Heart; solo: LPs: Another Grey Area, The Real Macaw, Steady Nerves, The Mona Lisa's Sister, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Elizabeth Perkins actress (About Last Night, Big), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Mark N Brown Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, STS 48), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Kevin Nealon actor: Saturday Night Live, All I Want for Christmas, Roxanne, Champs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Herman Rarebell musician: drums: group: Scorpions: LPs: Taken by Force, Tokyo Tapes, Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | -Katey Sagal, singer/actress (Peggy Bundy-Married With Children), is born. | Ref: 26 |
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| 1956 | * | Warren Moon football: QB: Univ. of Washington [1978 Rose Bowl MVP]; Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, KC Chiefs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Tony Franklin NFL kicker (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Jenny Burton NYC, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Kim Wilde England, rocker (You Keep Me Hanging On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Elizabeth Perkins actress: Moonlight and Valentino, Miracle on 34th Street, The Flintstones, Indian Summer, He Said, She Said, Avalon, Big, About Last Night…, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Janice Lynn Kuehnemund St Paul MN, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Kirk Hammett musician: guitar: group: Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Gwendolyn Hajek Shreveport La, playmate (September, 1987), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Gary (Antonian) Sheffield baseball: Milwaukee Brewers, Sdiego Padres [all-star: 1992], Florida Marlins [all-star: 1993, 1996]; nephew of baseball all-star Dwight Gooden, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Cheryl Bachman Jacksonville FL, playmate (October, 1991), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Peta Wilson actress: La Femme Nikita, Naked Jane, Vanishing Point, Other People, Joe and Max, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Steve Christopher Petree OK, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1189 | | King William the Good of Sicily dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1421 | * | The Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1727 | * | An earthquate kills 77,000 in Tabriz, Iran. | Ref: 85 |
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| 1804 | * | Philip John Schuyler, American soldier and politician, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1886 | * | Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, died in NY at age 56. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1896 | * | Richard Avenarius, German philosopher, dies at age 52. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1922 | * | Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), dies at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1946 | * | (James J.) Jimmy Walker politician: NY City mayor [1926-1932]; dies at age 65. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Donald Meek Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Frank Baldwin Jewett, American engineer; first president of Bell Laboratories (1925-40), dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1962 | * | Niels Bohr Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922), dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1965 | * | Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948), dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1966 | * | Jean Peugeot, French automobile manufacturer, dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Joseph P. Kennedy US Ambassador to Great Britain; father of US President John F. Kennedy, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and US Attorney General Robert Kennedy; dies at age 81. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1969 | * | Ted (Edward) Heath musician: trombone, bandleader: played big band concerts every Sunday at the Palladium in the 1940s and 1950s; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Hal Dickinson singer (Modernaires), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Man Ray, American photographer, painter and filmmaker, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1977 | * | Teddi King singer: Mr. Wonderful; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | California Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four other people were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by 912 cult members, including the cult leader, 47-year old Jim Jones. (TWA, 1980) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1982 | * | Donald Dillaway actor, dies at 78 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Dorothy Kirsten, American opera singer, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1994 | * | Cab Calloway (Cabell Calloway III) ‘Highness of Hi-De-Ho’: bandleader, singer: Minnie the Moocher, Blues in the Night; films: Stormy Weather, St. Louis Blues; The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz; dies in Hockessin, Del., at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Michael Somes, English ballet dancer, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | Charlie (Charles Lenard) Neal baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1956], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959/all-star: 1960], NY Mets, Cincinnati Reds; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Twelve people were killed when a bonfire under construction at TX A&M University collapsed. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1999 | * | Doug Sahm singer: group: founded Sir Douglas Quintet: She’s about a Mover; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Twelve people were killed when a bonfire under construction at Texas A&M University collapsed. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Actor James Coburn dies in his in Beverly Hills of a heart attack at age 74. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/19/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | Ken Brett, brother of George Brett and the youngest pitcher to appear in a World Series (in 1967 at age 19 yrs 1 mo, he pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the Boston Red Sox against the St Louis Cardinals), dies of brain cancer at age 55. | Ref: 13 |
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