| 365 | * | Felix II ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 498 | * | St Symmachus begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1220 | * | After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1542 | * | New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement.
New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1633 | * | Irish Catholic Cecil Calvert, 27, sent two ships (the Ark and the Dove) from Ireland to establish a colony in America as a refuge for fellow Catholics. His work later earned Lord Calvert the nickname, "Colonizer of Maryland." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1806 | * | President Jefferson publicly announces that an illegal military operation, involving a planned attack on the dominions of Spain, is afoot in the western states. He asks that participants in the scheme by apprehended and brought to justice. Burr's name is not mentioned in the proclamation. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1842 | * | Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | Austin College was chartered in TX at Huntsville under Presbyterian sponsorship. In 1876 the school campus was moved to Sherman, TX. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | | Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated under laws of the State of New Jersey. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in NY. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | | Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in Germany voted to use SOS (...---...) as the letters for the new international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in 1908. Its meaning? No, not “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” as many believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally, how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They’re named after a patented process, Soap on Steel. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1909 | * | The "Uprising of the 20,000." Female garment workers went on strike in New York; many were arrested. A judge told those arrested: "You are on strike against God." | Ref: 59 |
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| 1909 | * | The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes. | Ref: 46 |
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| 1919 | * | A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1922 | * | Library Ave in the Bronx named. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | England orders Egyptians out of Sudan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | British King George is confined to bed with a congested lung; the queen is to take over duties. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Lebanon gains its independence | Ref: 62 |
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| 1946 | | First biro ballpoint pen goes on sale in England. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1948 | * | Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1967 | * | Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1973 | * | Great Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | * | Two days after the death of General Francisco Franco, the dictator of Spain since 1936, Juan Carlos is sworn in as the firstruling monarch of Spain in more than forty years. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1980 | | Eighteen Communist Party secretaries in 49 provinces are ousted from Poland. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1980 | * | Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | President Ronald Reagan calls for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1985 | * | The largest swearing-in ceremony took place as 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States after six days of rallies around the country. Chrysler Corporation’s Lee Iacocca helped preside over the event. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Justice Department finds memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North's office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1989 | * | Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher failed to win reelection as leader of the Conservative Party (over differences on European Community policy) and announced her resignation after eleven years in office. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | | In an attempt to break a deadlock, the Bush administration proposed that Middle East peace talks resume in Washington, D.C. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1991 | * | Egypt’s Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt for Foreign Affairs, was chosen to be United Nations Secretary-General. Ghali was both the first Arab and the first African to hold the post. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | | Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approves the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). (XDG, p 4A, 11/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1996 | * | (OJ Simpson) Simpson testifies before a jury for the first time. He denies killing Goldman or his former wife, but cannot explain the physical evidence against him. | Ref: 87 |
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| 2000 | * | Amid the Florida recount battle, Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney was hospitalized with what doctors called a "very slight" heart attack. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Fairbank Farms, Ashville NY, recalls 320K lbs of ground beef products for fear of e.coli contamination. (WSJ, p D2, 7/02/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2002 | * | At a NATO summit in Prague, Russian President Vladmir Putin told President Bush the United States should not wage war against Iraq alone, and questioned whether Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were doing enough to fight terrorism. (XDG, p 4A, 11/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1497 | * | Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1809 | * | Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Electric motor patented (M. Pfatischer). | Ref: 51 |
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| 1910 | * | Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, NY patented the steel shaft. Not a big shaft, actually, but one to replace the less durable hickory wood shafts used to that time -- in golf clubs. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin, is granted the first patent for a snowmobile design. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1932 | * | Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | The first transpacific airmail flight left San Francisco with over 20,000 folks waving good-bye. The China Clipper began its 8,000-mile journey with 110,865 letters on board, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick. The Pan American Martin 130 took off from San Francisco. 59 hours and 48 minutes later, it landed at Manila in the Philippines. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Regular passenger service between NY and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, TX. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | In the presence of members of Congress and the media, the B-2 "stealth" bomber is shown publicly for the first time at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1989 | * | US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1757 | | The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War.
The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | The Anglo-Indian army, led by British General Sir Charles Townshend, attacks a larger Turkish force under General Nur-ud-Din at Ctesiphon, Iraq, but is repulsed. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | 1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and Mongolians in China. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1942 | * | Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | At the beginning of a five-day Allied conference in Cairo, Egypt, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet with General Chiang Kai-shek of China to discuss strategy in the war against Japan. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1944 | * | In Canada, the Army High Command threatens to resign if the government does not impose conscription to send soldiers into overseas battle. In a cabinet meeting Prime Minister King announces that the request for volunteers for overseas duty had failed. With a risk of District Officers Commanding threatening to resign, the only option left was mandatory conscription. The cabinet agrees to set a limit of 16,000 troops. Defence Minister McNaughton recommends to Cabinet that 16,000 conscripted soldiers be sent to fight in Europe. | |
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| 1990 | * | George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | The Philadelphia Athletics are expelled from the AA for violating the league's constitution; a new team is placed in Philly with new franchises awarded to Boston, Washington and Chicago. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1908 | * | In the first game between a Japanese and an American professional team, the Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda University in Tokoyo, 5-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1917 | * | National Hockey Association disbands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, TorontArenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | First US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Charley Gelbert shatters his leg in a hunting accident. The Cardinals' shortstop will return as a part-time infielder in 1935 playing until 1940. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1934 | * | The Cubs trade Guy Bush, Jim Weaver, and Babe Herman to the Pirates for Larry French and Fred Linstrom. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1945 | * | Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | This was a slow night in the NBA. The lowest score recorded in the National Basketball Association was posted. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later Detroit Pistons) whipped the tar out of the hometown Minneapolis Lakers (later Los Angeles Lakers) by the score of 19-18. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Philadelphia A's pitcher Harry Byrd (15-15, 3.31) is selected as the American League's Rookie of the Year. The Darlington, South Carolina native will be the last A to win the award until Jose Canseco cops the award in 1986. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1954 | * | The Pirates purchase the contract of Roberto Clemente from Montreal, the Dodger's AAA farm club. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1956 | * | Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | After 36 major league seasons, Larry Goetz is unwillingly 'retired' as a NL umpire. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1957 | * | In a controversial vote, Yankee Mickey Mantle edges out Red Sox superstar Ted Williams to win the American League MVP. In spite of the 'Splendid Splinter' leading the league with a .388 average and 38 HRs, as well as a stunning .731 slugging average, two Chicago writers still list him in the ninth and tenth places on their ballots | Ref: 1 |
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| 1959 | * | Boston (Patriots), owned by William H. Sullivan, becomes the eighth franchise of the American Football League. Ref | |
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| 1959 | * | The first AFL draft, lasting 33 rounds, is held. Ref | |
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| 1959 | * | NY Titans (AFL) first draft choice (George Izo, QB, Notre Dame). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | AL proposes MLB expand to nine teams in both leagues with interleague play; if the NL agrees, the AL will delay its plans for a LA franchise. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1961 | * | Frank Robinson becomes the first Red in 21 years to win the National League MVP. The right fielder gets 219 of the 224 possible votes. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1965 | * | Mohammed Ali KO's Floyd Patterson in the 12th round in Las Vegas NV to retain the Heavyweight Boxing title. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1967 | * | Twins' second baseman Rod Carew easily wins the AL Rookie of the Year Award. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1968 | * | Reds' catcher Johnny Bench edges out Met lefty Jerry Koosman to win the National League Rookie of the Year award. The Cincinnatti's backstop is the third Reds' player in six years to win the award. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1969 | * | Nino Benvenuti KO's Luis Rodrigues in the 1st round in Rome, Italy to retain the middleweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1972 | * | Johnny Bench wins his second National League MVP award in the last three years. The runner-up is Cubs' third baseman Billy Williams. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1972 | * | Pittsburgh Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2m7s). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Expo outfielder Andre Dawson (.282, 19, 65) wins the NL Rookie of the Year Award by a single vote over the Mets' Steve Henderson (.297, 12, 65). NY obtained Henderson in the Seaver trade with the Reds. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1978 | * | Second baseman Lou Whitaker (.285, 3, 58) wins the American League Rookie of the Year. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | San Diego Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Steve Sax (.282, 4, 47) becomes the fourth consecutive Dodger to win the National League Rookie of the Year award. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1983 | * | Free-swinger White Sox Ron Kittle (.254 ,35,100) wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award beating out Indian Julio Franco and Oriole Mike Boddicker. The Chicago outfielder struck out a league-leading 150 times. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1984 | * | Mariner first baseman/DH Alvin Davis wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award easily outdistancing his teammate pitcher Mark Langston and Twins' outfielder Kirby Puckett. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1986 | * | Mike Tyson was only 20 years and 4 months old, becoming the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown. He KO's Travor Berbick in the 2nd round in Las Vegas, NV. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Patriots shutout Indpls 24-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Kirby Puckett becomes the first major league player ever to sign a contract that calls for an average salary of $3 million per year when he inks a pact with the Twins for $9 million over three years. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1997 | | After 41 days, one hour and 55 minutes at sea, New Zealanders Rob Hamill and Phil Stubbs rowed triumphantly into the marina at Port St. Charles, Barbados. They had just set a new Atlantic Ocean rowboat record, knocking over 30 days off the previous one, held by Mike Nester and Sean Crowley (set in 1986). Hamill and Phil Stubbs started from Los Gigantes on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) Oct 12. (Stubbs was killed in a plane crash in New Zealand Dec 20, 1998.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | The infield dirt is poured at Tropicana Field (home of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays). | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | By stealing second base, Craig Biggio becomes the first player since Tris Speaker in 1912 to have 50 stolen bases and 50 doubles in the same season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | It was week 12 of the NFL football season as Denver Broncos QB John Elway passed (pun intended) the 50,000-yard career-passing mark. He joined Dan Marino as the only passers to throw for more than 50,000 yards in a career. And Elway threw four touchdowns passes the following week to move into third place on the all-time TD pass list. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | ‘The Great One’, Wayne Gretzky, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. On June 23, 1999 it had been announced that Gretzky would be the tenth, and last, player to have the three-year waiting period waived by the hall-of-fame selection committee “by reason of outstanding pre-eminence and skill.” Gretzky held 61 NHL records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Although offered more money by three other clubs, switch hitting shortstop Jose Valentin elects to stay with the White Sox signing a three-year deal with a fourth-year option worth $5 million a year. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1831 | * | The opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | * | In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city's first operatic theater, opens. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1851 | * | The opera "La Perle Du Brasil" is produced (Paris). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | Lillian Russell makes her vaudeville debut in New York City. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | The opera "Iris" is produced (Rome). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Helen Hayes appeared for the first time on the NY stage. She was a member of the cast of In Old Dutch, which opened at the Herald Square Theatre. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel made its debut in Paris. (XDG, p 4A, 11/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1938 | * | Bunny Berigan and his orchestra waxed Jelly Roll Blues on Victor Records. The tune became a standard for the band. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | The Colgate Comedy Hour becomes the first commercially sponsored color TV program. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1955 | * | RCA paid the unheard of sum of $25,000 to Sam Phillips of Memphis, TN for the rights to the music of a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi: Elvis Presley. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | The Miles Davis Quintet debuted with a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | A Man for All Seasons opened at the ANTA Playhouse in NY City. A Man for All Seasons ran for 637 performances, closing on Jun 1, 1963. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | The production of Man of LaMancha, including the classic The Impossible Dream, opened in NY City for the first of 2,328 performances. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album) in the UK, their only double album. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | First interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura). | Ref: 26 |
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| 1974 | * | Lake Buena Vista Club opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Dr. Zhivago appeared on TV for the first time. The production, including Somewhere My Love, had earned $93 million from theatre tickets over ten years. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts. | Ref: 26 |
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| 1977 | * | Tony Orlando returned to the concert stage after a self-imposed, three-month retirement following the suicide death of his good friend, Freddie Prinze. Orlando appeared in concert in San Carlos, CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Fred Rogers of PBS’ Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood presented a sweater, knitted by his mother, to the Smithsonian Institution as “a symbol of warmth, closeness and caring,” according to museum officials. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1511 | * | Erasmus Reinhold Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1643 | * | Robert La Salle, French explorer of North America, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1710 | * | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1808 | | Thomas Cook is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1819 | * | George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) novelist: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Radical, Daniel Deronda, is born in England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1830 | * | Justin M'Carthy, Irish politician and historian, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1835 | * | Frank C Armstrong Brig Gen (Cavalry Commander under Forrest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Heber J Grant Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1857 | * | George Gissing English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | John Nance Garner "Cactus Jack", Texas, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41, under FDR), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1869 | * | Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Fiction: Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Charles de Gaulle, French general in exile during World War II and president of France from 1958 to 1969, is born in Lille, France. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1898 | * | Wiley Post pioneer aviator, parachutist; co-author: Around the World in Eight Days; killed in plane crash [w/flying companion Will Rogers] August 15, 1935 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1898 | * | Wiley Post Grand Plain TX, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Hoagy (Hoagland Howard) Carmichael, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer: Stardust, Lazybones, Two Sleepy People, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Rockin? Chair, [Up a] Lazy River, One Morning in May, The Nearness of You, Lamplighter?s Serenade, How Little We Know, Memphis in June, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, New Orleans; singer, piano player, band leader, attorney; is born in Bloomington IN. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1899 | * | 35 Wiley Post 11/22/1899 8/15/1935 American aviator; made first solo flight around the world | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Wiley Post pioneer aviator, parachutist; co-author: Around the World in Eight Days; killed in plane crash [w/flying companion Will Rogers], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Joaquin Rodrigo Sagunto, Valencia, Spain, composer (Juglares), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Joe Adonis Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York & New Jersey, is born. (Also 52) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1902 | * | Emanuel Feuermann Kolomea Galicia, cellist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Roland Winters Boston MA, actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | James Burnham philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Lee Patrick NYC, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Dora Maar photographer, model: Picasso’s lover and subject of many paintings; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Mary Jackson Milford MI, actress (Emily-Waltons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Doris Duke NYC, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Benjamin Britten, English composer, pianist and conductor, is born in Lowestoft Suffolk England. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | Lew Hays founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1918 | * | Ray Walston, New Orleans LA, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1918 | * | Claiborne Pell (Sen-D-RI), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1921 | * | Actor, comedian Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) is born in Babylon, NY. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1922 | * | Fikret Dzhamil Amirov Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Arthur Hiller director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Love Story, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, Silver Streak, Taking Care of Business, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Geraldine Page Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985]; The Day of the Locust, Harry?s War, Pete ?n? Tillie, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, Toys in the Attic; Emmy Award-winner: A Christmas Memory, ABC Stage 67 [1966-1967], The Thanksgiving Visitor [1968-1969]; is born in Kirksville MO. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Gunther Schuller, composer and French Horn player, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | Lew (Selva Lewis) Burdette baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves [World Series: 1957, 1958/all-star: 1957, 1959], SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, CA Angels, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Pat Smythe England, equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Juno Stover-Irwin US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Owen K Garriott Enid, OK, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Robert Vaughn Emmy Award-winning actor: Washington: Behind Closed Doors [1977-78]; The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Magnificent Seven, The Big One, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge at Remagen, Delta Force, Superman 3, The Young Philadelphians, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Ludmila Belousova Protopopov USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Michael Callan (Calinieff) actor: Because They're Young, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Love American Style, Occasional Wife, is born in Philadelphia PA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Allen Garfield (Goorwitz) actor: Diabolique, Night Visitor, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Dick Tracy, The Cotton Club, Mother, Jugs and Speed, The Conversation, The Candidate, The Owl and the Pussycat, Greetings, Bananas, is born in Newark NJ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Terry Gilliam actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, Life of Brian; director: Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is born in Minneapolis MN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Tom Conti actor: American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace, Masterpiece Theater, Shirley Valentine, The Wright Verdicts, is born in Scotland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Guion S. Bluford Jr. astronaut: first African-American on space shuttle missions, is born in Philadelphia PA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Floyd Sneed musician: drums: group: Three Dog Night: Try a Little Tenderness, One, Easy to Be Hard, Eli?s Coming, Lady Samantha, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Liar, Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Billie Jean King, U.S. tennis player and women's rights pioneer, is born in California. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1943 | * | Wade (Allen) Blasingame baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, NY Yankees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Aston Barrett ‘Family Man’: musician: bass: group: Bob Marley & The Wailers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Greg (Gregory Michael) Luzinski baseball: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1975-1978/World Series: 1980], Chicago White Sox; high school coach, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Steve ‘Miami’ Van Zandt singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: group: E Street Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Tina (Martina) Weymouth musician: bass: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire, Psycho Killer, Take Me to the River, I Zimbra, Life During Wartime, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Little Steven rocker (Springsteen-Born to Run), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Tina Weymouth rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Craig Hundley musician: pianist: group: Craig Hundley Trio; actor: Tammy and the Millionaire, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing, Schizoid, The Acorn People, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | -Actor Richard Kind is born. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1957 | * | Sharon Bailey rocker (Amazulu-Excitable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Jamie Lee Curtis actress; daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Eg White rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Mariel Hemingway, actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace, Manhattan, Civil Wars, Star 80, is born in Ketchum ID. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Hugh Millen football: QB: LA Rams, Atlanta Falcons, NE Patriots, Denver Broncos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Stephen Geoffreys, actor: Moon 44, 976-EVIL, The Chair, Fright Night, Fraternity Vacation, Heaven Help Us, is born in Cincinnati OH. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Victoria Paris actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Nicholas Rowe London England, actor (Young Sherlock Holmes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Brian Robbins Brooklyn NY, actor (Eric-Head of the Class), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Boris Becker tennis: youngest Wimbledon Men’s Champion [17 years old], is born in West Germany. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Devin Puett | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Scarlett Johansson actress: The Horse Whisperer, My Brother the Pig, The Man Who Wasn't There, An American Rhapsody, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1247 | * | Robin Hood dies according to "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood" printed in 1495. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1718 | * | Edward Teach, aka Edward Thatch and Blackbeard the Pirate, is killed on North Carolina's Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British Royal Navy force sent from Virginia. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1825 | * | Ann Bailey pioneer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Oscar J Dunn (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | American lawyer Horatio G. Spafford's four daughters drowned when their passenger ship, while crossing the Atlantic, collided with another and sank. The following month, as his own ship passed over the spot of the earlier tragedy, Spafford penned the words to the enduring hymn, "It is Well With My Soul." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (1873-75), dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1879 | * | John Thadeus Delane, British editor, dies at age 62. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1896 | * | George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor of the Ferris wheel), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Sir Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan operetta composer [w/Sir William Gilbert]: H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; dies at age 58. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | | Frederick Krupp dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1902 | * | Walter Reed, American pathologist and bacteriologist, dies at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1916 | * | Jack London (John Chaney) author: The Sea Wolf, The Call of the Wild, White Fang; commits suicide. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal murders Harry"Big Greenie" Greenberg in Los Angeles. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1943 | * | Lorenz Milton Hart, lyricist, collaborator with Richard Rodgers, dies in New York City at age 48. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1944 | * | Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, dies at age 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Aldous (Leonard) Huxley philosopher, satirist, author: Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Point Counter Point; dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis science fiction author: Out of the Silent Planet; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, TX ( by Lee Harvey Oswald ?? ). (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1963 | * | President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the FBI to investigate the assassination of JFK. At that time the FBI had no statutory authority to investigate presidential assassinations. Jurisdictional conflict between federal, state and local authorities created confusion in the investigation of the case. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1964 | * | Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1980 | * | Jules Leger, Governor-General of Canada, 1974-79, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1980 | * | Mae (Mary Jane) West, actress and sex idol, died in LA at 87 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Former House Speaker John W McCormack dies in Dedham MA at age 88. (XDG, p 4A, 11/22/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1980 | * | Leonard Barr comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Sir Hans Adolf Krebs Nobel Prize-winning biochemist [for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism: 1953]; dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | Burton Turkus lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Michael Conrad actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining), dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1988 | * | Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus), dies at age 95. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1992 | * | Sterling Holloway actor: Thunder and Lightning, Super Seal, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Walk in the Sun, Death Valley, Twilight on the Rio Grande, The Merry Widow, International House, Willy, The Life of Riley, The Baileys of Balboa; character voices: Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland [Cheshire Cat], The Aristocats, The Jungle Book; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Anthony Burgess, English novelist and critic, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | -Mark Lenard, actor (Sarek-Star Trek), dies of cancer at 68. | Ref: 26 |
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| 1997 | * | Michael Hutchence, singer for INXS, commits suicide in Sydney Australia at age 37. (TWA, 1999) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1998 | * | The CBS News program "60 Minutes" aired videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an advocate of assisted suicide, administering lethal drugs to a terminally ill patient, Thomas Youk (yowk). Kevorkian, who challenged prosecutors to charge him, was later convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to ten to 25 years in prison. | Ref: 70 |
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