| 306 | * | St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1016 | * | Knut becomes King of England. | |
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| 1215 | * | The Fourth Lateran Council closed, under Innocent III. It was this council that made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to the Eucharist (Lord's Supper). (Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol 4, p. 125, ISBN 0-02-909730-4) | |
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| 1298 | * | The coronation of Alexander III (of Scotland) by William Fraser? at Scone Abbey. | Ref: 16 |
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| 1406 | * | Gregory XII begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1554 | * | Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England, under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the process, "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1804 | * | Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase goes on trial, accused of political bias. (He was acquitted by the Senate.) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1853 | * | The Columbia and Xenia (OH) Railroad merges with the Little Miami Railroad. (This will eventually evolve into the Pennsylvania Railroad.) | Ref: 56 |
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| 1865 | * | Simon Kenton's remains are reinterred at Urbana OH. | Ref: 58 |
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| 1866 | * | Work begins on first US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | The first commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | In Naperville, Illinois, seven groups of the Evangelical Association withdrew from the organization to form the United Evangelical Church. (In 1922 the two denominations reunited.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | The French government denounces British actions in South Africa, declaring sympathy for the Boers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | * | President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1907 | * | Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1935 | * | Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, is destroyed in a fire. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1941 | * | 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Brigadier General Frank P Lahm, one of the first pilots qualified by Wilbur Wright back in 1909, retires from active duty. | Ref: 46 |
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| 1945 | | Russian forces take Danzig in Poland and invade Austria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1947 | | Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | | The Soviet Union completes the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1950 | * | Sealtest concentrated milk was offered for sale by the Clover Dairy of Wilmington, Delaware. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Sir Winston Churchill celebrated his 80th birthday in London. The festivities were said to be the greatest ever held for a British subject. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1958 | * | First guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | The Soviet Union vetoes a UN seat for Kuwait, pleasing Iraq. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1962 | * | U Thant of Burma is unanimously appointed secretary-general of the United Nations by the General Assembly, after serving nearly thirteen months as acting secretary-general following the death of Dag Hammarskjold in an air crash. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1966 | * | At the request of island leaders, Barbados, a British crown colony in the West Indies, is granted independence by the British Parliament. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1967 | * | Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | (Manson) Manson defense attorney Ronald Hughes fails to show up in court. He is never seen again, leading to speculation he was murdered by The Manson Family. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1974 | | India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade ban. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | | Dahomey becomes Benin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope in 1,000 years to attend an Orthodox mass. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1981 | * | The United States and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | The Dow Jones industrial average jumped a mighty 36.43 points. It was the fourth largest gain in the stock market’s 87-year history. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) President Ronald Reagan nominates Anthony M. Kennedy to the Supreme Court | |
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| 1988 | | Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | Boris Yeltsin's Russian Federation agreed to bail out Mikhail S. Gorbachev's central Soviet government from a budget crisis that threatened to cut off the salaries of millions of workers and paralyze the country. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1992 | * | The US Supreme Court sustained women's basic right to abortion, voting 6-3 against reviviing a 1990 Guam law that would have prohibited nearly all such procedures. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1993 | * | Authorities in CA arrested Richard Allen Davis, who confessed to abducting and killing 12 year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | President Bill Clinton signs the Brady handgun control bill into law. The law requires a prospective buyer of a handgun to wait five business days while the authorities check on his or her background, during which time the sale is approved or prohibited, based on an established set of criteria. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1994 | * | Talk about bad luck. Nearly 1,000 passengers and crew fled the cruise ship Achille Lauro after it caught fire off the coast of Somalia en route from Genoa to the Sychelles. The ship sank two days later. This was the same Achille Lauro that had been hijacked by Palestinians in October 1985. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland, where he implored Roman Catholics and Protestants alike not to surrender to the impulses of "old habits and hard grudges." | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | | Some 150,000 people filled the streets of Belgrade to protest Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The 1960's novelty singer Tiny Tim, best remembered for his rendition of "Tiptoe Thru' the Tulips," died in Minneapolis. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1997 | | Czech Premier Vaclav Klaus formally hands in his government's resignation in the wake of a campaign financing scandal. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | * | The opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Al Gore's lawyers battled for his political survival in the Florida and U.S. supreme courts; meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W. Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of electors. | Ref: 64 |
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| 2001 | * | Gary Leon Ridgeway is arrested in connection with four of the Green River serial killings in Washington State. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2001 | * | Former Dekalb County, Georgia, Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and two other men are arrested and charged with murder in the slaying of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in a bitter runoff election. (Dorsey was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; the two other men were acquitted of murder in a separate trial. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1875 | * | A.J. Ehrichson of Akron, OH patented the oat-crushing machine. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | The first photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges on the hip. She is bruised, but suffers no permanent damage. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1964 | * | Zond 2 - USSR Mars Flyby. Contact is lost en route. | Ref: 40 |
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| 1974 | * | Pioneer 11 sends photos back to NASA as it nears Jupiter. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1982 | * | STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1782 | * | In Paris, Americans sign preliminary articles of peace with the British in Paris. News of this provisional peace agreement reaches Virginia in late April 1783. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1838 | * | Mexico declares war on France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | The Union wins the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1939 | * | The Russo-Finnish War began as Soviet troops invaded Finland. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1940 | * | USSR invades Finland. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1942 | * | Battle of Tasafaronga off Guadalcanal. | |
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| 1949 | | Chinese communists capture Chungking. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1950 | * | President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea. | Ref: 2 |
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| 2001 | * | (Afghan Conflict) Officials say an Army soldier in Uzbekistan dies of a gunshot that was not enemy fire. (USA Today, p 7A, 1/21/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1870 | * | First International Association football (soccer) match-England vs. Scotland. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1887 | * | The first softball game is played -- in Chicago, IL. The game was really called indoor baseball; it used a broomstick for a bat and a boxing glove for a ball. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | The president of Yale University, James Angell, is said to have suggested that professional football “may someday surpass college football in popularity.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | | First game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Baseball's Negro National League disbands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | On a local New York television show, Jackie Robinson accuses the Yankee organization of being racist due to its failure to have a black player on the club. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1956 | * | Archie Moore is defeated by Floyd Patterson. Patterson won the heavyweight boxing title vacated by the retired Rocky Marciano. At the age of 21, Patterson was the youngest boxer to be named heavyweight champion. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Joe Foss is named American Football League commissioner. He made about $30,000 a year in salary for the job. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Cub Billy Williams (.278, 25, 86) is selected as the NL Rookie of the Year. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1961 | * | The White Sox trade pitchers Don Larsen and Billy Pierce to the Giants for pitchers Eddie Fisher, Dom Zanni, Vele Tiefenhaler and first baseman Bob Farley. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | The Cubs trade veteran knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm to the Braves for minor league first baseman Hal Breedan. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1972 | * | The Reds obtain outfielder Richie Scheinblum and pitcher Roger Nelson from the Royals for Hal McRae. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1974 | * | 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Sugar Ray Leonard wins the welterweight championship over Wilfred Benitez when the referee stops the fight with 6 seconds left in the match, at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas NV. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1979 | * | Marvin Johnson KO's Victor Galindez in the 11th round in the Superdome, New Orleans LA for the WBA light-heavyweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1979 | * | Vito Antuofermo successfully defends his middleweight boxing title against Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas NV. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1983 | * | Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hopelessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Ivan Lendl became the first tennis player in the world to gain career earnings exceeding $10 million. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Larry Bird, basketball player, scores his 20,000th point. | Ref: 51 |
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| 2000 | * | Free agent Mike Mussina inks an $88.5 million, six-year contract with the Yankees. The ten-year veteran compiled a 147-81 record with a 3.53 ERA as an Oriole. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Unsure of their future, Montreal signs a one-year lease to play their home games of the 2002 season at Olympic Stadium. Due to the threat of being eliminated because of the proposed contraction of major league teams, the agreement gives the Expos the right to unilaterally cancel the contract. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | The major league's plan to contract by two teams next season is put into jeopardy by Minnesota courts. The state's Supreme Court refuses to grant the request for a speedy review of the appeal of the injunction which forces the Twins to play in 2001, and the appellate court sets the hearing for December 27, a date many believe is too late to make the elimination of two teams a reality. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1764 | | Cornerstone of Theatre Royal, Bristol, England laid-oldest theatre still in use in England. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1885 | * | The opera "Le Cid" is produced (Paris). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | The Folies Bergere opens for the first time. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1922 | * | Actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her last appearance on the stage. She played in the final performance of Daniel, being presented in Turin, Italy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | MC Gaines solicits Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegal "looking for several good features". Shuster and Siegal send them "Superman". (Daniels, Les, "Superman", 1998, ISBN 0-8118-2162-5) | |
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| 1939 | * | Harry James and his big band recorded Concerto for Trumpet -- on Columbia 78s. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz are married. Lucy filed for divorce the day after their final TV show was filmed in 1960. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Nat ‘King’ Cole and his trio recorded Straighten Up and Fly Right on Capitol Records. It was the first recording for the King Cole trio. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Diana Ross and The Supremes hit the #1 spot on the music charts with Love Child. The somewhat controversial tune (for the times) stayed at the top for two weeks. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | ABC-TV presented Brian’s Song as the ABC Movie of the Week. The touching story was about Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo and his friendship with Gayle Sayers, who watched Brian die a tragic death. The movie got a rating of 32.9 and a 48 share. The theme song, Brian’s Song, was performed by Michel Legrand. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | The Eagles hit, Best of My Love, was released. It would take until March 1, 1975 for it to reach the #1 spot on the top 40 charts. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | After 38 years, Eric Severied retires from CBS-TV. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Japanese developer pays $51.3 m. for Picasso's 1904 "Pierrette's Wedding" at Paris auction. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1990 | * | Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | PM Dawn’s Set Adrift on Memory Bliss hit #1 in the U.S. The rappers folded another song -- Spandau Ballet’s True -- into theirs, making for a very nice musical effect. | Ref: 4 |
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| 538 | * | St Gregory of Tours chronicler/bishop, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1466 | * | Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1508 | * | Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1554 | * | Philip Sidney poet: Arcadia; statesman, soldier: dying, he gave his water bottle to another dying soldier and uttered this famous quote: “Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.”; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1667 | * | Jonathan Swift, English satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1670 | * | 51 John Toland, Irish-born British religious philospher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1723 | * | William Livingston, first governor of New Jersey, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1729 | * | Birth of Samuel Seabury, first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. (Following the American Revolution, Seabury helped formulate the constitution which made the American Protestant Episcopal Church independent and autonomous from the Church of England.). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | Johann Lukas Schonlein helped establish scientific medicine, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1810 | * | Oliver Fisher Winchester rifle maker (Winchester) is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1817 | * | Theodor Mommsen Germany, historian/writer (Nobel 1902), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1835 | * | Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) writer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper; is born in Florida, MO. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1836 | * | Frederick Charles Cavendish, English statesman, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1863 | * | Andres Bonifacio leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Sir Winston Churchill (C) British PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953), is born in Blenheim Palace. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1893 | * | I.J. Singer, Polish-born American author, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1894 | * | Ture Rangstrom Stockholm Sweden, composer/critic (Kronbruden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Donald Ogden Stewart, American playwright and actor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1898 | * | Roy (Link) Lyman NFL tackle (Chicago Bears) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Jacques Barzun France, author (The House of Interlect), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | | Bronko Nagurski is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1910 | * | Paul Cerutti Monaco, trap shooter, disqualified for drugs in 76 Olympics, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Gordon Parks film director/writer (Learning Tree), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | John K.M. McCaffery Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Angier Biddle Duke NYC, US Ambassador (Spain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Brownie McGhee, singer and guitarist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | Henry Taube chemist (Nobel 1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Virginia Mayo (Virginia Clara Jones) actress: Midnight Witness, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Silver Chalice, The West Point Story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Best Years of Our Lives, is born in St Louis MO. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Efrem Zimbalist Jr actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1924 | * | Allan Sherman (Copelon) parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Shirley Chisholm (D-Rep-NY), first black congresswoman/presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Richard Crenna Los Angeles CA, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Robert Guillaume St Louis MO, actor (Benson, Soap), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1928 | * | Chic Hecht (Sen-R-NV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Rex Reason Berlin Germany, actor (This Island Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Joan Ganz Cooney Phoenix AZ, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Dick Clark TV producer, host: American Bandstand, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, The $25,000 Pyramid, TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Dick Clark Presents the Rock and Roll Years, The Dick Clark Show, Dick Clark’s Golden Greats, Dick Clark’s Live Wednesday, Dick Clark’s Nighttime, Dick Clark’s World of Talent, Puttin’ on the Hits, Live! Dick Clark Presents, The Challengers; executive producer: Keep on Cruisin’, In Person from the Palace; former Philadelphia DJ, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | G Gordon Liddy Watergate felon, radio talk-show host, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Bill Walsh Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers; football coach: Stanford University, San Francisco 49ers: Super Bowl XVI, XIX, XXIII, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Davey Jones rocker (Monkees-Daydream Believer, Last Train To Clarksville, I'm A Believer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Thurman ‘Teddy’ Wilburn singer: group: Wilburn Brothers: Which One is to Blame; Grand Ole Opry [1941], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Gunther Herbig Usti-nad-Labem Czech, conductor (East Berlin Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Jack Ging Alva Ok, actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Jack Sheldon Jacksonville FL, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Bob Moore instrumentalist: group: Moby Grape: LP: Truly Fine Citizen | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Linwood C Ivey NC, (Mayor-Garysburg NC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Jack Reno country singer: Repeat After Me, Hitchin’ a Ride, I Want One, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | (Chicago 7) Abbie Hoffman aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Paul Stookey Baltimore MD, singer (Peter, Paul & Mary-Wedding Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Jimmy Bowen singer: I’m Stickin’ with You, Party Doll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Robert Guillaume (Williams) Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1978-79], Benson [1984-85]; Pacific Station, A Good Day to Die, North and South Book 1, The Meteor Man, Superfly T.N.T.; voice of Det. Catfish: Fish Police, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Ridley Scott director: White Squall, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Thelma and Louise, Black Rain, Someone to Watch Over Me, Legend, Blade Runner, Alien, The Duelists; brother of director Tony Scott, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Richard Threlkeld newscaster (ABC-TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Walter Weller Vienna Austria, conductor (Vienna Tonkusteler Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | -Singer Rob Grill (The Grassroots) is born. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1943 | * | Leo Lyons musician: bass: groups: Jaybirds, Ten Years After: I’m Going Home, Love Like a Man, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Rob Grill musician, singer: group: The Grass Roots: Midnight Confessions, Let’s Live for Today | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Luther Ingram musician, singer: [If Lovin’ You is Wrong] I Don’t Want to be Right, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Roger Glover musician: bass: groups: Episode Six, Rainbow, Deep Purple: Black Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Radu Lupu Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco first prize-1967), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | David Mamet director: Oleanna, Homicide, House of Games, Things Change; playwright: Hoffa, Glengarry Glen Ross (Pulitzer-1984), The Untouchables, The Verdict, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1949 | * | Arthur Lee Washington Jr one of FBI's most wanted, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Craig (Steven) Swan baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [NL ERA title: 1978 2.43], California Angels, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Kathryn Witt Miami FL, actress (Pam-Flying High, Lenny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Margaret Whitton Philadelphia PA, actress (Barbara-Hometown, Major League), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Paul Westphal basketball guard: Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics; coach: Southwestern Baptist Bible College, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix Suns, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Dian Parkinson TV model (Price is Right), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | June Chadwick actress: Forbidden World, The Last Horror Film, This is Spinal Tap, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Going to Extremes, Star Trek: Away Team, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Mandy Patinkin Tony Award-winning actor: Evita [1980]; True Colors, The Doctor, Dick Tracy, Alien Nation, The Princess Bride, Sunday in the Park with George, Yentl, French Postcards, Chicago Hope, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Shuggie (Johnny) Otis Jr. musician: guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboards: LPs: Here Comes Shuggie Otis, Freedom Flight, Inspiration Information, Omaha Bar-B-Que, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | George McArdle musician: bass guitarist: group: Little River Band: Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | June Pointer singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, He’s So Shy, Slow Hand, Jump [For My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, I’m So Excited, Dare Me, Yes We Can Can, How Long [Betcha Got a Chick on the Side]; solo: LP: Baby Sister, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Billy Idol (Broad) musician: guitar, singer: Mony, Mony, Eyes Without a Face, Dancing with Myself, White Wedding, Rebel Yell, To Be a Lover, Speed, Cradle of Love; songwriter: Hot in the City, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Kevin Conroy actor: Chain of Desire, The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton, Tour of Duty, Rachel Gunn, R.N., Ohara, voice of Batman: Batman-The Animated Series, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | -Comedian Colin Mochrie ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?") is born. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1957 | * | John Aston musician: guitar: groups: Photons, Psychedelic Furs: We Love You, Love My Way, Heaven, Pretty in Pink, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Richard Barbieri musician: drums: group: Japan: Don’t Rain on My Parade, The Unconventional, The Tenant, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Taking Islands in Africa, I Second That Emotion, Cantonese Boy, Bamboo Houses, Forbidden Colours; composer: for Ballet Rambert, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Sylvia Hanika Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | (Heisman Trophy 1985) Bo (Vincent Edward) Jackson baseball: KC Royals [all-star: 1989], Chicago White Sox, CA Angels; football: LA Raiders RB [Heisman Trophy: 1985], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Rapper Jalil (Whodini) is born. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1965 | * | Ben Stiller actor: The Ben Stiller Show, Reality Bites, Flirting with Disaster, The Cable Guy, There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, is born. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1969 | * | Carrie Jean Yazel Huntington Beach CA, playmate (May, 1991) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Des’ree singer: I Ain’t Movin’, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | (William) Jason Reso pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Wrestlemania XV, Summerslam, WWF Insurrextion, WWF King of the Ring, WWF Armageddon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| -406 | * | -BC- The Greek dramatist Euripides dies in Pella, Greece. | Ref: 68 |
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| 70 | * | (date uncertain) St. Andrew is crucified in Patrae, Greece. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1016 | * | Edmund II Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1631 | * | Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1694 | * | Marcello Malpighi physician: pioneer in working with the microscope; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1718 | * | Charles XII King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1731 | * | Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1830 | * | Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Ital Pope (1829-30), dies at 69. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1863 | * | Hawaiian King Kamehameha IV dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1879 | * | August Bournonville, Danish director of the Danish Royal Ballet, dies at age 74. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1900 | * | Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), dies in a Paris hotel room at age 46, after saying of the room's wallpaper: "One of us had to go". | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | James Mann lawyer; U.S. Congressman: authored the Mann Act aka the White Slave Traffic Act [1910]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Mary ‘Mother’ Jones ‘The Miner’s Angel’: labor leader; dies at age 100. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | George B. McClellan Jr, son of the Civil War General of the same name, and former mayor of New York (1904-1910) dies at age 75 in Washington DC. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1941 | * | Near Riga, a mass shooting of Latvian and German Jews. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1947 | * | Ernst Lubitsch, German-born American director, dies in Los Angeles CA at age 55. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1964 | * | Don Redman orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | English author Compton MacKenzie dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1972 | * | Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Bruce Yarnell actor: The Road Hustlers, Irma la Douce, The Outlaws, dies at age 35. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Sir Terence Rattigan, English playwright: The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy, The Day Will Dawn; dies at age 66. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Zeppo (Herbert) Marx comedian: Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, Monkey Business, The Cocoanuts, Horse Feathers; dies at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | | Joyce Grenfell dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1981 | * | Robert H Harris actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | | James Baldwin dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1990 | * | Norman Cousins journalist: Anatomy of an Illness; dies at age 75. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | Mary Martin Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer: Peter Pan [1955]; South Pacific, I Do! I Do!, Sound of Music, Night and Day, Star Spangled Rhythm, Birth of the Blues, Rhythm on the River; singer: My Heart Belongs to Daddy, I’ll Walk Alone, Almost Like Being in Love; mother of actor Larry Hagman; dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | 93 cars & 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | David Houston Grammy Award-winning singer: Almost Persuaded [1966]; Mountain of Love, Livin’ in a House Full of Love, With One Exception, You Mean the World to Me, Have a Little Faith, Already It’s Heaven, Baby Baby [I Know You’re a Lady], So Many Ways; actor: Carnival Rock, Cottonpickin’ Chickenpickers; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | Tiny Tim (aka Darry Dover, Larry Love) (Herbert Butros Khaury) ukulele playing, falsetto singer: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Sonny Boy; film: You Are What You Eat, TV: Laugh In; dies at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | In Tajikistan, French hostage Karine Maine was killed with five suspected kidnappers when a grenade expolded during a failed rescue operation. A companion had been released hours earlier. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | * | Charlie Byrd musician: guitar: dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | Robert Tools, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, dies in Louisville, KY, of complications after severe abdominal bleeding. He had lived with the device for 151 days. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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