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Today In History - November 15 |
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1777 The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress… |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1316 Jean I, King of France 1604 Davis Mell 1619 Philips Koninck 1640 Nicolaus Adam Strungk 1696 Gerhardus Havingha 1705 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain 1708 William Pitt the Elder 1731 William Cowper 1738 F. William Herschel 1741 Johann Kaspar Lavater 1746 Joseph Quesne 1755 Jan Blanken 1774 William Horsley 1775 Georges-Julien Sieber 1793 Michel Chasles 1800 George Rodwell 1814 Pleasant Adam Hackleman 1815 John Banvard 1816 Joseph Bennett Plummer 1829 Petrus A. S. van Limburg Brouwer 1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young 1840 Aleksei N. Apuchtin 1862 Adolf Bartels 1862 Gerhart Hauptmann 1872 Robert Marquess of Flers 1874 Schack August Steenberg Krogh 1878 Bela Reinitz 1879 Lewis Stone 1881 Franklin P. Adams 1882 Felix Frankfurter 1886 Pedro Sanjuan 1887 Georgia O'Keefe 1887 Hitoshi Asida 1887 Marianne Moore 1887 Rene Maran 1888 James Morrison 1891 Erwin Rommel 1891 W. Averell Harriman 1895 Ina Claire 1897 Aneurin Bevan 1897 Sacheverell Sitwell 1898 Willy Alfredo 1902 Frederico Freitas 1902 Jack Ingram 1903 Stewie Dempster 1904 Tilly Losch 1906 Curtis E. Le May 1907 Claus von Stauffenberg 1909 Don Large 1913 Rick Schagen 1914 Gheorghe Dumitrescu 1914 Jorge Bolet 1916 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow 1917 Gerardus H. de Bold 1919 Carol Bruce 1919 Joseph Albert Wapner 1922 Francesco Rosi 1922 Giorgio Manganelli 1922 Paul Acket 1923 Peter Hammond 1925 Howard Baker 1925 Jurriaan Andriessen 1929 Edward Asner 1931 John Kerr 1932 Clyde L. McPhatter 1932 Petula Clark 1933 Barbara Carson 1933 Jack Burns 1934 Joanna Barnes 1934 Peter Dickinson 1935 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati 1935 Peter John Welding 1936 Wolf Biermann 1937 Yaphet Kotto 1939 Erik Hansen 1939 Thalmus Rasulala 1940 Sam Waterson 1941 Daniel Manus Pinkwater 1942 Daniel Barenboim 1943 Roger Donaldson 1945 Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad 1946 Carmine Appice 1946 Janet Lennon 1946 Jodi Rell 1947 William B. Richardson 1948 Roy P. Dyson 1950 Mac Maurice Wilkins 1951 Dave Zelmon 1954 Beverly D'Angelo 1955 Oliver Conant 1956 Ashley Cox 1957 Joe Leeway 1957 Kevin Eubanks 1958 Marty Davis 1960 Tilda Swinton 1967 Pedro Borbon 1967 Scott Schrader 1968 Brenda Alyce Bassett 1968 James Brady 1969 Helen Kelesi 1969 Peter Martin 1970 Cecil Doggette 1970 Karin van Breeschoten 1970 Lesley Reddon 1970 Mirjam van Breeschoten 1971 Natalia Medvedeva 1971 Rohan Robinson 1971 Sandra Kim 1972 Christian van der Weerden 1972 Greg Bloedorn 1973 Jason Dunn 1973 Jorge Diaz 1973 Rachel Kathleen English 1974 Fred Brock 1976 Jessica Amey 1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips 1981 Natalie Lacuesta |
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On This Date in History |
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1315 Battle at Morgarten 1316 Jan I becomes the King of France, but dies four days later 1348 Rudolph of Oron claims that the Jews have confessed to poisoning wells 1491 Six Jews and five Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain 1491 Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle" 1492 Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco 1527 Treaty of Beautiful Garden 1532 Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end his relationship with Ann Boleyn 1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco 1577 Sir Francis Drake travels from Chile to Washington 1583 Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees 1660 The first kosher butcher is licensed in New York City 1679 English House of Commons accepts the Exclusion Bill 1688 Prince Willem III army lands at Torbay, England 1715 Barrier Treaty 1727 The New York General Assembly permits Jews to omit the phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from the abjuration oath 1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the Mason-Dixon Line: between Pennsylvania and Maryland 1777 The Articles of Confederation are adopted by Continental Congress 1791 The first Catholic college in U.S. opens: Georgetown 1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak in Colorado 1806 The first U.S. college magazine publishes its first issue: Yale Literary Government 1813 Allied troops occupy Groningen 1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam 1824 Series of fires kill 10 people in Edinburgh, Scotland 1827 The Creek Indians lose all their property in the US 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti 1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system 1849 The first U.S. poultry show opens in Boston 1864 The first U.S. mines school opens in the basement of Columbia University, New York 1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta 1869 Free postal delivery is formally inaugurated 1881 The American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded in Pittsburgh 1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and his wife are captured in Natal 1901 James J. Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium, is almost assassinated by an Italian anarchist 1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade 1914 Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds the newspaper Il populo d'italia 1919 The Senate first invokes cloture to end a filibuster 1920 The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Geneva 1924 The Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms 1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA in New York City 1932 The Walt Disney Art School is created 1934 Nobel Prize for chemistry is awarded to Harold C. Urey 1935 The Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated 1936 Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Komintern pact 1937 The first congressional session in air-conditioned chambers 1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona 1939 Anti-German demonstrations are held in Czechoslovakia 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. 1939 The Nazis begin the mass murder of Warsaw Jews 1939 The Social Security Administration approves the first unemployment check 1940 The first 75,000 men are called to armed forces duty during peacetime 1940 The first black to sign a hockey contract: Arthur Dorrington 1940 The New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic 1941 The Cow Palace opens in San Francisco 1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank 1946 Ted Williams is picked as the AL MVP 1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as the Prime Minister of Canada 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins the AL Rookie of Year 1954 The first regularly scheduled commercial flights over the North Pole begin 1955 Poland and Yugoslavia sign a trade agreement 1956 Elvis Presley's first film, "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City 1957 The U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1960 USS George Washington is launched: first sub with nuclear ballistic missiles 1961 Roger Maris is voted the AL MVP 1961 The U.N. bans nuclear arms 1962 Don Drysdale wins the Cy Young Award 1964 Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open 1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns 1967 Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins the AL MVP 1969 250,000 people peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War 1969 The first commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas 1969 Janis Joplin is accused of vulgar and indecent language in Tampa, FL 1969 Wendy's Hamburgers opens 1971 Intel advertises its 4004-processor 1972 White Sox Dick Allen wins the AL MVP award 1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war 1975 The Miss Teenage America Pageant 1976 The Syrian army conquerors Beirut 1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Shah of Iran 1978 183 people die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka 1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins the NL MVP award 1982 Funeral services are held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev 1983 The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is proclaimed 1986 The 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay: Sam Kinison 1987 28 of 82 people aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in a crash at Denver 1987 Leile McBridge is crowned Miss Black America 1987 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1988 The radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses 1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins the NL MVP Award 1988 The PLO proclaims State of Palestine and recognizes Israeli existence 1989 Bret Saberhagen wins the AL Cy Young Award 1989 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1990 President Bush signs the Clear Air Act of 1990 1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album 1991 The Dow Jones average drops 120.31 points 1993 Joey Buttafuoco is sentence to 6 months for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher 1994 A 6.7 - 8.1 earthquake strikes the Philippines killing 45 people 1994 Helmut Kohl is elected the German Chancellor 1995 The space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir 1997 William Shatner marries Norine Kidd 1999 Next transit of Mercury is visible in North America |
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