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Today In History - November 22 |
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1842 Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts... |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1450 Jacob Obrecht 1511 Erasmus Reinhold 1515 Marie Guise 1690 Francois Collin de Blamont 1709 Frantisek Benda 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1767 Andreas Hofer 1771 Paul R. Cantzlaar 1780 Conradin Kreutzer 1805 Benjamin Hugur 1808 Thomas Cook 1818 Samuel Gibbs French 1819 George Eliot 1823 Nathan Kimball 1832 George Henry Chapman 1835 Frank Crawford Armstrong 1838 Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga 1856 Heber J. Grant 1857 George Gissing 1868 John Nance Garner 1869 Andre Gide 1870 Howard Brockway 1873 Johnny Tyldesley 1873 Leopold CMS Amery 1875 Elizabeth Patterson 1875 Georges Rency 1877 Endre Ady 1888 Tarzan (according to the Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel) 1890 Charles de Gaulle 1891 Bengt Axel von Torne 1891 Edward Bernays 1891 Erik Lindahl 1893 M. Kaganovitsj Kogan 1896 Mario La Broca 1896 Nikolai S. Tichonov 1898 Wiley Post 1899 Hoagy Carmichael 1900 Hugo Godron 1901 Joaquin Rodrigo 1902 Emanuel Feuermann 1903 Herbert Sally Frankel 1904 Louis Neel 1904 Roland Winters 1905 James Burnham 1906 Howard Petrie 1906 Lee Patrick 1907 Bernard Naylor 1907 Dick Bartell 1908 Michael Balfour 1912 Doris Duke 1912 Eric Stuart Woord 1913 Benjamin Britten 1914 Peter Woolridge Townsend 1917 Jean-Etienne Marie 1918 Claiborne Pell 1919 Wilfred Norman Aldridge 1921 Rodney Dangerfield 1922 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov 1923 Arthur Hiller 1923 Dika Newlin 1924 Axel Borup-Jorgensen 1924 Geraldine Page 1925 Gunther Schuller 1926 Lew Burdette 1926 Zulfiqar Ahmed 1927 Grady "Fats" Jackson 1928 Juno Stover-Irwin 1928 Pat Smythe 1930 John Paul Schiffer 1930 Owen Kay Garriott 1930 Peter Hall 1932 Robert Vaughn 1935 Ludmila Belousova Protopopov 1935 Michael Callan 1936 Hans Zender 1937 Zenon Jankowski 1939 Allen Garfield 1940 Terry Gilliam 1941 Jacques LaPerriere 1941 Ron McClure 1941 Tom Conti 1942 Guion Steward Bluford, Jr. 1942 Steve Caldwell 1943 Billie Jean King 1943 Floyd Sneed 1944 Robert Iliffe 1946 Aston Barrett 1946 Hans Kombrink 1947 Alfredo Cristiani 1947 Rod Price 1950 Little Steven 1950 Lyman Bostock 1953 Wayne Larkins 1955 James Edwards 1955 Sue Novara-Reber 1955 Wayne Tolleson 1957 Sharon Bailey 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis 1958 Lee Guetterman 1960 Eg White 1960 Tommy Masters 1961 Joel Ashley Edwards 1961 Mariel Hemingway 1962 Cleo Fields 1962 Steve DeOssie 1963 Corinne Russell 1963 Helen Reale 1963 Hugh Millen 1964 Akram Raza 1964 Benoit Benjamin 1964 David Tate 1964 Gene Atkins 1964 Maggie Will 1964 Pierre Vercheval 1964 Stephen Geoffreys 1965 Eric Allen 1965 Mike Benjamin 1965 R. Duncan Douglas 1966 Brian Robbins 1966 Nicholas Rowe 1967 Boris Becker 1967 Donald Hollas 1968 Daedra Charles 1968 Darryl Hardy 1968 Irina Privalova 1968 Jonathan Moss 1969 Byron Houston 1969 John Parrella 1969 Katrin Krabbe 1970 Alison Korn 1971 Lloyd Kammeron 1971 Tyoka Jackson 1971 Yone Kamio 1972 Mavan Atapattu 1972 Tricia Tan 1973 Alexandra Fusai 1973 Brandon Paulsen 1973 Cassie Campbell 1973 Michael Murphy 1974 Meike Babel 1976 Taryn Mansell 1977 Devyn Puett 1978 Magdalena Grzybowska 1984 Scarlett Johansson |
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365 Felix II ends his reign as the Catholic Pope 498 St. Symmachus begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 1221 Frederik II Hohenstaufen is crowned Roman-German Emperor 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope 1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America 1675 English King Charles II adjourns parliament 1794 Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine prohibits circumcision and the wearing of beards 1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen 1842 Mount St. Helens erupts 1861 The Battle of Ft. McRee, FL 1864 The Battle at Griswoldville, GA 1864 Union General O. Howard orders plunderers to be shot to death 1884 T. Thomas Fortune starts the New York Freeman newspaper 1886 The Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia 1899 Battle at Willow Grange, Natal 1906 International Radio Telecommunications Committee adopts "SOS" as the new call for help 1908 The first US-Japanese baseball game 1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs 1914 Ypres Belgium is burned by German bombing 1918 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels 1918 Marshal J. Pilsudski becomes the first president of Poland 1918 Polish forces attack the Jewish community of Lemberg 1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam 1919 Labor conference committee in the U.S. urges an 8-hour work day and 48-hour work week 1922 Library Avenue in the Bronx is named 1922 Wilhelm Cuno forms the new German government 1923 Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke 1924 England orders the Egyptians out of Sudan 1926 The Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1927 The first snowmobile patent is granted to Carl Eliason 1927 George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in New York City 1927 The Neil Simon Theater opens at 250 W 52nd St. New York City 1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel is first performed publicly: in Paris 1930 Elijah Muhammad forms the Nation of Islam in Detroit 1930 The first Irish Sweepstake run 1930 The first U.S. football game broadcast to England 1932 Pump is patented that computes both quantity and price (for gas stations) 1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is first heard on Eddie Cantor's show 1935 China Clipper took off from Alameda, CA on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight 1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against the Nazis 1941 The British cruiser Devonshire sinks the German sub Atlantis 1941 NZ troops conquer Ft. Capuzzo Libya 1942 Hitler orders Rommel's African corps to fight to the last man 1943 FDR, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1943 Lebanon declares independence from French administration 1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin 1943 U.S. troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island 1950 79 people die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, NY 1954 The Humane Society forms 1955 RCA Victor pays $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for the rights to Elvis Presley: truck driver from Tupelo, MS 1955 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1956 The 16th modern Olympic games open in Melbourne 1957 Mickey Mantle wins the AL MVP 1957 The Miles Davis Quintet debuts at a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall 1957 Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry" 1960 French National Meeting decide to build their own nuclear weapons 1961 Frank Robinson is the first to win MVPs in both major leagues 1961 Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce an expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star 1961 St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets an NBA record by hitting 19 of 19 free throws 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as the 36th U.S. president 1964 Mickey Wright wins the LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational 1965 Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes 1965 Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title 1967 The BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles 1967 Silver hits a record $2.17 an ounce in New York 1967 The U.N. Security council passes resolution 242: Israel must give back occupied land 1967 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1968 The first interracial TV kiss: Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Uhura 1968 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 Isolation of a single gene is announced by scientists at Harvard 1972 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns 1972 The U.S. ends a 22 year travel ban to China 1974 The U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine's right to sovereignty 1975 Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain 1976 The Algeria Constitution goes into effect 1976 The comic strip "Cathy" debuts 1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins 1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown LA spills 1.3 million gallons of oil 1981 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1984 Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents his sweater to the Smithsonian Institution 1985 The Largest swearing-in ceremony: 38,648 immigrants become U.S. citizens 1986 Wayne Gretzky became the 13th NHL player to score 500 goals 1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland is crowned the 39th Miss World 1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon 1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike 1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract 1990 George Bush visits the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia 1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1990 Professor Amos Sawyer is installed as the interim President of Liberia 1992 Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed ten women 1995 Rosemary West is found guilty in England of killing 10 women 1996 O. J. Simpson takes the stand as a hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him and testifies that it's "absolutely not true" |
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