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Today In History - November 28 |
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1932 Groucho Marx performed on the radio for the first time... |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1607 Pietro Sforza 1628 John Bunyan 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully 1704 Jacob Mossel 1757 William Blake 1763 Matthaus Fischer 1784 Ferdinand Reis 1785 Achille-Charles 1792 Victor Cousin 1793 Carl Jonas Love Almquist 1795 Adolf Bernhard Marx 1805 John Stephens 1810 William Froude 1811 Maximilian II Jozef 1812 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman 1820 Friedrich Engels 1820 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch 1821 Nikolai Nekrasov 1829 Anton Rubinstein 1837 John Wesley Hyatt 1841 E. M. Grace 1843 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez 1864 Carel A. Lion Cachet 1866 Henry Bacon 1878 Jozef van Mierlo 1880 Alexander A. Block 1880 Marinus van Meel 1881 Stefan Zweig 1883 Paul Hastings Allen 1887 Bobby Watson 1887 Ernst Rohm 1887 Jacobo Palm 1892 Thomas Wood 1894 Brooks Atkinson 1895 Jose Iturbi 1896 Lilia Skala 1897 Uno Choyo 1898 Yuri N. Libedinski 1900 Lester Vail 1902 Victor Jory 1904 James O. Eastland 1904 Nancy Mitford 1907 Alberto Moravia 1908 Arturo Frondizi 1908 Claude Levi-Strauss 1908 Roberto Lupi 1909 Aleksandar Rankovic 1912 Heinz Galinski 1912 Morris Louis 1913 Hugo Pos 1915 Pamela Harrison 1916 Guy Lapebie 1916 Lilian Baels 1917 Kees Schilperoort 1919 Keith Miller 1920 Cecilia Colledge 1922 Helen Kinney Copley 1923 Helen Delich Bentley 1923 Phyllis Jenkins 1923 Ted Stevens 1925 Virginia Hewitt 1929 Berry Gordy, Jr. 1931 Dervla Murphy 1931 Hope Lange 1931 Ian Skipper 1931 Rinus Ferdinandusse 1931 Thomas Enders 1932 Terence Frisby 1933 Joe Knollenberg 1934 Carlos Farinas 1934 Dick Rhyan 1935 Randolph Stow 1936 Gary Hart 1939 Gary Troxel 1940 Bruce Channel, rocker 1940 Clem Curtis, rocker 1941 Laura Antonelli 1942 Paul Warfield 1943 Randy Newman 1944 Rita Mae Brown 1946 Joe Dante 1946 Susan Spencer 1948 Agnieszka Holland 1948 Beeb Birtles 1949 Alexander Godunov 1949 Hugh McKenna 1949 Paul Shaffer 1949 Victor Ostrovsky 1950 Ed Harris 1952 Jeff Fahey 1952 S. Epatha Merkerson 1953 Nadezhda Olizarenko 1953 Sixto Lezcano 1956 Kristine Arnold 1956 Lucy Gutteridge 1958 Dave Righetti 1958 David Van Day 1958 Kriss Akabusi 1958 Tim Mullens 1959 Judd Nelson 1959 R Glynn Holt 1959 Stephen Roche 1960 Deneice Lewis 1960 Ken Howell 1961 Jane Sibbett 1961 Patty Zomer 1962 Jon Stewart 1962 Karen Marsden 1962 Matt Cameron 1963 Johnny Newman 1963 Walt Weiss 1964 Cornelia Guest 1964 John Burkett 1965 David Ecob 1965 Matt Williams 1967 Anna Nicole "Vickie" Smith 1969 Sonia O'Sullivan 1970 Arshad Laiq 1970 Evan Droop 1970 Jason Day 1970 Todd Perry 1971 Karin Taylor 1971 William Simas, Jr. 1974 Jason Ferguson 1974 Joerg Heckenbach |
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On This Date in History |
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587 The Treaty of Andelot is signed 741 St. Gregory III ends his reign as the Catholic Pope 1340 Battle of Salado Spain 1520 Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean 1660 The London Royal Society forms 1710 Battle at Brihuega 1745 French troops attack the Indians of Saratoga, New York 1757 England condemns the ceasefire of Kloster-Seven 1775 The 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes the U.S. Navy 1776 Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River 1795 The US pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis 1813 The Kosacks occupy Utrecht 1821 Panama declares its independence from Spain 1853 Olympia forms as the capital of the Washington Territory 1854 The Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo 1861 The Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to the Confederate Army 1862 Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas 1862 Battle of Holy Spring, MS 1864 Battle of New Creek, WV 1871 The Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC 1875 Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa 1879 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa 1895 America's first auto race starts: the winner averages 7 MPH 1899 Battle of Mud river 1908 154 men die in a coal mine explosion at Marianna PA 1911 Zapata proclaims the Plan of Ayala Mexico 1912 Albania declares its Independence from Turkey 1916 The first German air attack on London 1918 Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany abdicates 1919 US-born Lady Astor is elected the first female member of British Parliament 1925 The Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, TN 1929 Admiral Richard Byrd makes the first South Pole flight 1932 France and the U.S.S.R. sign a not-attack treaty 1932 Groucho Marx performed on the radio for the first time 1934 Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to underestimate German air power 1939 The Soviet government revokes the Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty 1940 Cleveringa is arrested by the Nazis 1941 German troops vacate Rostov 1942 602 people die in a fire that destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston 1943 FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at Tehran to map out a strategy 1944 The first allied ship sails into Schelde, Antwerp 1944 Hal Newhouser is named the AL MVP 1944 In an act of reprisal, 40 Dutch men are executed by the Nazis 1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV 1948 The first Polaroid camera is sold 1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria 1954 The first professional football game is played in the Netherlands 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community 1958 Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of the French Community 1958 The U.S. reports the first full-range firing of an ICBM 1959 Pope John XXIII publishes Princeps Pastorum 1960 CBS radio expands its hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France 1964 France performs an underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1966 The Dominican Republic adopts a constitution 1967 The first pulsating radio source (a pulsar) is detected 1968 John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession 1973 The Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine 1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years 1974 John Lennon's last concert appearance: Elton John concert in New York City 1979 An Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt. Erebus on Antarctica and kills 257 people 1979 Los Angeles Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins the NL Rookie of Year 1985 The 6th Belgium government of Martens forms 1986 The Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time 1987 A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into the Indian Ocean and 159 people die 1988 Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million 1989 Rickey Henderson signs a record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract 1989 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary 1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM 1993 Carlos Reina wins the Honduras presidential election 1994 Norway votes against joining the European Union 1995 James Brady, former white house press sectretary, suffers a heart attack 1997 The final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head" airs on MTV |
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