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# Posted: 29 Sep 2008 02:39
29th October
Birthdays..
1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1944 - Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings)
1946 - Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
Deaths..
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)
1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
In history..
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great *PROFANITY* Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
2007 - Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2008 03:03
30th October
Birthdays...
1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
Deaths...
1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
In history...
1485 - Henry VII of England crowned.
1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States
1944 - Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or not. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield to reduce fallout over the Soviet Union.
1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time
1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire
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# Posted: 1 Oct 2008 22:30 - Edited by: caroleh
31st October
Birthdays..
1795 - John Keats, British poet (d. 1821)
1920 - D ick Francis, Welsh novelist
1926 - Jimmy Savile, English entertainer
1937 - Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter
1950 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
1961 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
1982 - The Cheeky Girls, British-Romanian singers
Deaths..
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
In history..
1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1923 - 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins.
1961 - In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
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# Posted: 2 Oct 2008 03:49
1st November
Birthdays...
1629 - St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1762 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
1887 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
Deaths...
1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
In history...
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
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# Posted: 2 Oct 2008 04:04
2nd November
Birthdays..
1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
1961 - K.D. Lang, Canadian musician
Deaths..
1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
In history..
1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia
1936 - The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1947 - In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2008 07:57
3rd November
Birthdays...
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1933 - John Barry, English composer
1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis champion
1952 - Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian
Deaths...
361 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
2002 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)
In history...
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 - The USA introduces an income tax
1957 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit: a dog named Laika.
1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000+ people.
1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States of America.
2007 - Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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# Posted: 5 Oct 2008 20:14
4th November
Birthdays..
1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
1884 - Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
1953 - Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
Deaths..
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1980 - Robert Nesta Marley, Jamaican reggae musician
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
In history..
1783 - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
2003 - The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
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# Posted: 5 Oct 2008 21:24
5th November
Birthdays...
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1935 - Lester Piggott, British jockey
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
Deaths...
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Television Presenter (b. 1922)
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
In history...
1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building.
1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1916 - The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
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# Posted: 5 Oct 2008 21:48
6th November
Birthdays..
1854 - John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1926 - Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
1938 - P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor
1949 - Nigel Havers, English actor
Deaths..
1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2007 - George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
In history..
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
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# Posted: 6 Oct 2008 08:20
7th November
Birthdays...
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano
1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
1963 - John Barnes, English footballer
Deaths...
1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
In history...
1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia was sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1990 - Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
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# Posted: 6 Oct 2008 08:45
8th November
Birthdays..
1656 - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian
1946 - Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
1955 - ME (I look to be in good company!)
1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
Deaths..
1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
2007 - Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
In history..
1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1895 - While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
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# Posted: 6 Oct 2008 21:22
9th November
Birthdays...
1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
Deaths...
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
In history...
1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1729 - Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1985 - Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 - Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
1990 - Mary Robinson is elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2008 08:43
10th November
Birthdays..
1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
1697 - William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
1880 - Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (d. 1959)
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1947 - Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
Deaths..
1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
In history..
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives
1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2008 22:21 - Edited by: cybergran
11th November
Birthdays...
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
Deaths...
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
1945 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
In history...
1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony. (Old Style date; November 21 per New Style date.)
1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol
1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).
1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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# Posted: 13 Oct 2008 17:00
12th November
Birthdays...
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist
1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright
1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader
1970 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater
Deaths...
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner
2007 - Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer
In History...
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
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# Posted: 14 Oct 2008 01:06
13th November
Birthdays...
1906 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)
1952 - Art Malik, Pakistani-born English actor
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
Deaths...
1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)
2001 - Peggy Mount, English actress (b. 1915)
In history...
1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1985 - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1990 - The World Wide Web first began.
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2008 16:05
14th November
Birthdays --
1840: Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1900: Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
1908: Joseph McCarthy, US senator who led the anti-communist 'witch hunts' (d. 1957)
Deaths --
1734: Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, mistress of King Charles II (b. 1649)
1990: Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain (b. 1903)
2003: Gene Anthony Ray, dancer/actor, Fame (b. 1962)
In history --
1380: King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1677: Prince Willem III Henry marries English princess Mary Stuart
1908: Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light
1910: The first take-off by an aircraft from a ship takes place, from the cruiser Birmingham in Chesapeake Bay
1960: OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
1963: The Icelandic island of Surtsey is born as a result of volcanic activity
1973: Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips
1993: Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
1994: First trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2008 23:04
15th November
Birthdays...
1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
1890 - Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
1905 - Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
Deaths...
1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
1983 - John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
In history...
1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva
1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched
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# Posted: 22 Oct 2008 08:56
16th November
Birthdays..
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
1908 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
1942 - Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1953 - Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor
1961 - Frank Bruno, British boxer
Deaths..
1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
1994 - Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)
In history..
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1938 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1945 - UNESCO is founded.
1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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# Posted: 23 Oct 2008 02:03
17th November
Birthdays...
1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
Deaths...
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
In history...
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
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# Posted: 24 Oct 2008 02:34
18th November
Birthdays..
1785 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
1911 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
1944 - Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer
Deaths..
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
In history..
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off of his son's head
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1987 - King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras
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# Posted: 26 Oct 2008 21:52
19th November
Birthdays...
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
Deaths...
1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950)
In history...
1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1994 - In Great Britain, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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# Posted: 1 Nov 2008 07:02
20th November
Birthdays..
1620 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)
889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer
1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1971)
1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician
Deaths..
1910 - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2007 - Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (b. 1919)
In history..
1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).
1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1947 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1984 - SETI is founded
1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
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# Posted: 3 Nov 2008 23:08
21st November
Birthdays...
1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1941 - Juliet Mills, British actress
1945 - Goldie Hawn, American actress
Deaths...
1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer
1963 - Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz), American prisoner (b. 1890)
In history...
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1783 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1789 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state
1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the massâ€"energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1953 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
1974 - The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this but subsequently acquitted.
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2008 21:17
22nd November
Birthdays..
1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
1941 - Tom Conti, British actor
1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
Deaths..
1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
1963 - Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963 - C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
2007 - Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)
In history..
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1963 - In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2008 00:55
23rd November
Birthdays...
1859 - Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)
1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
Deaths...
1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)
2001 - Mary Whitehouse,'Clean up TV' campaigner
In history...
1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1867 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1963 - Doctor Who first broadcast
1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
2007 - MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2008 21:03 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
24th November:
Birthdays --
1849: Frances Burnett, British novelist (d. 1924)
1925: Alun Owen, American script writer (d. 1994)
Deaths --
1572: John Knox, Founder Presbyterian denomination (b. c. 1510)
1848: William Lamb, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41) (b. 1779)
1885: Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1875-85) (b. 1857)
1963: Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1939)
1991: Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
In history --
1434: Thames River freezes
1655: English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans
1715: Thames River freezes
1759: Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1914: Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1935: King George II returns to Greece after 12 years
1948: Ireland votes for independence from UK
1949: Britain nationalises steel and iron industry
1958: Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1963: Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald
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# Posted: 17 Nov 2008 23:30
25th November
Birthdays...
1880 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
1914 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1920 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
Deaths...
1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
In history...
1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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# Posted: 19 Nov 2008 21:09
26th November
Birthdays...
1924-British actress Pat Phoenix.
1922-American cartoonist Charles Schultz.
1908-Businessman and Hotel owner Sir Charles Forte.
1844-Car designer and manufacturer Karl Benz.
Deaths...
1956-American trombonist and bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
Events...
1778-Captain James Cook became the first European to explorer the Hawaiian Island, Maui.
1941-The Second World War: The Japanese First Air Fleet set out for Pear Harbour.
1968-A new Race Relations Act comes into force in Britain, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services on the basis of ethnicity.
1972-In the Republic of Ireland, the IRA attempt to rescue one of its members, Sean MacStiofain, from a hospital in Dublin â€" the attempt is foiled by police.
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# Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:25
27th November
Birthdays...
1746 - Robert Livingston, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813)
1843 - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
Deaths...
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
In history,...
1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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