November 26th

EVENTS

43 BC – The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (“Octavian”, later “Caesar Augustus”), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
579 – Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
783 – Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 – vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1527 – Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
1580 – French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
1648 – Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia
1688 – Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
1688 – French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
1688 – King James II escapes back to London
1702 – Premiere of Colley Cibber’s “King Imposter”
1703 – Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England (NS 7 Dec) – thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen
The Sun King of France Louis XIV

1716 – 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1741 – French & Beiers army occupies Prague
1764 – France bans Jesuit enorde
1778 – Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1784 – Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 – 1st national Thanksgiving in USA
1793 – Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee
1825 – 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 – 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1835 – HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1841 – 1st date in James Clavell’s novel Tai-Pan
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1847 – Alfred de Mussets “Un Caprice” premieres in Paris
Novelist Charles Dickens

1859 – Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” is published in literary periodical All the Year Round
1861 – West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
1863 – -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
1864 – Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
1864 – Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 – “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll published in USA
1865 – Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1867 – Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1868 – 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1885 – 1st meteor photograph
1894 – King Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki signs accord with France
Author and Mathematician Lewis Carroll

1895 – Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 – 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6
1896 – A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle
1898 – -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
1898 – SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1901 – Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa
1905 – 1st Australasian Championships: Rodney Heath beats Albert Curtis (4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4)
1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1910 – 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
1913 – Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1914 – Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
1916 – Greece declares war on Germany
1916 – Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that ‘The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched’
1917 – The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter

1922 – English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1924 – Mongolian People’s Republic proclaimed
1925 – Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
1927 – 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
1928 – Paul Claudel’s “Lepdrehumily” premieres in Dresden
1928 – Philip Barry’s “Holiday” premieres in NYC
1932 – Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
1933 – Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1934 – German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1934 – Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1939 – 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1940 – Leidse students strike
1940 – Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1941 – Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
Tennis Player and Three-Time Major Champion Bobby Riggs

1941 – General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa
1941 – British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941 – Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941 – Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France
1942 – “Casablanca” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart andIngrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
1942 – Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1944 – 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
1944 – Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria
1945 – During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1945 – Charlie “Bird” Parker leads a record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the “greatest Jazz session ever”
1945 – “Brief Encounter”, based on Noël Coward’s one-act play “Still Life”, directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard is released
Scientist and Inventor Edwin Land

1948 – 1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the next 15 years.
1949 – 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
1949 – India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 – China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1952 – 1st modern 3-D movie “Bwana Devil” premieres in Hollywood
1953 – KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
1954 – Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1955 – “Boy Friend” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
1955 – 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
1955 – Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
1955 – 20th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 26-0 in Birmingham
1956 – “The Price Is Right” debuts on NBC
1956 – USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
1957 – WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 – 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
1960 – Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1960 – 25th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 3-0 in Birmingham
1961 – For 2nd time in his career, St Louis’ Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
1961 – Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1962 – Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
1962 – Fab Four have their first recording session under name The Beatles
1963 – 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1963 – Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
1963 – Explorer 18 launched
1964 – 29th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 21-14 in Birmingham
1965 – Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
1965 – France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 – “Walking Happy” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs
1966 – 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 – 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
1967 – Browns’ Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1967 – Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
1968 – 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
1969 – 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
1969 – Cream’s final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1969 – Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.
1972 – Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
1972 – Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema, in O’Connell Bridge House in Dublin
1973 – Nixon’s personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 – Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal
1974 – Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
1974 – Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
1975 – US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1975 – France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1975 – Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
1975 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 – German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
1976 – Ringo releases “Hey Baby” single
1976 – Sex Pistols release their debut single “Anarchy In The UK”
1976 – Willy Brandt elected chairman of Socialist International
1977 – ‘Vrillon’, claiming to be the representative of the ‘Ashtar Galactic Command’, takes over Britain’s Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
1977 – 42nd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 48-21 in Birmingham
1978 – 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1978 – 1st lesbian theme TV movie – “A Question of Love”
1978 – 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
1978 – Christina Crawford autobiography “Mommie Dearest” reaches best-seller status
1979 – Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
1979 – Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
1980 – Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
MLB Third Baseman Mike Schmidt

1980 – Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
1982 – Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 – Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 – Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 – Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 – After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy Lafleur retires
1984 – John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1984 – Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 – US & Iraq re-establish diplomatic relations
1985 – 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 – Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
1988 – Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
37th US President Richard Nixon

1988 – Pioneer 6’s closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1989 – 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1989 – Comores coup under Bob Benard
1989 – Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay
1989 – Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1990 – 1st Billboard Music Awards: M.C. Hammer & Janet Jackson win
1990 – Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
1990 – Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 – Premier Mazowiecki of Poland resigns
1990 – US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraq’s withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1
1991 – Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1992 – 57th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-0 in Birmingham

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev

1995 – 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
1995 – Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
1995 – New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1996 – Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
1996 – Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy’s Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1996 – Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy’s Lady’s 3 Tour Golf
1996 – Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy’s Men’s 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1997 – Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway’s #5
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
1999 – Steve Yzerman scores his 600th career goal
2000 – 88th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes, 28-26
2003 – Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
NHL Legend Steve Yzerman

2008 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
2010 – 75th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-27 in Tuscaloosa
2011 – 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
2011 – 76th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 42-14 in Auburn
2012 – 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
2012 – The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
2013 – Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin’s show “Up Late with Alec Baldwin” is cancelled after only five episodes

BIRTHDAYS

1288 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1607 – John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
1609 – Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1640 – Carl Rosier, composer
1653 – Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1657 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1663 – Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
1678 – Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 – William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
1736 – Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
1744 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
1754 – Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, born in Nassenhuben (Mokry Dwór), Royal Prussia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1794)
1795 – Carl P Fohr, German painter
1795 – Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
1809 – Mariano Obiols, composer
1810 – William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British industralist (hydraulic crane)
1816 – William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 – Louis Lacombe, composer
1823 – Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
1827 – Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
Christian Pioneer Ellen G. White (1827)

1827 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader (Seventh-day Adventist Church), born in Gorham, Maine
1828 – René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor/women’s rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War)
1832 – Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
1847 – Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1850 – Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 – Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1861 – Albert B. Fall, New Mexico Senator (Teapot Dome Scandal), born in Frankfort, Kentucky
1862 – Mark A Stein, archaeologist
1864 – Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero’s Poem)
United States Senator Albert B. Fall (1861)

1865 – Earl Ross Drake, composer
1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1874 – Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel)
1876 – Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, developed modern air conditioning, born in Angola NY
1885 – Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1888 – Franz Jung, writer
1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1892 – Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 – Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1894 – James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
1895 – Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
Engineer Willis Carrier(1876)

1895 – William Wilson (Bill), East Dorset, Vermont, co-founder (alcoholics anonymous), (d. 1971)
1898 – Karl Ziegler, Helsa, German Empire, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)
1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901 – Philippus J Idenburg, Dutch statistician
1902 – Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
1902 – Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter
1904 – Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
1905 – George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 – Sandro Fuga, composer
1907 – Frances Dee, actress (Of Human Bondage), born in Los Angeles, California
Chemist/Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler (1898)

1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1908 – Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate (Savoy)
1908 – Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
1908 – Philipp Mohler, composer
1909 – Eugene Ionesco, playwright
1909 – Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1910 – Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal)
1911 – Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
1911 – Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1911 – Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
1912 – Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 – Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1912 – Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold, composer
1913 – Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 – Joshua William Steward, polymath
1915 – Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar’s Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
1915 – Herbert Joeks, [Herbert J van Hugten], Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo)
1916 – Bob Elliot, baseball player
1916 – Mareo Ishiketa, composer
1918 – Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
1919 – Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl), (d. 2013)
1920 – Istvan Sarkozy, composer
1920 – Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover)
1920 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1921 – Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984
1921 – Verghese Kurien, Calicut, British India, engineer (billion-litre idea), (d.2012)
1922 – Adele Jergens, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man), born in Brooklyn, New York
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (1922)

1922 – Charles M. Schulz, Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts), (d. 2000)
1923 – Patricia Phoenix, County Galway Ireland, actress (L Shaped Room)
1924 – George Segal, New York, American painter and sculptor of lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
1924 – Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
1925 – Eugene Istomin, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943), born in NYC, New York
1925 – Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1926 – Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner
1926 – Mauro Bortolotti, composer
1927 – John Carter, Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children’s entertainer (d. 2001)
1929 – Betta St John, Hawthorne California, actress (Corridors of Blood)
1929 – Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
1931 – Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
1931 – Adrianus J “Cardinal” Simonis, archbishop of Utrecht
1931 – Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1932 – Alan Stout, composer
1932 – Marten Beinema, Dutch MP (CDA)
American Singer and Actor Robert Goulet (1933)

1933 – Robert Goulet, Lawrence, Massachusetts, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
1934 – Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 – Marian Mercer, Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
1936 – Margaret Boden, philosopher
1937 – Boris Borisovich Yegorov, USSR, doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1938 – Elizabeth E Bailey, university dean (Carnegie Mellon)
1938 – Jeremy Boorda, admiral
1938 – Porter J Goss, (Rep-R-Florida)
1938 – Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1939 – Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], American singer (Proud Mary), born in Nutbush, Tennessee
1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician
Singer Tina Turner (1939)

1941 – Jeff Torborg, baseball player
1941 – Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
1942 – Olivia Cole, actress (Roots, Szysznyk), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1942 – Michael Devlin, American bass-baritone
1943 – Gerald D Kleczka, (Rep-D-WI, 1984- )
1943 – Jan Stenerud, Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1943 – Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey
1943 – Marilynne Robinson, American writer
1944 – Alan Henderson, Belfast, rock bassist (Them)
1944 – Jean Terrell, Texas, rocker (Supremes)
1945 – Daniel Davis, Gurdun Ark, actor (Niles-Nanny)
1945 – John McVie, British rock bassist (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1945 – Tandy Cronyn, actress (Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends)
1945 – Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
1946 – Angus Suttie, English potter
1946 – Bert Bouquet, bassist (Earth & Fire, Focus)
1946 – Burt Reiter, rocker (Focus)
1947 – Larry Gura, baseball player
1947 – Richie Hebner, baseball player
1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
1948 – Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
1949 – Maggie Donnelly, bag lady
1949 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, American educator
1950 – Jorge Orta, baseball player
1951 – La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Budapest Hungary, Italian MP
1952 – Wendy Turnbell, Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
1953 – Louise Parks, LPGA golfer
1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
1954 – Roz Chast, American cartoonist
1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant leader
1955 – Bob Walk, baseball player
1955 – Jay Howell, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, Oakland A’s)
1955 – Tracy [Raye] Hickman, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1956 – Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag)
1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
1956 – Don Lake, Canadian television writer
1958 – Steve Buyer, (Rep-R-Indiana)
1959 – Jamie Rose, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest), born in NYC, New York
1959 – Mike Moore, baseball player
1960 – Harold Reynolds, baseball player
1961 – Dave Hannan, Sudbury, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche)
1961 – Marcy Walker, Paducah KY, actress (Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara)
1961 – Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
1962 – Chuck Finley, Monroe LA, pitcher (California Angels)
1962 – John Samuel Inman, Greensboro NC, PGA golfer (1993 Buick South Open)
1962 – Mike Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1963 – Allyson Rice-Taylor, Huntington WV, actress (As the World Turns)
1963 – Mario Elie, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets)
1963 – Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1964 – Al Smith, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers)
1964 – Jeff Jaeger, NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears)
1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier (Olympics-Gold-1988)
1966 – Jay Berger, Fort Dix NJ, tennis star
1966 – Sue Wicks, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1966 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and model
1967 – Karol Rusznyak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1967 – Ridley Jacobs, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian ODI 1996)
1968 – Steve Lofton, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, NE Patriots)
1969 – Sam Militello, baseball player
1969 – Shawn Kemp, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics)
1969 – Kara Walker, American artist
1970 – Greg Graham, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1970 – John Amaechi, NBA center/forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1970 – Lorissa McComas, Columbus Ohio, actress (Lap Dancing, Vamp)
1970 – Mark Dixon, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
1971 – Emma Robinson, rower (Olympics-96), born in Montreal, Quebec
1971 – Vince Danielsen, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 – Ronald “Winky” Wright, American boxer
1972 – Nicole Beach, Phoenix AZ, model (Wonderbra)
1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
1973 – John Zimmerman, Birmingham Ala, pairs skater (& Steigler)
1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
1974 – David Barnard, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
1974 – Jamie Jones, singer (All 4 One)
1974 – Richard Ikeda, Kamloops BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1974 – Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
1976 – Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
1976 – Brian Schneider, American baseball player
1977 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
1977 – Forrest Griffin, American MMA-fighter
1977 – John Parrish, American baseball player
1977 – Paris Lenon, American football player
1978 – Sarah Cahill, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1996)
1978 – Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 – B.J. Averell, American online tutor and reality television contestant
1980 – Jessica Bowman, Walnut Creek California, actress (Colleen Cooper-Dr Quinn)
1980 – Delilah Cotto, Puerto Rican actress, dancer and model
1980 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
1981 – Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer
1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
1981 – Gina Kingsbury, Canadian hockey player
1981 – Natalie Gauci, Australian Idol 2007 winner
1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman and co-founder of Facebook, born in Hickory, North Carolina
1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
1985 – Lil’ Fizz, American singer
1986 – Trevor Morgan, American actor
1986 – Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
1988 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
1992 – Louis Ducrut, prince/son of Princess Stephanie & Daniel Ducrut

WEDDINGS

1894 – Russian emperor Nicholas II (26) weds Alexandra Feodorovna (22) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia
1924 – Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds “The Kid” actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico
1958 – Model Bettie Page (35) weds Armond Walterson in Florida
1962 – Singer Tina Turner (23) weds Ike Turner (31) in Tijuana, Mexico
1977 – Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (53) weds businessman Arthur Hardwick Jr at the Sheraton Inn in Cheektowaga, New York
1981 – Legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (55) weds “Sounder” actress Cicely Tyson (47) at the home of actor Bill Cosby
42nd US President Bill Clinton (1993)

1993 – Political strategist for President Clinton’s campaign and political commentator James Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana
2011 – “The Sugarland” singer Jennifer Nettles (37) weds entrepreneur Justin Miller at a chapel nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

399 – Pope Staint Siricius, reigned 384-99
666 – Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)
1126 – Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1240 – Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies
1252 – Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1267 – Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies
1326 – Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
1504 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1621 – Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540)
1639 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 – Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1653 – Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
1688 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L’amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
1689 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. February 1, 1635)
1717 – Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1719 – John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
1776 – Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies
1778 – Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
1780 – James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1809 – Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
1810 – Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
1821 – Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
1822 – Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
1836 – John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1851 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1854 – Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1855 – Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1857 – Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1866 – Adrien Francois Servais, composer, dies at 59
1866 – Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
1880 – Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
1882 – Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies

Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Advocate Sojourner Truth (1883)

1883 – Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist/women’s rights advocate, dies at 96
1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (ozone), dies at 71
1892 – Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
1896 – Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1918 – Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
1923 – Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
1925 – Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
1926 – John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
1927 – Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
1929 – Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
1933 – Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
1934 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)
1938 – Henry Schultz, US farm commune, dies
1941 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1941 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1943 – Edward H “Butch” O’hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
1950 – Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 – Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956 – Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
1957 – Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
1957 – Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70
1959 – Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
1961 – Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86
1962 – Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
1963 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies
1965 – Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49’ers), dies of cancer at 60
1966 – Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
1966 – Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
1968 – Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
1970 – B O Davis Sr, 1st African American general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1971 – Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
1973 – John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
1974 – Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. September 10, 1903)
1980 – Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
1981 – Machgielis “Max” Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80
1982 – Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
1982 – Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98
1982 – Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
1985 – Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
1986 – Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
1986 – Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
1987 – Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89
1987 – Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
1989 – Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
1990 – David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
1991 – Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
1991 – Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70
1991 – Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
1991 – Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; b. 1908)
1992 – Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36
1993 – Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 – Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69
1994 – Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
1994 – David Bache, designer, dies at 69
1994 – Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1995 – Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106
1995 – David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51
1995 – Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
1995 – Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79
1995 – Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
1996 – Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
1996 – Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
1996 – Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
1996 – Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
1996 – Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82
1997 – Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62
1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2001 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
2002 – Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2002 – Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2003 – Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
Film Director Philippe de Broca (2004)

2004 – Philippe de Broca, French film director (Le Bossu) dies aged 71
2005 – Stan Berenstain, children’s author, (d. 2005)
2006 – Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
2006 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
2006 – Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
2006 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish procyclist (b. 1975)
2007 – Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (b. 1917)
2007 – Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (b. 1913)
2007 – Steve Fossett, American Aviator (b. 1944)
2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2008 – De’Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
2010 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
2012 – Joseph Murray, English plastic surgeon, dies from a hemorrhagic stroke at 93
2013 – Tony Musante, American actor, dies from complications following surgery at 77

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1941 FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday

• American Revolution

• 1776 Peyton Randolph laid to rest at William and Mary

• Automotive

• 1931 First U.S. “cloverleaf” appears on the cover of the Engineering News-Record

• Civil War

• 1863 Mine Run campaign begins

• Cold War

• 1950 Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war

• Crime

• 1933 Vigilantes in California lynch two suspected murderers

• Disaster

• 1898 Winter storm paralyzes southern New England

• General Interest

• 1922 Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut

• Hollywood

• 1942 Casablanca premieres in NYC

• Literary

• 1862 Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present

• Music

• 1989 MTV Unplugged premieres

• Old West

• 1872 The Great Diamond Hoax is exposed

• Presidential

• 2002 George W. Bush pardons a turkey

• Sports

• 1946 Football trailblazer Art Shell is born

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Air Force helicopter pilot rescues Special Forces team

• World War I

• 1916 T.E. Lawrence reports on Arab affairs

• World War II

• 1941 Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor