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Today in History ~ November 4
Sadie Hawkins Day [H]
Events1520 - Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden
1529 - English cardinal and Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey arrested
1771 - Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant," premieres in Paris
1841 - 1st wagon train arrives in California
1842 - Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1845 - 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1846 - Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1854 - Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island
1856 - James Buchanan elected US president
1864 - Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
1864 - Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1873 - Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
1875 - "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die
1876 - Johannes Brahms' Symphony #1 in C, premieres at Karlsruhe
1879 - James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
1884 - Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st pres term
1886 - Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia," premieres
1904 - 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1908 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in NYC
1909 - Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1918 - Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
1922 - British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of ancient Egypt's child-king, Tutankhamen.
1924 - US president Calvin Coolidge (R) re-elected
1933 - Hermann Goring & Georgi Dimitrov duel
1939 - 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 - US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
1942 - 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out [H]
1946 - UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1948 - TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1950 - Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
1952 - Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th pres beating Adlai Stevenson (D) ending 20 years of Democratic administrations.
1954 - "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1956 - Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt
1956 - USSR sends 200,000 Russian troops and tanks into Hungary & threatens to bomb Budapest to crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary.
1958 - Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1960 - "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1966 - Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1970 - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1973 - M Medoff's "When you Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," premieres in NYC
1978 - Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1979 - 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages; 52 hostages were held for 444 days. A few days later the Iranian government fell to the Ayatollah who controlled the country and hostages.
1980 - Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1980 - Japan's Sadaharu Oh, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires at 40
1981 - Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
1984 - Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1986 - Democrats regained control of the U.S. Senate, 55-45.
1990 - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 performances
1990 - Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1991 - Former First Lady Imelda Marcos returned to Philippines, ending more than five years of exile in United States.
1993 - Canadian Liberal Party leader Jean Chretien was sworn in as prime minister.
1994 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to withdraw the remaining 17,000 U.N. troops from Somalia by mid March 1995.
1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
1996 - The Odwalla juice company issued an apology for tainted apple juice.
2001 - Intense bombing by U.S.-led forces pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul while U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on as tour of the region, told reporters in Uzbehistan that strikes on Taliban targets were showing "measurable progress."
2001 - Underdogs Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees, 3-2, in the deciding seventh game of the World Series to win the expansion team's first championship and spoil the Yankees' bid for four straight.
2002 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston made his most candid apology for assigning sexually abusive priests to parishes where they continued to have access to children. For the first time, Law acknowledged had he acted differently, some children might not have been sexually abused by priests.
2002 - Several thousand Iranians, mostly students, rallied outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran and in other cities across the country to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the diplomatic compound in 1979.
Birthdays Today
1650 - British King William the Third - known as William of Orange
1756 - Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner
1779 - John W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)
1835 - Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1913
1841 - Carl Tausig, composer
1876 - James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
1879 - Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), (entertainer: The Wall Street Girl, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; humorist: "I never met a man I didn't like."; mayor: Beverly Hills; cowboy; subject of Broadway show: Will Rogers Follies) [H]
1912 - Pauline Trigere (fashion designer)
1913 or 1917 - Gig Young (Byron Barr) St Cloud Minn, (Academy Award-winning actor: They Shoot Horses Don't They? [1969]; Teacher's Pet, Young at Heart, Desperate Hours, The Rogues; TV host/narrator: Warner Brothers Presents)
1916 - Walter Cronkite (Multiple Emmy Award-winning news anchor & news correspondent: CBS Evening News; narrator, host: The 20th Century, The 21st Century, The Facts We Face, Open Hearing, Man of the Week, It's News to Me, Air Power; received Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governor's Award [1979])
1917 - Virginia Field (actress: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Dance, Girl, Dance, Waterloo Bridge)
1918 - Art Carney Mount Vernon NY,(Academy Award-winning actor: Harry and Tonto [1974]; Last Action Hero, Izzy and Moe, House Calls, Roadie, Take this Job and Shove It; Emmy Award-winner: The Jackie Gleason Show: The Honeymooners [1954, 1955, 1966-67, 1967-68], The Art Carney Special [1959-60], Terrible Joe Moran [1983-84])
1918 - Cameron Mitchell (Mitzell) (actor: Trapped Ali, Hollywood Cop, Swift Justice, Blood and Black Lace, How to Marry a Millionaire, Desiree, The Tall Men, Carousel, Homecoming, The High Chaparral, Swiss Family Robinson)
1919 - Martin Balsam (Academy Award-winning actor: A Thousand Clowns [1965]; All the President's Men, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Carpetbaggers, Death Wish 3, Delta Force, The Goodbye People, Harlow, Little Big Man, Marjorie Morningstar, Murder on the Orient Express, Psycho, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Twelve Angry Men, All in the Family)
1923 - Alfred Heineken (beer mogul: Heineken Brewery)
1929 - Jim Piersoll (baseball)
1930 - Dick Groat (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates: shortstop: NL Batting Champ, Baseball Writers' Award, Valuable Player, World Series [1960]; St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants; basketball: Ft. Wayne Pistons; sportscaster: WTAE, Pittsburgh: Panthers basketball [color])
1930 - Doris Roberts (Emmy Award-winning actress: St. Elsewhere [1982-83]; Remington Steele, Maggie, Angie, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Ordinary Heroes, Used People)
1930 - Kate Reid (actress: Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Death Ship, Gavilan, Dallas)
1933 - Tito (John) Francona (baseball)
1937 - Loretta Swit (Emmy Award-winning actress: M*A*S*H [1979-80, 1981-82]; TV host/narrator: Those Incredible Animals)
1938 - Harry Elston (musician: group: Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass)
1940 - Delbert McClinton (songwriter, singer: I Received a Letter [w/Glen Clark], Sandy Beaches; musician: harmonica: Hey Baby [w/singer, Bruce Channel]; solo: Giving It Up for Your Love)
1941 - Walter Rock (football: Washington Redskins tackle: Super Bowl VII)
1944 - Joe Niekro (baseball: pitcher)
1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer: known for photographs of sadomasochistic rituals, nudes, portraits, still lifes; work on exhibit: Art Institute of Chicago, New York's Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art, Paris' Pompidou Center, London's Victoria and Albert Museum)
1950 - Markie Post (actress: Night Court, Hearts Afire, Fall Guy, The Gangster Chronicles)
1962 - Ralph Macchio (actor: Eight is Enough, Karate Kid series)
1963 - Andrea McArdle (actress, singer: Annie)
Famous deaths
0644 - Omar I, Arabic 2nd Calif of Islam, murdered
1702 - John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta)
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Germ pianist/composer, dies at 38
1921 - Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1924 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, [A R], US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1953 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
1956 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1970 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (forced into exile three weeks after his country was invaded by Nazi Germany) dies in a hospital in Denver, Colorado. He is buried in the Liberty Easter Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Liberty, Illinois. First European king or queen to die and be buried in the US.
1982 - Jacques Tati[scheff], French mime/director, dies at 74
1990 - Singer/actress Mary Martin died at age 76.
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73. He was fatally shot minutes after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel. He died in surgery.
1997 - H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73
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