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Today in History ~ November 11
The REAL Veteran's Day, (In Canada, it's Remembrance Day.)
They fought for your freedom. Remember them!
Events1158 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
1493 - Columbus discovers Saba
1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws) [H]
1640 - John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
1714 - A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1725 - Georg F Handel's opera "Tamerlano," premieres in London
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England
1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
1851 - Alvan Clark patents telescope
1862 - Verdi's Opera "La Forza Del Destino" premiers (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
1865 - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1889 - Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
1890 - D McCree patents portable fire escape
1899 - Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones' "Floradora," premieres in London
1901 - Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres
1909 - Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins
1909 - J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London
1918 - Armistice Day -- Germany surrenders ending WW I (at 11 AM on Western Front) , Allies & Germany sign armistice
1921 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary) [H]
1923 - Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triomphe, Paris
1925 - Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 - Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1937 - Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph
1938 - German & Austrian Jews suffer 1 billion Mark damage in Nazi Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David
1939 - Kate Smith first performed "God Bless America" on her weekly radio show. The song had been written for her by Irving Berlin.
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1940 - Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
1942 - -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
1942 - 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
1942 - Germany completes occupation of France
1959 - 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1961 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1961 - Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitch kicked out of Russia's communist party
1961 - Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1964 - Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in NYC
1965 - Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
1966 - Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
1971 - Neil Simon's "prisoner of Second Avenue," premieres in NYC
1975 - Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years)
1982 - Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland
1982 - Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.
1985 - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1987 - Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 - Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1989 - An estimated 1 million East Germans poured into West Germany for a day of celebration, visiting and shopping. Most returned home.
1990 - Stormie Jones, the Texas girl who underwent the world's first heart-liver transplant, died in Pittsburgh of a possible heart infection.
1992 - Anglican Church & Church of England broke the tradition of a male-only clergy when it voted to allow the ordination of women as priests.
1992 - The twin girls whose 53-year-old mother was believed to be the oldest woman to bear twins by in-vitro fertilization were introduced to the public in Anaheim, Calif.
1994 - Jimi Hendrix's stage outfit, John Lennon's "army" shirt, and guitars from the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and the Beach Boys were among the items sold at the first ever pop memorabilia and guitar sale at Christie's in New York.
1996 - A massive snowstorm hit the snow belt east of Cleveland, Ohio.
1997 - Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roger Clemens became the first American League player and only the third major league player to win the Cy Young Award four times.
2001 - On the two-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks, President Bush and leaders from around the world stood in the shadow of the World Trade Center ruins and, in a colorful and solemn ceremony, honored the dead from more than 80 nations.
2002 - It's reported that prosecutors believe that John Lee Malvo, 17, performed most of the Washington-area sniper attacks. Malvo and John Allen Muhammad are charged in the wave of shootings that left at least 10 dead.
Birthdays Today
1690 - Gerhard Hoffmann, composer
1696 - Andrea Zani, composer
1744 - Abigail Smith Adams (First Lady: wife of 2nd U.S. President of the United States, John Adams)
1771 - Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (political revolutionary, author; The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot)
1869 - Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
1870 - Thomas Aldrich (author: The Story of a Bad Boy)
1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Vevey Switzerland, conductor
1885 - George Patton (U.S. Army General: WWI, WWII; subject of film: Patton) "Blood & Guts"
1896 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster
1898 - Rene Clair, director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow)
1899 - Pat (William) O'Brien (actor: Knute Rockne, All American, Ragtime, Fighting Father Dunne, Some like It Hot, Harrigan and Son)
1899 - Pie (Harold) Traynor (Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman: World Series [1925, 1927; playing manager, Pirate's scout, radio announcer)
1904 - Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin
1909 - Robert Ryan (actor: Bad Day at Black Rock, Battle of the Bulge, The Dirty Dozen, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day, On Dangerous Ground; TV narrator: World War I)
1914 - Howard Fast, NYC, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)
1915 - William Proxmire, (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88) (Golden Fleece Awards)
1918 - Stubby Kaye (actor: Cat Ballou, Guys and Dolls, Li'l Abner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, My Sister Eileen, Love & Marriage; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz)
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (writer: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions)
1925 - Jonathan Winters (Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Davis Rules [1990-91], The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, NBC Comedy Hour, The Jonathan Winters Show, Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, And Here's the Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Shadow, The Flintstones; character: Maude Frickert; TV panelist: Masquerade Party; commercials: Hefty trash bags)
1929 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (Death of Artemio Cruz)
1929 - LaVern Baker (singer: Tweedle-Dee, I Cried a Tear, Jim Dandy)
1935 - Bibi Anderson (Birgitta Andersson) (actress: Story of a Woman)
1940 - Barbara Boxer, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-92/Sen-D-CA, 1993- )
1944 - Jesse Colin Young (Perry Miller) (songwriter, musician: group: The Youngbloods: Get Together)
1945 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra (President: Nicaragua)
1945 - Denise Alexander (actress: General Hospital)
1945 - Vince Martell (musician: guitar, singer: group: Vanilla Fudge: You Keep Me Hanging On, Take Me for a Little While)
1946 - Chris Dreja (musician: guitar: group: Yardbirds: For Your Love, I'm a Man)
1947 - Pat Daugherty (musician: bass: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Jim Dandy to the Rescue, Memories at the Window)
1950 - Jim Peterik (musician: keyboard: group: Survivor: Eye of the Tiger, Burning Heart; singer: group: Ides of March: Vehicle)
1951 - Fuzzy (Frank) Zoeller (golf champion: Masters [1979], U.S. Open [1984])
1952 - Paul Cowsill (singer: group: The Cowsills: Hair, Indian Lake)
1962 - Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes) (actress: Indecent Proposal, Ghost, The Seventh Sign, A Few Good Men, Color of Night, St. Elmo's Fire, Choices, General Hospital; married to actor, Bruce Willis)
1962 - Mic Michaeli (musician: keyboard: group: Europe: The Final Countdown)
1964 - Philip McKeon (actor: Alice, Red Surf, Return to Horror High)
1968 - Ronnie Devoe (singer: group: New Edition; Bell Biv Devoe: Poison)
1968 - Wyatt Pauley (musician: guitar: group: Linear: Sending All My Love)
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio (actor: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Critters 3, Parenthood, Growing Pains, Titanic)
Famous deaths
0307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies
0397 - Martinus, (St Martin), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at 81
0511 - Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingians, dies at 45
1831 - Nat Turner hanged in Virginia. [H]
1855 - Soren A Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher/theologian, dies at 42
1880 - Lucretia Mott, US quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies
1912 - Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75
1945 - Jerome Kern, US composer, who wrote such memorable tunes as "Ol' Man River," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "The Last Time I Saw Paris," died at the age of 60.
1976 - Alexander Calder, US sculptor, dies at 78
1984 - Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar/father of MLK Jr, dies at 84
1993 - Harry R "Bob" Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon), dies at 67
1995 - Charles Scribner Jr, publisher, dies at 74
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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