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Today in History ~ November 14
Events1380 - King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1524 - Pizarro begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1666 - Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1666 - The first blood transfusion took place in London. Blood from one dog was transfused into another.
1677 - Prince William III marries English princess Mary Stuart
1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
1770 - Explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile.
1832 - 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; rode on 4th Avenue between Prince & 14th Sts
1833 - Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo
1834 - William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months
1851 - "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published [H]
1863 - Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1863 - Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President Garfield. (Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.)
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days. She succeeded, by finishing trip the following January in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
1894 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez"
1896 - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1905 - David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West," premieres in NYC
1908 - Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light
1908 - Oscar Strauss' musical "The Chocolate Soldier," premieres in Vienna
1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president
1919 - Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.
1935 - Nazis strip German Jews of their citizenship
1935 - President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
1940 - German planes bomb Coventry, England, destroying or damaging 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings, including the 14th-century Coventry Cathedral. [H]
1942 - Last Vichy French troops in Algeria surrender
1942 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal
1943 - FDR Nearly Killed by Friendly Fire, an American torpedo was mistakenly fired at the U.S. battleship Iowa, which was carrying President Roosevelt and his joint chiefs to the Tehran conference. [H]
1944 - Tommy Dorsey and Orchestra recorded "Opus No. 1" for RCA Victor.
1945 - H Lindsay & R Crouse "State of the Union," premieres in NYC
1954 - Egyptian pres Naguib fired/state of emergency declared
1956 - Hungarian revolt put down
1959 - Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano's Most Spectacular Eruption
1960 - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
1960 - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
1964 - "Oliver!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances
1965 - US govt sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1968 - 1st European lung transplant
1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1969 - Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon.
1970 - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
1972 - For the first time in its 76-year history, the Dow Jones Industrial Stock Average closed above 1,000, ending the day at 1,003.16.
1973 - Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1992, and Anne re-married.)
1976 - Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
1977 - Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Walter Cronkite
1981 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
1982 - Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed
1984 - Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon went to court in New York with a $50 million libel suit against Time (Magazine) Inc. He lost after a two-month trial.
1986 - SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1986 - White House acknowledges CIA role in secretly shipping weapons to Iran.
1987 - "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 1761 performances
1988 - The PLO proclaimed an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, endorsing a renunciation of terrorism and an implicit recognition of Israel.
1989 - The Navy ordered a 48-hour "stand-down" for a safety review following 10 unrelated accidents resulting in 10 deaths during a three-week period.
1990 - A gunman in Dunedin, New Zealand, killed 11 neighbors, then was killed by police in the nation's worst mass slaying. A 12th victim died later.
1991 - U.S. and British authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in which 270 people died.
1991 - Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland after 13 years of exile.
1991 - A former postal worker in Royal Oak, Mich., returned to work and killed four people before turning the gun on himself.
1993 - Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history
1993 - In a referendum, residents of Puerto Rico voted in favor of continuing their U.S. commonwealth status.
1994 - 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
1994 - Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
1997 - Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale
1997 - Sara Lister, an assistant secretary of the Army, resigned after apologizing for having spoken of the U.S. Marine Corps as "extremists."
2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush's fragile 300-vote lead over Al Gore, hours after a judge refused to lift a 5 p.m. deadline; however, the judge gave Harris the authority to accept or reject follow-up manual recount totals.
2001 - House and Senate negotiators working on ways to beef up airport security voted to have federal workers screen luggage.
2002 - Iraq told the United Nations it accepts -- without condition or special requests -- the U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq.
2002 - The body of Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani citizen convicted of killing two CIA employees in 1993, has been handed over to his brothers and will be flown to Pakistan. Kasi, 38, was executed amid warnings by the State Department of global retaliation against Americans.
Birthdays Today
1650 - William III [Dutch William], king of England (1689-1702)
1719 - Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, composer
1765 - Robert Fulton (builder of first profitable steamboat: the Clermont)
1774 - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, composer
1778 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
1805 - Fanny Cecilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
1840 - Claude Monet (artist: Water Lilies, La Grenouillere, Impression: Sunrise, Old St. Lazare Station, Paris)
1840 - Claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies)
1842 - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War He died in 1959
1863 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite)
1887 - Bernhard Paumgartner, Austria, musicologist/conductor/composer
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru (India's 1st prime minister after its independence 1947-64)
1896 - Mamie Doud Eisenhower (First Lady: wife of 34th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower)
1900 - Aaron Copland (Academy Award-winning composer: film score: The Heiress [1948]; Of Mice and Men, Our Town, Lincoln Portrait, ballet score: Billy the Kid)
1908 - Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author (50th Anniv of Soviet Union)
1909 - Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist, alcoholic senator
1912 - Barbara Hutton (heiress: F.W. Woolworth)
1914 - Rosemary DeCamp (actress: Rhapsody in Blue, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, That Girl, The Life of Riley)
1915 - Martha Tilton (singer: And the Angels Sing, A Stranger in Town; actress: The Benny Goodman Story, Sunny)
1917 - Howard Duff (actor: Felony Squad, Mr. Adams and Eve, Flamingo Road, Knots Landing, Dante, Dallas, East of Eden, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Naked City, Oh God!, Book 2)
1920 - Johnny Desmond (Giovanni DeSimone) (singer: Yellow Rose of Texas, Play Me Hearts and Flowers; group: Bob-O-Links w/Bob Crosby Band; solo: "the G.I. Sinatra": Glen Miller AAF band, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club, Your Hit Parade, Face the Music; actor: Say Darling, Funny Girl, China Doll)
1921 - Brian (Robert) Keith (actor: Family Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick, Heartland, The Westerner, Crusader, Centennial, The Brian Keith Show, Walter and Emily, Nevada Smith, The Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap, The Young Philadelphians, Young Guns)
1922 - Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian secretary-general of UN (1992-)
1924 - Leonid B Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952)
1924 - Phyllis Avery (actress: The George Gobel Show, Mr. Novak)
1928 - Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano (Vienna Munich State Opera/Met Opera)
1929 - Jimmy Piersall (baseball: New York Mets: hit 100th home run [1963])
1929 - McLean Stevenson (actor: M*A*S*H, The McLean Stevenson Show, Hello Larry, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, The Doris Day Show, Condo)
1929 - Tiny (DeWayne) Lund (auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1963])
1930 - Edward H White II, San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
1933 - Fred Haise (astronaut: Apollo - Saturn 13 [1970])
1935 - Don Stewart (actor: Guiding Light, The Doomsday Flight)
1935 - Hussein ibn Talal I, king of Jordan (1953- )
1939 - Wendy (Walter) Carlos, Pawtucket RI, composer (Switched on Bach)
1940 - Freddie Garrity (singer: group: Freddie and the Dreamers: I'm Telling You Now)
1942 - Bryan Watson (hockey)
1948 - Prince Charles (of Wales) (Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor Mountbatten) (heir to British throne)
1951 - Stephen Bishop (singer: It Might be You; musician: guitar; singer, songwriter: On and On, Save It for a Rainy Day, Everybody Needs Love, This is the Night, Living in the Land of Abe Lincoln, theme for Animal House, Dream Girl, theme for China Syndrome: Somewhere in Between, Don't You Worry, LPs: Careless, Bish)
1952 - Frank Tate (football)
1953 - Joe Fields (football)
1954 - Willie (Guillermo) Hernandez (baseball: Detroit Tigers pitcher: Cy Young Award-winner [1984], Baseball Writers' Award: [1984], World Series [1984]; Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs)
1955 - Jack Sikma (basketball: Milwaukee Bucks)
1962 - Laura San Giacoma, Danville NJ, actress (Pretty Woman, Vital Signs)
1965 - Jeannette Jurado (singer: group: Expose: Season's Change)
Famous deaths
0563 - Justinianus, co-emperor of Byzantium (527-563), dies at 82
0976 - T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies
1263 - Alexander Nevski, Russian ruler (1252-63), dies at 43
1625 - Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies
1716 - Gottfried W Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70
1831 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74
1832 - Charles Carroll, large landowner/signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 95
1915 - Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala
1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (Vita Breve, Atl ntida), dies at 69
1955 - Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59
1987 - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88
1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain/editor of Punch magazine, dies at 87
1991 - Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDS at 63
1995 - Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers, Time and Again), dies of pneumonia at 84
1996 - Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the senior Roman Catholic prelate in the United States and leader of Chicago's 2.3 million Catholics, died at his home at age 68.
1997 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81
2000 - Pioneering CBS Radio newsman Robert Trout died in New York at age 91.
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