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Today in History ~ November 15
Events1316 - Jean I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later
1348 - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1491 - 6 Jews & 5 Conversos (Jews who pretend to be Catholic converts) accused of killing Christians in La Guardia, Spain
1492 - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1527 - Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
1532 - Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anne Boleyn
1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco
1577 - Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
1727 - NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States.
1806 - 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Govt, publishes 1st issue
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike sights mountain now known as "Pikes Peak." (Colorado) elevation 14,110 feet. [H]
1827 - Creek Indians lose all their property in US
1832 - Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony # 5 ("Reformation") premieres
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti
1837 - Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
1864 - 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1864 - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's "army group" departs Atlanta to begin "March to the Sea"
1881 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1884 - Berlin Conference Began
1889 - Brazil's Monarchy Overthrown
1899 - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal
1903 - Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
1904 - King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1914 - Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d'italia
1919 - Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 - The first assembly of the League of Nations was called to order in Geneva, Switzerland.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.
1934 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1935 - Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
1936 - Nazi Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1937 - 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 - Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1939 - FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 - Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
1939 - President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.
1940 - NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1941 - Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1943 - Heinrich Himmler ordered Gypsies and part-Gypsies to be placed in Nazi concentration camps.
1946 - Joseph McCarthy's HUAC interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
1954 - 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begin
1956 - "Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in NYC
1956 - Hungarian Revolution ends. Began on October 23, 1956
1957 - US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 fine
1957 Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile "shooting match" [H]
1959 - Robert White & Perry Smith kill Clutter Family in Kansas
1960 - USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic.
1968 - RMS Queen Elizabeth Retires from Service
1969 - 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 - Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1969 - 250,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.
1971 - Intel advertises 4004-processor
1972 - Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1973 - Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1978 - Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
1979 - Brit government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1982 - Funeral services were held in Moscow's Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1985 - Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
1987 - 27 people were killed when a Continental Airlines DC-9 jet crashed in a snowstorm during takeoff from Denver.
1988 - PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1989 - Tornadoes struck six Southern states, killing 17 people, injuring 463 and causing at least $100 million in damage in Huntsville, Ala., alone.
1990 - Pres Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 - Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
1990 - The "Keating Five"--Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.; Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.; John Glenn, D-Ohio; John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Donald Riegle, D-Mich.--maintained their innocence at the opening of Senate hearings into charges of influence peddling on behalf of S&L kingpin Charles Keating.
1991 - A federal appeals panel threw out former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter's felony convictions in the Iran-Contra affair, saying his immunized testimony to Congress was improperly used against him.
1991 - The Justice Department revealed criminal indictments of BCCI and three businessmen associated with it.
1992 - Newsweek quoted Elizabeth Tamposi saying a State Department colleague acting on behest of the White House asked her to dig up information on then-Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton.
1993 - Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
1994 - Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1996 - Texaco agreed to pay $176.1 million dollars to settle a 2-year-old race discrimination suit.
1996 - Singer Michael Jackson married the woman carrying his baby - his plastic surgeon's nurse, Debbie Rowe -in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. (Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.)
1997 - HBO's "Oz" was named best dramatic series at the 19th CableAce Awards in Los Angeles.
2000 - Al Gore made a surprise proposal for a statewide hand recount of Florida's 6 million ballots - an idea immediately rejected by George W. Bush. Earlier, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris had rejected requests from the counties to update presidential vote totals with the results of hand recounts under way at Gore's urging.
Birthdays Today
1708 - William Pitt the Elder, (Whig) UK PM (1756-61, 66-68) `Great Commoner'
1731 - William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin)
1815 - John Banvard, NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author (Before Dawn -- Nobel 1912)
1882 - Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Aust, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62)
1886 - George (Georgina) Spelvin (actor/actress: pseudonym for an actor or actress performing in more than one role; 1st performance: Karl the Peddler; over 10,000 Broadway appearances)
1887 - Georgia O'Keefe (artist: Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, A Cross by the Sea, Canada, Black Iris, Farmhouse Window and Door, Lake George)
1887 - Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems)
1891 - Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-African campaign)
1891 - W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace)
1906 - Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate
1907 - Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel
1919 - Carol Bruce (actress: WKRP in Cincinnati)
1919 - Joseph A. Wapner (Judge: The People's Court)
1928 - C.W. McCall (William Fries) (singer, songwriter: Convoy, Old Home, Filler-up, Keep on Truckin' Cafe, Wolf Creek Pass, Classified, There Won't be No Country Music, Roses for Mama)
1929 - Edward Asner (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1970-71, 1971-72, 1974-75], Rich Man, Poor Man [2/1/76], Roots-Part One [1/23/77], Lou Grant [1977-78, 1979-80], Thunder Alley, Hearts Afire, Change of Habit, The Doomsday Flight, Fort Apache The Bronx, JFK, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!; president of Screen Actor's Guild)
1932 - Petula Clark (Grammy Award-winning singer [1965]: Downtown, I Know a Place, This is My Song, My Love)
1933 - Clyde McPhatter (singer: Treasure of Love, Long Lonely Nights, A Lovers Question, Lover Please; groups: Dominoes: Do Something for Me, Sixty Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby; Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night/Lucille, Honey Love)
1934 - Joanna Barnes (actress: The Trials of O'Brien, 21 Beacon Street, Spartacus, Parent Trap, Goodbye Charlie)
1937 - Little Willie John (singer: Sleep, Talk to Me Talk to Me, Fever)
1940 - Fred Marti (golf)
1940 - Sam Waterston (actor: The Killing Fields, Law & Order, Friendly Fire, I'll Fly Away, The Great Gatsby, Serial Mom)
1942 - Daniel Barenboim (musician: piano, conductor: English Chamber Orchestra)
1945 - Frida (Anni-Frid) Lyngstad (singer: group: Abba: Fernando, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, Waterloo)
1946 - Janet Lennon (singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: Tonight You Belong to Me)
1947 - Bob Dandridge (basketball)
1950 - Otis Armstrong (football: Denver Broncos running back: AFC Leading Rusher: [1974]: Super Bowl XII)
1951 - Bo Matthews (football)
1952 - Beverly D'Angelo (actress: Coal Miner's Daughter, Paternity, Hair, Annie Hall, Every Which Way but Loose, National Lampoon's Vacation series, Captains and the Kings)
1967 - Mari Fernandez (singer: group: Sweet Sensation: If Wishes Came True)
Famous deaths
0565 - Justitianus I, [Petrus Sabbatius], Byzantine emperor (527-65), dies
1280 - Albertus Magnus ("the Great"), German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87
1630 - Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
1787 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphigenie Tauride), dies at 73
1954 - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
1958 - Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44
1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74
1978 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies in NY at 76
1980 - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
1984 - Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks
1994 - James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
1996 - Alger Hiss, former State Department official, alleged spy, died in New York just four days after his 92nd birthday
1998 - Kwame Ture, the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57.
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