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Today in History ~ November 19
Events1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico on his 2nd voyage
1521 - Battle at Milan: Emperor Charles V's Spanish/German/papal troops beat France & occupy Milan
1530 - Augsburg Emperor Karel I demands Edict of Worms
1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1793 - Jacobin Club forms in Paris
1794 - The United States and Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
1824 - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1850 - Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1861 - Julia Ward Howe writes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1863 - President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. "Four score and seven years ago..." [H]
1874 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1874 - The Women’s Christian Temperance Union was founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
1895 - Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1903 - Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1911 - NY receives 1st Marconi transmission from Italy
1915 - Labor organizer and folk singer Joe Hill was murdered by a firing squad in Utah.
1919 - US Senate, snubbing Pres Wilson, rejects Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
1928 - 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1932 - Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for his presidential library at Hyde Park, N.Y.
1940 - German air raid on Birmingham fails
1942 - During World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front. [H]
1947 - 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1949 - Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco, six months after he succeeded his grandfather, Prince Louis II.
1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1953 - US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1953 - US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular "Edsel."
1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 - First Jazz Concert Performed at the White House
1962 - SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in NYC
1969 - Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon
1972 - Willy Brandt's SPD wins West German election
1976 - Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1977 - Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1985 - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
1985 - A Houston jury ruled Texaco must pay $10.5 billion, the largest damage award in United States history, to Pennzoil Company for Texaco's 1984 acquisition of Getty Oil Co.
1985 - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
1986 - At the beginning of what became the Iran-Contra scandal, President Reagan said the United States would send no more arms to Iran.
1990 - Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations signed a massive conventional arms treaty in Paris to end the 40-year Cold War.
1991 - The U.S. House of Representatives sustained President Bush's veto of a bill that would have lifted his ban on federally financed abortion counseling.
1991 - A cargo train derailment in central Mexico killed 70 people and injured 40 more when the boxcars crushed automobiles on a highway below the tracks.
1991 - Eduard Shevardnadze was reappointed Soviet foreign minister after resigning in December 1990 with a warning of an impending coup.
1993 - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1994 - Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and his party claimed victory in the country's first multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections.
1995 - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1995 - In a close presidential runoff election in Poland, former communist party leader Aleksander Kwasniewski defeated incumbent Lech Walesa.
1996 - Fourteen people were killed when a United Express commuter plane collided with a private plane at an airport in Quincy, Ill.
1996 - The United States vetoed U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's bid for a second term.
1997 - Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to septuplets in Des Moines, Iowa, the first time seven babies had been born and survived.
2000 - President Clinton ended a historic visit to Vietnam.
2001 - The U.S. government offered a $25 million award for information leading to the location or capture of Osama Bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America.
Birthdays Today
1600 - Charles I, king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
1696 - Louis Tocque French painter
1709 - Pierre Leclair, composer
1752 - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
1770 - Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat/engineer (built Suez Canal)
1831 - James Garfield (20th U.S. President, 1st left-handed president; [assassinated in 1881])
1835 - Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1859 - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1874 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer
1900 - Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross)
1905 - Tommy Dorsey (musician: trombone, bandleader: "The Sentimental Gentlemen of Swing": I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Treasure Island, The Music Goes Round and Round, Alone, You, Marie, Song of India, Who, Satan Takes a Holiday, The Big Apple, Once in a While, Music Maestro Please, Our Love, Indian Summer, All the Things You Are, There are Such Things, In the Blue of the Evening, Without a Song, I'll Never Smile Again, Boogie Woogie)
1917 - Indira Gandhi (Nehru) (Prime Minister of India [1966-1977 and 1980-84]: assassinated [1984])
1919 - Alan Young (actor: Mr. Ed, Emmy-Award winning show: The Alan Young Show [1950]; Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Time Machine)
1921 - Roy Campanella (Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, Baseball Writer's Award winner [1951, 1953, 1955])
1930 - Bob Mathias, Tulare Calif, decathelete (Olympics-gold-48)
1933 - Larry King (Zeiger) (TV, radio host: Larry King Live; columnist)
1935 - John Francis Welch, Jr. (chairman, CEO: General Electric Co.)
1936 - Dick Cavett (TV host: Emmy Award-winning show: The Dick Cavett Show)
1937 - Ray Collins (singer: group: Penguins: Memories of El Monte)
1938 - Ted Turner (cable TV mogul: CNN, TBS, TNT, The Cartoon Network; owner: Atlanta Braves; TIME magazine's Man of the Year [1991]; won America's Cup, married to actress, Jane Fonda)
1939 - Garrick Utley (journalist: NBC News, NBC Magazine with David Brinkley, TV moderator: Meet the Press, First Tuesday)
1941 - Dan Haggerty (animal trainer, actor: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, The Adventures of Frontier Freemont)
1942 - Calvin Klein, Bronx, NY, fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK)
1943 - Fred Lipsius (musician: piano, sax: group: Blood Sweat & Tears: You've Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, LP: Child is Father to the Man)
1947 - Bob Boone (baseball: Phillies, Angels, one of famous Baseball Boones [Bob; his father, Ray; and his son, Bret])
1947 - Mike Phipps (football)
1949 - Ahmad Rashad, [Bobby Moore], NFL receiver (Minn Vikings)/sportscaster
1951 - Wilbur Jackson (football: Washington Redskins RB, Superbowl XVII)
1953 - Richard Todd (football: most completions [42] in one NFL game: Jets vs. '49ers [9/21/80])
1954 - Kathleen Quinlan (actress: The Promise, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, American Graffiti, Airport '77, Apollo 13)
1955 - Glynnis O'Connor (actress: The Deliberate Stranger, Johnny Dangerously, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Sons and Daughters)
1961 - Meg Ryan (actress: When a Man Loves a Woman, When Harry Met Sally, D.O.A., Sleepless in Seattle, Flesh and Bone, Top Gun, One of the Boys)
1962 - Jodie (Alicia) Foster (Academy Award-winning actress: The Accused 1988], Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Taxi Driver, Napoleon and Samantha, Sommersby, Mayberry RFD, Paper Moon, Maverick; director: Little Man Tate)
Famous deaths
0498 - Anastasius II, Pope (496-98 (Dante Inferno XI, 8-9), dies
1630 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44
1703 - Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1798 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
1828 - Franz P Schubert, Austria composer, dies at 31
1887 - Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38
1915 - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
1924 - Silent film director Thomas Harper Ince, "The Father of the Western," dies in his bed in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack at age 42. [H]
1985 - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Penny], 1st black film star, dies of pneumonia 83
1988 - Christine Onassis, shipping heiress, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of heart failure at 37.
1992 - Dorothy Walker Bush, 91, the mother of President George H.W. Bush, died following a stroke at her home in Greenwich, Conn., hours after a last visit with her son.
1994 - Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82
2000 - Attorney Charles Ruff, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment trial, died in Washington, D.C., at age 61.
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