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Today in History ~ November 21
Events1492 - Pinta under Martin A Pinzon separates from Columbus' fleet
1620 - Pilgrims reach Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1654 - Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1783 - In Paris, Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first free-flight ascent in a balloon.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
1800 - Congress met for the first time in Washington, D.C.
1806 - Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
1818 - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
1837 - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 - Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 - Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris
1852 - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1864 - -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
1871 - Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1871 - The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot (from a cannon)
1877 - Thomas Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) Edison received a patent for it on February 19, 1878.
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans"
1901 - Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden
1906 - China prohibits opium trade
1917 - Maxim Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1918 - 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
1920 - Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1935 - 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1938 - Nazi forces occupied western Czechoslovakia and declared its people German citizens. This was annexing the Sudatenland, the first major belligerent action by Hitler. The allies chose to sit still for it -- in return for a promise of "peace in our time," which Hitler later broke.
1938 - WBOE in Cleveland, Ohio got a license from the FCC, becoming the first school-operated radio station, owned by a municipality, to receive such a license. WBOE started as a 500-watt AM station and later became an FM station.
1942 - The Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.
1944 - On the Mutual Broadcasting System "The Roy Rogers Show" was first heard. Singing with Roy 'The King of the Cowboys', were the Whippoorwills and The Sons of the Pioneers.
1945 - General Motors workers go on strike
1953 - "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912, proved to be a hoax
1955 - Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peroon
1959 - Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1963 - JFK flies to Texas
1964 - World's longest suspension bridge at the time opens "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1969 - The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
1973 - Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18-minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate [H]
1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto
1977 - 1st flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1979 - A mob attacked the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
1980 - 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
1983 - "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
1985 - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ended a summit meeting in Switzerland. They promised acceleration of arms-reduction talks.
1985 - Jonathan Jay Pollard, a civilian U.S. intelligence analyst and Jewish American, was arrested on charges
of illegally passing classified U.S. security information about Arab nations to Israel.
1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1990 - The man they called the Junk Bond King, Michael Milken --once a high-flying executive with the brokerage house Drexel Burnham Lambert -- got 10 years for securities violations. Junk bonds are bonds which pay big because they carry high risk. In the 1980s and '90s, some people lost big by investing in them, or by placing their money in savings and loans which did. (Milken served two).
1991 - The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be the new Secretary-General.
1991 - President Bush signed Civil Rights Act of 1991, making it easier for workers to sue in job discrimination cases, then sought to calm a storm of controversy by withdrawing a tentative order to end government hiring preferences for blacks and women.
1992 - Oregon Sen Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
1993 - Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome
1995 - Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
1995 - China jailed well-known dissident Wei Jing-sheng and charged him with trying to overthrow the government.
1996 - Thirty-three people were killed, more than 100 injured, when an explosion blamed on leaking gas ripped through a six-story building in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2000 - In a setback for George W. Bush, the Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going; Democrats were jubilant, Republicans bitter and angry.
2001 - A 94-year-old Connecticut woman became the nation's fifth anthrax victim, a death that mystified authorities since she rarely left home. Later it was discovered a family living a mile away had received a letter with anthrax residue on it.
Birthdays Today
1692 - Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet
1694 - Voltaire (Jean Francois Arouet) (author and philosopher) [H]
1785 - William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion by peering through a natural opening of the stomach wall in a young Indian in Praire du Chien, Wisconsin)
1787 - Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
1817 - Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died at Gettysburg in 1863
1860 - Tom Horn is born in Missouri [H]
1886 - Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author (Good Behaviour)
1897 - Andy High (baseball)
1898 - Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe)
1904 - Coleman Hawkins (bandleader, jazz artist: Body and Soul)
1907 - Jim Bishop (writer)
1907 - Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1908 - Paul Richards (baseball)
1916 - Sid Luckman (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears QB: 4 NFL Championships, MVP [1943])
1920 - Stan Musial (Baseball Hall of Famer:7 times NL bat champ St. Louis Cardinals)
1921 - Geza Anda, Hungarian/Swiss pianist (Mozart)
1924 - Vivian Blaine (actress: State Fair)
1927 - Joseph Campanella (actor: Ben, Meteor, Original Intent, The President's Plane is Missing, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Sky Hei$t, The Colbys, The Lawyers, Mannix)
1929 - Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room)
1932 - Jim Ringo (Pro Football Hall of Famer)
1933 - Jean Shepard (country singer: Satin Sheets)
1938 or 1943 - Marlo Thomas (actress: That Girl; wife of Phil Donahue; daughter of Danny Thomas)
1940 - Natalia Makarova (ballerina)
1941 - Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack) (musician, singer: Right Place Wrong Time)
1941 - Juliet Mills, London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII)
1942 - Tweety Bird, cartoon character
1944 - Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe (basketball)
1945 - Goldie Hawn (Btudlendgehawn) (Academy Award-winning actress: Cactus Flower [1969]; Private Benjamin, Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, First Wives Club, Laugh-In)
1949 - Barbara Jo Rubin (horse-racing jockey)
1950 - Livingston Taylor (singer, songwriter; brother of James Taylor)
1952 - Lorna Luft (singer; daughter of singer, actress, Judy Garland; sister of singer, actress, Lisa Minelli)
1957 - Jim Brown, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1966 - Troy Aikman (football: Dallas Cowboys, 3 Super Bowl rings as quarterback)
1969 - Ken Griffey, Jr. (George Kenneth) (baseball: Seattle Mariners: Gold Glove Award [1990, 1991, 1992, 1993])
Famous deaths
1555 - Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61
1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
1710 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72
1811 - Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34
1899 - Vice President Garret A. Hobart, serving under President McKinley, died in Paterson, N.J., at age 55.
1907 - Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78
1916 - Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies
1938 - Leopold Godowsky, pianist/composer, dies at 68
1945 - Robert Benchley, US humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary), dies at 56
1963 - Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies
1987 - James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1993 - Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian), dies of prostate cancer at 59
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