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Today in History ~ November 22
Events1221 - Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1675 - English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 - Purcell's "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London
1794 - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 - Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1831 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1842 - Mount St Helen's in Washington, erupts
1864 - Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 - Union General O Howard orders plunderers shot to death
1898 - Pietro Mascagni's opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1905 - British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet attack the Grecian Isle of Lesbos
1906 - Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1918 - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1919 - Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1923 - Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisc)
1927 - George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC
1928 - "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1931 - Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres
1932 - Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1934 - "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, Calif, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight that took 59 hours and 48 minutes.
1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1942 - Gen-major Rodin's 26th Panzer corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 - Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to last man
1943 - RAF begins bombing of Berlin
1943 - US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1950 - 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1954 - Humane Society forms
1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1961 - Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas and Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the nation's 36th chief executive. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and later named by the Warren Commission as the man who fired the fatal shots. But, Oswald also was slain before he could go to trial. [H]
1965 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 performances
1967 - BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
1968 - Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album
1969 - Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard U
1972 - US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1975 - Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1976 - Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts
1977 - Anglo-French supersonic Concorde jetliner began scheduled flights to New York from London and Paris.
1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers' Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1985 - Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
1989 - 12 U.S. Green Berets were evacuated from the San Salvador Sheraton. They were the last of nearly 100 people trapped when leftist rebels seized the hotel.
1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1989 - Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister after 11 years in office, England's longest-serving leader of this century. [H]
1992 - At least 27 people died when tornadoes carved a path of destruction through the South and Midwest.
1992 - Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1992 - Woody Allen told "60 Minutes" that Mia Farrow vowed to do something "very nasty" to him before she charged him with sexually abusing their adopted seven-year-old daughter.
1993 - Mexico's Senate approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1997 - New Zealanders Robert Hamill and Phil Stubbs arrive in Barbados from the Canary Islands in their boat, Kiwi Challenger, after 41 days, one hour and 55 minutes -- a new record for rowing across the Atlantic.
2000 - While the nation waited to see who would be the next president, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that hand count of the state's presidential ballots could continue. The Republicans had sought to block the recount, brought on by ballot questions in some counties. The winner in Florida, based on national delegate numbers, would be the winner in one of the tightest presidential races in decades.
Birthdays Today
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1643 - Rene R Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, French explorer
1709 - Frantisek Benda, composer
1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64)
1808 - Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)
1819 - George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], England, author (Silas Marner)
1869 - Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures -- Nobel 1947)
1890 - Charles DeGaulle (WWII military leader; President of France [1958-1969])
1893 - M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin
1898 - Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1899 - Hoagy (Hoagland) Carmichael (songwriter: Stardust)
1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Sagunto Valencia Spain, composer (Juglares)
1902 - Emanuel Feuermann, Kolomea Galicia, cellist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
1908 - Michael Balfour, historian
1913 - Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Peter Grimes)
1914 - Lew Hays (founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters)
1914 - Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero/courtier/writer
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) ("I Don't Get No Respect": comedian, actor: Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, The Dean Martin Show)
1923 - Arthur Hiller (director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)
1924 - Geraldine Page (Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985])
1925 - Gunther Schuller, NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation)
1926 - Lew (Selva Lewis) Burdette, Jr. (baseball: Milwaukee Braves)
1930 - Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, NYC, actor (Napolean Solo -- Man from UNCLE, Hamlet, Superman)
1935 - Michael Callan (Calinieff) (singer, actor, dancer)
1940 - Terry Gilliam (actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, )
1941 - Tom Conte (actor: American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace)
1943 - Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (tennis: 20 Wimbledon titles)
1943 - Wade Blasingame (baseball)
1949 - Don Zimmerman (football)
1949 - Steve Van Zandt (singer, musician)
1950 - Greg The Bull' Luzinzki (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox)
1953 - Craig Hundley (pianist)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis (actress: A Fish Called Wanda, Forever Young, Halloween '78, Halloween 2: The The Nightmare Isn't Over!, Trading Places, True Lies)
1961 - Mariel Hemingway (actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace)
1967 - Boris Becker (tennis: youngest Wimbledon Men's Champ. [17 years old]) (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)
Famous deaths
0950 - Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies
1247 - Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood") -- the legend of Robin Hood is believed to extend into antiquity.
1594 - Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral/explorer, dies
1718 - Edward Teach, also known as the pirate Blackbeard, was killed off North Carolina's Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy force. [H]
1773 - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
1799 - Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1859 - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
1896 - George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1900 - Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Iolanthe, Ruddigore, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, and the opera, Ivanhoe), dies at 58
1902 - Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1916 - Jack London, author, dies at 40
1943 - Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY
1963 - Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon/Brave New World), dies at 69
1963 - John F. Kennedy was assassinated [H]
1980 - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
1989 - Newly elected Lebanese President Rene Moawad died in bomb blast that also killed 17 other people in Syrian patrolled Moslem West Beirut.
1992 - Sterling Holloway, US actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), dies at 87
1995 - John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
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