Today
in History ~ November 23
Events
1165 - Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
1584 - English parliament expells the Jesuits
1705 - Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses," premieres in London
1765 - People of Frederick County, Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1783 - Annapolis, Md becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1834 - Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres
1835 - Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY)
1863 - Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN begins
1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1864 - -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
1868 - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1889 - Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
1890 - The independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was separated from the Netherlands.
1897 - Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1903 - Enrico Caruso's US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto" as the Duke of Mantua
1906 - Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1909 - Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1919 - The first play-by-play football game radio broadcast in the United States took place. Texas A&M blanked the University of Texas, 7-0.
1921 - Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1923 - German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
1926 - Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in NYC
1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce, was published.
1937 - Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in NYC
1937 - John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men," premieres in NYC
1939 - Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1941 - German troops conquer Klin, NW of Moscow
1942 - Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 - German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad, Gen Von Paulus asks Hitler's permission to surrender
1943 - US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japanese following a fierce 76-hour battle.
1945 - Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends
1946 - French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
1948 - Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
1954 - China announced it had convicted 11 American airmen and two civilians of espionage.
1959 - "Fiorello!" with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon
Harnick, opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC (with Tom Bosley) for 796 performances
1963 - "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England
1963 - JFK's body lay in repose in East Room of White House
1963 - President Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President Kennedy.
1964 - "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
1964 - Vatican abolishes Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy (Deo
gratias)
1971 - The People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
1974 - 60 Ethiopia govt officials executed
1980 - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1982 - FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads
1984 - Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD ("The Pass") to end game & beat Miami 47-45
1985 - 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
1989 - Pilots Union gives up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1990 - President Bush met in Geneva with Syrian President Hafez Assad to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis.
1991 - Serbian, Croatian and Yugoslav leaders signed a U.N.-mediated ceasefire, the 14th of the Balkan civil war.. It didn't last.
1992 - 10,000,000th cellular telephone sold
1992 - A Senate report said no credible evidence was found to support claims that Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign tried to delay the release of the hostages held by Iran.
1992 - The United States lowered its flag over the last American base in the Philippines, ending nearly a century of military presence in its former colony.
1993 - U.S. Congress authorized apology to Native Hawaiians
1993 - President Clinton signed legislation repealing U.S. sanctions against South Africa.
1996 - A hijacker forced an Ethiopian 767 jetliner to fly until it ran out of fuel. The aircraft
crashed into the waves off Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.
1997 - Prince Charles appointed former British Prime Minister John Major as the legal and financial protector of Princes William and Harry. The boys' mother, Diana, had been killed in a car accident almost three months earlier.
2000 - In a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade county officials to resume hand-counting election-day ballots. Meanwhile, Gore's lawyers argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the high court should stay out of the Florida election controversy.
Birthdays
Today
0912 - Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman
emperor (962-73)
1221 - Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile & Leon (1252-84)
1749 - Edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC)/attorney/signer (Declaration
of Independence)
1760 - Gracchus Babeuf, French agrarian
agitator/politician/writer
1804 - Franklin Pierce (14th U.S. President [1853-1857])
1804 - Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857)
1859 - Billy the Kid (William Bonney) (outlaw: last words:
"Who is there?" Bang. Bang. You're dead.)
1876 - Manuel de Falla, Cadiz Spain, composer (El Amor Brujo)
1878 - Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations
(WW II)
1887 - Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) (actor: Frankenstein,
The Bride of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of
Frankenstein, Die Monster, Die!, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The
Mummy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Body Snatcher;
narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
1888 - Harpo (Adolph) Marx (comedian, actor: pretend-mute Marx
brother; accomplished harpist) [H]
1902 - Victor Jory (actor: Gone with the Wind, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, The Miracle Worker, Papillon)
1913 - Maurice Zolotow (author: Billy Wilder in Hollywood)
1915 - Ellen Drew (actress: Hollywood Boulevard, China Sky,
Christmas in July, Dark Mountain)
1928 - Jerry Bock, New Haven CT, Broadway composer (Fiddler on
the Roof)
1929 - Sybil Jason (Jacobs) (actress)
1931 - Gloria Lynne (singer: I Wish You Love)
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki (composer: Devils of Loudan)
1934 - Lew Hoad (tennis: Australia and French Open Champion
[1956], Wimbledon Champion [1956-57])
1935 - Ed Johnston (hockey)
1940 - Betty Everett (singer: Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His
Kiss])
1940 - Freddy Marsden (drummer, singer: group: Gerry and the
Pacemakers: Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Ferry Cross the Mersey, How Do You Do It?, I Like It)
1940 - Luis Tiant (baseball: Boston Red Sox pitcher)
1943 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1945 - Steve Landesberg (actor: Barney Miller)
1952 - Francie Larrieu (runner)
1952 - Steve Riley (football: Minnesota Vikings tackle: Super
Bowl IX, XI)
1955 - Bruce Hornsby (pianist, singer: group: The Range: The Way
It Is)
1957 - Andrew Toney (basketball)
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield (actor: The Colbys)
1964 - Steve Alford (basketball)
Famous
deaths
0615 - Columbanus, Irish
explorer/monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies (aka
St. Columba)
1457 - Ladislaus V (posthumus), king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at
17
1499 - Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged
1585 - Thomas Tallis, composer, dies
1750 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1787 - Anton Schweitzer, composer, dies at 52
1848 - Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45
1853 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer, dies at 67
1902 - Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies
1910 - Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, hanged
1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, actor (Tokyo Joe, Bridge Over the River Kwai), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83
1974 - Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far),
dies at 54
1976 - Andre Malraux, [Berger], author (Conquerors)/min of
Culture, dies
1990 - Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life),
dies at 74
1991 - Klaus Kin ski, actor (Android, Nosferatu, Little Drummer
Girl), dies at 65
1992 - Ray Acuff, country singer who rode the "Wabash
Cannonball" to fame and fortune, died of congestive heart
failure at age 89.
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