Today
in History ~ November 24
Events
1105 - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic
dictionary
1434 - Thames River freezes
1542 - Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James
1628 - John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premieres in
London
1639 - 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2,
record event)
1642 - Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1655 - English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans
1688 - General strategist John Churchill meets William III
1715 - Thames River freezes
1759 - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1800 - Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in
Freiburg
1832 - South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1835 - Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas
Provisional Government
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of
Species"
1862 - M Levy publishes Gustave Flauberts "Salammbo"
1863 - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia & Lookout Mt begins in
Tennessee
1871 - National Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874 - Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1887 - Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premieres in
Paris
1903 - Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
1914 - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1922 - Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers
"for 1 year"
1936 - Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," premieres in
NYC
1936 - Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to
concentration camp, is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1938 - Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premieres
in NYC
1941 - "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of
Vilna, rest exterminated
1941 - Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1942 - Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
1944 - US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attacks on Tokyo
1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published
1947 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood
10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether
they were communists [H]
1948 - Ireland votes for independence from UK
1949 - Britain nationalizes it's steel & iron industry
1950 - "Guys & Dolls" opens at 46th St Theater NYC
for 1200 performances
1950 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by
Christmas
1952 - Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London
1954 - France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
1956 - "Pajama Game" closes at St James Theater NYC
after 1063 performances
1963 - 1st live murder on TV -- Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey
Oswald
1964 - For 1st time since 1800, residents of Wash DC permitted to
vote
1966 - The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt
Pepper"
1969 - Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100
civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial
by court martial
1971 - DB Cooper parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000 --
never captured or found
1971 - Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ
1979 - US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic
Agent Orange
1983 - PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians
and Lebanese
1989 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1993 - Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for
handgun sales
1993 - End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White
Brotherhood
1995 - Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to
49.72%)
Birthdays
Today
1632 - Baruch (Benedict) de Spinoza, Amsterdam,
rationalist philosopher
1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer
1713 - Junipero Serra, priest with a mission in California
1713 - Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1784 - Zachary Taylor (12th U.S. President(Whig) [Mar 5,
1849-July 9, 1850: 'Old Rough and Ready'])
1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1848 - Lilli Lehmann, opera singer
1853 - William "Bat" Masterson, journalist, gambler,
frontier lawman (who would ultimately die at his desk as a NYC
sports reporter)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, France, painter (At the Moulin
Rouge)
1868 - Scott Joplin (King of ragtime music, composer: Maple Leaf
Rag)
1888 - Dale Carnegie (lecturer, author: see "Win Friends and
Influence People"
1896 - Corinne Griffith (actress, silent film star)
1901 - Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker
1901 - William Vanderbilt (politician)
1908 - Harry Kemelman, US detective author (rabbi omnibus)
1912 - Garson Kanin, Rochester NY, playwright/producer (Double
Life)
1912 - Teddy Wilson (jazz pianist, composer)
1916 - Forrest J Ackerman, coined the term "sci-fi"
1921 - John V. Lindsay (politician: Mayor of New York City)
1925 - Al Cohn (jazz composer, musician: tenor sax)
1925 - William F. Buckley, Jr. (conservative writer, commentator,
editor: National Review)
1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas Canary Islands, tenor (La Scala)
1938 - Oscar Robertson ('The Big O': basketball: Cincinnati
Royals: NBA MVP [1964])
1939 - Jim Northrup (baseball: Detroit Tigers: 2 grand slams in
one game [6/24/68])
1940 - Johnny Carver (singer: Yellow Ribbon, You Really Haven't
Changed, Afternoon Delight, Don't Tell [That Sweet Ole Lady of
Mine], Tonight Someone's Falling in Love)
1943 - Dave Bing (Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA scoring leader
[1968])
1946 - Lee Michaels (singer: Do You Know What I Mean)
1946 - Ted Bundy, Burlington VT, serial murderer
1948 - Rudy Tomjanovich (basketball)
1948 - Steve Yeager (baseball:)
1949 - Henry Bibby (basketball)
1950 - Stanley Livingston (actor: My Three Sons)
Famous
deaths
1572 - John Knox, Scottish
preacher, dies at 67
1650 - Manuel Cardoso, composer, dies at 83
1674 - Franciscus van Enden, Flemish Jesuit/free thinker,
executed at 72
1722 - Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99
1899 - Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, mahdi of Sudan
(1883-99), dies
1922 - Robert Erskine Childers was executed.
1929 - Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20),
dies at 88
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F.
Kennedy, is shot to death by Jack Ruby
1992 - Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94
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