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Today in History ~ November 30
Events1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1554 - England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice die this month of plague
1648 - English army captures King Charles I
1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1731 - A series of earthquakes struck China. More than 100,000 people died.
1753 - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley - Penny ("A penny saved...!")
1776 - Capt Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1861 - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
1864 - Battle of Franklin Tenn: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
1864 - Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1885 - Jules Massenet's opera "Le Cid" premieres (Paris)
1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1886 - Folies Bergere (originated as a hall for operettas, pantomime, and even political meetings) introduced an elaborate review featuring women in sensational costumes.
1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1902 - Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan sentenced to 20 Years [H]
1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national socialists (Nazis) in Munich
1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1931 - His Master's Voice & Columbia Records merge into EMI
1936 - London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in a fire.
1938 - Germany bans Jews from being lawyers
1939 - 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)
1939 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1939 - The Russo-Finnish War started after the Soviet Union failed to obtain territorial concessions from Finland.
1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run
1941 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano
1944 - Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking (feast on chow mein?)
1950 - US Pres Truman threatens China with atom bomb
1953 - French parachutists under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
1954 - Meteorite Strikes Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges of Alabama. First modern report of a Meteorite striking a human. [H]
1955 - "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1955 - Argentine government disbands Peronist party
1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno kills 8
1962 - U Thant of Burma was unanimously elected Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1967 - Sen Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency ("Clean for Gene!")
1971 - TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV
1974 - "Good Evening" with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances
1974 - The Eagles hit, "Best of My Love", was released (did not reach #1 spot until March 1, 1975)
1975 - Israel pulled its forces out of a 93-mile-long corridor along the Gulf of Suez as part of an interim peace agreement with Egypt.
1979 - Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1981 - Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1981 - The United States and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.
1982 - US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1983 - Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
1983 - Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1988 - UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat a visa
1988 -The Soviet Union stopped jamming broadcasts of Radio Free Europe for the first time in 30 years.
1989 - Czechoslovakia announced an end to travel restrictions and said it planned to dismantle some of the fortifications along the Austrian border.
1989 - Rebel armed forces launched a fifth major coup attempt against Philippine President Corazon Aquino.
1990 - President Bush offered to send Secretary of State Baker to Baghdad and to receive Iraq's foreign minister in Washington, D.C., in a bid for a diplomatic solution to the Persian Gulf crisis.
1991 - 93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 - Boris Yeltsin's Russian Federation agreed to bail out Mikhail S. Gorbachev's central Soviet government from a budget crisis that threatened to cut off the salaries of millions of workers and paralyze the country.
1992 - Sen. Packwood, R-Ore., facing an Ethics Committee investigation of sexual harassment allegations, entered an alcohol-treatment facility.
1993 - President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill.
1993 - Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in the Gaza Strip in an effort to end violence that threatened the peace accord.
1993 - President Clinton signed into law the Brady gun control bill.
1994 - Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
1996 - Some 150,000 people filled the streets of Belgrade to protest Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1997 - The government of Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic resigned. Klaus's Civic Democratic Party had been accused of accepting contributions from foreign sources.
1999 - The opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police.
2000 - Al Gore's lawyers battled for his political survival in the Florida and U.S. supreme courts; meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W. Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of electors.
Birthdays Today
0538 - St Gregory of Tours, chronicler/bishop
1340 - John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector
1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1508 - Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect
1554 - Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1667 - Jonathan Swift, Engl, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
1753 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer
1810 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens - better known as Mark Twain (writer: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi) - was born in Florida, Mo
1874 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, (C) Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953) was born (prematurely) at Blenheim Palace. British statesman, soldier, and author -- and the first man to be made an honorary citizen of the US (by an act of Congress on April 9, 1963). [H]
1885 - Albrecht (von) Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Poland/Netherland)
1907 - Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Intelect)
1912 - Gordon Parks (director, author)
1923 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (actor: The F.B.I.)
1924 - Allan Sherman (Copelon) (comedian: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!)
1924 - Shirley Chisholm (politician: 1st black woman elected to the U.S. Congress)
1927 - Richard Crenna (actor: The Real McCoys)
1927 - Ted (Aloysius) Sloan (hockey)
1928 - Rex Reason (actor)
1929 - Dick Clark (former Philly DJ; TV producer, host: American Bandstand, New Year's Rockin' Eve)
1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, Phoenix Az, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop)
1930 - G. (George) Gordon Liddy (politician, radio host: The G-Man, The G. Gordon Liddy Show)
1931 - Bill Walsh (football coach: Stanford University, NFL coach (SF 49ers)/sportscaster)
1932 - Bob Moore (instrumentalist)
1935 - Jack Reno (country singer)
1936 - Abbie Hoffman (activist: 1960s cultural revolutionary [Yippie]; one of the Chicago Eight)
1937 - Paul (Noel) Stookey (singer: The Wedding Song; group: Peter, Paul and Mary: Blowin' in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon)
1937 - Robert Guillaume (Williams) (actor: Soap, Benson)
1944 - Luther Ingram (musician, singer: [If Lovin' You is Wrong] I Don't Want to be Right)
1944 - Rob Grill (musician, singer: group: The Grass Roots: Midnight Confessions, Let's Live for Today)
1945 - Radu Lupu, Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco 1st prize-1967)
1945 - Roger Glover (musician)
1947 - David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir (Speed the Plow, House of Games)
1950 - Craig Swan (baseball)
1950 - Paul Westphal (football)
1952 - Mandy Patinkin, Chicago Il, actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation, Chicago Hope)
1953 - Shuggie (Johnny) Otis, Jr. (musician)
Famous deaths
1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1528 - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded
1777 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1798 - Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32
1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1939 - Bela Kun, [Balazs Kolozsvary], Hungarian revolutionary, dies at 53
1954 - Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor/composer, dies at 68
1979 - Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1987 - James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1996 - Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], novelty singer best remembered for his rendition of "Tiptoe Thru' the Tulips," died in Minneapolis at 71
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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