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B11011798 Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor.
B11011871 Stephen Crane, poet, "Red Badge of Courage".
B11011878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist, 1936 Nobel Peace Prize.
B11011880 Sholem Asch, Yiddish novelist, playwright, "Three Cities".
B11011886 Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist, "Sleepwalkers", "Bewitchment".
B11011889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman, disarmament advocate, 1959
B11011889CNobel.
B11011892 Alexander Alekhine of Russia, world chess champion (1927-46).
B11011929 Betsy Palmer, actress, East Chicago, Ind.
B11011935 Gary Player, South African golfer.
B11011939 Barbara Bosson, actress, "Hill St. Blues", Charleroi, Penn.
B11011942 Larry Flint, publisher (Hustler).
B11011960 Fernando Valenzuela, pitcher (L.A. Dodgers).
B11021734 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, explorer.
B11021755 Marie-Antoinette, "Let them eat cake" is not a quote, Vienna,
B11021755CAustria.
B11021795 James Knox Polk (D), 11th President (1845-1849), Mecklenburg
B11021795CCounty, N.C.
B11021815 George Boole, mathematician.
B11021865 Warren Gamaliel Harding (R), 29th President (1921-1923), Corsica
B11021865C(now Blooming Grove), Ohio.
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, U.S. astronomer.
B11021906 Luchino Visconti, Italian film director.
B11021911 Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet, 1979 Nobel.
B11021913 Burt Lancaster, actor, "From Here to Eternity", New York, N.Y.
B11021920 Ann Rutherford, actress.
B11021938 Pat Buchanan, commentator, presidential candidate (1992).
B11021941 David Hemmings, English actor.
B11021942 Stefanie Powers, actress, Hollywood, Calif.
B11021942 Shere Hite, sex therapist.
B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11031794 William Cullen Bryant, poet, "Thanatopsis".
B11031801 Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books.
B11031879 Vihjalmur Stefansson, Canadian Arctic explorer.
B11031901 André-Georges Malraux, novelist and art historian, politician and
B11031901CWW II war hero, Paris, France.
B11031903 Walker Evans, photographer, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".
B11031908 Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears).
B11031909 James Reston, columnist (NY Times).
B11031918 Robert "Bob" Feller, Hall of Fame pitcher, Cleveland Indian.
B11031922 Charles Bronson, actor, Ehrenfeld, Pa.
B11031933 Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
B11031933 Ken Berry, actor, dancer, TV personality, Moline, Ill.
B11031933 Monica Vitti, actress, Rome, Italy.
B11031936 Roy Emerson, Australian tennis pro.
B11031937 Paula Wayne.
B11031948 Lulu, singer, actress, "To Sir With Love", Glasgow, Scotland.
B11031949 Larry Holmes, boxer.
B11031952 Roseanne Barr, comedienne, Salt Lake City, Utah.
B11031954 Adam Ant, punk rocker.
B11031959 Dolph Lundgren, "Rocky IV".
B11041862 Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet, playwright.
B11041879 Will Rogers, humorist.
B11041906 Bob Considine, sports columnist.
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, television journalist,"...and that's the way it
B11041916Cis", St. Joseph, Mo.
B11041918 Art Carney, actor, "Honeymooners", Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
B11041919 Martin Balsam, actor.
B11041930 Doris Roberts, St. Louis, Mo.
B11041930 Kate Reid, in London England.
B11041937 Loretta Swit, actress, TV's Hot Lips on "M*A*S*H", Passaic, N.J.
B11041968 Carlos Obed Baerga, Indians All-Star second baseman, San Juan,
B11041968CPuert Rico.
B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
B11051876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor.
B11051885 Will Durant, writer, historian, "Story of Civilization".
B11051905 Joel McCrea, actor.
B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy and Trigger, Cincinnati, Oh.
B11051913 Vivien Leigh, actress, Scarlett O'Hara, Darjeeling, India.
B11051931 Ike Turner, AKA Mr. Tina Turner!, rock musician.
B11051941 Elke Sommer, actress, Berlin, Germany.
B11051942 Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, "You Can Call Me Al", Newark,
B11051942CN.J.
B11051943 Sam Shepard, U.S. writer-actor, 1978 Pulitzer, "Buried Child",
B11051943CFt. Sheridan, Ill.
B11051946 Patricia K. Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist.
B11051952 Bill Walton, NBA star (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics).
B11051961 Mark Harper, Cleveland Brown cornerback, Memphis, Tenn.
B11051963 Tatum O'Neil aka Mrs. John McEnroe, child actress, "Paper Moon",
B11051963CLos Angeles, Ca.
B11051963 Andrea McArdle, child-actress, "Annie", sun will come out
B11051963Ctommorrow, Philadelphia, Pa.
B11061671 Colley Cibber, English dramatist, poet laureate, "Love's Last
B11061671CShift".
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061814 Antoine-Joseph "Adolph" Sax, inventor of the sax.
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones, first editor of Wall
B11061851CSt. Journal.
B11061854 John Phillip Souza, march king, "Stars and Stripes Forever".
B11061860 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot.
B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
B11061893 Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company.
B11061896 Jim Jordan, radio comic (Fibber McGee of Fibber McGee and Molly).
B11061900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader.
B11061906 Francis Lederer, actor.
B11061921 James Jones, author, "From Here to Eternity".
B11061931 Mike Nichols, film director, Berlin, Germany.
B11061942 Johnny Rivers, singer, "Secret Agent Man".
B11061946 Sally Field, actress, Pasadena, Ca.
B11061955 Maria Shriver, television journalist, Chicago, Ill.
B11061961 Lori Singer.
B1107 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain.
B11071598 Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Baroque painter.
B11071867 Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium, Nobel 1903,
B11071867C1911.
B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, French physicist, discovered radium.
B11071879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik, Yanovka,
B11071879CUkraine, Russia.
B11071903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer, 1973 Nobel 1973.
B11071913 Albert Camus, French existentialist, novelist, playwright, 1957
B11071913CNobel.
B11071918 Billy Graham, evangelist.
B11071922 Al Hirt Jazz trumpeter.
B11071926 Joan Sutherland, Australian opera star, Sydney, Australia.
B11071943 Joni Mitchell, singer, "Clouds", McLeod, Alta., Canada.
B11071943 Judith Frost, in British Columbia.
B11071944 Joe Niekro, baseball star.
B11071957 Kathy McMillan, track star.
B11071964 Dana Plato, in Maywood, California.
B11081848 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician, philosopher.
B11081900 Margaret Mitchell, writer, "Gone With the Wind".
B11081909 Katherine Hepburn, actress, "African Queen", "On Golden Pond,"
B11081909CHartford, Conn.
B11081916 Peter Weiss, German dramatist, novelist, "Marat/Sade".
B11081922 Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, first heart
B11081922Ctransplant.
B11081927 Patti Page, singer, Claremore, Oklahoma.
B11081931 Morley Safer, TV journalist, "60 Minutes", Toronto, Ont.
B11081933 Esther Rolle, actress, "Good Times", Pompano Beach, Florida.
B11081936 Edward G. Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4).
B11081947 Minnie Ripperton, Chicago, Ill.
B11081949 Bonnie Raitt, singer, Burbank, Ca.
B11081952 Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, in charge of Playboy.
B11081954 Rickie Lee Jones, actress, Chicago, Ill.
B11091802 Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher, abolitionist.
B11091818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright, "Fathers and
B11091818CSons".
B11091821 Charles Baudelaire, poet.
B11091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer photographer.
B11091841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10).
B11091850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology.
B11091888 Jean Monnet, French architect of EEC.
B11091898 Paul Robeson, actor and singer.
B11091903 Gregory Pincus, birth control pill inventor.
B11091913 Hedy Lamarr, actress, Vienna, Austria.
B11091915 Sargent Shriver, (Peace Corp).
B11091918 Spiro Agnew, discredited Vice-President under Nixon.
B11091918 Florence Chadwick, swimmer.
B11091928 Anne Sexton, American poet.
B11091932 Carl Perkins, singer.
B11091934 Carl Sagan, astronomer, author, "Cosmos", "Broca's Brain", New
B11091934CYork, N.Y.
B11091936 Mary Travers, folk sing, with Peter and Paul, Louisville, Ky.
B11091936 Mikhail N. Tal of U.S.S.R., world chess champion (1960-61).
B11091939 Michael Learned, actor.
B11091942 Tom Weiskopf, professional golfer.
B11091952 Lou Ferrigno, actor, "Incredible Hulk".
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer
B11101483 Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism, Eisleben, Germany.
B11101668 François Couperin, composer.
B11101683 George II, king of England (1727-60).
B11101697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver, "Rake's
B11101697CProgress".
B11101730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist, "She Stoops to
B11101730CConquer".
B11101759 Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet.
B11101793 Jared Potter Kirtland, naturalist and physicians, co-founder of
B11101793Cthe Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences (later the National
B11101793CHistory Museum), prominent Lakewood settler.
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first
B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.
B11101827 Lewis Wallace, soldier, diplomat and novelist, "Ben Hur".
B11101880 Sir Jacob Epstein, British sculptor.
B11101890 Claude Rains, British actor.
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11101925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor, "Cleopatra", "Becket".
B11101933 Ronald E. Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17).
B11101945 Donna Fargo, country singer, Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
B11101949 Ann Reinking, actress, Seattle, Washington.
B11101959 MacKenzie Phillips, actress, "One Day at a Time", Alexandra, Va.
B11111744 Abigail Smith Adams, the second 1st lady.
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author, "Crime and Punishment".
B11111836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author, editor, "Story of a Bad
B11111836CBoy".
B11111842 Ben Thompson, gunfighter, mercenary, Yorkshire, England.
B11111864 Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist, 1911 Nobel.
B11111872 Maude Adams (Kiskadden), stage actress, elfin-sized actress who
B11111872Cplayed the first Peter Pan on stage (1897), Salt Lake City, Utah.
B11111885 General George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts."
B11111899 Pat O'Brien, actor, "Knute Rockne", "Angels with Dirty Faces".
B11111901 Richard Lindner, American artist.
B11111904 Alger Hiss, Baltimore, Md.
B11111904 Sam Spiegel, American film producer.
B11111918 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, soviet novelist.
B11111920 Gene Tierney, actress, Brooklyn, N.Y.
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author, "Slaughterhouse Five".
B11111925 Jonathan Winters, comedian, Dayton, Ohio.
B11111945 Denise Alexander, New York, N.Y.
B11111962 Demi Moore, actress, "Ghost", Roswell, N.M.
B11111964 Philip McKeon, actor.
B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B11121817 Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bahá'í faith.
B11121833 Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer.
B11121840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor, "The Thinker", Paris, France.
B11121842 Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), English physicist,
B11121842Cco-discovered argon, 1904 Nobel.
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B11121889 William Roy DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founder of
B11121889CReader's Digest, St. Paul, Minn.
B11121908 Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B11121915 Roland Barthes, French philosopher.
B11121922 Kim Hunter, actress, "Bell, Book and Candle", Detroit, Mich.
B11121929 Grace Patricia Kelly, actress, princess of Monaco, Philadelphia,
B11121929CPa.
B11121937 Richard H. Truly, U.S. astronaut (STS-2, 8).
B11121945 Neil Young, singer, songwriter, Toronto, Ont.
B11121961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gymnast, Romania.
B11131792 Edward John Trelawney, English traveler, author.
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author, "Treasure Island".
B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis
B11131866 Abraham Flexner, American reformer of medical education.
B11131916 Jack Elam, actor, Miami, Ariz.
B11131922 Madeleine Sherwood, actress.
B11131922 Oskar Werner, film actor, director.
B11131923 Linda Christian in Mexico
B11131932 Richard Mulligan, actor, New York, N.Y.
B11131933 Monica Vitti.
B11131934 Garry Marshall, producer.
B11131938 Jean Seberg, actress, Marshaltown, Iowa.
B11131949 Whoopi Goldberg, comedian, actress, New York, N.Y.
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered and named process of osmosis.
B11141797 Sir Charles Lyell, geologist.
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist, La Havre, France.
B11141861 Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, educator.
B11141881 Nina Ricci, French fashion designer.
B11141889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian PM (1947-64), Allahabad, India.
B11141896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower, former first lady.
B11141900 Aaron Copland, American composer, "Billy the Kid", "Appalachian
B11141900CSpring".
B11141904 Marya Mannes, writer.
B11141908 Harrison E. Salisbury, journalist, writer.
B11141909 Joseph McCarthy, politician, led witch hunt for communists.
B11141910 Rosemary DeCamp, Prescott, Arizona.
B11141912 Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress.
B11141919 Veronica Lake, actress.
B11141921 Brian Keith, actor, "The Parent Trap", Bayonne, N.J.
B11141928 Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano.
B11141929 McLean Stevenson, actor, TV's "M*A*S*H", Normal, Ill.
B11141930 Edward H. White II, astronaut (Gemini 4).
B11141933 Fred Haise, astronaut (Apollo 13).
B11141935 Don Stewart, actor.
B11141948 Prince Charles, future King of England, London, England.
B11151738 Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus.
B11151862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, "Before Dawn", 1912 Nobel.
B11151882 Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice.
B11151887 Georgia O'Keeffe, painter, Sun Prairie, Wis.
B11151887 Marianne Moore, American poet and critic, St. Louis, Mo.
B11151891 Averell Harriman, advisor to 4 U.S. presidents.
B11151891 Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, German field marshall.
B11151919 Joseph Albert Wapner, "People's Court", La.
B11151925 Howard Baker, senator, presidential chief of staff.
B11151929 Ed Asner, actor, "Lou Grant", Kansas City, Mo.
B11151932 Petula Clark, singer, "Downtown", Ewell, Surrey, England.
B11151934 Joanna Barnes, actress.
B11151940 Sam Waterston, actor.
B11151945 Anni-Frid, singer, ABBA, Lyngsdtad, Sweden.
B11151946 Janet Lennon, singer, Lennon Sisters, Culver City, Ca.
B11151952 Bill Walton, pro basketball star, MVP in 1978.
B11161766 Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer, virtuoso violinist.
B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band
B11161873Cmusic.
B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
B11161889 George S. Kaufman, playwright, director, critic, dramatist, "You
B11161889CCan't Take It With You", Pittsburgh, Pa.
B11161895 Paul Hindemith, German composer.
B11161905 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist, promoter of Dixieland.
B11161908 Burgess Meredith, actor, Cleveland, Ohio.
B11161942 Donna McKechnie, Pontiac, Michigan.
B11161945 Martine van Hamel, Belgian ballerina.
B11161964 Dwight Gooden, youngest pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
B11161967 Lisa Bonet, actress, "Cosby Show", San Francisco, Cal.
B11161971 Donald Wolf, computer game creator.
B11171503 Il Bronzino, Florentine painter.
B11171587 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet, dramatist.
B11171717 Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher.
B11171755 Louis XVIII, first post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24).
B11171790 August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician, inventor of Möbius strip.
B11171799 Titian Ramsey Peale, American artist, naturalist.
B11171887 Viscount Montgomery, British Field Marshall, war hero of WW II,
B11171887Cborn in Alamein in Moville, Ireland
B11171890 Jack Cusack, pioneer in pro football, with Canton Bulldogs.
B11171904 Isamu Noguchi, sculptor.
B11171925 Rock Hudson, actor, "Pillow Talk", "Giant", Winnetka, Ill.
B11171930 Bob Mathias, Olympian-turned-politician.
B11171937 Peter Cook, British actor, comedian.
B11171938 Gordon Lightfoot, folksinger, Orilla, Ont.
B11171942 Martin Scorsese, director, New York, N.Y.
B11171943 Lauren Hutton, actress, "American Gigolo", Charleston, S.C.
B11171944 Danny De Vito, actor, film director, "Taxi", Neptune, N.J.
B11171944 Tom Seaver, N.Y. Met Pitcher.
B11171945 Elvin Hayes, NBA star.
B11171961 Merette Von Kemp, in Denmark.
B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography.
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame).
B11181889 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian operatic soprano.
B11181899 Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra).
B11181901 George Gallup, public-opinion statistician, Jefferson, Iowa.
B11181908 Imogene Coca, comedienne/actress, "Your Show of Shows",
B11181908CPhiladelphia, Pa.
B11181909 Johnny Mercer, songwriter, "That Old Black magic".
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space, astronaut (Freedom 7,
B11181923CApollo 14).
B11181926 Dorothy Collins, actress, Ontario, Canada.
B11181928 Mickey Mouse, sired by Walt Disney's pen.
B11181939 Brenda Vaccaro, actress, "Midnight Cowboy", Brooklyn, N.Y.
B11181942 Linda Evans, actress, "Dynasty", Hartford, Conn.
B11181944 Susan Sullivan, New York, N.Y.
B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary
B11191752CWar.
B11191805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal.
B11191831 James Abram Garfield (R), 20th President (1881), born in Orange
B11191831CTwp., Cuyahoga County, Ohio (last president born in a log cabin).
B11191905 Tommy Dorsey, bandleader.
B11191917 Indira Gandhi, leader of India, teacher of non-violent protest.
B11191919 Alan Young, English actor.
B11191921 Roy Campanella, baseball star.
B11191926 Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Duncan, Okla.
B11191934 Larry King, television interviewer, Brooklyn, N.Y.
B11191936 Dick Cavett, TV talk show host, Gibbon, Neb.
B11191938 Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul, Cincinnati, Ohio.
B11191941 Dan Haggerty, actor, "Grizzly Adams".
B11191942 Calvin Klein, designer, New York, N.Y.
B11191949 Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), NFL wide receiver (Minn. Vikings).
B11191954 Kathleen Quinlan, "Rose Garden", "Twilight Zone", Mill Valley,
B11191954CCal.
B11191956 Glynnis O'Connor, New York, N.Y.
B11191962 Jodie Foster, actress, "Bugsy Malone", New York, N.Y.
B11191963 Meg Ryan, actress, Fairfield, Conn.
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented air pump.
B11201620 Peregrine White, son of William and Susanna White, born aboard
B11201620CMayflower
B11201781 Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat, author, humanist.
B11201858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist, "Tales of a Manor", 1909 Nobel.
B11201866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, first commissioner of baseball.
B11201871 William Kilpatrick, U.S. philosopher, father of progressive
B11201871Ceducation.
B11201884 Norman M. Thomas, social critic, co-founder of the A.C.L.U.,
B11201884CMarion, Ohio.
B11201886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert, 1973 Nobel.
B11201889 Edwin Hubble, U.S. astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift.
B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job.
B11201907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director.
B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur, "Masterpiece Theater", Manchester,
B11201908CEngland.
B11201914 Emilio Pucci, fashion designer.
B11201916 Robert A. Bruce, pioneer in exercise cardiology.
B11201917 Robert Byrd (D-Sen-WV) majority leader.
B11201920 Gene Tierney, actress, "Laura", "Razor's Edge".
B11201921 Phyllis Thaxter, Portland, Maine.
B11201923 Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, "Lying Days".
B11201925 Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. senator, statesman.
B11201925 Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina.
B11201926 Kaye Ballard, singer, Cleveland, Oh.
B11201927 Estelle Parsons, actress, "Rachel, Rachel", Lynn, Mass.
B11201932 Richard Dawson, actor, game show host, Hampshire, England.
B11201939 Dick Smothers, comedian, folk singer, New York, N.Y.
B11201943 Veronica Hamill, actress, "Hill Street Blues", Philadelphia, Pa.
B11201956 Bo Derek, actress, "10", Long Beach, Ca.
B11201969 Mark Lewis, infielder, Indians (1991-    ), Hamilton, Ohio.
B11211694 Voltaire, thinker.
B11211729 Josiah Bartlett, physician, judge, signer of the Declaration of
B11211729CIndependence, Amesbury, Mass.
B11211785 William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion.
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic steamship line.
B11211888 Adolph Arthur (Harpo) Marx, mime, comedian, musician, N.Y.C.
B11211898 René Magritte, painter, "This is Not a Pipe".
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz.
B11211907 Jim Bishop, author.
B11211912 Eleanor Powell, actress, Springfield, Mass.
B11211916 Sid Luckman, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears).
B11211920 Stan Musial, baseball player.
B11211920 Ralph Meeker, actor, "Anderson Tapes", "Night Stalker".
B11211923 Vivian Blaine, actress, "Guys and Dolls".
B11211933 Henry W. (Hank) Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut (STS-4, 41D, 61A).
B11211940 Natalia Maskarova, ballerina, Lenningrad, Russia.
B11211941 Juliet Mills, actress, London, England.
B11211943 Marlo Thomas (Mrs. Phil Donahue), actress, "That Girl", Detroit,
B11211943CMich.
B11211943 Larry Mahan, rodeo champ.
B11211945 Goldie Hawn, actress, Washington, D.C.
B11211961 Mariel Hemingway, "Manhattan", "Personal Best", Mill Valley, Ca.
B11221710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach.
B11221819 George Eliot in England, novelist, "Silas Marner".
B11221869 André Gide, French novelist, "Lafcadio's Adventures", 1947 Nobel.
B11221888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.
B11221890 Charles de Gaulle, president of France (1958-69).
B11221898 Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist.
B11221899 Hoagie Carmichael, actor, songwriter, composed "Star Dust".
B11221913 Benjamin Britten, English composer.
B11221922 Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, Babylon, N.Y.
B11221924 Geraldine Page, stage and screen actress, "Interiors",
B11221924CKirksville, Mo.
B11221930 Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9).
B11221932 Robert Vaughn, actor, Napoleon Solo of "Man from U.N.C.L.E.",New
B11221932CYork, N.Y.
B11221943 Billie Jean King, tennis star.
B11221958 Jamie Lee Curtis, actress, "Friday the 13th", Los Angeles, Ca.
B11221967 Boris Becker, West German tennis pro.
B1123 912 Otto I (the Great), German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73).
B11231221 Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile and Leon (1252).
B11231749 Edward Rutledge, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of
B11231749CIndependence, Charleston, S.C.
B11231804 Franklin Pierce (D), 14th President (1853-1857), Hillsboro, N.H.
B11231859 Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), criminal.
B11231860 Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize
B11231860C1921.
B11231883 Jose Clemente Orozio, Mexican painter.
B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman, "Frankenstein", "Isle of the Dead".
B11231930 William Brock, Senator.
B11231933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer, "Hiroshima Threnody".
B11231952 Francie Larrieu, track runner.
B11231959 Brook Wallace "Jake" Jacoby, Jr., Indians All-Star third baseman
B11231959C(1984-1991) (1992-    ), Philadelphia, Pa.
B11241632 Baruch Spinoza, Jewish-born pantheist, philosopher.
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
B11241713 Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, satirist, "Tristram Shandy".
B11241784 Zachary Taylor (Whig), 12th President (1849-1850), Orange County,
B11241784CVirginia.
B11241853 William Barclay "Bat" Masterson, buffalo hunter, gunfighter,
B11241853Clawman, gambler, sports writer, Iroquois County, Ill.
B11241864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec in France, painter.
B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer, ragtime pianist, composer.
B11241885 Anna Louise Strong, U.S. Communist writer, aided revolution in
B11241885CChina.
B11241888 Dale Carnegie, writer, "How to Win Friends and Influence People",
B11241888CMaryville, Mo.
B11241912 Eric Severeid, newscast journalist.
B11241912 Teddy Wilson, American jazz musician.
B11241921 John V. Lindsay, former mayor of New York.
B11241925 William F. Buckley, journalist, conservative spokesman.
B11241938 Oscar Robertson (Big O), basketball player.
B1124     Denise Crosby, actress, "Pet Semetary", Natasha Yar and Sela on
B1124    C"Star Trek: The Next Generation".
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian, Dunfermline, Scotland.
B11251846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers.
B11251881 John XXIII, 261st pope (1958-63), (Angelo Roncalli) near Bergamo,
B11251881CItaly.
B11251896 Virgil Thomson, composer and music critic.
B11251914 Joe DiMaggio, baseball superstar.
B11251920 Ricardo Montalban, actor, Khan, "Fantasy Island", Mexico City,
B11251920CMexico.
B11251933 Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts).
B11251933 Kathryn Grant (Crosby), actress, Houston, Tex.
B11251939 Martin Feldstein, economist.
B11251947 John Larroquette, actor, TV's "Night Court", New Orleans, La.
B11251960 John F. Kennedy Jr.
B11251963 Bernie Kosar, Cleveland Brown quarterback, Boardman, Oh.
B11251966 Stacy Lattislaw, actress.
B11251966 Mark Anthony Whiten, outfielder, Indians (1991-    ), Pensacola,
B11251966CFlorida.
B11261607 John Harvard, English clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard
B11261607CUniversity.
B11261731 William Cowper, English poet.
B11261792 Sarah Moore Grimké, American antislavery, women's rights
B11261792Cadvocate.
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, author, "Little Women".
B11261832 Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor, women's rights leader.
B11261857 Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist.
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11261894 Norbert Wiener, mathematician, linguist, philosopher, inventor of
B11261894Ccybernetics, Columbia, Mo.
B11261905 Emlyn Williams, actor, playwright.
B11261912 Eugène Ionesco, French dramatist, "Rhinoceros".
B11261922 Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts).
B11261933 Robert Goulet, singer, Lawrence, Mass.
B11261935 Marian Mercer, actress-singer, Akron, Ohio.
B11261938 Rich Little, impressionist, Ottaw, Ont.
B11261938 Tina Turner, rock singer, Nutbush, Tenn.
B11261942 Jan Stenerud, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs).
B11261962 Mike Johnson, All-Pro linebacker for the Cleveland Browns,
B11261962CSouthport, N.C.
B11271701 Anders Celsius, scientist, invented centigrade temperature scale.
B11271746 Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington.
B11271804 Sir Julius Benedict, composer.
B11271809 Fanny Kemble, English actress.
B11271874 Charles Beard, American historian.
B11271897 Vito Genovese, American Mafia boss.
B11271909 James Agee, American poet and critic, "Let Us Now Praise Famous
B11271909CMen".
B11271917 Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody's partner, Buffalo, N.Y.
B11271932 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, assassinated.
B11271937 Gail Sheehy, writer.
B11271941 Eddie Rabbitt, singer.
B11271940 Bruce Lee, martial arts expert, actor, Kato of "The Green
B11271940CHornet", "Enter the Dragon", San Francisco, Ca.
B11271942 Jimi Hendrix, guitarist.
B11271951 Jayne Kennedy, TV personality, Washington, D.C.
B11271957 Caroline Kennedy.
B11281628 John Bunyan, English cleric, author, "Pilgrim's Progress".
B11281632 Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician.
B11281757 William Blake, poet, "Songs of Innocence and Experience".
B11281820 Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator.
B11281873 Lewis Gingberg, Jewish-American scholar.
B11281881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator.
B11281908 Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgian social anthropologist.
B11281929 Gloria Grahame.
B11281931 Hope Lange, actress, Redding Ridge, Conn.
B11281937 Gary Hart, Colorado senator, presidential candidate.
B11281942 Paul Warfield, NFL, WFL, wide receiver for Cleveland and Miami,
B11281942CFootball Hall of Fame, Warren, Ohio.
B11281943 Randy Newman, singer, Los Angeles, Ca.
B11281949 Alexander Godunov, composer.
B11281949 Paul Schaeffer, musician, bandleader, "David Letterman".
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift).
B11291811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer.
B11291832 Louise May Alcott, writer, "Little Women", Germantown, Pa.
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11291874 António Egas Moniz, Portuguese lobotomist, 1949 Nobel.
B11291894 Brooks Alkinson, N.Y. Times drama critic.
B11291895 Busley Berkeley, American choreographer.
B11291898 C.S. Lewis, British Christian scholar, writer.
B11291902 Philippe Leclerc, French general.
B11291907 Merle Travis, country singer.
B11291908 Adam Clayton Powell, controversial Harlem congressman.
B11291911 Konrad Fuchs, German atomic physicist.
B11291918 Madeleine L'Engle, writer, Newbery Award Medal winner.
B11291927 Vin Scully, sportscaster.
B11291928 Paul Simon, Illinois senator, presidential candidate.
B11291932 Diane Ladd, actress, Meridian, Miss.
B11291933 David Reuben, physician/writer.
B11291933 John Mayall, blues singer.
B11291949 Garry Shandling, comedian, Tucson, Ariz.
B11291940 Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer, Rochester, N.Y.
B11291946 Suzy Chaffee, skier.
B11291955 Howie Mandel, comedian, actor, "Little Monsters", Toronto, Ont.
B11291960 Cathy Moriarty, actress.
B1129     Kim Delaney, actress, Philadelphia, Pa.
B11301466 Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral.
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, "Gulliver's Travels".
B11301793 Johann Lukas Schönlein, helped establish scientific medicine.
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301817 Theodor Mommsen, German historian, writer, 1902 Nobel.
B11301835 Samuel Longhorne Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, author.
B11301874 Winston Churchill, British statesman, world leader, 1953 Nobel.
B11301912 Gordon Parks, film director.
B11301915 Henry Taube, chemist, 1983 Nobel.
B11301920 Virginia Mayo, actress, St. Louis, Mo.
B11301923 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., actor, "77 Sunset Strip", New York, N.Y.
B11301924 Shirley Chisholm, first black congresswoman, Brooklyn, N.Y.
B11301924 Allan Sherman, comedian.
B11301927 Richard Crenna, actor, Los Angeles, Ca.
B11301929 Dick Clark, "American Bandstand", Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
B11301930 G. Gordon Liddy
B11301936 Abbie Hoffman, Yippie.
B11301936 Sarah Stanley.
B11301955 Billy Idol, rocker, (White Wedding).
*mmddyyyy Events
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S11011752 All Saints' Day is first celebrated.
S11011802 the Ohio Constitutional Convention first meets in the "old stone
S11011802CState-house" in Chillicothe, the first state capitol.
S11011834 the first published reference to the game of Poker describes it
S11011834Cas a Mississippi riverboat game.
S11011835 Seminole Indians in Florida under Osceola begin attacks,
S11011835Cprotesting forced removal.
S11011870 the U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations.
S11011873 barbed wire is invented.
S11011901 Dr. J.E. Gillman announces an x-ray treatment for breast cancer.
S11011911 Chevrolet Motor Company is incorporated.
S11011913 Knute Rockne leads underdog Notre Dame to a 35-13 win over Army.
S11011923 Goodyear buys rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
S11011929 Albert B. Fall is convicted of accepting a bribe in the leasing
S11011929Cof Elk Hills (Teapot Dome) naval oil reserve.
S11011932 Wernher von Braun is named head of the German liquid-fuel rocket
S11011932Cprogram.
S11011939 the Rockefeller Center in completed.
S11011940 the first U.S. air raid shelter is built in Fleetwood, Pa.
S11011943 Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S11011947 the first Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
S11011950 the first black player plays in the National Basketball
S11011950CAssociation at Fort Wayne, Ind.
S11011952 the U.S. explodes the first hydrogen device at Eniwetok Atoll in
S11011952Cthe Pacific.
S11011954 Steve Allen begins hosting "The Tonight Show".
S11011959 Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in the Cleveland Browns win over
S11011959CBaltimore, a club record for the most TD's on the ground.
S11011962 WCLV begins its career as Cleveland's principal fine-arts radio
S11011962Cstation when it airs as WDGO-FM (became WCLV on Nov. 5, 1962).
S11011973 President Nixon names Leon Jaworski as special Watergate
S11011973Cprosecutor to succeed fired Archibald Cox.
S11011976 the Lakewood Beck Center opens.
S11011979 Lee Iacocca becomes CEO of the Chrysler Corporation.
S11011981 Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda gain independence.
S11011981 first class mail is raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S11011982 Bowie Kuhn is voted out as baseball commissioner.
S11011992 Oxygenated fuels containing 10% ethanol are first required in
S11011992COhio, mandated by the Clean Air Act of 1990 (to be used until
S11011992CFeb.  28, 1993).
S1101     All Saints' Day (celebrated in Zaire).
S1101     All Saints' Night.
S1101    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S11021783 the Continental Army is officially disbanded.
S11021854 cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny
S11021854Cstarts in San Francisco.
S11021878 the Penny Press is first issued, later becoming the Cleveland
S11021878CPress
S11021889 North Dakota becomes the 39th state.
S11021889 South Dakota becomes the 40th state.
S11021917 the Balfour Declaration is announced, calling  for a Jewish
S11021917Chomeland in Palestine.
S11021917 the Lansing-Ishii Agreement is signed.
S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on the air, the first commercial radio
S11021920Cstation.
S11021921 the American Birth Control League is formed.
S11021926 the Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for
S11021926Cairlines and airports.
S11021931 in Ohio, Du Pont announces it will market synthetic rubber.
S11021936 the world's first TV broadcasting service is inaugurated by
S11021936Cthe British Broadcasting Corporation in London.
S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for first (and last) time.
S11021947C(Wing span is 319 feet, 11 inches.)
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S11021954 J.S. Thurmond is the first senator elected by a write-in vote
S1102954C(South Carolina).
S11021962 JFK announces that the Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being
S11021962Cdismantled.
S11021963 President Diem of South Vietnam is assassinated during a coup.
S11021964 CBS purchases the N.Y. Yankees.
S11021965 the first American, Quaker Norman Morrison, immolates himself to
S11021965Cprotest the Vietnam War.
S11021976 New Jersey approves the Las Vegas-style casinos for Atlantic
S11021976CCity.
S11021983 Martin Luther King's birthday becomes a national holiday.
S11021992 Laker's Magic Johnson retires for the second and last time.
S1102     North and South Dakota Admission Day.
S1102    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1102    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1102     All Souls' Day.
S11031892 the first automatic switchboard begins operation in La Porte, La.
S11031900 the first national Automobile Show opens at Madison Square
S11031900CGarden in New York City.
S11031903 Panama declares it's independence from Columbia.
S11031907 the world's first helicopter flight is achieved in France.
S11031917 first class mail costs 3 cents.
S11031930 the Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens, becoming the first vehicular
S11031930Ctunnel to foreign country.
S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
S11031941 U.S. Ambassador Joseph Grew warns Washington of a possible
S11031941Csecret attack on U.S. positions by the Japanese.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S11031956 "The Wizard of Oz" is first televised.
S11031957 U.S.S.R. launches a dog, Laika, in Sputnik II (the first animal
S11031957Cin orbit).
S11031964 Robert Kennedy is elected Senator (New York).
S11031966 LBJ signs a bill requiring food labeling to identify contents.
S11031970 Jane Fonda is charged in Cleveland with smuggling pills and
S11031970Ckicking a police officer (pills were prescription).
S11031973 Mariner 10 is launched, becoming the first space craft to use the
S11031973Cgravity of a planet (Venus) to send it to another (Mercury).
S11031978 Britain grants Dominica independence (National Day).
S11031986 the Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales
S11031986Cto Iran (the beginning of the Iran-contra scandal).
S11031986 the Federated States of Microesia becomes a sovereign-self-
S11031986Cgoverning state.
S11031986 the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes a U.S.
S11031986Ccommonwealth.
S11031992 Ohio gives Clinton enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
S11031992 Ohio U.S. Senator John Glenn wins a historic (Ohio) fourth term.
S11031992 Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois becomes the first black women
S11031992CU.S. senator.
S11031992 Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado becomes the first U.S.
S11031992Csenator with a ponytail.
S1103    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1103    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1103     Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
S1103     Japan Culture Day.
S1103     International Cat Week.
S1103     Feast of Blessed Martin de Porres, confessor.
S1103    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
S11041841 the first emigrant wagon train arrives in California.
S11041854 a lighthouse is established on Alcatraz Island.
S11041867 90 kegs of powder are used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for
S11041867Cseawall (San Francisco).
S11041879 James and John Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat
S11041879Cstealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon.
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11041924 Miriam "Ma" Ferguson of Texas is elected the first woman governor
S11041924Cin the U.S. (she becomes the second to take office.)
S11041939 the first air conditioned automobile (Packard) is exhibited in
S11041939CChicago, Il.
S11041945 the first World Community Day is celebrated.
S11041946 the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization is
S11041946Cformed.
S11041952 John F. Kennedy wins a seat in the Senate.
S11041956 Soviet tanks crush Hungarian revolt.
S11041958 Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli is crowned Pope John XXIII.
S11041962 the U.S. halts atmospheric test of nuclear bombs.
S11041972 the Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against the Islanders.
S11041979 hostages are taken at the American embassy in Teheran.
S11041981 Dr. George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive
S11041981Cdrugs for Elvis Presley.
S1104    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1104    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1104     Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, confessor.
S1104     Will Rogers Day.
S1104    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
S11051605 a plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the British Houses of Parliament
S11051605Cfails.
S11051752 Guy Fawkes Day is first celebrated.
S11051781 John Hanson is elected first "President of the United States in
S11051781CCongress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
S11051875 Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote.
S11051895 the first U.S. patent is granted for the automobile to George B.
S11051895CSelden.
S11051911 the first coast-to-coast airplane flight (N.Y. - Pasadena, with
S11051911Cmany stops) is completed after 82 hours of air time.
S11051913 the Los Angeles Owens River Aquaduct opens.
S11051930 the deadliest Ohio mine accident kills 82 in Millfield, Athens
S11051930CCounty.
S11051950 Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, a club record,
S11051950CBrowns 10, Chicago Cardinals 7.
S11051963 archeologists find Viking ruins in Newfoundland predating
S11051963CColumbus by 500 years.
S11051968 Shirley Chrisholm becomes the first black female to serve in the
S11051968CHouse (New York).
S11051973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.
S11051974 Ella Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman
S11051974Cgovernor not succeeding her husband.
S11051976 Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer in Utah, asks for the death
S11051976Csentence (on Jan. 17, 1977, he becomes the first person in 10
S11051976Cyears to be executed).
S11051982 the Cleveland Cavs lose their 24th consecutive game (NBA record).
S11051984 Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years (Sandinistas win
S11051984C63% of the votes).
S11051989 Cleveland Browns' Bernie Kosar sets a club record of 16
S11051989Cconsecutive pass completions, Browns 42, Tampa 31.
S1105    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1105    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S1105     Feast of Holy Relics.
S1105    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
S11061814 Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone.
S11061850 the first fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President.
S11061862 direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco is
S11061862Cestablished.
S11061867 the first Parliament of Canada opens in Ottawa.
S11061869 the first intercollegiate football game is played (Rutgers 6,
S11061869CPrinceton 4).
S11061897 Peter Pan opens at the Empire Theater in New York, starring the
S11061897Celfin actress Maude Adams.
S11061917 women win the right to vote in Lakewood, Ohio.
S11061917 the Bolshevik revolution begins.
S11061922 the Palace Theater opens in Cleveland's Playhouse Square.
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial-license station begins
S11061939Cservice.
S11061947 "Meet the Press" airs for the first time (weekly shows begin on
S11061947CSeptember 12, 1948).
S11061950 China enters the Korean conflict.
S11061956 the brief Suez Canal War is ended by an U.N. cease-fire.
S11061962 the BART bond issue in San Francisco just gets by with a 66.9%
S11061962Cfavorable vote.
S11061979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes complete control of Iran.
S11061981 a black-footed ferret is found in Wyoming, previously thought
S11061981Cextinct.
S11061984 Ronald Reagan is reelected President in the greatest Republican
S11061984Clandslide in history.
S1106    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1106    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1106     St. Leonard's Day (abbot) (Anglican).
S1106    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
S11071865 the London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.
S11071872 the Mary Celeste, sailing from N.Y. to Genoa, is found abandoned
S11071872Cfour weeks later.
S11071874 the first cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the
S11071874CRepublican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It was drawn
S11071874Cby Thomas Nast.
S11071875 Verney Cameron is the first European to cross equatorial Africa
S11071875Cfrom sea to sea.
S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
S11071916 Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first women
S11071916CRepresentative.
S11071917 Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
S11071918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets.
S11071932 "Buck Rogers" airs on CBS Radio.
S11071940 the Narrows Bridge, "Galloping Gertie", collapses in Tacoma,
S11071940CWash.
S11071943 Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0 is the last scoreless tie in the
S11071943CNFL.
S11071950 the F-86 Sabre jet is first used in combat, downing a MIG-15 in
S11071950CKorea.
S11071954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets a club record with 7 punt
S11071954Creturns, Browns 62, Washington 3.
S11071962 Nixon concedes gubernatorial race in California - "You won't have
S11071962CNixon to kick around anymore."
S11071967 Carl Stokes (Cleveland) and Richard Hatcher (Gary, Ind.) are
S11071967Celected the first black mayors of major U.S. cities.
S11071973 Congress overrides Nixon's veto of the war powers bill which
S11071973Ccurbed the president's power to commit U.S. forces to hostilities
S11071973Cabroad without Congressional approval.
S11071976 "Gone With the Wind" (Part I) is first televised (NBC).
S11071991 Lakers' Magic Johnson retires from basketball, announcing he had
S11071991Ccontracted the AIDS virus.
S11071992 U.N. Peacekeeping Forces (British troops) in Bosnia return fire
S11071992Cfor the first time.
S1107    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1107    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1107    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
S11081789 Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend
S11081789CElijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.
S11081837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts opens, the first U.S.
S11081837Ccollege founded for women.
S11081873 the first Burrows Bros. Co. book store opens, on Euclid Avenue in
S11081873CDowntown Cleveland.
S11081889 Montana becomes the 41st state.
S11081895 Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
S11081913 three storms converge on the Great Lakes, resulting in the worst
S11081913Cstorm, a four-day ordeal, in its history (over 200 casualties).
S11081931 Fredrick Allison reports the discovery of halogen, the 85th
S11081931Celement.
S11081939 "Life with Father", the longest running Broadway drama, opens
S11081939C(closes 1947).
S11081942 the U.S. and Great Britain invade North Africa.
S11081958 the Hope Diamond (and its curse?) is given to the Smithsonian.
S11081960 John F. Kennedy is elected president by a narrow margin.
S11081962 the U.S. announces all known missile bases in Cuba have been
S11081962Cdismantled.
S11081966 Edward W. Brooke becomes the first black elected the Senate
S11081966C(Massachusetts).
S11081966 movie actor Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California.
S11081970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans kicks a NFL-record 63-yard field goal.
S11081973 Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released.
S11081973 the New Jersey Tollway reduces speed limit to 50 mph to save
S11081973Cfuel, the first state to take such action.
S11081976 the Supreme Court sanctions Medicaid abortions.
S11081976 "Gone With the Wind" (Part II) is first televised (NBC).
S11081980 Voyager I discovers a 15th moon around Saturn.
S11081984 the 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched.
S1108    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1108     Feast of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs.
S1108     Punster's Day.
S11091799 Napoleon becomes dictator (First Consul) of France.
S11091906 Roosevelt becomes first president to official visit countries
S11091906Coutside the U.S. (17-day trip to Puerto Rico and Panama.
S11091918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I.
S11091925 the Nazies' SS is formed.
S11091935 the Committee of Industrial Organizations (CIO) is formed.
S11091943 Jackson Pollock's work is first shown at the Peggy Guggonheim
S11091943CGallery in New York.
S11091965 a giant power failure at 5:16 P.M. blacks out most of the
S11091965Cnortheastern United States and Ontario, Canada.
S11091967 U.S. send Apollo 4 capsule into orbit in a successful test of the
S11091967CSaturn V rocket.
S11091989 East Germany opens its borders with the West, signaling the end
S11091989Cof the Berlin Wall.
S11091990 Mary Robinson is elected the first woman President of Ireland.,
S1109     Feast of Dedication of Church of the Lateran, Rome.
S11101674 the Dutch cedes New York to the British.
S11101775 the U.S. Marine Corps is authorized by Congress (2 battalions).
S11101775CThe Corp is established by law July 11, 1798.
S11101801 Kentucky outlaws dueling.
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S11101885 the world's first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, makes
S11101885Cits debut.
S11101891 the first Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting is held (in
S11101891CBoston).
S11101908 the first Gideon Bible is placed in a hotel room (Superior Hotel,
S11101908CIron Mountain, Montana.
S11101937 the Cleveland Arena opens.
S11101945 the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by U.S.
S11101945Ctroops.
S11101951 the first Long Distance telephone call without operator
S11101951Cassistance occurs.
S11101957 Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets a club record for the longest
S11101957Cfumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), Browns 24,
S11101957CPittsburgh 0.
S11101961 the Soviets rename Stalingrad Volgograd.
S11101969 "Sesame Street" premieres.
S11101975 the ore boat Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior during a
S11101975Cstorm, all hands lost.
S1110     Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, confessor.
S11111620 the Mayflower Compact is signed by the Pilgrims in Cape Cod
S11111620C(Julian or Old Style calendar).
S11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China --
S11111790CSpelling bee judges cheer!
S11111889 Washington becomes the 42nd state.
S11111909 work begins on naval base at Pearl Harbor.  It is selected
S11111909Cbecause "it is defensible against any potential threat from
S11111909CJapan."
S11111918 Armistice Day - World War I ends at 11 A.M. on the Western Front.
S11111918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia.
S11111921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of Unknown Soldier.
S11111924 the Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated in San Francisco.
S11111929 Lewis Milestone, at 11 AM, begins filming "All Quiet on the
S11111929CWestern Front".
S11111932 the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
S11111940 the jeep, built by Willys, makes it debut.  (The name comes
S11111940Cfrom the sound of the first letters of "general purpose".)
S11111946 the N.Y. Knicks play their first game at Madison Square Garden
S11111946C(lose 78-68 to the Chicago Stags).
S11111951 President Truman, a Democrat, offers to sponsor Gen. Eisenhower
S11111951Cas president.  Ike later wins the Republican nomination.
S11111957 demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde in S.F.
S11111959 Seals Stadium is demolished in San Francisco.
S11111965 Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) declares its independence from
S11111965CBritain (takes 15-years to attain).
S11111966 Gemini 12 is launched on a 4-day flight.
S11111968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on the cover of the "Two
S11111968CVirgins" album.
S11111974 the U.S. Little League World Series, won by Taiwan for the last
S11111974Cfour years, is limited to United States teams.  (Ban is lifted
S11111974Con Dec. 30, 1975.)
S11111975 Portugal grants Angola independence (National Day).
S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes its first commercial flight.
S11111982 the 5th Shuttle Mission, Columbia 5 is launched on its first
S11111982Cflight as a space freighter.
S11111987 the Congressional Budget Office reports the new tax law, passed
S11111987Con September 27,1986, will force the poor to pay 20% more and the
S11111987Crich to pay 20% less.
S11111992 the Church of England grants women the opportunity to become
S11111992Cpriests.
S1111     The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom.
S1111    CRemember them!
S1111     Martinmas, term day in Scotland (Feast of St. Martin of Tours).
S1111     Remembrance Day - Canada.
S11121859 Jules Leotard performs the first Flying Trapeze circus act
S11121859Cin Paris.  He also designed the garment that bears his name.
S11121873 the Bay District Race Track opens.
S11121892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becoming the first professional
S11121892Cfootball player.
S11121918 Austria becomes a republic.
S11121920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis is elected the first baseball
S11121920Ccommissioner.
S11121927 the Holland Tunnel in New York officially opens.
S11121928 George Gipp's request to "win one for the Gipper" is fulfilled
S11121928Cagainst Army - Notre Dame 12, Army 6.
S11121933 the first known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11121933 the first Sunday football game is played in Philadelphia
S11121933C(previously illegal).
S11121936 the Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
S11121938 Kate Smith introduces Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", on
S11121938Cher radio show.
S11121946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" is released.
S11121946 the first "autobank" (banking by car) is established, in Chicago.
S11121955 the worst paid attendance football game (1) is played between
S11121955CWashington State and San Jose State (because of high winds and a
S11121955Ctemperature of 0 degrees F).
S11121956 the largest iceberg on record, 208 miles long and 60 miles wide,
S11121956Cis sighted in the South Pacific by the U.S.S. Glacier.
S11121965 Ferninand Marcos wins the presidential election in the
S11121965CPhilippines.
S11121967 Packers' Travis Williams returns two kickoffs for TDs (tieing the
S11121967Cleague record) against the Cleveland Browns.
S11121968 the Supreme Court voids Arkansas' law banning the teaching of
S11121968Cevolution in public schools.
S11121970 scientists in Buffalo report the first artificial synthesis of a
S11121970Cliving cell.
S11121974 the U.N. rebukes South Africa for its apartheid policy by
S11121974Csuspending it from the current session.
S11121975 Andrei Sakharov, a Russia thermonuclear physicist, is denied an
S11121975Cexit visa to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo (his wife
S11121975Caccepts it for him).
S11121981 the 2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched, the first
S11121981Ctime a spacecraft is launched twice.
S11121981 the first balloon crossing of Pacific Ocean is completed by the
S11121981CDouble Eagle V.
S11121984 space shuttle astronauts snare a satellite (the first space
S11121984Csalvage).
S1112     Feast of St. Martin I, pope (649-55), martyr.
S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected the first governor of California.
S11131875 the Harvard-Yale game becomes the first college football contest
S11131875Cwith uniforms.
S11131895 the first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii arrives.
S11131921 "The Sheik", starring Rudolph Valentino, is released.
S11131927 the N.Y.-N.J. Holland Tunnel, the first underwater vehicular
S11131927Ctunnel, opens.
S11131933 the first photograph of the Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11131937 NBC forms the first full sized symphony orchestra exclusively for
S11131937Cradio.
S11131938 Mother Frances Cabrini, America's first saint and founder of the
S11131938COrder of the Sacred Heart, is beatified.
S11131940 the Cleveland Health Education Museum opens.
S11131940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" premieres in New York.
S11131942 the minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18.
S11131949 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within the French
S11131949CUnion.
S11131952 Harvard's Paul Zoll becomes the first to use electric shock to
S11131952Ctreat cardiac arrest.
S11131956 the Supreme Court strikes down an Alabama law requiring
S11131956Csegregation of races on public buses.
S11131967 Carl Stokes is inaugurated mayor of Cleveland, the first black
S11131967Cmayor of a major city.
S11131971 Mariner 9 is placed in orbit around Mars, the first manmade
S11131971Cspacecraft around another planet.
S11131972 91 nations agree to stop dumping poisonous chemicals into
S11131972Cinternational waters.
S11131974 Karen Silkwood, nuclear protester, is killed in a car crash under
S11131974Csuspicious circumstances.
S11131980 the U.S. space probe Voyager I comes within 77,000 miles of
S11131980CSaturn.
S11131982 the Vietnam War Memorial is dedicated.
S11131982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim is fatally injured when KOed by Ray
S11131982CMancini.
S11131985 a new study on capital punishment in the U.S. asserts 343 were
S11131985Cwrongly sentenced to death, and 25 were executed.
S11131985 Dwight Gooden becomes the youngest player to win the Cy Young
S11131985CAward and also the youngest 20 game winner in the modern era
S11131985Cat three days shy of his 21st birthday.
S1113     Feast of St. Didacus, confessor.
S1113    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S11141666 Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion (between
S11141666Cdogs).
S11141792 Capt. George Vancouver is the first Englishman to enter S.F. Bay.
S11141832 the first street car in the U.S. begins operation in N.Y.C.
S11141832CIt's a horse-drawn trolley.
S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
S11141864 after burning Atlanta, Sherman begins his march to sea thru
S11141864CGeorgia.
S11141888 the first golf club is organized.
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
S11141889Cworld by 8 days (72 days).
S11141896 the power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation.
S11141908 Einstein presents quantum theory of light.
S11141910 the first airplane flight from the deck of a ship occurs.
S11141922 the BBC begins its first daily broadcasts.
S11141929 John Long Severance breaks ground for the Cleveland Orchestra's
S11141929Cnew concert hall, Severance Hall.
S11141943 Bears' Sid Luckman throws 7 TD passes (NFL record).
S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii) occurs.
S11141960 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is
S11141960Ccreated.
S11141968 Yale announces plan to go co-ed.
S11141969 Apollo 12 is launched to make the second U.S. landing on the
S11141969Cmoon.
S11141972 the Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for the first time (1003.16).
S11141973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips.
S11141976 Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets a club record with 4 sacks,
S11141976CBrowns 24, Philadelphia 3.
S11141986 Ivan Boesky agrees to plead guilty to an unspecified criminal
S11141986Ccount.  Pays a record $100 million fine, returns profits from
S11141986Cinsider trading, and receives a 3-year sentence.
S1114     Feast of St. Josaphat, archbishop of Polotsk, martyr.
S1114     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the
S11151763CMason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania.
S11151777 the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union is adopted by
S11151777Cthe Continental Congress.
S11151806 explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pike's Peak.
S11151864 General Sherman, with 60,000 Union troops, leaves Atlanta and
S11151864Cmarches towards the sea, laying waste to the countryside.
S11151869 free postal delivery is formally inaugurated.
S11151881 American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) is founded in Pittsburgh.
S11151920 the first regular session of the League of Nations opens in
S11151920CGeneva.
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with a radio
S11151926Cnetwork of 24 stations.
S11151932 the Walt Disney Art School is created.
S11151939 Social Security Administration approves the first unemployment
S11151939Ccheck.
S11151941 Cow Palace opens.
S11151949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
S11151950 the first black player in organized hockey, Arthur Dorrington, is
S11151950Csigned.
S11151954 a SAS flight between L.A. and Europe is the first commercial
S11151954Cflight over the North Pole.
S11151959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets a club record for
S11151959Cthe longest run from scrimmage with a 90-yard run (and TD)
S11151959Cagainst Washington.
S11151960 the USS George Washington, the first sub with nuclear ballistic
S11151960Cmissiles, goes to sea.
S11151964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, the lowest golf score for a woman pro.
S11151969 250,000 war protesters march peacefully in Washington during the
S11151969CSecond Vietnam Moratorium.
S11151983 Turkish Cypriots proclaim the northeast area of Cyprus the
S11151983CTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
S11151985 Britain and the Republic of Ireland sign a pact giving Dublin
S11151985Ca consultative role in Northern Ireland.
S11151990 President Bush signs the 1990 Clean Air Act.
S11151990 the 37th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 7 is launched.
S11151990 the Senate Ethics Committee begins hearings on the conduct of
S11151990Cfive senators, including Ohio senator John Glenn (the Keating 5).
S11151992 Richard Petty retires (his last race ends in a 6-car crash).
S1115     Veteran's Day (celebrated in Germany).
S1115     Feast of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S1115     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11161532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa.
S11161807 Moses Cleaveland dies.
S11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled
S11161841Clife preserver.
S11161907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
S11161924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to the Frankford Yellowjackets, ending a
S11161924C31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major league football record).
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
S11161959 the "Sound of Music" opens on Broadway.
S11161965 the Soviets' Venera 3 is launched, the first man-made to land on
S11161965Canother planet (crashes into Venus).
S11161966 Dr. Sam Sheppard is freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury.
S11161969 the 1968 massacre of hundreds of civilians at Mylai, South
S11161969CVietnam by U.S. forces is first reported.
S11161973 Skylab 3 astronauts dock with Skylab to begin 84-day mission.
S11161978 a House committee concludes James Earl Ray was paid to kill Rev.
S11161978CDr. Martin Luther King.
S11161982 the NFL ends its 57-day strike, the longest in the history of
S11161982Cprofessional sports.
S1116     Feast of St. Gertrude, virgin.
S1116     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S1116     Elephant Round-up Day (Thailand).
S1116    2National Children's Book Week begins.
S11171558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary.
S11171800 Congress convened for its first Washington, DC session.
S11171853 street signs are authorized at San Francisco intersections.
S11171855 Dr. David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the
S11171855CVictoia Falls on the Zambezi River.
S11171869 the Suez Canal opens.
S11171884 cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel".
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use (officially opens Aug. 15, 1914.)
S11171933 Claude Rains makes film debut in "The Invisible Man".
S11171934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor.
S11171940 the Green Bay Packers become the first NFL team to travel by
S11171940Cplane.
S11171956 fullback Jim Brown, of Syracuse, scores 43 points (a NCAA record)
S11171956Cvs. Colgate.
S11171958 Americans Richard Cushing and John O'Hara become cardinals.
S11171968 with one minute left and the outcome in doubt, NBC terminates the
S11171968CJets-Raider telecast to run "Heidi".  Oakland scores two TD's and
S11171968Cwins 43 - 32.
S11171973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or
S11171973Cnot their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
S1117     The day of the Great American Smoke Out.
S1117     Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day in Germany).
S1117     Feast of St. Gregory the Wonderworker, bishop, confessor.
S1117     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S1117     St. Anianus' Day (bishop, martyr) (Anglican).
S1117    2National Children's Book Week Begins.
S1117    5Great American Smoke Out
S11181307 William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head.
S11181805 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean, the first Americans to
S11181805Ccross the continent.
S11181820 Antarctica is discovered by U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel Palmer.
S11181883 standard time zones are established by railroads in the U.S. and
S11181883CCanada.
S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty grants U.S. exclusive canal rights to
S11181903Cthe Panama Canal.
S11181913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop.
S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat
S11181928CWillie".
S11181932 Disney's "Flowers and Trees" is awarded the first Academy Award
S11181932Cfor a cartoon.
S11181933 FDR creates the Civil Works Administration (CWA).
S11181936 the main span of Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
S11181952 Albert Einstein is asked to become the president of the republic
S11181952Cof Israel.
S11181984 the Browns set team records for the most sacks (11) and the most
S11181984Cyardage gained from sacks (95), Browns 23, Atlanta 7.
S11181989 Pennsylvania becomes the first state to restrict abortions after
S11181989Cthe Supreme Court gave states the right to do so (July 3, 1989).
S11181992 the comic issue featuring the death of Superman is released.
S1118     Feast of Dedication of Basilicas of Peter and Paul, Rome.
S1118     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S1118     Oman National Day.
S1118    2National Children's Book Week Begins.
S1118    5Great American Smoke Out.
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191620 the Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast (lands at
S11191620Plymouth on Dec. 26).
S11191644 the first protestant ministry society in New England forms.
S11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
S11191891 the first model train set is sold in Goppinzen, Germany.
S11191895 the pencil is invented. The eraser will have to wait.
S11191903 Carrie Nation attempts to make her celebrated speech in the
S11191903CU.S. Senate and later tries to sell replicas of the hatchet.
S11191919 the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations is rejected by
S11191919Cthe U.S. Senate (the treaty is later ratified).
S11191931 vitamin D-1 crystals are produced in Germany.
S11191954 the U.S. begins building the Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar
S11191954Cdefense in arctic Canada.
S11191959 Ford discontinues the production of the Edsel.
S11191961 Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown ties a club record (his own)
S11191961Cwith 237 yards rushing (34 carries), and sets a team record with
S11191961C313 combined yards, Browns 45, Philadelphia 24.
S11191969 Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad and Bean make the second U.S. landing
S11191969Con the moon.
S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
S11191970CHistorical Landmark.
S11191978 Rev. Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide, using cyanide and
S11191978CKool-Aid, in Jonestown, Guyana.
S11191981 U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 billion for Marathon Oil.
S11191990 the U.S., U.S.S.R. and leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact sign
S11191990Cthe Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe which limits
S11191990Cthe size of each military force.
S1119     Feast of St. Elizabeth, widow.
S1119     Monaco National Day.
S1119    2National Children's Book Week Begins.
S1119    5Great American Smoke Out.
S11201789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify Bill of Rights.
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S11201914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
S11201917 a new Lakewood Hospital is opened on Detroit and Bell.  The old
S11201917Chospital was a 15-bed house opened in June 1907.
S11201917 the first tank-dominated battle takes place at Cambrai, France
S11201917C(350 British tanks roll over German positions).
S11201931 commercial teletype service begins.
S11201942 the NHL abolishes regular season overtime.
S11201943 American forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Is.
S11201945 the Nuremberg war crimes trial begins.
S11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten, Duke
S11201947Cof Edinburgh, are married in London's Westminster Abbey.
S11201947 "Meet the Press" premieres om NBC.
S11201962 JFK bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded
S11201962Chousing.
S11201974 the U.S. files an antitrust suit to break-up AT&T (AT&T settles
S11201974Cin January 1982 by agreeing to break-up).
S11201975 a Senate select committee reports that the CIA plotted to kill
S11201975C2 foreign leaders and were involved in the deaths of 3 others.
S11201977 Egyptian President Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to address
S11201977CIsrael Knesset.  Joining hands with P.M. Begin, Sadat pledges "no
S11201977Cmore war".
S11201977 the Bears' Walter Payton rushes for 275 yards, the most yards
S11201977Cgained in a game.
S11201979 6 blacks and 4 women American hostages are released in Iran.
S11201979 the nation's first artificial blood transfusion occurs at the
S11201979CUniversity of Minnesota Hospital.
S11201980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes the first solar-powered
S11201980Cflight.
S11201983 100 million watch the ABC-TV movie "The Day After".
S11201992 it is announced that the year's Cleveland Air Show was the best
S11201992Cin the country.
S1120     Feast of St. Felix of Valois, confessor.
S1120    2National Children's Book Week Begins.
S11211620 the Mayflower Compact is signed by the Pilgrims in Cape Cod
S11211620C(Gregorian or modern calendar).
S11211783 Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes makes the first
S11211783Cunattached balloon flight.
S11211789 North Carolina is the 12th state of the original 13 to ratify the
S11211789CConstitution.
S11211794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.
S11211952 the first U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) is
S11211952Cintroduced.
S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) and Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed
S11211959Cduet.
S11211964 the Vatican approves the exoneration of Jews for guilt in the
S11211964Ccrucification of Jesus.
S11211964 the Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens,
S11211964Cbecoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
S11211967 President Johnson signs the first air quality act, allotting $428
S11211967Cmillion to fight pollution.
S11211974 a Watergate tape shows Nixon asked his aides to help protect him.
S11211980 the "Who Shot JR" episode of Dallas airs.
S11211986 the Justice Department begins inquiry into the National Security
S11211986CCouncil role in the Iran-contra scandal.
S11211990 the U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign the Charter of Paris for a New Europe,
S11211990Cwhich declares an end to the era of confrontation and division.
S1121     Feast of the Presentation of Mary.
S1121    2National Children's Book Week Begins.
S11221906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S11221906Cas the new call for help.
S11221917 the Detroit-Superior Bridge in Cleveland is opened.
S11221935 Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service, San
S11221935CFrancisco to Manila.
S11221943 Lebanon gains it's independence from France (would that it could
S11221943Ckeep it).
S11221963 President John Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
S11221963 Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President.
S11221963 the deadliest U.S. nursing home fire kills 63 in Filchville, Oh.
S11221968 the first interracial kiss in TV history is shown on "Star Trek"
S11221968Cbetween Capt. Kirk and Uhura ("Plato's Stepchildren").
S11221968 the Beatles release "The Beatles", there only double album.
S11221975 Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain.
S11221977 the Civil Aeronautics Board bans cigar and pipe smoking on U.S.
S11221977Cairlines.
S11221981 Cleveland Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets a club record by being
S11221981Cintercepted 6 times, Browns 10, Pittsburgh 32.
S11221989 the 32nd Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 9 is launched.
S11221990 Margaret Thatcher, P.M. of England, announces her resignation.
S1122    5Thanksgiving.
S1122     Feast of St. Cecilia, virgin, martyr, patron of music, musicians.
S1122     Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
S1122    2National Children's Book Week Begins.
S11231852 just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30
S11231852Cfeet.
S11231863 a patent is granted for a process of making color photographs.
S11231889 the first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco.
S11231911 Post Hospital at Presidio is renamed Letterman General Hospital.
S11231921 the Willis-Campbell Act is signed, forbidding doctors from
S11231921Cprescribing beer for medicinal purposes.
S11231939 Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" opens in New York.
S11231948 lens to provide zoom effects is patented by F.G. Back.
S11231964 the Vatican abolishes Latin as the official language of the Roman
S11231964CCatholic liturgy.
S11231982 the FCC drops limits on the duration and frequency of TV ads.
S1123    5Thanksgiving.
S1123     Feast of St. Clement I, 4th pope (c 88-c 97), martyr.
S11241832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification against a
S11241832Cpermanent tariff.
S11241874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11241948 Ireland votes for independence from the U.K. (recognized by
S11241948CEngland May 17, 1949).
S11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London.  At last
S11241952Creport, it is still running.
S11241954 the first U.S. Presidential airplane is christened, Air Force 1.
S11241957 Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets a club record with 237
S11241957Cyards rushing (31 carries) against the L.A. Rams.
S11241960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record).
S11241961 the U.N. adopts bans on nuclear arms over U.S. protest.
S11241963 Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed, witnessed by millions on
S11241963CTV, by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas jail.
S11241969 nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed by the U.S. and
S11241969Soviets.
S11241971 "D.B. Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest Airline 727 with
S11241971C$200,000.
S11241973 Australia grants Aborigines the right to vote.
S11241979 the U.S. admits thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to
S11241979CAgent Orange.
S11241981 the first air-launched cruise missile is tested.
S11241989 the Communist Party leadership resigns in Czechoslovakia.
S11241991 the 44th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 10 is launched.
S1124    5Thanksgiving.
S1124     Feast of St. John of the Cross, confessor, doctor.
S1124     National Day in Zaire.
S11251758 Britain captures Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh).
S11251783 Britain evacuated N.Y., their last military position in U.S.
S11251867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
S11251884 John B Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk.
S11251920 the first Thanksgiving Parade takes place in Philadelphia.
S11251920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcasts the first football play-
S11251920Cby-play.
S11251922 King Tut's tomb is entered; the stone sarcophagus is found
S11251922C1/4/24.
S11251923 transatlantic broadcasting is established (England and U.S.)
S11251943 "Casablanca" premieres in N.Y. City.
S11251951 Cleveland's  Mac Speedie sets a club record with 3 TD receptions,
S11251951Cand teammate Dub Jones scores 6 TDs, another club record.  The
S11251951CBrowns also set a team record for the most penalties (21),
S11251951CBrowns 42, Chicago 21.
S11251960 the first atomic reactor for research and development begins
S11251960Coperations at Richland, Wa.
S11251969 Nixon renounces germ weapons and orders the destruction of
S11251969Cstockpiles.
S11251969 Beatle John Lennon returns the Order of the British Empire award
S11251969Cto protest the U.K.'s support for the Vietnam War.
S11251975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day).
S11251976 O.J. Simpson rushes for 273 yards in a losing cause, Lions 27,
S11251976CBills 14.
S11251979 Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, the most gained
S11251979Cby an opponent in the Browns' history, Browns 30, Steelers 33.
S11251984 Cleveland Browns' Reggie Camp sets a team record for the most
S11251984Cyardage gained by sacks (39), Browns 27, Houston 10.
S11251986 Col. Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out
S11251986Cof her boss's office for him.
S1125    5Thanksgiving.
S1125     Feast of St. Catherine, patron of maidens, mechanics and
S1125    Cphilosophers.
S11261716 the first lion is exhibited in America, in Boston.
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S11261789 the first national celebration of Thanksgiving occurs.
S11261793 the Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France.
S11261832 the first horse drawn American street car occurs in NYC (fare:
S11261832C12¢).
S11261865 "Alice in Wonderland" is published.
S11261868 the first baseball game is played in an enclosed field at 25th
S11261868Cand Folsom in San Francisco.
S11261885 the first meteor is photographed.
S11261895 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
S11261941 a Japanese carrier force leaves base, moving east; its secret
S11261941Cdistination is Pearl Harbor.
S11261949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic.
S11261962 the Fab Four have their first recording session under the name
S11261962CBeatles.
S11261966 the first major tidal power plant is opened at Rance estuary,
S11261966CFrance.
S11261967 Cleveland Browns' Carl Ward sets a club record with a 104-yard
S11261967Ckickoff return, Browns 42, Washington 37.
S11261971 Rod Laver becomes the first tennis millionaire.
S11261973 Nixon turns over some of the White House Tapes.
S11261973 Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court
S11261973Cshe accidentally caused the 18-minute gap in a key Watergate
S11261973Ctape.  (Experts testify later it was caused by five different
S11261973Cerasures.)
S11261985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched.
S1126    5Thanksgiving.
S1126     Feast of St. Sylvester, abbot.
S11271095 Pope Urban II preaches the first Crusade.
S11271582 Advent Sunday is first observed.
S11271815 Cracow is declared a free republic.
S11271890 the first signal box for SF Police Department goes into
S11271890Coperation.
S11271895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel prize.
S11271901 the Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.
S11271910 N.Y.'s Penn Station opens as the world's largest railway
S11271910Cterminal.
S11271911 an audience throws vegetables at actors on stage occurs for the
S11271911Cfirst time.
S11271926 the restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins.
S11271937 the pro-labor musical revue `Pins & Needles' opens, produced by
S11271937CILGWU.
S11271942 the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to
S11271942Cprevent them from falling into hands of Nazis.
S11271945 CARE is incorporated to provide aid to Europe.
S11271951 the first rocket to intercept an airplane occurs at White Sands,
S11271951CN.M.
S11271962 the first test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place.
S11271966 in highest scoring NFL game, the Washington Redskins defeat the
S11271966CN.Y. Giants 72-41.
S11271967 the Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour".
S11271970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, noted Russian writer, refuses to go to
S11271970CSweden to receive his Nobel because the Soviets will not let him
S11271970Creturn home to his family.
S11271970 Pope Paul VI is wounded in the chest during a visit to the
S11271970CPhilippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a
S11271970Cpriest.
S11271971 the Anglican Church ordains its first women priests.
S11271973 Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973,
S11271973Callowing enforced oil and gasoline conservation measures.
S11271985 the House of Commons ratifies the pact giving the Republic of
S11271985CIreland a consultative role in Northern Ireland.
S1127    5Thanksgiving.
S1127    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S11281520 Magellan passes through the strait that bears his name and begins
S11281520Ccrossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281891 the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is
S11281891Cfounded.
S11281895 America's first auto race starts - 6 cars, 55 miles, the winner
S11281895Caveraging 7 MPH.
S11281912 Albania declares independence from Turkey.
S11281919 Lady Astor becomes the first woman in the British Parliament
S11281919C(House of Commons).
S11281925 the Grand Ole Opry begins its Saturday night "Barn Dance"
S11281925Cbroadcasts on WSM (Nashville).
S11281929 Commander Richard E. Byrd completes the first South Pole flight.
S11281954 Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets a club record with a 80-yard
S11281954Cpunt, Browns 16, Giants 7.
S11281958 the U.S. reports the first full-range firing of an I.C.B.M.
S11281960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day).
S11281963 Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
S11281964 Mariner 4 is launched, the first probe to fly by Mars.
S11281965 Cleveland Browns' Leroy Kelly sets a club record for the most
S11281965Cpunt return yardage (109 yards), Browns 42, Pittsburgh 21.
S11281967 the first pulsating radio source (pulsar) is detected.
S11281967 Yemen gains independence from Britain.
S11281974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years.
S11281981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to outdistance Alonzo Stagg
S11281981Cand become college football's winningest coach.
S11281981 actress Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina, Calif., at 43.
S11281983 the 9th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 6 is launched, carrying
S11281983Can European-built research lab into orbit.
S11281985 Jonathan Jay Polland, a civilian analyst in the Naval
S11281985CIntelligence, is arrested for selling classified military
S11281985Cinformation to Israel.
S1128    5Thanksgiving.
S1128     Feast of St. Catherine Labouré, virgin.
S1128    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S11291864 Sand Creek Massacre - Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, awaiting
S11291864Csurrender terms, are attached by 900 calvarymen. (9 soldiers
S11291864Cdied - 150 to 500 men, women and children are killed.)
S11291887 U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S11291890 the first Army-Navy football game is played. Score: Navy 25,
S11291890CArmy 0.
S11291897 the first motorcycle race is held in Surrey, England.
S11291929 the first flight over the South Pole is accomplished by Commander
S11291929CRichard E. Byrd.
S11291934 the Chicago Bears beat Detroit in the first NFL game to be
S11291934Cbroadcasted nationally.
S11291944 Albania is liberated from Nazi control (National Day).
S11291945 Yugoslav is proclaimed a republic (Republic Day).
S11291947 the U.N. partitions Palestine into Jewish and Arab states
S11291947C(Liberation Day).
S11291948 the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera, televised for the first time,
S11291948Cperforms "Othello".
S11291951 the first underground atomic explosion occurs at Frenchman
S11291951CFlat, Nevada.
S11291952 the first international organization for birth control is
S11291952Cfounded in Bombay.
S11291961 NASA orbits Enos the chimp on Mercury V and recovers him.
S11291963 Chief Justice Earl Warren is appointed to head the commission in
S11291963Cinvestigating the assassination of President Kennedy.
S11291987 Joe Montana of the 49ers completes 22 consecutive passes (a
S11291987Cleague record) against the Cleveland Browns.
S1129     Feast of St. Saturninus, martyr.
S1129     International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People (U.N.
S1129    Cobservance).
S1129    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1130  30 BC  Cleopatra dies.
S11301752 St. Andrew's Day is first celebrated.
S11301900 a German engineer patents front-wheel drive for autos.
S11301933 CCC Camps are established in the Cleveland Park District.
S11301947 the day after U.N. decree for partition of Palestine into
S11301947CJewish and Arab states, Israeli settlements are attacked.
S11301954 Mrs. E. H. Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama becomes the only recorded
S11301954Cperson injured by a meteorite.
S11301958 the first guided missile destroyer, USS Dewey, is launched
S11301958Cfrom Bath, Me.
S11301964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars
S11301966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S11301967 South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain.
S11301974 Pioneer II, nearing Jupiter, transmits pictures.
S11301974 the most complete skeleton of early man, Lucy, is found in
S11301974CEthiopia by Dr. Donald Johanson and T. Gray of Cleveland's Museum
S11301974Cof Natural History.
S1130     Benin National Day.
S1130     Feast of St. Andrew, apostle, patron of Scotland.
S1130    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1130     Youth Day (Upper Volta).
R1100     It's National Raisin Bread Month!
R1100     The topaz is the gem for November.
R1100     The chrysanthemum is the flower of November.
R1100     November was the ninth month.  Novem is Latin for nine.
R11011122 Scorpio is the Zodiac sign for this day.  Symbol: The Scorpion.
R11011122 Ruling Planet: Pluto.  Element: Water.  Traits: Passionate,
R11011122 intense, secretive, subtle.  Body part associated with this sign:
R11011122 Secrets.  Occupations: Teaching, work requiring concentration,
R11011122 training animals, psychiatry, surgery, detection.
R11231130 Sagittarius is the Zodiac sign for this day.  Symbol: The Archer.
R11231130 Ruling Planet: Jupiter.  Element: Fire.  Traits: Bountiful,
R11231130 frank, versatile, philosophical.  Body part associated with this
R11231130 sign: The thighs.  Occupations: Travel, politics, meteorology,
R11231130 philosophy, religion.