Post by farmgal on Nov 17, 2012 18:13:05 GMT -5
November 19 is the 324th day of this leap year, in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year.
Countdown until Obama should have been leaving Office
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Days until coming elections:
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U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage. On the 13th of October the ships, which had put in at the Canaries, left Ferro; and on Sunday, the 3rd of November, after a single storm, "by the goodness of God and the wise management of the admiral" an island was sighted to the west, which was named Dominica. Northwards from this the isles of Marigalante and Guadalupe were next discovered and named; while on the northwestern course to La Navidad those of Montserrat, Antigua, San Martin, Santa Cruz and the Virgin Islands were sighted, and the island now called Puerto Rico was touched at, hurriedly explored, and named San Juan Bautista.
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1530 The Diet of Augsburg ended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Augsburg
1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%27s_Treaty
1850 The first U.S. patent for magic lantern slides made of glass plate was issued to their inventor Frederick Langenheim of Philadelphia, Pa. (No. 7,784) as an "improvement in photographic pictures on glass."
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1861 Julia Ward Howe and her husband Samuel pitched in to help the Sanitary Commission at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. As a result of their volunteer work, President Lincoln invited them with some others to Washington. While on that trip, the Howes visited a Union Army camp in Virginia and heard soldiers sing "John Brown's Body," a song which celebrated the man who had attacked a Southern arsenal in hope of triggering a rebellion against slavery. One line reads, "John Brown's body lies a'mouldering in his grave."
James Freeman Clarke, a clergyman traveling with the Howe's party, knew that Julia was a published poet. He urged her to write some decent words to the tune. By the next day, November 19, 1861, Julia Ward Howe had written her famous lines, the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." She later described how the words came to her:
I awoke in the grey of the morning, and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to entwine themselves in my mind, and I said to myself, "I must get up and write these verses, lest I fall asleep and forget them!" So I sprang out of bed and in the dimness found an old stump of a pen, which I remembered using the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.
Next February, Atlantic Monthly printed Mrs. Howe's poem and paid her $4 for it. The entire nation was inspired by the words when they appeared, and the song became literally the battle hymn of the American republic during the dark days of the Civil War. When the song was sung at a rally attended by President Lincoln, he cried out with tears in his eyes, "Sing it again!"
After the war, Julia Howe remained active in reform causes as President of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the American Branch of the Women's International Peace Association. In 1907 she became the first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
When Julia Ward Howe died in 1910, four thousand people attended her funeral at Boston's Symphony Hall. It was a moving moment when those four thousand voices rang out with her song, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
1861 The first export shipment of petroleum from the U.S. to Europe left Philadelphia, Pa. for London, England. A cargo of 1,329 barrels was carried by the Elizabeth Watts, a 224-ton brig captained by Charles Bryant. Since it was not easy to recruit a crew willing to work above a cargo of oil, a crew was shanghaied. The cargo arrived at Victoria Docks, London, on 9 Jan 1862.
1863 Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA, on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In fewer than 300 words delivered in just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens.
“ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
1868 New Jersey suffragists attempt to cast votes. New Jersey suffragists attempted to vote in the presidential election to test the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which states, "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Turned away, they cast their votes in a women's ballot box overseen by 84-year-old Quaker Margaret Pryer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage
1872 The first U.S. patent for an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals, called a "calculating machine," was issued to E.D. Barbour of Boston, Mass. However, it was not practical. (No. 133,188)
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed convicted of defrauding the city of $6M. In 1874 Tweed was convicted of official embezzlement and sentenced to 12 years in prison. He served one year. On his release in 1875, he was rearrested on other charges and returned to prison. He escaped later that same year but was caught in Spain. He was returned to the United States in 1876 and again put in prison, where he died two years later.
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1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter. The name "Standardbred" was first used in 1879, due to the fact that, in order to be registered, every Standardbred had to be able to trot or pace a mile within the standard 2 minute, 30 second time.
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1895 The first U.S. patent for a paper pencil was issued to Fredrick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia, Pa. His patent No. 549,952 was accompanied by No. 550,212 on the same date on a machine for manufacturing pencils.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil
1901 Granville Woods was issued a patent for a third rail to operate electrified railways. In 1884, Woods secured his first patent for a steam boiler furnace. Woods went on to patent more than thirty-five electrical and mechanical inventions, including an improved telephone transmitter, an electric car powered by overhead wires, a "third rail" system for an electric locomotive, an automatic airbrake system and his "Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph" which allowed messages to be sent between moving trains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Woods
1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwyn_Pictures
1921 The Columbia Gorge ice storm finally came to an end. In Oregon, 54 inches of snow, sleet and glaze blocked the Columbia River Highway at the Dalles. Apart from traffic on the river itself, all transportation between Walla Walla WA and Portland OR came to a halt. Nine trains were stopped as railroads were blocked for several days. (David Ludlum)
1930 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow commit their first robbery, the first in a long series of robberies and other criminal acts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde
1932 West Liberty State College of West Virginia shuts out Cedarville College 127-0. Halfback Joe Kershallo scored 71 points to lead West Liberty State College of West Virginia to a staggering 127-0 win over Cedarville College, Ohio.
1939 Construction of FDR’s presidential library begins. Construction of the first presidential library began as President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone next to his home in Hyde Park, New York. Congress authorized the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, thus making it the first federally administered presidential library. The land and the initial building were privately donated. Roosevelt deeded his official records, personal papers, and many artifacts, which the government agreed to maintain, along with the library structure, for research and museum purposes. The Roosevelt Library opened to the public in 1941.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_Presidential_Library_and_Museum
1941 World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Sydney_(D48)
1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1943 Stan Kenton and his orchestra recorded "Artistry in Rhythm" On May 30, 1941, Stan Kenton's first band opened at the Rendezvous Ballroom on Balboa Island, California. This band was fully equipped for the time: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 5 saxes, and 4 rhythm. The band was named after his theme "Artistry in Rhythm." The group's fresh new sound attracted adventurous musicians, like Art Pepper, Kai Winding, and Bob Cooper. Arrangements were by Pete Rugolo, Gene Roland, and Kenton himself. Vocalists were Anita O'Day, Chris Connor, and June Christy.
1943 Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar. The 40 ton cargo requires three diesel tractors to push it up the mountain. Despite a storm, which nearly aborts the transport, the 125 mile trip is completed in 32 hours. After removing the concrete disk that was used to test the support structure, engineers installed the mirror. Initial imaging results are promising but not ideal. It takes two years to finish polishing, aligning, and adjusting the mirror.
1949 "Slipping Around" by Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely topped the charts. It was producer Lee Gillette who thought of teaming Wakely up with songstress Margaret Whiting in what proved to be a very successful partnership. Their first song together, the infidelity story "Slippin' Around," set the pattern for their partnership, the effervescent Whiting and the smooth, laid-back Wakely -- who, by that time, was becoming known as the Bing Crosby of country & western music -- balancing each other perfectly. "Slippin' Around" spent 17 weeks at the number one spot on the country charts and a week at the number one pop chart position, and the two had nine subsequent hits together, including "Wedding Bells" and "When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues."
1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe.
1950 The Saint Louis Study Club adopted a conservative confession of faith that led to the organization of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference.
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1954 Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The nation’s first automatic toll collector accepted only correct change.
1955 National Review publishes its first issue.
1955 "Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams topped the charts. While playing at the Madison Hotel, Williams was discovered by Dave Kapp, president of the newly-formed Kapp Records label. Kapp signed him and gave him the stage name of Roger Williams, after the founder of original Rhode Island colony. Williams quickly picked up minor hits with his showy intepretations of popular hits, but his real breakthough came with "Autumn Leaves," which stayed in the #1 spot on Billboard's pop chart for a month in late 1955.
1957 Nineteen inches of snow covered the ground at Cresco, IA, a record November snow depth for the state. (The Weather Channel)
1959 Last Edsel rolled off the assembly line. Ford announced the end of the Edsel program on Thursday, November 19, 1959. However, cars continued being produced until late in November, with the final tally at 2,848 1960 models. Popular culture often faults the car's styling. Consumer Reports cited poor workmanship. According to author and Edsel scholar Jan Deutsch, the Edsel was "the wrong car at the wrong time."
1959 First episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs. The show starred Rocky, the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle, his motley friend, and the two Pottsylvanian spies, Boris and Natasha. The series followed Rocky and Bullwinkle through many random situations that lead to long, harrowing adventures. As many cartoons do today, there were many "shows within a show" on Rocky and His Friends. There was Peabody's Improbable History, an overly intelligent dog and his pet boy, Sherman, travel through time; Fractured Fairy Tales, comedic reenactments of fairy tales; Mr. Know-It-All, featuring Bullwinkle as the educated scholar, teaching the audience valuable skills.
1960 "Georgia on my Mind" by Ray Charles topped the charts. Charles decided to record this after his driver suggested it, since Ray kept singing it while riding in the car. This was recorded quickly in New York City -- it took only four takes to complete (compared to Charles' usual 10-12 takes). "Georgia on My Mind" won Grammy awards for Best Male Vocal Recording and Best Pop Song Performance. The album also won for Best Male Vocal Performance Album.
1961 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13) The Oilers would score on three of their four first quarter possessions, the first an 80-yard drive capped by a 28-yard grab at the back of the end zone by Charlie Hennigan. Next, a Bill Mathis' fumble was recovered by Julian Spenceand turned into another score as Blanda hit Billy Cannon on a six yard swing pass to increase Houston's lead, 14-0. And while the Titans were geared to stop Cannon on the ground (holding him to just 41 yards), he had one of his best days as a receiver, grabbing 7 passes for 122 yards and three touchdowns, the second of which was a 78-yarder that increased the Oilers' lead, 21-0. Bill Groman finished with 5 catches for 152 yards and 3 TD's. With Hennigan grabbing 123 receiving yards, the Oilers had three receivers with over 100 yards in the game. In addition to Blanda's heroics, the team combined with New York to amass 193 yards in penalties, tying the AFL record. Houston accounted for 128 of those yards.
1961 The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
1961 Chubby Checker reached the #1 spot with "The Twist" The Twist was written by Hank Ballard, who originally recorded it in 1959 with his group The Midnighters. Ballard was an influential musician who blended Rock, Country and Gospel in the '50s and '60s. Ballard got the idea for the song by watching his backup group, The Midnighters, on stage. To Hank the group often moved onstage like they were "trying to put a cigarette out." In a sense, they were twisting. A year after Chubby Checker reached the #1 spot with "The Twist", the singer appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to sing the song again.
1962 For the first time, a jazz concert was presented at the White House. In 1962 the Paul Winter Sextet was sent by the U.S. State Department on a six-month tour of Latin America, which proved to be a true mingling of cultures and an exchange of musical and social ideas. That same year, at the invitation of Jackie Kennedy, Winter's sextet became the first jazz group to officially perform at the White House.
1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1966 Dodger great Sandy Koufax announced his retirement. Six weeks before his 31st birthday, LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, plagued by arthritis, announced his retirement from baseball. Koufax compiled a 12-season record of 165 wins, 87 losses and 2,396 strikeouts.
1966 "You Keep Me Hanging On" by the Supremes topped the charts. "You Keep Me Hanging On" was written by the songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. They were prolific Motown songwriters responsible for most of The Supremes' hits. It was the Supremes' eighth US #1 hit and came right after "You Can't Hurry Love"
1969 Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon. The second lunar landing was an exercise in precision targeting. The descent was automatic, with only a few manual corrections by Conrad. Although Apollo 11 had made an almost embarrassingly imprecise landing well outside the designated target area, Apollo 12 succeeded, on November 19, in making a pin-point landing, within walking distance (less than 200 meters) of the Surveyor 3 probe, which had landed on the Moon in April 1967.
1979 Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields. Calvin Klein jeans commercial featuring Brooke Shields ("You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.") banned by CBS.
1981 An unusually early snowstorm struck the Twin Cities of Minnesota, with as much as a foot of snow reported. The weight of the heavy snow caused the newly inflated fabric dome of the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis to collapse and rip. (The Weather Channel)
1984 20-year-old Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets named NL Rookie of the Year. Gooden had a record-breaking Rookie of the Year season in 1984 after jumping straight to the majors from Lynchburg of the Class-A Carolina League. He set a major league rookie record with 276 strikeouts in only 218 innings. The strikeouts earned him the nickname Doctor K and a rooting section in the upper deck that hung out a red K for each strikeout during his starts. He tied the major league mark for strikeouts in two consecutive games, with 32 in starts on September 12 and 17, which, combined with his September 7 start, gave him a record 43 in three straight games. Going 17-9 with a 2.60 ERA, he instantly became the Mets' ace and made them overnight contenders. He was the youngest All-Star ever, and he and Fernando Valenzuela combined to strike out six consecutive batters, between them breaking Carl Hubbell's record.
1985 President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time. From late 1985 both the United States and the Soviet Union began a series of summits (meetings) about disarmament and arms limitations that culminated in the signing of the START treaty in 1991. They agreed in principle to work towards a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) which would cut nuclear arsenals in half. Reagan wanted Gorbachev to understand his thinking on SDI. He said, "If our research succeeds, nations could defend themselves against missile attack, and mankind, at long last, escape the prison of mutual terror. And this is my dream."
1985 Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion USD judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1986 Philadelphia’s Mike Schmidt became named Most Valuable Player (3rd time). Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt became only the third player in National League history to win the Most Valuable Player award three times. Roy Campanella of the Dodgers and Stan Musial of the Cardinals also won three National League MVP honors
1987 A sharp cold front pushed across the Great Lakes Region and the Mississippi Valley. Northwest winds gusting to 50 mph in Iowa caused some property damage around Ottumwa, and wind chill readings reached 16 degrees below zero at Hibbing MN. Showers and thunder- storms over Florida produced 5.80 inches of rain in six hours at Cocoa Beach. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi topped the charts. Bon Jovi replicated the Slippery When Wet formula for 1988's New Jersey, which shot to number one upon its release. New Jersey was only slightly less successful than its predecessor, selling five million copies and generating two number one singles, "Bad Medicine" and "I'll Be There for You," as well as the Top Ten hits "Born to Be My Baby," "Lay Your Hands on Me," and "Living in Sin."
1988 Strong thunderstorms developed during the mid morning hours and produced severe weather across eastern Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley into the wee hours of the night. Thunderstorms spawned twenty-one tornadoes, including thirteen in Mississippi. One tornado killed two persons and injured eleven others at Nettleton MS, and another tornado injured eight persons at Tuscaloosa AL. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail in east Texas and northern Louisiana, and Summit MS was deluged with six inches of rain in four hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 Gale force winds continued to produce squalls in the Lower Great Lakes Region early in the day. Snowfall totals in western New York State reached 24 inches in southern Lewis County, with 21 inches reported at Highmarket. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the Northern and Central Plains Region. Eight cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Denver CO with a reading of 79 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1990 The Cold War came to an end during a summit in Paris as leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, vastly reducing their military arsenals
1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2002 A U.S. patent for "Registered pedigree stuffed animals" was issued to David L. Pickens of Honolulu, Hawaii (No. 6,482,067). The toy animals are designed to simulate the biological laws of inheritance both for educational, recreational and aesthetic purposes. According to the patent, a pair of opposite sex "parent" toy animals are sold with a serial number by which the parent's genotype and phenotype may be identified. Owners of the 'parent' toy animals, having registered with the manufacturer, may later request "breeding" of the animals, and receive at least one "offspring" toy animal randomly selected from a litter having traits determined according to the registered genotypes of the parents and the Mendelian laws of inheritance."
2003 Flooding affected the central Appalachians and Eastern Seaboard, with some isolated 8-inch rainfall totals across mountainous areas. There were 11 deaths caused by flooding in the region (Associated Press).
Births
1722 Benjamin Chew (November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810) Quaker-born legal scholar, prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania. Chew was well known for his precision and brevity in making legal arguments as well as his excellent memory, judgment, and knowledge of statutory law. His primary allegiance was to the supremacy of law and constitution. Due to his position on the Governor’s Council, as well as his ongoing legal representation of descendants of William Penn, Chew was often at odds with Benjamin Franklin.
1752 George Rogers Clark (d 1818) soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war. Clark is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia (1778) and Vincennes (1779), which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. Because the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Clark has often been hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest."
1802 Solomon Foot (d 1866 in Washington, D.C.) was a Vermont lawyer, state representative and later senator who spent more than 25 years in elected office. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He served as a state representative briefly in 1833, and also from 1836 to 1838. After six years as a prosecuting attorney, he was elected as a Whig congressman in 1843 and as a senator in 1850. He was re-elected as a National Republican senator in 1856, in which capacity he served until his death in 1866. He served as President pro tempore of the Senate from 1861 to 1864.
1831 James Abram Garfield (d 1881) 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death on September 19, 1881,[1] a brief 200 days in office. He had the second shortest presidential tenure after William Henry Harrison. He was also the only incumbent of the U.S. House of Representatives to be elected President.
1862 William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (d 1935) American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
1875 Hiram Bingham (d 1956) American archaeologist and politician who in 1911 discovered Machu Picchu in a remote part of the Peruvian Andes. In 1911, while he was a Yale University professor searching for the lost Inca capital of Vilcabamba, he paid a Peruvian guide to lead him to a nearby ruin. The guide took him 2,000 feet (610 meters) up a precipitous slope, and straight into the “lost” city of Machu Picchu. As one of the greatest archaeological sites in the Americas, Machu Picchu remains a mystery. Some scholars believe it to be the birthplace of the Inca Empire; others see it as a ceremonial center or military citadel. Bingham also discovered the Inca city of Viitcos. His work was a catalyst for archaeological study in the Andes and in other parts of South America.
1885 Haldor Lillenas , on the island Stord, near Bergen, Norway. Emigrating to the U.S. as a child, Lillenas grew up in the Lutheran church, and was confirmed at age 15. However, he was converted to personal faith in Jesus Christ at age 21, through the ministry of the Penial Mission in Portland, Oregon, and felt called to preach almost immediately. He attended Deets Pacific Bible College in Los Angeles (later known as Pasadena College), married Bertha Mae Wilson, a song writer in her own right, and together they furnished words and music for over 4,000 of our much-loved hymns and Gospel songs. He was a pastor and they traveled as evangelists for many years. Among his compositions are "Wonderful Grace of Jesus," "It is Glory Just to Walk with Him" and "Jesus Has Lifted Me" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace." (d 1959)
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1887 James Batcheller Sumner (d 1955) American biochemist and corecipient, with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley, of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Sumner was the first to crystallize an enzyme, an achievement that revealed the protein nature of enzymes.
1897 Quentin Roosevelt (d 1918) youngest and favorite son of President Theodore Roosevelt. Family and friends agreed that Quentin had many of his father's positive qualities and few of the negative ones. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I. Extremely popular with his fellow pilots and known for being daring, he was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day (July 14), 1918.
1899 Orley Allen Tate (d 1979) American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.
1905 Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (d 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular band from the late '30s into the 1950s. Dorsey had a reputation for being a perfectionist. He was volatile and also known to hire and fire (and sometimes rehire) musicians based on his mood.
1907 Jack Warner Schaefer (d 1991) twentieth century American author known for his Westerns. His most famous work is Shane, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie.
1909 Peter Ferdinand Drucker (d 2005) writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.” His books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across the business, government and the nonprofit sectors of society. His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker" and later in his life considered knowledge work productivity to be the next frontier of management.
1912 George E. Palade Romanian-born American cell biologist who developed tissue-preparation methods, advanced centrifuging techniques, and conducted electron microscopy studies that resulted in the discovery of several cellular structures. With Albert Claude and Christian de Duve he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974.
1915 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. (d 1974) American pharmacologist and physiologist who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for isolating cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) and demonstrating its involvement in numerous metabolic processes that occur in animals.
1921 Roy Campanella (d 1993), nicknamed "Campy", American baseball player, primarily at the position of catcher, in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Widely considered to have been one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game, Campanella played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1940s and 1950s, as one of the pioneers in breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. His career was cut short in 1958 when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident.
1926 Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (d 2006) American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position.
She is known for her "Kirkpatrick Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington's aims—believing they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies."
Kirkpatrick served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System.
1933 Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King American television and radio host.
1934 Philip Leder American geneticist, contributed to mapping the genetic code and identifying the genetic basis of cancer. He introduced the oncomouse which was genetically engineered to be a model for the study of cancer. To create this trangenic mouse, the cancer-critical genes known as oncogenes were introduced by injection into mouse eggs. On 12 Apr1988, Leder and Timothy Stewart were granted a U.S. patent on transgenic nonhuman mammals (No. 4,736,866) resulting their work on the oncomouse. He was awarded National Medal of Science in 1991.
1935 John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. American businessman and author. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch's net worth is estimated at $720 million
1936 Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
1938 Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support UN causes, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.
1939 Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin junior United States Senator from Iowa and a member of the Democratic Party. Harkin is currently the most senior junior senator. First elected to the Senate in 1984, Harkin was a candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1992, and is currently chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
1941 Tommy George Thompson United States politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, after which he served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Thompson was a candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, but dropped out early after a poor performance in polls such as the Iowa Straw Poll.
1942 Calvin Richard Klein American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, now owned by Coty Inc. The Swatch Group manufactures watches and jewelry under the Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans brands
1956 Eileen Marie Collins American astronaut who was the first woman to pilot and, later, to command a U.S. space shuttle. After college she joined the Air Force, trained as a pilot to fly many different kinds of planes and eventually became an instructor pilot. She was selected in 1990 for the astronaut program while attending the Air Force Test Pilot School. Collins served as the first woman shuttle pilot on STS-63 (Feb 3-11, 1995). which included a rendezvous with the Russian Space Station Mir, and also STS-84 (May 15-24, 1997). On her third space shuttle flight, STS-93 (Jul 22-27, 1999), which deployed the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, she became the first woman space shuttle commander. Overall she has logged over 537 hours in space.
1962 Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster American actress, film director and producer.
1962 Sean R. Parnell American Republican politician who is the 12th and current Governor of Alaska. Parnell succeeded Sarah Palin on July 26, 2009 following her resignation. He was sworn in at the Governor's Picnic in Fairbanks and was elected to a full term as Governor in 2010.
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1472 Johannes Basilios Bessarion, patriarch of Constantinople who sought to reconcile the eastern and western churches, (b. 2 Jan 1403).
1850 Richard Mentor Johnson (b 1780 or 1781) ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren. He was the only vice-president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and began and ended his political career in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
1887 Emma Lazarus (b 1849) American Jewish poet born in New York City, best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal.
1908 Franz Julius Biltz, president of the Western District of the Missouri Synod and instrumental in the founding of Saint Paul’s College (Concordia, Missouri), (b. 24 Jul 1825).
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1915 Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström (b 1879) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, also known as the Wobblies). He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. After his death, he was memorialized by several folk songs.
1918 Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. (b 1838) sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was the last president of the LDS Church to have personally known the founder of the Mormon faith, Joseph Smith, Jr., who was the brother of his father Hyrum Smith.
1918 Charles Richard Van Hise (b 1857) U.S. geologist who conducted basic geological studies of the Precambrian (570,000,000 to 4,600,000,000 years ago) formations of the Lake Superior region, particularly the iron ores in these formations. These studies were useful for the economic exploitation of the vast iron-ore fields found in that region. He was very interested in, and wrote about, the conservation of natural resources. He regarded soil conservation as "the basal asset of the nation," followed by the "economic mining and use of coal, the conservation of the forests, and the use of metals with the minimum waste."
1924 Thomas Harper Ince (b 1882) American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line" system of film making. His screenplay The Italian (1915) was preserved by the United States National Film Registry, as was his film Civilization (1916). He was a partner with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett in the Triangle Motion Picture Company, and built his own studios in Culver City, which later became the legendary home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also known for his death aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst; officially he died of heart trouble, but Hollywood rumor of the time suggested he had been shot by Hearst in a dispute over actress Marion Davies.
1959 Edward Chace Tolman (b 1886) U.S. psychologist who developed a system of psychology known as purposive, or molar, behaviourism, which attempts to explore the entire action of the total organism. Because of his strong affiliation with building a scientific psychology he embraced the core notion of behaviorism - that what an organism does is the source of legitimate data - but, because he eschewed the atomism of the Watsonian approach, he advocated the use of intervening variables and focused on a number of very non-behaviorist processes such as purpose, expectation, belief and spatial representation.
1967 Charles Joseph Watters (b 1927) Chaplain (Major) in the United States Army. He was posthumously received the Medal of Honor for bravery exhibited while rescuing wounded men in the Vietnam War, specifically the Battle of Dak To. He was killed in the battle in a friendly fire incident when a 500-pound bomb was dropped on American paratroopers near the triage area where he was working.
1974 George Brunies, aka Georg Brunis, (b 1902) jazz trombonist who came to fame in the 1930s, and was part of the Dixieland revival. He was known as the "King of the Tailgate Trombone".
1985 Stepin Fetchit (b 1902) stage name of American comedian and film actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry. Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, eventually becoming a millionaire, the first black actor in history to do so. He was also the first black actor to receive a screen credit.
1988 Christina Onassis (b 1950) shipping magnate and daughter of the Aristotle Onassis and Athina Livanos.
1992 Bobby Russell (b 1940) American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, including the crossover pop hit "Saturday Morning Confusion."
1996 Milton Carpenter, age 91, treasurer of the Missouri Synod from 1962 to 1977, . Carpenter, who served without compensation as the synod’s treasurer, also served on the boards of Concordia Publishing House and Valparaiso University and as treasurer of the International Lutheran Laymen’s League. For twenty-five years he was a regular participant on radio station KFUO’s “Sunday Morning Round Table” program. He received honorary doctorates from Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) and Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana). A graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis, Carpenter was elected comptroller of the city of Saint Louis in 1949 and reelected in 1953. In 1957 he resigned to become director of the Missouri Department of Revenue. In 1960 Carpenter was elected treasurer of the State of Missouri, a position he held until 1965.
1998 Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (b 1920) Japanese-American meteorologist who increased the knowledge of severe storms. In 1953, he began research in the U.S. Shortly afterwards, he immigrated and established the Severe Local Storms Project. He was known as "Mr. Tornado" as a result of the Fujita scale (F-scale, Feb 1971), which he and his wife, Sumiko, developed for measuring tornadoes on the basis of their damage. Following the crash of Eastern flight 66 on 24 Jun 1975, he reviewed weather-related aircraft disasters and verified the downburst and the microburst (small downburst) phenomena, enabling airplane pilots to be trained on how to react to them. Late in his career, he turned to the study of storm tracks and El Nino.
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Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)
Raphael Kalinowski
Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Barlaam and Joasaph, prince of India, and Abenner the King, Father of Joasaph
Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
Martyr Heliodorus in Pamphylia (273)
Martyr Agapius of Gaza (306)
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St. Hilarion of Georgia, monk, wonderworker of Thessalonica (875)
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Barlaam of Kiev, abbot (1065)
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Uncovering (1626) the relics of maratyr Adrian of Poshekhon (1550)
Repose of Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1867)
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1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage. On the 13th of October the ships, which had put in at the Canaries, left Ferro; and on Sunday, the 3rd of November, after a single storm, "by the goodness of God and the wise management of the admiral" an island was sighted to the west, which was named Dominica. Northwards from this the isles of Marigalante and Guadalupe were next discovered and named; while on the northwestern course to La Navidad those of Montserrat, Antigua, San Martin, Santa Cruz and the Virgin Islands were sighted, and the island now called Puerto Rico was touched at, hurriedly explored, and named San Juan Bautista.
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1530 The Diet of Augsburg ended.
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1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
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1850 The first U.S. patent for magic lantern slides made of glass plate was issued to their inventor Frederick Langenheim of Philadelphia, Pa. (No. 7,784) as an "improvement in photographic pictures on glass."
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James Freeman Clarke, a clergyman traveling with the Howe's party, knew that Julia was a published poet. He urged her to write some decent words to the tune. By the next day, November 19, 1861, Julia Ward Howe had written her famous lines, the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." She later described how the words came to her:
I awoke in the grey of the morning, and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to entwine themselves in my mind, and I said to myself, "I must get up and write these verses, lest I fall asleep and forget them!" So I sprang out of bed and in the dimness found an old stump of a pen, which I remembered using the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.
Next February, Atlantic Monthly printed Mrs. Howe's poem and paid her $4 for it. The entire nation was inspired by the words when they appeared, and the song became literally the battle hymn of the American republic during the dark days of the Civil War. When the song was sung at a rally attended by President Lincoln, he cried out with tears in his eyes, "Sing it again!"
After the war, Julia Howe remained active in reform causes as President of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the American Branch of the Women's International Peace Association. In 1907 she became the first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
When Julia Ward Howe died in 1910, four thousand people attended her funeral at Boston's Symphony Hall. It was a moving moment when those four thousand voices rang out with her song, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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1861 The first export shipment of petroleum from the U.S. to Europe left Philadelphia, Pa. for London, England. A cargo of 1,329 barrels was carried by the Elizabeth Watts, a 224-ton brig captained by Charles Bryant. Since it was not easy to recruit a crew willing to work above a cargo of oil, a crew was shanghaied. The cargo arrived at Victoria Docks, London, on 9 Jan 1862.
“ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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1868 New Jersey suffragists attempt to cast votes. New Jersey suffragists attempted to vote in the presidential election to test the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which states, "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Turned away, they cast their votes in a women's ballot box overseen by 84-year-old Quaker Margaret Pryer.
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1872 The first U.S. patent for an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals, called a "calculating machine," was issued to E.D. Barbour of Boston, Mass. However, it was not practical. (No. 133,188)
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1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter. The name "Standardbred" was first used in 1879, due to the fact that, in order to be registered, every Standardbred had to be able to trot or pace a mile within the standard 2 minute, 30 second time.
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1895 The first U.S. patent for a paper pencil was issued to Fredrick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia, Pa. His patent No. 549,952 was accompanied by No. 550,212 on the same date on a machine for manufacturing pencils.
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1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
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1921 The Columbia Gorge ice storm finally came to an end. In Oregon, 54 inches of snow, sleet and glaze blocked the Columbia River Highway at the Dalles. Apart from traffic on the river itself, all transportation between Walla Walla WA and Portland OR came to a halt. Nine trains were stopped as railroads were blocked for several days. (David Ludlum)
1930 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow commit their first robbery, the first in a long series of robberies and other criminal acts.
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1932 West Liberty State College of West Virginia shuts out Cedarville College 127-0. Halfback Joe Kershallo scored 71 points to lead West Liberty State College of West Virginia to a staggering 127-0 win over Cedarville College, Ohio.
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1941 World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
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1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1943 Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1949 "Slipping Around" by Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely topped the charts. It was producer Lee Gillette who thought of teaming Wakely up with songstress Margaret Whiting in what proved to be a very successful partnership. Their first song together, the infidelity story "Slippin' Around," set the pattern for their partnership, the effervescent Whiting and the smooth, laid-back Wakely -- who, by that time, was becoming known as the Bing Crosby of country & western music -- balancing each other perfectly. "Slippin' Around" spent 17 weeks at the number one spot on the country charts and a week at the number one pop chart position, and the two had nine subsequent hits together, including "Wedding Bells" and "When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues."
1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe.
1950 The Saint Louis Study Club adopted a conservative confession of faith that led to the organization of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference.
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1954 Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The nation’s first automatic toll collector accepted only correct change.
1955 National Review publishes its first issue.
1955 "Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams topped the charts. While playing at the Madison Hotel, Williams was discovered by Dave Kapp, president of the newly-formed Kapp Records label. Kapp signed him and gave him the stage name of Roger Williams, after the founder of original Rhode Island colony. Williams quickly picked up minor hits with his showy intepretations of popular hits, but his real breakthough came with "Autumn Leaves," which stayed in the #1 spot on Billboard's pop chart for a month in late 1955.
1957 Nineteen inches of snow covered the ground at Cresco, IA, a record November snow depth for the state. (The Weather Channel)
1961 The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
1962 For the first time, a jazz concert was presented at the White House. In 1962 the Paul Winter Sextet was sent by the U.S. State Department on a six-month tour of Latin America, which proved to be a true mingling of cultures and an exchange of musical and social ideas. That same year, at the invitation of Jackie Kennedy, Winter's sextet became the first jazz group to officially perform at the White House.
1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1979 Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1981 An unusually early snowstorm struck the Twin Cities of Minnesota, with as much as a foot of snow reported. The weight of the heavy snow caused the newly inflated fabric dome of the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis to collapse and rip. (The Weather Channel)
1985 Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion USD judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1986 Philadelphia’s Mike Schmidt became named Most Valuable Player (3rd time). Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt became only the third player in National League history to win the Most Valuable Player award three times. Roy Campanella of the Dodgers and Stan Musial of the Cardinals also won three National League MVP honors
1987 A sharp cold front pushed across the Great Lakes Region and the Mississippi Valley. Northwest winds gusting to 50 mph in Iowa caused some property damage around Ottumwa, and wind chill readings reached 16 degrees below zero at Hibbing MN. Showers and thunder- storms over Florida produced 5.80 inches of rain in six hours at Cocoa Beach. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi topped the charts. Bon Jovi replicated the Slippery When Wet formula for 1988's New Jersey, which shot to number one upon its release. New Jersey was only slightly less successful than its predecessor, selling five million copies and generating two number one singles, "Bad Medicine" and "I'll Be There for You," as well as the Top Ten hits "Born to Be My Baby," "Lay Your Hands on Me," and "Living in Sin."
1988 Strong thunderstorms developed during the mid morning hours and produced severe weather across eastern Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley into the wee hours of the night. Thunderstorms spawned twenty-one tornadoes, including thirteen in Mississippi. One tornado killed two persons and injured eleven others at Nettleton MS, and another tornado injured eight persons at Tuscaloosa AL. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail in east Texas and northern Louisiana, and Summit MS was deluged with six inches of rain in four hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 Gale force winds continued to produce squalls in the Lower Great Lakes Region early in the day. Snowfall totals in western New York State reached 24 inches in southern Lewis County, with 21 inches reported at Highmarket. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the Northern and Central Plains Region. Eight cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Denver CO with a reading of 79 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1990 The Cold War came to an end during a summit in Paris as leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, vastly reducing their military arsenals
1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2003 Flooding affected the central Appalachians and Eastern Seaboard, with some isolated 8-inch rainfall totals across mountainous areas. There were 11 deaths caused by flooding in the region (Associated Press).
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1887 James Batcheller Sumner (d 1955) American biochemist and corecipient, with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley, of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Sumner was the first to crystallize an enzyme, an achievement that revealed the protein nature of enzymes.
1907 Jack Warner Schaefer (d 1991) twentieth century American author known for his Westerns. His most famous work is Shane, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie.
1909 Peter Ferdinand Drucker (d 2005) writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.” His books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across the business, government and the nonprofit sectors of society. His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker" and later in his life considered knowledge work productivity to be the next frontier of management.
1912 George E. Palade Romanian-born American cell biologist who developed tissue-preparation methods, advanced centrifuging techniques, and conducted electron microscopy studies that resulted in the discovery of several cellular structures. With Albert Claude and Christian de Duve he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974.
1915 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. (d 1974) American pharmacologist and physiologist who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for isolating cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) and demonstrating its involvement in numerous metabolic processes that occur in animals.
She is known for her "Kirkpatrick Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington's aims—believing they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies."
Kirkpatrick served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System.
1933 Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King American television and radio host.
1935 John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. American businessman and author. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch's net worth is estimated at $720 million
1936 Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
1938 Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support UN causes, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.
1939 Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin junior United States Senator from Iowa and a member of the Democratic Party. Harkin is currently the most senior junior senator. First elected to the Senate in 1984, Harkin was a candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1992, and is currently chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
1941 Tommy George Thompson United States politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, after which he served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Thompson was a candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, but dropped out early after a poor performance in polls such as the Iowa Straw Poll.
1942 Calvin Richard Klein American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, now owned by Coty Inc. The Swatch Group manufactures watches and jewelry under the Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans brands
1962 Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster American actress, film director and producer.
1962 Sean R. Parnell American Republican politician who is the 12th and current Governor of Alaska. Parnell succeeded Sarah Palin on July 26, 2009 following her resignation. He was sworn in at the Governor's Picnic in Fairbanks and was elected to a full term as Governor in 2010.
Deaths
1472 Johannes Basilios Bessarion, patriarch of Constantinople who sought to reconcile the eastern and western churches, (b. 2 Jan 1403).
1908 Franz Julius Biltz, president of the Western District of the Missouri Synod and instrumental in the founding of Saint Paul’s College (Concordia, Missouri), (b. 24 Jul 1825).
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1918 Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. (b 1838) sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was the last president of the LDS Church to have personally known the founder of the Mormon faith, Joseph Smith, Jr., who was the brother of his father Hyrum Smith.
1985 Stepin Fetchit (b 1902) stage name of American comedian and film actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry. Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, eventually becoming a millionaire, the first black actor in history to do so. He was also the first black actor to receive a screen credit.
1988 Christina Onassis (b 1950) shipping magnate and daughter of the Aristotle Onassis and Athina Livanos.
1992 Bobby Russell (b 1940) American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, including the crossover pop hit "Saturday Morning Confusion."
1996 Milton Carpenter, age 91, treasurer of the Missouri Synod from 1962 to 1977, . Carpenter, who served without compensation as the synod’s treasurer, also served on the boards of Concordia Publishing House and Valparaiso University and as treasurer of the International Lutheran Laymen’s League. For twenty-five years he was a regular participant on radio station KFUO’s “Sunday Morning Round Table” program. He received honorary doctorates from Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) and Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana). A graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis, Carpenter was elected comptroller of the city of Saint Louis in 1949 and reelected in 1953. In 1957 he resigned to become director of the Missouri Department of Revenue. In 1960 Carpenter was elected treasurer of the State of Missouri, a position he held until 1965.
Christian Feast Day:
Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)
Raphael Kalinowski
Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
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Prophet Obadiah
Barlaam and Joasaph, prince of India, and Abenner the King, Father of Joasaph
Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
Martyr Heliodorus in Pamphylia (273)
Martyr Agapius of Gaza (306)
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St. Hilarion of Georgia, monk, wonderworker of Thessalonica (875)
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Barlaam of Kiev, abbot (1065)
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Other commemorations
Uncovering (1626) the relics of maratyr Adrian of Poshekhon (1550)
Repose of Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1867)
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