Post by farmgal on Nov 21, 2012 23:22:17 GMT -5
November 25 is the 328th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 38 days remaining until the end of the year.
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534 BC Thespis of Icaria becomes the first actor to portray a character onstage.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thespis
Statue of Ferdinand III (Patio of Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando.
1248 Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III_of_Castile
1621 Poet and cleric John Donne (1572–1631) was elected dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne
1644 John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagitica
1654 French scientist and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) experienced a mystical vision and converted to Christianity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
1729 German born John Philip Boehm, 46, was formally ordained a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. Boehm had previously come to America in 1720, where he began organizing religious services among German Reformed immigrants in Pennsylvania.
www.amazon.com/letters-Reformed-Pennsylvania-1683-1749-Religion/dp/B0006C2JAQ
1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak. After the Louisiana Purchase, the government sent Zebulon Pike in 1805 to explore the Mississippi valley and select locations suitable for military posts. Pike and his men reached the site of modern-day Pueblo, Colorado on November 23. Fascinated with a blue peak in the Rocky Mountains to the west, Pike set out to explore it with two soldiers and Dr. Robinson. Pike spent several days in trying to reach the peak. He made it to the top of a mountain within a few miles of what he called the Grand Peak. Pike realized that the Grand Peak was "as high again as what we had ascended, and it would have taken a whole day's march to arrive at its base. Up to his waist in snow at the top of the mountain, dressed in inadequate summer clothing in 28 degree Fahrenheit weather, Pike decided to return to the base camp. Zebulon Pike never set foot on Pike's Peak, which he, by the way, also did not name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebulon_Pike
1835 The first U.S. patent for a horseshoe manufacturing machine was issued to Henry Burden (1791-1871) of Troy, N.Y. He made nearly all the horseshoes used by the Union calvary during the Civil War. His machine produced a horseshoe from a rod of iron that was fed into it. Capable of making sixty horseshoes a minute, it produced shoes more rapidly and uniformly than the hand production method which had been used prior to this invention. Burden was born in Scotland and emigrated to the U.S.in 1819. He started in the Troy iron industry in 1822, as superintendent of the Troy Iron and Nail Factory. This machine, and Burden's other inventions which automated work that was previously done by hand, made the factory extremely profitable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Burden
1837 William Crompton of Taunton, MA patented the silk, power loom. Compton was brought up as a handloom cotton-weaver, and at an early age learned the trade of a machinist. While superintendent of a cotton-mill in Ramsbottom, near Berry, he made many experiments on cotton-looms. He came to Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1836, and while there devised a loom for the manufacture of fancy cotton goods, for which he received a patent on 23 November 1837. In this loom one part of the warp was depressed while the other was lifted, instead of allowing one part. to remain stationary, thus securing more room for the passage of the shuttle. Another feature of it was the chain, which, with its peculiar apparatus, operated the warp.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crompton_(inventor)
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m).Beginning on November 22, a series of earthquakes in the lower part of the state lasted several days. A severe earthquake created a fissure a half mile wide and three hundred yards long through which the waters of Lake Merced flowed to the sea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Merced
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_Campaign
1869 William and John W. Murkland were issued a patent for their invention of a carpet power-loom (No. 97,106) as "an improvement in power-loom for weaving in-grain carpet" or other figured fabrics. By making several simplifications to reduce complexity of the machinery, their design reduced the number of cams and levers involved in operating the loom. As a result, less power was required to maintain the motion of the machine. Having fewer parts also reduced maintenance and repair costs.
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1876 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association. As intercollegiate games became more frequent throughout the 1860's and 1870's, two styles of football emerged. The first type, originally played at an 1869 game between Princeton and Rutgers, borrowed the name and style of "association football" from England. This game resembled modern day soccer with players dribbling the ball along the ground and kicking goals. A second style, developed at Harvard and the surrounding colleges that combined association football with rugby. This version of the game allowed players to carry the ball as well as kick it. On November 23, 1876 representatives from Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale met at Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to decide on standard American rules, an event which became known as the Massasoit Convention. They adopted the rugby football rules in their entirety, except for two innovations: a touch-down in rugby only counted toward the score if neither side kicked a field goal.
1876 Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marcy_Tweed
1887 Notre Dame loses its first football game 8-0 to Michigan. In their inaugural game on November 23 1887 the Irish lost to the University of Michigan Wolverines by a score of 8-0. Their first win came in the final game of the 1888 season when the Irish defeated Harvard Prep by a score of 20-0. At the end of the 1888 season they had a record of 1-3 with all three losses being at the hands of Michigan by a combined score of 43-9.
1887 The opera "The Trumpeter of Sackingen" first American production (NYC).
www30.us.archive.org/stream/trumpeterofsacki00ness/trumpeterofsacki00ness_djvu.txt
1889 The first jukebox was installed when an entrepreneur named Louis Glass and his business associate, William S. Arnold, placed a coin-operated Edison cylinder phonograph in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. The machine, an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph with oak cabinet, had been fitted locally in San Francisco with a coin mechanism invented and soon patented by Glass and Arnold. This was before the time of vacuum tubes, so there was no amplification. For a nickel a play, a patron could listen using one of four listening tubes. Known as "Nickel-in-the-Slot," the machine was an instant success, earning over $1000 in less than half a year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox
1897 A U.S. patent for an improvement in "Casting Composite or Other Wheels" was issued to black American inventor Andrew Jackson Beard (No. 594,286). It gave a method for casting wheels wherein the outer sides are of one metal and the interior portions are of another metal. The importance was not only to enable casting a metal of high electrical conductivity, such as brass, in a groove of an iron trolley wheel - but also to permit an entirely new contruction consisting of two outer disks or flanges and an intermediate, uniting portion, which extends from the contact portion of the wheel with a web extending to the centre and an integral bushing. Robinson also held a previous patent, issued four years earlier, for an "electric railway trolley."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Beard
1897 A U.S. patent was issued to black American inventor, Andrew Jackson Beard for his invention of the "Jenny coupler," (U.S. No. 594,059). It does the dangerous job of hooking railroad cars together by simply allowing them to bump into each other, when "horizontal jaws engage each other to connect the cars." Beard's idea has probably saved countless lives and limbs. It remains in use today. He received $50,000 for the patent rights to the "Jenny Coupler." Beard was born a slave on a plantation in Alabama, shortly before slavery ended. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker, a businessman and finally an inventor. Beard's other patents included a steam driven rotary engine, and a double plow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Beard
1897 A U.S. patent was issued for a pencil sharpener to its black American inventor, John Lee Love of Fall River, Mass. Love's invention was the very simple, portable pencil sharpener that many artists use: the pencil is put into the opening of the sharpener and rotated by hand, and the shavings stay inside the sharpener (No. 594,114). By rotating the outer case, internal gears turn a pencil sharpener blade around the inserted pencil. Two years earlier, Love had previously received a patent two years earlier for his invention of a "plasterers' hawk," which is a flat board, about 18-in square, with a handle underneath, used to carry a small amount of plaster material being worked onto a wall face (9 Jul 1895). This kind of device is still used today.
inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventors/a/John_Lee_Love.htm
1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto" In 1903, with the help of his agent, the banker Pasquale Simonelli, he went to New York City, and, on November 23 of that year, he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso
1903 Governor of Colorado James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. Determined to crush the union of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the mining town of Cripple Creek.
The strike in the gold mines of Cripple Creek began that summer. William "Big Bill" Haywood's Western Federation of Miners called for a sympathy strike among the underground miners to support a smelter workers' strike for an eight-hour day. The WFM, which was founded in 1893 in Montana, had already been involved in several violent strikes in Colorado and Idaho. By the end of October, the call for action at Cripple Creek had worked, and a majority of mine and smelter workers were idle; Cripple Creek operations ground to a halt. Eager to resume mining and break the union, the mine owners turned to Governor Peabody, who agreed to provide state militia protection for replacement workers.
Outraged, the miners barricaded roads and railways, but by the end of September more than a thousand armed men were in Cripple Creek to undermine the strike. Soldiers began to round up union members and their sympathizers-including the entire staff of a pro-union newspaper-and imprison them without any charges or evidence of wrongdoing. When miners complained that the imprisonment was a violation of their constitutional rights, one anti-union judge replied, "To hell with the Constitution; we're not following the Constitution!"
Such tyrannical tactics swung control of the strike to the more radical elements in the WFM, and in June 1904, Harry Orchard, a professional terrorist employed by the union, blew up a railroad station, which killed 13 strikebreakers. This recourse to terrorism proved a serious tactical mistake. The bombing turned public opinion against the union, and the mine owners were able to freely arrest and deport the majority of the WFM leaders. By midsummer, the strike was over and the WFM never again regained the power it had previously enjoyed in the Colorado mining districts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners%27_strike_of_1894
1909 Rattlesnake Creek was deluged with 7.17 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a record for the state of Idaho. (The Weather Channel)
1915 On this day in 1915, fighting between Allied and Turkish forces continues into a second day during the Battle of Ctesiphon (or Selman Pak), on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq.
Under the command of Sir John Nixon, British troops in World War I enjoyed a string of early successes in their invasion of Mesopotamia. By late September 1915, forces led by Nixon's forward divisional commander, Sir Charles Townshend, had occupied the Mesopotamian province of Basra, including the town of Kut-al-Amara. That November, Nixon ordered Townshend to continue the offensive up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers towards Baghdad, the regional commander's real objective. Anxious about the fragile nature of British supply lines in the region and doubtful of the capabilities of his mostly Indian troops--who had already lost one-third of their number to battle or sickness--Townshend argued for delaying the attacks in order to wait for reinforcements. The ambitious Nixon instructed him to proceed as ordered.
Meanwhile, following their defeat at Kut, Turkish forces had withdrawn to carefully prepared and fortified defensive positions among the ruins of the ancient city of Ctesiphon. When Townshend's troops began their attacks on the night of November 22, they were confronted by companies of largely inexperienced Turkish soldiers entrenched firmly in two lines on either side of the Tigris. While the Anglo-Indian troops were able to capture the first-line of Turkish positions that first night, the Turks mounted a spirited defense and casualties on both sides began to mount.
On November 23, the Turks launched a counter-attack aimed at recapturing the ground lost the day before. Though their effort was unsuccessful, Townshend's casualty rate had reached 40 percent, or some 4,500 men. Knowing he could not expect reinforcements, Townshend authorized a British retreat to Kut in order to regroup and treat his wounded men. Twelve days later, the Turks began a siege against Kut that would last for the next five months and exhaust Townshend's depleted forces. After attempting four times without success to confront their opponents, suffering heavy casualties in the process, Townshend was forced to give up the fight, along with his remaining 10,000 men, on April 29, 1916. It was the largest single surrender of troops in British history up until that time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ctesiphon_(1915)
1918 Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_J._Grant
1925 Vincent Lopez presented a concert Metropolitan Opera House in NYC For three years Lopez remained at the Hotel Pennsylvania and doubled his orchestra into nearby theatres and, later, night clubs. With tireless energy he rehearsed and directed his men. He made phonograph records. One night without warning he was asked to play over the radio. "Hello, everybody, Lopez speaking!" became a byword overnight and he continued to play for radio by popular demand. In 1925 Lopez gave the first Symphonic Jazz concert at the Metropolitan Opera House and that same year took his orchestra to London, where he was wildly acclaimed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lopez
1935 Ethel Leginska became the first woman to write an opera -- and conduct it. Leaving Boston for Europe in 1930, Leginska conducted performances of opera companies there and returned to New York City in 1931 to lead an orchestra for a Broadway revival of Franz von Suppe's Boccaccio. The following year, she founded another short-lived group, the National Women's Symphony Orchestra, in New York. An opera she wrote, Gale, made its debut at the Chicago City Opera on November 23, 1935, with Leginska at the podium.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Leginska
1936 First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce. In 1936 publisher Henry Luce paid $92,000 to the owners of Life magazine because he sought the name for Time Inc. Convinced that pictures could tell a story instead of just illustrating text, Luce launched Life on November 23, 1936. The third magazine published by Luce, after Time in 1923 and Fortune in 1930, Life gave birth to the photo magazine in the U.S., giving as much space and importance to pictures as to words.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)
1936 Bluesman Robert Johnson is recorded for the very first time in a San Antonio recording studio on November 23, 1936.
The legend of Robert Johnson, arguably the most influential blues performer of all time, began growing in earnest only in the early 1960s, more than 20 years after his death. It was the 1959 publication of Samuel Charters's The Country Blues that introduced his name to many, but as Charters himself observed of Johnson at the time, "Almost nothing is known about his life....He is only a name on a few recordings." What is well known about those recordings is that they helped inspire a blues-rock revolution in the decade that followed—a revolution led by young British musicians like Eric Clapton and Keith Richard. What is less well known, perhaps, is just how small that body of work actually is.
In his short but hugely influential life, Robert Johnson spent only five days in the recording studio, recording only 41 total takes of 29 different songs. Thirteen of those takes and eight of those songs—including "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Terraplane Blues"—were captured during his first-ever session, on this day in 1936, in a makeshift studio set up in adjoining rooms of the Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio. Johnson returned to the Gunter Hotel twice more later in that same week, and then recorded once more over the course of two days in 1937 in Dallas. The results of those sessions were 12 78-rpm records issued on the Vocalion label in 1937 and 1938, the last of them after Johnson's death by poisoning at the hands of a jealous husband on August 16, 1938.
Almost immediately, Johnson's recordings gained a cult following among blues collectors like John Hammond, who would later gain fame as the "discoverer" of artists ranging from Billie Holliday and Big Joe Turner to Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen. Yet from 1938 to 1961, when Hammond convinced Columbia Records to release an album of Robert Johnson recordings called King of the Delta Blues, Johnson was more of a rumor than a reality. King of the Delta Blues, however, would spark a strong resurgence of interest in his life and work—a resurgence that would nevertheless fail to turn up many verifiable details of his life beyond the dates of his birth and death and of his few recording sessions.
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1938 “Thanks for the Memory” recorded. "Thanks For the Memory" was a song in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938. The words and music were written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, and was recorded by Shep Fields and his orchestra. It won the Academy Award for Best Song. Bob Hope sang the vocals and it became his signature song.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanks_for_the_Memory
1940 World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized. On November 23, 1942, legislation was approved creating yet another arm of the U.S. Coast Guard, one that would pave the way for Coast Guard women of today - The U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve, also known as the SPARs. The Coast Guard and the nation were in need, and America's young women responded. More than 10,000 women volunteered for service between 1942 and 1946. This reserve corps also had its own commanding officer, Dorothy C. Stratton.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARS
1943 Northern New Hampshire was in the grips of a record snowstorm which left a total of 55 inches at Berlin, and 56 inches at Randolph. The 56 inch total at Randolph established a 24 hour snowfall record for the state. In Maine, Middle Dam received a record 35 inches of snow in 24 hours. (David Ludlum)
1943 World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Oper_Berlin
1943 World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarawa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makin_(islands)#History
1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended.
1947 Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chicago Cardinals (45-21) Baugh started his pro career as a single wing tailback and didn't make the switch to the T-formation until 1944. He won a record-setting six NFL passing titles and earned first-team All-NFL honors seven times in his career. Sammy also led the NFL in punting four straight years from 1940 through 1943. Extremely versatile, he led the NFL in passing, pass interceptions, and punting in 1943. One of his best single performances came on Sammy Baugh Day in 1947 when he passed for 355 yards and 6 touchdowns against the Chicago Cardinals, that season's eventual champions.
1947 E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered the previous winter (1946_47) by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran. The scrolls are dated roughly between 200 B.C. and A.D. 70. They are considered by many to be the outstanding archaeological find of the twentieth century in the field of Old Testament studies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar_Sukenik
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
1948 The first U.S. patent for a lens to provide zoom effects for television cameras was issued to F.G. Back (No. 2,454,686) as a "varifocal lens for cameras." His Zoomar lens was adjustable for closeups or long-distance shots without requiring the camera be moved toward or away from the object televised. It had been demonstrated 16 Apr 1947 by the National Broadcasting Company in New York City. The early Zoomar lens was controlled by a plunger at the rear of the camera. The zoom action wasn't very smooth, but this design eliminated having to use a lens turret with multiple focal length lenses.
1949 Lutheran Friends of the Deaf purchased Mill Neck Manor in New York to set up as a Lutheran School for the deaf, which opened in 1951.
www.millneck.org/about/history/history.html
1958 “Have Gun Will Travel” premieres on radio. One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual in that it followed the TV show of the same name. "Have Gun Will Travel" was broadcast on CBS radio and starred John Dehner as Paladin. Richard Boone played Paladin on TV. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter, who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_Will_Travel
1958 Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared in "A Turkey for the President" Mr. Reagan's most famous TV role came in the fall of 1954, when the giant talent agency MCA cast him as host of the CBS anthology "General Electric Theater". Reagan would introduce the weekly dramas and comedies and do an occasional pitch for GE products on the air. "GE Theater" proved to be the showcase for film actors who tried television for the first time; Joan Crawford and Fred Astaire made their TV debuts on the "Theater". (Reagan also appeared occasionally as an actor; he and Nancy Reagan co-starred in the 1958 "GE Theater" presentation called "A Turkey For The President").
1963 "I'm Leaving it up to You" by Dale & Grace topped the charts. "I'm Leaving it up to You" was originally recorded in 1957 by composers Don F. Harris and Dewey Terry as "Don and Dewey," but the single didn't chart. Dale Houston and Grace Broussard were teamed up specifically to record this as Dale's solo career fell flat. Their followup song, "Stop and Think It Over," sung in a similar vein, peaked at #8.
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House.
1964 Dr. Michael E. DeBakey of Houston performed the first successful coronary artery bypass graft procedure.
1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman" The Beatles taped "I Feel Fine" for an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that aired September 12, 1965. They had returned to America to play their famous Shea stadium concert. It was their last appearance on the show. There is a very faint sound of barking dogs at the end. "She's a Woman" was the B side of "I Feel Fine," written and recorded on the same day. A chocalho, a type of metal shaker, was used for percussion.
1971 The People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council China's seat in the United Nations has been occupied by the People's Republic of China since October 25, 1971. The representatives of the PRC first attended the UN, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives on November 23, 1971. China's seat in all UN organs had been previously held by the Republic of China since the UN's founding.
1974 "I Can Help" by Billy Swan topped the charts. Tossed off in the studio during sessions for Swan's first album, "I Can Help" was a bouncy, rockabilly-styled number that featured Swan's distinctive electric organ work. It went to number one on both the pop and country charts in 1974, and the accompanying album of the same name also topped the country list.
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral Meteosats were European Space Agency weather satellites with the primary goal to provide visible and IR day/night cloud cover data and radiance and disseminate image data to users through the Data Collection Platform (DCP). Operational geostationary Meteosat satellites followed 3 pre-operational versions (Meteosat-1,-2,-3/P2). They had a 2.1 m diameter, 3.195 m high stepped cylindrical body with solar cells on six main body panels. The spacecraft was spin-stabilised at 100 rpm around the main axis aligned almost parallel to the Earth's axis with spin regulated by two small hydrazine thrusters.
1981 Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1985 Terrorist Abu Nidal Organization hijacks EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
1984 Doug Flutie TD pass stuns Maimi.
Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passed his way into sports history by leading Boston College past Miami, 47-45, at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Flutie threw a 48-yard pass on the final play of the game. That play became known as The Pass. Incidentally, coaches said the 175-pound senior was too short to play football.
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[/img][/center]1985 "We Built This City" by Starship topped the charts. When this hit #1, Grace Slick was the oldest woman to sing the lead vocal (shared with Mickey Thomas) on a #1 single. The title had been previously held by Tina Turner for "What's Love Got To Do With It," and was later claimed by Cher for "Believe." The City in this song refers to San Francisco. Starship wrote it based on an incident in 1977 when the band (then Jefferson Airplane) was not allowed to play a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
1987 Rain and gale force winds prevailed along the Northern Pacific coast. Quillayute, WA, received 1.57 inches of rain in 24 hours, including nine tenths of an inch in six hours. Heavy snow fell over northern Oregon and the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Temperatures began to moderate in the eastern U.S. following a bitterly cold weekend. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 Low pressure crossing the Great Basin brought wintry weather to parts of the western U.S. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park, and winds gusted to 70 mph at Casper WY, and reached 95 mph near Reno NV. Up to seven inches of rain was reported in the Grass Valley and Nevada City area of California. Paradise CA was soaked with 5.37 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 Low pressure tracking across the Carolinas brought heavy rain to parts of the Southern Atlantic Coast Region for Thanksgiving Day, and blanketed the Middle Atlantic Coast States and southern New England with heavy snow. The storm produced up to nine inches of snow over Long Island NY, and up to 14 inches over Cape Cod MA, at Yarmouth. Totals of 4.7 inches at New York City and 6.0 inches at Newark NJ were records for Thanksgiving Day, the 8.0 inch total at Providence RI was a record for any given day in November, and the 6.5 inch total at Strasburg CT was a record for the month of November as a whole. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
1991 "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Michael Bolton topped the charts. Soul Provider, released in July 1989, turned Bolton into a superstar, reaching the Top Ten, selling four million copies, and spawning five Top 40 singles, including Bolton's number one version of "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," and the Top Ten hits "How Can We Be Lovers" and "When I'm Back on My Feet Again." Time, Love & Tenderness, released in April 1991, was even more successful, hitting number one, selling six million copies, and featuring four Top 40 hits, including the chart-topping cover of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," and the Top Ten hits "Love Is a Wonderful Thing."
2004 An outbreak of severe thunderstorms produced reports of 54 tornadoes across portions of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama. In Texas's Hardin county, one person was killed with three injured when a tornado struck during the afternoon (Associated Press).
2006 A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injured 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
2007 MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
2010 The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
2011 Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
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Statue of Ferdinand III (Patio of Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando.
1248 Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III_of_Castile
1621 Poet and cleric John Donne (1572–1631) was elected dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne
1644 John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagitica
1654 French scientist and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) experienced a mystical vision and converted to Christianity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
1729 German born John Philip Boehm, 46, was formally ordained a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. Boehm had previously come to America in 1720, where he began organizing religious services among German Reformed immigrants in Pennsylvania.
www.amazon.com/letters-Reformed-Pennsylvania-1683-1749-Religion/dp/B0006C2JAQ
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1837 William Crompton of Taunton, MA patented the silk, power loom. Compton was brought up as a handloom cotton-weaver, and at an early age learned the trade of a machinist. While superintendent of a cotton-mill in Ramsbottom, near Berry, he made many experiments on cotton-looms. He came to Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1836, and while there devised a loom for the manufacture of fancy cotton goods, for which he received a patent on 23 November 1837. In this loom one part of the warp was depressed while the other was lifted, instead of allowing one part. to remain stationary, thus securing more room for the passage of the shuttle. Another feature of it was the chain, which, with its peculiar apparatus, operated the warp.
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1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
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1876 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association. As intercollegiate games became more frequent throughout the 1860's and 1870's, two styles of football emerged. The first type, originally played at an 1869 game between Princeton and Rutgers, borrowed the name and style of "association football" from England. This game resembled modern day soccer with players dribbling the ball along the ground and kicking goals. A second style, developed at Harvard and the surrounding colleges that combined association football with rugby. This version of the game allowed players to carry the ball as well as kick it. On November 23, 1876 representatives from Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale met at Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to decide on standard American rules, an event which became known as the Massasoit Convention. They adopted the rugby football rules in their entirety, except for two innovations: a touch-down in rugby only counted toward the score if neither side kicked a field goal.
1876 Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
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1887 Notre Dame loses its first football game 8-0 to Michigan. In their inaugural game on November 23 1887 the Irish lost to the University of Michigan Wolverines by a score of 8-0. Their first win came in the final game of the 1888 season when the Irish defeated Harvard Prep by a score of 20-0. At the end of the 1888 season they had a record of 1-3 with all three losses being at the hands of Michigan by a combined score of 43-9.
1887 The opera "The Trumpeter of Sackingen" first American production (NYC).
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1897 A U.S. patent for an improvement in "Casting Composite or Other Wheels" was issued to black American inventor Andrew Jackson Beard (No. 594,286). It gave a method for casting wheels wherein the outer sides are of one metal and the interior portions are of another metal. The importance was not only to enable casting a metal of high electrical conductivity, such as brass, in a groove of an iron trolley wheel - but also to permit an entirely new contruction consisting of two outer disks or flanges and an intermediate, uniting portion, which extends from the contact portion of the wheel with a web extending to the centre and an integral bushing. Robinson also held a previous patent, issued four years earlier, for an "electric railway trolley."
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1903 Governor of Colorado James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. Determined to crush the union of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the mining town of Cripple Creek.
The strike in the gold mines of Cripple Creek began that summer. William "Big Bill" Haywood's Western Federation of Miners called for a sympathy strike among the underground miners to support a smelter workers' strike for an eight-hour day. The WFM, which was founded in 1893 in Montana, had already been involved in several violent strikes in Colorado and Idaho. By the end of October, the call for action at Cripple Creek had worked, and a majority of mine and smelter workers were idle; Cripple Creek operations ground to a halt. Eager to resume mining and break the union, the mine owners turned to Governor Peabody, who agreed to provide state militia protection for replacement workers.
Outraged, the miners barricaded roads and railways, but by the end of September more than a thousand armed men were in Cripple Creek to undermine the strike. Soldiers began to round up union members and their sympathizers-including the entire staff of a pro-union newspaper-and imprison them without any charges or evidence of wrongdoing. When miners complained that the imprisonment was a violation of their constitutional rights, one anti-union judge replied, "To hell with the Constitution; we're not following the Constitution!"
Such tyrannical tactics swung control of the strike to the more radical elements in the WFM, and in June 1904, Harry Orchard, a professional terrorist employed by the union, blew up a railroad station, which killed 13 strikebreakers. This recourse to terrorism proved a serious tactical mistake. The bombing turned public opinion against the union, and the mine owners were able to freely arrest and deport the majority of the WFM leaders. By midsummer, the strike was over and the WFM never again regained the power it had previously enjoyed in the Colorado mining districts.
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1909 Rattlesnake Creek was deluged with 7.17 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a record for the state of Idaho. (The Weather Channel)
1915 On this day in 1915, fighting between Allied and Turkish forces continues into a second day during the Battle of Ctesiphon (or Selman Pak), on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq.
Under the command of Sir John Nixon, British troops in World War I enjoyed a string of early successes in their invasion of Mesopotamia. By late September 1915, forces led by Nixon's forward divisional commander, Sir Charles Townshend, had occupied the Mesopotamian province of Basra, including the town of Kut-al-Amara. That November, Nixon ordered Townshend to continue the offensive up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers towards Baghdad, the regional commander's real objective. Anxious about the fragile nature of British supply lines in the region and doubtful of the capabilities of his mostly Indian troops--who had already lost one-third of their number to battle or sickness--Townshend argued for delaying the attacks in order to wait for reinforcements. The ambitious Nixon instructed him to proceed as ordered.
Meanwhile, following their defeat at Kut, Turkish forces had withdrawn to carefully prepared and fortified defensive positions among the ruins of the ancient city of Ctesiphon. When Townshend's troops began their attacks on the night of November 22, they were confronted by companies of largely inexperienced Turkish soldiers entrenched firmly in two lines on either side of the Tigris. While the Anglo-Indian troops were able to capture the first-line of Turkish positions that first night, the Turks mounted a spirited defense and casualties on both sides began to mount.
On November 23, the Turks launched a counter-attack aimed at recapturing the ground lost the day before. Though their effort was unsuccessful, Townshend's casualty rate had reached 40 percent, or some 4,500 men. Knowing he could not expect reinforcements, Townshend authorized a British retreat to Kut in order to regroup and treat his wounded men. Twelve days later, the Turks began a siege against Kut that would last for the next five months and exhaust Townshend's depleted forces. After attempting four times without success to confront their opponents, suffering heavy casualties in the process, Townshend was forced to give up the fight, along with his remaining 10,000 men, on April 29, 1916. It was the largest single surrender of troops in British history up until that time.
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1918 Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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1925 Vincent Lopez presented a concert Metropolitan Opera House in NYC For three years Lopez remained at the Hotel Pennsylvania and doubled his orchestra into nearby theatres and, later, night clubs. With tireless energy he rehearsed and directed his men. He made phonograph records. One night without warning he was asked to play over the radio. "Hello, everybody, Lopez speaking!" became a byword overnight and he continued to play for radio by popular demand. In 1925 Lopez gave the first Symphonic Jazz concert at the Metropolitan Opera House and that same year took his orchestra to London, where he was wildly acclaimed.
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1936 Bluesman Robert Johnson is recorded for the very first time in a San Antonio recording studio on November 23, 1936.
The legend of Robert Johnson, arguably the most influential blues performer of all time, began growing in earnest only in the early 1960s, more than 20 years after his death. It was the 1959 publication of Samuel Charters's The Country Blues that introduced his name to many, but as Charters himself observed of Johnson at the time, "Almost nothing is known about his life....He is only a name on a few recordings." What is well known about those recordings is that they helped inspire a blues-rock revolution in the decade that followed—a revolution led by young British musicians like Eric Clapton and Keith Richard. What is less well known, perhaps, is just how small that body of work actually is.
In his short but hugely influential life, Robert Johnson spent only five days in the recording studio, recording only 41 total takes of 29 different songs. Thirteen of those takes and eight of those songs—including "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Terraplane Blues"—were captured during his first-ever session, on this day in 1936, in a makeshift studio set up in adjoining rooms of the Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio. Johnson returned to the Gunter Hotel twice more later in that same week, and then recorded once more over the course of two days in 1937 in Dallas. The results of those sessions were 12 78-rpm records issued on the Vocalion label in 1937 and 1938, the last of them after Johnson's death by poisoning at the hands of a jealous husband on August 16, 1938.
Almost immediately, Johnson's recordings gained a cult following among blues collectors like John Hammond, who would later gain fame as the "discoverer" of artists ranging from Billie Holliday and Big Joe Turner to Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen. Yet from 1938 to 1961, when Hammond convinced Columbia Records to release an album of Robert Johnson recordings called King of the Delta Blues, Johnson was more of a rumor than a reality. King of the Delta Blues, however, would spark a strong resurgence of interest in his life and work—a resurgence that would nevertheless fail to turn up many verifiable details of his life beyond the dates of his birth and death and of his few recording sessions.
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1938 “Thanks for the Memory” recorded. "Thanks For the Memory" was a song in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938. The words and music were written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, and was recorded by Shep Fields and his orchestra. It won the Academy Award for Best Song. Bob Hope sang the vocals and it became his signature song.
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1940 World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
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1943 Northern New Hampshire was in the grips of a record snowstorm which left a total of 55 inches at Berlin, and 56 inches at Randolph. The 56 inch total at Randolph established a 24 hour snowfall record for the state. In Maine, Middle Dam received a record 35 inches of snow in 24 hours. (David Ludlum)
1943 World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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1943 World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
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1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended.
1947 E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered the previous winter (1946_47) by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran. The scrolls are dated roughly between 200 B.C. and A.D. 70. They are considered by many to be the outstanding archaeological find of the twentieth century in the field of Old Testament studies.
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1949 Lutheran Friends of the Deaf purchased Mill Neck Manor in New York to set up as a Lutheran School for the deaf, which opened in 1951.
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1971 The People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council China's seat in the United Nations has been occupied by the People's Republic of China since October 25, 1971. The representatives of the PRC first attended the UN, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives on November 23, 1971. China's seat in all UN organs had been previously held by the Republic of China since the UN's founding.
1981 Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1985 Terrorist Abu Nidal Organization hijacks EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passed his way into sports history by leading Boston College past Miami, 47-45, at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Flutie threw a 48-yard pass on the final play of the game. That play became known as The Pass. Incidentally, coaches said the 175-pound senior was too short to play football.
1987 Rain and gale force winds prevailed along the Northern Pacific coast. Quillayute, WA, received 1.57 inches of rain in 24 hours, including nine tenths of an inch in six hours. Heavy snow fell over northern Oregon and the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Temperatures began to moderate in the eastern U.S. following a bitterly cold weekend. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 Low pressure crossing the Great Basin brought wintry weather to parts of the western U.S. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park, and winds gusted to 70 mph at Casper WY, and reached 95 mph near Reno NV. Up to seven inches of rain was reported in the Grass Valley and Nevada City area of California. Paradise CA was soaked with 5.37 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 Low pressure tracking across the Carolinas brought heavy rain to parts of the Southern Atlantic Coast Region for Thanksgiving Day, and blanketed the Middle Atlantic Coast States and southern New England with heavy snow. The storm produced up to nine inches of snow over Long Island NY, and up to 14 inches over Cape Cod MA, at Yarmouth. Totals of 4.7 inches at New York City and 6.0 inches at Newark NJ were records for Thanksgiving Day, the 8.0 inch total at Providence RI was a record for any given day in November, and the 6.5 inch total at Strasburg CT was a record for the month of November as a whole. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
2004 An outbreak of severe thunderstorms produced reports of 54 tornadoes across portions of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama. In Texas's Hardin county, one person was killed with three injured when a tornado struck during the afternoon (Associated Press).
2006 A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injured 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
2007 MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
2010 The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
2011 Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
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