Post by farmgal on Nov 22, 2012 22:21:11 GMT -5
November 24 is the 329th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 37 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/
1703 In Philadelphia, German born pastor and hymnwriter Justus Falckner, 31, became the first Lutheran clergyman to be ordained in America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Falckner
1715 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn: G.B. No. 401 to "Thomas Masters, Planter of Pennsylvania, for an invention foundout by Sibylla his wife for cleaning and curing the indian Corn growing in several colonies in America. The first patent issued within the colonies was for a new method of extracting salt, granted to Samuel Winslow by Massachusetts in 1641.
1771 Methodist Francis Asbury (1745–1816) began preaching in America. For the next forty-five years, he was the main figure in establishing the Methodist Church in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Asbury
1783 At the end of the Revolutionary War, the last British troops left New York City Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in when the British troops in New York City departed from Manhattan. With American independence recognized by the Treaty of Paris, Britain began its withdrawal from what was now the United States. The departure of the British troops in 1783 was immediately followed by the triumphal return of General Washington to the city. Legend has it, however, that wounded British pride resulted in the nailing of a Union Jack to the flagpole in the Bowling Green at the southern tip of Manhattan and a greasing of the pole. After a number of men attempted to tear down the offending symbol of tyranny, a boy was able to remove it and replace it with the stars and stripes before the British fleet sailed out of sight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_Day_(New_York)
1812 Southwesterly winds of hurricane force sank ships and unroofed buildings at Philadelphia and New York City. (David Ludlum)
1817 First sword swallower in US performs (NYC) Sena Sama from Madras, Tamil Nadu, India was reported to be the first known sword swallower in America. Senaa Samma appeared at St. John's Hall in New York City in a lovely exhibition of juggling and sword swallowing. Admission to see the performance was $1 for adults. The newspaper account said that he swallowed "a sword manufactured by Mr. William Pye of New York as a substitute for the one lately stolen from him by some villain."
1834 Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides for 12 cents. The first printed American bill of fare is issued by New York's 5-year-old Delmonico's Restaurant at 494 Pearl Street and lists as one of its most expensive dishes "hamburger steak." The bill of fare (the word menu will not be coined until next year) offers a "regular dinner" at 12 cents and lists hamburger steak at 10 cents (the same price as roast chicken or ham and eggs; regular beef steak is only 4 cents, as are pork chops, corn beef and cabbage, pigs head and cabbage, and fried fish. Roast beef or veal, roast mutton, veal cutlet, or chicken stew are 5 cents).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmonico%27s
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division
1838 Canadian Sulpician missionary Franois Blanchet, 43, first arrived in the Oregon Territory. A native of Quebec, he spent 45 years planting churches in the American Northwest, and is remembered today as the "Apostle of Oregon."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Norbert_Blanchet
1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin's groundbreaking book, was published in England to great acclaim. The British naturalist, Charles Darwin detailed the scientific evidence he had collected since his voyage on the Beagle in the 1830's. He presented his idea that species are the result of a gradual biological evolution in which nature encourages, through natural selection, the propagation of those species best suited to their environments. He had been prompted to publish at this time by Charles Lyell, who advised him that Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist working in Borneo, was approaching the same conclusions. Lyell believed Darwin should publish without further delay to establish priority.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Species_by_Means_of_Natural_Selection
1863 The "battle above the clouds" was fought on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. Pre-frontal clouds obscured the upper battle- field aiding a Union victory . (David Ludlum)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Above_the_Clouds
1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.The invention quickly proved its usefulness in building and construction in many countries. Production went hand-in-hand with research, energetically carried out at laboratories Nobel established in Stockholm and Hamburg and later also in Paris, at Bofors, and in San Remo. The original form of dynamite was gradually replaced by gelatin dynamite, which was safer to handle. In that development, too, Nobel played a major part.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite
1874 The first U.S. patent for barbed wire was issued to Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois (No. 157,124). Having filed his application on 27 Oct 1873, Glidden began manufacturing on 1 Nov 1873, in DeKalb. The barbs were cut from sheet metal and were inserted between two wires which were twisted considerably more than with today's common design. This product would transform the West. Before this innovation, settlers on the treeless plains had no easy way to fence livestock away from cropland, and ranchers had no way to prevent their herds from roaming far and wide. Glidden’s barbed wire opened the plains to large-scale farming, and closed the open range, bringing the era of the cowboy and the round-up to an end.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire
1880 In Montgomery, AL, more than 150 delegates from Baptist churches in 11 states met to form the Baptist Foreign Missions Convention of the United States. Liberian missionary William W. Colley was chief organizer, and the Rev. William H. McAlpine was elected the first president.
www.selmauniversity.org/history.htm
www.dacb.org/stories/liberia/colley_william.html
1884 John B Meyenberg, a Swiss immigrant of St Louis patents evaporated milk. Gail Borden had already been marketing condensed milk, but that was sweetened as part of the preserving process. Evaporated milk is not sweetened, and has up to 75% of the water removed from the cow's milk. Meyenberg's process began by heating the milk with external steam heat, while being stirred, followed by cooling, straining, then condensing in vacuo, cooling further and sealing in hermetically sealed cans. The cans were sterilized by being turned in a frame inside a large steam heated cylinder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet,_Inc.
1902 The state of Wisconsin granted a charter to the fraternal benefit society that became Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrivent_Financial_for_Lutherans
1903 The first U.S. patent for an automobile electric self-starter was issued to Clyde J. Coleman of New York City (No. 745,157). He invented the self-starter in 1899, but the invention was impractical. The license was purchased by the Delco Company, which was taken over by the General Motors Corporation. Charles Kettering at General Motors perfected the self-starter, which was first installed on Cadillac cars in 1911. This was a response to the death of a friend, who had died from injuries suffered when a car hand-crank recoiled against him. Having eliminated the dangerous job of cranking the engine, it put women behind the wheel in greater numbers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_self-starter
1906 The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
1909 The Wright brothersformed a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of airplanes. The brothers found themselves immersed in business affairs, manufacturing and selling planes, arranging flying exhibitions, training pilots, and engaging in patent suits against Glenn Curtiss and others. The courts decided the suits in favor of the Wrights, but worn out by the long patent struggle, Wilbur died of typhoid fever in Dayton, 30 May 1912, at the height of his career. He had made his last flights in May 1910. Orville continued flying actively until 1915 when he sold his interest in the Wright Company. His last flight was in 1918. The Curtiss Wright Corporation was formed in 1929 with the merger of the Wright and Curtiss companies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_Corporation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
1920 WTAW of College Station Tx broadcast first football play-by-play. The first radio play-by-play broadcast of a collegiate football game occurred on November 25, 1920. Texas University vs. Mechanical College of Texas was broadcasted by WTAW of College Station, TX. Some say the call letters WTAW were chosen to spell "Watch The Aggies Win".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTAW
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Crime_Lab
1940 U of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's #98. Harmon played college football at the University of Michigan from 1938-1940 and won the Heisman Trophy his senior season. Although he made his name as a running back, he also excelled as a kicker and quarterback. Harmon rushed for 2,134 yards during his career at Michigan, completed 100 passes for 1,304 yards and 16 touchdowns, and scored 237 points. In his final game, against Ohio State Harmon led the Wolverines to a 40-0 victory, scoring three rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns, four extra points, intercepting three passes, and punting three times for an average of 50 yards. He led the nation in scoring in 1939 and 1940, and was elected to the College Football All-America Team both years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harmon
1940 World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact
1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_French_Forces
1941 American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his "Secular Journal": 'Spiritual dryness is an acute experience of longing therefore of love.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton
1943 World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liscome_Bay_(CVE-56)
1944 World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#B-29_raids
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[/img][/center]1944 CBS radio presented "The FBI in Peace and War" for the first time. The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewsis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins. Airing on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, it had a variety of sponsors (including Lava Soap, Wildroot Cream Oil, Lucky Strike, Nescafe and Wrigley's) over the years. Martin Blaine and Donald Briggs headed the cast.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_FBI_in_Peace_and_War
1945 "The Brooklyn Pinafore" airs on radio. A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, "H.M.S. Pinafore", was broadcast on radio on "The Fred Allen Show". The spoof was titled, "The Brooklyn Pinafore". Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great Leo "The Lip" Durocher.
music.yahoo.com/fred-allen-show/tracks/brooklyn-pinafore--61289979
1948 Cable TV invented by Leroy "Ed" Parsons, (1907-89), who sold electronics and ran a radio station in Astoria, Oregon. On Thanksgiving Day, the Parsonses watched KRSC's inaugural broadcast from the TV station 150 miles away in Seattle. He picked up a usable signal with a large antenna on the roof of the John Jacob Astor Hotel, and strung a coaxial cable across the street to his living room. He placed a TV in the hotel lobby and a TV in a store window. As others in town wanted the same service, Parsons helped them hook into a system using a community antenna on Coxcomb Hill completed Feb 1949.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_TV
1949 "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" hits the charts and becomes THE musical hit of the Christmas season. Although Gene Autry's rendition is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer
1950 The temperature at Chicago, IL, dipped to 2 below zero to equal their record for the month established on the 29th in 1872. On the first of the month that year Chicago established a record high for November with a reading of 81 degrees. (The Weather Channel)
1950 The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Appalachian_Storm_of_November_1950
1950 "Harbor Lights" by Sammy Kaye topped the charts Kaye's radio show Sunday Serenade was a huge hit in the '40s and '50s. Kaye had many pop hits, some of them adapted for Broadway shows.The biggest-selling version of Harbor Lights was by the Sammy Kaye orchestra. The recording was released by Columbia Records. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 1, 1950 and lasted 25 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Lights
1951 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1955 "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets hits #1 in Great Britain. "Rock Around the Clock" was one of the first hits of the Rock era. Billboard had been keeping a Top 40 chart for only a few months when this came out. It stayed at #1 for 8 weeks.The group released this in 1954 as the B-side of a novelty song called "Thirteen Women," which was about an atomic blast that leaves only 1 man and 13 women alive. It wasn't until a year later that it was re-released and became a hit. In the UK, this was the biggest-selling single of the '50s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock
1960 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland WA. In 1960, the first atomic reactor for research and development began operation at Richland, WA. The plant was built to determine the suitability of plutonium as a reactor fuel. There was a need to recycle plutonium resulting from weapons production. Plutonium-239 enriched uranium-235 was expected to give increased energy output, with less need for the expensive uranium-isotope separation facilities. The Hanford Atomic Products Operation was operated by the General Electric Company for the Atomic Energy Commission.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_reactor
1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points. Cousy is the Celtics' all-time leader in assists with 6,955. He led the NBA in assists from 1953 to 1960 including a career high 9.5 per game in 1960. He also scored 16,960 points, and participated in the NBA All-Star game thirteen consecutive times, picking up the All-Star Game MVP award at that game in 1954 and 1957. He was named the league's MVP in the 1957-58 season, was named to the All-NBA First Team from 1952 to 1961. Cousy still owns the following two NBA records: most assists in one half (19 in a February 27, 1959 game against the Minneapolis Lakers) and most free-throws in an NBA playoff game (or in any NBA game, for that matter) when he made 30 free throws in 32 attempts on March 21, 1953 against Syracuse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cousy
1961 "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean topped the charts. Jimmy Dean wrote this about fellow actor John Mentoe ("Destry Rides Again"), who was 6' 5" tall. According to Dean's roommate (at the time), the song was intended to be a joke. Floyd Cramer ("Last Date") was hired to play the piano on the recording, but wound up hitting a chunk of steel with a hammer instead. It was Floyd's idea to make the switch. This was a huge hit in the US. Not only did it top the Pop charts for 5 weeks, but it was also #1 on the Country charts for 2 weeks, and #1 Adult Contemporary for 10 weeks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bad_John
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting is broadcast live on television.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK
1963 Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#Presidency_1963.E2.80.931969
1966 New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
1969 Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12
1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cooper_(aircraft_hijacker)
1972 "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash topped the charts for 4 weeks late in 1972. Nash recorded this in London with members of The Average White Band. Bob Marley's Wailers were Nash's backing band on this. Nash's next, and final hit - "Stir It Up" - was written by Marley.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_See_Clearly_Now_(Johnny_Nash_album)
1973 Maximum speed limits in the United States were cut to 55 mph by an act of Congress. The National Maximum Speed Law is a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that capped all speed limits at 55 mph. This cap was intended to conserve gasoline in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The law was modified in the late 1980s to allow 65 mph limits. In 1995 it was repealed, returning the power of setting speed limits to the states.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law
1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
1975 Robert S. Ledley was granted a patent for "diagnostic X-ray systems" known as CAT-Scans. Ledley used ACTA to revolutionize diagnostic medicine. He was the first to do medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstructions and the first to use CT in radiation therapy planning for cancer patients and in the diagnosis of bone diseases.
Robert S. Ledley
1979 People's Republic of China joins International Olympic Committee. In 1979, during the IOC Session at Montevideo in April, and at the meting of the Executive Board held in Puerto Rico in June, the question of the recognition of the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) was the main point of the discussions. On 25th October 1979, the members of the Executive Board of the IOC meeting in Nagoya, Japan, adopted an official resolution. This resolution was approved on 25th November 1979 by the members of the IOC by means of a postal vote with 62 in favour, 17 against and 2 spoiled votes.
International Olympic Committee
1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Leonard
1982 Hurricane Iwa lashed the Hawaiian Islands of Niihau, Kauai, and Oahu with high winds and surf. Winds gusting to 120 mph caused extensive shoreline damage. Damage totalled 150 million dollars on Kauai, and fifty million dollars on Oahu. The peak storm surge on the south shore was six to eight feet. It marked the first time in 25 years that Hawaii had been affected by a hurricane. (The Weather Channel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Iwa
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal. The Iran-Contra Affair involved several members of the Reagan Administration who in 1986 helped sell arms to Iran, an avowed enemy, and used the proceeds to fund the Contras, an anti-communist guerrilla organization in Nicaragua. US Attorney General Edwin Meese admitted on November 25 that profits from weapons sales to Iran were made available to assist the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra
1987 Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain in southern Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. Flooding was reported in Greene County of southwestern Missouri. Springfield MO was drenched with more than six inches of rain. Thunderstorms over southern Texas produced more than eight inches of rain in Caldwell County and Hayes County, and thunderstorms over south central Oklahoma produced one inch hail at Temple twice within an hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
1988 Low pressure brought heavy snow and high winds to the Northern and Central Rockies. Snowfall totals in Colorado ranged up to 40 inches at Wolf Creek Pass, with 27 inches falling in 24 hours. Telluride CO received 32 inches of snow, and winds atop Mines Peak gusted to 95 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1999 Cuban refrugee Elian Gonzalez found off Florida coast. Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube off the coast near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The boy, his mother, stepfather, and eleven other Cubans had boarded a small boat in Cuba and attempted to cross the ocean to the U.S. Elian was one of three to survive (his mother and stepfather both drowned).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez_affair
2001 Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., said they created the world’s first cloned human embryo, which they let grow for just a few hours
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Cell_Technology
Births
1713 Junipero Serra, California Fraciscan missionary, (d 1784), Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain - present day California, United States, baptized more than 6,000 Indians in the nine missions he established. Fr. Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988 and given the title Blessed Fray Junípero Serra.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junípero_Serra
1784 Zachary Taylor (d 1850) 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass. Taylor was the last President to hold slaves while in office, and the last Whig to win a presidential election. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a forty-year military career in the United States Army, serving in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and the Second Seminole War. He achieved fame leading American troops to victory in the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican–American War. As president, Taylor angered many Southerners by taking a moderate stance on the issue of slavery. He urged settlers in New Mexico and California to bypass the territorial stage and draft constitutions for statehood, setting the stage for the Compromise of 1850. Taylor died just 16 months into his term, the third shortest tenure of any President. He is thought to have died of gastroenteritis. Only Presidents William Henry Harrison and James Garfield served less time. Taylor was succeeded by his Vice President, Millard Fillmore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor
1800 Henry Kemble Oliver, at Beverly, Massachusetts, composer, (d 12 Aug 1885)
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/o/l/oliver_hk.htm
1859 Cass Gilbert (d 1934) prominent American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums (Saint Louis Art Museum) and libraries (Saint Louis Public Library), state capitol buildings (the Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia State Capitols, for example) as well as public architectural icons like the United States Supreme Court building. His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was heir to Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism.[2] Gilbert's achievements were recognized in his lifetime; he served as president of the American Institute of Architects in 1908-09.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Gilbert
1863 Edwin Grant Conklin (d 1952) American biologist and embryologist. In 1905, when working with a small marine creature called a tunicate, Conklin made a striking observation: the contents of the tunicate egg weren’t uniform. Different parts of it were differently colored. When the mother egg began to divide, the new daughter cells that came from different colored areas became, as they split away, different types of tissue. The yellow stuff in the egg produced muscle cells, for instance, and the grayish stuff became the gut. Conklin also published a number of works on evolution, and he estimated he made a thousand public lectures interpreting evolution to religious and lay groups. He was a leading critic of society's response to advanced technology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Grant_Conklin
1872 Hermann Adam Bentrup, at California, Missouri, missionary to the deaf, (d 29 Oct 1948, Chattanooga, Tenn).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=d&word=DEAF
1868 Scott Joplin (d 1917) American composer and pianist. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin
1876 Walter Burley Griffin (d 1937) American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city. He has also been credited with the development of the L-shaped floor plan, the carport and the first use of reinforced concrete.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin
1877 Alben William Barkley (d 1956) American politician who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. Prior to the Vice Presidency, Barkley served in the U. S. Senate from Kentucky for over twenty years, and was Majority Leader of that body from 1937 to 1947.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alben_William_Barkley
1880 Martin Theodore Winkler, LCMS missionary to New Zealand, born in Stratmann, Saint Louis County, Missouri (d. 13 May 1942).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=n&word=NEWZEALAND
1888 Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnagey until 1922 and possibly somewhat later) (d 1955) American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, a biography of Abraham Lincoln entitled Lincoln the Unknown, and several other books. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's reaction to them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Breckenridge_Carnegie
1911 Kirby Grant (d 30 Oct 1985) was a long-time B movie and television actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series, Sky King. Grant was born as Kirby Grant Hoon, Jr., in Butte in Silver Bow County in southwestern Montana. He was a child prodigy violinist. He continued to study music and became a professional singer and bandleader. In 1939 the "Gateway to Hollywood" talent-search contest awarded him a movie contract. These "Gateway" contracts were already prepared with fictitious screen names (thus Josephine Cottle became "Gale Storm" and Ralph Bowman became "John Archer"; Grant won with Dorothy Howe, who became "Virginia Vale"). Grant's contract was made out to "Robert Stanton," and Grant used the pseudonym in his earliest films before adopting his first and middle names professionally.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Grant
1912 Lyle B. Borst (d 2002) American nuclear physicist who led the construction of the Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR), at Brookhaven National Laboratory. After work on the Manhattan Project in WW II. he organized about 1,300 scientists, and spoke before Congress to keep atomic research under civilian control, to avoid a worldwide nuclear arms race. In 1946, with Karl Morgan, he developed a film badge to measure worker exposure to fast neutrons. BGRR, completed in 1949, was the first reactor built solely to research peacetime uses of atomic energy. In its first year of operation, Borst announced the production of radioactive iodine suitable for treating thyroid cancer. In 1952, he explained how beryllium-7 from helium fusion triggers supernovae.
articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/13/local/me-passing13.3
1921 Robert L. Banks (d 1989) American chemist who co-discovered crystalline polypropylene polymer, with J. Paul Hogan. They were assigned by Phillips Petroleum, in 1946, to research ways to take the natural gas products propylene and ethylene and turn them into useful gasoline components. On 5 Jun 1951, their experiments using catalystsyielded polypropylene - now used in fibers for rope, indoor-outdoor carpeting and plastics. Banks and Hogan also found how to make a new high-density polyethylene which was more heat resistant than the previously existing polyethylene. Further, their catalysts produced the new polyethylene at only a few hundred psi pressure instead of the existing free radical process which required pressures of up to 30,000 psi.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Banks_(chemist)
1921 John Vliet Lindsay (d 2000) American politician, lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vliet_Lindsay
1921 Herbert Frank York American nuclear physicist whose scientific research in support of national defense began in 1943 when he began work at Oak Ridge, Tenn., on the electromagnetic separation of Uranium 235 as part of the Manhattan Project during WW II. In 1952, he became the first director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. He left in Mar 1958 to join the Department of Defense as chief scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and shortly became the Department of Defense's director of research and engineering (Dec 1958). He returned to the University of California in 1961 as chancellor and professor of physics. He was chief negotiator for the comprehensive test ban during the Carter administration.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Frank_York
1924 Victor Grinich (b 2000) pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Grinich
1925 William Frank Buckley, Jr. (d 2008) American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for extensive vocabulary. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to politics was the fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frank_Buckley,_Jr.
1926 Tsung Dao Lee Chinese-born American physicist who received (with Chen Ning Yang) the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for their "penetrating investigation" of violations of the principle of parity conservation (the quality of space reflection symmetry of subatomic particle interactions), which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles. Conservation of parity had previously been regarded as a "law" of nature. (Parity holds that the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system.) The theory was subsequently confirmed experimentally by Chien-Shiung Wu in observations of beta decay.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsung-Dao_Lee
1938 Oscar Palmer Robertson, in Charlotte, Tennessee, nicknamed "The Big O" or O-Train, is a former American NBA player with the Cincinnati Royals and the Milwaukee Bucks. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Robertson played the shooting guard/point guard position, and was a twelve-time All-Star, eleven-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in fourteen professional seasons. He is the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season. He was a key player on the team which brought the Bucks their only NBA championship in the 1970-71 NBA season. His playing career, especially during high school and college, was plagued by racism.
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1942 Max Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary for six years under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, making him one of the longest-serving press secretaries in history.
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1968 Todd Morgan Beamer (d 2001) passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who has been called a hero for his actions in the September 11 attacks.
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1531 Oecolampadius Today most Protestant churches, at least in the western world, take for granted that those who attend a church should have some say in how it is run. That hasn't always been so. Even when the Protestant Reformation began in the sixteenth century, Luther and other reformers thought that the church ought to be directed primarily by the clergy.
The first person to suggest otherwise was a little known reformer called Oecolampadius. (His real name was Hussgen. But in those days it was popular to change one's name into a classical language. "Hussgen" sounds like the German for house-shine, so he became "house lamp" in Greek.) Oecolampadius's suggestion that laymen be allowed a say in church affairs was shot down when he proposed it to the town council of Basle, Switzerland. However, other reformers, such as John Calvin and John Knox agreed with him, and so an important element of religious freedom was brought into the church.
Oecolampadius was a top-notch student of languages. The ground-breaking linguists of the day were Reuchlin and Erasmus. Oecolampadius studied with both. He even helped Erasmus edit and publish the New Testament in Greek which had such a profound effect on the rise of the Reformation.
One way a scholar could earn a little extra money in those days was to translate Greek books for the recently invented and hungry printing press. Oecolampadius translated writings of the Greek fathers. After the Reformation got rolling, he sided with the reformers. Despite weak health, he labored hard for reform in Switzerland.
In 1516, a year before Luther posted his famous theses, Ulrich Zwingli spearheaded a reformation movement in Zurich. He was still a Roman Catholic, but insisted on teaching through the Bible. Around 1523, Oecolampadius began a friendship with Zwingli and drifted away from the more conservative and timid Erasmus.
His relationship with Zwingli is often compared to the relationship of Melanchthon with Luther. A peaceful man, Oecolampadius was tolerant of differences in the Protestant beliefs about the Lord's Supper. He also rebuked harsher reformers for their abrasive behavior. He wrote to William Farel, "Your mission is to evangelize, not to curse. Prove yourself to be an evangelist, not a tyrannical legislator. Men want to be led, not driven." Reformation should be orderly, said Oecolampadius.
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1572 John Knox, in Edinburgh, Scottish preacher and reformer, (b. ca. 1514). a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews or possibly the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1536. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549.
While in exile, The Rev. John Knox was licensed to work in the Church of England, where he rose in the ranks to serve King Edward VI of England as a royal chaplain. He exerted a reforming influence on the text of the Book of Common Prayer. In England he met and married his first wife Marjorie. When Mary Tudor ascended the throne and re-established Roman Catholicism, Knox was forced to resign his position and leave the country. Knox moved to Geneva and then to Frankfurt. In Geneva he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and knowledge of Reformed theology and Presbyterian polity. He created a new order of service, which was eventually adopted by the reformed church in Scotland. He left Geneva to head the English refugee church in Frankfurt but he was forced to leave over differences concerning the liturgy, thus ending his association with the Church of England.
On his return to Scotland he led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Protestant nobility. The movement may be seen as a revolution, since it led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter Mary, Queen of Scots. Knox helped write the new confession of faith and the ecclesiastical order for the newly created reformed church, the Kirk. He continued to serve as the religious leader of the Protestants throughout Mary's reign. In several interviews with the Queen, Knox admonished her for supporting Catholic practices. When she was imprisoned for her alleged role in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, and King James VI enthroned in her stead, he openly called for her execution. He continued to preach until his final days.
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1781 The Reverend James Caldwell (b 1734) clergyman who played a prominent part in the American Revolution, graduated from the College of New Jersey (which later became Princeton University) in 1759 and, though he inherited 500 acres (2.0 km2) in Cub Creek, became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He was an active partisan on the side of the Patriots, and was known as the "soldier parson." His church and his house were burned by Loyalists in 1780. While Caldwell was stationed with the army in Morristown, his wife Hannah was killed by British gunfire under disputed circumstances during the Battle of Connecticut Farms in what is now Union Township. His wife had been at home with their baby and a 3 year old toddler. As the British moved into Connecticut Farms, Hannah Caldwell was shot through a window or wall as she sat with her children on a bed. Caldwell, who fought in the Battle of Springfield, was killed by an American sentry in Elizabethtown, New Jersey when he refused to have a package inspected. The sentry, James Morgan, was hanged for murder on January 29, 1782 in Westfield, New Jersey, amid rumors that he had been bribed to kill the chaplain. There were nine orphaned children of Hannah and James Caldwell, all of whom were raised by friends of the family.
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1807 Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (b 1743) Mohawk military and political leader who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. He was perhaps the most well-known North American Indian of his generation. He met many of the most significant people of the age, including George Washington and King George III.
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1864 Benjamin Silliman (b 1779) American geologist and chemist who founded the American Journal of Science and wielded a powerful influence in the development of science in the U.S. He was Yale's first professor of chemistry and natural history (1802). He is best known for researching the chemical composition of a meteorite that fell in 1807, his report being the first scientific account of any American meteor, showed that meteorites are made of materials that exist on the earth. The mineral sillimanite was named after Silliman. In 1811, while experimenting with the oxy-hydric blow-pipe, he reduced many minerals previously considered as elements. His son, also named Benjamin Silliman, became a chemist who recognized that petroleum could be distilled into separate fractions.
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1903 John Adam Detzer, an advisory pastor at the 1847 founding convention of the Missouri Synod, (b. 1817).
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1916 Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (b 1840) American-born prolific inventor best known for the Maxim machine gun. His first patent was for a hair-curling iron (1866), followed by a device for generating illuminating gas and a locomotive headlight. In 1878, he was hired as chief engineer of the United States Electric Lighting Company, the first such company in the United States. In that post he produced a basic invention, a method of manufacturing carbon filaments. In 1881 he exhibited an electric pressure regulator at the Paris Exposition. Among his hundreds of other patents in the U.S. and Great Britain are a mousetrap, an automatic sprinkling system, an automatic steam-powered water pump, vacuum pumps, engine governors, and gas motors.
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1943 Doris "Dorie" Miller (b 1919) a cook in the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US Navy at the time, after the Medal of Honor and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (today the Navy Cross precedes the Distinguished Service Medal).
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1948 Anna Marie Jarvis (b 1864) founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States.
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1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
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Christian Feast Days:
Andrew Dung-Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs
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Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic Church)
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Colman of Cloyne (Roman Catholic Church)
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Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church)
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Mercurius (Eastern Church)
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November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Feasts
Afterfeast of the Entry of the Theotkos (Great Feast)
Saints
Icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with scenes from her martyrdom.
Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305-313) [Russian usage]
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Saint Mastridia of Alexandria
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Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyruis Stateleates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (303-315)
Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (ca. 259)
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St. Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century)
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Venerable Romanus of Bordeaux (382) and Venerable Protasius, hermit of Auvergne (Gaul) (6th century)
St. Hermogenes, bishop of Agrigentum (ca. 824)
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Hieromartyr Clement, pope of Rome and Peter, archbishop of Alexandria [Greek usage]
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Stefan Dechanski, St.Mrata (Serbian Saint's day)
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1703 In Philadelphia, German born pastor and hymnwriter Justus Falckner, 31, became the first Lutheran clergyman to be ordained in America.
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1715 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn: G.B. No. 401 to "Thomas Masters, Planter of Pennsylvania, for an invention foundout by Sibylla his wife for cleaning and curing the indian Corn growing in several colonies in America. The first patent issued within the colonies was for a new method of extracting salt, granted to Samuel Winslow by Massachusetts in 1641.
1771 Methodist Francis Asbury (1745–1816) began preaching in America. For the next forty-five years, he was the main figure in establishing the Methodist Church in the United States.
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1783 At the end of the Revolutionary War, the last British troops left New York City Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in when the British troops in New York City departed from Manhattan. With American independence recognized by the Treaty of Paris, Britain began its withdrawal from what was now the United States. The departure of the British troops in 1783 was immediately followed by the triumphal return of General Washington to the city. Legend has it, however, that wounded British pride resulted in the nailing of a Union Jack to the flagpole in the Bowling Green at the southern tip of Manhattan and a greasing of the pole. After a number of men attempted to tear down the offending symbol of tyranny, a boy was able to remove it and replace it with the stars and stripes before the British fleet sailed out of sight.
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1812 Southwesterly winds of hurricane force sank ships and unroofed buildings at Philadelphia and New York City. (David Ludlum)
1817 First sword swallower in US performs (NYC) Sena Sama from Madras, Tamil Nadu, India was reported to be the first known sword swallower in America. Senaa Samma appeared at St. John's Hall in New York City in a lovely exhibition of juggling and sword swallowing. Admission to see the performance was $1 for adults. The newspaper account said that he swallowed "a sword manufactured by Mr. William Pye of New York as a substitute for the one lately stolen from him by some villain."
1834 Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides for 12 cents. The first printed American bill of fare is issued by New York's 5-year-old Delmonico's Restaurant at 494 Pearl Street and lists as one of its most expensive dishes "hamburger steak." The bill of fare (the word menu will not be coined until next year) offers a "regular dinner" at 12 cents and lists hamburger steak at 10 cents (the same price as roast chicken or ham and eggs; regular beef steak is only 4 cents, as are pork chops, corn beef and cabbage, pigs head and cabbage, and fried fish. Roast beef or veal, roast mutton, veal cutlet, or chicken stew are 5 cents).
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1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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1838 Canadian Sulpician missionary Franois Blanchet, 43, first arrived in the Oregon Territory. A native of Quebec, he spent 45 years planting churches in the American Northwest, and is remembered today as the "Apostle of Oregon."
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1863 The "battle above the clouds" was fought on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. Pre-frontal clouds obscured the upper battle- field aiding a Union victory . (David Ludlum)
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1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.The invention quickly proved its usefulness in building and construction in many countries. Production went hand-in-hand with research, energetically carried out at laboratories Nobel established in Stockholm and Hamburg and later also in Paris, at Bofors, and in San Remo. The original form of dynamite was gradually replaced by gelatin dynamite, which was safer to handle. In that development, too, Nobel played a major part.
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1880 In Montgomery, AL, more than 150 delegates from Baptist churches in 11 states met to form the Baptist Foreign Missions Convention of the United States. Liberian missionary William W. Colley was chief organizer, and the Rev. William H. McAlpine was elected the first president.
www.selmauniversity.org/history.htm
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1884 John B Meyenberg, a Swiss immigrant of St Louis patents evaporated milk. Gail Borden had already been marketing condensed milk, but that was sweetened as part of the preserving process. Evaporated milk is not sweetened, and has up to 75% of the water removed from the cow's milk. Meyenberg's process began by heating the milk with external steam heat, while being stirred, followed by cooling, straining, then condensing in vacuo, cooling further and sealing in hermetically sealed cans. The cans were sterilized by being turned in a frame inside a large steam heated cylinder
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1902 The state of Wisconsin granted a charter to the fraternal benefit society that became Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL).
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1906 The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
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1920 WTAW of College Station Tx broadcast first football play-by-play. The first radio play-by-play broadcast of a collegiate football game occurred on November 25, 1920. Texas University vs. Mechanical College of Texas was broadcasted by WTAW of College Station, TX. Some say the call letters WTAW were chosen to spell "Watch The Aggies Win".
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1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
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1940 World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
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1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
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1941 American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his "Secular Journal": 'Spiritual dryness is an acute experience of longing therefore of love.'
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1943 World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
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1944 World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
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1949 "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" hits the charts and becomes THE musical hit of the Christmas season. Although Gene Autry's rendition is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold.
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1950 The temperature at Chicago, IL, dipped to 2 below zero to equal their record for the month established on the 29th in 1872. On the first of the month that year Chicago established a record high for November with a reading of 81 degrees. (The Weather Channel)
1950 The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
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1950 "Harbor Lights" by Sammy Kaye topped the charts Kaye's radio show Sunday Serenade was a huge hit in the '40s and '50s. Kaye had many pop hits, some of them adapted for Broadway shows.The biggest-selling version of Harbor Lights was by the Sammy Kaye orchestra. The recording was released by Columbia Records. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 1, 1950 and lasted 25 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.
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1951 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1955 "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets hits #1 in Great Britain. "Rock Around the Clock" was one of the first hits of the Rock era. Billboard had been keeping a Top 40 chart for only a few months when this came out. It stayed at #1 for 8 weeks.The group released this in 1954 as the B-side of a novelty song called "Thirteen Women," which was about an atomic blast that leaves only 1 man and 13 women alive. It wasn't until a year later that it was re-released and became a hit. In the UK, this was the biggest-selling single of the '50s.
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1960 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland WA. In 1960, the first atomic reactor for research and development began operation at Richland, WA. The plant was built to determine the suitability of plutonium as a reactor fuel. There was a need to recycle plutonium resulting from weapons production. Plutonium-239 enriched uranium-235 was expected to give increased energy output, with less need for the expensive uranium-isotope separation facilities. The Hanford Atomic Products Operation was operated by the General Electric Company for the Atomic Energy Commission.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cousy
1961 "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean topped the charts. Jimmy Dean wrote this about fellow actor John Mentoe ("Destry Rides Again"), who was 6' 5" tall. According to Dean's roommate (at the time), the song was intended to be a joke. Floyd Cramer ("Last Date") was hired to play the piano on the recording, but wound up hitting a chunk of steel with a hammer instead. It was Floyd's idea to make the switch. This was a huge hit in the US. Not only did it top the Pop charts for 5 weeks, but it was also #1 on the Country charts for 2 weeks, and #1 Adult Contemporary for 10 weeks.
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1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting is broadcast live on television.
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1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
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1963 Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
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1966 New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
1969 Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
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1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cooper_(aircraft_hijacker)
1972 "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash topped the charts for 4 weeks late in 1972. Nash recorded this in London with members of The Average White Band. Bob Marley's Wailers were Nash's backing band on this. Nash's next, and final hit - "Stir It Up" - was written by Marley.
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1973 Maximum speed limits in the United States were cut to 55 mph by an act of Congress. The National Maximum Speed Law is a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that capped all speed limits at 55 mph. This cap was intended to conserve gasoline in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The law was modified in the late 1980s to allow 65 mph limits. In 1995 it was repealed, returning the power of setting speed limits to the states.
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1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
1975 Robert S. Ledley was granted a patent for "diagnostic X-ray systems" known as CAT-Scans. Ledley used ACTA to revolutionize diagnostic medicine. He was the first to do medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstructions and the first to use CT in radiation therapy planning for cancer patients and in the diagnosis of bone diseases.
Robert S. Ledley
1979 People's Republic of China joins International Olympic Committee. In 1979, during the IOC Session at Montevideo in April, and at the meting of the Executive Board held in Puerto Rico in June, the question of the recognition of the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) was the main point of the discussions. On 25th October 1979, the members of the Executive Board of the IOC meeting in Nagoya, Japan, adopted an official resolution. This resolution was approved on 25th November 1979 by the members of the IOC by means of a postal vote with 62 in favour, 17 against and 2 spoiled votes.
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1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
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1982 Hurricane Iwa lashed the Hawaiian Islands of Niihau, Kauai, and Oahu with high winds and surf. Winds gusting to 120 mph caused extensive shoreline damage. Damage totalled 150 million dollars on Kauai, and fifty million dollars on Oahu. The peak storm surge on the south shore was six to eight feet. It marked the first time in 25 years that Hawaii had been affected by a hurricane. (The Weather Channel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Iwa
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal. The Iran-Contra Affair involved several members of the Reagan Administration who in 1986 helped sell arms to Iran, an avowed enemy, and used the proceeds to fund the Contras, an anti-communist guerrilla organization in Nicaragua. US Attorney General Edwin Meese admitted on November 25 that profits from weapons sales to Iran were made available to assist the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra
1987 Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain in southern Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. Flooding was reported in Greene County of southwestern Missouri. Springfield MO was drenched with more than six inches of rain. Thunderstorms over southern Texas produced more than eight inches of rain in Caldwell County and Hayes County, and thunderstorms over south central Oklahoma produced one inch hail at Temple twice within an hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
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1988 Low pressure brought heavy snow and high winds to the Northern and Central Rockies. Snowfall totals in Colorado ranged up to 40 inches at Wolf Creek Pass, with 27 inches falling in 24 hours. Telluride CO received 32 inches of snow, and winds atop Mines Peak gusted to 95 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
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2001 Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., said they created the world’s first cloned human embryo, which they let grow for just a few hours
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1800 Henry Kemble Oliver, at Beverly, Massachusetts, composer, (d 12 Aug 1885)
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1872 Hermann Adam Bentrup, at California, Missouri, missionary to the deaf, (d 29 Oct 1948, Chattanooga, Tenn).
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1868 Scott Joplin (d 1917) American composer and pianist. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
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1880 Martin Theodore Winkler, LCMS missionary to New Zealand, born in Stratmann, Saint Louis County, Missouri (d. 13 May 1942).
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1911 Kirby Grant (d 30 Oct 1985) was a long-time B movie and television actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series, Sky King. Grant was born as Kirby Grant Hoon, Jr., in Butte in Silver Bow County in southwestern Montana. He was a child prodigy violinist. He continued to study music and became a professional singer and bandleader. In 1939 the "Gateway to Hollywood" talent-search contest awarded him a movie contract. These "Gateway" contracts were already prepared with fictitious screen names (thus Josephine Cottle became "Gale Storm" and Ralph Bowman became "John Archer"; Grant won with Dorothy Howe, who became "Virginia Vale"). Grant's contract was made out to "Robert Stanton," and Grant used the pseudonym in his earliest films before adopting his first and middle names professionally.
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1921 John Vliet Lindsay (d 2000) American politician, lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America.
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1924 Victor Grinich (b 2000) pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley.
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1925 William Frank Buckley, Jr. (d 2008) American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for extensive vocabulary. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to politics was the fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsung-Dao_Lee
1938 Oscar Palmer Robertson, in Charlotte, Tennessee, nicknamed "The Big O" or O-Train, is a former American NBA player with the Cincinnati Royals and the Milwaukee Bucks. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Robertson played the shooting guard/point guard position, and was a twelve-time All-Star, eleven-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in fourteen professional seasons. He is the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season. He was a key player on the team which brought the Bucks their only NBA championship in the 1970-71 NBA season. His playing career, especially during high school and college, was plagued by racism.
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1942 Max Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary for six years under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, making him one of the longest-serving press secretaries in history.
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1968 Todd Morgan Beamer (d 2001) passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who has been called a hero for his actions in the September 11 attacks.
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Deaths
The first person to suggest otherwise was a little known reformer called Oecolampadius. (His real name was Hussgen. But in those days it was popular to change one's name into a classical language. "Hussgen" sounds like the German for house-shine, so he became "house lamp" in Greek.) Oecolampadius's suggestion that laymen be allowed a say in church affairs was shot down when he proposed it to the town council of Basle, Switzerland. However, other reformers, such as John Calvin and John Knox agreed with him, and so an important element of religious freedom was brought into the church.
Oecolampadius was a top-notch student of languages. The ground-breaking linguists of the day were Reuchlin and Erasmus. Oecolampadius studied with both. He even helped Erasmus edit and publish the New Testament in Greek which had such a profound effect on the rise of the Reformation.
One way a scholar could earn a little extra money in those days was to translate Greek books for the recently invented and hungry printing press. Oecolampadius translated writings of the Greek fathers. After the Reformation got rolling, he sided with the reformers. Despite weak health, he labored hard for reform in Switzerland.
In 1516, a year before Luther posted his famous theses, Ulrich Zwingli spearheaded a reformation movement in Zurich. He was still a Roman Catholic, but insisted on teaching through the Bible. Around 1523, Oecolampadius began a friendship with Zwingli and drifted away from the more conservative and timid Erasmus.
His relationship with Zwingli is often compared to the relationship of Melanchthon with Luther. A peaceful man, Oecolampadius was tolerant of differences in the Protestant beliefs about the Lord's Supper. He also rebuked harsher reformers for their abrasive behavior. He wrote to William Farel, "Your mission is to evangelize, not to curse. Prove yourself to be an evangelist, not a tyrannical legislator. Men want to be led, not driven." Reformation should be orderly, said Oecolampadius.
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1572 John Knox, in Edinburgh, Scottish preacher and reformer, (b. ca. 1514). a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews or possibly the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1536. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549.
While in exile, The Rev. John Knox was licensed to work in the Church of England, where he rose in the ranks to serve King Edward VI of England as a royal chaplain. He exerted a reforming influence on the text of the Book of Common Prayer. In England he met and married his first wife Marjorie. When Mary Tudor ascended the throne and re-established Roman Catholicism, Knox was forced to resign his position and leave the country. Knox moved to Geneva and then to Frankfurt. In Geneva he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and knowledge of Reformed theology and Presbyterian polity. He created a new order of service, which was eventually adopted by the reformed church in Scotland. He left Geneva to head the English refugee church in Frankfurt but he was forced to leave over differences concerning the liturgy, thus ending his association with the Church of England.
On his return to Scotland he led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Protestant nobility. The movement may be seen as a revolution, since it led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter Mary, Queen of Scots. Knox helped write the new confession of faith and the ecclesiastical order for the newly created reformed church, the Kirk. He continued to serve as the religious leader of the Protestants throughout Mary's reign. In several interviews with the Queen, Knox admonished her for supporting Catholic practices. When she was imprisoned for her alleged role in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, and King James VI enthroned in her stead, he openly called for her execution. He continued to preach until his final days.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox
1781 The Reverend James Caldwell (b 1734) clergyman who played a prominent part in the American Revolution, graduated from the College of New Jersey (which later became Princeton University) in 1759 and, though he inherited 500 acres (2.0 km2) in Cub Creek, became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He was an active partisan on the side of the Patriots, and was known as the "soldier parson." His church and his house were burned by Loyalists in 1780. While Caldwell was stationed with the army in Morristown, his wife Hannah was killed by British gunfire under disputed circumstances during the Battle of Connecticut Farms in what is now Union Township. His wife had been at home with their baby and a 3 year old toddler. As the British moved into Connecticut Farms, Hannah Caldwell was shot through a window or wall as she sat with her children on a bed. Caldwell, who fought in the Battle of Springfield, was killed by an American sentry in Elizabethtown, New Jersey when he refused to have a package inspected. The sentry, James Morgan, was hanged for murder on January 29, 1782 in Westfield, New Jersey, amid rumors that he had been bribed to kill the chaplain. There were nine orphaned children of Hannah and James Caldwell, all of whom were raised by friends of the family.
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1807 Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (b 1743) Mohawk military and political leader who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. He was perhaps the most well-known North American Indian of his generation. He met many of the most significant people of the age, including George Washington and King George III.
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1903 John Adam Detzer, an advisory pastor at the 1847 founding convention of the Missouri Synod, (b. 1817).
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Stevens_Maxim
1943 Doris "Dorie" Miller (b 1919) a cook in the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US Navy at the time, after the Medal of Honor and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (today the Navy Cross precedes the Distinguished Service Medal).
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1948 Anna Marie Jarvis (b 1864) founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Marie_Jarvis
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
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Christian Feast Days:
Andrew Dung-Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs
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Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic Church)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Chrysogonus
Colman of Cloyne (Roman Catholic Church)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm%C3%A1n_of_Cloyne
Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavian_of_Ricina
Mercurius (Eastern Church)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mercurius
November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
www.christopherklitou.com/saints_24th_november.htm
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Entry of the Theotkos (Great Feast)
Saints
Icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with scenes from her martyrdom.
Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305-313) [Russian usage]
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Saint Mastridia of Alexandria
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www.christopherklitou.com/saints_24th_november.htm
Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyruis Stateleates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (303-315)
Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (ca. 259)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mercurius
St. Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malchus_of_Syria
Venerable Romanus of Bordeaux (382) and Venerable Protasius, hermit of Auvergne (Gaul) (6th century)
St. Hermogenes, bishop of Agrigentum (ca. 824)
www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3746
Hieromartyr Clement, pope of Rome and Peter, archbishop of Alexandria [Greek usage]
www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=894
www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5376
Stefan Dechanski, St.Mrata (Serbian Saint's day)
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