11/24
Allen Drugge
Famous people born on this date...
1632 Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
1784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
1818 David Hayes Agnew, surgeon who attended Pres Garfield when shot
1819 William Rogers, cleric, know as "Hang theology Rogers"
1853 William "Bat" Masterson, gambler, frontier lawman, and sportswriter
1864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, French post-impressionist painter
1868 Scott Joplin, originator of Ragtime music who wrote "The
Entertainer"
1888 Cathleen Nesbit, actor, "Desiree," "Family Plot," "Thieves'
Carnival," "Never Never Land," "The Door With Seven Locks,"
"The Agitator," "Nicholas Nickleby"
1908 Ray Carter, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1911 Kirby Grant, actor, "Sky King"
1912 Garson Kanin, writer, "One Hell of an Actor," "Smash," "True Glory"
1913 Geraldine Fitzgerald, actor, "The Strange affair of Uncle Harry,"
"The Pawnbroker," "Arthur," "So Evil My Love," "The Ace of Spades"
1913 Howard Duff, actor, portrayed Sam Spade on ABC radio '46-'51,
"Panic in the City," "Spy Hunt," "Models Inc.," "The Naked City"
1922 Charles Schultz, Peanuts Creator
1925 William F. Buckley, Jr., right-wing curmudgeion
1942 Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary (George Bush), novelist "Esther's
Pillow"
1951 Donald "Duck" Dunn, musician, group: Booker T and the MG's
1945 Lee Michaels, singer/songwriter, "Do You Know What I Mean?"
1946 Ted Bundy, serial killer
1963 Lisa Howard, actor, "Days of Our Life," "Rolling Vengeance"
Events on this day in history...
166bc Origin of Era of Maccabees
496 Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
642 Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1504 Queen Isabella dies, Spain
1542 The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss, England
1572 John Knox dies, Scottish Presbyterian founder
1639 1st observation of transit of Venus occurred (only 2, record event)
1642 Tasmania discovered
1759 Destructive eruption of Mt Vesuvius
1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1863 Battle of Lookout Mtn
1864 1864 Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack
a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls
1874 Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
1880 French steamer UNCLE JOSEPH collides off Spezzia, Greece, 250
killed
1922 Staircase to Tuts tomb uncovered, 16 steps in all, allowing proper
examination of sealed doorway
1927 Troops battle 1,200 inmates after Folsom prisoners revolt
1938 Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas
1939 In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are
accused of anti-Nazi plotting
1943 USS LISCOME BAY, aircraft carrier, lost
1944 US bombers based on Saipan 1st attack Tokyo
1947 Writers, producers & dirs knows as the "Hollywood Ten" cited for
contempt of Congress
1949 The Iron and Steel Act nationalizes the steel industry in Britain
1954 1st US Presidental airplane christened
1961 The UN adopts bans on nuclear arms over American protest
1962 James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
1963 1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 Buddhists repudiate S Viet govt, demand release of demonstrators
1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog
1967 Cambodia 'hermetically sealed' the border to all US journalists
1969 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty ratified by Nixon & Podgorny
1969 Hershey stopped selling the nickel chocolate bar
1971 D.B. Cooper parachutes from Northwest flt #305 w/ $200k
1979 US government admits that 1000s of US troops were exposed to Agent
Orange in Vietnam
1980 Ronald Reagan Jr. marries Dorian Palmeiri
1980 George Raft dies, 85
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1990 Fir Island dike collapses, Skagit County, WA
1991 Freddy Mercury dies, 'Queen'; Eric Carr dies, drummer for 'Kiss'
1991 Radiation leak shuts down small research reactor-Reed College
1991 Cyndi Lauper is married in Manhattan to actor David Thornton
1992 Curtis Sliwas, Guardian Angel, admits he fabricated his own
kidnapping
1992 UN report details torture, persecution & murder in Burma
1992 US naval base at Subic bay closed, Philippines
1993 Salman Rushdie, author of "Satanic Verses," visits the White House
1993 Blues great Albert Collins dies
1993 Seattle PI reports human corpses used in car crash tests in Germany
1993 2d date for the end of the world according to White Brotherhood,
Kiev
1994 Judge Calabrese invites media to televise execution, Cleveland
1994 2 die at MTV european music awards broadcast, Gdansk, Poland
1994 'Willie' the Brydes whale freed from Manning R., Australia
1995 John Lennon prints go on display, Charlotte, NC
1995 Public sector workers walk off the job, France
1995 Bill Gate's book "The Road Ahead" released
1995 Nintendo unveils the 1st 64-bit game machine
1995 'Holy dollar' auctions off for $36,000, Spanish silver coin
1997 TV set makers ask FCC to give them more time to install the V-chip
in sets
1997 Ira Wolfert dies at 89, writer, "Tucker's People"
1998 Oxygen Media teams w/ Oprah, ABC & AOL to form 24-hr womens cable
network to be integrated w/ Oxygen's online site for women
1998 90mph winds blows roofs off bldgs and knocks out power to 300k,
Portland, OR
1999 Jewish mystics pray for rain, Israel
1999 Pichincha volcano spews ash, closes airport, Quito
1999 Dali Lama in Israel
2001 Tornado hits central MS, destroying homes and causing injuries
2002 Graceland reverses its earlier decision to severe its support
of festivals featuring clones of the 'King'
2002 3.9 quake jolts the Bay area
2003 'Snowflake' the rare albino gorilla dies of skin cancer, Barcelona
Zoo
2003 Michael Jackson launches website to proclaim innocence
Diversions
1913 New movies: "All for Science," "Traffic in Souls," "Back to Live,"
"Fatty Joins the Force"
1939 New movies: "The Secret of Dr. Kildare," "That's Right -
You're Wrong"
1947 John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" published
1952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens, Ambassador theatre, London
1959 New movie: "Ben-Hur"
1961 Howlin' Wolf arrives in London for his first European tour
1967 New movies: "Traffic Trouble," "Tarzan and the Mountains of
the Moon"
1989 New Movie: "Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie"
1993 New movies: "We're Back!, a Dinosaur's Story," "A Perfect World,"
"Mrs. Doubtfire," "Puppet Master 4," "Josh & Sam," "The Trial"
1995 Clint Eastwood CD-Rom goes on sale
1995 New movies: "The Stranger," "Devotion"
1999 New movies: "Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation," "End of Days,"
"Rapscallions," "Felicia's Journey," "Flawless," "Ride with
the Devil," "Donkey Kong 64"
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