On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 15:
1397 Nicholas V pope (1447-55); ended schism, founded Vatican Library
1708 William Pitt the Elder (Whig) UK PM (1756-61, 66-68) `Great Commoner'
1738 Sir William Herschel astronomer (discovered Uranus)
1814 Pleasant Adam Hackleman Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1815 John Banvard NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2003/panorama/new_001.htm
1816 Joseph Bennett Plummer Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1882 Felix Frankfurter Vienna Austria, US supreme court justice (1939-62)
1886 Pedro Sanjuan San Sebastian, Spain, composer (Castilla)
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe Sun Prairie WI, painter (Cow's Skull)
1887 Marianne Moore St Louis, poet (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems)
1891 Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1891 W Averell Harriman US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1907 Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel
1914 Jorge Bolet Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)
1919 Carol Bruce Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian Carlson-WKRP)
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner La, judge (People's Court)
1925 Howard Baker (Sen-R-TN), presidential chief of staff
1929 Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor, mindless moron (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1932 Petula Clark England, singer (Downtown, My Love)
1933 Jack Burns Boston MA, comedian (Burns & Schreiber)
1937 Yaphet Kotto NYC, actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe)
1939 Thalmus Rasulala [Jack Crowder], Miami FL, actor (Blacula, Roots)
1940 Sam Waterston Cambridge MA, actor (Law & Order, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate)
1945 Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad [Fryeda Anderson] Sweden, rocker (ABBA)
1946 Janet Lennon Culver City CA, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1952 "Macho Man" Randy Savage Sarasota FL, [Poffo], wrestler (WWF/SMW/ICW)
1953 Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko Russian cosmonaut
1968 Brenda Alyce Bassett Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips 9th in sucession to British throne
Deaths which occurred on November 15:
0565 Justitianus I, [Petrus Sabbatius], Byzantine emperor (527-65), dies
1280 Albertus Magnus German scholar, dies at 87
1630 Johann Kepler German astronomer, dies at 58
1902 Leopold II King of Belgium assassinated by Italian anarchist
(This guy was a real piece of work. What with killing a couple of million Congolese, plundering the place 6 ways to Sunday, and "doing" every woman he could get his hands on.)
http://www.who2.com/kingleopoldii.html 1954 Lionel Barrymore [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
1958 Tyrone Power actor, dies of a heart attack at 44
1963 Fritz Reiner conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at 74
1978 Margaret Mead anthropologist, dies in NY at 76
1983 John LeMesurier actor, dies at 71
1984 Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center
1985 Spencer W Kimball US head of Mormon chuch, dies at 90
1994 James Winston Watts (90), developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, died.
(I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy)
(Well someone had to say it!)
1996 Alger Hiss, former State Department official, spy, died in New York just four days after his 92nd birthday
1998 Kwame Ture, the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57.
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
15-Nov-2003 19 | US: 18 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
IT Caporale Pietro Petrucci Al Sabah Hospital Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Private 1st Class Joey D. Whitener Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Captain Pierre E. Piche Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Private 1st Class Richard W. Hafer Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Specialist Jeremiah J. DiGiovanni Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Private 1st Class Damian L. Heidelberg Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Chief Warrant Officer (CW2) Scott A. Saboe Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant John W. Russell Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant 1st Class Kelly Bolor Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US 2nd Lieutenant Jeremy L. Wolfe Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Specialist John R. Sullivan Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Chief Warrant Officer Erik C. Kesterson Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Private 1st Class Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Specialist Eugene A. Uhl III Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant Warren S. Hansen Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Specialist William D. Dusenbery Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Specialist Ryan T. Baker Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant Michael D. Acklin II Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant Timothy L. Hayslett Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
15-Nov-2004 12 | US: 12 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal William L. Miller Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Lance M. Thompson Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Antoine D. Smith Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Captain Patrick Marc M. Rapicault Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal James E. Swain Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Rafael Peralta Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Jeramy A. Ailes Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Marc T. Ryan Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - explosion
US Lance Corporal Shane E. Kielion Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Bradley L. Parker Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Travis R. Desiato Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Private 1st Class Isaiah R. Hunt Baghdad Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
1315 Swiss soldiers ambush and slaughter invading Austrians in the battle of Morgarten.
1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1533 The "explorer" Francisco Pizarro enters Cuzco, Peru
1626 The Pilgrim Fathers, who have settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors
1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to the Netherlands
1763 Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 The Articles of Confederation, instituting perpetual union of the United States of America, are adopted by Congress
1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes 1st issue
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak. Called "The Long One" by Ute Indians
http://klesinger.com/jbp/zpike.html 1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1845 The opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1864 Sherman burns Atlanta
1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1884 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin
1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal
1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection
1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
1926 NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1935 Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated
1937 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1941 German siege of Sevastopol began
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
1950 1st Negro player in organized hockey-Arthur Dorrington signed
1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/abel/abel.htm 1959 Richard Hickock & Perry Smith kill Clutters ("In Cold Blood")
1960 The first submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina.
1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
1965 In the second day of combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia drang Valley
1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 Gemini XII returns to Earth
1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War
1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indecent language in Tampa, FL
1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1976 A Syrian "peace force" takes control of Beirut, Lebanon
1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
1988 PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence....(for now)
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 President Bush signs the Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1990 The "Keating Five"--Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.; Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.; John Glenn, D-Ohio; John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Donald Riegle, D-Mich.--maintained their innocence at the opening of Senate hearings into charges of influence peddling on behalf of S&L kingpin Charles Keating.
1991 A federal appeals panel threw out former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter's felony convictions in the Iran-Contra affair, saying his immunized testimony to Congress was improperly used against him.
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 games
2001 Day 40 of the attack on Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden’s Brigade 055 dispersed into the mountains of Afghanistan. US planes struck Taliban positions outside Kunduz, where as many as 20,000 Taliban fighters gathered. Kandahar went under siege by opposition forces. Jalalabad was reported to be under Yunis Khalis of the Northern Alliance. Mullah Omar in a BBC radio interview warned of a larger strategy: the “destruction of America.”
(I guess at this point you're suppoesed to be quakeing in fear)
2001 Two al-Qaeda computers were acquired by a Wall Street journalist in Kabul for $1,100 following US bombing. They were found to contain over 1,750 text and video files of al Qaeda activities including weapons programs. One file contained the names of 170 al Qaeda members.
2003 In Turkey twin car bombs exploded outside Istanbul synagogues filled with worshippers during Sabbath prayers, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 300. 14 Muslims were killed. 6 Jews were killed at Beth Israel.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Belgium : King's Day
Brazil : Republic Day (1889)
Japan : 7-5-3 Festival Day (parents give thanks for girls 7 and 3 and boys 5 and 3)
West Germany : Repentance Day (Wednesday)
US : American Enterprise Day
US : Doublespeak Day (otherwise known as John Kerry Day)
US : Holidays Are Pickle Days (thru 12-31)
Clean Your Refrigerator Day
One Nation Under God Month
Religious Observances
Christian : St Leopold
RC : Mem of St Albert the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor (opt)
Religious History
1626 The original Mayflower "pilgrims" (Separatists), having lived in their American colony for six years, bought out their London investors for 1,800 pounds.
1760 Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Our love to Him is the proof and measure of what we know of His love to us.'
1804 Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Corruption always begins the day, but morning prayer never fails to set my mind in a right frame.'
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.'
1957 Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III officially established the Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, former Syrian Orthodox metropolitan of Jerusalem, was appointed primate of the new archdiocese, and soon after took up residence in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
"To smoke, or not to smoke..
Nov 14, 1:17 PM (ET)
ROME (Reuters) - A stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theater to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.
"This had never happened to me in more than 300 performances," the actor, Sebastiano Lo Monaco, was quoted as saying by the Web site of Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Italy has banned lighting up in all enclosed public places since January this year.
Lo Monaco was smoking, in line with the script, while playing the main character Sunday in Miller's "A View from the Bridge" at a theater in the northeastern city of Mestre, when a woman from the audience shouted "Put out that cigarette."
After a 15-minute suspension, the performance resumed with a modified script and a non-smoking protagonist.
Thought for the day :
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia O'Keeffe