On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 21:
1495 John Bale England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1694 Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, thinker
1729 Josiah Bartlett US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence)
1785 William Beaumont surgeon (studied digestion)
1787 Sir Samuel Cunard founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
1817 Richard B Garnett Brig Gen, killed during Pickett's charge
1828 William McComb Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918
1831 John Franklin Miller Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1854 Benedict XV 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22)
1888 Adolph Arthur “Harpo” Marx, American comedian
1904 Coleman Hawkins virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
1907 Charles Korvin Piestany Hungary, actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools)
1907 Jim Bishop author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1908 Franz Pfnor Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1916 Sid Luckman NFL QB (Chicago Bears)
1920 Ralph Meeker actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
1920 Stan "The Man" Musial outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
1921 Vivian Blaine Newark NJ, actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy)
1932 Jim Ringo NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
1933 Henry Hartsfield Jr Birmingham AL, astro (STS-4, STS 41-D, STS 61A)
1933 Jean Shepard Pauls Valley OK, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1937 Marlo Thomas Detroit MI, actress,[Mrs Phil Donahue](That Girl!, Jenny)
1939 Richard Lenz Springfield IL, actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John)
1940 Natalia Maskarova Lenningrad, ballerina (Kirov) defected 1970
1941 Juliet Mills London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII)
1942 Tweety Bird, cartoon character, born.
1943 Larry Mahan Oregon, rodeo champ (1967-70)
1944 Earl "the Pearl" Monroe Philadelphia PA, NGA Guard (NY Knicks, Baltimore Bullets)
1945 Goldie Hawn Takoma Park MD, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin)
1950 Alberto Juantorena Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976)
1961 Nadia Comaneci [Gheorghe] Romania, gymnast (1st 10/Olympic-gold-1976)
1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent Oak Park IL, Miss America (1991)
1975 Cherie Johnson Pittsburgh PA, actress (Cherie-Punky Brewster)
Deaths which occurred on November 21:
1555 Georgius Agricola mineralogist, dies in Germany at 61
1624 Jakob Bohme German philosophical mystic, dies
1899 Garret Augustus Hobart 24th VP, died
1916 Franz Josef of Austria, dies
1941 Juanita Spellini first woman executed in California
1958 Mel Ott NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49
1959 Max Baer US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49
1982 Lee Patrick actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75
1987 James E Folsom (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1991 David "Sonny" Werblin AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81
1993 Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian), dies of prostate cancer at 59
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
21-Nov-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Gary B. Coleman Balad (near) - Salah ad Din Non-hostile - vehicle accident (drowning)
Afghanistan
11/21/04 O'Neill, Michael C. Sergeant 22 Army 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Non-Hostile - injury Landstuhl Reg. Med. Center
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1620 Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the "Mayflower Compact," designed to bolster unity among the settlers
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1783 Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
(Right where God put it.)
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign into Tennessee begins
1864 Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1917 Maxim Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1917 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
1921 1st mid-air refueling done by hand over Long Beach on a Curtiss JN-4
1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1945 Last residents of the US Japanese-American internment left their camps
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1970 U.S. Army Special Forces raided the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but found no prisoners.
The Son Tay Raid
http://www.psywarrior.com/sontay.html 1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1977 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1986 The Justice Department begins an inquiry into the National Security Council into what will become known as the Iran-Contra scandal.
1989 A law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris
1992 Oregon Sen Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
1995 Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
1995 China jailed well-known dissident Wei Jing-sheng and charged him with trying to overthrow the government.
2000 In a setback for George W. Bush, the Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going; Democrats were jubilant, Republicans bitter and angry.
2000 Pres. Clinton agreed not to punish China for exporting missile components to Iran and Pakistan after China promised to end future technological cooperations with countries seeking to develop missile weaponry
2002 Robert A. Caro wins the National Book Awards non-fiction award for "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson;"
2003 Air Force conducts a 2nd test of the "Mother of All Bombs," officially the Massive Ordnance Air Blast
(Moab Ut. protests the name, Tip o the hat Rev. Bob)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Day of Lulkukan (Mayan holiday).
North Carolina : Ratification Day (1789)
US : National Children's Book Week Begins
US : Farm City Week (day 1)
False Confession Day
World Hello Day....Hello
International Doll Collectors Month
Religious Observances
Orthodox : Feast of St Michael the Archangel (11/8 OS)
RC : Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Religious History
1638 A General Assembly at Glasgow abolished the episcopal form of church government, adopted the presbyterian form in its place, and gave final constitution to the Church of Scotland.
1852 Union Institute was chartered by the Methodists in Randolph County, NC. Renamed Trinity College in 1859, the campus moved to Durham in 1892. Tobacco magnate James B. Duke endowed the school with $40 million in 1924, upon which its name was changed to Duke University.
1907 Birth of Jim Bishop, American journalist. He gave new life to great historical moments through his "day" books, including his 1957 chronicle of "The Day Christ Died."
1943 German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter: 'A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.'
1948 The Sunday morning religious program "Lamp Unto My Feet" first aired over CBS television. It became one of TV's longest_running network shows, and aired through January 1979.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Blind driver's 167mph record
A blind father of two has claimed a new world land speed record by reaching 167.32mph in a specially-made BMW M5.
Mike Newman, 43, from Sale, Cheshire, was hoping to become the first blind person to break the 200mph barrier.
But he ran out of room on the track at Elvington Airfield, near York, and had to settle for breaking his previous record of 144mph.
He said: "Hopefully I have raised awareness ahead of World Sight Day and shown that you can achieve anything you want."
Event organisers said the record was set after the average speed was taken from two runs.
Mr Newman hoped to break the 200mph barrier but was thwarted as he ran out of room on the track. He said: "It has been a wonderful day."
The record has to be officially confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records.
John Galloway, who helped organise the record attempt, said: "This is a marvellous achievement.
"Mike drove totally unassisted. It is a fantastic achievement and has been one of the most emotional days of my life."
Thought for the day :
"The better is the enemy of good."
Voltaire