On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 22:
1511 Erasmus Reinhold Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64)
1805 Benjamin Hugur Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1819 George Eliot England, novelist (Silas Marner)
1808 Thomas Cook founder Cook travel bureau
1818 Samuel Gibbs French Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1835 Frank C Armstrong Brig Gen (Cavalry Commander under Forrest)
1856 Heber J Grant Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church
1857 George Gissing English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 John Nance Garner (D) 32nd VP (1933-41) "worst damn fool mistake I ever made"
1888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
1890 Charles de Gaulle Lille France, President of France (1958-69)
1898 Wiley Post Grand Plain TX, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1899 Hoagy Carmichael Bloomington IN, actor/songwriter (Stardust)
1905 James Burnham philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1912 Doris Duke NYC, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress)
1913 Benjamin Britten Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera)
1918 Claiborne Pell (Sen-D-RI)
1921 Rodney Dangerfield Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School)
1922 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1924 Geraldine Page Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
1925 Gunther Schuller NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation)
1928 Juno Stover-Irwin US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956)
1930 Owen K Garriott Enid, Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9)
1932 Robert Vaughn NYC, actor (Napoleon Solo-Man from UNCLE, Battle Beyond the Stars)
1935 Ludmila Belousova Protopopov USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1940 And now for something completely different Terry Gilliam Minneapolis, comedy writer-animator (Monty Python)
1942 Guion S Bluford Jr Philadelphia PA, Col USAF/astr (STS 8, STS 61A, STS 39)
1943 Billie Jean King Cal, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75)
1949 "Miami" Steve Van Zandt rocker
1950 Greg Luzinski baseball player (Phillies, White Sox)
1958 Jamie Lee Curtis Los Angeles CA, actress (Halloween, True Lies)
(Jamie, you never call, you never write. Did that night mean so little to you? Oh I feel so cheap and used!)
1961 Mariel Hemingway Ketchum Id, actress (Manhattan, Personal Best)
1966 Nicholas Rowe London England, actor (Young Sherlock Holmes)
1973 USAF_SSgt Assembled out of old F-4, C-123, and P-38 parts!
Father reported to say "GOD! Look at the head on that one!
"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left." ~Jerry M. Wright
Deaths which occurred on November 22:
0950 Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies
1594 Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral/explorer, dies
1718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach English pirate, dies off Virginia coast
1825 Ann Bailey pioneer, dies
1871 Oscar J Dunn (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1902 Friedrich A Krupp cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1900 Arthur S Sullivan England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58
1943 Lorenz Hart lyricist, dies in NY
1944 Arthur S Eddington dies
1963 Aldous Huxley English novelist. ("Brave New World" )
1963 C.S.Lewis English novelist/essayist. ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.", "Mere Christianity")
1963 John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas (by Lee Harvey Oswald, or the CIA, Mafia, Nazi space aliens)
1980 Mae West dies at her Hollywood residence at 87
1982 Burton Turkus lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80
1983 Michael Conrad actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58
1992 Sterling Holloway, US actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), dies at 87
1998 Dariush Forouhar Iranian (outspoken critics of the Islamic government) and his wife Parvenah murdered
(In 2000 former agents of the Intelligence Ministry confessed to playing roles in the 1998 killings)
2001 Mary Kay Ash (b.1918), founder of the Mary Kay cosmetics firm
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
22-Nov-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Robert D. Roberts Baghdad (nr int'l airport) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Private 1st Class Damian S. Bushart Baghdad (nr int'l airport) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
22-Nov-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Michael R. Cohen Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Blain M. Ebert Baghdad (SW part) Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0365 [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1221 Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.html 1675 English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 The opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)
1861 Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers shot to death
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1915 Battle of Ctesiphon, Iraq. Turks (under General Nur-ud-Din) defeat British (under General Sir Charles Townshend)
1917 National Hockey Association disbands
1917 NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, TorontArenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs
1917 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president of Poland
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisc)
http://www.eliason-snowmobile.com/ 1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly, in Paris
1930 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, CA, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1942 Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.
1942 Gen-major Rodins 26th Panzer corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1950 Lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons (19), Minneapolis Lakers (18)
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1957 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
1959 Boston Patriots enter the AFL
1959 NY Titans (AFL) 1st draft choice (George Izo, QB, Notre Dame)
1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles
1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album
1972 Pittsburgh Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2m7s)
1974 UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1981 San Diego Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon
1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1993 Mexico's Senate approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
2000 While the nation waited to see who would be the next president, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that hand count of the state's presidential ballots could continue. The Republicans had sought to block the recount, brought on by ballot questions in some counties.
2001 The Turkey Parliament formally recognized men and women as equals effective Jan 1.
2004 Ruling Fatah party chose Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority
(Meet the new boss...same as the old boss)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Guinea : Portugese Aggression Anniversary
Lebanon : Independence Day (1943)
US : National Children's Book Week (day 2)
(Children's Books that never made it
You Are Different and That's Bad
The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables
Dad's New Wife Bruce
Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share
Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book
Some Kittens Can Fly.
The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way
Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games
US : Thanksgiving (Thursday)
US : Start Your Own Country Day (Valonia. I LIKE the sound of that)
US : Moms and Dads Day
Arab : Id ai-Adha
Norse Winter Festival.
National Epilepsy Awareness Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Memorial of St Cecilia, virgin/martyr/music patron
Religious History
1220 Pope Honorius III (pope from 1216) crowned Holy Roman Emperor Frederick in St. Peter's, on the promise that Frederick would uphold the rights of the Church, and promote a crusade.
1633 Irish Catholic Cecil Calvert, 27, sent two ships (the Ark and the Dove) from Ireland to establish a colony in America as a refuge for fellow Catholics. His work later earned Lord Calvert the nickname, "Colonizer of Maryland."
1849 Austin College was chartered in Texas at Huntsville under Presbyterian sponsorship. In 1876 the school campus was moved to Sherman, TX.
1873 American lawyer Horatio G. Spafford's four daughters drowned when their passenger ship, while crossing the Atlantic, collided with another and sank. The following month, as his own ship passed over the spot of the earlier tragedy, Spafford penned the words to the enduring hymn, "It is Well With My Soul."
1963 Death of C.S. Lewis, 65, Anglican scholar, novelist and Christian apologist. Well_known for his children's classic, "The Chronicles of Narnia" (1950_56), Lewis also penned other Christian classics, including "The Screwtape Letters" (1943) and "The Great Divorce" (1946).
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Man Hit in Head by Train for Second Time
Nov 21, 11:22 PM (ET)
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - A man who was struck in the head by a train this weekend was also hit in the head by a New York City subway car three years ago, officials said Monday.
Parker T. Hall Houghtaling, of Stanfordville, 23, was hit in the head Nov. 18 by a Metro-North train as it pulled into the Poughkeepsie station. He was listed in stable condition Monday.
In 2002, Houghtaling was waiting at a subway station in Manhattan when he stuck his head out and was hit by a subway car. He was hospitalized with a shoulder injury, nose fractures and bruises, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
It was unclear Monday what led to either incident.
MTA police are continuing an investigation, Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.
(Now I could be wrong, but I think someone is trying to tell Mr. Houghtaling something.)
Thought for the day :
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
C. S. Lewis