On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 23:
0912 Otto I (the Great) German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
1221 Alfonso X (the Wise) king of Castile & Leon (1252)
1553 Prospero Alpini Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
1749 Edward Rutledge (Gov-SC) signed Declaration of Independence
1804 Franklin Pierce 14th President (1853-1857)
1837 Javan der Waals Holland, physicist (Cont of Liquid & Gaseous States)
1859 Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], criminal (or so some say)
1883 Jose Clemente Orozco Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New World)
1887 Boris Karloff [William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein)
1888 Harpo Marx [Adolph] NYC, actor/comedian (Marx brothers)
1894 Ture Persson Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912)
1903 Victor Jory actor (Gone with the Wind, Papillon, Dodge City)
1917 George O'Hanlon Brooklyn NY, actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson)
1917 Michael Gough Malaya, actor (Search for the Nile)
1920 Paul Celan Romanian poet (Collected Prose)
1926 Don Gordon Los Angeles CA, actor (Prentiss-Lucan)
1928 Jerry Bock US, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof)
1931 Yevgeni Grischin USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60)
1933 Hayes Jenkins US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 Krzysztof Penderecki Debica Poland, composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
1935 Vladislav N Volkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
1938 Oscar Robertson NBA guard (Cin, Milwaukee, Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 Gosta Pettersson Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1943 Andrew Goodman civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1945 Steve Landesberg Bronx NY, comedian/actor (Barney Miller)
1951 David Rappaport London England, 3'11" actor (Wizard, Time Bandits)
1958 David Wallace Miami, actor (General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus)
1959 Maxwell Caulfield Derbyshire England, actor (Miles-The Colbys)
Deaths which occurred on November 23:
0615 Columbanus, Irish explorer/monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies (aka St. Columba)
1457 Ladislaus V (posthumus), king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17
1499 Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged
(He posed as Richard of York, Edward V's younger brother (and co-prisoner in the Tower of London); Warbeck's support came from the continent, and after repeated invasion attempts, Henry had him imprisoned and executed)
1902 Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies
1910 Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, hanged
1914 Elbrige Gerry VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
1962 Gloria Gordon actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
1972 Marie Wilson actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56
1973 Paul Newlan actor (Capt Grey-M Squad)
1973 Sessue Hayakawa (83), actor (Bridge Over the River Kwai), died
1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
1979 Merle Oberon actress (Cathy- Wuthering Heights), dies at 68
1982 Rev Grady Nutt actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47
1990 Bo Diaz catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish, at 37
1990 Roald Dahl British short story writer, dies at 74
1991 Freddie Mercury lead singer of Queen, dies of aids at 46
1991 Klaus Kinski, actor (Android, Nosferatu, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65
1992 Roy Acuff, country singer "The Great Speckled Bird" "Wabash Cannonball" / publisher Acuff-Rose age 89.
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
23-Nov-2003 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Chief Warrant Officer (CW2) Christopher G. Nason Btwn. Mosul & Dihok - Ninawa Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Corporal Darrell L. Smith Al Iskandariyah (near) - Babil Non-hostile - vehicle accident (drowning)
US Staff Sergeant Eddie E. Menyweather Ba’qubah (near) - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Rel A. Ravago IV Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire
US Command Sergeant Major Jerry L. Wilson Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire
23-Nov-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Benjamin C. Edinger Bethesda Naval Hosp., MD Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1165 Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
1531 Peace of Kappel ended the second civil war in Switzerland
1584 English parliament expells the Jesuits
1765 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1785 John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY
1848 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30'
1863 Battle of Chattanooga begins
1864 Battle at Ball's Ferry, Georgia
(Uncle Billys tour of Georgia)
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/civil_war/mid_ga/balls_ferry_toomsboro_area.html 1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1876 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, named minister of Haiti
1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1909 7.17" of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record)
1921 Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1930 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
1932 The kingdoms of Nejd and Hejaz merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud.
1936 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese
1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended
1947 Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)
1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back
1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"
1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson
1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1982 NY Islanders & Minnesota North Stars play to an 8-8 tie
1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1988 South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six
1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1991 Evander Hollyfield retains HW boxing title, KOs Bert Cooper in 7
1992 The United States lowered its flag over the last American base in the Philippines, ending nearly a century of military presence in its former colony.
2000 In a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade county officials to resume hand-counting election-day ballots. Meanwhile, Gore's lawyers argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the high court should stay out of the Florida election controversy.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Japan : Labor Day/Thanksgiving
Maryland : Repudiation Day (1765)
Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival
US : Thanksgiving (Thursday)
US : Adoption Week
National Cashew Day
You're Welcome Day
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Religious Observances
RC : Solemnity of Christ the King
RC, Ang, Luth : Memorial of St Clement I, 4th pope (c 88-97) (opt)
RC : Memorial of St Columban, Irish monk, abbot (opt)
Religious History
1654 French mathematician Blaise Pascal, 31, underwent a profound religious conversion. He thereupon abandoned his study of science, having realized that "the Christian religion obliges us to live only for God, and to have no other aim than him."
1729 German_born John Philip Boehm, 46, was formally ordained a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. Boehm had previously come to America in 1720, where he began organizing religious services among German Reformed immigrants in Pennsylvania.
1742 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Two things I would earnestly recommend to your constant study: the book of God, and your own heart. These two, well understood, will make you an able minister of the New Testament.'
1947 E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered the previous winter (1946_47) by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran.
1970 Pope Paul VI issued a decree barring cardinals over the age of 80 from voting for a new pope.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
KIM JONG IL WANTS TO APPEAR ON AMERICAN IDOL
By NICK JEFFREYS
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Il will do anything -- even promise to destroy his beloved nukes -- to perform on hit American TV show American Idol, say insiders.
"Mr. Il has always been convinced he has the finest singing voice in the world," says a source close to the deranged dictator, who is notorious for ruthlessly running his country as a Stalinist police state.
"He makes no secret of it, either. He drives us nuts with Elvis imitations and show-tunes. Oh, God in Heaven, it's enough to make you want to stab yourself. Of course we tell him his singing is incredible. The last man stupid enough to tell him he was off key was deported to South Korea. By air. Without a parachute."
Kim Jong Il is sure that American Idol producers will let him on the show if he promises to destroy his weapons of mass destruction.
Explains the source, "Mr. Il says: 'Americans are so very naive. They will believe anything.' "
Kim Jong plans to perform his favorite tune as a tribute to himself -- "I'm So Pretty" from West Side Story.
"Mr. Il believes even that snooty British guy Simon will be so moved he'll weep after his emotional rendition, which he'll accompany with graceful dance moves.
"He thinks he'll win by a landslide. Of course, all North Korean citizens will be expected to call in and vote for him or they'll be introduced to the sport of chuteless sky-diving."
Thought for the day :
In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head."
Guy Davenport