On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 25:
1562 Lope Felix de Vega Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia)
1835 Andrew Carnegie steel industrialist/library builder
1846 Carry Nation scourge of barkeepers & drinkers
1881 John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
1893 Robert Ripley illustrator (Believe it or Not)
1895 Anastas I Mikoyan Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
1895 Wilhelm Kempff Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern)
1896 Virgil Thomson Kansas City MO, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts)
1900 Helen Gahagan Douglas Nixon's 1st opponent
1902 Eddie Shore Boston Bruins (#2), hall of famer
1914 Joe DiMaggio Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)
1919 Steve Brodie Eldorado KS, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1920 Ricardo Montalban actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
1925 Jeffrey Hunter Orleans La, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage)
1929 Jack Hogan Chapel Hill NC, actor (Combat, Adam 12, Sierra)
1933 Lenny Moore NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
1933 Rene Enriquez San Francisco CA, actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues)
1935 Gloria Steinem Toledo Ohio, femnist/writer (Ms)
1938 Charles Starkweather serial murderer,
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/starkweather/index_1.html
1939 Martin Feldstein economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal)
1940 Richard Furrer Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1942 Tracey Walter Jersey City NJ, actor (Best of the West)
1944 Ben Stein actor, writer, gameshow host
1947 John Larroquette New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court)
1956 Liana Vicens Puerto Rico, 100m breaststroke (Olympics 1968)
1960 Amy Grant gospel singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby)
1960 John F Kennedy Jr lawyer, son of JFK
1961 Amy Gibson actress (General Hospital)
1966 Stacy Lattislaw disco singer (Million Dollar Baby)
1967 Curtis Baldwin Los Angeles CA, actor (Calvin-227)
1971 Christine Applegate Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children)
Deaths which occurred on November 25:
1240 Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/Saint, dies
1504 Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castille & Aragon (1474-1504)
1885 Thomas A Hendricks 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office
1943 Edward H "Butch" O'Hare, US pilot/lt-comdr (Chicago Airport named for him), dies in battle
1944 Kenesaw Landis baseball commisioner, dies
1949 Luther "Bill" Robinson famed tap dancer, dies at 71
1958 Charles F Kettering invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
1964 Clarence Kolb actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90
1968 Phil Lord actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89
1973 Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison
1974 U Thant UN Secretary-General (1961-72), dies age 65
1977 Richard Carlson actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65
1981 Jack Albertson actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74
1982 Robert Coote actor, dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73
1986 Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
1987 Harold Washington 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
1990 Bill Vukovich Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
1991 Bill Graham rock promoter, dies
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
25-Nov-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Gentian Marku Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Jeffery Scott Holmes Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - grenade
US Private 1st Class Ryan J. Cantafio Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
11/25/01 Spann, Johnny Michael CIA (age)32 US CIA Counterterrorism Center, Central Intelligence Agency Hostile Mazar-e Sharif
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
1357 Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1580 French Huguenots & Catholics sign peace treaty
1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1758 Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1766 Pope Clement XIII warns On the dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US
1817 1st sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1834 Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1863 Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springfield, IL
1913 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House
1914 German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans' 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.(Now THIS is a quagmire!)
1920 WTAW of College Station, TX, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1930 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1934 German theologian Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1940 U of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's #98
1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea.
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL
1951 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1952 Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery,
1967 Cloudburst over Lisbon kills 450
1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1969 John Lennon returns his MBE
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
1975 Federal jury finds ex-Manson groupie, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, guilty of attempted assassination of President Ford
1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
1976 OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1977 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins
1978 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1988 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1990 NFL's NY Giants & San Francisco 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 & L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
2000 Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin.
2001 Taliban troops near Mazar-e-Sharif staged a prison revolt and hundreds were reported killed.
2003 The US Commerce Dept. reports profits at American companies rose 30% in the 3rd quarter compared to a year earlier
(OMG! HOW DARE THEY! Making money...this just sicken's me. At the same time homeless people are being starved to death, little children are being thrown out into snowbanks. Karl Rove going around stealing grandma's dogfood so she has nothing to eat.)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Surinam : Independence Day (1975)
Mass : John F Kennedy Day (1963) (Sunday)
US : Day after Thanksgiving Day
US : Lefotver Week Begins
US : Farm City Week (Day 6)
National Parfait Day
Buy Nothing Day
Native American Heritage Month
Religious Observances
Ang : Commemoration of James Otis Sargent Huntington
RC : St Catherine, patron of maidens/mechanics/philosophers
Luth : Commemoration of Isaac Watts, hymn writer
Religious History
2348 _BC_ According to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began on this date.
1742 In New York, David Brainerd, 24, was approved as a missionary to the New England Indians by the Scottish Society for the Propagating of Christian Knowledge (SPCK). Brainerd worked heroically from Apr 1743 to Nov 1746, before advancing tuberculosis forced him to relinquish his work. (He died in October 1747.)
1807 Anglican missionary Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'With thee, O my God, there is no disappointment; I shall never have to regret that I loved thee too well.'
1820 English poet and Oxford Movement leader John Keble, 28, penned the words to the hymn, "Sun of My Soul" ("Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near....").
1864 British Jewish statesman Benjamin Disraeli declared in a speech: 'Man is a being born to believe, and if no church comes forward with all the title deeds of truth, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Boffins crack beer goggles
By Nick Buchan
November 25, 2005
SCIENTISTS have figured out why alcohol makes ugly people seem more attractive - otherwise known as the "beer goggles" effect.
Far from being a simple matter of how much you have to drink, the researchers have devised a complex formula which takes into account the level of light in the pub or club, the drinkers' own eyesight, the smokiness of the room and the distance between two people.
A phenomenon which has caught out millions of people over the years, the beer goggles effect refers to how having too much to drink can make someone you find repulsive suddenly exude all the charms and allure of a supermodel.
While getting intimate with the person may seem like a good idea at the time, it's only the morning after when you realise that the Angelina Jolie superbabe you hooked up with the night before actually resembles Margaret Thatcher in the cold harsh light of day.
And while many of us have worn beer goggles over the years, no-one has ever worked out exactly why alcohol has this strange effect on our judgement.
Until now.
"The beer goggles effect isn't solely dependent on how much alcohol a person consumes, there are other influencing factors at play too," said Professor Nathan Efron, Professor of Clinical Optometry at the University of Manchester. Amazingly, scientists now believe you don't even need to have had an alcoholic drink to suffer from the beer goggles effect.
"The formula shows for example, that a person with poor vision who's talking to someone in a very smoky bar will be experiencing a beer goggles effect close to someone who has consumed eight pints in a smoke-free and well-lit room."
The formula can work out a final score to measure the effect.
A score of less than 1 means no beer goggle effect - an ugly person remains ugly.
A score of 1-50 means a slight beer goggle effect - making a person you would normally find very unattractive slightly less "visually offensive".
A moderate beer goggle effect is indicated by a score of between 50-100- a person who is by no means appealing becomes suddenly sexually attractive.
A score of more than 100 indicates a severe beer goggle effect - the "fugly" you were talking to an hour ago now looks like Kylie Minogue or George Clooney.
For example, someone with normal vision who has drunk five pints of beer and see someone 1.5 metres away in a fairly smoky and poorly lit room will score 55, which means that they would suffer from a moderate beer goggle effect.
Increasing beer consumption to eight pints (2.8 litres) increases that score of 140, leading to a severe beer goggle effect.''
The research was carried out by an eyewear firm, which surveyed more than 1000 members of a speed dating club.
The poll showed 68 per cent of respondents had woken up the next morning regretting giving their number to somebody who they later realised they weren't attracted to.
Thought for the day :
"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."
Andrew Carnegie
