On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 30:
0538 St Gregory of Tours chronicler/bishop
1466 Andrea Doria Genoese statesman/admiral
1554 Philip Sidney England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1667 Jonathan Swift Engl, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
1793 Johann Lukas Schonlein helped establish scientific medicine
1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester rifle maker (Winchester)
http://www.famousamericans.net/oliverfisherwinchester/
1817 Theodor Mommsen Germany, historian/writer (Nobel 1902)
1835 Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1863 Andres Bonifacio leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1874 Sir Winston Churchill (C) British PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1894 Ture Rangstrom Stockholm Sweden, composer/critic (Kronbruden)
1898 Roy (Link) Lyman NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1907 Jacques Barzun France, author (The House of Interlect)
1912 Gordon Parks film director/photographer/writer (Learning Tree)
1915 Henry Taube chemist (Nobel 1983)
1920 Virginia Mayo St Louis MO, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1923 Efrem Zimbalist Jr actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)
1924 Allan Sherman parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah)
1924 Shirley Chisholm (D-Rep-NY), 1st black congresswoman/presidential candidate
1926 Richard Crenna Los Angeles CA, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)
1927 Robert Guillaume St Louis MO, actor (Benson, Soap)
1928 Rex Reason Berlin Germany, actor (This Island Earth)
1930 G Gordon Liddy Watergate felon, radio talk-show host
1931 Jack Ging Alva Ok, actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo)
1031 Davey Jones rocker (Monkees-Daydream Believer, Last Train To Clarksville, I'm A Believer)
1931 Jack Sheldon Jacksonville FL, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin)
1936 Abbie Hoffman aka Free, Yippie-communist/activist/author (Steal this Book)
1937 Paul Stookey Baltimore MD, singer (Peter, Paul & Mary-Wedding Song)
1937 Richard Threlkeld newscaster (ABC-TV)
1939 Walter Weller Vienna Austria, conductor (Vienna Tonkusteler Orchestra)
1947 David Mamet US playwright/director (Speed the Plow, House of Games)
1949 Arthur Lee Washington Jr one of FBI's most wanted
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/fugitive/fo/washington.htm
Or
http://www.nolledge.com/board.html
1950 Paul Westphal NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns)
1951 Dian Parkinson TV model (Price is Right)
1952 Mandy Patinkin actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation)
1953 Shuggie (Johnny) Otis, Jr. (blues musician)
1954 June Pointer singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1962 Bo Jackson baseball/football player (Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Raiders)
Deaths which occurred on November 30:
0030 BC Cleopatra Egyptian queen commits suicide(made an asp of herself)
1016 Edmund II Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies
1694 Marcello Malpighi father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1900 Oscar Wilde Irish author, dies in Paris
1964 Don Redman orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1973 Bruce Yarnell Los Angeles CA, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1979 Zeppo Marx dies at 78
1981 Robert H Harris actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at 72
1987 Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1990 Norman Cousins editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1996 Tiny Tim singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), dies at 64
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
30-Nov-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Pablo A. Calderon Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Jose Guereca Jr. Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0306 St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1523 Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1554 England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice die this month of plague
1648 English army captures King Charles I
1678 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
(Well that certainly was nice of them. )
1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande02.html 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
1866 Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1887 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco
1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio
1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
1940 1st game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
1941 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1954 1st meteorite ( 8 lb ) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga AL)
1958 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1959 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1961 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership
1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1967 Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"
1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
1975 Dahomey becomes Benin
1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1981 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1982 US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea (I SAID LEFT!)
1983 Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hopelessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1983 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 years
1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
(Question: Is this a bad thing?)
1990 Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
1991 93 cars & 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1996 150,000 people filled the streets of Belgrade to protest Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1999 The opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police.
2000 Al Gore's lawyers battled for his political survival in the Florida and U.S. supreme courts; meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W. Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of electors.
(You remember Algore? Sure you do, he used to be someone.)
2002 FReeper Canteen started, Soon taken over by a bunch of ruffians, scamps, hellions, minxs, pixies, and all the worst sort of people. (Examples 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, LaDivaLoca, tomkow6, I COULD name more names but I see no reason to encourage them and this kind of....sordid behaivor). You know, the kind of people your mother warned you about....ie conservatives (HORROR!). YES, conservatives having fun, right out there in public in front of god and everything,(shudder) where this will go I don't know, but I (and all right thinking Americans) am.......apprehensive.
2004 Ken Jennings ended his winning streak on Jeapardy when he missed a question on H&R Block. His winnings had reached $2,520,700.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Barbados : Independence Day (1966)
Benin : National Day
Iran : Qadir Khom Festival
Philippines : Bonifacio Day/Heroes' Day (1863)
Upper Volta : Youth Day.
Yemen PDR : Independence Day (1967)
US : Travelers With Disabilities Awareness Week Begins
US : Stay Home Because You're Well Day
Intergalactic AZbushgal day
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip!
Stay At Home Because Your Well Day
International Creative Child & Adult Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Advent-start of church year (4 Sundays till Christmas)
RC, Luth, Ang-NZ : Feast of St Andrews Day, patron of Scotland
Religious History
1215 The Fourth Lateran Council closed, under Innocent III. It was this council that made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to the Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
1530 German reformer Martin Luther remarked: 'Whenever I happen to be prevented by the press of duties from observing my hour of prayer, the entire day is bad for me.'
1554 Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England, under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the process, "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.
1729 Birth of Samuel Seabury, first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. (Following the American Revolution, Seabury helped formulate the constitution which made the American Protestant Episcopal Church independent and autonomous from the Church of England.)
1894 In Naperville, Illinois, seven groups of the Evangelical Association withdrew from the organization to form the United Evangelical Church. (In 1922 the two denominations reunited.)
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
VIKING MARTHA STEWART?
She cooked everything -- including food!
By WILLIAM STEWART
NUUK, Greenland -- While doing historical research in Greenland, archaeologist James Grande made an extraordinary find.
"I was excavating an old Viking settlement when I unearthed a well preserved edda," said Grande, "a collection of poems. Written around 1100 AD, they speak of a Viking woman named Brunhilda Stewardde who was raised to godlike status for her sumptuous meals and visual flair."
Brunhilda Stewardde was responsible for inventing most of the look that defined the Vikings.
"The horned hats, the furs, the decor of the castle -- they were all Stewardde's ideas," said Grande. "According to the edda, she was just a hardworking Viking housewife who hated the idea of wasting the pelts, antlers and teeth of animals after they had been stripped of meat."
To interest Vikings in the goods she designed, Stewardde began throwing lavish feasts.
"Before Stewardde, the Vikings were content to eat simple slabs of cooked meat," Grande said. "Once she took charge they were feasting on roast boar stuffed with lamb, lamb stuffed with roast boar, duck garnished with blood -- we're not sure whose -- and many other extravagant dishes."
The edda said that profits from Stewardde's activities helped to found the first colony in Greenland. Unfortunately, Stewardde was accused by the Viking Chief Gregos of hoarding extra gold from their raids.
"She was imprisoned for a year in Gregos' dungeon," Grande said. "But because of her contribution to Viking cuisine she was treated very well and after serving her term was once again revered by her people.
"Stewardde was so popular, in fact, that her initials came to stand for any famous Viking who managed to steal and lie and still come out on top," Grande said.
Thought for the day :
"He was a bold man that first eat on oyster."
Jonathan Swift
