Today in History

Nov 4th Birthdays:
1879
Will Rogers- humorist
1916
Walter Cronkite- award winning U.S. journalist/ news anchor of CBS Evening News from 1962-1981
His nickname was 'Uncle Walter' most trusted news anchor for yrs
1925
Doris Roberts- actress best known TV roles' Mildred Krebs' on NBC detective show' Remington Steele' 'Marie Barone'on CBS sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond, she played Ray's mom
1937
Loretta Swit- actress best known TV role 'Major Margaret' Hot Lips' Houlihan' on CBS show 'M*A*S*H
1950
Charles Frazier- novelist' Cold Mountain'
Deaths:
1847
Felix Mendlessohn- German composer/ pianist 38
1955
CY Young- Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher, had most wins in MLB history 511.The Best Pitcher award is named in his honor 88
2008
Michael Crichton- author 'Jurrasic Park, Congo,Andromenia Strain, creator of TV show' ER 66
2015
Melissa Mathesion- screenwriter{ET,Extra Terrestrial} 66 {cancer}
 

On This Day In History, November 5th

2009 13 killed at Fort Hood, Texas
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.

2007 China's first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit
The Chang'e 1, an unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft sent the first pictures of the Moon on November 26.

2003 Green Valley Killer pleads guilty
Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer also known as the Green Valley Killer pleads guilty to killing 48 women in the 1980s and 1990s.

1995 Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister
André Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

1943 Vatican City bombed
Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of the Vatican during the Second World War
 
Births On This Day, November 5th 🎂

1960 Tilda Swinton
English actress

1959 Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

1948 Bob Barr
American politician

1941 Art Garfunkel
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor

1931 Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

Deaths On This Day, November 5th 🪦

2010 Antonio Cárdenas Guillén
Mexican drug lord, co-leader

1982 E. H. Carr
English historian, theorist

1979 Al Capp
American cartoonist

1956 Art Tatum
American pianist

1879 James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist
 

1895
George B. Selden granted patent for gasoline driven car
1925
British secret agent, Sidney Reilly{Ace of Spies} was executed by secret Russian police in a forest near Moscow
1956
debut of The Nat King Cole variety show hosted by singer/ pianist Nat King Cole on NBC. He was the 1st African American to host a show.It ran for 15 min, had 64 episodes, got rave reviews from the critics
1974
Ella Grasso became the 1st woman governor of Conn,,she served from 1975-1980. She resigned when diagnosed with ovarian cancer
2017
U.S. female marathon runner, Shalane Flangan won the NYC marathon,1st time since 1977
 
Nov 5th Birthdays:
1900
Natalie Shaffer- actress best known TV role' Mrs Lovey Howell' on CBS sitcom' Gilligan's Island'
1943
Sam Shepard-actor/playwright 'Frances, Crimes of the Heart
1947
Peter Noone- lead singer with British 60's band' Herman's Hermits 'I'm Into Something Good, Mrs Brown You Have a Lovely Daughter','I'm Henry the 8th I Am'
1959
Bryan Adams- Canadian singer/ songwriter 'Heaven,Run To You,Everything I Do, I Do For You'
1963
Andrea MacArdle- actress/singer, orginated the role of' Annie' on Broadway in 1977,age 12
with a powerful voice, youngest performer nominated for Tony-lost
Deaths:
1942
George M.Cohan- actor/ singer 'Give My Regards to Broadway' 64
1956
Art Tatum- jazz pianist 47
1977
Guy Lombardo- Canadian orchestra leader'Auld Lang Syne" 65
1991
Fred Mac Murray- actor, The Apartment, Double Indemnity', best known TV role' widower, 'Steve Douglas' on CBS sitcom,'My Three Sons' 60-'72 83
2005
John Fowles- British novelist' French Lieutenant's Woman' 79
 
On This Day In History, November 6th

1999 Australians reject a referendum to become a republic with a president as its head
The referendum was held to amend the Australian constitution, which would make the country a republic with a president as its head. If the referendum has passed the British monarchy would no longer have been a constitutional monarchy.

1985 Palace of Justice is Seized in Colombia
25 guerrillas from the 19th of April Movement or the M-19 took over the Palace of Justice which houses the Colombian Supreme Court. They took 300 people hostage. The ensuing fight between the rebels and the government's forces left more than 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court justices dead.

1962 United Nations passes resolution to condemn Apartheid in South Africa
The UN General Assembly asked its member states to stand up against apartheid and to cut off relations with South Africa in order to make a point. Apartheid was an official policy of racial discrimination and segregation followed in South Africa. Despite the UN Resolution, it remained governmental policy until 1994, when democratic general elections were held in the country.

1947 Meet the Press makes its TV debut
The longest-running TV news show was first hosted by journalist and creator Martha Rountree and aired on NBC.

1861 Jefferson Davis was elected as president of the Confederate States of America
The senator from Mississippi was the provisional president of the Confederacy since February 1861. Despite being an effective president, his popularity waned as the Confederate government experienced losses during the Civil War. He was captured by Northern Soldiers in 1865 and imprisoned for 2 years.
 
Births On This Day, November 6 🎂

1988 Emma Stone
American actress

1987 Ana Ivanovic
Serbian tennis player

1970 Ethan Hawke
American actor, director, screenwriter

1949 Joseph C. Wilson
American diplomat

1814 Adolphe Sax
Belgian musician invented the saxophone

Deaths On This Day, November 6th 🪦

2004 Fred Dibnah
English steeplejack

1991 Gene Tierney
American actress

1960 Erich Raeder
German Admiral

1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer

1836 Charles X of France
 
Holidays and Events on This Day, November 6th 🍹🌴

All Saints' Day- Norway

Anniversary of the Green March- Morocco

Constitution Day- Dominican Republic, Tajikistan

Daylight Saving Time ends- Cuba, Bermuda, Bahamas, Canada, Saint Pierre, and Miquelon, USA

Full Moon Day of Tazaungmone- Myanmar
 
6 November 1975
The Sex Pistols play their first show at St. Martin's School of Art in London. The performance lasted about 10 minutes.
Why 10 minutes?
They were the opening act, before the main act, Bazooka Joe.
The Sex Pistols arrived for soundcheck with only guitars and no equipment, which had not arrived.
They borrowed Bazooka Joe's amps and drums.
A couple of songs into the set the Sex Pistols began smashing the equipment they had borrowed from Bazooka Joe.,

Rather than sit back and watch their gear get destroyed, Bazooka Joe's guitarist Danny Kleinman did something about it:
“I got a bit irate about it and ran in and manhandled Johnny Rotten a bit just to stop him kicking our cabinets.”

“It was like one of those school-playground kind of fights,” stated Paul Madden, a photographer who attended the show.
“The antagonism had been building up all afternoon, mainly due to the fact that the Pistols had borrowed Bazooka Joe's equipment. Their attitude was so snotty that Bazooka Joe had said, ‘Get your own amplifiers.’"

Even though Johnny Rotten admitted there “was not a single handclap” following the Sex Pistols' debut performance, the gig served notice: The wild punks were arriving, and with them came an antiestablishment attitude that would eventually help cement the group as one of rock’s most influential artists.
 
@Bretrick, did you go to that concert? Or any of the Sex Pistols? I recall the group and their antics, but in the late 70's I was a responsible mother. I never did develop a liking for hard rock, but my son and daughter made sure I heard all the hits in their teen years coming from their rooms. AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Guns N Roses, Ozzie Osborne, yikes! See? It stuck with me even now. ;)
 
Right Now said:
@Bretrick, did you go to that concert? Or any of the Sex Pistols? I recall the group and their antics, but in the late 70's I was a responsible mother. I never did develop a liking for hard rock, but my son and daughter made sure I heard all the hits in their teen years coming from their rooms. AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Guns N Roses, Ozzie Osborne, yikes! See? It stuck with me even now. ;)
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Never been to any live concert. Grew up in a small town in Tasmania.
I do not like punk/heavy metal either.
 
1879
Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1947
debut of NBC"s "Meet The Press' an public affairs/ interview program.It was created by Martha Roundtree,Lawrence Spivak,orignates from Washington,DC. Its the longest running network show on the air The current moderator is NBC's Chuck Todd
1969
The 1st CY Young Award for the best pitcher in Major League Baseball was given out.It was a tie between Baltimore Oriole's pitcher, Mike Cuellar, Detroit Tiger's pitcher, Denny MacLaine Since then both American&National League win the award
1996
movie' The English Patient' based on book by Michael Ondaatje directed by Anthony Minghella is released. The story of a man{Ralph Fiennes} badly burned in a WWII plane crash in African desert . A Canadian nurse{Juliette Binoche} takes care of him in abandoned monastary in Italy,slowly learned about his life. other cast members: Kristen Scott Thomas, Colin Firth,Willem DeFoe. The movie won 9 Oscars inc pic/director, supp actress{Binoche}
2012
Tammy Duckworth became the 1st disabled woman elected to U.S.Senate representing Illinois. She was co piloting Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq when it was hit, she lost part of her right leg by the hip,her left leg,won Purple Heart
 
Nov 6th Birthdays:
1814
Adolphe Sax- Belguim musician/inventor of the saxaphone
1854
John Phillip Sousa- composer/March king' Stars&Stripes Forever'
1946
Sally Field- actress best known TV role' 'Sister Bertille' in sitcom' The Flying Nun/movies:
Forrest Gump, Norma Rae, Places in the Heart, Murphy's Romance, Lincoln, Mrs Doubtfire,she has 2 Best Actress Oscars for Rae, Heart
1969
Colin Whitehead- novelist' The Underground Railroad'
1988
Emma Stone- actress "The Help, La La Land, The Amazing Spiderman, Birdman, Crazy Stupid Love, won Best Actress Oscar "La la Land
Deaths:
1893
Pytor Tchaikovsky- Russian composer '1812 Overture, Swan Lake, Nutcracker' 53
1991
Gene Tierney- actress 'Laura, The Razor's Edge 70
 
On This Day In History, November 7th

1987 Coup in Tunisia
In a bloodless coup in Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took over the Presidentship of Tunisia from President Habib Bourguiba.

1947 Coup in Thailand
The military staged a coup against Thawan Thamrong Nawasawat and installed Khuang Aphaiwong as Prime Minister.

1917 October Revolution
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, took over the winter palace and ended the rule of the post-Tsarist provisional government, and transferred all powers to the communists in Russia

1916 First woman to be elected to US Congress
Jeannette Rankin from Montana became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1869 First inter-city cycle race
The first city-to-city cycle race was held between Paris and Rouen. James Moore, an Englishman living in Paris at that time won the race.
 
Births On This Day, November 7th 🎂

1952 David Petraeus
American military officer, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1943 Joni Mitchell
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist

1913 Albert Camus
French author, journalist, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate

1888 C. V. Raman
Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1867 Marie Curie
Polish chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day, November 7th 🪦

2011 Joe Frazier
American boxer

1980 Steve McQueen
American actor

1962 Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, humanitarian, 34th First Lady of the United States

1913 Alfred Russel Wallace
Welsh/English geographer, biologist, explorer

644 Umar
Islamic caliph
 
Holidays and Events on This Day, November 7th 🍹🌴

All Saints' Day- Colombia

Day off for Constitution Day- Tajikistan, Tonga

Days of History and Memory of Ancestors- Kyrgyzstan

Fateha-i-Yajdaham- Bangladesh

Full Moon Day of Tazaungmone Holiday- Myanmar
 
1786
The Stouton Musical Society,oldest musical organization in the U. S. was founded in Boston,Mass
1874
political cartoonist, Thomas Nast's cartoon depicting an elephant becomes the symbol of the U.S. Republican Party is published
1943
the last score less tie in NFL happened Detroit Lions, vs NY Giants 0-0
1990
Mary Robinson is elected as the 1st female President of Ireland 1990-1997
2018
world's oldest figurative painting of a beast around 40,000yrs old is identified at Lubang Jerji Saleh cave in Indonesia Borneo
 
Nov 7th Birthdays:
1867
Marie Curie- French scientist who discovered radium,1st woman to win Nobel Prize
1918
Billy Graham- U.S. Baptist evangelist, considered one of the 20th century's influential Christian leaders
1943
Joni Mitchell- Canadian singer/ songwriter 'Both Sides Now, Free Man In Paris, Help,Me'
1957
Christopher Knight- actor, best known TV role' Peter Brady' in sitcom 'The Brady Bunch'
Deaths:
1908
Butch Cassidy- American outlaw/train&bank robber 42,killed by Bolivan soldiers movie 'Butch Cassidy&The Sundance Kid' based on his life
1980
Steve Mc Queen- actor 'Thomas Crown Affair, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape 50{heart attack after surgery}
2004
Howard Keel actor/singer 'Seven Brides fro Seven Brothers, Kiss Me Kate' 87
2016
Janet Reno -1st woman U.S Atty General 1993-2001 78
 
On This Day In History, November 8th

1972 Home Box Office launched
The premium TV channel, informally known as HBO, is the oldest paid TV channel in the United States. The first program to screen on the channel was Sometimes a Great Notion, a movie starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.

1971 Coup in Thailand
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn staged a coup against his own government and dismissed the parliament citing increasing communist influence.

1939 Assassination attempt on Hitler
Johann Georg Elser, a German woodworker, attempted to kill Adolf Hilter and other high-ranking members of the Nazi party during the 16th-anniversary observances of the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup attempt by Hitler in 1923. The time bomb Elser used in a beer hall called Bürgerbräukeller in Munich went off but failed to kill Hitler. Elser was caught and imprisoned in Dachau for 5 years.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch
On this day, Adolf Hitler and other members of the Nazi party attempted to overthrow the current government by marching to Berlin. They started the march at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich. The coup attempt was eventually unsuccessful and Hitler was captured and imprisoned for 2 years.

1895 First person to observe X-rays
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays, also sometimes called Röntgen rays while working on cathode rays. X-rays are a type of electromagnetic radiation that is often used today in medicine. Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery.
 

Births On This Day, November 8th 🎂

1986 Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer, activist

1966 Gordon Ramsay
Scottish chef, television host

1961 Micky Adams
English footballer, manager

1927 Nguyen Khanh
Vietnamese general, politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam

1900 Margaret Mitchell
American author

Deaths On This Day, November 8th 🪦

1986 Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union

1965 Dorothy Kilgallen
American journalist

1953 Ivan Bunin
Russian author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate

1887 Doc Holliday
American gambler, dentist

1674 John Milton
English poet
 
Holidays and Events on This Day, November 8th 🍹🌴

Days of History and Memory of Ancestors Holiday- Kyrgyzstan

Election Day- Northern Mariana Islands, USA, USA

Guru Nanak Jayanti- India, Nepal

Guru Nanak's Birthday- Pakistan

Journalists' Day- China
 

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