Today in History

12th November

1660 English author John Bunyan was arrested for preaching without a licence. He refused to give up preaching and remained in jail for 12 years.

1912 The remains of English explorer Robert Scott and his companions were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Scott's party had reached the South Pole on 17th January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. Scott and his four comrades all perished on the return journey from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.

1933 The first photograph of the ‘Loch Ness monster’ was taken by Mr Hugh Gray. He managed to take five pictures altogether but after processing, four of them were blank and the fifth was not confirmed as being Nessie.

2001 Greece held 12 plane-spotting British 'spies' to carry out further inquiries. All were arrested for allegedly taking photographs at an air show at a military base.
 

1840
British doctor, Sir James Young Simpson was 1st to use chlorform as an asnaesthic
1931
Maple Leaf Gardens, home base area for NHL Toronto Maple Leafs opens, team lost to Chicago Blackhawks 2-1
1954
Ellis Island in NY harbor,gateway to America for 12 million immigrants between 1892-1924 closes
1990
world wide web is 1st proposed by computer scientists, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau
2019
Disney launches its film &TV streaming service, 19 million signed up on 1st day
 
Nov 12th Birthdays:
1840
Auguste Rodin- French sculptor, 'Kiss, Thinker'
1922
Kim Hunter- actress, A Streetcar Named Desire,{best supp actress Oscar} Planet of the Apes,
1926
Jack Ryan- U.S inventor with Mattel created' Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy
1944
Al Michaels- U,S. sportscaster play by play announcer for Thurs Night NFL football.He famously called the "Miracle on Ice' hockey game at 1980 at the Lake Placid, NY Winter Olympics. The heavy favorites Russians were upset by U.S. men's hockey team His catchphrase' Do You Believe in Miracles, Yes"
1958
Megan Mullally- actress, best known TV role' Karen' on NBC sitcom' Will&Grace'
1980
Ryan Gosling- Canadian actor' The Notebook, Drive, La La land
Deaths:
1981
William Holden- Sunset Blvd, Bridge on The River Kwai, Sabrina 63
1990
Eve Arden- actress, Mildred Pierce,Stage Door Grease{she played principal},best known TV role' Connie Brooks' wise cracking English teacher on CBS sitcom'Our Miss Brooks' 82
2018
Stan Lee- comic book artist/creative leader of Marvel multimedia corp 95
 
On This Day In History, November 13th

2015 Terrorist attacks in Paris
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks that included suicide bombs and mass shootings took place in France's capital city. Venues attacked included the Stade de France and the Bataclan theater during a concert. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or Daesh (ISIL) took responsibility for the attacks that killed about 130 people.

1994 Sweden votes to join EU
The referendum passed with over 50% of Swedish citizens voting to join the European Union. The Nordic country officially joined the EU on January 1, 1995.

1985 Armero tragedy
The late evening eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia caused volcanic mudflows, called lahars, and flooded the city of Armero, killing 25,000 of its residents. The Armero tragedy is considered to be one of the deadliest volcano-related disasters in the 20th century.

1950 Assassination of Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
The Venezuelan president and head of the military Junta were kidnapped and killed by rebels headed by Rafael Simón Urbina. Chalbaud came to power after a coup against Rómulo Gallegos in 1948.

1887 Bloody Sunday in London
Protests by poor and unemployed Londoners over their hardships in Trafalgar Square took a violent turn when the police charged those protesting with batons. By the end of the day, 2 or 3 people were killed and several hundred protestors were injured.
 
Births On This Day, November 13th 🎂

1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician, author

1955 Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, singer, talk show host

1856 Louis Brandeis
American jurist

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author, poet

354 Augustine of Hippo
Algerian bishop, theologian

Deaths On This Day, November 13th 🪦

2005 Eddie Guerrero
American wrestler

1963 Margaret Murray
English anthropologist

1903 Camille Pissarro
French painter

1868 Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer

1093 Malcolm III of Scotland
 

Holidays and Events on This Day, November 13th 🍹🌴

Father's Day- Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden

Fathers' Day- Iceland

Grandparents' Day- South Sudan

Harvest Festival- Turkmenistan

National Day of Mourning- Germany
 
1789
Benjamin Franklin wrote' nothing certain but death&taxes'
1942
U.S. minumium draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1982
Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington,DC.It was designed by Yale student, Maya Lin,a simple V-shaped wall made out of black granite inscribed with 58,000 U.S. soldiers who died in the war. The names were arranged in order of the date of death which is common in other memorials
1995
actor Pierce Brosnan debuts as 'James Bond' in 'GoldenEye',17th movie in the franchise,directed by Martin Campbell, also stars Judi Dench as 'M', Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane. Brosnan would do 3 more films his last 2002 'Die Another Day'
2019
Venice, Italy with the worse floods in 50 yrs due to a very high tide in St.Marks, Sq killing 1 local resident
 
Nov 13th Birthdays:
1850
Robert Louis Stevenson- British author' Treasure Island'
1922
Madeline Sherwood- Candian actress, best known TV role' Mother Superior' in sitcom' The Flying Nun'
1934
Garry Marshall- TV writer/producer' The Odd Couple,Happy Days, Lavrene&Shirley' film director' Pretty Woman, The Runaway Bride, The Princess Bride, brother of actress/ director Penny Marshall
1955
Whoppi Goldberg- comedienne/actress/ TV co host {The View},movies' Ghost{won supp actress Oscar} The Color Purple, Sister Act
Deaths:
1779
Thomas Chippendale- British furniture maker 61
1868
Gioachino Rossni- Italian composer' William Tell, Barber of Seville' 76
1995
Robert Stephens- British actor' Chaplin, QB VII,Cleopatra 64
1998
Red Holzman- NBA Hall of Fame Coach with NY Knicks{14 seasons} 78
 
On This Day In History, November 14th

2010 Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One World Drivers' Champion
At 23 years old, the German competitive race driver became the youngest person to win the World Championship in Formula One.

1971 First spacecraft to orbit a planet
NASA's Mariner 9 entered Mars' orbit after 167 days in space. Despite it being in Mars' orbit within 15 minutes, a dust storm on the planet made it impossible for Mariner 9 to take pictures of Mars until January.

1969 Apollo 12 launched
The crew of NASA's second manned mission to the Moon included Commander Charles Conrad, Jr. Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean. It landed on the Moon on November 19 and was the first spacecraft to take a color TV camera to the Moon.

1889 Nelie Bly sets out to go around the world in 80 days
The American journalist, whose real name was Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, followed the footsteps of a fictional character, Phileas Fogg, from Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. She started her adventure in Hoboken and came back 72 days later.

1851 Moby Dick Makes its Debut in the United States
The epic novel by Herman Melville about Captain Ahab's quest to find and kill Moby Dick, a white whale had released in the UK in October under the name The Whale. Considered to be one of the best fictional works written in recent history, the book did not sell many copies after its launch or during Melville's lifetime.
 
Births On This Day, November 14th 🎂

1971 Adam Gilchrist
Australian cricketer

1954 Condoleezza Rice
American diplomat, 66th United States Secretary of State

1948 Charles, Prince of Wales
1917 Park Chung-hee
Korean general, politician, 3rd President of South Korea

1898 Benjamin Fondane
Romanian/French poet, critic, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, November 14th 🪦

1988 Haywood S. Hansell
American general officer

1921 Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
1915 Booker T. Washington
American author, educator

1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher

565 Justinian I
Byzantine Emperor
 
14th November

1864 Franz Müller, a German tailor, who had murdered Thomas Briggs in the first murder committed on a British train (on 9th July) was publicly hanged at Newgate prison.

1896 The speed limit for horseless carriages in Britain was raised from 4 mph (2 mph in towns) to 14 mph. It was marked by the first London to Brighton Car Run, which only became a regular and official event from 1927, when it was sponsored by the Daily Sketch.

1940 449 German Luftwaffe bombers dropped 503 tons of bombs and 881 incendiaries onto the City of Coventry, killing over 500 civilians and destroying the medieval cathedral. A new cathedral was built adjacent to the old, and the bombed cathedral was left as a memorial.

2014 Parliamentary authorities defended their decision to ask a gardener to remove each leaf manually from trees outside the House of Commons. A Commons spokesman said: “If we waited for the leaves to fall off it would waste a lot of time raking them up. It is more time efficient.” The incident led to accusations on Twitter that autumn had been cancelled by Westminster, when a female worker on a step ladder was spotted taking down yellow leaves, one by one, from a circle of lime trees. 🍃🍃
 
1856
U.S inventor, Gail Borden receives patent for technology related to his invention of condensed milk
1896
the power plant in Niagara Falls begins operations. George Westinghouse&Nikola Telsa were given a contract to build a powerhouse/generators. The 1st generator powered streetcars/lights in Buffalo,NY 26 miles away
1960
Ray Charles' single' Georgia on My Mind' reached #1 on charts, stayed there for 16 weeks
1976
movie' Network' a satire by Paddy Chayefsky about TV networks was released directed by Sidney Lument The story is about a 4th place network which will do anything to raise the ratings.A local newsman,Howard Beale{Peter Finch} starts ranting live with his famous line' I'm mad as hell,not going to take it anymore',others in cast Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Beatrice Straight, Ned Beatty, Robert Duvall. the movie won 4 Oscars best actor{Finch postmously} Dunaway{best actress} Straight{supp actress} Chayefsky{screenplay}
1993
Puerto Rico votes against becoming 51st U.S. state
2018
a painting by Edward Hopper 'Chop Suey" sells at auction in NYC a record $92 mil
 
Nov 14th Birthdays:
1765
Robert Fuller- U.S. inventor of 1st commerical steamboat
1840
Claude Monet- French impressionist painter 'Water Lilies, Haysticks'
1900
Aaron Copland- composer' Billy The Kid, Appalachian Spring'
1927
Mclean Stevenson -actor best known TV role' Col Henry Blake' on CBS series 'M*A*S*H
1951
Stephen Bishop- singer/ songwriter' On and On,Save It For a Rainy Day'
Deaths:
1915
Booker T.Washington-education pioneer/ 1st African American on U.S. stamp 59
1991
Tony Richardson- British film director' Tom Jones' 63
1997
Eddie Arcaro- Racing Hall of Fame Jockey,was aboard 2 Triple Crown horses,'41 Whirlaway,'48 Citation' 81
 
On This Day In History, November 15th

2006 Al Jazeera English launched
The English-language 24-hour news channel is owned and run by Al Jazeera Media Network based in Doha, Qatar.

1988 State of Palestine created
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) declared the creation of the state while in exile in Algiers, Algeria. The declaration designated eastern Jerusalem as the state's capital. Today, almost 70% of all UN members state recognize it as an independent country.

1956 Elvis Presley makes his movie debut
Love Me Tender, a black-and-white musical starred the American singer, who is also sometimes called the King of Rock and Roll. The movie was named after Presley's hit single by the same name.

1949 Assassins of MK Gandhi Executed in India
Nathuram Godse, Narayan Apte, and 6 other co-conspirators of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi were hanged at the Ambala jail. On January 30, 1948, Godse who was unhappy about Gandhi's accommodation of India's Muslims shot Gandhi while he was out for his evening prayers.

1920 League of Nations meets for the first time
The general assembly of the international organization got together for the first time after being founded in January 1920. The League was created as a response to World War I and was entrusted by member states to maintain peace in the world.
 

Births On This Day, November 15th 🎂

1942 Daniel Barenboim
Argentine/Israeli conductor, pianist

1891 Erwin Rommel
German field marshal

1887 Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter

1886 René Guénon
French/Egyptian author

1708 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, November 15th 🪦

1983 John Le Mesurier
English actor

1978 Margaret Mead
American anthropologist

1917 Émile Durkheim
French sociologist

1908 Empress Dowager Cixi
of China

1630 Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
 
1763
Charles Mason,Jerimah Dixon begin surveying Mason/Dixon line between Pennslyvannia&Maryland
1791
The 1st U.S. catholic college, Georgetown opens in Washington,DC
1904
businessman/inventor, King Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1995
the universal serial bus{USB} was invented by Indian born computer architech, Ajay Bhatt,because people were having printer problems at home. The printers had to be connected thru clunky&unreliable parallel ports.He began to create a single connection for computers which took 6 yrs to complete.Today more than 10 bill USB devices are being used around the world,an easy way for saving/transferring information
2017
Leonardo da Vinci's painting'Salvator Mundi' sells as auction in NYC for $450.3 mil a world record price for any artwork
 
Nov 15th Birthdays:
1930
Ed Asner- actor who best known character'Lou Grant' was in 2 different TV shows, sitcom' Mary Tyler Moore Show,'Lou Grant' drama
1932
Petulia Clark- British pop singer' Dowtown, Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling
1940
Sam Waterson- actor best known TV role' DA Jack McCoy' on NBC's law/ police show' Law&Order'
1972
Jonny Lee Miller- British actor' Trainspotting, Hackers, TV show'played' Sherlock Holmes in 'Elementary' in season 5 of' The Crown playing British Prime mInister, John Majors
deaths:
1954
Lionel Barrymore- actor Its a Wonderful Life, Key Largo 76
1978
Margaret Mead- U.S. anthropologist 76
2015
P.F. Sloan- singer/songwriter 'Eve of Destruction, Secret Agent Man 70
 
On This Day In History, November 16th

2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone released
The film version of the popular book by the same name written by author J. K. Rowling starred Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and followed Potter's first year at Hogwarts, a school for magic.

1988 Estonians declare sovereignty from USSR
Estonians issued the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration as part of the Singing Revolution. The Declaration declared Estonian sovereignty from the Soviet Union and declared Estonian laws paramount over Soviet laws. The day is now celebrated as the Day of Declaration of Sovereignty.

1965 Soviets launch Venera 3
Part of the Venera program, it was the first space probe to land on another planet - Venus. Unfortunately, due to technical issues, it was not able to send any data back to Earth. The first space probe to send data from another planet to Earth was Venera 7.

1945 UNESCO founded
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization is a special branch of the United Nations that promotes peace and well-being through education, scientific collaboration, and cultural understanding and exchange. It is headquartered in Paris, France, and has 195 state members.

1940 Warsaw ghetto sealed
The largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Warsaw ghetto, was created in October 1940 by a German decree. According to the decree, all Jews in the city had to move to the ghetto, which was closed off by a 10 feet wall and had soldiers and police guarding it against the outside 24 hours a day. The ghetto was the scene of one of the largest Jewish uprisings during the Second World War in 1943.
 
Births On This Day, November 16th 🎂

1977 Maggie Gyllenhaal
American actress

1952 Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer, created Mario, The Legend of Zelda

1930 Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author, poet, academic

1922 José Saramago
Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate

42 Tiberius
Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, November 16th 🪦

2006 Milton Friedman
American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1980 Jayan
Indian actor

1960 Clark Gable
American actor

1885 Louis Riel
Canadian politician

1724 Jack Sheppard
English criminal
 

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