Today in History

Nov 24th
1874
U. S. inventor, Joseph Gudden patents barbed wire
1971
'Dan Cooper' hijacks a plane extorts $200,000 for ransom,jumps out over Washington St never seen again
1979
U.S. Senate report proved that U.S. troops in Vietnam were exposed to toxic chemical 'Agent Orange"
2012
Gangham Style becomes most viewed Youtube video with over 800 million views
 

Nov 24th Birthdays:
1868
Scott Joplin- African-American ragtime entertainer/ composer 'Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer' His music was heard in movie'The Sting'
1925
William F. Buckley, Jr- U.S. conservative author/ commentator with National Review
1936
Ken Kragen- TV producer/ music artist manager for Kenny Rogers, Lionel Ritchie, charity organizer for USA Africa's hit single' We Are The World'
1950
Stanley Livingston- actor best known TV role' Chip' on CBS sitcom' My Three Sons'
Deaths:
1963
Lee Harvey Oswald- Pres John F. Kennedy's assassin, 2 days later was shot&killed live on TV by night club owner Jack Ruby 24
1991
Freddie Mercury- British singer/ songwriter with band' Queen' 45{AIDS}
2003
Warren Spahn- Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher/ CY Young Award winner in '57, played for Boston RedSox/ Milwaukee Braves 82
2016
Florence Henderson- actress/ singer best known TV role,'Carol Brady' in ABC sitcom' The Brady Bunch', spokeswoman for Wesson Oil TV ads 82
 
1859, English naturalist Charles Darwin, publishes: "On the Origin of Species," radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.
 

25 November 1986

For the first time in Billboard chart history, the top three spots are occupied by female artists.
Number 1 is Cyndi Lauper's True Colors, number 2 is Tina Turner with Typical Male and number 3 is Janet Jackson's When I Think Of You.
 
On This Day In History, November 25th

1973 Military coup in Greece
President George Papadopoulos was ousted by the army, just a week after student-led protests at the Athens Polytechnic were violently put down by the government.

1960 Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters
The 3 Dominican sisters, Patria, Minerva, and Antonia Mirabal were activists that were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On this day, they were brutally killed and their deaths were staged to look like accidents. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

1952 Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opens at London’s West End
The longest-running show in history, the play began as a radio play called Three Blind Mice. It is based on the death of Dennis O'Neill, who died while in foster care.

1950 “Storm of the century” hits the eastern US
Also known as the Appalachian Storm, the storm reached blizzard conditions and dumped nearly 60 inches of snow in the Appalachian area. It brought unseasonal temperatures to the region and caused widespread damage to property. About 150 people were thought to have been killed as a result of it.

1936 Nazi Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
The treaty was directed towards the Soviet Union and stipulated that in case of Soviet aggression towards either country, the other would consider it as an act of aggression towards it as well. The pact was later signed by other countries including Italy, Romania, Spain, and Turkey.
 
Births On This Day, November 25th 🎂

1952 Imran Khan
Pakistani cricketer, politician

1915 Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general, politician, 30th President of Chile

1914 Joe DiMaggio
American baseball player

1844 Karl Benz
German engineer, and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz

1835 Andrew Carnegie
Scottish/American businessman founded the Carnegie Steel Company

Deaths On This Day, November 25th 🪦

2005 George Best
Irish/English footballer

1997 Hastings Banda
Malawian politician, 1st President of Malawi

1974 U Thant
Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General

1974 Nick Drake
English singer-songwriter, musician

1944 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
American judge
 
1783
Britian leaves NYC,their last miltiary position in the U.S.
1884
John Meyenberg in St. Louis, Missouri patents evaporated milk
1937
World's Fair in Paris closes with 31.2 million visitors
1973
in U.S as an energy conservation measure,the maxium speed limit is set at 55mph
1979
debut of former NFL coach, John Madden,former NFL football player, Pat Summerall broadcasting a game together. It was the start of a 22 yr run became one of the best known broadcasting duo in sports history
2018
European Union leaders approve agreement of Britian leaving known as' Brexit'
 
Nov 25th Birthdays:
1914
Joe Di Maggo- Babeball Hall of Fame center fielder with NYYankees, had MLB record 56 game hitting streak
1940
Joe Gibbs- Hall of Fame Football Coach with Washington Redskins/now an auto racing owner
1947
John Larroquette -actor best known TV roles' Dan Fielding' in NBC sitcom'Night Court' 'Jenkins' in TNT show' The Librarians'
1969
Jill Hennessey- Canadian actress, best known TV role' ass't DA 'Claire Kincaid' in NBC show 'Law&Order'
Deaths:
1949
Bill Robinson- African-American actor/ tap dancer' The Little Colonel' 71
1981
Jack Albertson- actor best known TV role' Ed Brown' in NBC sitcom' Chico&The Man' co starred with Freddie Prinze 74
1998
Flip Wilson actor/ comedian 64
2016
Fidel Castro- Cuban revoluntary,President of Cuba 90
 
On This Day In History, November 26th

2003 Concorde retired from service
Concorde retired from service after 27 years of flight

1983 Brink’s Mat gold heist
The £ 26 million robbery took place in a Brink Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London. The stolen gold, diamonds, and cash have never been recovered.

1966 World’s first tidal power station opens in France
The Rance Tidal Power Station on the Rance River in Brittany, France was inaugurated by French president Charles de Gaulle. Today, it is one of the largest tidal power stations in the world.

1965 France launches Astérix
The launch of the satellite from Hammaguir, Algeria made France the 6th country in the world after the US, the USSR, the UK, Canada, and Italy to have an artificial satellite in orbit. The satellite is named after Asterix the popular comic character created by French writer René Goscinny.

1942 Casablanca premiers
The classic movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart won 3 Oscars – Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay. The film, which is set during the Second World War, follows the life of Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and a club owner in Casablanca, Morocco, who has to choose between his love for a woman, Ilsa Lund, and saving her husband from the Nazis.
 
Births On This Day, November 26th 🎂

1972 Arjun Rampal
Indian actor

1939 Tina Turner
American singer, dancer, actress

1922 Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist

1876 Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabian king

1827 Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Deaths On This Day, November 26th 🪦

1952 Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, explorer

1943 Edward O'Hare
American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient

1883 Sojourner Truth
American activist

1855 Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet

1504 Isabella I of Castile
 
1778
British explorer, James Cook becomes the 1st European to visit Maui in Sandwich Islands{ now Hawaii}
1896
Amos Alonzo Stagg at Univ of Chicago creates American football huddle
1922
British archaeologist, Howard Carter, opens Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt
1948
the 1st Polaroid Camera is sold for $89 at a Boston,Mass Jordan Marsh dept store. The Land Camera 95 would become the prototype for all the Polaroid cameras for the next 15 yrs
1979
International Olympic Committee votes to reinstate China after 21 yrs
2003
supersonic airplane, The Concorde makes it last flight returns to Bristol, England
 
Nov 26th Birthdays:
1876
Willis Carrier- U.S. engineer who developed modern air condtioning
1922
Charles 'Sparky' Schultz- cartoonist who created 'Peanuts' comic strip
1939
Tina Turner- singer 'Proud Mary, What's Love Got to Do With It'
1945
John McVie- British rock bassist with group 'Fleetwood Mac'
1983
Chris Hughes- U.S businessman/ co founder of Facebook
Deaths:
1956
Tommy Dorsey- big band leader 51
1995
Charles Warrell- British schoolteacher/ creator of' I Spy' books 106
2018
Bernardo Bertolucci- Italian film director- The Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor' 71
 
On This Day In History, November 27th

2005 World’s first successful partial face transplant
Drs Bernard Devauchelle, Benoit Lengelé, and Jean-Michel Dubernard used donor tissue to reconstruct the face of Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France. Isabelle Dinoire’s face had been mauled by a dog.

2001 Hubble detects the first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System
The space telescope detected sodium on HD 209458 b, an exoplanet also known as Osiris. Belonging to a class of planets called hot Jupiter because they are similar in size to Jupiter. Unlike Jupiter, however, these planets orbit very close to their stars and consequently have very high temperatures on their surfaces.

1989 World’s first living liver transplant
21-month-old Alyssa Smith became the first person to receive a liver transplant from a living donor, her mother Teresa Smith at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The transplant occurred under the supervision of surgeons Christoph Broelsch, Richard Thistlethwaite, Thomas Heffron, and Jean Emond.

1978 Harvey Milk and George Moscone are assassinated
Milk was the first openly-gay person to be elected to local government in California. He and George Moscone, San Francisco's mayor at the time, were killed by a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

1895 Alfred Nobel signs his last will
Alfred Nobel signed his last will which called for his estate and fortune that he made as the inventor of dynamite to be used for creating awards for those who contributed to the benefit of mankind. The will created 5 awards - in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace, and was signed by the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris.
 
Births On This Day, November 27th 🎂

1960 Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine

1955 Bill Nye
American engineer, educator, television host

1951 Kathryn Bigelow
American director

1942 Jimi Hendrix
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1940 Bruce Lee
American actor, martial artist

Deaths On This Day, November 27th 🪦

1978 Harvey Milk
American lieutenant, politician, activist

1967 Léon M'ba
Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon

1953 Eugene O'Neill
American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

1895 Alexandre Dumas, fils
French author

1852 Ada Lovelace
English mathematician
 
Holidays and Events on This Day, November 27th 🍹🌴

Aviation Day- Venezuela

First Advent Sunday- Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden

First Sunday of Advent- Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA

Foral of Sancho I- Portugal

Malaysia Cup Public Holiday- Malaysia
 
27th November

1582 William Shakespeare, aged 18, married Anne Hathaway.

1809 The Berners Street Hoax. Theodore Hook made a bet with his friend Samuel Beazley that he could make any house in London the most talked-about address in a week. He did this by sending out thousands of letters in the name of a Mrs Tottenham who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors and assistance of all kinds. The resultant chaos, as hundreds of chimney sweeps, tradesmen, doctors, lawyers, vicars, pianos and even the Lord Mayor of London and Archbishop of Canterbury descended on the house, brought a large part of London to a standstill.

1914 Miss Mary Allen and Miss E F Harburn became the first two trained policewomen to be granted official status in Britain when they reported for duty at Grantham, Lincolnshire.

1944 Between 3,500 and 4,000 tons of explosives stored in a cavern beneath Staffordshire detonated, killing 68 people and wiping out an entire farm. The explosion was heard over 100 miles away in London, and recorded as an earthquake in Geneva.

1976 The four millionth 'Mini' car left the production line.
 
1910
NYC's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal. Its located in mid-town Manhattan underneath Madison Square Garden, has 21 tracks thru 7 tunnels
1924
The 1st Macy's Thanksgiving Parade happened in NYC
1966
in the highest scoring NFL football game, Washington Redskins defeated NYGIants 72-41
1970
George Harrison's third solo album' All Things Must Pass' .It contained hit single' My Sweet Lord'. it went 6xplantium. Its considered one of the best albums by any of the members of the Beatles
2005
The 1st partial face transplant happened to Isabelle Dinoire in France Her labrador retriever/ cross breed mauled her. In a 15 hr operation she received a nose, lip/chin from a brain dead donor. She died in 2016 age 49
 
Nov 27 th birthdays
1917
'Buffalo'Bob Smith- TV host of children's show in the 50's 'Howdy Doody', was born in my hometown, Buffalo,NY
1941
Eddie Rabbit- singer/ songwriter' Kentucky Rain,'I Love a Rainy Night'
1955
Bill Nye- TV host/engineer 'Bill Nye The Science Guy'
1976
Jaleel White- actor best known TV role' Urkel' in ABC sitcom' Family Matters
Deaths:
1953
Eugene O'Neill - playwright 'A Moon For the Misbegotten, Long Day's Journey into Night,The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms 65
1990
David White- actor best known TV role' Larry Tate' on ABC sitcom' Bewitched' 74{heart attack}
2007
Robert Cade- U.S physican/ inventor of Gatorade 80
2018
Stephen Hillenberg- animator/ cartoonist' SpongeBob Square Pants 51{ALS}
 

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