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314th day of 2010 - 51 remaining
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
“DR. LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME” DAY
On this day in 1871, Henry Stanley found the missing Scotsman, David Livingstone. Livingstone, an explorer and missionary, had been missing for two years. No white man had seen him in six years.
Through a promotion sponsored by The New York Herald, Stanley and several companions set out looking for Livingstone some eight months earlier. (Stanley’s fellow explorers died before this day.) Stanley’s search for Dr. Livingstone ended at Ujiji, Africa.
He greeted the doctor, not with, “Are you all right?” or “I’m so glad I found you,” but with these famous words: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.”
Events November 10
1775 - The Continental Congress of the American colonies, in preparation for their revolt against the British (The Revolutionary War), authorized the formation of two battalions of marines. Although this was the true birth of the U.S. Marine Corps, it wasn’t until 1798 that Congress recreated the Marine Corps as a separate military service.
1876 - The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia Closed . The exposition had attracted millions of people for the celebration of America’s first hundred years.
1888 - Fritz Kreisler, a 13-year-old violinist from Vienna, made his American debut in New York City.
1900 - Floradora opened in New York City this day. The play was received by cheering audiences.
1911 - The Carnegie Corporation of New York was established “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.” It was the first of the great U.S. foundations for scholarly and charitable works.
1928 - It was on this day, after Knute Rockne delivered his ‘Win One for the Gipper’ halftime speech to the Irish players, that Notre Dame upset Army, 12-6. Rockne’s speech: “The day before he died, George Gipp asked me to wait until the situation seemed hopeless, then ask a Notre Dame team to go out and beat Army for him. This is the day, and you are the team.”
1931 - For the second year in a row, Conrad Nagel hosted the Academy Awards. This year’s gala celebration, the Academy’s fourth, was at the Sala D’Oro Room at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The runaway winner was Cimarron (Outstanding Production - RKO Radio; Art Direction - Max Ree; Writing/Adaptation - Howard Estabrook). Best Actor honors went to Lionel Barrymore for his stellar performance in A Free Soul; ditto for Best Actress Marie Dressler in Min and Bill. The Best Directing Award for Skippy went to Norman Taurog, and Best Cinematography accolades were earned by Floyd Crosby for his work on Tabu. The Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Story was presented to John Monk Saunders for his script, The Dawn Patrol. Several Scientific and Technical Awards were also presented for the first time.
1939 - Muggsy Spanier and his band recorded Dipper Mouth Blues on Bluebird Records.
1939 - The first air-conditioned automobiles went on display at the Auto Show in Chicago. The car was a Packard. The air conditioner consisted of a large evaporator, called the cooling coil, which took up the entire trunk of the car.
1942 - Winston Churchill, in a speech in London, commented on the British defeat of German Afrika Korps in Egypt ("The Battle of Egypt"). The Prime Minister said, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
1950 - Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted on NBC radio. Monty Woolley starred as Edwin ‘the Magnificent’ Montague, a former Shakespearean actor who had been forced to make his living in the radio biz.
1956 - Billie Holiday returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert was called a high point in jazz history.
1969 - On this day, twenty years after the first release of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gene Autry received a gold record for the single.
1969 - “Can you tell me how to get ... how to get to Sesame Street?” The classic, Sesame Street debuted on 170 Public Broadcasting stations and 20 commercial outlets. Created by the Children’s Television Workshop, the show starred endearing characters including Gordon, Susan, Bob, Bert, Ernie, the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and, of course, Big Bird!
1972 - Mickey (Arthur) McBride died on this day. McBride owned the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s -- and also owned a taxicab company. Browns’ coach Paul Brown kept five non-roster players on a special squad. They could practice with the team in case a regular player was hurt, but the squad’s salaries were paid by McBride’s taxi company. Thus, the term, ‘taxi squad’. According to Terry Pluto, in his When All the World was Browns Town, taxi squad members never drove cars, they were just driven in practice by Paul Brown -- and supported by Mickey McBride.
1975 - The worst Great Lakes shipwreck of the time, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, occurred this day. It was a cold and stormy Lake Superior (Native Americans knew it as Gitche Gumee) that took the lives of 29 crew members of the ore carrier.
1982 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lent Mexico $3.7 billion to forestall its threatened bankruptcy.
1982 - Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75. Control of the Kremlin passed to Yuri Andropov.
1982 - The newly completed Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, DC.
1983- Microsoft announced the new Windows operating system. Windows featured a graphical user interface (GUI) and multitasking environment for IBM computers.
1984 - The Maryland Terrapins set an NCAA football record. They came from a 31-0 halftime deficit to defeat Miami’s Hurricanes, 42-40. The game broke the record (set on October 20, 1984) when Washington State came back from 28 points behind to defeat Stanford, 49-42.
1986 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, the long-anticipated album by ‘The Boss’, hit record stores this day. Fans made the LP a one-day sellout, buying over a million copies and generating more first-day dollars than any record in 30 years. It’s a five-disc, 40-song set.
1990 - Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India’s prime minister.
1991 - British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands. (He had disappeared from his luxury yacht, "Lady Ghislane" on Nov 5.)
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill. The bill called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994 - The Codex Leicester, the only Leonardo da Vinci manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands, was sold at auction. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates paid $30.8 million for it. It has been since been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome, Paris and New York.
1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, starring Jim Carrey, with a little help from Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi and Tommy Davidson opened. It brought in $108,360,000 in the U.S. “ALLLRIGHTY then...”
1996 - Dan Marino was first NFL quarterback to throw for 50,000 yards in his career. He reached that mark as he completed a pass to O.J. McDuffie in a game against the Indianapolis Colts this day. Marino went on to a run up a career record of 61,361 yards passing.
1997 - Judge Hiller Zobel in Cambridge, MA reduced Louise Woodward’s murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she had already served in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1998 - It was reported that an estimated 18 million people in Bangladesh were slowly poisoning themselves by drinking from groundwater contaminated with trace amounts of arsenic. 85 million people (of 126 million in the country) were at risk.
1999 - Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back debuted in the U.S. Described variously as “weird and wacky humor”; “truly funny, goofy and stupid”; and “hilarious lowbrow humor,” the animated kiddie flick scooped up $85.7 million in the U.S, and $155.7 million worldwide. Wacky, indeed.
2000 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Little Nicky, starring Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel and Patricia Arquette (“If your father was the devil And your mother was an angel You'd be messed up too!”); Men of Honor, with Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Charlize Theron (“History is made by those who break rules.”); and Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore (“Not a sound. Not a warning. Not a chance. Not alone.”)
2001 - Author Ken Kesey died in Eugene, Oregon. He was 66 years old. Kesey’s books included One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964).
2002 - Dozens of tornadoes sliced their way from Louisiana to Pennsylvania on this night, carving up farmland and forests and nearly erasing whole communities in Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio. In what the National Weather Service describes as one of the worst November tornado outbreaks on record, seventeen people were killed in Tennessee, twelve in Alabama, five in Ohio and one each in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
2003 - U.S. Federal regulators ruled that customers could ‘port’ their home phone numbers to their cell phones -- if your wireless company and your (wired) telephone company have overlapping coverage in your locality.
2004 - The Polar Express opened in the U.S. The animated family adventure features the voices of Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona M. Gaye, Peter Scolari, Brendan King, Andy Pellick, Josh Eli, Mark Mendonca, Rolandas Hendricks, Mark Goodman, Jon Scott Gregory Gast, Sean Scott and Gordon Hart.
2004 - A gas station in Washington DC became the first in North America to feature a hydrogen dispensing pump.
2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won the Liberian presidential runoff (defeating George Weah) to become the first female president on the continent of Africa.
2005 - An investigation showed metal pilings in the 17th Street Canal -- whose failure flooded much of New Orleans, Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina -- were seven feet shorter than the Corps of Engineers had said they were.
2006 - Films debuting in the U.S.: A Good Year, with Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Abbie Cornish, Marion Cotillard, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander and Freddie Highmore; Harsh Times, starring Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez and Eva Longoria, The Return, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Beahan, Peter O Brien, Adam Scott and Sam Shepard; and Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson.
2006 - U.S. President George Bush (II) dedicated the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia.
2006 - Broadway and film actor Jack Palance died in southern California at 87 years of age. Palance appeared in hundreds of film and TV roles, including: Sudden Fear, Shane, Man in the Attic, The Big Knife, Attack, Flight to Tangier, Sign of the Pagan, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and his Oscar-winning (supporting actor) performance as Curly Washburn in City Slickers.
2007 - Deaths on this day: Norman Mailer (84), writer: The Naked and the Dead (1948) and The Executioner’s Song (1979); and film actress Laraine Day (86): Dr. Kildare film series from (1938-1941) -- she was married for 13 years to baseball mgr Leo Durocher and was known as ‘The First Lady of Baseball’.
2008 - U.S. electronics retailer Circuit City filed for bankruptcy protection, but announced it would stay open for business through the holiday season.
2008 - South African folk singer -- and civil rights activist -- Miriam Makeba, known as ‘Mama Afrika’, died ((heart attack) in southern Italy. She was 75 years old, and had just performing at a concert against organized crime.
- 2008 U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and wife, Michelle, met with President George Bush (II) and First Lady Laura at the White House. Obama urged Bush to help the ailing U.S. auto industry.
2009 - Utah’s Mormon church announced its support for gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.
2009 - Activision released its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Within a few days, sales of the video game brought in $550 million, breaking records in several countries.
2010 - Morning Glory opened in the U.S. The comedy stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, 50 Cent, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum.
Birthdays November 10
1483 - Martin Luther
religious leader: founder of Protestantism: wrote 95 theses: On the Power of Indulgences, calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church; died Feb 18, 1546
1697 - William Hogarth
painter, engraver: Four Stages of Cruelty, A Rake’s Progress, A Harlot’s Progress; died Oct 25, 1764
1730 - Oliver Goldsmith
playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield; died Apr 4, 1774
1793 - Jared P. (Potter) Kirtland
physician; naturalist: found 1st Kirtland’s Warbler [now, a rare bird]; died Dec 10, 1877
1889 - Claude Rains
actor: Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia; died May 30, 1967
1907 - (Ellen) Jane Froman
singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, I’ll Walk Alone, I Believe; died Apr 22, 1980
1911 - Harry Andrews
actor: Jack the Ripper, Inside Story, The Seven Dials Mystery, S.O.S. Titanic, Superman, The Big Sleep, Sky Riders; died Mar 6, 1989
1912 - (George Robert) Birdie Tebbetts
baseball: catcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1940/all-star: 1941, 1942], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1948, 1949], Cleveland Indians; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians; died Mar 24, 1999
1914 - Tod Andrews
actor: The President’s Plane Is Missing, Hang ’Em High, Between Heaven and Hell, Voodoo Man, Spy Ship, Beneath the Planet of the Apes; died Nov 7, 1972
1916 - Billy May
composer, bandleader: many of Sinatra’s Capitol hits; died Jan 22, 2004
1919 - George Fenneman
announcer: radio/TV: You Bet Your Life [w/Groucho Marx]; TV host: Your Funny, Funny Films, Anybody Can Play; died May 29, 1997
1925 - Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.)
actor: Camelot, Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; TV narrator: Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, Ellis Island; one of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands; died Aug 5, 1984
1932 - Paul Bley
pianist, composer: LP: Open to Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild
1932 - Roy Scheider
actor: All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, seaQuest DSV; died Feb 10, 2008
1935 - Pippa Scott
The Virginian, The Sound of Murder, Terror on the 40th Floor, My Sister Hank, Some Kind of a Nut, For Pete’s Sake, My Six Loves
1940 - Russell Means
activist: Native American rights
1944 - Tim Rice
lyricist: with Andrew Lloyd Weber: Jesus Christ, Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe, Odessa File
1945 - Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn)
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. [1972]; Funny Face
1947 - Glen Buxton
songwriter, musician: lead guitar: group: Alice Cooper: I’m Eighteen, Is It My Body, Desperado, Under My Wheels, Be My Lover, School’s Out, Elected, Hello Hooray; died Oct 19, 1997
1947 - DAVE Loggins
singer: Please Come to Boston; cousin of singer Kenny Loggins
1948 - Greg Lake
musician: bass, singer: group: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning, Lucky Man; solo: I Believe in Father Christmas
1949 - Ann Reinking
dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude
1950 - Ronnie Hammond
singer: group: Atlanta Rhythm Section: So in to You, Imaginary Lover
1951 - Jack Scalia
actor: Pointman, The Devlin Connection, Dallas, High Performance, Berrenger’s, Hollywood Beat, Storybook, Shattered Image, Wolf, Tequila & Bonetti; TV host: Stuntmasters
1953 - Rusty Chambers
football: Miami Dolphins LB
1955 - Jack (Anthony) Clark
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1978, 1979], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1985/all-star: 1985, 1986], NY Yankees, SD Padres, Boston Red Sox
1956 - Sinbad (David Adkins)
actor, comedian: A Different World, The Sinbad Show, The Redd Foxx Show, Coneheads, The Cherokee Kid, Good Burger; TV host: Showtime at the Apollo
1959 - (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips
actress: One Day at a Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin; daughter of singer John Phillips [The Mamas and The Papas]
1963 - Mike (Michael Anthony) Powell
track and field: long-jump world record holder: 8.95 m [29 ft 4½ in] 1991; won two gold medals at the World Championships [1991, 1993] and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics [1988, 1992]; UCLA jumps and multi-events coach
1964 - Keith Lockhart
baseball: San Diego Padres, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves
1964 - Kenny Rogers
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Minnesota Twins
1965 - Sean Hughes
comedian: youngest ever winner of the Perrirer comedy award; actor: Girl on a Cycle, Puckoon, The Greatest Store in the World, Fast Food, The Butcher Boy, Snakes and Laddders, Rocket Man II
1966 - Vanessa Angel
actress: Trick or Treat, Raptor Island 2: Raptor Planet, Criminal Intent, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, The Perfect Score, Camouflage
1967 - Michael Jai White
martial arts performer, actor: Universal Soldier film series, Cross Undisputed 2, Getting Played, Blood and Bone, Freedom Song, Exit Wounds
1969 - Ellen Pompeo
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Life of the Party, Nobody’s Perfect, Old School, Daredevil, Catch Me If You Can, Eventual Wife, 8 1/2 x 11
1969 - Ed Ward
hockey [right wing]: Quebec Nordiques, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New Jersey Devils
1971 - Athena Massey
actress: Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Undercover Heat, Red Shoe Diaries, The Nutty Professor, Molly, Seinfeld, Star Trek: Voyager, Nash Bridges, Black Scorpion Returns, Termination Man, Undercover Heat
1972 - Isaac Bruce
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Memphis; NFL: LA/St. Louis Rams
1972 - Shawn Green
baseball [right field]: Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Mets
1973 - Mike Flanagan
football: UCLA; NFL: Green Bay Packers
1973 - Darius Holland
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns. Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos
1977 - Brittany Murphy
actress: Clueless, Freeway, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Cherry Falls, Riding in Cars with Boys; died Dec 20, 2009
1978 - Eve (Jihan Jeffers)
rapper: Gangsta Lovin’, Figure You Out, Ryde Away, Double R What, Who’s That Girl?, That’s What It Is, You Ain’t Gettin’ None
1980 - Donte’ Stallworth
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Tennessee; NFL: New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots
1982 - Heather Matarazzo
actress: Now and Again, Believe in Me, The Princess Diaries, Saved!, Sorority Boys, Scream 3, Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge
Chart Toppers November 10
1951Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Down Yonder - Del Wood
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1960Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1969Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Come Together - The Beatles
Something - The Beatles
To See My Angel Cry - Conway Twitty
1978You Needed Me - Anne Murray
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell
1987I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol
Am I Blue - George Strait
1996No Diggity - BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion
Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
Like the Rain - Clint Black
2005Gold Digger - Kanye West
Because Of You - Kelly Clarkson
My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
Better Life - Keith Urban
Chart Topper November 10th, 1996...Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
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314th day of 2010 - 51 remaining
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
“DR. LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME” DAY
On this day in 1871, Henry Stanley found the missing Scotsman, David Livingstone. Livingstone, an explorer and missionary, had been missing for two years. No white man had seen him in six years.
Through a promotion sponsored by The New York Herald, Stanley and several companions set out looking for Livingstone some eight months earlier. (Stanley’s fellow explorers died before this day.) Stanley’s search for Dr. Livingstone ended at Ujiji, Africa.
He greeted the doctor, not with, “Are you all right?” or “I’m so glad I found you,” but with these famous words: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.”
Events November 10
1775 - The Continental Congress of the American colonies, in preparation for their revolt against the British (The Revolutionary War), authorized the formation of two battalions of marines. Although this was the true birth of the U.S. Marine Corps, it wasn’t until 1798 that Congress recreated the Marine Corps as a separate military service.
1876 - The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia Closed . The exposition had attracted millions of people for the celebration of America’s first hundred years.
1888 - Fritz Kreisler, a 13-year-old violinist from Vienna, made his American debut in New York City.
1900 - Floradora opened in New York City this day. The play was received by cheering audiences.
1911 - The Carnegie Corporation of New York was established “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.” It was the first of the great U.S. foundations for scholarly and charitable works.
1928 - It was on this day, after Knute Rockne delivered his ‘Win One for the Gipper’ halftime speech to the Irish players, that Notre Dame upset Army, 12-6. Rockne’s speech: “The day before he died, George Gipp asked me to wait until the situation seemed hopeless, then ask a Notre Dame team to go out and beat Army for him. This is the day, and you are the team.”
1931 - For the second year in a row, Conrad Nagel hosted the Academy Awards. This year’s gala celebration, the Academy’s fourth, was at the Sala D’Oro Room at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The runaway winner was Cimarron (Outstanding Production - RKO Radio; Art Direction - Max Ree; Writing/Adaptation - Howard Estabrook). Best Actor honors went to Lionel Barrymore for his stellar performance in A Free Soul; ditto for Best Actress Marie Dressler in Min and Bill. The Best Directing Award for Skippy went to Norman Taurog, and Best Cinematography accolades were earned by Floyd Crosby for his work on Tabu. The Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Story was presented to John Monk Saunders for his script, The Dawn Patrol. Several Scientific and Technical Awards were also presented for the first time.
1939 - Muggsy Spanier and his band recorded Dipper Mouth Blues on Bluebird Records.
1939 - The first air-conditioned automobiles went on display at the Auto Show in Chicago. The car was a Packard. The air conditioner consisted of a large evaporator, called the cooling coil, which took up the entire trunk of the car.
1942 - Winston Churchill, in a speech in London, commented on the British defeat of German Afrika Korps in Egypt ("The Battle of Egypt"). The Prime Minister said, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
1950 - Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted on NBC radio. Monty Woolley starred as Edwin ‘the Magnificent’ Montague, a former Shakespearean actor who had been forced to make his living in the radio biz.
1956 - Billie Holiday returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert was called a high point in jazz history.
1969 - On this day, twenty years after the first release of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gene Autry received a gold record for the single.
1969 - “Can you tell me how to get ... how to get to Sesame Street?” The classic, Sesame Street debuted on 170 Public Broadcasting stations and 20 commercial outlets. Created by the Children’s Television Workshop, the show starred endearing characters including Gordon, Susan, Bob, Bert, Ernie, the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and, of course, Big Bird!
1972 - Mickey (Arthur) McBride died on this day. McBride owned the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s -- and also owned a taxicab company. Browns’ coach Paul Brown kept five non-roster players on a special squad. They could practice with the team in case a regular player was hurt, but the squad’s salaries were paid by McBride’s taxi company. Thus, the term, ‘taxi squad’. According to Terry Pluto, in his When All the World was Browns Town, taxi squad members never drove cars, they were just driven in practice by Paul Brown -- and supported by Mickey McBride.
1975 - The worst Great Lakes shipwreck of the time, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, occurred this day. It was a cold and stormy Lake Superior (Native Americans knew it as Gitche Gumee) that took the lives of 29 crew members of the ore carrier.
1982 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lent Mexico $3.7 billion to forestall its threatened bankruptcy.
1982 - Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75. Control of the Kremlin passed to Yuri Andropov.
1982 - The newly completed Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, DC.
1983- Microsoft announced the new Windows operating system. Windows featured a graphical user interface (GUI) and multitasking environment for IBM computers.
1984 - The Maryland Terrapins set an NCAA football record. They came from a 31-0 halftime deficit to defeat Miami’s Hurricanes, 42-40. The game broke the record (set on October 20, 1984) when Washington State came back from 28 points behind to defeat Stanford, 49-42.
1986 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, the long-anticipated album by ‘The Boss’, hit record stores this day. Fans made the LP a one-day sellout, buying over a million copies and generating more first-day dollars than any record in 30 years. It’s a five-disc, 40-song set.
1990 - Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India’s prime minister.
1991 - British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands. (He had disappeared from his luxury yacht, "Lady Ghislane" on Nov 5.)
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill. The bill called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994 - The Codex Leicester, the only Leonardo da Vinci manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands, was sold at auction. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates paid $30.8 million for it. It has been since been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome, Paris and New York.
1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, starring Jim Carrey, with a little help from Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi and Tommy Davidson opened. It brought in $108,360,000 in the U.S. “ALLLRIGHTY then...”
1996 - Dan Marino was first NFL quarterback to throw for 50,000 yards in his career. He reached that mark as he completed a pass to O.J. McDuffie in a game against the Indianapolis Colts this day. Marino went on to a run up a career record of 61,361 yards passing.
1997 - Judge Hiller Zobel in Cambridge, MA reduced Louise Woodward’s murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she had already served in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1998 - It was reported that an estimated 18 million people in Bangladesh were slowly poisoning themselves by drinking from groundwater contaminated with trace amounts of arsenic. 85 million people (of 126 million in the country) were at risk.
1999 - Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back debuted in the U.S. Described variously as “weird and wacky humor”; “truly funny, goofy and stupid”; and “hilarious lowbrow humor,” the animated kiddie flick scooped up $85.7 million in the U.S, and $155.7 million worldwide. Wacky, indeed.
2000 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Little Nicky, starring Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel and Patricia Arquette (“If your father was the devil And your mother was an angel You'd be messed up too!”); Men of Honor, with Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Charlize Theron (“History is made by those who break rules.”); and Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore (“Not a sound. Not a warning. Not a chance. Not alone.”)
2001 - Author Ken Kesey died in Eugene, Oregon. He was 66 years old. Kesey’s books included One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964).
2002 - Dozens of tornadoes sliced their way from Louisiana to Pennsylvania on this night, carving up farmland and forests and nearly erasing whole communities in Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio. In what the National Weather Service describes as one of the worst November tornado outbreaks on record, seventeen people were killed in Tennessee, twelve in Alabama, five in Ohio and one each in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
2003 - U.S. Federal regulators ruled that customers could ‘port’ their home phone numbers to their cell phones -- if your wireless company and your (wired) telephone company have overlapping coverage in your locality.
2004 - The Polar Express opened in the U.S. The animated family adventure features the voices of Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona M. Gaye, Peter Scolari, Brendan King, Andy Pellick, Josh Eli, Mark Mendonca, Rolandas Hendricks, Mark Goodman, Jon Scott Gregory Gast, Sean Scott and Gordon Hart.
2004 - A gas station in Washington DC became the first in North America to feature a hydrogen dispensing pump.
2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won the Liberian presidential runoff (defeating George Weah) to become the first female president on the continent of Africa.
2005 - An investigation showed metal pilings in the 17th Street Canal -- whose failure flooded much of New Orleans, Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina -- were seven feet shorter than the Corps of Engineers had said they were.
2006 - Films debuting in the U.S.: A Good Year, with Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Abbie Cornish, Marion Cotillard, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander and Freddie Highmore; Harsh Times, starring Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez and Eva Longoria, The Return, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Beahan, Peter O Brien, Adam Scott and Sam Shepard; and Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson.
2006 - U.S. President George Bush (II) dedicated the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia.
2006 - Broadway and film actor Jack Palance died in southern California at 87 years of age. Palance appeared in hundreds of film and TV roles, including: Sudden Fear, Shane, Man in the Attic, The Big Knife, Attack, Flight to Tangier, Sign of the Pagan, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and his Oscar-winning (supporting actor) performance as Curly Washburn in City Slickers.
2007 - Deaths on this day: Norman Mailer (84), writer: The Naked and the Dead (1948) and The Executioner’s Song (1979); and film actress Laraine Day (86): Dr. Kildare film series from (1938-1941) -- she was married for 13 years to baseball mgr Leo Durocher and was known as ‘The First Lady of Baseball’.
2008 - U.S. electronics retailer Circuit City filed for bankruptcy protection, but announced it would stay open for business through the holiday season.
2008 - South African folk singer -- and civil rights activist -- Miriam Makeba, known as ‘Mama Afrika’, died ((heart attack) in southern Italy. She was 75 years old, and had just performing at a concert against organized crime.
- 2008 U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and wife, Michelle, met with President George Bush (II) and First Lady Laura at the White House. Obama urged Bush to help the ailing U.S. auto industry.
2009 - Utah’s Mormon church announced its support for gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.
2009 - Activision released its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Within a few days, sales of the video game brought in $550 million, breaking records in several countries.
2010 - Morning Glory opened in the U.S. The comedy stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, 50 Cent, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum.
Birthdays November 10
1483 - Martin Luther
religious leader: founder of Protestantism: wrote 95 theses: On the Power of Indulgences, calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church; died Feb 18, 1546
1697 - William Hogarth
painter, engraver: Four Stages of Cruelty, A Rake’s Progress, A Harlot’s Progress; died Oct 25, 1764
1730 - Oliver Goldsmith
playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield; died Apr 4, 1774
1793 - Jared P. (Potter) Kirtland
physician; naturalist: found 1st Kirtland’s Warbler [now, a rare bird]; died Dec 10, 1877
1889 - Claude Rains
actor: Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia; died May 30, 1967
1907 - (Ellen) Jane Froman
singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, I’ll Walk Alone, I Believe; died Apr 22, 1980
1911 - Harry Andrews
actor: Jack the Ripper, Inside Story, The Seven Dials Mystery, S.O.S. Titanic, Superman, The Big Sleep, Sky Riders; died Mar 6, 1989
1912 - (George Robert) Birdie Tebbetts
baseball: catcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1940/all-star: 1941, 1942], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1948, 1949], Cleveland Indians; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians; died Mar 24, 1999
1914 - Tod Andrews
actor: The President’s Plane Is Missing, Hang ’Em High, Between Heaven and Hell, Voodoo Man, Spy Ship, Beneath the Planet of the Apes; died Nov 7, 1972
1916 - Billy May
composer, bandleader: many of Sinatra’s Capitol hits; died Jan 22, 2004
1919 - George Fenneman
announcer: radio/TV: You Bet Your Life [w/Groucho Marx]; TV host: Your Funny, Funny Films, Anybody Can Play; died May 29, 1997
1925 - Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.)
actor: Camelot, Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; TV narrator: Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, Ellis Island; one of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands; died Aug 5, 1984
1932 - Paul Bley
pianist, composer: LP: Open to Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild
1932 - Roy Scheider
actor: All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, seaQuest DSV; died Feb 10, 2008
1935 - Pippa Scott
The Virginian, The Sound of Murder, Terror on the 40th Floor, My Sister Hank, Some Kind of a Nut, For Pete’s Sake, My Six Loves
1940 - Russell Means
activist: Native American rights
1944 - Tim Rice
lyricist: with Andrew Lloyd Weber: Jesus Christ, Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe, Odessa File
1945 - Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn)
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. [1972]; Funny Face
1947 - Glen Buxton
songwriter, musician: lead guitar: group: Alice Cooper: I’m Eighteen, Is It My Body, Desperado, Under My Wheels, Be My Lover, School’s Out, Elected, Hello Hooray; died Oct 19, 1997
1947 - DAVE Loggins
singer: Please Come to Boston; cousin of singer Kenny Loggins
1948 - Greg Lake
musician: bass, singer: group: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning, Lucky Man; solo: I Believe in Father Christmas
1949 - Ann Reinking
dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude
1950 - Ronnie Hammond
singer: group: Atlanta Rhythm Section: So in to You, Imaginary Lover
1951 - Jack Scalia
actor: Pointman, The Devlin Connection, Dallas, High Performance, Berrenger’s, Hollywood Beat, Storybook, Shattered Image, Wolf, Tequila & Bonetti; TV host: Stuntmasters
1953 - Rusty Chambers
football: Miami Dolphins LB
1955 - Jack (Anthony) Clark
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1978, 1979], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1985/all-star: 1985, 1986], NY Yankees, SD Padres, Boston Red Sox
1956 - Sinbad (David Adkins)
actor, comedian: A Different World, The Sinbad Show, The Redd Foxx Show, Coneheads, The Cherokee Kid, Good Burger; TV host: Showtime at the Apollo
1959 - (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips
actress: One Day at a Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin; daughter of singer John Phillips [The Mamas and The Papas]
1963 - Mike (Michael Anthony) Powell
track and field: long-jump world record holder: 8.95 m [29 ft 4½ in] 1991; won two gold medals at the World Championships [1991, 1993] and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics [1988, 1992]; UCLA jumps and multi-events coach
1964 - Keith Lockhart
baseball: San Diego Padres, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves
1964 - Kenny Rogers
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Minnesota Twins
1965 - Sean Hughes
comedian: youngest ever winner of the Perrirer comedy award; actor: Girl on a Cycle, Puckoon, The Greatest Store in the World, Fast Food, The Butcher Boy, Snakes and Laddders, Rocket Man II
1966 - Vanessa Angel
actress: Trick or Treat, Raptor Island 2: Raptor Planet, Criminal Intent, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, The Perfect Score, Camouflage
1967 - Michael Jai White
martial arts performer, actor: Universal Soldier film series, Cross Undisputed 2, Getting Played, Blood and Bone, Freedom Song, Exit Wounds
1969 - Ellen Pompeo
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Life of the Party, Nobody’s Perfect, Old School, Daredevil, Catch Me If You Can, Eventual Wife, 8 1/2 x 11
1969 - Ed Ward
hockey [right wing]: Quebec Nordiques, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New Jersey Devils
1971 - Athena Massey
actress: Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Undercover Heat, Red Shoe Diaries, The Nutty Professor, Molly, Seinfeld, Star Trek: Voyager, Nash Bridges, Black Scorpion Returns, Termination Man, Undercover Heat
1972 - Isaac Bruce
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Memphis; NFL: LA/St. Louis Rams
1972 - Shawn Green
baseball [right field]: Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Mets
1973 - Mike Flanagan
football: UCLA; NFL: Green Bay Packers
1973 - Darius Holland
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns. Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos
1977 - Brittany Murphy
actress: Clueless, Freeway, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Cherry Falls, Riding in Cars with Boys; died Dec 20, 2009
1978 - Eve (Jihan Jeffers)
rapper: Gangsta Lovin’, Figure You Out, Ryde Away, Double R What, Who’s That Girl?, That’s What It Is, You Ain’t Gettin’ None
1980 - Donte’ Stallworth
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Tennessee; NFL: New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots
1982 - Heather Matarazzo
actress: Now and Again, Believe in Me, The Princess Diaries, Saved!, Sorority Boys, Scream 3, Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge
Chart Toppers November 10
1951Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Down Yonder - Del Wood
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1960Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1969Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Come Together - The Beatles
Something - The Beatles
To See My Angel Cry - Conway Twitty
1978You Needed Me - Anne Murray
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell
1987I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol
Am I Blue - George Strait
1996No Diggity - BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion
Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
Like the Rain - Clint Black
2005Gold Digger - Kanye West
Because Of You - Kelly Clarkson
My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
Better Life - Keith Urban
Chart Topper November 10th, 1996...Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton