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Friday, November 26, 2010
FRATERNITY DAY
It all started when nine close friends, meeting over apples and roasted potatoes in a cold and bare dormitory room at Union College in Schenectady, New York, unknowingly put their mark on the entire future of collegiate student organizations. They didn’t originate the idea of a secret Greek-letter society; Phi Beta Kappa had done that 50 years earlier ... nor the concept of a literary society; groups with names like Philomathean and Cliosophic had been around even longer. They didn’t even originate formalized student social groups or college eating clubs; both having long been commonplace.
What John Hart Hunter, one of the nine, proposed on this day in 1825 was to take an informal group calling itself The Philosophers, and formalize it using the strongest characteristics of all these existing institutions. Thus, The Philosophers became Kappa Alpha Society. It was this synthesis that caught the attention of the college world and exploded into the collegiate fraternity system over the following 75 years.
The nine members were Rev. John Hart Hunter, John McGeoch, Prof. Isaac Wilbur Jackson, Dr. Thomas Hun, Orlando Meads, James Proudfit and Hon. Joseph Anthony Constant of the class of 1826, and Rev. Arthur Burtis and Joseph Law of the Class of 1827.
In the words of Arthur Burtis, “After we were domiciled in our upper chamber, in the fourth story of the south section---South College, northeast corner... we now and then beguiled the long winter evenings and entertained our friends with a few baked potatoes and salt and comforted them with apples. Jackson, Hun, Meads, Constant, and McGeoch were often the genial sharers of our simple meal, which was enlivened with mirth and wit and merry song.... It was determined to raise Hunter to an elevated seat on the woodpile, which stood in the corner of the room. When he was exalted to his high eminence, with his pipe in his mouth, he became the leader of this little band. Whereupon I suggested it would be right for us to get our light from this central luminary and that I would carry it to the others.... This band was now beginning to assume shape and form and comely order.”
Events November 26
1789 - This was a day of thanksgiving set aside by U.S. President Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, the first national celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
1832 - For 12½ cents, passengers began riding the first streetcar railway in America. The New York City service ran from City Hall to 14th Street.
1860 - Hey, here’s big news: A newspaper print of newly elected President Abraham Lincoln clearly showed the beginnings of a beard. The idea for the beard had come from a letter sent by 11-year-old Grace Bedell, who had suggested that Mr. Lincoln would look better (and would be more electable) with a beard.
1864 - Charles L. Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddel. The manuscript was titled Alice’s Adventures Underground. It was an early Christmas present to the 12-year-old girl. Later, the manuscript was renamed Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In 1933, the film version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland starred Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Cary Grant as Mock Turtle, Jack Oakie as Tweedledum and Charlotte Henry in the title role of Alice.
1867 - The refrigerated railroad car was patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan.
1896 - The University of Chicago defeated the University of Michigan, 7-6, at the Chicago Coliseum. It was the first major college football game played indoors.
1922 - The tomb of the Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, “The greatest archaeological discovery of all time.” People in America, looking for brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to Tut.
1940 - Xavier Cugat and his orchestra recorded Orchids in the Moonlight on the Columbia label.
1941 - Bobby Riggs, the national amateur singles tennis champion, turned pro on this day.
1941 - U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull submitted an American ‘de facto ultimatum’ to Japanese envoys in Washington, DC.
1941 - A Japanese carrier force left its base, moving east. The top-secret destination was Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.
1943 - The HMT Rohna was the first ship to be sunk by a German remote-controlled, rocket-boosted bomb, killing 1,015 U.S. troops. Counting the civilian crew and officers of the ship, and three Red Cross workers, a total of 1,138 were killed in the bombing -- more than the death toll on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it left the airwaves in 1950.
1949 - India adopted its constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1950 - China entered the Korean ‘conflict’, launching a counteroffensive against U.N., U.S. and South Korea troops.
1956 - Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at the age of 51. His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies.
1958 - Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard scored his 600th career goal for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team -- at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1959 - Composer Albert William Ketelby died at 84 years of age.
1962 - The first record to be released in the U.S. bearing The Beatles name was recorded on this day. Vee-Jay 498 contained Please Please Me, backed with Ask Me Why.
1965 - France launched its first satellite; a 92-pound capsule called A1 Astérix.
1966 - The first major tidal power plant was opened at La Rance estuary in France.
1968 - Cream gave a farewell performance filmed by the BBC in London. The rock group played before a capacity crowd at Royal Albert Hall.
1969 - The Band received a gold record for the album, The Band.
1969 - The Heisman Trophy was awarded to Steve Owens of Oklahoma as the nation’s outstanding college football player. Owens scored more touchdowns and gained more yardage than any previous player in collegiate history.
1973 - Rose Mary Woods, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told a federal court she had accidentally erased over eighteen minutes of a ‘Watergate tape’ made June 20, 1972. The recording was of a crucial conversation at an Oval-Office meeting between Nixon and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman just three days after the Watergate break-in.
1975 - Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, Manson-family devotee, was found guilty by a federal jury of trying to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. Fromme, 27, had attempted to shoot the president in Sacramento CA Sep 5 with a hand gun. Secret service agents wrestled the weapon from her.
1979 - Massive oil deposits equaling all OPEC reserves were found in Venezuela.
1980 - Rockshow premiered in New York City. The movie is about the first American tour of Paul McCartney and Wings.
1984 - After 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy Lafleur (‘The Flower’) decided to retire from hockey.
1987 - A powerful typhoon whipped across the Philippines, killing more than 650 people in the Bicol region of south Luzon and damaging or destroying 14,000 homes.
1990 - Japanese business giant Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
1991 - The Stars and Stripes were lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines, as the United States abandoned one of its oldest and largest overseas installations, which had been ruined by the erupting Mount Pinatubo.
1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II (and Prince Charles) had volunteered to begin paying taxes on her personal income, and would remove her children from the public payroll.
1994 - The Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over, signaling the band’s reunion (after fourteen years), hit #1 (for two weeks) on U.S. album charts. The tracks: Get Over It, Love Will Keep Us Alive, The Girl from Yesterday, Learn to Be Still, Tequila Sunrise, Hotel California, Wasted Time Pretty Maids All in a Row, I Can’t Tell You Why, New York Minute, The Last Resort, Take It Easy, In the City ,Life in the Fast Lane and Desperado.
1996 - The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make room for the 6,000-room Venetian Resort Hotel Casino.
1997 - Debuting in U.S. theatres: Alien Resurrection, with Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) continuing her fight against the evil, creepy bad killer thingies; and Flubber, where absent-minded professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams) creates the stuff which allows objects to fly through the air and bounce all over the place. Yes, it is based on the 1961 Disney classic, The Absent-Minded Professor.
1998 - More than 200 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab, India. A coupling between two cars of one train had broken, derailing several cars. Two minutes later, an express, travelling in the opposite Direction , on another track, crashed into the derailed cars.
1999 - British-born anthropologist and author Ashley Montagu died in Princeton, NJ. He was 95 years old. His over 60 books included Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race and The Natural Superiority of Women.
2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s near-deadlocked presidential vote. But court contests left in doubt which man would be the ultimate victor and 43rd president of the U.S. Bush said he had won the White House and asked Gore to reconsider his challenges.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush (II) appealed to Congress to outlaw human CLONING after scientists in Worcester, MA reported they had created the first cloned human embryo.
2002 - WorldCom and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled a civil lawsuit over the company’s $9 billion accounting scandal.
2002 - A United Nations report said that for the first time in the 20-year history of the AIDS epidemic, about as many women as men were infected with HIV.
2003 - The Haunted Mansion opened in the U.S. The family fantasy comedy stars Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Nathaniel Parker, Dina Waters, Marc John Jefferies and Aree Davis.
2003 - The U.N. Children’s Fund warned that AIDS had orphaned more than 11 million African children under the age of 15 and, “the worst is yet to come.”
2004 - The U.S. dollar reached a new low against the euro at 1.3288 euros per dollar. The euro peaked at 1.3329.
2005 - Indian textile millionaire Vijaypat Singhania of India set a world record for highest hot air balloon flight: 69,852 feet (20.29 km).
2006 - Raúl Velasco, who hosted one of Mexico’s most popular and enduring TV programs, Siempre en Domingo, died at his home in Acapulco. He was 73 years old.
2007 - A study by the University of Michigan bolstered claims that Native Americans are descendents of a migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska. The study examined genes of indigenous people from North to South America and those of two Siberian groups.
2007 - Reports said North Korea had resumedfrequent public executions, includuing a factory chief accused of making international phone calls. He was shot in a stadium before 150,000 spectators.
2008 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Australia, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown; Fanboys, with Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Carrie Fisher, Ray Park, Danny Trejo and Billy Dee Williams; Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, Skyler Gisondo and Jon Voight; and Transporter 3, with Jason Statham, Robert Knepper and Francois Berleand.
2008 - European ministers pledged €10 billion ($12.8 billion) to an ambitious list of 30 space missions, including a plan to put a robotic rover on Mars.
2008 - 110 people were killed and more than 300 injured when Islamic militants attacked ten sites in Mumbai, India, including the five-star Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and the 19th century Chhatrapati Shivaji railroad station.
2009 - 2003 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi reported that Iranian authorities had taken her medal from her bank safety deposit box, claiming she owed taxes on the $1.3 million she was awarded. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the 108-year-history of the prize.
2010 - The King’s Speech opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Geoffrey Rush.
Birthdays November 26
1792 - Sarah Moore Grimke
antislavery/women’s rights advocate; died Dec 23, 1873
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker
physician, women’s right leader: 1st female surgeon in U.S. Army; first woman to receive U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor; died Feb 21, 1919
1908 - Lefty (Vernon Louis) Gomez
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932, 1936-1939/record: won six World Series games without a loss/all-star: 1933-1939/winning pitcher in first all-star game], Washington Nationals; died Feb 17, 1989
1909 - Eugène Ionesco
playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs; died Mar 28, 1994
1910 - Cyril Cusack
actor: Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra; died Oct 7, 1993
1912 - (Arnold) Eric Sevareid
Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: LBJ-The Man and the President, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [1972-73], The Agnew Resignation, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [10/10/73]; commentator: CBS; died July 9, 1992
1922 - Charles Schulz
cartoonist: Peanuts; Emmy Award-winning writer: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [1973]; died Feb 12, 2000
1933 - Robert Goulet (Stanley Applebaum)
singer: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, My Love Forgive Me, Camelot; actor: Mr. Wrong, Camelot, I’d Rather be Rich, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, Blue Light; died Oct 30, 2007
1935 - Marian Mercer
singer, actress: The Dean Martin Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters Show, Home Free, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, A Touch of Grace, The Sandy Duncan Show, It’s a Living, The Dom Deluise Show, The Andy Williams Show
1938 - Ray Brown
singer: group: The Four Freshmen: Charmaine
1938 - Rich Little (Caruthers)
comedian and impressionist: over 150 impressions; actor: The Late Shift, Happy Hour, Dirty Tricks
1939 - Tina Turner (Annie Bullock)
Grammy Award-winning Pop Singer of the Year [1985]; What’s Love Got to Do with It, Private Dancer, We Don’t Need Another Hero, Theme from Goldeneye; w/Ike Turner: A Fool in Love, Proud Mary; Ike’s ex
1942 - Jan Stenerud
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs kicker: NFL career record: 373 field goals kicked [1967-85]; invented kicking tee used by most NFL kickers; Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings
1944 - Alan Henderson
musician: bass: group: Them
1945 - Daniel Davis
actor: The Hunt for Red October, Columbo: No Time to Die, Palomino, Havana, K-9, George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
1945 - John McVie
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams
1946 - Art Shell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Oakland Raider LT, Super Bowl XI, XV; coach: Oakland Raiders
1947 - Richie (Richard Joseph) Hebner
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs
1947 - Larry (Lawrence Cyril) Gura
baseball: pitcher: Arizona State all-American; Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, KC Royals [World Series: 1980/all-star: 1980]
1952 - Wendy Turnbull
tennis: made it to the finals in singles Grand Slam events 3 times: 1977 U.S. Open, 1979 French Open and Australian Open; captured 9 Grand Slam Doubles and mixed doubles and 13 Senior Grand Slam doubles titles; won bronze medal at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea in doubles [1988]
1954 - Bob Murray
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks player, coach
1956 - Scott Jacoby
Emmy Award-winning actor: That Certain Summer, Wednesday Movie of the Week, To Die For series, Return to Horror High, Midnight Auto Supply, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Bad Ronald, Rivals
1956 - Dale Jarrett
NASCAR racing champ: Daytona 500 in 1993, 1996, 2000, Brickyard 400 [1996], NASCAR NEXTEL Cup [1999]; father of racer Jason Jarrett, brother of driver Glenn Jarrett, father is former race car driver Ned Jarrett
1959 - Jamie Rose
actress: Falcon Crest, Lady Blue, To Die Standing, Playroom, Rebel Love, Tightrope, Heartbreakers, In Love with an Older Woman, Twirl
1960 - Johnny Hector
football: NY Jets RB
1962 - Chuck Finley
baseball [pitcher]: California/Anaheim Angels, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals
1963 - Mario Elie
basketball [forward, guard]: NBA: Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns
1964 - Cynthia Lea Clark
actress: Punchcard Player, Flirting With Death, The Last Fling, Just Between Friends, Love Lives On, The Execution, Chicago Story
1966 - Garcelle Beauvais
model, actress: NYPD Blue, Coming to America, Models Inc, The Jamie Foxx Show, Wild Wild West
1969 - Shawn Kemp
basketball [forward]: NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic
1977 - John Parrish
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles
Chart Toppers November 26
1949That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1958It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
One Night - Elvis Presley
City Lights - Ray Price
1967Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Rain, the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
It’s the Little Things - Sonny James
1976Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta Lynn
1985We Built This City - Starship
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey
Separate Lives - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
I’ll Never Stop Loving You - Gary Morris
1994I’ll Make Love to You - Boyz II Men
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men
If I Could Make a Living - Clay Walker
2003Baby Boy - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Sean Paul
Hey Ya! - Outkast
Suga Suga - Baby Bash featuring Frankie J
I Love This Bar - Toby Keith
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Friday, November 26, 2010
FRATERNITY DAY
It all started when nine close friends, meeting over apples and roasted potatoes in a cold and bare dormitory room at Union College in Schenectady, New York, unknowingly put their mark on the entire future of collegiate student organizations. They didn’t originate the idea of a secret Greek-letter society; Phi Beta Kappa had done that 50 years earlier ... nor the concept of a literary society; groups with names like Philomathean and Cliosophic had been around even longer. They didn’t even originate formalized student social groups or college eating clubs; both having long been commonplace.
What John Hart Hunter, one of the nine, proposed on this day in 1825 was to take an informal group calling itself The Philosophers, and formalize it using the strongest characteristics of all these existing institutions. Thus, The Philosophers became Kappa Alpha Society. It was this synthesis that caught the attention of the college world and exploded into the collegiate fraternity system over the following 75 years.
The nine members were Rev. John Hart Hunter, John McGeoch, Prof. Isaac Wilbur Jackson, Dr. Thomas Hun, Orlando Meads, James Proudfit and Hon. Joseph Anthony Constant of the class of 1826, and Rev. Arthur Burtis and Joseph Law of the Class of 1827.
In the words of Arthur Burtis, “After we were domiciled in our upper chamber, in the fourth story of the south section---South College, northeast corner... we now and then beguiled the long winter evenings and entertained our friends with a few baked potatoes and salt and comforted them with apples. Jackson, Hun, Meads, Constant, and McGeoch were often the genial sharers of our simple meal, which was enlivened with mirth and wit and merry song.... It was determined to raise Hunter to an elevated seat on the woodpile, which stood in the corner of the room. When he was exalted to his high eminence, with his pipe in his mouth, he became the leader of this little band. Whereupon I suggested it would be right for us to get our light from this central luminary and that I would carry it to the others.... This band was now beginning to assume shape and form and comely order.”
Events November 26
1789 - This was a day of thanksgiving set aside by U.S. President Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, the first national celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
1832 - For 12½ cents, passengers began riding the first streetcar railway in America. The New York City service ran from City Hall to 14th Street.
1860 - Hey, here’s big news: A newspaper print of newly elected President Abraham Lincoln clearly showed the beginnings of a beard. The idea for the beard had come from a letter sent by 11-year-old Grace Bedell, who had suggested that Mr. Lincoln would look better (and would be more electable) with a beard.
1864 - Charles L. Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddel. The manuscript was titled Alice’s Adventures Underground. It was an early Christmas present to the 12-year-old girl. Later, the manuscript was renamed Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In 1933, the film version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland starred Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Cary Grant as Mock Turtle, Jack Oakie as Tweedledum and Charlotte Henry in the title role of Alice.
1867 - The refrigerated railroad car was patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan.
1896 - The University of Chicago defeated the University of Michigan, 7-6, at the Chicago Coliseum. It was the first major college football game played indoors.
1922 - The tomb of the Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, “The greatest archaeological discovery of all time.” People in America, looking for brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to Tut.
1940 - Xavier Cugat and his orchestra recorded Orchids in the Moonlight on the Columbia label.
1941 - Bobby Riggs, the national amateur singles tennis champion, turned pro on this day.
1941 - U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull submitted an American ‘de facto ultimatum’ to Japanese envoys in Washington, DC.
1941 - A Japanese carrier force left its base, moving east. The top-secret destination was Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.
1943 - The HMT Rohna was the first ship to be sunk by a German remote-controlled, rocket-boosted bomb, killing 1,015 U.S. troops. Counting the civilian crew and officers of the ship, and three Red Cross workers, a total of 1,138 were killed in the bombing -- more than the death toll on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it left the airwaves in 1950.
1949 - India adopted its constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1950 - China entered the Korean ‘conflict’, launching a counteroffensive against U.N., U.S. and South Korea troops.
1956 - Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at the age of 51. His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies.
1958 - Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard scored his 600th career goal for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team -- at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1959 - Composer Albert William Ketelby died at 84 years of age.
1962 - The first record to be released in the U.S. bearing The Beatles name was recorded on this day. Vee-Jay 498 contained Please Please Me, backed with Ask Me Why.
1965 - France launched its first satellite; a 92-pound capsule called A1 Astérix.
1966 - The first major tidal power plant was opened at La Rance estuary in France.
1968 - Cream gave a farewell performance filmed by the BBC in London. The rock group played before a capacity crowd at Royal Albert Hall.
1969 - The Band received a gold record for the album, The Band.
1969 - The Heisman Trophy was awarded to Steve Owens of Oklahoma as the nation’s outstanding college football player. Owens scored more touchdowns and gained more yardage than any previous player in collegiate history.
1973 - Rose Mary Woods, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told a federal court she had accidentally erased over eighteen minutes of a ‘Watergate tape’ made June 20, 1972. The recording was of a crucial conversation at an Oval-Office meeting between Nixon and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman just three days after the Watergate break-in.
1975 - Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, Manson-family devotee, was found guilty by a federal jury of trying to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. Fromme, 27, had attempted to shoot the president in Sacramento CA Sep 5 with a hand gun. Secret service agents wrestled the weapon from her.
1979 - Massive oil deposits equaling all OPEC reserves were found in Venezuela.
1980 - Rockshow premiered in New York City. The movie is about the first American tour of Paul McCartney and Wings.
1984 - After 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy Lafleur (‘The Flower’) decided to retire from hockey.
1987 - A powerful typhoon whipped across the Philippines, killing more than 650 people in the Bicol region of south Luzon and damaging or destroying 14,000 homes.
1990 - Japanese business giant Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
1991 - The Stars and Stripes were lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines, as the United States abandoned one of its oldest and largest overseas installations, which had been ruined by the erupting Mount Pinatubo.
1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II (and Prince Charles) had volunteered to begin paying taxes on her personal income, and would remove her children from the public payroll.
1994 - The Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over, signaling the band’s reunion (after fourteen years), hit #1 (for two weeks) on U.S. album charts. The tracks: Get Over It, Love Will Keep Us Alive, The Girl from Yesterday, Learn to Be Still, Tequila Sunrise, Hotel California, Wasted Time Pretty Maids All in a Row, I Can’t Tell You Why, New York Minute, The Last Resort, Take It Easy, In the City ,Life in the Fast Lane and Desperado.
1996 - The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make room for the 6,000-room Venetian Resort Hotel Casino.
1997 - Debuting in U.S. theatres: Alien Resurrection, with Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) continuing her fight against the evil, creepy bad killer thingies; and Flubber, where absent-minded professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams) creates the stuff which allows objects to fly through the air and bounce all over the place. Yes, it is based on the 1961 Disney classic, The Absent-Minded Professor.
1998 - More than 200 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab, India. A coupling between two cars of one train had broken, derailing several cars. Two minutes later, an express, travelling in the opposite Direction , on another track, crashed into the derailed cars.
1999 - British-born anthropologist and author Ashley Montagu died in Princeton, NJ. He was 95 years old. His over 60 books included Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race and The Natural Superiority of Women.
2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s near-deadlocked presidential vote. But court contests left in doubt which man would be the ultimate victor and 43rd president of the U.S. Bush said he had won the White House and asked Gore to reconsider his challenges.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush (II) appealed to Congress to outlaw human CLONING after scientists in Worcester, MA reported they had created the first cloned human embryo.
2002 - WorldCom and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled a civil lawsuit over the company’s $9 billion accounting scandal.
2002 - A United Nations report said that for the first time in the 20-year history of the AIDS epidemic, about as many women as men were infected with HIV.
2003 - The Haunted Mansion opened in the U.S. The family fantasy comedy stars Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Nathaniel Parker, Dina Waters, Marc John Jefferies and Aree Davis.
2003 - The U.N. Children’s Fund warned that AIDS had orphaned more than 11 million African children under the age of 15 and, “the worst is yet to come.”
2004 - The U.S. dollar reached a new low against the euro at 1.3288 euros per dollar. The euro peaked at 1.3329.
2005 - Indian textile millionaire Vijaypat Singhania of India set a world record for highest hot air balloon flight: 69,852 feet (20.29 km).
2006 - Raúl Velasco, who hosted one of Mexico’s most popular and enduring TV programs, Siempre en Domingo, died at his home in Acapulco. He was 73 years old.
2007 - A study by the University of Michigan bolstered claims that Native Americans are descendents of a migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska. The study examined genes of indigenous people from North to South America and those of two Siberian groups.
2007 - Reports said North Korea had resumedfrequent public executions, includuing a factory chief accused of making international phone calls. He was shot in a stadium before 150,000 spectators.
2008 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Australia, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown; Fanboys, with Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Carrie Fisher, Ray Park, Danny Trejo and Billy Dee Williams; Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, Skyler Gisondo and Jon Voight; and Transporter 3, with Jason Statham, Robert Knepper and Francois Berleand.
2008 - European ministers pledged €10 billion ($12.8 billion) to an ambitious list of 30 space missions, including a plan to put a robotic rover on Mars.
2008 - 110 people were killed and more than 300 injured when Islamic militants attacked ten sites in Mumbai, India, including the five-star Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and the 19th century Chhatrapati Shivaji railroad station.
2009 - 2003 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi reported that Iranian authorities had taken her medal from her bank safety deposit box, claiming she owed taxes on the $1.3 million she was awarded. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the 108-year-history of the prize.
2010 - The King’s Speech opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Geoffrey Rush.
Birthdays November 26
1792 - Sarah Moore Grimke
antislavery/women’s rights advocate; died Dec 23, 1873
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker
physician, women’s right leader: 1st female surgeon in U.S. Army; first woman to receive U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor; died Feb 21, 1919
1908 - Lefty (Vernon Louis) Gomez
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932, 1936-1939/record: won six World Series games without a loss/all-star: 1933-1939/winning pitcher in first all-star game], Washington Nationals; died Feb 17, 1989
1909 - Eugène Ionesco
playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs; died Mar 28, 1994
1910 - Cyril Cusack
actor: Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra; died Oct 7, 1993
1912 - (Arnold) Eric Sevareid
Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: LBJ-The Man and the President, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [1972-73], The Agnew Resignation, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [10/10/73]; commentator: CBS; died July 9, 1992
1922 - Charles Schulz
cartoonist: Peanuts; Emmy Award-winning writer: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [1973]; died Feb 12, 2000
1933 - Robert Goulet (Stanley Applebaum)
singer: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, My Love Forgive Me, Camelot; actor: Mr. Wrong, Camelot, I’d Rather be Rich, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, Blue Light; died Oct 30, 2007
1935 - Marian Mercer
singer, actress: The Dean Martin Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters Show, Home Free, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, A Touch of Grace, The Sandy Duncan Show, It’s a Living, The Dom Deluise Show, The Andy Williams Show
1938 - Ray Brown
singer: group: The Four Freshmen: Charmaine
1938 - Rich Little (Caruthers)
comedian and impressionist: over 150 impressions; actor: The Late Shift, Happy Hour, Dirty Tricks
1939 - Tina Turner (Annie Bullock)
Grammy Award-winning Pop Singer of the Year [1985]; What’s Love Got to Do with It, Private Dancer, We Don’t Need Another Hero, Theme from Goldeneye; w/Ike Turner: A Fool in Love, Proud Mary; Ike’s ex
1942 - Jan Stenerud
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs kicker: NFL career record: 373 field goals kicked [1967-85]; invented kicking tee used by most NFL kickers; Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings
1944 - Alan Henderson
musician: bass: group: Them
1945 - Daniel Davis
actor: The Hunt for Red October, Columbo: No Time to Die, Palomino, Havana, K-9, George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
1945 - John McVie
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams
1946 - Art Shell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Oakland Raider LT, Super Bowl XI, XV; coach: Oakland Raiders
1947 - Richie (Richard Joseph) Hebner
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs
1947 - Larry (Lawrence Cyril) Gura
baseball: pitcher: Arizona State all-American; Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, KC Royals [World Series: 1980/all-star: 1980]
1952 - Wendy Turnbull
tennis: made it to the finals in singles Grand Slam events 3 times: 1977 U.S. Open, 1979 French Open and Australian Open; captured 9 Grand Slam Doubles and mixed doubles and 13 Senior Grand Slam doubles titles; won bronze medal at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea in doubles [1988]
1954 - Bob Murray
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks player, coach
1956 - Scott Jacoby
Emmy Award-winning actor: That Certain Summer, Wednesday Movie of the Week, To Die For series, Return to Horror High, Midnight Auto Supply, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Bad Ronald, Rivals
1956 - Dale Jarrett
NASCAR racing champ: Daytona 500 in 1993, 1996, 2000, Brickyard 400 [1996], NASCAR NEXTEL Cup [1999]; father of racer Jason Jarrett, brother of driver Glenn Jarrett, father is former race car driver Ned Jarrett
1959 - Jamie Rose
actress: Falcon Crest, Lady Blue, To Die Standing, Playroom, Rebel Love, Tightrope, Heartbreakers, In Love with an Older Woman, Twirl
1960 - Johnny Hector
football: NY Jets RB
1962 - Chuck Finley
baseball [pitcher]: California/Anaheim Angels, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals
1963 - Mario Elie
basketball [forward, guard]: NBA: Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns
1964 - Cynthia Lea Clark
actress: Punchcard Player, Flirting With Death, The Last Fling, Just Between Friends, Love Lives On, The Execution, Chicago Story
1966 - Garcelle Beauvais
model, actress: NYPD Blue, Coming to America, Models Inc, The Jamie Foxx Show, Wild Wild West
1969 - Shawn Kemp
basketball [forward]: NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic
1977 - John Parrish
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles
Chart Toppers November 26
1949That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1958It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
One Night - Elvis Presley
City Lights - Ray Price
1967Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Rain, the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
It’s the Little Things - Sonny James
1976Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta Lynn
1985We Built This City - Starship
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey
Separate Lives - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
I’ll Never Stop Loving You - Gary Morris
1994I’ll Make Love to You - Boyz II Men
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men
If I Could Make a Living - Clay Walker
2003Baby Boy - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Sean Paul
Hey Ya! - Outkast
Suga Suga - Baby Bash featuring Frankie J
I Love This Bar - Toby Keith
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