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Saturday, November 13, 2010
THE SHEIK DAY
That great romancer of the silver screen, Rudolph Valentino, starred in The Sheik, which was released on this day in 1921. The Sheik firmly established Valentino’s popular reputation as the Great Lover, and his last film, the comical Son of the Sheik (1926), sealed that title.
But the actor never thought of himself as a conqueror of women -- nor as a great actor. He found the Sheik films rather silly. Rudy’s wife, Natacha Rambova responded to her husband’s screen image: “My husband is a great lover of home life.” However, the publication of Valentino’s volume of poetry, Day Dreams (1923), further fueled the public’s imagination and drove fans into bookstores with a vengeance.
Rudolph Valentino had plans to make more serious films beginning with an ambitious version of El Cid, to be called The Hooded Falcon. In town for the premiere of Son of the Sheik, he collapsed in New York on August 15, 1926. Valentino died eight days later from peritonitis -- before he could begin to work on films that would make the public forget his sheikly shenanigans.
So the grandiose romantic persona persists, and we remember Rudolph Valentino as the Great Lover, The Sheik.
Remember, too, these great films from Valentino:
The Conquering Power (1921), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Beyond the Rocks (1922), Blood and Sand (1922), The Young Rajah (1922), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), A Sainted Devil (1924), The Eagle (1925), Cobra (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926).
Events November 13
1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces under the command of General Richard Montgomery captured the Canadian city of Montreal. Their presence in Canada, however, was not long lasting.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in France (Jean Baptiste Le Roy), in which he said, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
1805 - The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria point to the word wiener to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. It is said that master sausage maker Johann George Lehner, who made the first wiener this day, got his early training in Frankfurt, Germany. He called his sausage the wiener-frankfurter. But it was generally known as wienerwurst. The word wiener comes from Wien (the German name of Vienna) and wurst means sausage in German.
1907 - The world’s first helicopter flight was made. French pioneer Paul Cornu lifted a twin-rotored helicopter into the air entirely without assistance from the ground -- for a few seconds.
1927 - After seven years of construction and over $48 million, the Holland Tunnel, New York City’s connection to Jersey City, NJ, opened to traffic. It was named after the chief engineer of construction, Clifford Milburn Holland, who died before the tunnel was completed.
1930 - The first revolving milk platform was used -- in Plainsboro, NJ. For the first time, 1,680 cows could be milked in seven hours. Now that’s a lot of milk!
1933 - The first sit-down strike was started. The U.S. Workers at the Hormel Packing Company plant in Austin, Minnesota (the home of SPAM) took action against management.
1940 - Alice Marble turned pro. The tennis star signed for $25,000 plus a percentage of the gate receipts.
1940 - Walt Disney’s Fantasia opened at New York’s Broadway Theater. One critic called the film “As terrific as anything that has ever happened on the screen.” And for the first time, an audience was enveloped with surround sound music. The mix the audience heard this day was done on scene by a sound mixer in the theatre. The true ‘Fantasound’ format was to debut later.
1945 - Charles de Gaulle was appointed president of France. De Gaulle had created the temporary government of the République française in 1944, and had launched courageous reforms after France was freed from Nazi rule.
1946 - The first artificial snow was produced -- by Vincent J. Schaefer over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts.
1952 - Harvard’s Paul Zoll used electric shock to treat cardiac arrest. He was the first to do so.
1955 - NBC showed the first live TV program from a foreign country (noncontiguous). Scenes from Havana, Cuba were seen by viewers of DAVE Garroway’s Wide Wide World program.
1956 - In a case from Montgomery, Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on interstate buses is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court decision (Browder v. Gayle).
1960 - Sammy Davis Jr. married Swedish actress May Britt. The couple divorced Dec 19, 1968.
1965 - Julie Harris starred in Skyscraper, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The musical ran for seven months.
1968 - This was a good day for The Beatles. Their movie, Yellow Submarine, premiered in the U.S. and the single, Hey Jude, topped the pop music charts (it was in its 7th of 9 weeks at #1).
1970 - Lt. Gen. Hafez al-Assad became prime minister of Syria following a military coup.
1971 - Mariner 9 was placed in orbit around Mars. It was the first manmade spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, an employee at the Oklahoma Kerr-McGee plutonium fuels production plant, died after her car crashed off the road. During the week prior to her death, Silkwood was reportedly gathering evidence to support her claim that Kerr-McGee was negligent in maintaining plant safety, and at the same time, was involved in a number of unexplained exposures to plutonium. The circumstances of her death have been the subject of great speculation. This story was the basis for the 1983 film Silkwood.
1975 - “Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feeeelings.” One of the great lounge-lizard songs of all time, Feelings by Morris Albert, went gold.
1977 - After 43 years as a regular feature in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, Li’l Abner, to a final conclusion.
1982 - Business as Usual, the smash album by Men at Work, started a fifteen-week run at number one in the U.S. The tracks: Who Can It Be Now?, I Can See It in Your Eyes, Down Under, Underground, Helpless Automation, People Just Love to Play with Words, Be Good Johnny, Touching the Untouchables, Catch a Star, Down by the Sea.
1985 - More than 25,000 people perished in a mud avalanche caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia.
1986 - The state of California put Fricot City on the auction block for $8.8 million. The ‘city’ was actually the former ranch/private estate of Desiré Fricot. It had become a California Youth Authority camp in 1945. Located about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento, Fricot City featured some twenty homes, two gymnasiums, two swimming pools, a full twelve-grade school, a fire station, an infirmary and a chapel.
1989 - Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received the Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George Bush (I) during a White House ceremony.
1992 - Rid**** Bowe won the undisputed heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas with a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield.
1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union. 52.3 percent of voters in a nationwide referendum chose to join the EU.
1995 - A bomb attack on a U.S.-run military center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed seven people, five of them Americans.
1995 - The U.S. government shut down because of a budget impasse between Congress and the President. It reopened a week later.
1997 - Iraq expelled six Americans on a U.N. weapons inspection team. The United Nations voted to withdraw all weapons inspectors from Iraq after tyrant Saddam Hussein ordered the Americans out.
1998 - These films made first runs in the U.S.: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Some Secrets Will Haunt You Forever), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Brandy Norwood; I’ll Be Home for Christmas (This Yule, be cool.), with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna; and Meet Joe Black (No one can die - while he loves!), starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani and Marcia Gay Harden.
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit -- with no apology or admission of guilt -- ending the four-year legal battle that spurred the impeachment proceedings against him.
1999 - “For the winner by unanimous decision and undisputed heavyweight champion of the world . . . Lennox Lewis!” Lennox Lewis tattoed Evander Holyfield for 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Nevada to earn a unanimous decision and capture the title.
2000 - Lawyers for George Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. FL Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced that she would end all recounting at 5 p.m. the following day, prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 - Afghan opposition fighters rolled into Kabul after Taliban troops slipped away under cover of darkness, abandoning the capital without a fight.
2002 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops approved a compromise sex abuse policy after the Vatican demanded they make changes to balance fairness to priests with compassion for victims of those priests.
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was removed from the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having “placed himself above the law.”
2003 - Eric Gagne of the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League Cy Young Award.
2004 - Cartoonist Harry Lampert died on his 88th birthday. The illustrator created the DC Comics superhero The flash (1940) and later became known for his instructional books on bridge.
2004 - Russell Jones, better know as rapper O.D.B. (Old Dirty Bastard), died in a New York City recording studio. He was 35 years old. Jones died of congestive heart failure as a result of an accidental drug overdose.
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, a performer for World Wrestling Entertainment’s SmackDown!, was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Guerrero died from a massive coronary while brushing his teeth. He was just 38 years old.
2006 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in Washington DC for a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr.
2006 - Admiral Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, began a visit to China. His trip was an attempt at strengthening ties between the two navies and at gaining insight into the China’s military buildup.
2007 - The New Frontier hotel/casino in Las Vegas was imploded to make way for a $5-billion megaresort. Elad Group, owner of the Plaza Hotel in New York City, planned to build a Plaza replica to be called the Las Vegas Plaza. The Hotel Last Frontier opened in 1942, was renamed the New Frontier in 1955 and the name was shortened to the Frontier Hotel by its billionaire owner, Howard Hughes, in 1967.
2007 - Shimon Peres became the first Israeli president to address the legislature of a Muslim government when he spoke to Turkey’s Parliament in Ankara on this day.
2008 - China signed an agreement in Geneva to loosen controls on financial news providers in an out-of-court settlement of a dispute with the U.S., the E.U. and Canada.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: 2012, starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson and Chin Han; Dare, with Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming, Tricia Mara and Zach Gilford; Love Hurts, starring Richard E. Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss, Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfman, Camryn Manheim, Caroline Aaron and Johnny Pacar; Oh My God, starring Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield and Jack Thompson; Pirate Radio, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O’Dowd and January Jones; The Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker; The Messenger, with Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone and Eamonn Walker; Uncertainty, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Nelson Landrieu and Olivia Thirlby; the documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, with William Kunstler, Herman Badillo, Dennis Banks, Harry Belafonte, Clyde Bellecourt, Father Daniel Berrigan, Phil Donahue, Jimmy Breslin, Alan Dershowitz, Elizabeth Fink, Jean Fritz Karin Kunstler Goldman, Tom Hayden, Bruce Jackson, Gregory Joey Johnson, Ron Kuby, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Nancy Kurshan, Gerald Lefcourt, Rev. Vernon C. Mason, Bill Means, Michael Ratner, Paul Red, Yusef Salaam, Bobby Seale, Barry Slotnick, Michael Smith, Lynne Stewart, M. Wesley Swearingen, Madonna Thunderhawk and Len Weinglass; and Women in Trouble, with Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton Marley Shelton, Cameron Richardson, Garcelle Beauvais, Caitlin Keats and Paul Cassell.
2009 - British adventurers Mick Dawson and Chris Martin completed a 189-day voyage. They had rowed a 23-foot boat across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. They were the first team to row the Pacific Ocean from west to east.
2009 - Huge explosions and fire ripped through a naval munitions facility in the Ulyanovsk, Russia for hours, killing several people and forcing the evacuation of thousands of others nearby. Additional explosions rocked the site 10 days later.
Birthdays November 13
1833 - Edwin Booth
actor: founded Players Club, New York; older brother of John Wilkes Booth assassin of Abraham Lincoln; died June 7, 1893
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson
author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses; died Dec 3, 1894
1856 - Louis Brandeis
jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939]; died Oct 5, 1941
1913 - Alexander Scourby
actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad; died Feb 22, 1985
1916 - Jack Elam
actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas; died Oct 20, 2003
1917 - Robert Sterling
actor: Topper, Love That Jill, Ichabod and Me; made more than 70 appearances in films and on TV; died May 30, 2006
1922 - Madeleine Sherwood
actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth
1922 - Oskar Werner
actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the ****ed, Fahrenheit 451; died Oct 23, 1984
1923 - Linda Christian
actress: The Devil’s Hand, Athena
1928 - Steve Bilko
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals 1B, Cubs, Reds, Dodgers, Tigers, Angels; died Mar 7, 1978
1932 - Richard Mulligan
Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-1980], Empty Nest [1988-1989]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana; died Sep 26, 2000
1934 - Garry Marshall
producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: **** Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress Penny Marshall
1938 - Jean Seberg
actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse That Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse; died Aug 30, 1979
1939 - Wes (Maurice Wesley) Parker
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966/Gold Glove 1967-1972]
1941 - Dack (Norman) Rambo
actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show; died Mar 21, 1994
1941 - Mel (Melvin Leon, Sr.) Stottlemyre
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1964/all-star 1965, 1966, 1968-1970]
1943 - (Robert) Jay Sigel
golf: champ: GTE West Classic [1994], Energizer Senior Tour Championship [1996], Bruno’s Memorial Classic [1997], Kroger Senior Classic [1997], Bell Atlantic Classic [1998], EMC Kaanapali Classic [1998], Farmers Charity Classic [2004], Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am [2003]
1947 - Joe Mantegna
Tony Award-winning actor: Glengarry Glenn Ross [1984]; House of Games, Things Change, Airheads, Queen’s Logic, The Godfather Part III, Elvis: The Movie, The Money Pit, Three Amigos, Comedy Zone
1948 - Sheila Frazier
actress: The Hitter, Three the Hard Way, I’m Gonna Git You Sucker, Super Fly, Firehouse, The Lazarus Syndrome
1950 - Gilbert Perreault
Hockey Hall of Famer:: Buffalo Sabres: 512 goals, 814 assists, won both Calder and Lady Byng Trophies
1951 - Bill Gibson
musician [drums]: Huey Lewis and the News: Heart of Rock and Roll, Heart and Soul, Doin’ It [All for My Baby], Do You Believe in Love, Trouble in Paradise, Power of Love
1953 - Tracy Scoggins
actress: Lois and Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid
1953 - Charlie Tickner
figure skater: Ice Capades, bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980]
1954 - Chris Noth
actor: The Good Wife, Law & Order, Burnzy’s Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom, Sex and the City
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson)
Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin’ Jack flash , Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi; Grammy Award-winning comedienne: Whoopi Goldberg [1985]
1959 - Caroline Goodall
actress: Schindler’s List, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, Hook, Cliffhanger, The Princess Diaries
1963 - Vinny Testaverde
football: QB: University of Miami [Heisman Trophy winner: 1986]; Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens
1967 - Steve Christie
football [kicker]: William and Mary; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, New York Giants
1967 - Jimmy Kimmel
TV host: Jimmy Kimmel Live
1967 - Steve Zahn
actor: Bye Bye Birdie, Sophistry, Reality Bites, Crimson Tide, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, You’ve Got Mail, Chain of Fools, Dr. Dolittle 2, Riding in Cars with Boys
1968 - Mark Fitzpatrick
hockey [goalie]: New York Islanders, LA Kings, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes
1968 - Steve Zahn
actor: Shattered Glass, Daddy Day Care, Riding in Cars with Boys, Joy Ride, Saving Silverman, Forces of Nature
1970 - Vic Darensbourg
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins, Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Detroit Tigers
1975 - Aaron Stecker
football [running back]: Western Illinois Univ; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New Orleans Saints
1979 - Ron Artest
basketball [guard]: St. John's Univ; NBA: Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers,
Chart Toppers November 13
1945Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy that Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - **** Haymes
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1954I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
This Ole House - Rosemary Clooney
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
More and More - Webb Pierce
1963Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
It’s All Right - The Impressions
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1972I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
I’d Love You to Want Me - Lobo
My Man - Tammy Wynette
1981Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger
Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
1990Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Pray - M.C. Hammer
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
Home - Joe Diffie
1999Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit…) - Lou Bega
Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys
(You Drive Me) Crazy - Britney Spears
I Love You - Martina McBride
2008So What - Pink
Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
Whatever You Like - T.I.
Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood
Chart Topper November 13th, 1990...Home - Joe Diffie
Saturday, November 13, 2010
THE SHEIK DAY
That great romancer of the silver screen, Rudolph Valentino, starred in The Sheik, which was released on this day in 1921. The Sheik firmly established Valentino’s popular reputation as the Great Lover, and his last film, the comical Son of the Sheik (1926), sealed that title.
But the actor never thought of himself as a conqueror of women -- nor as a great actor. He found the Sheik films rather silly. Rudy’s wife, Natacha Rambova responded to her husband’s screen image: “My husband is a great lover of home life.” However, the publication of Valentino’s volume of poetry, Day Dreams (1923), further fueled the public’s imagination and drove fans into bookstores with a vengeance.
Rudolph Valentino had plans to make more serious films beginning with an ambitious version of El Cid, to be called The Hooded Falcon. In town for the premiere of Son of the Sheik, he collapsed in New York on August 15, 1926. Valentino died eight days later from peritonitis -- before he could begin to work on films that would make the public forget his sheikly shenanigans.
So the grandiose romantic persona persists, and we remember Rudolph Valentino as the Great Lover, The Sheik.
Remember, too, these great films from Valentino:
The Conquering Power (1921), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Beyond the Rocks (1922), Blood and Sand (1922), The Young Rajah (1922), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), A Sainted Devil (1924), The Eagle (1925), Cobra (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926).
Events November 13
1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces under the command of General Richard Montgomery captured the Canadian city of Montreal. Their presence in Canada, however, was not long lasting.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in France (Jean Baptiste Le Roy), in which he said, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
1805 - The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria point to the word wiener to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. It is said that master sausage maker Johann George Lehner, who made the first wiener this day, got his early training in Frankfurt, Germany. He called his sausage the wiener-frankfurter. But it was generally known as wienerwurst. The word wiener comes from Wien (the German name of Vienna) and wurst means sausage in German.
1907 - The world’s first helicopter flight was made. French pioneer Paul Cornu lifted a twin-rotored helicopter into the air entirely without assistance from the ground -- for a few seconds.
1927 - After seven years of construction and over $48 million, the Holland Tunnel, New York City’s connection to Jersey City, NJ, opened to traffic. It was named after the chief engineer of construction, Clifford Milburn Holland, who died before the tunnel was completed.
1930 - The first revolving milk platform was used -- in Plainsboro, NJ. For the first time, 1,680 cows could be milked in seven hours. Now that’s a lot of milk!
1933 - The first sit-down strike was started. The U.S. Workers at the Hormel Packing Company plant in Austin, Minnesota (the home of SPAM) took action against management.
1940 - Alice Marble turned pro. The tennis star signed for $25,000 plus a percentage of the gate receipts.
1940 - Walt Disney’s Fantasia opened at New York’s Broadway Theater. One critic called the film “As terrific as anything that has ever happened on the screen.” And for the first time, an audience was enveloped with surround sound music. The mix the audience heard this day was done on scene by a sound mixer in the theatre. The true ‘Fantasound’ format was to debut later.
1945 - Charles de Gaulle was appointed president of France. De Gaulle had created the temporary government of the République française in 1944, and had launched courageous reforms after France was freed from Nazi rule.
1946 - The first artificial snow was produced -- by Vincent J. Schaefer over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts.
1952 - Harvard’s Paul Zoll used electric shock to treat cardiac arrest. He was the first to do so.
1955 - NBC showed the first live TV program from a foreign country (noncontiguous). Scenes from Havana, Cuba were seen by viewers of DAVE Garroway’s Wide Wide World program.
1956 - In a case from Montgomery, Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on interstate buses is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court decision (Browder v. Gayle).
1960 - Sammy Davis Jr. married Swedish actress May Britt. The couple divorced Dec 19, 1968.
1965 - Julie Harris starred in Skyscraper, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The musical ran for seven months.
1968 - This was a good day for The Beatles. Their movie, Yellow Submarine, premiered in the U.S. and the single, Hey Jude, topped the pop music charts (it was in its 7th of 9 weeks at #1).
1970 - Lt. Gen. Hafez al-Assad became prime minister of Syria following a military coup.
1971 - Mariner 9 was placed in orbit around Mars. It was the first manmade spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1974 - Karen Silkwood, an employee at the Oklahoma Kerr-McGee plutonium fuels production plant, died after her car crashed off the road. During the week prior to her death, Silkwood was reportedly gathering evidence to support her claim that Kerr-McGee was negligent in maintaining plant safety, and at the same time, was involved in a number of unexplained exposures to plutonium. The circumstances of her death have been the subject of great speculation. This story was the basis for the 1983 film Silkwood.
1975 - “Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feeeelings.” One of the great lounge-lizard songs of all time, Feelings by Morris Albert, went gold.
1977 - After 43 years as a regular feature in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, Li’l Abner, to a final conclusion.
1982 - Business as Usual, the smash album by Men at Work, started a fifteen-week run at number one in the U.S. The tracks: Who Can It Be Now?, I Can See It in Your Eyes, Down Under, Underground, Helpless Automation, People Just Love to Play with Words, Be Good Johnny, Touching the Untouchables, Catch a Star, Down by the Sea.
1985 - More than 25,000 people perished in a mud avalanche caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia.
1986 - The state of California put Fricot City on the auction block for $8.8 million. The ‘city’ was actually the former ranch/private estate of Desiré Fricot. It had become a California Youth Authority camp in 1945. Located about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento, Fricot City featured some twenty homes, two gymnasiums, two swimming pools, a full twelve-grade school, a fire station, an infirmary and a chapel.
1989 - Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received the Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George Bush (I) during a White House ceremony.
1992 - Rid**** Bowe won the undisputed heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas with a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield.
1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union. 52.3 percent of voters in a nationwide referendum chose to join the EU.
1995 - A bomb attack on a U.S.-run military center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed seven people, five of them Americans.
1995 - The U.S. government shut down because of a budget impasse between Congress and the President. It reopened a week later.
1997 - Iraq expelled six Americans on a U.N. weapons inspection team. The United Nations voted to withdraw all weapons inspectors from Iraq after tyrant Saddam Hussein ordered the Americans out.
1998 - These films made first runs in the U.S.: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Some Secrets Will Haunt You Forever), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Brandy Norwood; I’ll Be Home for Christmas (This Yule, be cool.), with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna; and Meet Joe Black (No one can die - while he loves!), starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani and Marcia Gay Harden.
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit -- with no apology or admission of guilt -- ending the four-year legal battle that spurred the impeachment proceedings against him.
1999 - “For the winner by unanimous decision and undisputed heavyweight champion of the world . . . Lennox Lewis!” Lennox Lewis tattoed Evander Holyfield for 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Nevada to earn a unanimous decision and capture the title.
2000 - Lawyers for George Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. FL Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced that she would end all recounting at 5 p.m. the following day, prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
2001 - Afghan opposition fighters rolled into Kabul after Taliban troops slipped away under cover of darkness, abandoning the capital without a fight.
2002 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops approved a compromise sex abuse policy after the Vatican demanded they make changes to balance fairness to priests with compassion for victims of those priests.
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was removed from the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having “placed himself above the law.”
2003 - Eric Gagne of the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League Cy Young Award.
2004 - Cartoonist Harry Lampert died on his 88th birthday. The illustrator created the DC Comics superhero The flash (1940) and later became known for his instructional books on bridge.
2004 - Russell Jones, better know as rapper O.D.B. (Old Dirty Bastard), died in a New York City recording studio. He was 35 years old. Jones died of congestive heart failure as a result of an accidental drug overdose.
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, a performer for World Wrestling Entertainment’s SmackDown!, was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Guerrero died from a massive coronary while brushing his teeth. He was just 38 years old.
2006 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in Washington DC for a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr.
2006 - Admiral Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, began a visit to China. His trip was an attempt at strengthening ties between the two navies and at gaining insight into the China’s military buildup.
2007 - The New Frontier hotel/casino in Las Vegas was imploded to make way for a $5-billion megaresort. Elad Group, owner of the Plaza Hotel in New York City, planned to build a Plaza replica to be called the Las Vegas Plaza. The Hotel Last Frontier opened in 1942, was renamed the New Frontier in 1955 and the name was shortened to the Frontier Hotel by its billionaire owner, Howard Hughes, in 1967.
2007 - Shimon Peres became the first Israeli president to address the legislature of a Muslim government when he spoke to Turkey’s Parliament in Ankara on this day.
2008 - China signed an agreement in Geneva to loosen controls on financial news providers in an out-of-court settlement of a dispute with the U.S., the E.U. and Canada.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: 2012, starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson and Chin Han; Dare, with Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming, Tricia Mara and Zach Gilford; Love Hurts, starring Richard E. Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss, Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfman, Camryn Manheim, Caroline Aaron and Johnny Pacar; Oh My God, starring Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield and Jack Thompson; Pirate Radio, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O’Dowd and January Jones; The Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker; The Messenger, with Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone and Eamonn Walker; Uncertainty, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Nelson Landrieu and Olivia Thirlby; the documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, with William Kunstler, Herman Badillo, Dennis Banks, Harry Belafonte, Clyde Bellecourt, Father Daniel Berrigan, Phil Donahue, Jimmy Breslin, Alan Dershowitz, Elizabeth Fink, Jean Fritz Karin Kunstler Goldman, Tom Hayden, Bruce Jackson, Gregory Joey Johnson, Ron Kuby, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Nancy Kurshan, Gerald Lefcourt, Rev. Vernon C. Mason, Bill Means, Michael Ratner, Paul Red, Yusef Salaam, Bobby Seale, Barry Slotnick, Michael Smith, Lynne Stewart, M. Wesley Swearingen, Madonna Thunderhawk and Len Weinglass; and Women in Trouble, with Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton Marley Shelton, Cameron Richardson, Garcelle Beauvais, Caitlin Keats and Paul Cassell.
2009 - British adventurers Mick Dawson and Chris Martin completed a 189-day voyage. They had rowed a 23-foot boat across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. They were the first team to row the Pacific Ocean from west to east.
2009 - Huge explosions and fire ripped through a naval munitions facility in the Ulyanovsk, Russia for hours, killing several people and forcing the evacuation of thousands of others nearby. Additional explosions rocked the site 10 days later.
Birthdays November 13
1833 - Edwin Booth
actor: founded Players Club, New York; older brother of John Wilkes Booth assassin of Abraham Lincoln; died June 7, 1893
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson
author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses; died Dec 3, 1894
1856 - Louis Brandeis
jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939]; died Oct 5, 1941
1913 - Alexander Scourby
actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad; died Feb 22, 1985
1916 - Jack Elam
actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas; died Oct 20, 2003
1917 - Robert Sterling
actor: Topper, Love That Jill, Ichabod and Me; made more than 70 appearances in films and on TV; died May 30, 2006
1922 - Madeleine Sherwood
actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth
1922 - Oskar Werner
actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the ****ed, Fahrenheit 451; died Oct 23, 1984
1923 - Linda Christian
actress: The Devil’s Hand, Athena
1928 - Steve Bilko
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals 1B, Cubs, Reds, Dodgers, Tigers, Angels; died Mar 7, 1978
1932 - Richard Mulligan
Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-1980], Empty Nest [1988-1989]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana; died Sep 26, 2000
1934 - Garry Marshall
producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: **** Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress Penny Marshall
1938 - Jean Seberg
actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse That Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse; died Aug 30, 1979
1939 - Wes (Maurice Wesley) Parker
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966/Gold Glove 1967-1972]
1941 - Dack (Norman) Rambo
actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show; died Mar 21, 1994
1941 - Mel (Melvin Leon, Sr.) Stottlemyre
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1964/all-star 1965, 1966, 1968-1970]
1943 - (Robert) Jay Sigel
golf: champ: GTE West Classic [1994], Energizer Senior Tour Championship [1996], Bruno’s Memorial Classic [1997], Kroger Senior Classic [1997], Bell Atlantic Classic [1998], EMC Kaanapali Classic [1998], Farmers Charity Classic [2004], Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am [2003]
1947 - Joe Mantegna
Tony Award-winning actor: Glengarry Glenn Ross [1984]; House of Games, Things Change, Airheads, Queen’s Logic, The Godfather Part III, Elvis: The Movie, The Money Pit, Three Amigos, Comedy Zone
1948 - Sheila Frazier
actress: The Hitter, Three the Hard Way, I’m Gonna Git You Sucker, Super Fly, Firehouse, The Lazarus Syndrome
1950 - Gilbert Perreault
Hockey Hall of Famer:: Buffalo Sabres: 512 goals, 814 assists, won both Calder and Lady Byng Trophies
1951 - Bill Gibson
musician [drums]: Huey Lewis and the News: Heart of Rock and Roll, Heart and Soul, Doin’ It [All for My Baby], Do You Believe in Love, Trouble in Paradise, Power of Love
1953 - Tracy Scoggins
actress: Lois and Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid
1953 - Charlie Tickner
figure skater: Ice Capades, bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980]
1954 - Chris Noth
actor: The Good Wife, Law & Order, Burnzy’s Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom, Sex and the City
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson)
Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin’ Jack flash , Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi; Grammy Award-winning comedienne: Whoopi Goldberg [1985]
1959 - Caroline Goodall
actress: Schindler’s List, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, Hook, Cliffhanger, The Princess Diaries
1963 - Vinny Testaverde
football: QB: University of Miami [Heisman Trophy winner: 1986]; Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens
1967 - Steve Christie
football [kicker]: William and Mary; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, New York Giants
1967 - Jimmy Kimmel
TV host: Jimmy Kimmel Live
1967 - Steve Zahn
actor: Bye Bye Birdie, Sophistry, Reality Bites, Crimson Tide, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, You’ve Got Mail, Chain of Fools, Dr. Dolittle 2, Riding in Cars with Boys
1968 - Mark Fitzpatrick
hockey [goalie]: New York Islanders, LA Kings, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes
1968 - Steve Zahn
actor: Shattered Glass, Daddy Day Care, Riding in Cars with Boys, Joy Ride, Saving Silverman, Forces of Nature
1970 - Vic Darensbourg
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins, Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Detroit Tigers
1975 - Aaron Stecker
football [running back]: Western Illinois Univ; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New Orleans Saints
1979 - Ron Artest
basketball [guard]: St. John's Univ; NBA: Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers,
Chart Toppers November 13
1945Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy that Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - **** Haymes
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1954I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
This Ole House - Rosemary Clooney
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
More and More - Webb Pierce
1963Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
It’s All Right - The Impressions
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1972I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
I’d Love You to Want Me - Lobo
My Man - Tammy Wynette
1981Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger
Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
1990Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Pray - M.C. Hammer
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
Home - Joe Diffie
1999Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit…) - Lou Bega
Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys
(You Drive Me) Crazy - Britney Spears
I Love You - Martina McBride
2008So What - Pink
Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
Whatever You Like - T.I.
Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood
Chart Topper November 13th, 1990...Home - Joe Diffie