23 years ago today

[airfrogusmc]

11/22/63 a great American John F Kennedy was shot and killed.

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11/22/63 a great American John F Kennedy was shot and killed.

498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.

1880 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.

1917 - In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association breaks up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League).

1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.

1935 - The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).

1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advance into Albanian soil and liberate Korytsa.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.

1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)

1943 - Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gains independence from France.

President Kennedy, Jackie, and Texas Governor John Connally in the Presidential limousine shortly before the assassination.1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Later the same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.

1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.

1968 - The Beatles release the double album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.

1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.

1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.

1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1986 - Boxing: Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick in the second round, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years and 4 months.

1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1999 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the NHL.

2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.

2003 - The Heritage Classic, the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the NHL, is played in Edmonton, Alberta

2003 - England defeat Australia to win England's first Rugby World Cup.

2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

2005 - Ted Koppel retires after hosting Nightline for over 26 years.

2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

[daikonyama]

I think the math is a bit off.

[airfrogusmc]

Hey somesones paying attention. 43....

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nov 23

1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.

1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.

1654-French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.

1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.

1867 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.

1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.

1876 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.

1895 - The first ever Backyard Brawl rivalry match-up between Pitt Panthers and West Virginia Mountaineers takes place.

1903 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

1934 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

1936 - The first edition of Life is published.

1943 - The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

1954 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.

1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.

1959 - General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals."

1962 - United Airlines Flight 297 crashes killing all 17 on-board.

1963 - The first episode of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, airs on the BBC.

1971 - The representatives of the People's Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives (See China and the United Nations)

1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

1980 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

1981 - Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.

1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

1990 - The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

1993 - Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

1996 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.

1996 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.

2003 - Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

2004 - Alex Ferguson takes charge of his 1000th game as manager of Manchester United.

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[edit] Births

912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)

1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)

1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)

1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)

1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)

1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)

1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)

1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)

1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)

1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)

1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)

1749 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)

1760 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)

1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)

1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)

1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)

1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)

1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)

1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)

1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)

1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)

1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)

1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)

1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)

1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)

1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)

1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)

1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)

1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)

1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)

1908 - Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)

1909 - Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)

1917 - Michael Gough, English actor

1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)

1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)

1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia

1923 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)

1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)

1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)

1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter

1925 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)

1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian "God-man", widely believed to be Avatar of the age

1931 - Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author

1931 - Gloria Lynne, American singer

1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer

1934 - Robert Towne, American writer, director, producer, and actor

1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)

1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)

1936 - Robert Barnard, British mystery writer

1938 - Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor

1939 - Betty Everett, American singer (d. 2001)

1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor

1943 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)

1943 - Sue Nicholls (The Honourable Susan Frances Harmer Nicholls), British actress

1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer

1944 - James Toback, American writer and director

1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor

1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer

1945 - Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter

1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer

1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American musician

1954 - Glenn Brummer, Baseball player

1955 - Steven Brust, American author

1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist

1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, British actor

1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)

1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian

1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer

1969 - Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer

1970 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter

1971 - Lisa Kushell, American actress

1972 - Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God)

1974 - Jamie Sharper, American football player

1974 - Saku Koivu, National Hockey League player

1977 - Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver

1980 - David Britz, American nanotechnologist

1980 - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player

1984 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer

1992 - Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer

[edit] Deaths

947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria

955 - Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)

1407 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372)

1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)

1499 - Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474)

1503 - Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)

1572 - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)

1585 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)

1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)

1682 - Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)

1763 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)

1769 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)

1783 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)

1803 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)

1804 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)

1807 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)

1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)

1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)

1890 - King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)

1902 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)

1923 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)

1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)

1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)

1937 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)

1948 - Hack Wilson, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1900)

1966 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)

1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)

1974 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b. 1920)

1976 - André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)

1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)

1979 - Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)

1983 - Tom Evans, British guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)

1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)

1991 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)

1992 - Roy Acuff, American musician (b. 1903)

1992 - Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)

1994 - Art Barr, Professional wrestler (b. 1966)

1994 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939)

1995 - Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)

1995 - Junior Walker, American musician (b. 1931)

2001 - O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)

2002 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)

2004 - Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)

2005 - Frank Gatski, American football player (center) (b. 1919)

2005 - Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)

[FootlooseSF]

Holy fuck, red! You must have alot of time on your hands.

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wikipedia is god.

[lil brown brother]

red is god ....