Dr. Trivia's Year of Trivia
Dr. Trivia's Year of Trivia
Date: 12 Dec 94 00:00:00 EDT
From: "Dave Burna - 641-4013"
Subject: A Year's Worth of Trivia..... (fwd)
I needed to find some way to say goodbye, so here it is: one (at least)
tibit of trivia for each day of the year. These are courtesy of the
Doyle's Pub 1994 Calendar (if 'ya gotta ask where Doyle's is, 'ya ain't
from Boston...).
Take care......and thanks,
-dB
A Year's Worth O' Trivia
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- Jan 1: 1919 - JD Salinger born.
- Jan 2: 1939 - Hitler named "Man of the Year"
by Time Magazine; 1989 - 200,000 Bill Ripken trading card recalled
because of a nasty word written on bat handle.
- Jan 3: 1964 - 450,000 school kids went on
strike, NYC.
- Jan 4: 1809 - Louis Braille born.
- Jan 5: 1919 - Henry Ford labelled anarchist
for paying workers $5/hour; 1979 - Charles Mingus died.
- Jan 6: 1969 - Then-Gov. Jimmy Carter spots
UFO in Georgia.
- Jan 7: 1789 - 1st presidential election
(US).
- Jan 8: 1889 - 1st data processing computer
design patented.
- Jan 9: 1959 - Castro assumed power.
- Jan 10: 1939 - Sal Mineo born.
- Jan 11: 1949 - Snow first recorded in LA, 3
inches.
- Jan 12: 1989 - William Bennett named 1st US
drug "czar" by George Bush.
- Jan 13: 1979 - YMCA sued Village People.
- Jan 14: 1734 - Coldest day, -120 degrees F,
Siberia.
- Jan 15: 1909 - Gene Krupa born.
- Jan 16: 1979 - Cher and Gregg Allman
divorced.
- Jan 17: 1899 - Al Capone born.
- Jan 18: 1969 - Pete Best won lawsuit vs.
Beatles.
- Jan 19: 1869 - Edgar Allen Poe born.
- Jan 20: 1984 - Johnny Weissmuller died; world
class swimmer, 1st movie Tarzan.
- Jan 21: 1959 - Lenin died.
- Jan 22: 1964 - Doctor Trivia born; all of
Western civilization celebrates.
- Jan 23: 1899 - Humphrey Bogart born.
- Jan 24: 1899 - Rubber heel patented.
- Jan 25: 1989 - Robert Hamm died after 3 days
in trash can in Rochester, NY; folks thought he was waving to be
friendly.
- Jan 26: 1834 - 1st friction matches
manufactured.
- Jan 27: 1814 - Congress authorized 62,000 man
army.
- Jan 28: 1934 - 1st rope ski tow, Woodstock,
VT.
- Jan 29: 1884 - Patent issued for locomotive
cow squirter, full steam ahead.
- Jan 30: 1649 - King Charles I beheaded.
- Jan 31: 1949 - 1st TV daytime soap: "These
Are My Children".
- Feb 1: 1944 - Piet Mondrian died.
- Feb 2: 1979 - Sid Vicious died of herion
overdose.
- Feb 3: 1889 - Belle Starr died; outlaw.
- Feb 4: 1904 - California law segregating
Japanese schoolkids.
- Feb 5: 1919 - William S. Burroughs born.
- Feb 6: 1959 - 1st successful test fire, Titan
ICBM (Cape Canaveral).
- Feb 7: 1984 - 1st untethered spacewalk.
- Feb 8: 1964 - Beatles 1st on TV.
- Feb 9: 1949 - "Death of a Salesman" opened in
NYC.
- Feb 10: 1989 - Ron Brown 1st black to head
political party.
- Feb 11: 1969 - 1st human larynx transplant,
Belgium.
- Feb 12: 1909 - NAACP founded.
- Feb 13: 1944 - Peter Tork born, Monkee.
- Feb 14: 1929 - Massacre in Chicago.
- Feb 15: 1879 - Female attorneys allowed to
argue cases before Supreme Court.
- Feb 16: 1959 - John McEnroe born (immediately
argues with the doctor).
- Feb 17: 1909 - Royal Commission stated London
produces "degenerate race, morally and physically enfeebled".
- Feb 18: 1984 - Catholicism no longer Italian
state religion.
- Feb 19: 1984 - Phil & Steve Mahre win gold
and silver medals on last day of Olympics.
- Feb 20: 1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt born.
- Feb 21: 1989 - Salman Rushdie's "Satanic
Verses" denounced as blasphemy by Khomeini, who says, "Send him to
hell.".
- Feb 22: 1879 - 1st Woolworth 5-cent store,
Utica, NY.
- Feb 23: 1954 - 1st mass innoculation of kids
with Salk polio vaccine.
- Feb 24: 1869 - House voted to impeach
President Johnson.
- Feb 25: 1964 - Cassius Clay over Sonny Liston
at Miami, new heavyweight champ.
- Feb 26: 1919 - Grand Canyon National Park
established.
- Feb 27: 1684 - only witch trial in PA,
William Penn presiding.
- Feb 28: 1854 - 50 antislavery folk meet in
Ripon, WI, start Republican party.
- Mar 1: 1954 - Puerto Rican national wounded 5
on House floor.
- Mar 2: 1944 - Lou Reed born.
- Mar 3: 1919 - Bill for WWI estimated at $197
billion.
- Mar 4: 1914 - Successful separation of
Siamese twins, Paris.
- Mar 5: 1979 - Payment of alimony by divorced
husbands but not wives struck down by Supreme Court.
- Mar 6: 1979 - Walter Cronkite signed off for
last time as anchor of "The CBS Evening News".
- Mar 7: 1934 - Willard Scott born.
- Mar 8: 1854 - Commodore Perry's 2nd landing
in Japan.
- Mar 9: 1274 - Thomas Aquinas died at age 49.
- Mar 10: 1629 - Parliament dissolved by King
Charles for 11 years.
- Mar 11: 1699 - Mt. Etna erupted, 20,000
died.
- Mar 12: 1784 - US Post OFfice established.
- Mar 13: 1894 - "Striptease" introduced,
Paris.
- Mar 14: 1879 - Albert Einstein born.
- Mar 15: 1964 - Liz Taylor first weds Richard
Burton.
- Mar 16: 1949 - Erik Estrada born, actor(?).
- Mar 17: 1929 - 1st air passenger from US to
Alaska.
- Mar 18: 1584 - Ivan the Terrible died @53,
Moscow.
- Mar 19: 1919 - Lenny Tristano born.
- Mar 20: 1969 - Lennon and Ono wed.
- Mar 21: 1804 - Napoleanic Code (French civil
code) adopted.
- Mar 22: 1894 - 1st Stanley Cup game: Montreal
3, Ottawa 1.
- Mar 23: 1919 - Mussolini founded fascist
political movement, Milan.
- Mar 24: 1989 - Exxon Valdez accident.
- Mar 25: 1944 - Nick Alkemade, British airman,
fell 18,000 feet from crippled bomber, captured unhurt.
- Mar 26: 1909 - Russian troops invaded Persia
to support Muhammed Ali as Shah.
- Mar 27: 1884 - 1st long distance call,
NY-Boston.
- Mar 28: 1979 - 3 Mile Island accident.
- Mar 29: 1989 - Michael Milkin indicted.
- Mar 30: 1909 - 1st doubledeck bridge
(Queensboro).
- Mar 31: 1889 - Eiffel Tower dedicated.
- Apr 1: 1719 - 1st edition of "Mother Goose"
published, Boston.
- Apr 2: 1914 - Sir Alec Guinness born.
- Apr 3: 1979 - 1st woman mayor of Chicago,
Jane Byrne.
- Apr 4: 1969 - Smothers Brothers show
cancelled.
- Apr 5: 1914 - British suffragettes bomb
London hotel.
- Apr 6: 1874 - Harry Houdini (nee Erich Weiss)
born.
- Apr 7: 1933 - end of beer and wine
prohibition.
- Apr 8: 1974 - Hank Aaron hits HR 714 off Al
Downing (Dodgers).
- Apr 9: 1939 - Marian Anderson denied use of
Constitution Hall by DAR, performed at Lincoln Memorial.
- Apr 10: 1979 - Bobby Sands, imprisoned IRA
hungers striker, elected to Parliament.
- Apr 11: 1979 - Idi Amin deposed.
- Apr 12: 1934 - Highest velocity wind ever
recorded: Mt. Washington (NH) @234mph.
- Apr 13: 1909 - Eudora Welty born, author.
- Apr 14: 1904 - Sir John Gielgud born.
- Apr 15: 1894 - Bessie Smith born.
- Apr 16: 1964 - Ellen Barkin born
(YAAAAYY!!!).
- Apr 17: 1934 - Don Kirshner born.
- Apr 18: 1949 - Irish Republic proclaimed.
- Apr 19: 1824 - Lord Byron, lame poet, died.
- Apr 20: 1949 - Jessica Lange born.
- Apr 21: 1649 - Maryland Toleration Act,
freedom of worship for Christians.
- Apr 22: 1794 - Capital punishment banned in
PA (except 1st degree murder).
- Apr 23: 1954 - Hank Aaron's 1st home run @
St. Louis.
- Apr 24: 1904 - Willem de Kooning born.
- Apr 25: 1919 - Gropius founded Bauhaus; 1984
- Count Basie died.
- Apr 26: 1989 - Lucille Ball died.
- Apr 27: 1509 - Pope Julius II
excommunicated.
- Apr 28: 1919 - First free-fall parachute
jump.
- Apr 29: 1899 - Edward Kennedy "The Duke"
Ellington born; 1974 - Nixon released edited Watergate tapes.
- Apr 30: 1789 - George Washington first
assumed presidency.
- May 1: 1979 - Greenland officially renamed
Kalaaht Nunaat.
- May 2: 1974 - Spiro Agnew disbarred in
Maryland.
- May 3: 1979 - Margaret Thatcher, 1st Prime
Minister of Great Britain.
- May 4: 1904 - Work began on Panaman Canal.
- May 5: 1904 - British declared war on Tibet.
- May 6: 1919 - L. Frank Baum ("Wizard of Oz")
died in abject poverty.
- May 7: 1984 - $180 million settlement in
Agent Orange class action suit.
- May 8: 1984 - 84,000 evacuated from Chernobyl
area.
- May 9: 1914 - Mother's Day established.
- May 10: 1924 - Herbert Hoover named head of
FBI.
- May 11: 1949 - Israel admitted to UN; Siam
became Thailand.
- May 12: 1949 - Berlin blockade ended, Soviets
open E. German land routes.
- May 13: 1914 - Joe Louis born.
- May 14: 1904 - first US Olympics, St. Louis.
- May 15: 1764 - First milestones in US
installed, Philadelphia.
- May 16: 1969 - Pete Townsend kicked cop
offstage, NY, arrested & fined $75.
- May 17: 1954 - Supreme Court ruled segregated
schools unequal.
- May 18: 1934 - Lindbergh Act approved by
Congress, death for kidnapping.
- May 19: 1964 - State Dept. announced 40
hidden mikes in US Embassy, Moscow.
- May 20: 1994 - Joe Cocker born.
- May 21: 1959 - Musical "Gypsy" opened.
- May 22: 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born.
- May 23: 1934 - Bonnie and Clyde Barrow killed
in police ambush.
- May 24: 1984 - AL Record 17 straight road
wins for Detroit Tigers.
- May 25: 1929 - Beverly Sills born.
- May 26: 1949 - Hank Williams, Jr. born.
- May 27: 1949 - Believe It Or Not, Robert
Ripley died.
- May 28: 1959 - Able & Baker astromonkeys,
retrieved after flight.
- May 29: 1939 - Al Unser, race car driver,
born.
- May 30: 1539 - Hernando de Soto landed in
Florida.
- May 31: 1889 - Johnstown, PA flood kill
2,295; first job for US Red Cross.
- Jun 1: 1879 - Napolean II's son speared to
death in South Africa.
- Jun 2: 1924 - All American Indians granted US
citizenship.
- Jun 3: 1924 - Franz Kafka, on deathbed,
ordered his manuscripts burned.
- Jun 4: 1674 - Horse racing banned in MA.
- Jun 5: 1884 - William T. Sherman refused
Repub. presidential nomination.
- Jun 6: 1904 - Price of eggs rose to
$0.17/dozen.
- Jun 7: 1919 - NY started written test for new
drivers.
- Jun 8: 1944 - Boz Scaggs born.
- Jun 9: 1704 - 25 pirates to hang in Boston.
- Jun 10: 1869 - 1st shipment of frozen beef
arrived in New Orleans.
- Jun 11: 1184 BC - Greeks seized Troy.
- Jun 12: 1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame
dedicated.
- Jun 13: 1979 - Darla Hood (Our Gang) died.
- Jun 14: 1909 - Burl Ives born.
- Jun 15: 1844 - Charles Goodyear patented his
rubber process.
- Jun 16: 1929 - Otto E. Funk ended marathon
walk across US, NY to SF, playing violin all the way.
- Jun 17: 1979 - World speed record for
skateboards set, 71mph.
- Jun 18: 1964 - Ted Kennedy's back broken in
plane crash.
- Jun 19: 1939 - Pinball machines banned in
Atlanta.
- Jun 20: 1924 - Chet Atkins born.
- Jun 21: 1954 - Dr. Gideon Sundback died,
inventor of zipper.
- Jun 22: 1869 - First state board of health,
MA.
- Jun 23: 1924 - Stockingless women 1st
allowed, Atlantic City.
- Jun 24: 1964 - FTC ruled warnings must appear
on cigarette packages.
- Jun 25: 1954 - *BOTH* Georgia gubernatorial
candidates proposed removing Supreme Court to preserve segregation.
- Jun 26: 1919 - Augustus Julliard left $5
million in will for advancement of music.
- Jun 27: 1844 - Mob stormed jail, killed
Mormon founder Joseph Smith.
- Jun 28: 1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed,
ending WWI.
- Jun 29: 1949 - S. Africa banned mixed
marriages, began apartheid.
- Jun 30: 1859 - Charles Blondin crossed Niagra
Falls on tightrope.
- Jul 1: 1919 - Mussolini published Fascist
Manifesto.
- Jul 2: 1969 - Ralph Nader warned loud rock
music could produce a nation hearing-impaired people.
- Jul 3: 1984 - Supreme Court ruled Jaycees
could not bar women from membership.
- Jul 4: 1934 - Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.
- Jul 5: 1889 - Jean Cocteau born.
- Jul 6: 1984 - Jackson's "Victory Tour"
opened.
- Jul 7: 1969 - Canada House approved making
English & French lang. equal.
- Jul 8: 1889 - 1st Wall Street Journal
published.
- Jul 9: 1819 - Elias Howe born, inventor of
sewing machine.
- Jul 10: 1989 - Mel Blanc died
(th-th-th-that's all folks!).
- Jul 11: 1804 - Aaron Burr fatally wounded
Alexander Hamilton, duel.
- Jul 12: 1934 - Van Cliburn born.
- Jul 13: 1919 - 1st dirigible crossed
Atlantic.
- Jul 14: 1789 - French mob stormed prison,
decorating pole w/ warden's head, freed 3.
- Jul 15: 1869 - Oleo margarine invented in
Paris for navy.
- Jul 16: 1969 - 1st manned mission to moon
launched.
- Jul 17: 1959 - Billie Holliday died :-(((.
- Jul 18: 1939 - Hunter S. Thompson born (and
the weird turned pro!!).
- Jul 19: 1969 - John Fairfax rowed across
Atlantic, 4,000 miles, 180 days.
- Jul 20: 1919 - Pancho Villa assasinated.
- Jul 21: 1984 - Robot killed 1st human,
Jackson, MI.
- Jul 22: 1934 - John Dillinger shot outside
theatre, Chicago.
- Jul 23: 1904 - Invention of ice cream cone
(yum!!).
- Jul 24: 1959 - Nixon-Krushchev kitchen
debate.
- Jul 25: 1834 - Samuel Coleridge died,
drug-addled poet.
- Jul 26: 1984 - Ed Gein, inspiration for
Norman Bates & Hannibal Lecter, died in Wisconsin mental hospital.
- Jul 27: 1859 - 1st oil strike, PA.
- Jul 28: 1794 - Robespierre lost his head (it
was here just a minute ago).
- Jul 29: 1974 - John Connolly, ex-Gov. of TX,
indicted for bribery, perjury, obstruction of justice.
- Jul 30: 1729 - Baltimore founded.
- Jul 31: 1944 - Antoine St. Exupery, author of
"Little Prince," disappeared in plane.
- Aug 1: 1774 - Oxygen isolated from air by
Joseph Priestly (Jason's dad).
- Aug 2: 1939 - Einstein urged testing of
atomic weapons.
- Aug 3: 1994 - No trivia today; has *ANYONE*
read down this far??.
- Aug 4: 1944 - Anne Frank arrested.
- Aug 5: 1864 - "Damn the Torpedoes" order
issued by Adm. David Farragut.
- Aug 6: 1774 - Shakers arrived in NY (Movers
followed in short order).
- Aug 7: 1934 - US Court of Appeals disallows
gov't. ban of "Ulysses".
- Aug 8: 1844 - Brigham Young succeeded Joseph
Smith (had 145 wives).
- Aug 9: 1854 - Thoreau's "Walden" published.
- Aug 10: 1869 - Motion picture projector
patented by OB Brown, Malden, MA.
- Aug 11: 1909 - 1st use of S.O.S> signal in
the US (the Arapahoe).
- Aug 12: 1989 - Pres. of Rice Aircraft pled
guilty to sale of defective plane parts.
- Aug 13: 1889 - Coin phones patented.
- Aug 14: 1919 - Chicago Tribune found guilty
of libel for calling Henry Ford an anarchist (they meant to say
Antichrist).
- Aug 15: 1969 - Woodstock (the original)
began.
- Aug 16: 1904 - Russians insist massacres in
Poland caused by Jewish aggression.
- Aug 17: 1969 - Pete Townsend bashed Abbie
Hoffman's head w/ guitar after Abbie jumped on stage during Who's gig @
Woodstock.
- Aug 18: 1969 - Filming "Ned Kelly" in
Australia, Mick Jagger accidentally shot in hand.
- Aug 19: 1934 - Renee Richards born,
transsexual tennis pro.
- Aug 20: 1974 - Nolan Ryan 1st major league
pitcher clocked at 100mph.
- Aug 21: 1904 - William "Count" Basie born in
Red Bank, NJ.
- Aug 22: 1939 - Carl Yasztremski born.
- Aug 23: 79 - Mt. Vesuvius fireworks show
killed 20,000.
- Aug 24: 1814 - British invaded Washington,
DC, set fire to Capitol and White House.
- Aug 25: 1954 - Elvis Costello born.
- Aug 26: 1894 - Federal income tax held
unconsitutional.
- Aug 27: 1909 - Lester Young born, tenor
saxophonist.
- Aug 28: 1904 - 1st jail sentence in US for
speeding in auto.
- Aug 29: 1896 - Chop suey invented in NYC.
- Aug 30: 1989 - Leona Helmsley convicted of
income tax evasion.
- Aug 31: 1989 - Jim Bakker order to undergo
mental tests.
- Sep 1: 1859 - 1st sleeping railroad car by
George Pullman.
- Sep 2: 1969 - Ho Chi Minh died.
- Sep 3: 1919 - Italy granted women's
suffrage.
- Sep 4: 1969 - FDA declared birth control
pills safe.
- Sep 5: 1774 - 1st Continental Congress
assembled.
- Sep 6: 1954 - Building began, 1st full-scale
atomic power station, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Sep 7: 1954 - School integration, Washington,
DC.
- Sep 8: 1974 - Evel Kneivel almost jumped
Snake River Canyon.
- Sep 9: 1934 - 1st rocket to reach 700mph,
Staten Island.
- Sep 10: 1934 - Charles Kuralt born.
- Sep 11: 1959 - Food stamp program started.
- Sep 12: 1974 - Haile Selassie deposed after
58 years.
- Sep 13: 1899 - 1st recorded auto death (Henry
Bliss) in US (NYC).
- Sep 14: 1939 - 1st successful helicopter
flight.
- Sep 15: 1949 - Jay Silverheel's TV debut as
Tonto.
- Sep 16: 1914 - Lauren Bacall born.
- Sep 17: 1859 - Self-coronation, Emperor
Norton I of US.
- Sep 18: 1709 - Samuel Johnson born.
- Sep 19: 1949 - Twiggy born.
- Sep 20: 1934 - Sophia Loren born.
- Sep 21: 19BC - Virgil died.
- Sep 22: 1789 - Congress authorized Postmaster
General position.
- Sep 23: 1939 - Sigmund Freud died.
- Sep 24: 1934 - Babe Ruth's last game in NY
vs. Red Sox.
- Sep 25: 1849 - Johann Strauss died.
- Sep 26: 1899 - Martin Hediegger born,
philosopher.
- Sep 27: 1854 - 1st US ocean liner disaster,
US steamship Arctic sank, 300 died.
- Sep 28: 1934 - Brigitte Bardot born
(ALLRIGHT!!); 1964 - Harpo Marx died (he had no last words, just a final
honk).
- Sep 29: 1829 - Scotland Yard opened for
business).
- Sep 30: 1954 - 1st US nuclear sub,
"Nautilus".
- Oct 1: 1909 - LA Times bombed by union
activists, 21 died.
- Oct 2: 1869 - Mohandas K. Ghandi born.
- Oct 3: 1899 - Motor-driven vacuum cleaner
patented.
- Oct 4: 1914 - 1st German Zeppelin raided
London.
- Oct 5: 1879 - 1st Salvation Army meeting in
US, Philly.
- Oct 6: 1989 - Bette Davis died, aged 81,
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
- Oct 7: 1959 - 1st auction of federal
property.
- Oct 8: 1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie and
Harriet" debut (CBS radio) on their real-life ninth anniversary.
- Oct 9: 1919 - Cincy Reds won fixed World
Series in 8 games over Black Sox.
- Oct 10: 1954 - Ho Chi Minh came home after 8
years on the lam.
- Oct 11: 1919 - Art Blakey born (I get a kick
out of Bu!!).
- Oct 12: 1984 - Loo bomb failed to wipe out
Margaret Thatcher.
- Oct 13: 54 - Claudius died, Roman emperor
served poisonous mushrooms by wife Agrippina.
- Oct 14: 1894 - e.e. cummings born.
- Oct 15: 1964 - Krushchev out of office,
succeeded by Kosygin, Brezhnev.
- Oct 16: 1964 - Mainland Chinca exploded 1st
A-bomb.
- Oct 17: 1814 - Beer tank flood killed 9 in
London (but what a way to go!).
- Oct 18: 1919 - Subway system opened in
Madrid.
- Oct 19: 1914 - 1st collection and delivery of
mail in cars by US gov't..
- Oct 20: 1934 - Eddie Harris born, sax
player.
- Oct 21: 1969 - Jack Kerouac died (Dharma
Bummer!).
- Oct 22: 1844 - Followers of Wm. Miller left
wordly goods and climbed to the highest possible point to await end of
world, but hey...
- Oct 23: xxxx - Swallows leave Capistrano.
- Oct 24: 1939 - 1st sale of nylons to public,
Delaware.
- Oct 25: 1944 - US escort carrier "St. Lo"
struck in 1st kamikaze attack.
- Oct 26: 1949 - Truman raised minimum wage
from $0.40 to $0.75/hour.
- Oct 27: 1904 - NY Sbuway opened.
- Oct 28: 1904 - Fingerprinting 1st adopted in
US, St. Louis.
- Oct 29: 1924 - Holland Tunnel completed,
NYC.
- Oct 30: 1939 - Grace Slick born.
- Oct 31: xxxx - Druid's Samhain.
- Nov 1: 1879 - Postal money order system
established.
- Nov 2: 1929 - 1st newsreel theater opened,
NYC.
- Nov 3: 1979 - 5 died in gunfire between KKK
and Nazis at Klan demo., Greensboro, SC.
- Nov 4: 1939 - 1st air conditiond car shown,
Chicago.
- Nov 5: 1974 - 1st grandmother elected to
Congress (MH Fenwick from NJ!).
- Nov 6: 1869 - 1st official intercollegiate
game: Rutgers 6 Princeton 4.
- Nov 7: 1879 - Leon Trotsky born.
- Nov 8: 1929 - Museum of Modern Art opened,
NYC; 1949 - Bonnie Raitt born.
- Nov 9: 1989 - East Germany abolished border
restrictions.
- Nov 10: 1969 - "Sesame St." debuted on PBS.
- Nov 11: 1939 - Kate Smith 1st sang "God Bless
America" on network radio.
- Nov 12: 1929 - Grace Kelly born, Princess,
actress, and stunt driver.
- Nov 13: 1779 - Thomas Chippendale died,
cabinetmaker and male stripper.
- Nov 14: 1954 - Lionel Barrymore died.
- Nov 15: 1969 - 250,000 protest Vietnam War in
DC (wasn't it in Asia?).
- Nov 16: 1964 - Russians crash 1st manmade
object on another planet (Venus).
- Nov 17: 1869 - Suez Canal opened.
- Nov 18: 1909 - US warships to Nicaragua.
- Nov 19: 1959 - Ford announced halt to Edsel
production.
- Nov 20: 1919 - 1st munipical airport, Tuscon,
AZ.
- Nov 21: 1904 - Coleman Hawkins born, tenor
sax giant.
- Nov 22: 1969 - Harvard scientists announced
isolation of single gene.
- Nov 23: 1859 - Billy the Kid born.
- Nov 24: 1859 - "On Origin of Species"
published by Charles Darwin.
- Nov 25: 1914 - Joe DiMaggio born.
- Nov 26: 1969 - Pres. Nixon signed bill
establishing draft lottery.
- Nov 27: 1939 - "Key Largo" opened.
- Nov 28: 1929 - Berry Gordy, Jr. born, Motown
founder.
- Nov 29: 1964 - HRC Church changed liturgy
including use of English in Mass.
- Nov 30: 1804 - 1st impeachment proceedings
against Supreme Court Justice, Samuel Chase.
- Dec 1: 1874 - US presidential election turned
over to House to resolve deadlock; Jackson defeated Clay.
- Dec 2: 1814 - Marquis de Sade died
(painfully, I imagine...).
- Dec 3: 1639 - 1st court annulment of a
marriage, Boston.
- Dec 4: 1984 - Dr. John Rock died, helped
develop the "pill".
- Dec 5: 1894 - P.K. Wrigley born (chew on
that, folks).
- Dec 6: 1889 - Jefferson Davis died.
- Dec 7: 1949 - Tom Waits born.
- Dec 8: 1854 - Dogma of "immaculate
conception" proclaimed.
- Dec 9: 1884 - Ball-bearing roller skate
patented.
- Dec 10: 1974 - Wilbur Mills (Ark) resigned
chairmanship of Ways & Means Committee after embarrassment w/ exotic
dancer Fannie Fox.
- Dec 11: 1844 - Anesthesia 1st used in
dentistry (not a moment too soon!!).
- Dec 12: 1899 - Invention of wooden golf tee.
- Dec 13: 1759 - Michael Hillegas (Philly)
opened 1st US music store; Rolling Stones play at Grand Opening.
- Dec 14: 1934 - Women's suffrage, Turkey.
- Dec 15: 1964 - Marie Dionne is 1st quintuplet
to be arrested (assault).
- Dec 16: 1939 - Liv Ullman born, actess &
director (Liv and Let Liv).
- Dec 17: 1894 - Arthur Fielder born (awakes in
a cranky mood...); 1919 - Renoir died.
- Dec 18: 1644 - Stradivari born; 1879 - Paul
Klee born.
- Dec 19: 1914 - Patent for 1st animating
technique.
- Dec 20: 1849 - 5 years late, Wm. Miller's
world came to an end.
- Dec 21: 1804 - Benjamin Disraeli born; 1974 -
Jack Benny died.
- Dec 22: 1984 - Bernard Goetz shoot-em-up, NY
Subway.
- Dec 23: 1929 - Chet Baker born, trumpeter,
singer, junkie.
- Dec 24: 1849 - Big fire in San Francisco;
1919 - John Muir died (but what a legacy he left!).
- Dec 25: 1934 - Santa Anita became 1st
licenced track in California.
- Dec 26: 1519 - Tapestries designed by Raphael
1st hung in Sistine Chapel.
- Dec 27: 1969 - Zambia issued report: 9 killed
by hippos this year.
- Dec 28: 1904 - Farmers burned 2 million bales
of cotton in Georgia to raise prices.
- Dec 29: 1879 - Billy Mitchell born, Air Force
pioneer bomber.
- Dec 30: 1809 - Masqued balls banned in Boston
(not touching this joke!).
- Dec 31: 1974 - US citizens allowed to
privately own gold.
Whew! Done.