1,000th Post Published for "The Charbor Chronicles"!

I have come to really like the new look for this blog page, with the brown color and the nap on top (which may not be clear with this particular picture). It's more me than the previous one, I think. 

The picture may not be too clear, either. But it shows the most visited individual blogs of mine, with three of them having been visited over 1,000 times!

It hardly feels like a long time ago that I was on here, celebrating my 500th published post on "The Charbor Chronicles".

Yet, here I am now, celebrating my 1,000th post, and on the same calendar year! This has clearly been, far and away, the most active year ever for "The Charbor Chronicles".

Not that it has been around terribly long. After all, it only first came into fruition late in 2010, after a suggestion by my girlfriend at the time. I even remember that first, rather embarrassing blog entry. I did not know what to write about, but I wanted to write something. When we went to a Prince concert, it provided me with an apparent opportunity. But it also showed my limitations at the time. I was not actually familiar enough with Prince that I would know all, or perhaps even most, of the songs that he performed on that night by name. That was severely debilitating to the review, which wound up being weak and very watered down. Again, it remains a relative source of embarrassment to me even today as far as "The Charbor Chronicles" is concerned, although I have resisted the temptation to revisit or edit it, much less delete it.

Also, "The Charbor Chronicles" got bogged down with a sluggish start. I did not know what to write, although perhaps at the time, that was more a case of feeling intimidated by the prospect of actually putting something out there that the general public, if they wished, could easily access. How could I regularly produce something of interest, with a decent quality of writing.

Eventually, though, I began to get past those reservations. my nervousness about writing relative crap - the blog equivalent of, say, people posting pictures on Facebook of what they are having for dinner - began to dissipate.

In truth, there is no shortage of things to write about! It took me a long while to fully realize that. But once I did, my activity here increased dramatically. Why, I could write reviews of books that I read, of music albums from groups that I enjoy, or of concerts that I attended. I can write about sports. And, of course, politics is a fairly common subject matter now for me here, as well.

Prior to this, my writing had mostly been focused on fiction. There are three major works (I refer to them as projects) that I am now currently working on. If you are familiar with my writing, then you know already that I can tend to be a bit wordy. So, it should not come as a surprise that the first of those projects, which I have been outright working on since 2003 (ten years now!) is well over one thousand pages. The second probably has several hundred, while the third, which is newer, probably maybe around one hundred and change.

My weak point is editing. That discipline has not been my friend - at least not yet. Part of it is that I find it distasteful, usually, to read my own stuff. Whenever I do (and this is true for blog entries as well), I always, always feel like editing). There are few pieces of my writing that are generally satisfactory enough for me to simply leave them alone.

That can be problematic when you try, as I am trying here with "The Charbor Chronicles", to publish something substantive on a regular, everyday basis.

Yet, I have managed to reach the 1,000th post. Not all of them were great. Some of them (not too many, but a few) were simply links to news articles or other pieces of interest). A few others, admittedly, were probably rushed and/or generally poorly written, even uninteresting. But for the most part, I will take the liberty of assuming some measure of pride in my own work, and say that most of the blogs are of relatively decent quality. When I make arguments, I try to incorporate everything, and it is a problem for me to let go without adding everything. Case in point - some of the recent entries on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. There simply was too much stuff to include everything, and it would have taken me many, many more days, even weeks or months, in order to accurately include everything and look at the evidence from every angle. And that would likely have been at the exclusion of other material. So, I published what I had, trying to make sure that it was of decent quality.

This blog site may not be perfect, but given that it is a one-man operation, and that I am not getting paid or anything for this, but doing it on my own time and with my own energy and resources, I think it is pretty good. There is a feeling I get sometimes that it is an accomplishment that most other people cannot claim. Also, since it is writing, it serves as an outlet for my creativity.

Of course, not everything on this blog site is unique to me. In particular, the daily "On This Day in History" series that I try to publish everyday is obviously taken from other sites, which are listed on those pages for further exploration, if the reader desires it. But these are interesting, and have generated some of the most consistent interest of any of the blogs, even though I cannot claim credit for it.

Some of the other blogs that have gained notice are surprising, although most focus on a particular field of interest that might attract a particular audience. Case in point, there was a blog entry on electronic cigarettes that I did earlier this year which received a lot of attention. It is one of my most viewed entries, and no other blog entry has generated as many comments and, yes, even compliments, as that one did. Album and book reviews seem to be fairly popular, in most cases. Also, not surprisingly, perhaps, my reviews of events that I have attended also tend to generate some interest - particularly concerts. People who follow a particular artist, and particularly perhaps those who attended events, are understandably interested in reviews of those events. Particularly if pictures are included!

Sometimes, though, I have been surprised by the level of interest. The second most reviewed blog entry was on the album review for Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. I was also quite surprised by the level of interest in a review of last year's Broncos-Ravens playoff game. Having written regular reviews each week, particularly with individual games in the playoffs, I expected some people to view that page. But the level of interest, the sheer numbers of visits, was staggering. It was the first time that I had gotten over 200 people to view any single blog entry at the time, and it happened all at once. I wrote and published it, and the next time I logged in, my eyes popped out a bit when I saw how many visits that one had received. But, in fairness, I can hardly take the credit for that, because that was such an incredible and intense playoff game, with a very dramatic finish. An instant classic. I simply capitalized on the success and attention that that particular game garnered in writing about it.

Many of the ideas that I had seemed pretty good at the time that I hatched them. Sometimes, they did not quite turn out as well as I had hoped. Other times, they were far more overwhelming than expected, and took much more time. In a few cases, some ideas have proven far more complicated and involved, and so they have not yet been published.

I will get to those, in time. But for now, I am happy to report, "The Charbor Chronicles" is still going strong, with 1,000 posts, and counting! That, and "The Charbor Chronicles" as a whole is rapidly approaching 50,000 visits! Those are numbers that, failing any real advertisement or mass exposure, make me feel like I am doing something worthwhile!

Oh, and by the way, thank you very, very much for reading! And as always, any and all questions, comments, or concerns are welcome! I will look to answer each individually, even if it is simply an acknowledgement of whatever you are writing about.

I am looking forward to continuing to remain active on the site, and look forward to another 1,000 blog entries!

Recalling Original News Reports of September 11th, 2001

Ever since the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination last Friday, I have been a bit fascinated by those huge, monumental events that shaped recent world history. The main one during my own lifetime, the one where everyone remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about it, was, of course, September 11th.

Now, September 11th is something that we all can remember. It is most often compared with the JFK assassination, and with some reason. In both cases, the weather on that day was described as ideal, beautiful. Both events were very violent and graphic events that shook the nation out of a relatively peaceful slumber beforehand. In both cases, I would argue, the nation, and perhaps even the world, would not return to be the same as it had been before the event.

I was not around, of course, for the Kennedy assassination. But I was around for September 11th. And I remember that shock, that sense of being overwhelmed by huge events unfolding right before your eyes. I know now that it came down to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as the plane that went down in western Pennsylvania. But for years, I also remember other things that almost whispered in my memory like rumors. Nobody else seemed to remember them. Things like a huge fire at the National Mall in Washington, fires in the Capitol Building and the State Department, a plane heading towards the White House. Those latter ones were, as it turns out, rumors, with no basis in fact, even though at the time, no one seemed to know for sure, and they just added on to that sense of the enormity of the events, and the overall confusion and sense of being overwhelmed. It was like we went from normal times, to all out war, overnight.

I spoke to a man who was older than me, and when I mentioned this, he told me that my description reminded him of the news coming out of Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, when it seemed like every news piece was about the Vietcong taking over this place, then that, and so on and so forth. It was one of the numerous things that greatly contributed to the overall plummeting popularity of that war.

A lot of people do not remember these things, these reports. And that sense of uncertainty and trepidation that we felt back then may have been forgotten once certainty was achieved as to the scale of the attack. Four planes was bad enough, but all of those other things made it seem even more incredible and overwhelming than it really was.

So, now that we have Youtube, where you can instantly watch almost anything of interest to you, and more often than not without having to pay, for the first time ever since September 11th itself, I watched much of the original broadcast of the events as they unfolded on that fateful day. And as they were reporting what amounted to rumors of events that were being reported, but which actually never took place, the memories flooded back to me. That feeling that I felt at that moment, of just being overwhelmed by the sheer number of huge events transpiring all at the same time, came back to me. The actual events that took place were more than enough for one day, but all of those extra rumors, that the Capitol building may have had a fire, that the State Department had been bombed, that there was a major fire on the National Mall in Washington, that another plane was heading towards New York City, this one aiming for the Empire State Building, it all came back.

Obviously, it's very different watching these events twelve years later, with the benefit of knowledge of what actually happened, as well as hindsight.


Cnn 09 11 2001 Live Unedited Cnn News Coverage Of Wtc Attacks F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9jkBGFlr0



BBC News Live 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KxvTo_9HA



9/11/01 ABC New York Local A.M. Broadcast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCRL4felADM



ABC News Live 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYE4zViAAg



CBS2 NY News on 9/11/2001, 8:50 - 9:20 a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POALezpF9SY



CBS2 NY News on 9/11/2001, 10:19 - 10:49 a.m.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqLHbi7USI




NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZKEjr-Sfg


Inside The Twin Towers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkfs8KjRSc

 - fire at the Pentagon
 - reports of fire at Pentagon, and a helicopter circling area immediately beforehand
 - fire at the National Mall
 - White House evacuated, Pentagon evacuated, then Capitol building and State Department
 - first tower collapses
 - second tower collapses
 - another plane was heading towards Manhattan, aiming this time for the Empire State Building
 - car bomb at the State Department
 - unconfirmed reports of a 747 down in western Pennsylvania
 - reports that part of Pentagon collapsed
 - all Federal buildings in Washington evacuated
 - AP reports a second plane on way to Pentagon
 - F-16 sent heading west to counter that second plane headed to Pentagon
 - The Sears Tower in Chicago evacuated, reasons unclear.
 - Later in the day, I also remember an airplane somewhere out West, I think it was in Texas somewhere, that had been surrounded and tailed by military aircraft, because there was some problem with it communicating. There was speculation that it might be shot down before it reached anything major, but nothing came of it, although it added to that sense that there was no end to this day, that these weird things would just continue to keep on going.

Yes, the rumors, I guess, are natural whenever some huge event like this takes place. Not sure why, or who starts them. But in all of the confusion, I guess these kinds of things are inevitable. In Washington, for example, perhaps people saw a large plume of smoke on a day when the Twin Towers in New York had already been attacked, and so perhaps people outside, in the suburbs, perhaps, believed this to be in Washington, DC proper. Perhaps the National Mall. Or, it would seem natural to assume that if there were still planes in the air unaccounted for, that they would be on their way to Manhattan to finish the job, so to speak, and strike at the Empire State Building, New York City's next tallest building after the Twin Towers.

Then, very quickly, the rumors are forgotten, and people remember what happened, and the focus is on the recovery efforts, as well as speculation on the ramifications.

I cannot say for sure what happened on the day of Kennedy's assassination, and if similar rumors were reported, and what these might have been. But those two days were the biggest such memorable days of monumental events in the news, and indeed in world history. And the 50th anniversary last week had me researching the Kennedy assassination like never before, watching broadcasts and hearing people talk about, seeing their reactions. Again, the only event that can really compare to that in my lifetime would be September 11th, and the comparisons between the two days seem to come naturally for Americans.

There were other huge, monumental events, though, where surely, people remember where they were when they happened. Americans perhaps do not have the same memory of these events, but they definitely have happened, and in the near future, maybe even tomorrow in time for Thanksgiving, I will reflect on these. Events that changed the world and put tears in the eyes of many, if for entirely different reasons. Events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, or perhaps Mandela's release from prison, to name only two. These surely live on in the memory of Germans and South Africans, as well as many others throughout the world, so that these surely qualify as those rare kind of "Where were you when it happened" news events, and I will focus on them as well.

I remember the circumstances when I first heard that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers. Believe it or not, September 11th was the 30th anniversary for my parents, and we were all at home, and talking about the plans for the day, when this happened. My mom said something happened at the World Trade Center again, and so my automatic thought was terrorism. We saw the second plane hit, and then, of course, like so many other millions of people around the world, we were glued to the television, as the other news came out. Obviously, the plans for my parent's anniversary were forgotten.

But there were other huge events that were more positive, generally. In a future blog soon to come, I will focus on these, and not just the negatives.

On This Day in History - November 27 Pope Urban II Orders First Crusade

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

Nov 27, 1095: Pope Urban II orders first Crusade          

On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus vult!" or "God wills it!"  

Born Odo of Lagery in 1042, Urban was a protege of the great reformer Pope Gregory VII. Like Gregory, he made internal reform his main focus, railing against simony (the selling of church offices) and other clerical abuses prevalent during the Middle Ages. Urban showed himself to be an adept and powerful cleric, and when he was elected pope in 1088, he applied his statecraft to weakening support for his rivals, notably Clement III.  

By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land—the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East—had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians frequently made pilgrimages to the birthplace of their religion, but when the Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem, Christians were barred from the Holy City. When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help. This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Urban seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.  

At the Council of Clermont, in France, at which several hundred clerics and noblemen gathered, Urban delivered a rousing speech summoning rich and poor alike to stop their in-fighting and embark on a righteous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban denigrated the Muslims, exaggerating stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.  

Urban's war cry caught fire, mobilizing clerics to drum up support throughout Europe for the crusade against the Muslims. All told, between 60,000 and 100,000 people responded to Urban's call to march on Jerusalem. Not all who responded did so out of piety: European nobles were tempted by the prospect of increased land holdings and riches to be gained from the conquest. These nobles were responsible for the death of a great many innocents both on the way to and in the Holy Land, absorbing the riches and estates of those they conveniently deemed opponents to their cause. Adding to the death toll was the inexperience and lack of discipline of the Christian peasants against the trained, professional armies of the Muslims. As a result, the Christians were initially beaten back, and only through sheer force of numbers were they eventually able to triumph.  

Urban died in 1099, two weeks after the fall of Jerusalem but before news of the Christian victory made it back to Europe. His was the first of seven major military campaigns fought over the next two centuries known as the Crusades, the bloody repercussions of which are still felt today. Urban was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1881.








Nov 27, 1940: Iron Guard massacres former Romanian government     

Two months after General Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian.  

The extreme right-wing movement known as the Iron Guard was founded by Corneliu Codreanu in the 1920s, imitating Germany's Nazi Party in both ideology and methods. In 1938, King Carol II managed to establish a stronger dictatorship in Romania and took steps to suppress the activities of the Iron Guard as well as its left-wing antithesis, the Romanian Communist Party. However, the control fell into violent turmoil after the Munich Pact of 1939 was signed, seen as an abandonment of Romania by its Western allies from World War I, followed by a Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact in 1939, which ceded portions of Romania to the USSR.  

General Ion Antonescu emerged from the chaos victorious and established a dictatorship with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's approval, killing, exiling, or imprisoning most of his former political opposition. Nevertheless, Romanian resistance to the Iron Guard and Nazi occupation persisted during the war, and in August 1944 a massive revolt toppled Antonescu's government in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, allowing the Soviet liberators to capture the city without firing a shot. In 1945, Romanian communists came to power with the backing of the Soviet Union.






Nov 27, 1868: Custer massacres Cheyenne on Washita River

Without bothering to identify the village or do any reconnaissance, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an early morning attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle.  

Convicted of desertion and mistreatment of soldiers earlier that year in a military court, the government had suspended Custer from rank and command for one year. Ten months into his punishment, in September 1868, General Philip Sheridan reinstated Custer to lead a campaign against Cheyenne Indians who had been making raids in Kansas and Oklahoma that summer. Sheridan was frustrated by the inability of his other officers to find and engage the enemy, and despite his poor record and unpopularity with the men of the 7th Cavalry, Custer was a good fighter.  

Sheridan determined that a campaign in winter might prove more effective, since the Indians could be caught off guard while in their permanent camps. On November 26, Custer located a large village of Cheyenne encamped near the Washita River, just outside of present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma. Custer did not attempt to identify which group of Cheyenne was in the village, or to make even a cursory reconnaissance of the situation. Had he done so, Custer would have discovered that they were peaceful people and the village was on reservation soil, where the commander of Fort Cobb had guaranteed them safety. There was even a white flag flying from one of the main dwellings, indicating that the tribe was actively avoiding conflict.  

Having surrounded the village the night before, at dawn Custer called for the regimental band to play "Garry Owen," which signaled for four columns of soldiers to charge into the sleeping village. Outnumbered and caught unaware, scores of Cheyenne were killed in the first 15 minutes of the "battle," though a small number of the warriors managed to escape to the trees and return fire. Within a few hours, the village was destroyed--the soldiers had killed 103 Cheyenne, including the peaceful Black Kettle and many women and children.  

Hailed as the first substantial American victory in the Indian wars, the Battle of the Washita helped to restore Custer's reputation and succeeded in persuading many Cheyenne to move to the reservation. However, Custer's habit of boldly charging Indian encampments of unknown strength would eventually lead him to his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.







Nov 27, 1914: Hindenburg celebrates Warsaw campaign

On November 27, 1914, German commander Paul von Hindenburg issues a triumphant proclamation from the battlefields of the Eastern Front, celebrating his army's campaign against Russian forces in the Polish city of Warsaw.  

On November 1, Hindenburg had been appointed commander in chief of all German troops on the Eastern Front; his chief of staff was Erich Ludendorff, who had aided him in commanding several earlier victories against Russian forces in East Prussia. The new command, dubbed OberOst, had two objectives: First, they were to mount a counterattack in Poland while their colleague, Erich von Falkenhayn, managed German forces fighting in the Ypres region on the Western Front. Second, they were to balance the faltering Austrian command headed by Conrad von Hotzendorff. Earlier, Conrad had audaciously blamed his army's failure against Russia on a lack of sufficient German support and demanded that 30 new German divisions be sent east, a notion that Falkenhayn steadfastly opposed.  

The German campaign against Warsaw, launched in early November 1914, aimed to draw Russian manpower and other resources away from their ferocious assault on the struggling army of Germany's ally, Austria-Hungary. In this it proved successful. The Germans scored several significant victories, most notably at the neighboring city of Lodz. Though the broader German assault ultimately failed, leaving Warsaw still in Russian hands, the kaiser rewarded Hindenburg by promoting him to field marshal, the highest rank in the German army.  

In his statement of November 27, Hindenburg expressed his satisfaction with the results of the campaign and, of course, with his promotion. "I am proud at having reached the highest military rank at the head of such troops. Your fighting spirit and perseverance have in a marvelous manner inflicted the greatest losses on the enemy. Over 60,000 prisoners, 150 guns and about 200 machine guns have fallen into our hands, but the enemy is not yet annihilated. Therefore, forward with God, for King and Fatherland, till the last Russian lies beaten at our feet.  Hurrah!"





Nov 27, 1940: Bruce Lee born   

On this day in 1940, the actor and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee is born in San Francisco, California. In his all-too-brief career, Lee became a film star in Asia, and a pop-culture icon, posthumously, in America.  

Lee was born while his father, a Chinese opera star, was on tour in America. The Lee family moved back to Hong Kong in 1941. Growing up, Lee was a child actor who appeared in some 20 Chinese films; he also studied dancing and trained in the Wing Chun style of gung fu (also known as kung fu). In 1959, Lee returned to America, where he eventually attended the University of Washington and opened a martial-arts school in Seattle. In 1964, he married Linda Emery, who in 1965 gave birth to Brandon Lee, the first of the couple’s two children. In 1966, the Lees relocated to Los Angeles and Bruce appeared on the television program The Green Hornet (1966-1967), playing the Hornet’s acrobatic sidekick, Kato. Lee also appeared in karate tournaments around the United States and continued to teach martial arts to private clients, including the actor Steve McQueen.  

In search of better acting roles than Hollywood was offering, Lee returned to Hong Kong in the early 1970s. He successfully established himself as a star in Asia with the action movies The Big Boss (1971) and The Way of the Dragon (1972), which he wrote, directed and starred in. Lee’s next film, Enter the Dragon, was released in the United States by Hollywood studio Warner Brothers in August 1973. Tragically, Lee had died one month earlier, on July 20, in Hong Kong, after suffering a brain edema believed to be caused by an adverse reaction to a pain medication. Enter the Dragon was a box-office hit, eventually grossing more than $200 million, and Lee posthumously became a movie icon in America.  

Lee’s body was returned to Seattle, where he was buried. His sudden death at the young age of 32 led to rumors and speculation about the cause of his demise. One theory held that Lee had been murdered by Chinese gangsters, while another rumor circulated that the actor had been the victim of a curse. The family-curse theory resurfaced when Lee’s 28-year-old son Brandon, who had followed in his father’s footsteps to become an actor, died in an accidental shooting on the set of the movie The Crow on March 31, 1993. The younger Lee was buried next to his father at Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery.









Nov 27, 1942: Jimi Hendrix born

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle. Hendrix grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Bryan Chandler of the British group the Animals heard him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.  

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar and was quickly established as a rock superstar. In the next two years, before the band broke up in 1969, it had released such classic songs as "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).  

After the band dissolved because of creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve in 1969. The band put out only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, which was released in 1971.  

Hendrix, one of the most innovative guitar players of the rock era, established an advanced recording studio in New York called the Electric Lady, boasting 46-track recording technology. The studio opened in August 1970, shortly before Hendrix died in London in September 1970, following a drug overdose. He was 27.




Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

399 - St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade

1237 - Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II vs Lombardische steden

1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".

1382 - Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed

1495 - Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck

1587 - Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break

1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

1798 - Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Peterburg jail

1807 - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops

1815 - City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna

1815 - Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland

1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1826 - John Walker invents friction match in England

1839 - American Statistical Association organizes in Boston

1843 - Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)

1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas

1863 - Battle of Payne's Farm, VA

1864 - 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia

US Cavalry Commander George Armstrong CusterUS Cavalry Commander George Armstrong Custer 1868 - Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack

1870 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"

1877 - Burkina Faso adopts its constitution

1885 - Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made

1889 - 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)

1889 - Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin

1890 - 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation

1895 - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize

1896 - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt

1901 - Army War College forms in Washington DC

1901 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin

1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.

1903 - Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)

1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

1911 - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US

Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart HauptmannAuthor and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 1912 - Albanian National Flag adopted

1912 - Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms

1914 - 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)

1919 - Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria

1924 - 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)

1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

1925 - German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno

1926 - 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie

1926 - Béla Bartoks ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres in Keulen

1926 - Italian & Albania sign peace treaty

1926 - KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

1926 - Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins

1931 - 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day

1932 - Poland & USSR signs non-attack treaty

1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.

1937 - Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU

1939 - Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in NYC

1940 - 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)

1940 - Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft

1941 - British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk

Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1941 - Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP

1941 - USSR begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat

1942 - Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ

1942 - French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them

1942 - Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia

1943 - 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14

1943 - Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)

1944 - 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed

1944 - US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen

1945 - Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China

1945 - Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

1945 - Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins

1945 - Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

1946 - English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2

1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote

Soviet Union Premier Joseph StalinSoviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1948 - 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7

1948 - Honda 1st opens in America

1950 - Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract

1950 - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague

1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM

1951 - Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea

1952 - KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 - Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP

1954 - "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 perfs

1954 - 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25

1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

1956 - F Goodrich & A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank" premieres in Neth

1957 - Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration

1958 - USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany

1960 - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 - Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast

1960 - Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points

1960 - Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo

1960 - Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38

1961 - Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games

1961 - KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting

1962 - 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place

1962 - Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC

1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.

1965 - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC

1965 - 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space

1965 - 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16

1966 - In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41

1966 - Uruguay adopts constitution

1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"

1967 - Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

1970 - Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year

1970 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"

1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

1970 - Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane

1971 - Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government

1972 - Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses

1973 - Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year

1973 - Neil Simon's "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC

38th US President Gerald Ford38th US President Gerald Ford 1973 - Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP

1974 - Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year

1975 - Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL)

1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

1976 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship

1976 - Miss Teenage America Pageant

1977 - "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf

1977 - 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6

1979 - 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG

1980 - Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched

1982 - 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0

1982 - Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)

1983 - 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17

1983 - Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181

1983 - Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India

1985 - Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year

1985 - Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland

1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney

1987 - Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England

1988 - 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21

1989 - Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107

1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1989 - George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl"

1989 - Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay

1989 - US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space

British Prime Minister Margaret ThatcherBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher

1991 - "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances

1991 - Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)

1991 - Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ

1992 - Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network

1992 - Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire

1993 - Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 v NZ, Hobart)

1993 - India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12

1993 - Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World

1994 - 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23

1994 - Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed

1994 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay

1997 - Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher

1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.

WWF Wrestler Hulk HoganWWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

2004 - New Zealand's All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris

2004 - Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

2005 - President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term.

2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.

2006 - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator.

2012 - 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq

2012 - The eurozone announces that it will pay out 43.7 billion euros in Loans to Greece

2013 - Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's player of the year for the 11th time

1684 - Japan's shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa was born.   1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer.   1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.   1839 - The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.   1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City.   1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.   1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.   1939 - The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York.   1951 - Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida.   1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.   1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.   1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.   1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.   1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.   1983 - 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas airport in Madrid.   1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.   1987 - French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.   1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.   1991 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.   1992 - In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.

1852 Lord Byron's daughter Ada died. She had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing computer language. 1895 Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize. 1910 New York's Pennsylvania Station opened. 1953 Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65. 1970 Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. 1973 Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the Senate to become vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. 2003 President Bush secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.



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http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov27.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

On This Day in History - November 26 FDR Establishes Thanksgiving As Official Holiday

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

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Nov 26, 1941: FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.  

The tradition of celebrating the holiday on Thursday dates back to the early history of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, when post-harvest holidays were celebrated on the weekday regularly set aside as "Lecture Day," a midweek church meeting where topical sermons were presented. A famous Thanksgiving observance occurred in the autumn of 1621, when Plymouth governor William Bradford invited local Indians to join the Pilgrims in a three-day festival held in gratitude for the bounty of the season.  

Thanksgiving became an annual custom throughout New England in the 17th century, and in 1777 the Continental Congress declared the first national American Thanksgiving following the Patriot victory at Saratoga. In 1789, President George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of Congress, he proclaimed November 26, a Tuesday, as a day of national thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution. However, it was not until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to fall on the last Thursday of November, that the modern holiday was celebrated nationally.  

With a few deviations, Lincoln's precedent was followed annually by every subsequent president--until 1939. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. Considerable controversy surrounded this deviation, and some Americans refused to honor Roosevelt's declaration. For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, 1941, he admitted his mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday in November the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.





Nov 26, 1941: Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor 

On this day in 1941, Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force, toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should "negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland."  

Negotiations had been ongoing for months. Japan wanted an end to U.S. economic sanctions. The Americans wanted Japan out of China and Southeast Asia-and to repudiate the Tripartite "Axis" Pact with Germany and Italy as conditions to be met before those sanctions could be lifted. Neither side was budging. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were anticipating a Japanese strike as retaliation—they just didn't know where. The Philippines, Wake Island, Midway—all were possibilities. American intelligence reports had sighted the Japanese fleet movement out from Formosa (Taiwan), apparently headed for Indochina. As a result of this "bad faith" action, President Roosevelt ordered that a conciliatory gesture of resuming monthly oil supplies for Japanese civilian needs canceled. Hull also rejected Tokyo's "Plan B," a temporary relaxation of the crisis, and of sanctions, but without any concessions on Japan's part. Prime Minister Tojo considered this an ultimatum, and more or less gave up on diplomatic channels as the means of resolving the impasse.  

Nagumo had no experience with naval aviation, having never commanded a fleet of aircraft carriers in his life. This role was a reward for a lifetime of faithful service. Nagumo, while a man of action, did not like taking unnecessary risks—which he considered an attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor to be. But Chief of Staff Rear Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto thought differently; while also opposing war with the United States, he believed the only hope for a Japanese victory was a swift surprise attack, via carrier warfare, against the U.S. fleet. And as far as the Roosevelt War Department was concerned, if war was inevitable, it desired "that Japan commit the first overt act."










Nov 26, 1922: Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut

In Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen's tomb in more than 3,000 years. Tutankhamen's sealed burial chambers were miraculously intact, and inside was a collection of several thousand priceless objects, including a gold coffin containing the mummy of the teenage king.  

When Carter first arrived in Egypt, in 1891, most of the ancient Egyptian tombs had been discovered, and the majority of these had been hopelessly plundered by tomb raiders over the millennia. However, Carter was a brilliant excavator, and in the first years of the 20th century he discovered the tombs of Queen Hatshepsut and King Thutmose IV. Around 1907, he became associated with the Earl of Carnarvon, a collector of antiquities who commissioned Carter to supervise excavations in the Valley of the Kings. By 1913, most experts felt there was nothing in the Valley left to be uncovered. Carter, however, persisted in his efforts, convinced that the tomb of the little-known King Tutankhamen might still be found.  

King Tutankhamen was enthroned in 1333 B.C. when he was still a child. He died a decade later at the age of 18 and thus made only a faint impression on the history of ancient Egypt. In the 13th century B.C., Tutankhamen and the other "Amarna" kings were publicly condemned, and most records of them were destroyed--including the location of Tutankhamen's tomb. A century later, in the 12th century B.C., workers building a tomb for Ramses VI inadvertently covered Tutankhamen's tomb with a deep layer of chips, further protecting it from future discovery.  

After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for Tutankhamen's tomb and on November 4, 1922, discovered a step leading to its entrance. Lord Carnarvon rushed to Egypt, and on November 23 they broke through a mud-brick door, revealing the passageway that led to Tutankhamen's tomb. There was evidence that robbers had entered the structure at some point, and the archaeologists feared they had discovered yet another pillaged tomb. However, on November 26 they broke through another door, and Carter leaned in with a candle to take a look. Behind him, Lord Carnarvon asked, "Can you see anything?" Carter replied, "Yes, wonderful things."  

It was the antechamber of Tutankhamen's tomb, and it was gloriously untouched. The dusty floor still showed the footprints of the tomb builders who left the room more than 3,000 years before. Apparently, the robbers who had broken into Tutankhamen's tomb had done so soon after it was completed and were caught before moving into the interior chambers and causing serious damage.  

Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter carefully explored the four-room tomb over several years, uncovering an incredible collection of several thousand objects. In addition to numerous pieces of jewelry and gold, there was statuary, furniture, clothes, a chariot, weapons, and numerous other objects that shed a brilliant light on the culture and history of ancient Egypt. The most splendid find was a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each other. Inside the final coffin, made out of solid gold, was the mummified body of the boy-king Tutankhamen, preserved for 3,200 years. Most of these treasures are now housed in the Cairo Museum.












Nov 26, 1950: Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war

In some of the fiercest fighting of the Korean War, thousands of communist Chinese troops launch massive counterattacks against U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) troops, driving the Allied forces before them and putting an end to any thoughts for a quick or conclusive U.S. victory. When the counterattacks had been stemmed, U.S. and ROK forces had been driven from North Korea and the war settled into a grinding and frustrating stalemate for the next two-and-a-half years. 

In the weeks prior to the Chinese attacks, ROK and U.S. forces, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, had succeeded in driving deeper into North Korea and were nearing the border with the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC issued warnings that the Allied forces should keep their distance, and beginning in October 1950 troops from the Chinese People's Liberation Army began to cross the border to assist their North Korean ally. Their numbers grew to around 300,000 by early November. Some bloody encounters occurred between the Chinese and ROK and U.S. forces, but the Chinese troops suddenly broke off offensive operations on November 6. This spurred MacArthur, who had always discounted the military effectiveness of the Chinese troops, to propose a massive new offensive by U.S. and ROK forces. Alternately referred to as the "End the War" or "Home by Christmas" offensive, the attack began on November 24. The offensive almost immediately encountered heavy resistance, and by November 26 the Chinese were launching destructive counterattacks along a 25-mile front. By December, U.S. and ROK forces had been pushed out of North Korea. Eventually, U.S. and ROK forces stopped the Chinese troops and the war settled into a military stalemate. 

The massive Chinese attack brought an end to any thoughts that U.S. boys would be "home by Christmas." It also raised the specter of the war expanding beyond the borders of the Korean peninsula, something U.S. policymakers-leery of becoming entangled in a land war in Asia that might escalate into a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets-were anxious to avoid.



Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.

579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

783 - Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.

1476 - Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

1527 - Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I

1580 - French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty

1598 - Jacob of Neck's merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java

1648 - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia

1688 - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg

1688 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands

1688 - King James II escapes back to London

1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"

1703 - Great storm hits Southern England thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen

1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)

1741 - French & Beiers army occupies Prague

1764 - France bans Jesuit enorde

1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)

1784 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.

1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving in USA

The Sun King of France Louis XIVThe Sun King of France Louis XIV 1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee

1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))

1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)

1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ

1841 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan

1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.

1847 - Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice" premieres in Paris

1859 - Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round

1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia

1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA

1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia

1864 - Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia

1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in USA

1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.

Author and Mathematician Lewis CarrollAuthor and Mathematician Lewis Carroll 1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit

1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom

1885 - 1st meteor photograph

1894 - King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France

1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms

1896 - 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6

1896 - A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle

1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die

1898 - SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed

1909 - Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.

1910 - 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7

1913 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers

1913 - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.

1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die

1916 - Greece declares war on Germany

1918 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.

Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard CarterArchaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter 1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Toetanchamon's (Tut) tomb

1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1925 - Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement

1927 - 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6

1928 - Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden

1928 - Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC

1932 - Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings

1933 - Camille Chautemps becomes French premier

1934 - German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis

1934 - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names

1939 - 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border

1940 - Leidse students strike

1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw

1941 - Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro

1941 - British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs

1941 - British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda

1941 - Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor

1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France

1942 - "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC

1942 - Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms

1944 - 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor

1944 - Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums

1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)

1948 - Belgian government of Spaak resigns

1949 - 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15

1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic

1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River

1952 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood

1953 - KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 - WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 - Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening

1954 - Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba

1955 - "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances

1955 - 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19

1955 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus

Country Singer Johnny CashCountry Singer Johnny Cash 1955 - Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"

1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC

1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks

1957 - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1960 - 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6

1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins

1961 - For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions

1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball

1962 - 1st recording session under name "Beatles"

1962 - Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms

1962 - Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles

1963 - 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)

1963 - Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year

1963 - Explorer 18 launched

1965 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year

1965 - France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)

1966 - "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs

1966 - 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France

1966 - 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14

1967 - Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return

1967 - Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450

1968 - 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)

1969 - 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)

1969 - Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)

1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon

1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.

1972 - Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown

1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1974 - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)

1974 - Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration

1974 - Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India

1975 - Fed jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination

1975 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island

1975 - Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP

1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 - German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship

1976 - Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single

1976 - Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"

1976 - Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International

1977 - 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.

1978 - 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY

1978 - 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"

1978 - 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13

1979 - Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years

1979 - Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year

1980 - Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building

1980 - Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP

1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager

1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million

1984 - After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires

1984 - John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million

1984 - Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain

1984 - US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations

1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched

1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

37th US President Richard Nixon37th US President Richard Nixon 1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000

1988 - Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch

1988 - Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)

1989 - 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40

1989 - Comores coup under Bob Benard

1989 - Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay

1989 - Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras

1990 - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson & Phil Collins win

1990 - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend

1990 - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait

1990 - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns

1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students

1993 - Political campaigners James Carville (49) & Mary Matalin wed

1995 - 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)

Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback Dan MarinoHall of Fame NFL Quarterback Dan Marino 1995 - Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass

1995 - New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI

1996 - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4

1996 - Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge

1996 - Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf

1996 - Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge

1997 - Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5

1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.

2003 - Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.

2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.

2008 - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.

2011 - 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.

2012 - 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground

2012 - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion

1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.   1731 - English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task."   1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.   1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.   1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City.   1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.   1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.   1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.   1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.   1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.   1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1.   1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.   1943 - The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.   1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.   1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.   1958 - Maurice Richard (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 600th NHL career goal.   1965 - France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A.   1973 - Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon's personal secretary.   1975 - Lynette"Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.   1979 - The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.   1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men were convicted in the heist.   1985 - The rights to Richard Nixon's autobiography were acquired by Random House for $3,000,000.   1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.   1988 - The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.   1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.   1990 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.   1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.   1995 - Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.   1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.   1998 - British Prime Minister Toney Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.   1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.   2003 - The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.


1789 The first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington. 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first to enter the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut) since it was sealed in 1323 B.C. 1940 The Nazis began to force Warsaw's Jews to live in a walled ghetto. 1950 China entered the Korean War. 1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford. 1998 Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to speak to the Irish parliament. 2000 Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner in Florida's presidential balloting.


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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory