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On this day...
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 First Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877 Thomas A. Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans"
1902 First night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1925 Red Grange plays final University of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933 First US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals
1935 First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Harry Truman becomes First US president to travel in a submerged sub
1952 First US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1970 NY Knicks First game against Cleveland Cavaliers, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1977 First flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode gets a 53.3 rating
1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris
Birthdays
which occurred on November 21st:
1495 John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1694 Voltaire, France, thinker
1785 William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)
1787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founder (First regular Atlantic steamship line)
1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
1907 Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1912 Eleanor Powell, Springfield MA, actress/tap dancer
1916 Sid Luckman, NFL QB (Chicago Bears)
1920 Ralph Meeker, actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
1920 Stan Musial, outfielder
1921 Vivian Blaine, Newark NJ, actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy)
1927 Joseph Campanella, actor (Dr. Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix)
1932 Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
1933 Jean Shepard, Pauls Valley OK, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1934 Laurence Luckinbill, Fort Smith AR, actor (Delphi Bureau, Ike)
1936 James De Preist, Philadelphia, conductor (Mitropolos 1964)
1937 Marlo Thomas, Detroit, actress (That Girl!, Jenny)
1938 Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World)
1939 Richard Lenz, Springfield Illinois, actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John)
1940 Natalia Maskarova, Lenningrad, ballerina (Kirov)
1941 Juliet Mills, London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
1943 Larry Mahan, Oregon, rodeo champ (1967-70)
1945 Goldie Hawn, Takoma Park MD, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin)
1950 Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 Livingston Taylor, Boston, rocker (I Will be in Love With You)
1952 Deborah Shelton, Washington DC, actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double)
1952 Lorna Luft, Scarsdale NY, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are-1980)
1953 Tina Brown, journalist publisher (Tatler)
1956 Mariana Simionescu, Tirgu Neamt Romania, First wife of Bjorn Borg
1956 Terri Welles, Santa Monica, playmate of the year (Dec, 1980)
1957 Jim Brown, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 Tim Wilkison, Shelby NC, tennis player (WCT Atlanta finals-1986)
1963 Nicollette Sheridan, Worthing England, actress (Paige-Knots
Landing)
1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent, Oak Park Illinois, Miss America (1991)
1975 Cherie Johnson, Pittsburgh, actress (Cherie-Punky Brewster)
Deaths which occurred on November 21st:
1555 Georgius Agricola, mineralogist, dies in Germany at 61
1899 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President
1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California
1958 Mel Ott, NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49
1959 Max Baer, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49
1981 Harry Von Zell, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 75
1982 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75
1987 James E. Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1991 David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81
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