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Contents

1 Events 1.1 1300-1899 1.2 1900-1999 1.3 2000-2099 2 Births 2.1 1500-1899 2.2 1900-1999 3 Deaths 3.1 10 BC-AD 1899 3.2 1900-1999 3.3 2000-2099 4 Holidays 5 Recorded this date

Events

1300-1899

• 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
• 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
• 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed in storm.
• 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison and return safely to the South.
• 1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living on reservation land.
• 1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

1900-1999

• 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• 1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• 1926 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
• 1934 - Death of bank robber Baby Face Nelson in a gun battle with the FBI.
• 1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister and acclaimed historian Nicolae Iorga. Mediterranean sea: battle of Cape Spartivento between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina
• 1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
• 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
• 1973 - The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
• 1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Barajas Airport, in Madrid killing 183
• 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.

2000-2099

• 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

Births

1500-1899

• 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
• 1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1701 - Anders Celsius, inventor, astronomer (d. 1744)
• 1710 - Robert Lowth, bishop of the Church of England (d. 1787)
• 1746 - Robert Livingston, politician (d. 1813)
• 1804 - Julius Benedict, composer (d. 1885)
• 1809 - Fanny Kemble, actress (d. 1893)
• 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1899)
• 1843 - Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
• 1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, winner of 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1952)
• 1865 - Jose Asuncion Silva, poet (d. 1896)
• 1867 - Charles Koechlin, composer (d. 1950)
• 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
• 1874 - Charles A. Beard, historian (d. 1948)

1900-1999

• 1900 - Leon Barzin, conductor (d. 1999)
• 1901 - Ted Husing, sportscaster (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Johnny Blood, American football player (d. 1986)
• 1903 - Mona Washbourne, actress (d. 1988)
• 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, science fiction writer (d. 2000)
• 1909 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
• 1911 - David Merrick, Broadway producer (d. 2000)
• 1916 - Chick Hearn, sports announcer (d. 2002)
• 1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, television host (Howdy Doody) (d. 1998)
• 1921 - Alexander Dubček, Czech politician (d. 1992)
• 1925 - Ernie Wise, comedian (d. 1999)
• 1925 - Marshall Thompson, actor (d. 1992)
• 1925 - Michael Tolan, actor
• 1926 - Barbara Anderson, author
• 1927 - Castilho, Brazilian legendary football goalkeeper
• 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader (d. 1983)
• 1936 - Jacqueline Danno, actress
• 1937 - Gail Sheehy, writer
• 1940 - Bruce Lee, actor, martial arts expert (d. 1973)
• 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, musician (d. 1970)
• 1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
• 1944 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer (d. 1998)
• 1951 - Jayne Kennedy, sportscaster, actress
• 1952 - James D. Wetherbee, astronaut
• 1953 - Curtis Armstrong, actor
• 1957 - Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, journalist
• 1959 - Charlie Burchill, musician
• 1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
• 1962 - Charlie Benante, musician
• 1963 - Fisher Stevens, actor
• 1964 - Robin Givens, actress
• 1965 - Fiachna O'Broanain, musician
• 1968 - Paul J. Perrone, author & roboticist
• 1968 - Michael Vartan, actor
• 1971 - Edward Schocker, composer
• 1975 - Martin Gramatica, American football player, kicker
• 1976 - Jaleel White, actor
• 1989 - Stephan Ivanov, student

Deaths

10 BC-AD 1899

• 8 BC Horace, poet and satirist
• AD 450 - Galla Placidia, daughter and mother of Roman Emperors
• 511 - Clovis I, king of the Franks
• 835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam
• 1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
• 1811 - Andrew Meikle, mechanical engineer
• 1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author

1900-1999

• 1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster
• 1943 - Edward O'Hare, pilot
• 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American playwright
• 1955 - Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer
• 1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (b. 1892)
• 1973 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (b. 1887)
• 1975 - Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper
• 1978 - George Moscone, politician
• 1978 - Harvey Milk, politician
• 1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer, actress (b. 1898)
• 1984 - Percy Norris, English deputy high commissioner of India
• 1986 - Steve Tracy, actor
• 1988 - John Carradine, actor
• 1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter of na�ve art (b. 1914)

2000-2099

• 2003 - Talal al-Rasheed, Saudi poet

Holidays

• USA-Thanksgiving (if a Thursday)

Recorded this date

• 1901 "My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady" (w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards)
  - Joe Natus
  
• 1901 "I'll Be With You When The Roses Bloom Again" (w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards)
  - Joseph Natus
  
• 1916 "A Broken Doll" (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris)
  - Al Jolson with O/Charles A. Prince
  
• 1916 "My Hawaiian Sunrise" (w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Carey Morgan)
  - Henry Burr & Albert C. Campbell
  
• 1920 "Grieving For You" (w.m. Joe Gibson, Joe Ribaud & Joe Gold)
  - Marion Harris
  
• 1925 "I Never Knew" (w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito)
  - Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret
  
• 1925 "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!" (w. Billy Rose & Ballard MacDonald m. Joseph Meyer)
  - Billy Murray with Jack Shilkret & his Orchestra
  
• 1926 "Like He Loves Me" (w. Anne Caldwell m. Vincent Youmans)
  - Beatrice Lillie with p. Vincent Youmans
  
• 1928 "Cross Roads" (Klages, Mendoza, Akst)
  - Henry Burr
  
• 1928 "Here Comes My Ball And Chain" (w. Louis Davis m. J. Fred Coots)
  - Joe Sanders with Coon-Sanders Original Night Hawks
  
• 1928 "High Up On A Hilltop" (w.m. Abel Baer, George Whiting & Ivan Campbell)
  - Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
  
• 1929 "The Drum Major" (Newton)
  - Peter Dawson with O/George W. Byng
  
• 1929 "The Journey's End" (De Rance arr. Hewett)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1929 "A Chip Of The Old Block" (Squire)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1929 "'Tis I" (Ciro E. Pinsuti, F. Lablache)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1931 "I Don't Know Why" (w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert)
  - Phyllis Robins & Sam Browne with Ambrose & his Orchestra
  
• 1931 "I Wanna Be Loved By You" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Herbert Stothart)
  - Sam Browne with Ambrose & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "By A Waterfall" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" (w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols)
  - Billie Holiday with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "A Hundred Years From Today" (w. Ned Washington & Joe Young m. Victor Young)
  - Ethel Waters with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "I Just Couldn't Take It Baby" (w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols)
  - Ethel Waters with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "One Morning In May" (w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael)
  - Lanny Ross with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
  - Carmen Lombardo with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
  
• 1933 "My Song Goes 'Round The World" (w.m. Hans May, Ernst Neubach & Jimmy Kennedy)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "Honeymoon Hotel" (w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren)
  - Pat O'Malley, Sonny Farrar & Billy Ternent with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1934 "Lady Fair" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Anything Goes Foursome
  
• 1934 "Anything Goes" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Cole Porter with own piano accompaniment
  
• 1934 "Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty" (w.m. Arthur W. D. Henley)
  - Bertha Willmott with Billy Cotton & his Band
  
• 1935 "Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo" (w.m. Johnny Mercer & Matt Malneck)
  - Bob Crosby
  - Ginger Rogers & Johnny Mercer with Victor Young
  
• 1935 "One Fine Day" (w. Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa m. Giacomo Puccini)
  - Grace Moore with O/Joseph Pasternack
  
• 1935 "Love Me Forever" (w. Gus Kahn m. Victor Schertzinger)
  - Grace Moore with O/Joseph Pasternack
  
• 1935 "Two Little Babes In The Wood" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Cole Porter with own piano accompaniment
  
• 1941 "Ev'rything I Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1941 "Winter Weather" (w.m. Ted Shapiro)
  - Peggy Lee & Art London with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1945 "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
  - Connie Boswell with O/Russ Morgan
  
• 1945 "The Song Is You" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern)
  - Waring's Pennsylvanians
  
• 1947 "Galway Bay" (w.m. Dr Arthur Colahan)
  - Bing Crosby with O/Victor Young
  
• 1947 "Swingin' Down The Lane" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
  - Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
  
• 1947 "Memories" (w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne)
  - Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
  
• 1947 "I'll See You In My Dreams" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
  - Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
  
• 1947 "Joplin's Sensation" (m. Scott Joplin)
  - Mutt Carey & his New Yorkers
  
• 1947 "Alice Blue Gown" (w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney)
  - Jo Stafford
  
• 1947 "In The Still Of The Night" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1947 "Through The Years" (w. Edward Heyman m. Vincent Youmans)
  - Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1947 "In The Market Place Of Old Monterey" (w. Stanley Adams m. Peter DeRose)
  - Harry Babbitt with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
  
• 1951 "Dance Me Loose" (w. Mel Howard m. Lee Erwin)
  - Arthur Godfrey & Chordettes with O/Archie Bleyer
  
• 1951 "Slow Poke" (w.m. Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart & Chilton Price)
  - Arthur Godfrey w. Chordettes with O/Archie Bleyer
  
• 1953 "Taking A Chance On Love" (w. John Latouche & Ted Fetter m. Vernon Duke)
  - Jo Stafford
  
• 1953 "Where Are You?" (Kahn, Rinker)
  - Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1957 "The Stroll" (w.m. Nancy Lee & Clyde Otis)
  - Diamonds
  
• 1957 "Walking Along" (Sam Weiss, Winston Willis)
  - Diamonds
  
• 1962 "Nobody's Darlin' But Mine" (w.m. Jimmie Davis)
  - Frank Ifield with O/Norrie Paramor
  
• 1966 "Willkommen" (w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander)
  - Joel Grey with O/Harold Hastings
  
• 1987 The Trinity Session, Cowboy Junkies

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