This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on November 21

Hetty Green
financier (1834)

Rene Magritte
painter (1898)

Coleman Hawkins
jazz musician (1904)

Stan Musial
baseball player (1920)

Goldie Hawn
actress (1945)

Tina Brown
magazine publisher (1953)

Beryl Bainbridge
writer (1953)

Björk
singer, songwriter (1965)

Troy Aikman
football player, TV commentator (1966)

November 21 Birthdays: Voltaire | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

November 22

1497
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the
first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good
Hope in his search for a sea route to India.

1718
Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the
pirate, was killed off the east coast of North
America.

1842
Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted.
Ash fallout reached as far as 48 mi away.

1906
"S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the
International Radio Telegraphic Convention in
Berlin.

1943
President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime
minister Winston Churchill , and Chinese leader
Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss
measures for defeating Japan.

1963
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.

1990
Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as
prime minister of the United Kingdom.

This Day in History: November 22 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on November 22

Richard Neville
nobleman, called the Kingmaker (1428)

Robert Cavelier de La Salle
explorer (1643)

Abigail Adams
First Lady, writer (1744)

Thomas Cook
travel agent (1808)

George Eliot
novelist (1819)

André Gide
writer (1869)

Charles De Gaulle
general and statesman (1890)

Hoagland Carmichael
songwriter (1899)

Wiley Post
aviator (1899)

Benjamin Britten
composer (1913)

Rodney Dangerfield
comedian (1921)

Geraldine Page
actress (1924)

Jamie Lee Curtis
actress (1958)

Mark Ruffalo
actor (1967)

Boris Becker
tennis player (1967)

Scarlett Johansson
actor (1984)

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[Dinesh jain]

November 23

1889
The first jukebox was installed at the Palais
Royal Saloon in San Francisco.

1936
First issue of Life magazine hit the newsstands.
The cover photograph, by Margaret Bourke-
White , featured the Fort Peck Dam.

1945
U.S. wartime food rationing, of meat, butter, and
other foods, ended.

1971
People's Republic of China was seated at the UN
Security Council.

2003
Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as president of
Georgia.
This Day in History: November 23 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on November 23

John Wallis
mathematician (1616)

William H. Bonney
outlaw A.K.A. Billie The Kid (1859)

Manuel de Falla
composer (1876)

Boris Karloff
actor (1887)

Miley Cyrus
actor (1992)

November 23 Birthdays: Franklin Pierce | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

November 24

1642
Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, later
renamed Tasmania.

1859
Darwin's Origin of Species was published.

1871
The National Rifle Association was incorporated.

1963
Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald , JFK 's
accused assassin, in the garage of Dallas police
headquarters.

1971
D. B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest
Airlines flight with $200,000.

This Day in History: November 24 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on November 24

Baruch Spinoza
philosopher (1632)

Junípero Serra
missionary (1713)

Aleksandr Suvorov
field marshal (1729)

Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States (1784)

Frances Hodgson Burnett
author (1849)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
painter and lithographer (1864)

Simon van der Meer
physical engineer (1925)

William F. Buckley, Jr.
journalist and writer (1925)

November 24 Birthdays: Scott Joplin | Infoplease.com

 

[Dileep Kumar]

This Day In HISTORY ‬1907 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author, was born. His most famous work is Madhushala and he was awarded a Padma Bhushan in 1976 for his contribution to literature.

 

[Dinesh jain]

November 25

1758
The British captured Fort Duquesne ( Pittsburgh )
in the French and Indian Wars .

1783
The British evacuated New York City, their last
military position, after the Revolutionary War.

1841
The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were
freed by the Supreme Court. They had been
defended by former president John Quincy
Adams .

1947
Movie executives blacklisted the "Hollywood
Ten."

1986
Iran-Contra scandal broke.

1998
Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of
state to visit Japan since World War II.

1999
Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of
Florida.

2002
President George W. Bush signed into law the
Department of Homeland Security and named
Tom Ridge as head.
This Day in History: November 25 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on November 25

Félix Lope de Vega Carpio
dramatic poet (1562)

Andrew Carnegie
industrialist and philanthropost (1835)

Carry Moore Nation
temperance advocate (1846)

Pope John XXIII
religious leader (1881)

Virgil Thomson
composer (1896)

Ba Jin
modern novelist (1904)

Ricardo Montalban
actor (1920)

John Larroquette
actor (1947)

John F. Kennedy, Jr.
publisher, lawyer (1960)

Amy Grant
pop musician (1960)

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