This Day in "History"

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November 29

1924
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in
Brussels before he could complete his opera
" Turandot .'"

1929
Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three
became the first to fly over the South Pole.

1947
The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish
people a homeland to be established in
Palestine .

1963
The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in
Great Britain.

1963
President Johnson named a commission headed
by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination
of President Kennedy.

1986
Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age
82.

2001
Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.


This Day in History: November 29 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on November 29

Ambrose Fleming
inventor of the diode (1849)

William V. S. Tubman
president of Liberia (1895)

C.S. Lewis
author (1898)

Madeleine L'Engle
author (1918)

Jacques Chirac
political leader (1932)

Yuan T. Lee
chemist (1936)

Diane Ladd
actress (1942)

Joel Coen
filmmaker (1954)

Don Cheadle
actor (1964)

November 29 Birthdays: Louisa May Alcott | Infoplease.com

 

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November 30

1804
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried
for political bias.

1900
Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.

1940
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married.

1966
Barbados became independent of Great Britain.

1974
The fossilized remains of a female human
ancestor named Lucy (after the Beatles song
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) were found in
Ethiopia .

1993
The Brady Bill , requiring a five-day waiting period
for handgun purchases, is signed.

1995
President Bill Clinton became the first U.S.
president to visit Northern Ireland .

2004
Ken Jennings ended his 74-game winning spree
on the game show, Jeopardy!
This Day in History: November 30 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on November 30

Andrea Palladio
architect (1508)

Jonathan Swift
author (1667)

Mark Twain
writer, social observer (1835)

L. M. Montgomery
novelist (1874)

Gordon Parks
photographer, filmmaker, writer (1912)

Shirley Chisholm
congresswoman (1924)

d*ck Clark
TV personality (1929)

Ridley Scott
filmmaker (1937)

David Mamet
playwright (1947)

Ben Stiller
actor, director, comic (1965)

Elisha Cuthbert
actor (1982)
November 30 Birthdays: Winston Churchill | Infoplease.com

 

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December 1

1824
The presidential election between John Q.
Adams , Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and
Henry Clay was turned over to the House of
Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-
vote majority.

1887
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
appeared for the first time in print in the story "A
Study in Scarlet."

1955
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up
her front-section bus seat to a white man in
Montgomery, Ala.

1959
Twelve nations, including the United States ,
signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a
scientific preserve free from military activity.

1997
Representatives from more than 150 countries
gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto,
Japan, and over the course of ten days forged
an agreement to control the emission of
greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the
U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.

1998
Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the
world's largest corporation.

This Day in History: December 1 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on December 1

Martin Klaproth
chemist (1743)

Marie Tussaud
modeler in wax (1761)

Walter Alston
baseball manager (1911)

Minoru Yamasaki
architect (1912)

Mary Martin
singer, actress (1913)

Woody Allen
actor, writer, and director (1935)

Lee Trevino
golfer (1939)

Richard Pryor
comedian, actor (1940)

Bette Midler
singer, actress (1945)

December 1 Birthdays: Samuel Kirkland | Infoplease.com

 

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December 2

1804
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of
France in Paris by Pope Pius VII.

1823
President James Monroe outlined his famous
doctrine opposing European expansion in the
Western Hemisphere.

1859
Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid
on Harper's Ferry.

1942
The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was
demonstrated at the University of Chicago.

1954
The Senate voted to condemn Republican
senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for
"conduct that tends to bring the Senate into
dishonor and disrepute."

1970
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was
established.

1982
Barney B. Clark became the first person to
receive an artificial heart in a transplant
operation.

1988
Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime
Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman
to head an Muslim nation.

1990
Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.

1999
A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for
the first time in Northern Ireland.

2001
Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for
bankruptcy .
This Day in History: December 2 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on December 2

Peter Carl Goldmark
inventor and engineer (1906)

Maria Callas
soprano (1923)

Alexander Haig
general (1924)

Julie Harris
actress (1925)

Gianni Versace
fashion designer (1946)

Lucy Liu
actor, model (1968)

Monica Seles
tennis player (1973)

Nelly Furtado
singer (1978)

Britney Spears
pop singer (1981)

December 2 Birthdays: Georges Seurat | Infoplease.com

 

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December 3

1818
Illinois became the 21st state in the United
States.

1833
Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed
institution of higher learning in the U.S.

1910
Mary Baker Eddy , founder of the Christian
Science movement, died.

1919
French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died
at age 78.

1967
Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's
first successful human heart transplant.

1984
A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the
Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over
4,000 people.


This Day in History: December 3 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on December 3

Gilbert Stuart
painter (1755)

Ellen Swallow Richards
chemist and educator (1842)

Anna Freud
psychoanalyst (1895)

Jean-Luc Godard
film director (1930)

Ozzy Osbourne
rock musician (1948)

Daryl Hannah
actress (1960)

Julianne Moore
actress (1960)

Katarina Witt
skater (1965)

Brendan Fraser
actor (1968)
December 3 Birthdays: Joseph Conrad | Infoplease.com