Birthdays:
1974 ~ Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor.
1962 ~ Demi Moore (née Demi Gene Guynes), American
actress.
1960 ~ Stanley Tucci, American actor and director.
1947 ~ Elizabeth Glaser (d. Dec. 3, 1994),
American AIDS activist. She died 22 days
after her 47th birthday.
1930 ~ Hugh Everett, III (d. July 19,
1982), American mathematician. He died
at age 51 of heart disease.
1930 ~ David
Hackworth (d. May 4, 2005), American war hero who became a critic of the US
military. He died at age 74.
1930 ~ Mildred
Dresselhaus (d. Feb. 20, 2017), American nanoscience pioneer who broke
barriers. She was the first female
Institute Professor at MIT. She was
known as the Queen of Carbon Science.
She died at age 86.
1928 ~ Carlos Fuentes (d. May 15, 2012),
Mexican author. He died at age 83.
1925 ~
Jonathan Winters (d. Apr. 11, 2013), American comic and actor who thrived on
improvisation. He died at age 87.
1925 ~ Tennent Bagely (d. Feb. 20, 2014),
the American CIA agent who handled, Yuri Nosenko, a dubious Russian
defector. He died at age 88.
1922 ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (d. Apr. 11,
2007), American novelist, best known for his novels Slaughter-House Five and Cat’s
Cradle. He died at age 84.
1921 ~ Terrel Bell (d. June 22, 1996), 2nd
United States Secretary of Education. He
served under President Ronald Reagan from January 1981 until January 1985. He died at age 74.
1915 ~ William Proxmire (né Edward
William Proxmire, d. Dec. 15, 2005), American politician. He was a senator from Wisconsin from August
1957 until January 1989. He died about a
month after his 90th birthday.
1915 ~ Anna
Schwartz (d. June 21, 2012), American economist who rewrote the history of the
Depression. She is best known for her
1963 classic A Monetary History of the
United States. She died at age 96.
1914 ~ Howard Fast (d. Mar. 12, 2003),
American author. He died at age 88.
1904 ~ J.H.C. Whitehead (né John Henry
Constantine Whitehead, d. May 8, 1960), British mathematician. He died of a heart attack at age 55.
1904 ~ Alger Hiss (d. Nov. 15, 1996),
American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy. He died 4 days after his 92nd birthday.
1885 ~ George S. Patton, Jr. (d. Dec. 21,
1945), American general. He died at age
60 of injuries suffered in a car accident.
1882 ~ King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d.
Sept. 15, 1973). He died at age 90.
1872 ~ David L. Walsh (d. June 11, 1947),
46th Governor of Massachusetts.
He served as Governor from January 1914 until January 1916. He died at age 74.
1864 ~ Alfred Hermann Fried (d. May 5,
1921), Austrian writer and pacifist. He
was the recipient of the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 56.
1821 ~ Fyodor Dostoyevesky (d. Feb. 9, 1881), Russian novelist, best known
for his novel, Crime and Punishment.
He died at age 59 of a pulmonary hemorrhage.
1792 ~ Mary Anne Evans Disraeli, 1st
Viscountess Beaconsfield (d. Dec. 15, 1872), Welsh wife of Benjamin
Disraeli. She died about month after her
80th birthday.
1050 ~ Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
Aug. 7, 1106). He died at age 55.
Events that Changed the World:
2012 ~ A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck
in northern Burma, killing nearly 30 people.
2004 ~ Mahmoud Abbas (b. 1935) became the
president of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1993 ~ A sculpture honoring the women who served in the
Vietnam War was dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1992 ~ The General Synod of the Church of
England voted to allow woman to become Anglican priest.
1981 ~ Antigua and Barbuda joined the
United Nations. In 2017, Hurricane Irma
would destroy over 90% of the island of Barbuda.
1954
~
Veterans Day was first celebrated in the United States to honor the men and
women who have served in the United States armed services. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed
November 11 as Armistice Day to remind Americans of those lost in World War
I. It was made a Federal Holiday in
1938. In 1954, the name was changed to
Veterans Day to commemorate American Veterans of all wars, not just World War
II.
1942 ~ Nazi Germany completed its invasion of France.
1926 ~ U.S. Route 66 came into being with
the establishment of the US Numbered Highway System.
1921 ~ The Tomb of the Unknown soldiers
was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
1918 ~ World War I ended when Germany signed
an armistice agreement. Fighting officially
ended at 11:00 a.m. The war officially
ended with the signing of the Treaty Versailles, which occurred on June 28,
1919.
1889 ~ Washington became the 42nd State of
the Union.
1864 ~ During the American Civil War, Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 ~ 1891), who had formerly been the president of
LSU, began burning Atlanta, Georgia on his march south.
1839 ~ The Virginia Military Institute
was founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1675 ~ Gottfried Leibniz (1646 ~ 1716)
demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the of
the graph y = ƒ(x).
1620 ~ The Mayflower Compact was signed
aboard the Mayflower as it was stationed off the coast of what is now known as
Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was the
first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
1500 ~ King Louis XII (1462 ~ 1515) of
France and King Ferdinand II (1452 ~ 1516) of Aragon agreed to divide the
Kingdom of Naples between they with the signing of the Treaty of Granada.
1215 ~ The Fourth Lateran Council met and
defined the doctrine of transubstantiation, by which the bread and wine of
communion are said to be transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
1100 ~ King Henry I (1068 ~ 1135) of
England married Matilda of Scotland (1080 ~ 1118). Matilda was the daughter of Malcolm III of
Scotland (1031 ~ 1093).
Good-Byes:
2016 ~ Robert Vaughn (b. Nov. 22, 1932),
American actor best known for his role as Napoleon Solo in the television
series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He
died 11 days before his 84th birthday.
2014 ~ John Doar (b. Dec. 3, 1921),
American civil rights lawyer who fought segregation and drafted the articles of
impeachment against President Richard Nixon.
He died 3 weeks before his 93rd birthday.
2012 ~ Sir Rex
Hunter (b. June 29, 1926), British governor who defied Argentina during the
Falkland Islands War in 1982. He was 86
years old.
2005 ~ Peter Drucker (b. Nov. 19, 1909), American
management theorist. He is best known
for the development of the Peter Principle, in which ineptitude rises to the
top. He died 8 days before his 96th
birthday.
2004 ~ Yasser Arafat (b. Aug. 24, 1929),
Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He was also the recipient of the 1994 Nobel
Peace Prize. He died at age 75.
1994 ~ John Anthony Volpe (b. Dec. 8, 1908),
2nd United States Secretary of Transportation. He served in the Richard Nixon administration
from January 1969 until February 1973. He
previously served as the 61st and 63rd Governor of
Massachusetts. He died less than a month
before his 86th birthday.
1976 ~ Alexander Calder (b. July 22,
1898), American sculptor and inventor.
He is best known for his mobiles.
He died at age 78.
1973 ~ Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (b. Jan.
15, 1895), Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry. He died at age 78.
1945 ~ Jerome David Kern (b. Jan. 27,
1885), American composer. He died of a
cerebral hemorrhage at age 60.
1938 ~ Typhoid Mary Mallon (b. Sept. 23,
1869), Irish-American carrier of Typhoid fever.
She died at age 69.
1917 ~ Queen Liliuokalani (b. Sept. 2,
1838) of Hawaii. She was the last
reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands.
She died at age 79.
1892 ~ Thomas Adolphus Trollope (b. Apr.
29, 1810), British author and journalist.
He died at age 82.
1880 ~ Ned Kelly (né Edward Kelly, b. Dec. 1855),
Australian criminal. He was hanged at
age 31. The exact day of his birth is
not known.
1880 ~ Lucretia Mott (b. Jan. 3, 1793),
American feminist, social reformer, advocate of women’s rights and
abolitionist. She died at age 87.
1862 ~ James Madison Porter (b. Jan. 6, 1793),
18th United States Secretary of War.
He served under President John Tyler from March 1843 until January
1844. He died at age 69.
1861 ~ King Pedro V of Portugal (b. Sept.
16, 1837). He reigned as King from
November 1853 until his death 8 years later.
He died of typhus fever at age 24.
1855 ~ Søren Kierkegaard (b. May 5,
1813), Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He died at age 42.
1831 ~ Nat Turner (b. Oct. 2, 1800),
American slave rebel who was hanged after inciting a slave uprising. He was executed at age 31.
1623 ~ Philippe de Mornay (b. Nov. 5,
1549), French author. He died 6 days
after his 74th birthday.
1028 ~ Constantine VIII, Byzantine Emperor (b.
960). The exact date of his birth is not
known.
No comments:
Post a Comment