Birthdays:
1977 ~ Colin Hanks (né Colin Lewes Dillingham), American actor and son of actor Tom Hanks and his first wife, Samantha Lewes. He was born in Sacramento, California.
1964 ~ Brad Sherwood (né Bradley Sherwood), American actor and game show host. He is best known for being on the improvisional game show Whose Line is it Anyway? He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1946 ~ Ted Bundy (né Theodore Robert Cowell; d. Jan. 24, 1989), American serial killer. He is believed to have killed over 30 women. He was born in Burlington, Vermont. He was executed at age 42.
1944 ~ Daniel Glickman (né Daniel Robert Glickman), 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served from 1995 until 2001 during the Bill Clinton administration. He was born in Wichita, Kansas.
1943 ~ David Bing, African-American Mayor of Detroit, Michigan. He served as the 74th Mayor from May 2009 through December 2013. Prior to becoming Mayor, he was a professional basketball player. He played for the Detroit Pistons, the Washington Bullets, and the Boston Celtics. He was born in Washington, D.C.
1942 ~ Marlin Fitzwater (né Max Marlin Fitzwater), 17th White House Press Secretary. He served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He was born in Salina, Kansas.
1941 ~ Pete Best (né Randolph Peter Scanland), British musician and original drummer for The Beatles. He was born in Chennai, India.
1938 ~ Charlie Starkweather (né Charles Raymond Starkweather; d. June 25, 1959), teenaged murderer who, along with Caril Ann Fugate (b. 1943), want on a killing spree in which 11 people were killed. He was executed for his crimes. He was 20 years old at the time of his execution. His exploits were depicted in several movies, including Badlands and Natural Born Killers.
1935 ~ Ron Dellums (né Ronald Vernie Dellums; d. July 30, 2018), African-American politician and antiwar firebrand who became a liberal icon. He served as the 48th Mayor of Oakland, California from January 2007 until January 2011. He died at age 82.
1929 ~ George Moscone (né George Richard Moscone; d. Nov. 27, 1978), 37th Mayor of San Francisco. He served as Mayor from January 1976 until his assassination nearly 3 years later. He was assassinated along with Harvey Milk. He died three days after his 49th birthday.
1926 ~ Tzung-Dao Lee, Chinese-born American physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was 30 years old at the time he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was born in Shanghai, China. He taught physics at Columbia University from 1953 until his retirement in 2012. He was born in Shanghai, China.
1925 ~ William F. Buckley, Jr. (né William Francis Buckley, Jr., d. Feb. 27, 2008), American writer and founder of the National Review. He died at age 82.
1925 ~ Simon van der Meer (d. Mar. 4, 2011), Dutch particle accelerator physicist and recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 85.
1921 ~ John V. Lindsay (né John Vliet Lindsay; d. Dec. 19, 2000), American politician and 103rd mayor of New York City. He served as Mayor from January 1966 through December 1973. He died 25 days after his 79th birthday.
1921 ~ Herbert York (né Herbert Frank York; d. May 19, 2009), American physicist and atomic scientist who tried to curb the use of atomic arms. He was born in Rochester, New York. He died at age 87 in San Diego, California.
1916 ~ Forrest Ackerman (né Forrest James Ackerman; d. Dec. 4, 2008), American collector of science fiction books and fantasy buff who coined the term “Sci-Fi.” He died about 2 weeks after his 92nd birthday.
1914 ~ Bessie Blount Griffin (née Bessie Virginia Blount; d. Dec. 30, 2009), African-American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist. While working as a physical therapist in a hospital in the Bronx, she developed an apparatus to help amputees to feed themselves. She died at age 95.
1913 ~ Geraldine Fitzgerald (née Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald, d. July 17, 2005), Irish-American actress. She died at age 91.
1899 ~ Soraya Tarzi (d. Apr. 20, 1968), Queen consort of Afghanistan and wife of Amanullah Khan. She was a progressive royal and was known for breaking tradition. She was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 1920s. She and her husband campaigned against polygamy and the veil. She was well educated and opened the country’s first school for girls. In 1929, the King abdicated, and the family went into exile. She was born in Damascus, Syria. She died in Rome, Italy at age 68.
1897 ~ Lucky Luciano (né Salvadore Lucania; d. Jan. 26, 1962), Italian-American mobster. He was also known as Charles Luciano. He died of a heart attack at age 64.
1895 ~ Esther Applin (née Esther Richards; d. July 7, 1972), American geologist and paleontologist. She is best known for her work with microfossils and their use in determining the age of rock formations. This was important in the oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. She was born in Newark, Ohio. She died at age 76.
1893 ~ Charles Hurley (né Charles Francis Hurley; d. Mar. 24, 1946), 54th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1937 until January 1939. He died at age 52.
1888 ~ Dale Carnegie (né Dale Harbison Carnagay; d. Nov. 1, 1955), American author and educator. He died 23 days before his 67th birthday.
1884 ~ Itzhak Ben-Ziv (d. Apr. 23, 1963), 2nd President of the State of Israel. He served as President from December 1952 until his death at age 78 in April 1963.
1877 ~ Alben Barkley (né Alben William Barkley; d. Apr. 30, 1956), 35th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Harry S. Truman from January 1949 until January 1953. He collapsed and died of a heart attack while giving a speech in Virginia. He died at age 78.
1868 ~ Scott Joplin (d. April 1, 1917), African-American ragtime musician and composer. He was known as the King of Ragtime. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 49 at the time of his death.
1864 ~ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (d. Sept. 9, 1901), French painter. He died at age 36.
1859 ~ Cass Gilbert (d. May 17, 1934), American architect and designer of the United States Supreme Court Building. He died at age 74.
1849 ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett (née Frances Eliza Hodgson; b. Oct. 29, 1924), British author best known for her children’s classic, The Secret Garden. She died less than a month before her 75th birthday.
1784 ~ Zachary Taylor (d. July 9, 1850), 12th President of the United States. He died suddenly after eating raw fruit and iced milk after only 16 months following his inauguration. He was 65 years old.
1713 ~ Laurence Sterne (d. Mar. 18, 1768), English clergyman and novelist, whose most famous novel was The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. He died of fever at age 54.
1713 ~ Father Junípero Serra (d. Aug. 28, 1784), Franciscan missionary who, in 1769, explored the California coast and founded the first mission in present-day San Diego de Alcala, California. He died at age 70.
1655 ~ Charles XI of Sweden (d. Apr. 5, 1697). He ruled Sweden from February 1660 until his death 27 years later. He was married to Ulrika Eleanora of Denmark. He died at age 41 of stomach cancer.
1632 ~ Baruch Spinoza (d. Feb. 21, 1677), Dutch-Jewish philosopher. He was born in Amsterdam of Portuguese-Jewish parents. Because he was a free-thinker, he was the most famous individual to be excommunicated by the Amsterdam Jewish community. He died at age 44.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
2015 ~ A Russian Air Force fighter jet was shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syrian-Turkey border.
2013 ~ Iran signed an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States), which limited its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
2012 ~ A fire in a Dhaka, Bangladesh clothing factory killed over 100 workers.
2011 ~ Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
2005 ~ Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1992 ~ China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashed as it approached the airport in Guilin, China. All 141 passengers and crew were killed.
1976 ~ The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in Turkey killed an estimated 5,000 people.
1974 ~ Donald Johanson (b. 1943) and Graduate Student Tom Gray discovered the skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, now commonly nicknamed “Lucy”, in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia. Lucy was named after the Beatle’s song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
1973 ~ Germany imposed a national speed limit on the Autobahn due to the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit, however, lasted only 4 months.
1971 ~ Hijacker Dan B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom money. The name Dan B. Cooper is suspected to have been a pseudonym. Neither he nor the money has been found.
1969 ~ The Apollo 12 command module splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean following the second manned mission to land on the moon. This was the sixth manned flight of the Apollo program. Astronauts Charles “Pete” Conrad (1930 ~ 1999), Alan Bean (1932 ~ 2018) and Richard Gordon (1929 ~ 2017) were on this mission.
1963 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 ~ 1963) was murdered on live television by Jack Ruby (1911 ~ 1967) as he was being transported in the basement of the Dallas Police Department headquarters.
1950 ~ A violent snowstorm hit the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing hurricane force winds, with speeds up to 100 mph, in what was known as The Storm of the Century. The storm brought blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio Valley. Over 350 people were killed as a result of the storm. The storm lasted for several days.
1932 ~ The FBI Crime Lab officially opened in Washington, D.C.
1917 ~ Nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department and two civilians were killed when a bomb exploded. Until the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, this was the most deaths of law enforcement officers in a single event in the United States.
1877 ~ Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1820 ~ 1878) was published.
1859 ~ Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species, was first published.
1835 ~ The Texas Rangers were established by the Texas Provincial Government.
1642 ~ Abel Tasman (1603 ~ 1659) became the first known European to discover the island now known as Tasmania, off the coast of Australia.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Clive James (né Vivian Leopold James; b. Oct. 7, 1939), Australian author, literary critic, broadcaster and memoirist. He is best known for his autobiographical series, Unreliable Memoirs. He was born in Kogarah, Australia. He died in Cambridge, England at age 80.
2016 ~ Florence Henderson (née Florence Agnes Henderson; b. Feb. 14, 1934), American actress. She is best known for her role as Carol Brady on the television sit-com, The Brady Bunch. She died at age 82.
2011 ~ Jeno Paulucci (né Luigino Francisco Paulucci; b. July 6, 1918), American visionary of frozen foods. He started over 70 food companies, including frozen food companies such as Bellisio Foods, Pizza Rolls and Chun King Chinese food. He died at age 93.
2006 ~ Phyllis Fraser (née Helen Brown Nichols; b. Apr. 13, 1916), Welsh-born journalist and actress. She was also a publisher and co-founder, along with her husband, Bennett Cerf, of Beginner Books. She died at age 90.
2005 ~ Pat Morita (né Noriyuki Morita; b. June 28, 1932), American actor best known for his role as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi in The Karate Kid movies. He died of kidney failure at age 73.
2004 ~ Arthur Hailey (né Arthur Frederick Hailey; b. Apr. 5, 1920), British-Canadian author. He wrote such books as Hotel and Airport. He died at age 84.
2003 ~ Snowflake (b. 1964), albino gorilla. He was 39 years old.
1991 ~ Freddie Mercury (né Farrokh Bulsara; b. Sept. 5, 1946), Tanzanian-English singer and songwriter and frontman for the band, Queen. His life story was portrayed in the 2019 movie Bohemian Rhapsody. He died at age 45.
1980 ~ Henrietta Hill Swope (b. Oct. 26, 1980), American astronomer. She died a month after her 78th birthday.
1963 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald (b. Oct. 18, 1939), American accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Department while in police custody. His murder occurred on live television. He was 24 years old at the time of his death.
1958 ~ Lord Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (né Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil; b. Sept. 14, 1864), English lawyer and politician. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations. He was the recipient of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 94.
1957 ~ Diego Rivera (b. Dec. 8, 1886), Mexican painter. He was married to the artist Frida Kahlo. He died 2 weeks before his 71st birthday.
1948 ~ Anna Jarvis (née Anna Marie Javis; b. May 1, 1864), American founder of Mother’s Day. She died at age 84.
1946 ~ László Moholy-Nagy (né László Weisz; b. July 20, 1895), Hungarian painter, sculptor and photographer. He was born in Bácsborsód, Hungary. He died of leukemia at age 51 in Chicago, Illinois.
1929 ~ Georges Clemenceau (né Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, b. Sept. 28, 1841), Prime Minister of France. He was Prime Minister during World War I, from November 1917 until January 1920. He died at age 88.
1890 ~ August Belmont, Sr. (b. Dec. 8, 1816), Prussian-born financier. He served as the 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands. He was also a horse breeder. The Belmont Stakes are named in his honor. He died 2 weeks before his 77th birthday.
1885 ~ Nicolás Avellandeda (né Nicholás Remingio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva, b. Oct. 3, 1837), President of Argentina. He was in Office from October 1874 until October 1880. He died at age 48.
1848 ~ William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (b. Mar. 15, 1779), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served two terms as Prime Minister; the first term was during the reign of King William IV, and the second during the term of Queen Victoria. He is also known as being the cockholded husband in one of Britain’s most scandalous affairs when his wife, Lady Caroline Ponsonby, had a very public affair with the poet Lord Byron. He died at age 69.
1741 ~ Ulrika Eleonora (b. Jan. 23, 1688), Queen of Sweden. She was Queen from December 1718 until her abdication in February 1720 in favor of her husband, Frederick I, when she became Queen consort of Sweden. She died of smallpox at age 53.
1572 ~ John Knox (d. 1513), Scottish religious reformer. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 58 or 59 at the time of his death.
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