November 2
1734 Frontier explorer and militia officer Daniel Boone
was born near Reading, Pennsylvania.
1772 Committees of Correspondence were first organized in Massachusetts
under Sam Adams and Joseph Warren,
to be followed by similar committees throughout the colonies.
1781 The Emperor of Germany abolished serfdom.
1913 Actor Burt Lancaster
was born in East Harlem, New York City.
1920 KDKA, the first commercial radio station, began weekly broadcasts from Pittsburg.
1934 Tennis great Ken Rosewall was born in Sydney, Australia.
1961 Singer k. d. lang was born.
November 3
1783 George Washington disbanded the Continental Army.
1794 William Cullan Bryant, poet, scholar,
and anti-slavery editor, was born.
1918 Pitching great Bob Feller was born in Van Meter, Iowa.
1922 Actor Charles Buchinsky (Bronson) was born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania.
1949 Boxing champion Larry Holmes was born.
1953 Comedian Dennis Miller was born in Pittsburgh.
1956 Quarterback and sportscaster Phil Simms
was born in Lebanon, Kentucky.
November 4
1825 The Erie Canal was opened.
1879 Comedian Will Rogers was
born in Oologah, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
1918 Actor Art Carney was born in Mount Vernon, New York.
1923 Brewer Alfred Heineken was born in
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
November 5
1606 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament.
1885 Historian Will Durant
was born in North Adams, Massachusetts.
1912 Cowboy movie star, singer, and businessman Roy Rogers
(Leonard Slye) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1917 The Supreme Court struck down a city ordinance making it unlawful for
a colored person to occupy a house located on a block where the majority of
residents are white.
1941 Actress Elke Sommer was born in Berlin, Germany.
1941 Singer and actor Art Garfunkle was born in
Forest Hills, New York.
1943 Dramatist and actor Sam Shepherd Rogers was born in
Ft. Sheridan, Illinois.
November 6
1794 Thomas Paine was released from prison in France.
1796 Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, was crushed by
a horse while having sex with it.
1814 Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxaphone, was born in
Dinant, Belgium.
1854 John Philip Sousa, "The March King,"
was born in Washington DC.
1861 James Naismith, inventor of basketball, was born
in Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
1887 Baseball great Walter Johnson was born in Kansas.
1931 Movie director and comedian Mike Nichols
(Michael Igor Peschkowsky) was born in Berlin, Germany.
1947 Meet the Press premiered on TV.
November 7
1784 The Spanish inquisition ended.
1811 Californians declared independence from Mexico.
1841 Slaves being transported from
Virginia to New Orleans on the US ship Creole mutinied and
took over the ship, sailing it into the British port of Nassau. There by
British law they were free, except those held for murder.
1867 Marie Curie, co-discoverer of radium,
was born in Warsaw, Poland.
1903 Animal psychologist and author Konrad Lorenz
was born in Vienna.
1915 In Chicago, 40,000 people paraded to protest the closing of saloons on Sundays.
1937 Singer and songwriter Mary Travers was born
in Louisville, Kentucky.
1943 Singer and song writer Joni Mitchell (Roberta
Joan Anderson) was born in McLeod, Alberta, Canada.
1963 Elston Howard was named the American League's
Most Valuable Player.
November 8
1656 Astronomer Edmund Halley was born in London, England.
1731 The first circulating library in America was organized by Ben
Franklin.
1847 Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, was born.
1897 Catholic anarchist Dorothy Day was born.
1900 Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind,
was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1909 Actress Katherine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
1922 Pioneer heart surgeon Christian Barnard was born
in Beaufort West, South Africa.
1927 Singer Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler) was born
in Clarence, Oklahoma.
1949 Singer and songwriter Bonnie Raitt was born in
Los Angeles, California.
November 9
1670 Chief Justice Vaugher
issued a writ of habeas corpus to release from
jail the jury that refused to bring in a guilty verdict against William
Penn for preaching in the Grace Church of London.
1859 Flogging was virtually abolished in the British army.
1886 Comedian Ed Wynn was born.
1922 Singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge was born.
1935 Pitching great Bob Gibson was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1989 The Berlin Wall was opened and people from both sides were
permitted to cross the barrier without getting shot by
East German soldiers.
November 10
1483 Martin Luther, founder of the Reformation and of
Protestantism, was born at Eisleben, Saxony.
1728 Playwright Oliver Goldsmith was born in Pallas, Ireland.
1752 Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod.
1759 Poet and playwright Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller
was born in Marbach, Wurtenberg.
1871 Henry Stanley found
Dr. David Livingston at Ujiji, Africa.
1925 Actor Richard Burton (Richard Jenkins) was born
in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales.
1935 Actor Roy Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey.
1940 John T. Flynn announced to
the Keep America Out of War Congress
that Franklin D. Roosevelt planned to lead America
into war to divert attention from the failure of the New Deal.
1961 The Institute for Humane Studies was founded.
November 11
1744 Abigail Smith Adams was born
in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
1821 Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow.
1868 The New York Track Club held the world's first indoor meet.
1922 Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1925 Comedian Jonathan Winters
was born in Dayton, Ohio.
1962 Actress Demi Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico.
November 12
1815 Abolitionist and women's rights champion Elizabeth Cady
(Stanton) was born in Johnstown, New York.
1840 Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris, France.
1945 Singer and songwriter Neil Young was born
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1961 Gymnast Nadia Comaneci was born in Onesti, Romania.
November 13
1850 Author Robert Louis Stevenson
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1915 Writer Nathaniel Benchley
(son of Robert Benchley and father of
Peter Benchley) was born.
1941 Yankee pitcher and coach Mel Stottlemyre was born in Missouri.
1949 Comedienne and actress Whoopi Goldberg
(Caryn Johnson) was born in New York City.
1963 NFL quarterback Vinny Testaverde was born.
November 14
1765 Robert Fulton, painter, engineer, and steamboat pioneer,
was born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania.
1840 Painter Claude Monet was born in Paris, France.
1966 Star pitcher Kurt Schilling was born.
November 15
1630 Astronomer Johann Kepler was born in Germany.
1887 Painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
1932 Singer Petulia Clark was born in Ewell, Surrey, England.
November 16
1800 The Kentucky Resolutions, drafted by
Thomas Jefferson in
reaction against the Alien and Sedition acts, were approved.
When Congress "assumes undelegated powers, its acts are ... void and
of no force."
1811 John Bright, crusader for free trade,
was born in Lancashire, England.
1889 Comedy script writer George S. Kaufman
was born in Pittsburgh.
1966 Actress Lisa Bonet was born in San Francisco.
November 17
1790 Astronomer and mathematician August Mobius was born in
Schulpforte, Germany.
1794 Historian George Grote was born.
1866 Anarchist writer Voltairine DeCleyre was born.
1944 Comedic actor and director Danny DeVito was born
in Neptune, New Jersey.
1944 Pitcher George Thomas (Tom) Seaver was born in Fresno, California.
1989 The "Velvet Revolution," the anti-socialist reform movement,
began in the former Czechoslovakia.
November 18
1477 The first English book was published.
1789 Louis Daguerre, inventor of photography, was born.
1836 Poet, lyricist, and playwright W. S. Gilbert
was born in London.
1908 Comedienne and TV star Imogene Coca was born in Philadelphia.
1909 Songwriter Johnny Mercer was born in Savannah, Georgia.
1949 Jackie Robinson was named the National League's
Most Valuable Player.
1968 Baseball star Gary Sheffield was born.
November 19
1620 Pilgrims arrived off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, aboard the Mayflower.
1752 American Revolutionary War general George Rogers Clark
was born.
1812 The third US attempt to invade Canada collapsed when American troops
refused to leave New York State, and forced their leader,
General Henry
Dearborn, to march them back to Plattsburg.
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed
was convicted of 204 counts of fraud.
1893 Motion pictures were invented.
1905 Band leader Tommy Dorsey was born.
1921 Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1961 Actress Meg Ryan was born in Fairfield, Connecticut.
1962 Actress Jodie Foster was born in Los Angeles.
November 20
1772 Sam Adams presented the Boston Resolves.
1789 New Jersey ratified the Bill of Rights.
1889 Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in
Marshfield, Missouri.
1938 Carol (Halliday) Drew was born.
1939 Comedian Dick Smothers was born in New York City.
1975 Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died.
November 21
1694 Philosopher, writer, and wit Voltaire
(Jean Francois Marie Arouet) was born in Paris.
1870 Anarchist Alexander Berkman was born.
1877 Thomas Edison announced the invention of the phonograph.
1893 Comedian Harpo Marx was born in New York City.
1920 Baseball great Stan Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania.
1945 Actress Goldie Hawn was born in Washington, DC.
1969 Baseball star George Kenneth Griffy, Jr. was born in
Donora, Pennsylvania.
1980 The "Who Shot J. R.?" episode of Dallas drew a record-breaking
86,600,000 viewers.
November 22
1899 Composer Hoagie Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana.
1922 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) was born
in Babylon on Long Island.
1958 Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was born in Los Angeles.
1967 Tennis champion Boris Becker was born in
Liemen, Germany.
November 23
1765 People of Frederick County, Maryland, refused to pay England's
stamp tax.
1774 The Minute Men began organizing in Massachusetts.
1887 Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt), horror movie star,
was born in London.
1893 Comedian Adolph "Harpo" Marx was born in New York City.
1900 Claude Monet's paintings were shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel.
1936 Life magazine was first published.
1940 Pitching great Louis Tiant was born in Cuba.
1945 World War II food rationing ended, except for sugar.
November 24
1713 Writer Lawrence Sterne was born in Clonmel, Ireland.
1819 The Champlain Canal was declared navigable and open for business.
1864 Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born in Albi, France.
1868 Ragtime composer Scott Joplin was born in Texarkana, Texas.
November 25
1783 The British army left New York.
1835 Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born.
1914 Yankee great Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California.
1926 Science-fiction author Poul Anderson was born.
1951 Baseball star Russel Earl O'Day "Bucky" Dent
was born in Savannah, Georgia.
November 26
1781 Serfdom was abolished in Austria.
1792 Abolitionist Sarah Grimke was born
in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
1836 John MacAdam, inventor of road paving, was born.
1909 Pitching great Lefty Grove was born in California.
1922 Charles M. Schultz, creator of Peanuts,
was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1933 Singer and Broadway star Robert Goulet was born.
1938 Comedian and impressionist Rich Little was born in Ottawa,
Canada.
1938 Singer Tina Turner was born in Nutbush, Tennessee.
November 27
1811 American libertarian and abolitionist Wendell Phillips
was born.
1874 Historian Charles Beard was born in Knightstown, Indiana.
1909 Writer James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1912 Theatrical producer David Merrick was born.
1917 Entertainer and TV pioneer "Buffalo" Bob Smith was born in
Buffalo, New York.
November 28
1757 William Blake, poet, artist, and philosopher,
was born in London.
1894 Economist and social philosopher Henry Hazlitt was born
in New York City.
1929 Berry Gordy, Jr., cofounder of Motown record company, was
born in Detroit, Michigan.
1943 Singer and song writer Randy Newman was born
in Louisiana.
1949 Musician Paul Shaffer
was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
1962 Comedian John Stewart was born.
1963 The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" became
the first song to sell more than a million copies before its release.
November 29
1832 Author Louisa May Alcott
was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1898 Writer and scholar C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland.
1969 Yankee pitching star Mariano Rivera was born in
Panama City, Panama.
1989 Czechoslovakia ended 41 years of one-party communist rule.
November 30
1667 Satirist Johnathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1812 General Smythe's troops turned on him
and refused to invade Canada.
1835 Writer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
was born in Florida, Missouri.
1927 Actor Richard Crenna was born in Los Angeles.
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