1) Historical Events; 2) Famous Stiff Birthdays; 3) Famous Birthdays 4) Historical Events & Birthdays (Select List) with Pics; Each pic has the Select List entry as description {Click on 5th photo & scroll right to see remaining photos} This Day in History for 30th November 1016 - Cnut the Great (or Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund Ironside. Canute demonstrated to his flattering courtiers that he had no control over the elements (the incoming tide), explaining that secular power is vain compared to the supreme power of God. The episode is frequently alluded to in contexts where the futility of trying to stop the tide of an inexorable event is pointed out. 1648 - English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I 1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die 1776 - Captain Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea) 1782 - Britain signs agreement (Preliminary Articles of Peace) recognizing US independence 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day. 1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France 1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins; a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence (using his left hand) as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a firebrand states-righter and revolutionary. His political views changed over his lifetime, and, in the last decades of his career, he became well known as a staunch Federalist and was impeached for allegedly letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions. 1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago; The Winston Tunnel, built by hand, was completed in 1888. The tunnel makes its way through some extremely unstable shale and loose soil. Initially the tunnel was shored with wood, but in the early 1900s the reinforcement was re-done with bricks, mortar, concrete and rock. It was rebuilt in 1912, 1918, 1944 and 1947. The need for constant rebuilding was quite costly, but the tunnel endured until 1972, when it was abandoned. Today, it is condemned and there are no plans for refurbishing it again. 1886 - First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue. 1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles 1900 - The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route 1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich 1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) 1936 - Londons Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire 1938 - Germany bans Jews being lawyers 1939 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki 1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run 1942 - -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal 1942 - 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton) 1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked 1948 - Baseballs Negro National League disbands 1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1950 - US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb 1952 - Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism 1956 - 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News) 1962 - U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously 1967 - Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement 1967 - Senator Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency 1967 - The Pakistan People’s Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War. 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1970 - George Harrison releases his triple album set All Things Must Pass 1974 - Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopias Afar Depression. 1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test 1993 - President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill 1994 - Beatles 1st album in 25 years, Live at the BBC, is released in Britain 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm. 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, televisions all-time biggest game show haul. Happy Birthday to famous stiffs Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II who encouraged bravery and endurance; He became the first Honorary Citizen of the United States and later the first British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize in Literature AND Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author of the classic Anne of Green Gables novels, which were published between 1908 and 1921. Her other fiction series include the Emily of New Moon trilogy and The Story Girl books. She was also a prolific short story writer; her 1912 collection, Chronicles of Avonlea, is especially popular (140), Dick Clark, television and radio spokesman who won a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 for hosting American Bandstand; my uncle Fred went to school with Dick Clark in Mt. Vernon and Clark asked him to join his touring band; Fred declined (85), Mark Twain, renowned 19th-century author who wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and became famous for his unparalleled wit and storytelling ability. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he wrote under the pen name of Mark Twain and is widely considered one of the most important American literary figures (179), Shirley Chisholm, politician and Democrat who became the first African-American woman elected to Congress in 1968. She represented New York for seven terms in Congress and in 1972 she became the first major-party black candidate for President and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination (90), Jonathan Swift, Irish author of the satirical Gullivers Travels and the famous essay, A Modest Proposal. He also served as Dean of St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin (347), Abbie Hoffman, political activist and co-founder of the Youth International Party who was a member of the Chicago Seven, a radical group that upset the 1968 Democrat convention (78), Efrem Zimbalist Jr., best known for his role as Inspector Lewis Erskine on TVs long-running series, The F.B.I. and he also played the role of Alfred Pennyworth on Batman: The Animated Series (96), Mindy Mccready, platinum-selling country music singer who is known for albums like 1996s Ten Thousand Angels and who committed suicide in 2013 (39), Donald Ogden Stewart, who was the basis for the character of Bill Gorton in Ernest Hemingways novel The Sun Also Rises; American author, playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Algonquin Round Table. He won an Academy Award in 1940 for his screenplay for The Philadelphia Story (120), John Dickson Carr, American writer of detective fiction, he is best known for works such as The Hollow Man and The Burning Court. The former work is considered his masterpiece (108), Theodor Mommsen, German classicist who was widely considered one of the worlds foremost authorities Roman civilizations. His best-known work, A History of Rome, earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 (197), Charles Hawtrey, English comedic actor and musician who worked on the Carry On films, a series of low-budget British comedy films produced between 1958 and 1992. He also appeared in The Ghost of St Michaels; Famously mentioned in the intro of the Beatles song, Two Of Us - [I Dig A Pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats.] (100), Jacqueline Logan, silent film era star of the 1920s who appeared in director Cecil B. Demilles classic film The King of Kings and also starred opposite John Barrymore in several silent film era classics of the 1920s (113), Virginia Mayo, 1940s cinema icon who became known for her roles in White Heat and The Best Years of Our Lives. She also appeared in The Haunted in 1979 and Remington Steele in 1984 (94), Allan Sherman, musical comedian who released singles like the classic Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh; John F. Kennedy may have helped to make Sherman a star, with rumors he was singing Sarah Jackman in a hotel lobby (90), June Pointer, lead singer of the R&B and soul group The Pointer Sisters who released the hit song Yes We Can Can (61), Luther Ingram, American singer and songwriter in R&B style of music who released a #1 record called (If Loving You is Wrong) I Dont Want to Be Right in 1972 (77) and Richard Crenna, actor who starred in Our Miss Brooks and The Real McCoys and received award recognition for roles in Slatterys People and The Rape of Richard Beck (88). Kaley Cuoco, who gained fame for portraying Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules, In 2007, she began playing Penny on The Big Bang Theory (29), Ben Stiller, actor, comedian, director, producer, and voice actor who won an Emmy Award for The Ben Stiller Show. Some of his most famous films are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, and the Madagascar series (49), Bo Jackson, legendary athlete who played two professional American sports, baseball and football, spawning Nikes famous Bo Knows ad campaign; named MVP of the 1989 MLB All-Star game and retired from the majors after playing 9 seasons and hitting 141 home run (52), Billy Idol, British singer who performed with many punk bands, as well as having a successful solo career. He was one of the earliest MTV stars, known for songs like Dancing With Myself (59), Clay Aiken, American Idol finalist of the shows second season who released his multi-Platinum debut album, Measure of a Man, in 2003; In 2014, Aiken announced his intentions to run for Congress in North Carolinas 2nd congressional district. He won the Democratic primary held on May 6, 2014 but lost to Republican incumbent Renee Ellmers in the general election on November 4, 2014 (36), Mandy Patinkin, Tony Award winner for his performance as Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979, who also starred as Inigo Montoya in the iconic film The Princess Bride (62), Colin Mochrie, comedian best known as a cast member on a hit improvisational comedy show called Whose Line Is It Anyway? In 2012, he starred in the improv-based ABC series Trust Us with Your Life (57), Robert Guillaume, Emmy Award-winning actor who has appeared in Soap, its spin-off Benson, and Sports Night and has had an acting career for over fifty years (87), Magnus Carlsen, chess prodigy who was ranked the top player in the world, with a rating of 2872, in February of 2013, which was the highest rating in the history of the game (24), Ridley Scott, award-winning English director whose films include Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner and American Gangster (77), Ryan Murphy, writer/producer/director who created Nip/Tuck, Glee and American Horror Story with his writing partner Brad Falchuk (49), Stephen Dillane, television and film actor who earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his supporting role in John Adams. As a stage actor, he won a Tony Award for his starring role in The Real Thing (58), Jude Ciccolella, character actor who has appeared in The Shawshank Redemption and Night Falls on Manhattan. His other credits include The Manchurian Candidate and Sin City (67), Rolf Saxon, versatile actor who has made notable appearances on stage, in film, in television, and as a voice actor in video games. He is perhaps best known as the Narrator for the childrens program The Teletubbies (59), Adelaide Clemens, blonde actress who had her breakout film roles in The Great Gatsby, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (25), Michelle Burke, American actress who is known for her role as Jodi Kramer in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused and the role of Connie Conehead in the 1993 film Coneheads (44), Larry Bishop, son of Joey Bishop who went to Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfus, who played the role of Pistolero in his film, Hell Ride, presented by Quentin Tarantino (66) and Linda Bove, deaf television actress best known for her role as Linda the Librarian on Sesame Street (69) are celebrating because theyre not dead yet. 1016 - Cnut the Great (or Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund Ironside. Canute demonstrated to his flattering courtiers that he had no control over the elements (the incoming tide), explaining that secular power is vain compared to the supreme power of God. The episode is frequently alluded to in contexts where the futility of trying to stop the tide of an inexorable event is pointed out. 1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author of the satirical Gullivers Travels and the famous essay, A Modest Proposal. He also served as Dean of St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin (347) 1782 - Britain signs agreement (Preliminary Articles of Peace) recognizing US independence 1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins; a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence (using his left hand) as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a firebrand states-righter and revolutionary. His political views changed over his lifetime, and, in the last decades of his career, he became well known as a staunch Federalist and was impeached for allegedly letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions. 1835 - Mark Twain, renowned 19th-century author who wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and became famous for his unparalleled wit and storytelling ability. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he wrote under the pen name of Mark Twain and is widely considered one of the most important American literary figures (179) 1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago; The Winston Tunnel, built by hand, was completed in 1888. The tunnel makes its way through some extremely unstable shale and loose soil. Initially the tunnel was shored with wood, but in the early 1900s the reinforcement was re-done with bricks, mortar, concrete and rock. It was rebuilt in 1912, 1918, 1944 and 1947. The need for constant rebuilding was quite costly, but the tunnel endured until 1972, when it was abandoned. Today, it is condemned and there are no plans for refurbishing it again. 1874 - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II who encouraged bravery and endurance; He became the first Honorary Citizen of the United States and later the first British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (140) 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue. 1914 - Charles Hawtrey, English comedic actor and musician who worked on the Carry On films, a series of low-budget British comedy films produced between 1958 and 1992. He also appeared in The Ghost of St Michaels; Famously mentioned in the intro of the Beatles song, Two Of Us - [I Dig A Pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats.] (100) 1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich 1924 - Allan Sherman, musical comedian who released singles like the classic Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh; John F. Kennedy may have helped to make Sherman a star, with rumors he was singing Sarah Jackman in a hotel lobby (90) 1929 - Dick Clark, television and radio spokesman who won a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 for hosting American Bandstand; my uncle Fred went to school with Dick Clark in Mt. Vernon and Clark asked him to join his touring band; Fred declined (85) 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, political activist and co-founder of the Youth International Party who was a member of the Chicago Seven, a radical group that upset the 1968 Democrat convention (78) 1937 - Ridley Scott, award-winning English director whose films include Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner and American Gangster (77) 1937 - Luther Ingram, American singer and songwriter in R&B style of music who released a #1 record called (If Loving You is Wrong) I Dont Want to Be Right in 1972 (77) 1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run 1942 - 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton) 1948 - Larry Bishop, son of Joey Bishop who went to Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfus, who played the role of Pistolero in his film, Hell Ride, presented by Quentin Tarantino (66) 1952 - Mandy Patinkin, Tony Award winner for his performance as Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979, who also starred as Inigo Montoya in the iconic film The Princess Bride (62) 1955 - Billy Idol, British singer who performed with many punk bands, as well as having a successful solo career. He was one of the earliest MTV stars, known for songs like Dancing With Myself (59) 1957 - Colin Mochrie, comedian best known as a cast member on a hit improvisational comedy show called Whose Line Is It Anyway? In 2012, he starred in the improv-based ABC series Trust Us with Your Life (57) 1962 - Bo Jackson, legendary athlete who played two professional American sports, baseball and football, spawning Nikes famous Bo Knows ad campaign; named MVP of the 1989 MLB All-Star game and retired from the majors after playing 9 seasons and hitting 141 home run (52) 1962 - U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously 1965 - Ben Stiller, actor, comedian, director, producer, and voice actor who won an Emmy Award for The Ben Stiller Show. Some of his most famous films are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, and the Madagascar series (49) 1993 - President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, televisions all-time biggest game show haul.
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