1979 . . . Jethro Tull with U.K. opening at Long Beach Arena - all the cool kids were there! November 14: In 1770 James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile; in 1889 journalist Nellie Bly begins what would turn out to be a successful attempt to travel around the world in 80 days (she completes the journey in 72 days); in 1910 aviator Eugene Burtorn Ely performs the first take off from the deck of a ship, USS Birmingham, flying a Curtiss Pusher; in 1916 the Battle of the Somme ends; in 1922 the British Broadcasting Company begins radio service; in 1940 Coventry, England is heavily bombed by Luftwaffe bombers and Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed; in 1941 Nazis murder 9,000 Jews in Slonim (then Poland, now Belarus) in a single day; in 1967 physicist Theodore Maiman is awarded a patent for the worlds first laser; in 1969 NASA launches Apollo 12; in 1971 NASAs Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars; in 1973 Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are married at Westminster Abbey; in 1982 Lech Walesa is released after 11 months in prison; in 1991, in Royal Oak, Michigan, four are killed and five are wounded when a fired U.S. Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage; in 2003 astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover the trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna (one of the nails in Plutos coffin); in 2010 German Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing) becomes the youngest Formula One World Driving Champion. Birthdays: Austrian violinist/composer Leopold Mozart (1719); steamboat inventor Robert Fulton (1765); Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797); French painter Claude Monet (1840); 41st First Lady of the U.S. Mamie Eisenhower (1896); composer Aaron Copland (1900); actress Veronica Lake (1919); actor Brian Keith (1921); actor McLean Stevenson (1927); baseball player Jimmy Piersall (1929); Apollo 1/Gemini Astronaut Edward H. White (1930); Apollo 13 astronaut/Shuttle Approach and Landing test pilot Fred Haise (1933); Freddie and the Dreamers singer Freddie Garrity (1936); keyboardist/composer Wendy Carlos (1939); journalist/author P.J. ORourke (1947); Charles, Prince of Wales (1948); Styx singer/guitarist James Young; singer/guitarist Stephen Bishop (1951); keyboardist/composer Yanni (1954); actress Laura San Giacomo (1962). Music: In 1967 Pink Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on a package bill with The Move, Nice, Amen Corner, and headliner The Jimi Hendrix Experience; in 1970 Santana releases Black Magic Woman; in 1960 Ray Charles Georgia On My Mind hits #1.
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