Happy birthday and many happy returns Simon Robert Lane and Jean Omari. Born on the same day across the years, along with 539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594) 1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico (d. 1580) 1554 – Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet (d. 1586) 1645 – Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, composer, and theorist (d. 1706) 1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish author (d. 1745) 1810 – Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (d. 1880) 1835 – Mark Twain, American author (d. 1910) 1874 – Winston Churchill, English politician and author, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor 1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American television producer, co-founded Sesame Workshop 1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American conspirator, lawyer, talk show host, and actor 1937 – Ridley Scott, English director and producer 1952 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer 1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player, World Chess Champion 1994 – Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966) Finnish machine gun group 1872 – The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). 1939 – The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland (Finnish troops pictured) and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations. 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, was deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. 1962 – Burmese diplomat U Thant became United Nations Secretary-General, following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961. We got the football. We are steaming for success. We are not finished yet. Exiled to London is not very bad. One left hand is as good as another. Let us party.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:17:37 +0000
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