This day from the past for November 28th… → 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. → 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a £40 bond for their marriage license. → 1628 - John Bunyan born, author: A Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War; dies Aug 31, 1688. → 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. → 1814 - ‘The Times’ in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. → 1848 - Birth of Henry Lomb, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (dies 1908). → 1859 - Washington Irving dies. Age: 76 years old. → 1861 - Confederate Congress officially admits Missouri to the Confederate States of America. → 1887 - Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bell Telephone sells majority holdings in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Nova Scotia Telephone Co. → 1895 - The first automobile race in America began, as six cars traveled from Jackson Park in Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois. J. Frank Duryea was the winner, traveling at a blazing speed of 7 and 1/2 miles per hour! It took him 7 hrs. 53 minutes to make the trek (bathroom stops not included). He won $2,000 for the effort. → 1907 - Sydney Nova Scotia - Dial telephones first used at Sydney Mines; possibly first dial telephones in Canada. → 1908 - 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania, USA. → 1919 - US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British Parliament. → 1922 - Captain Cyril Turner (Royal Air Force) gives first skywriting exhibition (New York City). → 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry, one of the longest-lived and most popular showcases for western music, begins broadcasting live from Nashville, Tennessee. The showcase was originally named the Barn Dance, after a Chicago radio program called the National Barn Dance that had begun broadcasting the previous year. → 1929 - Birth of Berry Gordy Junior in Detroit, Michigan, USA; record company owner (Motown Records). → 1929 - Ernie Nevers scores all 40 points for Chicago Cardinals versus Chicago Bears (NFL record). → 1932 - Birth of Ray Perkins in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; singer (Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom (1954)). → 1933 - Hope Lange born, Emmy Award-winning actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Bus Stop, Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Wild in the Country, Pocketful of Miracles, That Certain Summer; dies Dec 19, 2003. → 1942 - Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroys Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. → 1944 - Antwerp Netherlands - First Canadian convoy reaches newly opened port of Antwerp after the channel is cleared of mines, and after capture of the island of Walcheren at the mouth; Canadians first attacked the causeway on October 31. → 1948 - Dr. Edwin Lands first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston. → 1948 - Hopalong Cassidy premiers on TV. → 1949 - Birth of Paul Shaffer in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; orchestra leader (Saturday Night Live, Late Night With David Letterman). → 1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers when a strike of photoengravers shut down publication. → 1956 - Holding the #1 spot on the music charts: Guy Mitchell singing ‘Singing the Blues’. The song remained at the top of the Hit Parade for 10 weeks. Here’s a bit of trivia: Ray Conniff whistled the intro to ‘Singing the Blues’. → 1963 - The Beatles She Loves You returns to #1 on United Kingdom record chart. → 1964 - During the early-60s girl-group explosion, the Shangri-Las score their first and only #1 hit on this day with the famously melodramatic epic Leader Of The Pack. → 1965 -Vietnam War - President Elect Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines states that he will send troops to South Vietnam, in response to President Lyndon Johnsons call for more flags in Vietnam. → 1966 - “Oh-bo-de-o-do...” The New Vaudeville Band received a gold record for ‘Winchester Cathedral’ on this day. → 1966 - The 200th episode of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ airs. → 1967 - Anna Nicole Smith born, model: Playboy Playmate [May 1992], Playmate of the Year [1993]; actress: The Hudsucker Proxy, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult; dies Feb 8, 2007. → 1967 - Chart Toppers -‘Incense and Peppermints’ - Strawberry Alarm Clock; ‘The Rain, the Park & Other Things’ - The Cowsills; ‘Daydream Believer’ - The Monkees; ‘It’s the Little Things’ - Sonny James. → 1974 - Annapolis Nova Scotia - Ottawa to fund $3 million feasibility study of harnessing Bay of Fundy tides for electric power. → 1974 - John Lennon performs on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City with Elton John, as a result of losing a wager that his song Whatever Gets You Thru the Night (which Elton also played and sang on) would hit #1 on the pop chart (on November 11). This would also be Lennons final concert appearance. → 1975 - ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘The Edge of Night’, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes. → 1978 - Burt Webber of Pennsylvania finds the remains of the Spanish galleon ‘Concepción’, which sunk off the Bahamas in 1641. → 1979 - Air New Zealand Flight 901 DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus (in Antarctica) on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board. → 1984 - The movie A Christmas Story was released in France. → 1987 - South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die. → 1988 - Picassos painting ‘Acrobat and Harlequin’ sells for US$38.46 million. → 1992 - 21 years ago - Whitney Houstons I Will Always Love You from The Bodyguard soundtrack rockets to the top of the Hot 100 chart, where it spends 14 weeks. → 1993 - Death of Garry Moore, AKA Thomas Garrison Morfit, at age 78 of emphysema; host (Ive Got A Secret, To Tell the Truth, Club Matinee radio show). → 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium. → 1997 - Netscape disputes browser figures by countering Dataquests estimates that said that Microsoft was gaining ground in the browser market. → 1997 - MTV broadcast the final episode of ‘Beavis and Butthead’, marking the end of an era for its characters and the legions of teenagers who grew (in some view, unfortunately so) on them. → 2010 - WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked secret or confidential. → 2010 - Leslie Nielsen dies. Age: 84 years old. → Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...Ω
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:30:49 +0000
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