11-20-2013, 06:13 AM
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November 20th
1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician.
1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1975 ~ Death of Francisco Franco, Spanish Head of State (1936-1975).
1976 ~ Death of Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist.
1979 ~ Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the hajj and took about 6,000 hostages. Pakistani special forces were brought in to help put down the uprising.
1995 ~ Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted to adultery during a television interview.
1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.
1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2007 ~ Death of Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician.
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November 21st
1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter.
1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1964 ~ Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.
1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dasha, Czech Porn actress.
1979 ~ The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was attacked by a mob and razed.
1980 ~ Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit.
1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created using only computer-generated imagery.
1996 ~ Death of Abdus Salam, awarded one third of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979.
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11-21-2013, 07:03 PM
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November 22nd
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11-23-2013, 07:22 PM
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November 23rd
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11-23-2013, 07:52 PM
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November 24th
1642 ~ Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the island of Tasmania.
1859 ~ British naturalist Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species", a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection.
1868 ~ Birthday of Scott Joplin, Musician.
1941 ~ Birthday of Pete Best, original drummer of The Beatles.
1963 ~ Death of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassination suspect.
1973 ~ A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the oil crisis. It lasted four months.
1984 ~ Birthday of Wolf Hudson, Porn Actor and director.
1989 ~ The Velvet Revolution: The leadership of Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigned.
1991 ~ Death of Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen).
1998 ~ America Online announced it would acquire Netscape Communications.
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11-24-2013, 07:49 PM
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November 25th
1867 ~ Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1913 ~ Birthday of Lewis Thomas, Physician & Essayist.
1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film "Knock Knock"
1952 ~ Birthday of Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer.
1968 ~ Death of Upton Sinclair, Journalist, Politician, Writer.
1974 ~ Death of U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General.
1986 ~ The Iran-Contra affair became public knowledge.
1998 ~ The Turkish government led by PM Mesut Yilmaz collapsed after losing a no-confidence motion over corruption allegations.
1999 ~ Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2009 ~ The 2009 Saudi Arabian Floods
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11-25-2013, 04:16 AM
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Somehow, after yesterday's news about Kerry and they planned easing of sanctions on Iran, the Iran-Contra affair doesn't seem like much of a deal.  |
11-25-2013, 06:51 AM
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The agreement won't last because without onshore enrichment, Iran still doesn't have energy security. I give it five months.
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11-25-2013, 08:16 PM
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November 26th
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11-26-2013, 09:14 PM
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November 27th
8 BC ~ Death of Horace, poet. Remembered for, among other things, “Carpe Diem” (seize the day).
1095 ~ Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1895 ~ Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he died.
1942 ~ Birthday of Jimi Hendrix, musician.
1946 ~ Indian P.M. Jawaharlal Nehru appealed to the U.S. and the USSR to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
India would later develop its indigenous nuclear WMD.
1973 ~ The U.S. Senate confirmed President-to-be Gerald Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew, who'd resigned.
1978 ~ Birthday of Shy Love, Porn actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Danielle Foxxx, Porn actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Hilary Hahn, American violinist.
1990 ~ John Major followed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the UK.
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11-28-2013, 06:52 AM
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November 28th
1811 ~ Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5, the "Emperor Concerto," premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1943 ~ President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II.
1954 ~ Death of Enrico Fermi, Physicist.
1969 ~ The Rolling Stones released the classic album "Let It Bleed".
1969 ~ Birthday of Lexington Steele, Porn Actor.
1994 ~ Death of Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer.
1994 ~ Death of Jerry Rubin, social activist.
1994 ~ Norway voted to reject membership in the European Union for the second time.
2000 ~ The eighth tar drop fell in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment.
2013 ~ Comet c/2012 S1, populrly known as ISON, reaches perihelion, 1.2 million kilometres from the surface of the Sun.
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11-29-2013, 07:21 PM
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November 29th
1832 ~ Birthday of Louisa May Alcott, Writer.
1890 ~ At West Point, New York, the U.S. Naval Academy defeated the U.S. Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army–Navy football game.
1898 ~ Birthday of C. S. Lewis, Writer.
1944 ~ The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1947 ~ The UN passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.
1975 ~ The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
1981 ~ Death of Natalie Wood, Actress.
1986 ~ Death of Cary Grant, British-born American actor.
1990 ~ The UN Security Council passed Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
2001 ~ Death of George Harrison, musician.
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November 30th
1667 ~ Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Writer & Satirist.
1835 ~ Birthday of Mark Twain, Writer (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court).
1872 ~ First international soccer match played at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
1874 ~ Birthday of Sir Winston Churchill, British political leader & Writer.
1900 ~ Death of Oscar Wilde, Writer.
1936 ~ In London, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. It had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition.
1939 ~ Soviet forces crossed the Finnish border in several places and bombed Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
1994 ~ The burning Achille Lauro abandoned off east Africa.
1995 ~ President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
1999 ~ The anti-globalization movement caught police unprepared and forced the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a WTO meeting.
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December 1st
1083 ~ Birthday of Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian.
1824 ~ U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the House of Representatives was given the task to decide the winner, as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment.
1835 ~ Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1954 ~ Birthday of Annette Haven, Porn actress.
1955 ~ Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws.
1959 ~ The Antarctic Treaty signed, which set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned military activity.
1964 ~ Death of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist.
1985 ~ Birthday of Chanel Preston, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ English and French Channel Tunnel workers met beneath the English Channel.
1991 ~ Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
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December 2nd
1814 ~ Death of Marquis de Sade, Writer.
1942 ~ Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1954 ~ Senator McCarthy was censured for conduct unbecoming to a senator.
1961 ~ Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
1981 ~ Birthday of Britney Spears, singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress.
1981 ~ Birthday of Isabella Soprano, Porn Actress.
1983 ~ Birthday of Sarah Vandella, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
1991 ~ Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
2001 ~ Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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