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Old 11-22-2016, 07:49 AM   #419
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November 22

Is your turkey thawing yet?

There are 39 days remaining in 2016.

There are 32 days until Christmas.

Events

845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.

1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.

1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

1963 – US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.

1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).

1977 – British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.

1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.

1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.

2004 - Ozzy Osbourne struggled with a burglar who escaped with jewellery worth about £2m from his Buckinghamshire mansion. Osbourne told reporters that he had the masked raider in a headlock as he tried to stop him. The burglar broke free and jumped 30 ft from a first floor window.

2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Births

1643 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle; 1744 – Abigail Adams (2nd FLOTUS); 1819 – George Eliot (she is the author of Adam Bede & Silas Marner, et al); 1868 – John Nance Garner (32nd VPOTUS); 1890 – Charles de Gaulle; 1893 – Harley Earl (automotive designer, brought about the Corvette, and the tailfin); 1898 – Wiley Post; 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael; 1909 – Mikhail Mil (Mil Helicopters); 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield; 1922 – Eugene Stoner (designed the AR-10, AR-15/M-16, & the AR-5 Survival Rifle; 1924 – Geraldine Page; 1932 – Robert Vaughn; 1940 – Terry Gilliam (Monty Python); 1941 – Tom Conti; 1941 – Terry Stafford♪ ♫(wrote "Amarillo By Morning"); 1943 - Floyd Sneed(Three Dog Night); 1943 – Billie Jean King; 1947 – Rod Price(Foghat); 1950 – 'Little Steven' Van Zandt(The E Street Band); 1950 – Tina Weymouth(The Talking Heads); 1956 – Lawrence Gowan(Styx); 1956 – Richard Kind; 1958 – Horse♪ ♫; 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis; 1961 – Mariel Hemingway; 1966 – Michael K. Williams ('Omar' on The Wire); 1967 – Boris Becker; 1967 – Mark Ruffalo; 1980 – Shawn Fanning (founded Napster, remember Napster?); 1984 – Scarlett Johansson

Deaths

1718 – Blackbeard (Edward Teach); 1875 – Henry Wilson (18th VPOTUS); 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (invented the Ferris Wheel); 1902 – Walter Reed (Walter Reed Army Medical Center); 1916 – Jack London (author of "White Fang", "Call of The Wild"); 1955 – Shemp Howard (The Three Stooges); 1963 – Aldous Huxley (author "Brave New World"); 1963 – John F. Kennedy (35th POTUS); 1963 – C. S. Lewis; 1980 – Mae West; 1986 – Scatman Crothers♪ ♫; 1992 – Sterling Holloway; 1993 – Anthony Burgess; 1996 – Mark Lenard ('Spock's' father on Star Trek series'); 1997 – Michael Hutchence♪ ♫(INXS); 1998 – Stu Ungar (poker player, subject of High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story<--recommend, btw); 2000 – Emil Zátopek; 2001 – Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay Cosmetics); 2002 – Parley Baer
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