Events in History! Nov-December


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November on this day...
Day	Year	Event
1	1800	1st President to live in the white house (John Adams).
	1979	Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler.
2	1947	Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time.
	1983	President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day.
3	1900	1st national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC).
	1917	1st Class Mail postage now costs $0.03.
	1930	Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
	1956	"Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV).
	1973	Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault).
4	1862	Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling).
	1879	James & John Ritty patent 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon.
5	1872	Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant.
	1935	Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly.
	1991	Fred MacMurray actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84.
6	1966	1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC).
7	1980	Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor, dies at 50.
	1991	Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from Lakers.
8	1965	"Days of Our Lives" premiers on TV.
	1966	Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California.
	1978	Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84.
9	1965	5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout).
10	1951	1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance.
	1969	"Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV.
11	1922	Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90').
12	1933	1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal).
	1936	Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
	1946	1st drive-up bank window established (Chicago).
	1955	Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II".
13	1940	Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released.
14	1851	"Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published.
	1910	1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va.
15	1990	Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album.
16	1960	Clark Gable dies at 59.
17	1913	Panama Canal opens.
	1940	Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane.
18	1307	William Tell shoots apple off his son's head.
	1894	1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World).
	1928	Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie".
19	1959	Ford cancels the Edsel.
20	1983	100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war.
21	1980	Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84.
22	1718	Edward "Blackbeard" English pirate, dies off Virginia coast.
	1963	John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas (by Lee Harvey Oswald ?).
23	1899	1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco).
	1936	1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce.
	1963	JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House.
	1991	Freddie Mercury lead singer of Queen, dies of aids at 46.
24	1871	National Rifle Association (NRA) organized (NYC).
	1963	1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
	1971	Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000.
25	1963	JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
26	1789	1st national Thanksgiving.
	1865	Alice in Wonderland published.
	1962	1st recording session under the name "Beatles".
27	1895	Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize.
	1934	Baby Face Nelson shot by FBI agents.
28	1942	Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston.
29	1877	Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph.
	1887	US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
	1933	1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania).
	1963	LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK.
	1981	Natalie Wood actress, drowns off Santa Catalina CA, at 43.
30	1979	Zeppo Marx dies at 78.
	1991	Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide.
	1996	Tiny Tim singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), dies at 64.

December on this day...
Day	Year	Event
1	1878	1st White House telephone.
	1896	1st certified public accountants receive certificates, New York.
	1913	1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh).
	1929	BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe.
2	1901	Gillette patents 1st disposable razor.
	1927	1st Model A Fords sold, for $385.
	1986	Desi Arnaz actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69.
3	1621	Galileo perfects the telescope.
4	1988	Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash.
	1991	Judds final concert (Nashville).
5	1879	1st automatic telephone switching system patented.
6	1768	1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland).
	1877	Washington Post publishes 1st edition.
	1980	Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn.
7	1934	Wiley Post discovers the jet stream.
	1941	Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward).
8	1931	Coaxial cable patented.
	1980	John Lennon assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman.
9	1963	Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped.
	1992	Prince Charles & Princess Diana separation announced by British PM.
10	1963	6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on the Andy Williams Show.
11	1951	Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement.
	1991	William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape.
12	1800	Washington DC established as capitol of US.
	1913	"Mona Lisa," recovered (stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911).
	1953	Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane.
13	1964	In El Paso, TX, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border.
14	1799	George Washington dies at Mt Vernon VA, at 67.
15	1939	World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta GA.
	1966	Walt Disney animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation.
16	1773	Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome.
17	1903	At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright).
	1965	Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages ($0.50).
	1969	50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show.
18	1979	Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739 MPH).
19	1972	Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth.
20	1987	Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector 1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000).
21	1913	1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World.
	1914	1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin).
	1937	1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White).
	1945	George S Patton General, dies in a car accident in Heidelberg.
	1954	Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime).
	1978	Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder.
22	1990	Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait.
23	1972	Charles Atlas Body builder dies at 79.
24	1818	"Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day.
	1956	"I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication.
	1964	Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek.
25	1	1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus.
	1977	Charlie Chaplin dies in Switzerland at 88.
26	1946	Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era).
	1972	Harry Truman 33rd US President dies at 88 in Kansas City, Mo.
	1974	Jack Benny comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80.
27	1932	Radio City Music Hall opens (New York NY).
	1947	1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC.
28	1968	Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks.
29	1867	1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, New York.
	1891	Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio).
30	1924	Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems.
31	1907	For the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year.
	1961	1st performance of the Beach Boys.
	1985	Rick Nelson singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45.

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