| Two years before the Pilgrims on December 4, 1619, a group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Plantation in what is now Charles City, Virginia. The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God. |  |
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| Marquette’s party followed the Mississippi back to the mouth of the Illinois River, which they learned from local natives was a shorter route back to the Great Lakes. They returned to Lake Michigan at the point of modern-day Chicago, Illinois. Marquette stopped at the mission of St. Francis Xavier in Green Bay in September, while Joliet returned to Quebec to relate the good news of their discoveries. Marquette and his party returned to the Illinois Territory in late 1674, becoming the first Europeans to winter in what would become the city of Chicago. |
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| The mysterious powers of signs and portents, such as comets was, very much alive in Newton's scientific age. In 1680, the appearance of a comet was accompanied by extraordinary happenings in Rome. Hens laid eggs with mysterious markings thought to be linked to the comet's characteristics and motion. Data was recorded about the date and hour at which each egg was laid. |  |
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| On December 4, 1783, nine days after the last British soldiers left American soil and truly ended the Revolution, George Washington invited the officers of the Continental Army to join him in the Long Room of Fraunces Tavern so he could say farewell. |  |
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| "Sati" means a virtuous woman. A woman who dies burning herself on her husbands funeral fire was considered most virtuous, and was believed to directly go to heaven, redeeming all the forefathers rotting in hell, by this "meritorious" act. The woman who committed Sati was worshipped as a Goddess, and temples were built in her memory. |  |
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| In the 1836 presidential election the Whigs were not unified or strong enough to join behind a single presidential candidate; instead several Whig candidates ran for office. The most prominent were Daniel Webster in New England, William Henry Harrison in the Northwest, and Hugh Lawson White in the Southwest. The election went to the Democrat, Martin Van Buren, but in opposition the Whigs grew steadily stronger. |
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| The Grange is often considered an agricultural family fraternity. Historically, it has promoted building rural America through grassroot activities. The organization grants each member a voice within his or her local unit and subsequently the opportunity to impact national policy making. |  |
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| On November 19, 1873, Tweed was tried and convicted on charges of forgery and larceny. He was released in January 1875, but was immediately rearrested. The state sued him for $6 million, and he was held in a debtor's jail until he could come up with half that amount for bail. In the debtor's prison, he was allowed daily trips, accompanied by the jailer, to see his family. On one of these trips, in December 1875, he escaped and fled to Spain. He was a fugitive there for a year, working as a common seaman on a Spanish ship until he was recognized by his likeness to a Nast cartoon and captured. |
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| Hayes arrived in Manilla in late November of 1899. Within hours after landing, Hayes led a rescue party to free the U.S. soldiers garrisoned at Virgin Island. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this act of heroism. Colonel Hayes also participated in the Boxer Rebellion, the China Relief Expedition, and the Russo-Japanese War. |  |
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| Albert Henry George Grey, the popular Governor General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, planned for the Cup to be awarded to the top Canadian senior hockey team, but was trumped by Sir Montague Allan, who donated the Allan Cup. Undeterred, Grey declared that his hardware should be awarded to the winner of the nation's rugby football championship, which would be contested by clubs registered with the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU). The first Grey Cup Game was played in 1909 at Rosedale Field in Toronto, with the University of Toronto downing the Parkdale Canoe Club 26-6. |
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| The Panama Pacific International Exposition was the 1915 worlds fair held in San Francisco, California. Taking over three years to construct, the fair had great economic implications for the city that had been almost destroyed by the great earthquake and fire of 1906. The exposition was a tremendous success, and did much to boost the morale of the entire Bay Area and to help get San Francisco back up on its feet. |
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| After consultation with Congress, President Wilson ordered Fletcher on April 21 to seize the Customs house at Vera Cruz. He landed a regiment of Marines under the command of Colonel Wendell Cushing Neville, reinforced by Seamen to a total of 787 men. More Seamen and Marines were landed later in the day and on the next day as Mexican resistance proved quite stubborn, but by noon on April 22 the entire city had been occupied. He turned command of the city over to General Frederick Funston on April 30. For his part in the Vera Cruz operations he was later awarded the Medal of Honor. |
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| Wilson was the first chief executive to travel outside US while in office. The Treaty of Versailles was the agreement negotiated during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that ended World War I and imposed disarmament, reparations, and territorial changes on the defeated Germany. The treaty also established the League of Nations, an international organization dedicated to resolving world conflicts peacefully. |
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| Cecil B. De Mille's first rendition (silent) of the tale of Moses featured major crowd scenes, with over 3,500 extras. The film also featured the massively built set of The City of the Pharaoh, which was 120 feet high and 720 feet wide, and weighed 1,000,000 pounds. DeMille had the set dismantled and buried along a stretch of California's central coast, and it remained so for 60 years. |  |
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| National Carbon Co.'s "Eveready Hour" is the first regular series of broadcast entertainment and music to be sponsored by an advertiser. Agencies not only created advertisements, they also produced much of the programming. N.W. Ayer produced the first sponsored radio series, the Eveready Hour, in 1923. The program on WEAF was the regular broadcast of The Eveready Hour, starting at 7:00 pm. This broadcast extended into the early hours of November 5 in order to announce the election returns (Coolidge won). Other entertainers performing on the show were Will Rogers, Wendell Hall "The Red Headed Music Maker", Carson Robison, The Eveready Quartet, and the Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra led by Joseph Knecht. |
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| Duke Ellington and His Orchestra played at the Cotton Club for eleven years, though the band took off frequently to tour around the country, and to make movies in Hollywood. Audiences tuned in nightly to listen to live broadcasts of the band on the radio. His years at the club led to a long, successful career. |  |
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| The original "Whoopee!" was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928 for New York's Amsterdam Theatre, home of his world-famous FOLLIES. Starring the irrepressible Eddie Cantor, this wildly campy and hilarious hi-jinks-filled satire of the Wild West of the 1920's included a delicious score of hit songs including Love Me or LeaveMe; Yes Sir, That's my Baby and the title song Makin' Whoopee! |  |
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| The film's name was derived from the mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), who experimentally creates an artificial life - an Unnamed Monster (Boris Karloff), that ultimately terrorizes the Bavarian countryside after being mistreated by his maker's assistant Fritz and society as a whole. The film's most famous scene is the one in which Frankenstein befriends a young girl named Maria at a lake's edge, and mistakenly throws her into the water (and drowns her) along with other flowers. |
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| "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press!" "The Jergens Journal" aka "The Walter Winchell Show" and later, "Kaiser-Frazer News" was first heard on the NBC Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23 years. |  |
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| Ma Perkins was the story of "America’s mother of the air," a benevolent, self-sufficient widow who owned and managed a lumber yard in the fictitious town of Rushville Center. The show premiered in August 1933 on Cincinnati station WLW; by December, it had moved to WMAQ/Chicago and joined the NBC network. From 1933-1956, Ma Perkins was played by Virginia Payne who was only 23 years old when she started. |  |
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| When Jack Kirkland's adaptation of "Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell's searing novel of the Depression-sapped rural South, opened in 1933, it stunned America with its graphic depiction of the seamier side of human nature. The play was attacked by critics and damned from pulpits. It was banned in major cities such as Chicago and Detroit for being sensational and immoral. But theater audiences are not always as close-minded as the pundits, and the play's unrelenting and starkly truthful portrait of despair touched a nerve in a public battered by that decade's degrading effects of unemployment, bankruptcy and social disorder. |
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| The most revived musical of the 1930s, "Anything Goes" overcame its improvised formation thanks to a funny low comedy script and a hit-laden Cole Porter score. As evangelist turned nightclub singer Reno Sweeney, Merman co-starred with veteran comic Victor Moore and the suave leading man William Gaxton. She also got to introduce the topical title tune, the fanfare-like "Blow Gabriel Blow" and "I Get a Kick Out of You." She shared Porter's popular laundry-list song "You're the Top" with Gaxton, who became a lifelong friend. |
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| In 1942, near the end of his long reign, Landis was openly accused by the brash, outspoken young manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo "The Lip" Durocher, for having barred blacks from baseball. Landis’ response was indicative of the cruelest form of anti-black racism when he announced in his rebuttal to Durocher: Negros are not barred from organized baseball by the commissioner and never have been during the twenty-one years I have served. There is no rule in organized baseball prohibiting their participation and never has been to my knowledge. If Durocher, or any other manager, or all of them, want to sign one, or twenty-five Negro players, it is all right with me. That is the business of the managers and club owners. The business of the commissioner is to interpret the rules of baseball and to enforce them." |
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| Because no major eruption had occurred here since 1875, villagers were not too concerned about living near Mount Catarman. On December 4, however, the volcano erupted, sending lava and hot ash sweeping down the slopes. In minutes, 500 people had perished along with hundreds of animals, burnt and even mummified by the dehydrating gas clouds. |  |
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| A toxic mix of dense fog and sooty black coal smoke killed thousands of Londoners in four days. It remains the deadliest environmental episode in recorded history. The so-called killer fog is not an especially well-remembered event, even though it changed the way the world looks at pollution. |  |
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| In 1942 Reuther was elected vice president of the UAW, and in 1946 he became president. The UAW had joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1939, and in 1952 Reuther was also named president of the CIO. Three years later he became president of the CIO division of the merged American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). |  |
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| In 1950, Bennett cut a demo album that brought him to the attention of Mitch Miller and Columbia Records. In 1951 Tony Bennett had his first hit, "Because of You." It soared to the top of the pop charts and stayed there for 10 weeks. "Cold, Cold Heart," "Rags to Riches," and Stranger in Paradise," all chart-toppers, saw Bennett weather the dawn of the rock and roll revolution in the 1950s, staying in the Billboard Top Forty and branching out into television with his own variety show in 1956. |
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| Thomas Louis Hardin, 38 years old, a sightless street musician and peddler, who told the court he uses the name of "Moon Dog" for professional reasons, has brought a suit against Allan Freed, a disk jockey. "Moon Dog", says that Mr. Freed, on his radio broadcasts, has been calling himself the "King of the Moon Doggers" and has been playing "Snake Time" music and other tunes allegedly composed by Mr. Hardin without the complainant's permission. |  |
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| In 1954 their second single "Mr. Sandman" rocketed them to major chart success. The sensational Chordettes' vocal arrangement plus the saucy flavour imparted by translating it from a man's to a girl's plea, kept "Mr. Sandman" perched atop the US Hot 100 for seven weeks. In the aftermath of the "Mr. Sandman" sensation, The Chordettes found themselves in the whirlpool of stardom. Nightclubs around the country clamored for them. They perfumed on radio programs (including Alan Freed's), entertained for President Eisenhower along the way, and sustained their television presence with Ed Sullivan, Gary Moore, and Robert Q. Lewis (on whose show they became regulars). |
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| Mr. Marceau's art has become familiar to millions of Americans through his many television appearances. His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman Show of Shows won him the television industry's coveted "Emmy" award. He appeared on the BBC as Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol in 1973. He has been a favorite guest of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Dinah Shore, and he also had his own one-man show entitled Meet Marcel Marceau. |
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| In 1961, Henri Matisse's painting Le Bateau hung upside down in New York's Museum of Modern Art. It remained upside down for forty-one days until someone noticed. It's estimated nearly 116,000 people passed in front of the painting before the artist's son noticed that the error. An upside down painting in an upside down year (1961). |  |
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| Cann debuted in "A Fist of Five", an episode of "The Untouchables" on ABC-TV, starring Robert Stack. One of the most versatile actors in motion pictures, James Caan is best known for his Academy Award nominated performance as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of football star Brian Piccalo in Brian's Song. |  |
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| Banged out in a hurry for the 1964 Christmas market, Beatles for Sale sometimes sounds it, loaded with ill-conceived covers and some of John Lennon's most self-loathing lyrics. On the other hand, the people doing the banging-out were the Beatles, whose instincts for what worked musically were so strong that they could basically do no wrong--any record that has "Baby's in Black," "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" and the delectable "Eight Days a Week" on it is only "minor" in the most relative sense. |
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| Major League Baseball finally approved a free-agent draft system that mimicked the one used in professional football. Order of selection was determined in reverse order of each club's previous season standings and all draftees were to be included on the forty man roster. |
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| They also restored all powers rescinded after Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis's death in 1944 to the baseball commissioner's office. The decision waived all owners' rights to take legal action in the event of disagreements and granted the commissioner total authority to judge whether actions taken by a team and/or owner were in the best interests of the game. |
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| Singer/songwriter Jacques Brel 's works has brought hime a loarge, devoted following in France that eventually extended internationally, influencing performers such as David Bowie, while translations of his songs were covered by performers such as the Kinston Trio and Frank Sinatra. |  |
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| This was written by Pete Seeger, an influential folk singer and activist. He recorded it before The Byrds covered it as a follow-up to their hit "Mr. Tambourine Man." The lyrics were based on a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes in The Bible. This was the second #1 hit for the Byrds (after "Mr. Tambourine Man"). |  |
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| The Gemini-7 mission in December 1965 achieved some remarkable "firsts" in the area of manned "formation flying and relative maneuvering in, and although these were soon eclipsed by more sophisticated accomplishments, a new analysis of the Gemini-7 events can provide important lessons that are relevant even today. |  |
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| The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, which was written in 1965 by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, and whose score features at least four tunes that will be familiar to anyone who was alive back then: "A Wonderful Day Like Today," "Where Would You Be Without Me?", "Who Can I Turn To?" and "Nothing Can Stop Me Now!" |  |
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| According to Dave Marsh's book 1001 Greatest Songs, Sly Stone's manager told Rolling Stone that Family Affair was the story of Sly's own life, which was being cut up by the factions that surrounded him in his stardom. |  |
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| This was written by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Carey Gilbert. Gamble and Huff formed a famous songwriting team that helped define the Philadelphia Soul sound of the '70s. Gilbert, also known as "Hippy," is a lyricist who often teamed with Gamble and Huff, and worked on hits for The O'Jays, Lou Rawls and many others. |  |
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| This was never released as a single in England because it was banned on British radio stations due to suggestive lyrics. The offending lyric is: "Spread your wings and let me come inside." Stewart's girlfriend, Swedish actress Britt Ekland, sings in French at the end. |  |
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| Senator Feinstein's career has been one of firsts she was the first woman President of the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first woman Mayor of San Francisco, the first woman elected Senator of
California and the first woman member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A native of San Francisco, she was elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors in 1969 and served 2 1ž2 terms as President of the Board. She became Mayor of San Francisco in November 1978 following the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. |
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| The Pioneer Venus Orbiter was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1978. The Orbiter was a flat cylinder 2.5 m in diameter and 1.2 m high. All instruments and spacecraft subsystems were mounted on the forward end of the cylinder, except the magnetometer, which was at the end of a 4.7 m boom. A solar array extended around the circumference of the cylinder. A 1.09 m despun dish antenna provided S and X band communication with Earth |
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| The group broke up after the tragic death of drummer John Bonham. He died from what is medically termed as asphyxiation: inhaling his own vomit during sleep after a drinking binge. His hard-hitting style has so integral to the bands sound that the remaining members decided to call it quits. Without Bonham there could be no Led Zeppelin. |  |
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| Airing in the time slot following CBS' immensely popular Dallas, Falcon Crest sought to hold on to the soap opera addicts with yet another saga of the rich and greedy fighting for power and sex. The setting was Tuscany Valley, located in the beautiful Napa Valley Region outside San Francisco, and the industry around which the action centered was wine-making. |  |
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| President Reagan signs Executive Order 12333, which clarifies ambiguities of previous orders and sets clear goals for the Intelligence Community in accordance with law and regard for the rights of Americans. While restoring such secrecy, the Reagan Administration also reinvigorated covert action, embracing its use at home and abroad. They endorsed it, sponsored it, and even legalized it to a great extent. |
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| Richie dominated the pop charts during the early to mid-1980s with an incredible run of 13 consecutive Top Ten hits, five of them number ones. As his popularity skyrocketed, Richie moved farther away from his RB origins and concentrated more on adult contemporary balladry, which had been one of his strengths even as part of the Commodores. Titled simply Lionel Richie, the album was released in late 1982 and was an immediate smash, reaching number three on the pop charts on its way to sales of over four million copies. It spun off three Top Five pop hits, including the first single "Truly," which became Richie's first solo number one. |
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| The discovery was announced by the National Geographic Society. The find dated back to when King Tutankhamen (Tut, to you) ruled Egypt. Off the promontory of Ulu Burun to south of Kas the shipwreck dating from 14th/13th century B.C. was found in 1984 by Turkish and American underwater archeologists. Some valuable bronze artifacts were recovered. |  |
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| Naomi's poor health led the duo to their disbandment in 1991. Before she retired, the Judds embarked upon a 124-date farewell tour, called "Love Can Build a Bridge." It was grueling for Naomi and emotionally wrenching for Wynonna, who, though encouraged by her mother and her managers to continue singing, was unsure about whether she wanted to go solo. By the end of 1991, she had decided to continue performing and signed a contract with MCA Records. |  |
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| Journalist Terry Anderson, the last American hostage held in Lebanon, Thursday celebrated his regained freedom with a huge smile, a big hug for his sister and an emotional meeting with two other hostages. Military personnel cheered and waved American flags as Anderson stepped out of a Black Hawk helicopter. |  |
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| In the late 1970s Pan Am began exploring domestic flights. In January, 1980, Pan Am merged with National Airlines thus airline industry, the proliferation of airlines around the world and the fragile global economy led Pan Am to attempt a number of organizational restructures. Following a series of unsuccessful initiatives designed to improve the economic performance of the company, Pan American World Airways, Inc., ceased operations in 1991. |
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| Mars Pathfinder was launched in 1996 to deliver a lander and a robotic rover named Sojourner to the surface of Mars. It deployed a parachute upon entering the atmosphere, and the impact of the lander was cushioned by airbags that inflated before the parachute was cut loose and the lander allowed to free-fall to the surface. The mission collected imagery and data useful in understanding the Martian atmosphere and geologic composition. |  |
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| The Diary of Anne Frank was a dramatization of the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the personal account of a teenage Jewish girl in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. It ran for more than 18 months and was honored with the Pulitzer Prize, five Tony Awards, including Best Play, the Critics’ Circle Award, and a Theatre World Award. |  |
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| All-Star guard Latrell Sprewell, already terminated by the Golden State Warriors for his attack on coach P.J. Carlesimo, was suspended without pay for one year by the NBA, which will battle the Players Association on the issue. Sprewell was in the second year of a four-year, $32 million deal that was terminated by the Warriors. That made Sprewell a free agent, but the league's action prevents him from playing for any NBA team until December 3rd, 1998. |
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1619 America's first Thanksgiving
Day (Virginia)
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1674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in
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1680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet
not seen until Dec 16th
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1783 General Washington bids officers farewell
at Fraunce's Tavern, New York, NY
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1791 "Britain's Observer," oldest Sunday
newspaper in world, first published
1829 The British abolishes the practice of "suttee"
in India
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1836 Whig party holds its first national convention,
Harrisburg, PA
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1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas &
rope) patented, Massachusetts
1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests
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1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany
Hall) escapes from jail
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1899 Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes
receives medal of honor
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1909 First CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto
defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6
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1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes
in San Francisco CA
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1915 F F Fletcher is first admiral to receive
Congressional Medal of Honor
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1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace
Conference in France
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1920 First Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7,
Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
1923 Cecil B DeMille's first version of "Ten
Commandments" premieres
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1923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour
(variety show)
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1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in
Harlem
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1928 Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical
"Whoopee" premieres in NYC
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1931 "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
Theater in NYC
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1932 "The Walter Winchell Show" was
first heard on the NBC Blue network
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1933 "Ma Perkins" moves from WLW in Cincinnati,
OH to the NBC-Red network
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1933 Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road"
premieres in New York NY
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1934 Ethel Merman recorded "I Get a Kick
Out of You", from "Anything Goes"
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1942 First US citizenship granted an alien on
foreign soil (James Hoey)
1943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball
club may sign Negroes
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1945 Senate approves US participation in UN
1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman
(Philippines), kills 500
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1952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog"
becomes a word
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1952 Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
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1953 "Rags to Riches" by Tony Bennett
topped the charts
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1954 Supreme Court Justice denies Disc-Jockey Alan Freed,
to use the nickname "Moon Dog"
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1954 "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes
topped the charts
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1955 On a NBC-TV special, mime artist
Marcel Marceau appears on TV for the first time
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1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau
upside down for 47 days
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1961 Smallest New York Knicks crowd at 49th St
Madison Square Garden-1,300 (due to snowstorm)
1962 James Caan made his TV acting debut on "The Untouchables"
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1964 Beatles release "Beatles For Sale"
album
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1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
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1964 Commissioner's office given full powers in
baseball disputes
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1965 Composer, lyricist, and singer, Jacques Brel
made his US debut at Carnegie Hall
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1965 "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by the Byrds
topped the charts
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1965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts (Borman
& Lovell)
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1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes
at Shubert NYC after 232 performances
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1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
1971 "Family Affair" by Sly & the
Family Stone topped the charts
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1972 Billy Paul receives a gold
record for "Me and Mrs. Jones"
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1976 "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"
by Rod Stewart topped the charts
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1977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats Kansas
City 27-7
1978 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco first
female mayor
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1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
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1980 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham,
Led Zeppelin breaks up
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1981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
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1981 President Reagan allows CIA to engage in
domestic counter-intelligence
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1982 "Truly" by Lionel Richie topped
the charts
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1984 Bronze Age shipwreck off
the southern coast of Turkey discovered
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1985 Dallas, Texas became the largest city in
the United States to pass a no smoking law for restaurants
1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300
Soviet hostages
1990 A patent was granted to Thomas Nielson for
a "keyring pocket pen
1991 Judds final concert (Nashville)
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1991 Muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry
Anderson (held 6+ years)
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1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations
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1996 NASA's first Mars rover launched from Cape
Canaveral
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1996 Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts
scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
1997 "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at
Music Box Theater NYC
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1997 NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year
for attacking his coach
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