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1832 - The first horsecar (a streetcar pulled by horses) was displayed in New York City. The vehicle had room for 30 people in three compartments. The new service traveled Fourth Avenue between Prince and Fourteenth Streets.1851 - “Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world...” Thus begins Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, which was first published in New York City by Harper & Brothers on this day. The complex, but rousing sea story tells the tale of a sea captain’s search for Moby Dick, the great white whale that had once crippled him. The story is told by sailor-narrator Ishmael. Through the pages of "Moby Dick", we meet Ishmael’s bunkmate Queequeg, a whale harpooner from Polynesia; learn everything there is to know about whaling in the nineteenth century; and, of course, about Captain Ahab and his obsession with Moby Dick.
1921 - KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being performed at the Chicago Auditorium.
1943 - Leonard Bernstein replaced an indisposed Bruno Walter as conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Thus began a legendary career and worldwide appreciation for Bernstein’s many compositions with the orchestra.
1944 - An outstanding array of musicians gathered in Hollywood to record a classic. Tommy Dorsey and orchestra made Opus No. 1, Victor record number 20-1608. Buddy Rich was the drummer in the session, Al Klink and Buddy DeFranco blew sax and Nelson Riddle played trombone on the Sy Oliver arrangement.
1945 - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker sold the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Former Indy winner Wilbur Shaw became the new president and manager of the speedway. The track was purchased by the Tony Holman family a short time later.
1951 - The first telecast of a world lightweight title fight was seen coast to coast. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon in Los Angeles.
1954 - Egyptian President Naguib was fired and a state of emergency declared. Naguib (also a general) was accused of having been a tool of the Communists and the Muslim Brotherhood. He was driven from the presidency by his fellow army officers, and Colonel Gamel Abdul Nasser became president.
1959 - The eruption of Kilauea Iki Crater (Nov 14-Dec 20, 1959) on the Big Island of Hawaii was a relatively brief event, but produced some of Kilauea’s most spectacular lava fountains of the 20th century. (The current Pu`u `O`o-Kupaianaha eruption of Kilauea began in 1983).
1960 - OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, was organized.
1963 - Iceland got a new island (Surtsey) when a volcano pushed its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.
1964 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings set a National Hockey League record as he scored his 627th career goal in a game against Montreal.
1965 - One of the most intense battles of the Vietnam War started on this day. Landing Zone X-ray, a clearing located in the Ia Drang River Valley, Vietnam, was a staging area for U.S. troops and supplies. The area had been surrounded on three sides by North Vietnamese Regulars. The U.S. troops had come to fight the North Vietnamese on their own ground and “were keen to fight.” Both sides received more action than they expected. When the battle ended almost 48 hours later, literally thousands of soldiers from both sides lay dead. The book -- and the movie, We Were Soldiers Once...And Young, was based on this battle.
1966 - Boxing’s largest indoor crowd assembled in the Houston Astrodome to see Cassius Clay defeat Cleveland Williams -- by a TKO.
1967 - The Monkees received a gold record for Daydream Believer.
1972 - For the first time in its 76-year history, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,000 mark: 1003.16.
1975 - They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play) became a gold record for the Spinners. Their other hits include Then Came You (with Dionne Warwicke), Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, The Rubberband Man, Working My Way Back to You, Cupid, It’s a Shame and I’ll Be Around -- for Motown.
1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter froze Iranian government assets held in American banks, following the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
1981 - Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant tied the record of Amos Alonzo Stagg for most football wins. The Alabama Crimson Tide notched win #314 for Coach Bryant. Alabama beat Penn State, 31-16.
1981 - For the second week in a row, Daryl Hall and John Oates owned the top spot on the pop music charts with Private Eyes.
1986 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Ivan Boesky would have to pay $100 million in fines and alleged profits to settle insider-trading charges against him. The settlement was just $6 million less than the entire S.E.C. budget for 1986.
1987 - The Dirty Dancing movie soundtrack was the number one album in the U.S. It was number one for a total of eighteen weeks. The remainder of the top-five that week: 2)-Tunnel of Love (Bruce Springsteen); 3)-Bad (Michael Jackson); 4)-Whitesnake (Whitesnake); 5)-A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd).
1990 - British commentator Malcolm Muggeridge died in Sussex, England. He was 87 years old.
1991 - British movie director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) died of AIDS. He was 63 years old.
1993 - Don Shula was carried off the Veterans Stadium field by his Miami Dolphins after a 19-14 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. That victory was #325 in Shula’s career and made him the winningest coach in NFL history, surpassing the legendary George Halas. (Of all NFL coaches, only Shula and Halas had reached 300 victories.) Shula finished his career in 1995 with a coaching record of 347-173-6. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
1994 - The first high-speed passenger rail service ran in the Channel Tunnel (Eurotunnel) between England and France.
1996 - Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the senior Roman Catholic prelate in the United States died at his home in Chicago. He was 68 years old.
1997 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Jackal (“How do you stop an assassin who has no identity?”), starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier; The Man who Knew too Little (“He’s on a mission so secret, even he doesn’t know about it.”), with Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher and Joanne Whalley; and One Night Stand (“It was just one night that changed everything.”), starring Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski and Robert Downey Jr.
1998 - Lauryn Hill’s Doo Wop (That Thing) was the #1 single on U.S. pop charts. The song was Hill’s first single to hit the charts.
1999 - Democrat Bill Bradley took center court at New York’s Madison Square Garden for a $1.5 million presidential campaign fund-raiser. The gathering also featured many of his old New York Knicks teammates -- and former basketball rivals.
2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush’s 300-vote lead over Al Gore.
2002 - Actor, comedian Eddie Bracken died in Montclair, NJ. He was 87 years old.
2003 - New films in the U.S.: Looney Tunes: Back in Action, starring Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Pie, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Tazmanian Devil; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, with Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D’Arcy, Lee Ingleby, George Innes, Mark Lewis Jones, Chris Larkin, Richard Mccabe, Robert Pugh and David Threlfall; and Tupac: Resurrection, starring Tupac Shakur.
2003 - In Pittsburgh, PA, a third person died from an outbreak of hepatitis A that had infected nearly 600 people. They all had eaten at a Chi-Chi’s Mexican mall restaurant. Green onions were blamed for the outbreak.
2003 - John Kerry became the second Democratic hopeful to opt out of public financing for his presidential run, following the example of rival Howard Dean.
2003 - Paul Martin completed his 13-year ascent to the top of Canadian politics, claiming the leadership of the governing Liberal Party.
2004 - The U.S. military occupied the Iraqi city of Fallujah after six days of fighting. The military said 31 Americans have been killed in the siege.
2004 - Usher was a big winner at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles: favorite male soul-R&B artist; best pop-rock album; best pop-rock artist and best soul-R&B album.
2005 - Eight men were sentenced to death for the murder of British Aid workers Richard and Enid Eyeington in Somaliland in October 2003.
2007 - Southland Tales opened in U.S. theatres. The sci-fi thriller stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Jill Ritchie, Miranda Richardson, John Larroquette, Jon Lovitz, Will Sasso, Wood Harris, Bai Ling, Joe Campana and Wallace Shawn.
2007 - A team from Oregon announced the creation of the world’s first cloned embryo from a monkey. It was an important first step in the cloning of human cells for use in medical research.
2007 - A broad electoral reform took effect in Mexico, banning political parties from buying radio and TV advertisements. The law upset broadcast interests, to say the least...
2007 - A sculpture of a stainless steel heart hanging from a golden bow sold for $23.6 million at a Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sale in New York. The piece, by artist Jeff Koons, was the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned.
2008 - Quantum of Solace opened in U.S. theatres. The 22nd James Bond adventure film stars Daniel Craig as Agent 007, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Anatole Taubmann, Judi Dench and Olga Kurylenko.
2008 - The U.S. Army promoted a woman to the rank of four-star general for the first time. Ann Dunwoody received her fourth star on this day in a ceremony held at the Pentagon in Washington DC.
2009 - Chinese officials were told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances. The orders were part of the Communist party’s efforts to clamp down on corruption.
2010 - New York Governor David Patterson announced an agreement with Phusion Products to stop shipments into New York state of Four Loko, a caffeinated alcoholic drink already banned in four other U.S. states.
2010 - An estimated 2.5-3 million Muslims began the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. One of the pillars of Islamic faith, the Hajj must be carried out at least once by any Muslim who has the ability to do so.
2011 - Canada released $100 bill made of plastic -- the first step in replacing an entire series of banknotes to thwart counterfeiters and persuade retailers it was safe to accept bills of a large denomination. Canada was the first to add a metallic hologram to its bills, making it difficult to copy and/or fake. Plastic notes, nearly impervious to liquids, stains, tearing or wear, were pioneered by the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1988.
2012 - The Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak reported that most of the Syrian villages near the frontier with Israel had fallen into rebel hands. During a tour of the Golan Heights with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Barak said, “Almost all of the villages, from the foot of this ridge to the very top, are already in the hands of the Syrian rebels. The Syrian army is displaying ever-diminishing efficiency.” Barak added, “Israel will remain vigilant and alert.”
2012 - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law expanding Russia’s definition of treason. Anyone possessing information deemed secret — whether a politician, a journalist, an environmentalist or a union leader — could potentially be jailed for up to 20 years for espionage.
2013 - A Boston, Massachusetts judge sentenced gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger to two consecutive life terms plus five years for an array of crimes including murder and racketeering. Bulger had been nabbed outside his apartment in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living in hiding for 16 years.
2014 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Always Woodstock, with Katey Sagal, Brittany Snow and Rumer Willis; Bad Turn Worse, starring Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis; Beyond the Lights, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Minnie Driver and Aisha Hinds; Dumb and Dumber To, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kathleen Turner and Laurie Holden; Foxcatcher, with Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo; Miss Meadows, starring Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale and Callan Mulvey; the documentary, Occupy the Farm; Jon Stewart’s Rosewater, with Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Golshifteh Farahani; Saving Christmas, starring Kirk Cameron, Darren Doane and Raphi Henly; and Wolves, with Jason Momoa, Lucas Till and Merritt Patterson.
2014 - United Nations investigators said Islamic State group commanders were liable for war crimes on a “massive scale” in northeast Syria. The groups spread terror by beheading, stoning and shooting civilians and captured fighters.
2016 - Three cows stranded on a small island of land after a powerful earthquake in New Zealand were rescued. The plight of the cows went viral after video shot from a helicopter showed them huddled on an elevated patch of grass near Kaikoura, about 150 kilometres northeast of Christchurch. The ground around them had apparently shifted or collapsed during the magnitude 7.8 tremor.
2016 - New tracking technology will help end the headache of lost luggage. Delta Airlines began using a $50-million system to give flyers real-time tracking of bags, with cell phone alerts and a map to show a bag’s current location. American Airlines was already using a system to notify flyers when their bags were loaded or unloaded from a plane, and Alaska Airlines was testing electronic bag tags as well. The new bag tracking technology should save the airlines billions in dollars yearly that they had been spending to find and deliver lost luggage.
2017 - New York state reported that more than 160 of its utility workers and nearly 100 utility vehicles had arrived in Puerto Rico to help the U.S. territory restore its power grid in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
2017 - Soccer fans booed and jeered the Chinese national anthem at an Asia Cup qualifier match in Hong Kong. The defiance came as Communist Party rulers in Beijing prepared to introduce a law to penalize people who boo the anthem, a measure that critics say would undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms guaranteed when it returned to China in 1997.
2018 - U.S. federal disease experts confirmed 80 cases of sudden-onset paralysis, almost all in children, this year. The illness called acute flaccid myelitis was first widely reported in 2014. The illness affects the human nervous system, especially the gray matter in the spinal cord, and can cause muscle weakness and sudden onset of paralysis. AFM peaks every other year seasonally in late summer and fall. Experts have yet to identify a single factor geographically, or otherwise, to explain the cause. Also unknown: why some patients recover and others have prolonged effects.
2018 - California’s state Supreme Court rejected an appeal by AC Transit [Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District] of a jury’s $15.3 million damage award to a Richmond woman whose spine was fractured after a bus careened over a speed bump in a school zone in San Pablo in August 2011. Unpaid damages plus interest now totaled $20.1 million. Richmond resident Maria Francisco and her daughter were sitting in the back seat of an AC Transit bus on August 27, 2011 when it hit a speed bump at about 30 miles an hour in a 15 mile-an-hour zone. The speed bump sent Francisco flying in the air and back down hard on the seat, fracturing a vertebra.
2019 - The list of Democratic presidential candidates seeking to challenge POTUS Trump in 2020 continued to grow as former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said he wanted to be included. Patrick praised the “really talented and really gifted” field of Democrats already seeking the nomination but said he saw an opportunity for someone with his “vision.”
2019 - IBM announced the launch of a new weather forecasting system which could predict conditions up to 12 hours in advance and cover parts of the world which had not had access to such detailed data. The Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System (IBM GRAF) would run on a supercomputer and provide more detailed and higher quality forecasts.
2020 - Christian millionaire preacher Shepherd Bushiri skipped bail in South Africa and fled to Malawi, his home country. Bushiri was accused of money laundering and fraud along with his wife and two others. (On November 20 Bushiri and his wife, who were arrested on November 18, were released from a Malawi prison after their arrest was deemed illegal.
2020 - Mexico topped 1 million coronavirus cases and nearly 100,000 confirmed deaths. Officials agreed the number was probably much higher.
2021 - The U.S. Treasury Department said it had partnered with Israel to combat ransomware. The two countries launched a joint task force to address cybersecurity.
2022 - President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in person for the first time as national leaders met at a G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia.
2022 - Google agreed to a $391.5 million privacy settlement with 40 states that sued over location tracking. Google agreed to better clarify its location tracking disclosures. “For years Google has prioritized profit over their users’ privacy,” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said. “They have been crafty and deceptive.” The attorneys general said Google had continued to follow many users who thought they had tracking turned off. Google said the settlement involved “outdated product policies that we changed years ago.”
2023 - Thousands of Jews and allies of the Jewish community gathered at the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, DC. The demonstrators denounced antisemitism and many speakers expressed sympathy for innocent Palestinians suffering during the conflict. “The simple human truth is that you don’t have to choose. You can abhor the suffering of Palestinian families and the suffering of Israeli families like mine,” said Alana Zeitchik, adding that six members of her family were still being held hostage.
2023 - A chartered bus carrying students to a band performance was involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 70 in central Ohio. Six people were killed: three teenage students, two parent chaperones and a teacher in an SUV. The students who died were “bright lights full of life who lost their lives way too young,” said Derek Varansky, the superintendent of the Tuscarawas Valley Local School District. The crash happened after a semi-truck failed to slow down, as there was a traffic back up happening from another accident that occurred about a mile ahead.
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Birthdays on This Day November 14
1765 - Robert Fulton
builder of first profitable steamboat: the Clermont; died Feb 24, 18151840 - Claude Monet
artist: Water Lilies, La Grenouillere, Impression: Sunrise, Old St. Lazare Station, Paris; died Dec 5, 19261889 - Jawaharlal Nehru
India’s 1st prime minister after its independence; died May 27, 19641896 - Mamie Doud Eisenhower
First Lady: wife of 34th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower; died Nov 1, 19791900 - Aaron Copland
Academy Award-winning composer: film score: The Heiress [1948]; Of Mice and Men, Our Town, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man; ballet score: Billy the Kid; Pulitzer Prize-winner: Appalachian Spring [1945]; died Dec 2, 19901901 - Morton Downey
pianist, singer, songwriter: Wabash Moon, California Skies, All I Need is Someone Like You, In the Valley of the Roses, That’s How I Spell Ireland, Sweeten Up Your Smile, There’s Nothing New, Now You’re in My Arms; died Oct 25, 19851904 - Dick Powell
actor: Too Busy to Work, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Gold Diggers of 1935, Gold Diggers of 1937, Hollywood Hotel, Murder, My Sweet, Cry Danger, Four Star Playhouse, Susan Slept Here; TV Host: The Best in Mystery, Zane Grey Theater, The Dick Powell Show (1961) TV; died Jan 2, 19631908 - Joseph McCarthy
U.S. Senator from Wisconsin [1947-1957]; he feard Communist subversion in the U.S.; the term, McCarthyism, was coined in 1950 in reference to his practices; his attacks on the U.S. Army led to the first televised hearings in U.S. history [Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954]; died May 2, 19571908 - Harrison Salisbury
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for International Reporting [1955]; Moscow correspondent for New York Times; died July 5, 19931910 - Rosemary DeCamp
actress: Rhapsody in Blue, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, That Girl, The Life of Riley; died Feb 20, 20011912 - Barbara Hutton
heiress: F.W. Woolworth; died May 11, 19791914 - Ken Carson
musician: harmonica, Jew’s harp, guitar, banjo, singer: group: Sons of the Pioneers: Way Out There, There’s a Roundup in the Sky, Blue Prairie, So Long to the Red River Valley, I’m an Old Cowhand [From the Rio Grande]; died Apr 7, 19941915 - Martha Tilton
singer: And the Angels Sing, A Stranger in Town; actress: The Benny Goodman Story, Sunny; died Dec 8, 20061919 - Johnny Desmond
singer: Yellow Rose of Texas, Play Me Hearts and Flowers; group: Bob-O-Links w/Bob Crosby Band; solo: ‘G.I. Sinatra’: Glenn Miller AAF band, Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club, Your Hit Parade, Face the Music; actor: Escape from San Quentin, China Doll, Hawk of the Caribbean; died Sep 6, 19851921 - Brian Keith (Robert Keith Richey, Jr.)
actor: Family Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick, Heartland, The Westerner, Crusader, Centennial, The Brian Keith Show, Walter and Emily, Nevada Smith, The Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap, The Young Philadelphians, Young Guns; died June 24, 19971922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali [Jan 1992–Jan 1997]
U.N. Secretary-General; died Feb 16, 20161922 - Veronica Lake
actress: This Gun for Hire, I Married a Witch, So Proudly We Hail!, The Blue Dahlia, Slattery’s Hurricane; died July 7, 19731924 - Phyllis Avery
actress: The George Gobel Show, Mr. Novak; died May 19, 20111927 - McLean Stevenson
actor: M*A*S*H, The McLean Stevenson Show, Hello Larry, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, The Doris Day Show, Condo; died Feb 15, 19961929 - DeWayne Louis ‘Tiny’ Lund
auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1963]; died Aug 10, 19751929 - Jimmy Piersall
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1954, 1956], Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, LA Angels, New York Mets, California Angels; died Jun 3, 20171933 - Fred Haise
astronaut: Apollo 13 [1970]1935 - King Hussein bin Talal
head of state: King of Jordan; died Feb 7, 19991935 - Don Stewart
actor: Guiding Light, The Doomsday Flight; died Jan 9, 20061936 - Freddie Garrity
singer: group: Freddie and the Dreamers: I’m Telling You Now; died May 19, 20061936 - Cornell Gunter
singer: group: The Coasters: Charlie Brown, Yakety Yak, Along Came Jones, Poison Ivy; murdered Feb 26, 19901942 - Bryan Watson
hockey: NHL Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals1948 - King Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor Mountbatten)
became king following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II; was the prince of Wales and the longest-serving heir apparent in British history as well as the oldest heir apparent in over 300 years; was married to Diana, Princess of Wales 1981-1996, then married to Camilla Parker Bowles in 20051948 - Robert Ginty
actor: The Paper Chase, Hawaiian Heat, Falcon Crest, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Lady Dragon, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Madhouse, Programmed to Kill, Exterminator series, Coming Home; died Sep 21, 20091949 - James Young
musician: guitar: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto1951 - Frankie Banali
musician: drums: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Metal Health1951 - Stephen Bishop
singer: It Might Be You; musician: guitar; singer, songwriter: On and On, Save It for a Rainy Day, Everybody Needs Love, This is the Night, Living in the Land of Abe Lincoln, theme for Animal House, Dream Girl, theme for China Syndrome: Somewhere In Between, Don’t You Worry, LPs: Careless, Bish1952 - Ray Sharkey
actor: Cop and ½, Round Trip to Heaven, Dead On: Relentless II, The Rain Killer, Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Act of Piracy; died Jun 11, 19931954 - Willie Hernández
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983], Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1984/all-star: 1984-1986/Cy Young Award: 1984/Baseball Writers’ Award: 19841954 - Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State [2005-present], U.S. National Security Advisor [2001-2005]1954 - Yanni
musician: keyboards, composer, singer: Aria, Looking Glass, In the Morning Light, Marching Season, Swept Away, One Man’s Dream; music used on broadcasts of: Tour de France, Olympic Games, World Series; swimmer: Greek National Swim Team1955 - Jack Sikma
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle Supersonics1956 - Alec John Such
musician: bass: group: Bon Jovi1959 - Paul McGann
actor: The Monocled Mutineer, Poppies, If I Had You, Gypo, Lie With Me, Hornblower: Loyalty, Sweet Revenge, Nature Boy, FairyTale: A True Story1961 - Elizabeth Keifer
actress: Ladykiller, Rebel Storm, Dallas: The Early Years, Thursday’s Child, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Guiding Light1961 - D.B. Sweeney
actor: Yellow, The Darwin Awards, Going to the Mat, Greenmail, Hard Ball, Harsh Realm, Dirt Nap1962 - Laura San Giacomo
actress: Just Shoot Me, The Right to Remain Silent, Stephen King’s The Stand, Under Suspicion, Vital Signs, Pretty Woman, sex, lies and videotape, Miles from Home1964 - Joseph Simmons
hip-hopper: group: Run–D.M.C.; Pentecostal minister [Reverend Run Simmons]1964 - Patrick Warburton
actor: Seinfeld, Dave’s World, NewsRadio, Scream 3, The Emperor's New Groove, Big Trouble, Ted, Men in Black 2; TV spokesman: National Car Rental1966 - Jeanette Jurado
singer: group: Exposé: Season’s Change1966 - Curt Schilling
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox1968 - Kent Bottenfield
baseball [pitcher]: Colorado Rockies, Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Anaheim Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros1968 - Janine Lindemulder
actress [1988-2010]: X-rated films: Positively Pagan 6, Women In & Out of Uniform, Vagablonde, Blondage, Layover, Head to Head, Temporary Positions, Lap Top1968 - Roland Martin
journalist, syndicated columnist, commentator: TV One; TV host: News One Now; author: Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America, The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House1969 - Greg Andrusak
hockey [defense]: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs1970 - Dana Stubblefield
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Kansas; NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots1971 - Chloe Nicole
actress [1995-2010]: X-rated films: Sodomania 21, Riding Lessons, Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures 36, Spiked Heel Diaries, Their Cheatin’ Ways, Peepers1971 - Michael Lewis
football [wide receiver]: New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers1972 - Josh Duhamel
actor: Transformers, Las Vegas, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, The Picture of Dorian Gray, All My Children1972 - Aaron Taylor
football [offensive guard]: NFL: Green Bay Packers [1994–1997]: 1997 Super Bowl XXXI champs; San Diego Chargers [1998–1999]1973 - Lawyer Milloy
football: Univ of Washington [All-American]; NFL: New England Patriots [Super Bowl XXXVI], Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Seattle Seahawks; three-time All-Pro; four-time Pro Bowl selection1973 - Rubén Rivera
baseball [left, center field]: New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, San Francisco Giants1977 - Brian Dietzen
actor: NCIS, Boy Meets World, Boston Public, From Justin to Kelly, Purgatory House, Self-Inflicted, Nowhere to Hide, Perception1979 - Mavie Hörbiger
actress: Marmorera, Esperanza, Ring of the Nibelungs, Fremder Freund, Feiertag, Jeans, Schweigen ist Gold1979 - Olga Kurylenko
actress: Quantum of Solace, Hitman, Max Payne, Tyranny, Centurion, There Be Dragons, Land of Oblivion, The Expatriate, Seven Psychopaths, Empires of the Deep1986 - Cory Michael Smith
actor: Gotham, Camp X-Ray, Carol, Wonderstruck; Broadway: Breakfast at Tiffany’s [2013]1989 - Stella Maeve
actress: The Runaways, Chicago P.D., Golden Boy, The Magicians, Dark Summer, Flipped, Long Nights Short Mornings, Take the 101993 - Francisco Lindor
baseball [shortstop]: Cleveland Indians [2015-2020]: 2016 World Series; New York Mets [2021– ]1996 - Annie Thurman
actress: The Hunger Games, The Santa Switch, Dark Skies1998 - Sofia Kenin
tenis champ: 2020 Australian Open; has won five singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2019 China Open and 2024 Miami Open at the WTA 1000-level both with Bethanie Mattek-Sands1998 - DeVonta Smith
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Alabama: 2020 Heisman Trophy winner; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [2021– ]
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Hit Music on This Day November 14
1946Five Minutes More (facts) - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
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