November 16
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1820 - U.S. Navy Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer discovered the continent of Antarctica.1864 - After destroying Atlanta’s warehouses and railroad facilities, General William T. Sherman, with 62,000 Union men began their ‘March to the Sea’. The army sweept across a 60-mile front, laying waste to the Georgia countryside. President Lincoln, on advice from Grant, approved the idea. “I can make Georgia howl!” Sherman boasted.
1864 - To celebrate General Sherman’s march to the sea, Henry Clay wrote the song, Marching Through Georgia.
1875 - Dr. William G. Arlington Bonwill of Philadelphia, PA was issued a patent for his dental mallet used to impact gold into cavities. Noting the new invention, Bonwill’s first patient was reported to have said, “YeeeeeeeeOWWWWWWW!!!!” when the mallet hit the exposed nerve of a tooth. Dr. Bonwill replied with the well-known comeback line, “Oops!”
1901 - Henry Fournier drove a mile in 51 4/5 seconds, becoming the first auto racer to drive more than a mile-a-minute in competition -- in Brooklyn, NY.
1907 - Oklahoma, the Sooner State, was the 46th state to enter the United States of America. The word, Oklahoma, is a combination of two Choctaw words meaning red people. Then, why Sooner? Many, many Oklahoma homesteaders thought sooner was better than later, better to stake their homesteads first, before it was legal to do so. Oil wells pop up all over the Oklahoma landscape, even in the bustling state capital, Oklahoma City. And, when that wind comes sweeping down the plain, it picks up the state bird, the scissor-tail flycatcher, and spreads the parasitic state flower, the mistletoe.
1908 - Conductor Arturo Toscanini made his debut in the United States this day. He appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, conducting Aida.
1914 - The U.S. Federal Reserve System formally began. None of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks had permanent quarters at the time. In most of the Banks a clerk or two oversaw the “small trickle of business.”
1932 - The Palace Theatre in New York City closed its doors to vaudeville. It had been the most famous vaudeville theatre in America. The Palace became a movie house with live performances preceding the flicks.
1935 - The Rodgers and Hart musical, Jumbo, opened at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York City for a run of 233 performances.
1937 - Bob Crosby and his orchestra recorded South Rampart Street Parade -- on Decca Records.
1939 - Al Capone was freed from Alcatraz -- after having served seven years, six months and fifteen days, and having paid all fines and back taxes.
1955 - Tennessee’ Ernie Ford drove to the top spot on the record charts this day. Sixteen Tons, where he owed his “soul to the company store,” became the fastest-selling record in history, jumping to #1 in just 3 weeks. The tune, on Capitol Records, stayed at #1 for eight weeks.
1957 - Ed Gein butchered his last victim. Gein was a handyman in Plainfield, WI who liked to dig up fresh graves, cut the skin off corpses, wear the skin on his own body and dance in the moonlight. Among his other weirdnesses, Gein had skulls on bedposts, a human heart in a saucepan, and a female corpse in his barn dressed like a deer. The 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on his story.
1958 - 6.4 inches of snow fell on Tucson, Arizona, catching autumn golfers by surprise, to be sure...
1959 - A National Airlines Douglas DC-7B airliner crashed into the Gulf of Mexico while on a flight from Tampa, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana, killing all 42 persons on board. Sabotage (explosion of a bomb aboard) was strongly suspected, but could never be proven due to lack of physical evidence.
1959 - The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music opened on Broadway. The show was a smash hit, running for 1443 performances.
1960 - The famed actor of the silver screen, Clark Gable, died at the age of 59. Gable, who played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind and starred in so many other classic films, succumbed to a heart attack at 10:50 p.m. in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
1961 - House Speaker Samuel T. Rayburn died in Bonham, Texas. He was first chosen as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1940.
1963 - The first touch-tone home telephone was introduced. The first commercial touch-tone phones had been a big hit in their preview at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted, in his second trial, of charges that he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard, on July 4, 1954.
1967 - Retired harness racehorse Native Dancer died after stomach surgery in Philadelphia.
1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.
1974 - NBC-TV began a two-night showing of the award-winning motion picture, The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando. The film represented the highest price paid for a movie shown on TV. NBC paid Paramount Pictures $10 million for the showing of the picture, a deal Paramount “...just couldn’t refuse.”
1975 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushed for 105 yards in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. It was Payton’s first game of 100 plus yards. He did it 77 times throughout his career and added two 200-yard games, as well.
1976 - René Lévesque’s Parti Québécois first came into power as it won elections in Quebec.
1981 - Academy Award-winning actor William Holden was found dead in his apartment in Santa Monica, CA. He was 63 years old and had, apparently, fallen and struck his head. Holden was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17 (1953) and appeared in over seventy other films, including Our Town (1940), The Man from Colorado (1948), Streets of Laredo (1949), Sunset Blvd. and Born Yesterday (1950), The Moon is Blue (1953), Executive Suite and Sabrina (1954), The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and Picnic (1955), The Proud and Profane (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Horse Soldiers (1959), The World of Suzie Wong (1960), The Devil’s Brigade (1968), The Wild Bunch (1969), and The Towering Inferno (1974). William Holden also won an Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Limited (TV) Series for The Blue Knight (1973).
1982 - The 57-day strike by players in the National Football League ended. It was the first regular-season pro-football strike in the history of the NFL.
1986 - The first comic miniseries was presented. Fresno poked fun at soap operas -- on CBS-TV.
1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announced the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act, opening up the country's beaches to all races.
1991 - Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards won a landslide victory in his bid to return to office, defeating state representative David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
1993 - Lucia Popp died at 54 years of age. Popp was the Czech-Austrian soprano star of the Vienna Opera.
1994 - The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, ratified in 1993, took effect on this day. Arvid Pardo Maltese delegate to the U.N., had proposed in 1967 that the bounty of the sea should be considered “the common heritage of mankind” and asked that some of the sea’s wealth be used to bankroll a fund to help close the gap between rich and poor nations.
1994 - Actor John Boylan died. He was 82 years old. Boylan played Mayor Dwayne Milford in the TV series, Twin Peaks.
1995 - Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic were indicted for genocide by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal. The pair had ordered the slaughter of Muslims after the takeover of Srebrenica.
1997 - China’s most prominent pro-democracy campaigner, Wei Jingsheng, arrived in the U.S. after being released from a prison where he had spent nearly 18 years.
1997 - Municipal elections in Italy resulted in center-left parties winning a landslide victory, bolstering support for Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s government.
1998 - TIME magazine (cover date Nov 16) reported in depth on Newt Gingrich’s resignation as Speaker of the U.S. House of Reprenstatives: Fall of the house of Newt, “An election shock ignites a Republican revolt: Gingrich is only the first victim in the growing fight for the party’s future.”
1999 - Genentech agreed to settle a 10-year patent infringement dispute with the University of California for $200 million. $150 million was to be in cash and $50 million for the construction of a research campus in San Francisco. The 20-year-old patent infringement lawsuit involved the use of a human growth hormone DNA taken from the University of California, San Francisco.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam to develop economic and political ties. Thousands of people gathered in clusters along the route from Hanoi’s international airport in what was believed to be the largest turnout ever for a visiting head of state.
2000 - Amtrak christened its new bullet train, the Acela Express, with an inaugural run from Washington DC to New York City and Boston. The bullet-shaped locomotive travels at speeds up to 150 mph.
2000 - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted seven new top-level domains: .aero (airports), .biz (businesses), .coop (business cooperatives), .info (general use), .museum (accredited museums), .name (individuals), and .pro (professionals).
2001 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Shaw Fiona, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Felton, Harry Melling and David Bradley; and Novocaine, starring Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Elia Koteas, Scott Caan, Keith David and Lynne Thigpen.
2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) chose National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for his Secretary of State, to replace Colin Powell.
2004 - A NASA unpiloted X-43A jet, part of the Hyper-X program, reached a record speed of 6,500 mph, Mach 9.6. The jet used a new scramjet engine.
2005 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton in Dubai, U.A.R., told Arab students that the U.S. made a big mistake when it invaded Iraq.
2005 - The U.S. House passed a bill authorizing up to $38 million in federal funds to preserve and restore ten World War II internment camps, including Tule Lake and Manzanar in California.
2005 - The National Book Awards were presented in a ceremony in New York City on this day. William T. Vollmann won the fiction award for Europe Central. Joan Didion won for nonfiction for The Year of Magical Thinking, and W.S. Merwin was presented the poetry prize for Migration: New and Selected Poems.
2005 - Radio/TV host Ralph Edwards died in West Hollywood. He was 92 years old. Edwards was the long-time host of This is Your Life on radio and television. He first hit it big in radio with Truth or Consequences in 1940. So big that the town of Hot Springs in New Mexico renamed itself Truth or Consequences in 1950.
2006 - Nancy Pelosi was unanimously named speaker by U.S. House of Representatives Democrats. She was the first woman to be named to that post, which is second in line of succession to the presidency.
2006 - Citigroup, in a consortium with IBM, China Life, State Grid and Citic Trust, signed an agreement to manage Guangdong Development Bank.
2007 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Love in the Time of Cholera, with Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Angie Cepeda, Ana Claudia Talancon and Rubria Negrao; and Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Jason Bateman.
2007 - The two-day International Women Leaders Global Security Summit opened in New York City. The first summit of women leaders was under the co-chairmanship of former Irish president Mary Robinson and former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell. By the end of the conference some 70 women leaders had issued a call for action on global warming, terrorism, poverty and women’s security.
2008 - A fierce storm hit Brisbane, Australia, damaging about 4,000 homes (destroying at least 30), flattening cars, and felling power lines, plunging large portions of the city into darkness.
2009 - U.S. federal prosecutors reported that the Kuwait logistics firm, Public Warehousing Co., had inflated prices and defrauded the U.S. under a multi-billion dollar contract to feed American troops.
2010 - A U.S. congressional panel found New York Representative Charles Rangel guilty of 11 violations of House ethics rules. Two weeks later, the House of Representatives voted 333–79 to censure Rangel.
2010 - A rare pink diamond was auctioned in Switzerland for a record $46,158,674 to London jeweler Laurence Graff.
2010 - The Descendants opened in the U.S. movie theatres. The codedy drama stars George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Michael Ontkean, Rob Huebel and Mary Birdsong.
2012 - A Bosnian immigrant, Adis Medunjanin, convicted of plotting to blow up New York subways and other targets in 2010, was sentenced to life in prison.
2013 - A Dallas County (Texas) jury sentenced Franklin Davis to death for the killing his children’s babysitter, 16-year-old Shania Gray. Davis killed the teen to prevent her from testifying that he had raped her.
2014 - The Crown Princess cruise ship arrived in San Pedro, California with 172 of the 4100 people on board ill with the norovirus. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the ship had been sailing from Tahiti to Los Angeles on a month-long cruise when passengers began exhibiting symptoms of the gastrointestinal illness.
2015 - Indiana Governor Michael Pence suspended the resettlement of Syrian refugees three days after the terror attacks in Paris. (On Feb 29, 2016 a federal judge ruled Pence’s order to be unconstitutional.)
2015 - Marriott International agreed to buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. The $12.2 billion deal created the world’s largest lodging company.
2016 - The Trump transition team announced that people who joined the new administration would have to adhere to a lobbying ban. There would be no one hired who was a registered lobbyist, and no lobbying would be allowed for five years after leaving government. It was an attempt, according to spokesman Sean Spicer, to ensure that those leaving government would not be able to immediately enrich themselves off their service.
2017 - Conservation groups decried POTUS Trump’s reversing of Obama-era conservation efforts involving the import of ivory from Zimbabwe and Zambia. On this day, Trump cancelled the ban on trophy hunters bringing home elephants’ tusks or other body parts as trophies.
2017 - Delegates at U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany said at least 15 countries had joined an international alliance to phase out coal from power generation. China and 18 other nations representing half the world’s population said they planned to increase the use of wood and other plant matter from sustainable sources to generate energy as part of ongoing efforts to limit climate change.
2017 - The World Bank agreed to grant war-torn Yemen $150 million to help some of its hardest-hit cities restore basic services and fight a cholera epidemic.
2018 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theates included: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Jude Law and Johnny Depp; Instant Family, starring Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne and Isabela Moner; Widows, with Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki; A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan and Stanley Tucci; At Eternity’s Gate, with Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend and Oscar Isaac; The Clovehitch Killer, starring Charlie Plummer, Dylan McDermott and Samantha Mathis; Heart, Baby, with Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jackson Rathbone and Shawn-Caulin Young; Jonathan, with Ansel Elgort, Patricia Clarkson and Suki Waterhouse; and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, starring Liam Neeson, James Franco and David Krumholtz.
2018 - A U.S. federal judge ordered the White House to restore the press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta. The court ruled the the Trump administration had likely violated his due process rights when it revoked his press badge the previous week.
2018 - Thousands of protesters blocked all the exits at a southern India airport for more than 14 hours, stopping rights activist Trupti Desai from heading to a Hindu temple to defy a centuries-old ban on most women entering. Desai had led a successful campaign to give women the right to enter the inner sanctums of three temples in the western state of Maharashtra under the slogan “Right to Pray.”
2019 - Dozens of wild fires burned across broad swaths of Australia. Hotter weather, temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) were forecast, and stronger winds were expected to pose more danger in the coming days. The death toll was at four as about 60 fires burned in New South Wales.
2020 - Hurricane Iota, the 13th of the Atlantic season, made landfall in northeastern Nicaragua. The storm strengthened into a Category-5 hurricane with sustained wind speeds of 160 mph
2020 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 surged to close at record highs after drug maker Moderna announced that its COVID-19 vaccine had proved to be 94.5% effective in late-stage trials.
2021 - President Biden banned members of the Nicaraguan government from entering the U.S. and he issued a broad proclamation in response to an election that was denounced as rigged in favor of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
2021 - China and the U.S. agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists after a relaxation of tensions between the two sides.
2022 - Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) defeated billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Bass was the first woman and only the second Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles in its 241-year history.
2023 - A revival of the musical Spamalot, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, opened at the St. James Theatre, NYC. The show had a run of just 24 weeks. It had opened to favorable critical notices, but failed to attract the strong audience figures that the original, 2005 production had drawn.
2023 - Major league baseball owners unanimously approved the Oakland A’s move from California to Las Vegas, Nevada. Vegas was the Athletics’s 4th home since being established in Philadelphia in 1901.
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Birthdays on This Day November 16
1873 - W.C. Handy
composer: ‘Father of the Blues’: St. Louis Blues; died Mar 28, 19581889 - George S. Kaufman
playwright: The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can’t Take It with You; died June 2, 19611895 - Paul Hindemith
composer: Gebrauchsmusik; operas: Cardillac, Matthias the Painter; concertmaster: Frankfurt Opera; conductor & viola soloist: Amar-Hindemith String Quartet; organized Turkey’s symphony orchestra; teacher: Berlin Conservatory, Yale University, University of Zurich; died Dec 28, 19631905 - Albert ‘Eddie’ Condon
musician: guitar, bandleader, promoter of Dixieland Jazz; died Aug 4, 19731907 - Burgess Meredith
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm’s Way, Of Mice and Men; TV host: Those Amazing Animals; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir; died Sep 9, 19971912 - George O. Petrie
actor: Mad About You, Dallas, The Honeymooners, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, The Twilight Zone, Leave It to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Dr. Kildare, Bonanza, The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, Little House on the Prairie, Ironside, Combat!, Maude, Gunsmoke, Three’s Company, Cagney and Lacey, Dynasty, Quincy, M.E., Knight Rider, St. Elsewhere, Wiseguy, Night Court, Mad About You, L.A. Law; died Nov 16, 19971916 - Daws Butler
cartoon voiceman: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, Beany and Cecil, Captain Crunch; died May 18, 1988; more1922 - Royal Dano
actor: Mr. Lincoln, Ghoulies 2, The Red Badge of Courage, Huckleberry Finn, The Right Stuff, Johnny Guitar, The Trouble with Harry; died May 15, 19941928 - Clu Gulager
actor: The Killing Device, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Return of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler series, Force of One, The Other Side of Midnight, Smile Jenny You’re Dead, The Last Picture Show, The Killers, The Virginian, The Tall Man, The Survivors, San Francisco International Airport; died Aug 5, 20221931 - Bob Gibson
singer, songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late ’50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll ’Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and [Bob] Camp; died Sep 28, 19961932 - Harry Chiti
baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs, KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets; died Jan 31, 20021934 - Guy Stockwell
actor: The Richard Boone Show, Beau Geste, Return to Peyton Place, Airport 1975, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College; brother of actor Dean Stockwell; died Feb 6, 20021935 - Elizabeth Drew
journalist, author: On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency, Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House, Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America1942 - Joanna Pettet
actress: Best Sellers, Casino Royale, Double Exposure, Captains and the Kings, Knots Landing1945 - Steve Railsback
actor: Blue Monkey, Helter Skelter, Turkey Shoot1945 - Martine Van Hamel
ballet: American Ballet Theatre1946 - Barbara Leigh
model, actress: Mistress of the Apes, Swim Team, The President’s Plane Is Missing, Junior Bonner, Pretty Maids All in a Row, The Ballad of Andy Crocker1946 - Jo Jo White
basketball: Boston Celtics: MVP 1976 playoffs1950 - David Leisure
actor: Empty Nest1950 - Harvey Martin
football: Dallas Cowboys DE: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII; died Dec 24, 20011951 - Miguel Sandoval
actor: Medium, Clear and Present Danger, Get Shorty, Up Close & Personal, Blow, Bottle Shock, Repo Chick, The Closer, Entourage, Jurassic Park, The X-Files, Seinfeld1951 - Herb Washington
world indoor track records: 50 and 60-yard dashes: 5.0 and 5.8 seconds; baseball: Oakland A’s1952 - Glenn Burke
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977], Oakland Athletics; died May 30, 19951956 - Terry Labonte
champion race car driver: 1985 Busch Clash; 1988, 1999 The Winston; 1980, 2003 Southern 500; 1989, 1993 IROC; 1984, 1996 Winston Cup1958 - Marg Helgenberger
actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Ryan’s Hope, China Beach, Through the Eyes of a Killer, Fallen Angels, Fire Down Below, Gold Coast, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town1959 - Corey Pavin
golf: 14 PGA Tour victories; U.S. national teams: Walker Cup [1981]; USA vs. Japan [1982]; Nissan Cup [1985]; Ryder Cup [3: 1991, 1993, 1995]; The Presidents Cup 2: 1994, 19961961 - Bruno Amato
actor: Horrible Bosses 2, The Internship, Desperate Housewives, Sons of Anarchy, Mixology, Helicopter Mom, Counter Clockwise, Live by Night, Austin and Ally, The Soul Man, Blunt Talk1963 - Zina Garrison
tennis: Olympic Gold Medalist [Seoul, 1988, w/Pam Shriver]; founder: Zina Garrison All-Court Tennis Academy [for inner city youth, Houston]1964 - Dwight ‘Doc’ (Eugene) Gooden
baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [Rookie of the Year: 1984/all-star: 1984-1986, 1988/Cy Young Award: 1985/World Series: 1986], NY Yankees1964 - Diana Krall
singer: You’ll Never Know, Just the Way You Are, I’ll Make It Up As I Go, I Love Being Here with You, Let’s Fall in Love, ’Deed I Do1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
actress: A Castle in Italy, Tickets, Crustacés et Coquillages, Drugstore; director: It’s Easier for a Camel1966 - Dean McDermott
actor: Earth : Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, Spenser : Small Vices, The Outer Limits, Rookies, Due South, Power Play, Brian’s Song1967 - Lisa Bonet
actress: The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Bank Robber1968 - Tammy Lauren
actress: The Young and the Restless, Mad City, Radioland Murders, If I Die Before I Wake, Tattle: When to Tell on a Friend, I Saw What You Did, An Enemy Among Us1970 - Martha Plimpton
actress: The Goonies, Parenthood, The Mosquito Coast1972 - Missi Pyle
actress: The Artist, Galaxy Quest, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Big Fish, 50 First Dates, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Mad About You, Friends, Heroes, Two and a Half Men, Frasier, My Name Is Earl, 2 Broke Girls1973 - Mark Wotton
hockey: Vancouver Canucks, Dallas Stars1974 - Lamont Hall
football [tight end]: Clemson Univ; NFL: Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints1974 - Paul Scholes
footballer [midfielder]: Manchester United [1993–2013]; played for England in 1998, 2002 World Cup1975 - Julio Lugo
baseball [shortstop]: Houston Astros [2000–2003]; Tampa Bay Devil Rays [2003–2006]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2006]; Boston Red Sox [2007–2009]; St. Louis Cardinals [2009]; Baltimore Orioles [2010]; Atlanta Braves [2011]1977 - Oksana Baiul
Ukrainian figure skater [Olympic gold: 1994]1977 - Josh Green
hockey [left wing]: LA Kings, New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal
actress: The Honourable Woman, Nanny McPhee Returns, Secretary, Stranger Than Fiction, World Trade Center, Trust the Man, Criminal, Mona Lisa Smile, Adaption, 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Deuce1980 - Alexa Havins
actress: All My Children, One Life to Live, Joe Killionaire, Turbo Dates1981 - Osi Umenyiora
football [defensive end]: NFL: New York Giants [2003–2012]: 2008 Super Bowl XLII champs, 2012 Super Bowl XLVI champs; Atlanta Falcons [2013–2014]1993 - Pete Davidson
actor, comedian: Saturday Night Live, Guy Code, Wild ’n Out, Failosophy, Click, Clack, Moo: Christmas at the Farm, Eighty-Sixed, Give Converse with Pete Davidson, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Trainwreck2004 - Jack Champion
actor: Avatar: The Way of Water, Scream VI, Retribution
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Hit Music on This Day November 16
1948Buttons and Bows (facts) - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue (facts) - Gordon MacRae
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