November 22
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Events on This Day
1880 - Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut -- in New York City.1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated under laws of the State of New Jersey.
1906 - Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in Germany voted to use SOS (...---...) as the letters for the new international signal. The international use of SOS was ratified in 1908. Its meaning? No, not “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” as many believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally, how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They’re named after a patented process, Soap on Steel.
1909 - Helen Hayes appeared for the first time on the New York stage. She was a member of the cast of Old Dutch, which opened at the Herald Square Theatre.
1910 - Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, New York patented the steel shaft. Not a big shaft, actually, but one to replace the less durable hickory wood shafts used to that time -- in golf clubs.
1917 - The National Hockey League came into being. Its official formation was in Montreal, Canada.
1935 - The first transpacific airmail flight left San Francisco with over 20,000 folks waving good-bye. The China Clipper began its 8,000-mile journey with 110,865 letters on board, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick. The Pan American Martin 130 took off from San Francisco. 59 hours and 48 minutes later, it landed at Manila in the Philippines.
1938 - Bunny Berigan and his orchestra recorded Jelly Roll Blues on Victor Records. The tune became a standard for the band.
1943 - Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and China’s Chiang Kai-shek agreed at Cairo, Egypt, on measures to defeat Japan.
1950 - This was a slow night in the NBA. The lowest score recorded in the National Basketball Association was posted. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later Detroit Pistons) whipped the tar out of the hometown Minneapolis Lakers (later Los Angeles Lakers) by the score of 19-18.
1955 - RCA paid the unheard of sum of $35,000 to Sam Phillips of Memphis, TN for the rights to the music of a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi: Elvis Presley. Thanks to negotiations with Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker, RCA tossed in a $5,000 bonus as well -- for a pink Cadillac for Elvis’ mother.
1957 - The Miles Davis Quintet debuted with a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in New York.
1961 - A Man for All Seasons opened at the ANTA Playhouse in New York City. The play starred George Rose as the Common Man, Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk, Leo McKern as Thomas Cromwell, Keith Baxter as King Henry VIII and Olga Bellin as Margaret More. A Man for All Seasons ran for 637 performances, closing on Jun 1, 1963.
1963 - Generations recall watching CBS Television on this day. The popular soap opera As the World Turns was interrupted by a flash bulletin from Dallas. No one was available to man the CBS News studio at that instant, but a voice informed the nation that President John F. Kennedy had been gravely wounded during a motorcade through downtown Dallas. Minutes later, the network interrupted again to bring the world the terrible news. This time, Walter Cronkite, wearing partially rolled-up, white shirt sleeves, a loosened tie, no makeup, and black glasses, read wire copy just handed him: “Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States is dead.” Cronkite, disbelieving the words he had just said, turned to look at a studio clock, stoically raised a hand to wipe away tears and continued with the tragic news that President Kennedy had died while undergoing emergency surgery at Parkland Hospital.
1965 - The production of Man of La Mancha, including the classic The Impossible Dream, opened in New York City for the first of 2,328 performances.
1968 - The Beatles released their so-called White Album, a record called simply The Beatles.
1974 - The U.N. General Assembly recognized Palestine’s right to sovereignty and national independence.
1975 - Dr. Zhivago appeared on TV for the first time. The production, including Somewhere My Love, had earned $93 million from theatre tickets over ten years. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.
1975 - Juan Carlos took the oath as king of Spain this day. Juan Carlos and his collaborators peacefully and legally brought democracy to Spain over the following three years. Never before had a dictatorial regime been transformed into a parliamentary democracy without civil war, revolutionary overthrow, or defeat by a foreign power.
1976 - The comic strip Cathy, by Cathy Guisewite, debuted. The strip, chronicling the trials and tribulations of a single career woman, went on to appear in some 1,400 newspapers worldwide.
1977 - The first flight of the Concorde jet was made -- from London to New York.
1980 - Former House Speaker John W. McCormack died in Dedham, MA. He was 88 years old.
1980 - Actress Mae West died in Hollywood at age 87. Surprisingly, West made only a few films in her career – and her first one when she was 39 years old.
1984 - “Time to clear out the closet in the neighborhood...” Fred Rogers of PBS’ Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood presented a sweater, knitted by his mother, to the Smithsonian Institution as “a symbol of warmth, closeness and caring,” according to museum officials.
1986 - Mike Tyson was only 20 years and 4 months old, becoming the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown. He knocked out Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas, NV.
1989 - President René Moawad of Lebanon was assassinated less than three weeks after taking office.
1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher failed to win reelection as leader of the Conservative Party (over differences on European Community policy) and announced her resignation after eleven years in office.
1991 - Egypt’s Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt for Foreign Affairs, was chosen to be United Nations Secretary-General. Ghali was both the first Arab and the first African to hold the post.
1992 - Actor Sterling Holloway died at 87 years of age. He appeared in some 140 films, including Golddiggers of 1933, A Walk in the Sun and Batman. Holloway also appeared as a regular or semi-regular on TV series, such as The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman and The Baileys of Balboa.
1994 - A gunman opened fire inside the District of Columbia’s police headquarters. The ensuing gun battle left two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman dead.
1995 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Casino, starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, James Woods and Alan King; Money Train, with Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Robert Blake and Jennifer Lopez; and the animated Toy Story, starring the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Eric Von Detton and Laurie Metcalf.
1996 - New movies in the U.S.: Jingle All The Way, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, James Belushi, Robert Conrad, Martin Mull and Jake Lloyd; and Star Trek: First Contact, starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes (who also directed), Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates Mcfadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Alfre Woodard and James Cromwell.
1997 - After 41 days, one hour and 55 minutes at sea, New Zealanders Rob Hamill and Phil Stubbs rowed triumphantly into the marina at Port St. Charles, Barbados. They had just set a new Atlantic Ocean rowboat record, knocking over 30 days off the previous one, held by Mike Nester and Sean Crowley (set in 1986). Hamill and Phil Stubbs started from Los Gigantes on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) Oct 12. (Stubbs was killed in a plane crash in New Zealand Dec 20, 1998.)
1998 - It was week 12 of the NFL football season as Denver Broncos QB John Elway passed (pun intended) the 50,000-yard career-passing mark. He joined Dan Marino as the only passers to throw for more than 50,000 yards in a career. And Elway threw four touchdowns passes the following week to move into third place on the all-time TD pass list.
1999 - ‘The Great One’, Wayne Gretzky, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. On June 23, 1999 it had been announced that Gretzky would be the tenth, and last, player to have the three-year waiting period waived by the hall-of-fame selection committee “by reason of outstanding pre-eminence and skill.” Gretzky held 61 NHL records.
2000 - First-run flicks opening in the U.S.: 102 Dalmations (“Meet Two Unlikely Heroes with a Bone to Pick.”), with Glenn Close, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans and Tim Mcinnerny; and Unbreakable (“Are You Ready for the Truth?”), starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Penn Wright and Charlayne Woodard.
2001 - Using a laptop computer, Pope John Paul II for the first time sent out his official word (via e-mail) over the Internet. The pontif apologizing for missionary abuses against indigenous peoples of the South Pacific.
2001 - Mary Kay Ash founder of the Mary Kay cosmetics firm, died in Dallas, TX. She was 86 years old (she was born May 12, 1915). By 2001, the Mary Kay Ash 1963 sales force of eleven people had grown to over 750,000 in 37 countries.
2002 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: Die Another Day, with Pierce Brosnan (as Bond -- James Bond), Halle Berry (as Jinx), Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, John Cleese (as Q) and Judi Dench (as M); and The Emporer’s Club, starring Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Embeth Davidtz, Rob Morrow, Edward Herrmann, Harris Yulin and Paul Franklin Dano.
2003 - The Medicare prescription drug bill narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives (220-215), following a dusk-to-dawn debate.
2003 - 22-year-old North Dakota student Dru Sjodin was last seen at the Grand Forks, ND, mall on this day. Her body was found the following April. Alfonso Rodriguez Jr received the death sentence for her murder, but that was later officially changed to life in prison.
2004 - Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Fidel Castro in Havana for talks focused on broadening ties between Cuba and China.
2005 - Floods and mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Gamma, the 24th named storm in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, killed some 32 people in Honduras.
2006 - U.S. film openings: Deck the Halls, starring Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Kristin Davis, Alia Shawkat, Sabrina Aldridge and Kelly Aldridge; Deja Vu, with Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, Bruce Greenwood, Adam Goldberg and Jim Caviezel; The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Gullette, Sean Patrick Thomas and Donna Murphy; Opal Dream, with Sapphire Boyce, Christian Byers, Abigail Gudgeon, Jacqueline McKenzie, Vince Colosimo, Peter Callan and Robert Menzies; and Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, starring Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Will Ferrell, David Koechner, Jason Reed and Ronnnie James Dio.
2006 - A fire in a leather factory in Calcutta, India killed nine people who had been trapped inside the locked building.
2006 - The U.S. Copyright Office ruled that cell phone owners could break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, and that film professors had the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
2007 - The World Health Organization said nearly 400 people, mostly children, had fallen ill in Angola due to an outbreak of bromide poisoning.
2008 - The Yellow River Conservancy Committee reported that one-third of the Yellow River, which supplies water to millions of people in northern China, was heavily polluted by industrial waste and was unsafe for any use.
2008 - MTV Africa launched its first-ever music award program for Africa in Abuja, Nigeria. Acts from across the world’s poorest continent were nominated for prizes.
2009 - 245 people were pulled from the sea after the Dumai Express went down in heavy rain and huge swells off Karimun island in the north of the Indonesian archipelago. At least 29 people were killed and 20 were missing.
2009 - Country/pop star Taylor Swift and the late Michael Jackson were the big winners at the American Music Awards. Swift on five awards including artist of the year. Jackson won four.
2010 - Germany’s defense minister announced that Germany was abolishing compulsory military service and would switch to a slimmed-down volunteer military service focused on missions abroad.
2011 - A Cameroon court sentenced three gay men to five years imprisonment and a fine. It was the heaviest sentence provided by a local law banning homosexuality.
2012 - Two people died and some 90 others were injured in a 140-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 southwest of Beaumont, Texas. The crashes in extremely foggy weather left trucks twisted on top of each other and the couple was killed when their SUV was crushed by a tractor trailer.
2013 - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opened in U.S theatres on this day. The sci-fi action adventure stars Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Woody Harrelson, Alan Ritchson, Stanley Tucci, Willow Shields, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, Jeffrey Wright, Stephanie Leigh Schlund and Paula Malcomson.
2013 - Microsoft reported that it had sold more than a million Xbox One consoles in 24 hours after its release in 13 countries. Apparently, gamers couldn’t wait to check out new games like "Forza Motorsport 5", "Dead Rising 3", "Killer Instinct" and "Ryse: Son of Rome".
2013 - U.S. President Barack Obama praised the leadership of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. The two held wide-ranging talks at the White House and reaffirmed their commitment to the U.N. human rights system and its important role in protecting and promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms.
2014 - Curtis Wade Holley, 53, set fire to his house in Tallahassee, Florida. Holley then ambushed police as they arrived. One deputy was shot and killed and another wounded before police shot and killed Holley.
2014 - Hundreds of women marched topless to protest sectarian violence in the town of Zemio, Central African Republic. The fighting between Christian and Muslim militias in the country had killed some 5,000 people in 2014 and had displaced thousands.
2015 - 17 people were wounded at the Bunny Friend Playground in New Orleans by gunfire between two groups of gunmen. Hundreds of people had gathered for a block party and the filming of a music video.
2016 - The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 19,000 for the first time as the stock market extended its reach further into record territory. For the second straight day, all four major U.S. stock indexes touched new record-high territory.
2017 - Coco opened in U.S. theatres. The animated adventure features the voices of Edward James Olmos, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, John Ratzenberger, Natalia Cordova-Buckley and Cheech Marin. Also opening this day were The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer and Jonathan Pryce; and Darkest Hour, with Lily James, Gary Oldman and Ben Mendelsohn.
2017 - A Czech court found the former mistress of the country’s ex-prime minister Petr Necas guilty of illegally deploying military intelligence officers to spy on his then wife, in a scandal that saw Necas resign in 2013. The Prague tribunal handed a two-year suspended jail term to Jana Nagyova-Necasova. (And you thought you had heard it all...)
But wait, there’s more unbelievable stuff:
2017 - Vladimir Putin called for “concessions and compromise” from all parties in Syria’s six-year conflict as he kicked off a key summit in Sochi with the leaders of Turkey and Iran -- ostensibly aimed at reviving stuttering peace negotiations.2018 - Heavy rain helped boost containment of the Camp Fire in northern California to 95%. The storm minimized fire activity and allowed crews to hold containment lines, officials said. Active firefighting was suspended in some areas that couldn’t be accessed because of the rain. “It was very wet and very muddy,” said Fresno fire Capt. Paul Garnier, a spokesman. “The main focus is still on search and recovery.”
2018 - The nonprofit organization Shelter reported that the number of homeless people in Britain was increasing steadily and had reached 320,000 across England and Wales.
2019 - Movies new in U.S. theatres included: 21 Bridges, starring Sienna Miller, Taylor Kitsch and J.K. Simmons; A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, with Tom Hanks, Christine Lahti and Wendy Makkena; the animated Frozen II, with characters voiced by Kristen Bell, Jason Ritter, Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Groff and Rachel Matthews; 3022, with Miranda Cosgrove, Kate Walsh and Omar Epps; The Courier, starring Gary Oldman, Dermot Mulroney and Olga Kurylenko; and Dark Waters, starring Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins and William Jackson Harper.
2019 - The U.S. imposed sanctions on Iran’s communications minister for his role in widescale internet censorship, a five-day-long nationwide shutdown meant to help stifle protests against fuel price hikes in Iran.
2019 - The Trump administration was reported to be withholding more than $100 million in U.S. military assistance to Lebanon -- assistance that had been approved by Congress. Seen as a Trump assertion of executive control of foreign aid (similar to the delay in support for Ukraine at the center of the then-ongoing impeachment inquiry), the money was quietly released Dec 2, 2019.
2019 - A mostly white Alabama jury convicted white police officer Aaron Cody Smith of manslaughter in the 2016 fatal shooting of Gregory Gunn, an unarmed black man. Gunn’s brother Franklin Gunn thanked the jury for its verdict. “I believe we have seen the best of Alabama today and one bad apple in a bunch has been weeded out,” he said.
2020 - POTUS Trump railed against the Paris climate accord, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet. This, while Trump withdrew from the Open Skies treaty. The decades-old, 34-nation pact was meant to reduce the chances of an accidental war by letting the participating countries conduct reconnaissance flights over allies’ territory.
2020 - Taylor Swift was named artist of the year at the American Music Awards and won two other trophies. The ceremony held live in Los Angeles amid tight coronavirus curbs. Dan+Shay, Justin Bieber and The Weeknd also had three wins a piece. First-time AMA host, Taraji P. Henson dazzled fans with a beat pumping dance routine, unexpected surprises – including a visit from America’s favorite TV music mogul – Cookie Lyon, and glamour and sophistication with nine wardrobe changes.
2020 - The U.S., which recorded 177,552 new infections this day, was averaging almost 110,000 more daily cases than a month earlier. Vaccinations against Covid-19 in the U.S. were due to start by the second week in December, according to the head of the federal government’s program to accelerate a vaccine.
2021 - The U.S. Navy said a water and fuel mixture had leaked into a fire suppression system drain line in a tunnel at a massive fuel storage facility near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Navy said it removed about 14,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of the mixture, and said the liquid hadn’t leaked into the environment. But that Navy statement was wrong and this was just the beginning of what became a massive cleanup at the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility.
2021 - The Justice Department announced payments totalling $130 million to survivors and families of victims of the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florica. The action settled a lawsuit that had accused the FBI of failing to properly investigate tips.
2021 - The Obama Foundation said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had donated $100 million to the foundation -- in honor of Congressman John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement of the 1960s (he died in 2020).
2022 - Six people died in a mass shooting at a Chesapeake, VA, Walmart. Police said the suspected shooter appeared to have acted alone, and also was dead. Andre Marcus Bing also injured four others before killing himself, in retaliation for his perceived workplace harassment at the Walmart Supercenter where he worked as a night-supervisor.
2022 - UK’s King Charles hosted his first state visit, welcoming South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to Buckingham Palace.
2022 - Walt Disney Co shares jumped some 10 percent after the entertainment giant brought back former CEO Bob Iger to replace his successor, Bob Chapek. It was the best day for the stock in two years.
2022 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: Napoleon, starring Vanessa Kirby, Joaquin Phoenix and Ludivine Sagnier; the animated Wish, with characters voiced by Evan Peters, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk and Ariana DeBose; and Saltburn, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Archie Madekwe.
2023 - North Korea announced that it had put its first spy satellite into orbit the previous day. North Korean media reported the launch from the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground of the “Chollima -1” space-launch vehicle (SLV) orbiting the “Malligyong-1” military reconnaissance satellite. The successful launch came after two previous failures.
2024 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin, starring Jonas Dassler, Phileas Heyblom and August Diehl; Gladiator II, with Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal and Connie Nielsen; and Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey.
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Birthdays on This Day November 22
1819 - George Eliot
novelist: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Radical, Daniel Deronda; died Dec 22, 18801890 - Charles DeGaulle
WWII military leader; President of France [1958-1969]; author: The Army of the Future; died Nov 9, 19701898 - Wiley Post
pioneer aviator, parachutist; co-author: Around the World in Eight Days; killed in plane crash [w/flying companion Will Rogers] August 15, 19351899 - Hoagy Carmichael
composer, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer: Stardust, Lazybones, Two Sleepy People, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Rockin’ Chair, [Up a] Lazy River, One Morning in May, The Nearness of You, Lamplighter’s Serenade, How Little We Know, Memphis in June, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, New Orleans; singer, piano player, band leader, attorney; died Dec 27, 19811904 - Roland Winters
actor: Charlie Chan, A Conflict of Interest, The Dain Curse, Follow That Dream, Never Steal Anything Small, Blue Hawaii, The Iceman Cometh, Bigger Than Life; died Oct 22, 19891906 - Howard Petrie
radio announcer [WBZ, Boston, NBC net; actor: The Edge of Night, Death Valley Days, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, National Velvet, Rawhide, Woman of the North Country, Red Ball Express, Carbine Williams, Bend of the River, The Bounty Hunter, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; died Mar 24, 19681907 - Dora Maar
photographer, model: Picasso’s lover and subject of many paintings; died July 16, 19971910 - Mary Jackson
actress: The Waltons, A Family Thing, Leap of Faith, The Exorcist III, The Case of the Hillside Stranglers, Big Top Pee-wee, Space, Between Two Brothers; died Dec 10, 20051912 - Doris Duke
tobacco heiress: only child of American Tobacco Company baron, James Duke; Duke University was named for her grandfather, Washington Duke; she died Oct 28, 1993; more1914 - Lew Hays
founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters; died Apr 11, 19981921 - Rodney Dangerfield
“I Don’t Get No Respect”: comedian, actor: Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, Ladybugs, The Dean Martin Show; died Oct 5, 20041923 - Arthur Hiller
director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Love Story, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, Silver Streak, Taking Care of Business; died Aug 17, 20161924 - Geraldine Page
Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985]; The Day of the Locust, Harry’s War, Pete ’n’ Tillie, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, Toys in the Attic; Emmy Award-winner: A Christmas Memory, ABC Stage 67 [1966-1967], The Thanksgiving Visitor [1968-1969]; died June 13, 19871926 - Lew Burdette
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves [World Series: 1957, 1958/all-star: 1957, 1959], SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, California Angels; died Feb 6, 20071932 - Robert Vaughn
Emmy Award-winning actor: Washington: Behind Closed Doors [1977-78]; The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Magnificent Seven, The Big One, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge at Remagen, Delta Force, Superman 3, The Young Philadelphians; died Nov 11, 20161935 - Michael Callan
actor: Because They’re Young, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Love American Style, Occasional Wife; died Oct 10, 20221939 - Allen Garfield
actor: Diabolique, Night Visitor, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Dick Tracy, The Cotton Club, Mother, Jugs and Speed, The Conversation, The Candidate, The Owl and the Pussycat, Greetings, Bananas; died Apr 7, 20201940 - Terry Gilliam
actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, Life of Brian; director: Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail1941 - Tom Conti
actor: American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace, Masterpiece Theater, Shirley Valentine, The Wright Verdicts1941 - Jacques Laperrière
Hockey Hall of Famer [defense]: Montreal Canadiens [six Stanley Cups, one Norris Trophy]; assistant coach: Montreal Canadiens1941 - Jesse Colin Young (Perry Miller)
songwriter, musician: group: The Youngbloods: Get Together1942 - Guion S. Bluford Jr.
astronaut: first African-American on space shuttle missions1942 - Floyd Sneed
musician: drums: group: Three Dog Night: One, Try a Little Tenderness, Eli’s Coming, Easy to Be Hard, Celebrate, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Out in the Country, Liar, Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala; more1943 - Wade (Allen) Blasingame
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, NY Yankees1943 - Billie Jean King
International Tennis Hall of Famer & Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: 20 Wimbledon titles incl. singles champion [1966-1968, 1972, 1973, 1975], Australian Open Champion [1968], French Open Champion [1972], US Open Champion [1967. 1971, 1972, 1974], AP Female Athlete of the Year [1967, 1973], Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year [1973]; founder of Women’s Sports Foundation and WomenSports magazine1944 - Ken Houston
Pro Football Hall of Famer [strong safety]: Houston Oilers, Washington Redskins; career: intercepted 49 passes for 898 yards and 9 touchdowns, played in 10 Pro Bowls1946 - Aston Barrett
‘Family Man’: musician: bass: group: Bob Marley & The Wailers1947 - Rod Price
musician: guitar: group: Foghat: Maybelline, Ride, Ride, Ride, Take It or Leave It, Home in My Hand, Drivin’ Wheel, Fool for the City, Slow Ride; died Mar 22, 20051950 - Greg Luzinski
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1975-1978/World Series: 1980], Chicago White Sox; high school coach1950 - Steve Van Zandt (aka Little Steven aka Miami Steve)
singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: E Street Band, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul1950 - Tina Weymouth
musician: bass: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire, Psycho Killer, Take Me to the River, I Zimbra, Life During Wartime1954 - Craig Hundley
musician: pianist: group: Craig Hundley Trio; actor: Star Trek [TV], Tammy and the Millionaire, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing, Schizoid, The Acorn People1956 - Richard Kind
actor: Mad about You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City, Scrubs, The Penguins of Madagascar [voice of Roger], Luck1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis
actress: A Fish Called Wanda, Forever Young, Halloween ’78, Halloween 2: The The Nightmare Isn’t Over!, Trading Places, True Lies, My Girl, Mother’s Boys, Love Letters, Anything But Love, Dominick & Eugene, Operation Petticoat; daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh1960 - Victoria Paris
actress [1989-2002]: X-rated films: Who Reamed Rosie Rabbit?, Naughty Neighbors, Mystic Pieces, Mischief in the Mansion, Bimbo Bowlers from Buffalo, Ringside Knockout1961 - Mariel Hemingway
actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace, Manhattan, Civil Wars, Star 801963 - Hugh Millen
football: QB: LA Rams, Atlanta Falcons, NE Patriots, Denver Broncos QB1964 - Benoit Benjamin
basketball [center]: LA Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics, LA Lakers, New Jersey Nets, Vancouver Grizzlies, Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors, Philadelphia 76ers, Cleveland Cavaliers1964 - Stephen Geoffreys
actor: Moon 44, 976-EVIL, The Chair, Fright Night, Fraternity Vacation, Heaven Help Us1965 - Eric Allen
football [cornerback]: Arizona State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders1965 - Michael Benjamin
baseball: Arizona State Univ; San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates1965 - Mads Mikkelsen
actor: The Hunt, Casino Royale, The Three Musketeers [2011], Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself1966 - Michael Kenneth Williams
actor: Boardwalk Empire, The Philanthropist, Conjugal Rites, The Wire, RoboCop [2014]; died Sep 6, 2021; more1967 - Boris Becker
tennis: youngest Wimbledon Men’s Champion [17 years old][1985, 1986, 1989], US Open [1989], Australian Open [1991]1967 - Mark Ruffalo
actor: The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, You Can Count on Me, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Just Like Heaven, Zodiac, Shutter Island, Now You See Me, The Kids Are All Right1969 - John Parrella
football: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams1971 - Tyoka Jackson
football: Penn State Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, St. Louis Rams1972 - Jay Payton
baseball: Georgia Tech Univ; New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics1974 - Joe Nathan
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Minnesota Twins1975 - Warrick Holdman
football [linebacker]: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins1975 - Ryan Neufeld
football [running back]: UCLA; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills1977 - Joe Nieves
actor: Stuck in the Middle, How I Met Your Mother, Day Break, The Mentalist, 24, NYPD Blue1979 - Andrew Knott
actor: The Secret Garden, Police 2020, Black Beauty, Coronation Street1980 - Jonny Gomes
baseball [left fielder]: Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays [2003–2008]; Cincinnati Reds [2009–2011]; Washington Nationals [2011]; Oakland Athletics [2012]; Boston Red Sox [2013– ]: 2013 World Series Champs1983 - Tyler James Hilton
singer, actor: One Tree Hill, Walk the Line; he appeared in Taylor Swift’s music video Teardrops on My Guitar1984 - Scarlett Johansson
actress: Lost in Translation, The Horse Whisperer, My Brother the Pig, The Man Who Wasn’t There, An American Rhapsody1988 - Jamie Campbell Bower
actor: The Twilight Saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Camelot1994 - Dacre Montgomery
actor: Stranger Things, Power Rangers, A Few Less Men, A Few Best Men, Elvis1995 - Katherine McNamara
actress: Shadowhunters, Happyland, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?, Natural Selection, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Arrow1996 - JuJu Smith-Schuster
football [wide receiver]: USC; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [2017-2021]; Kansas City Chiefs [2022]; New England Patriots [2023]; Kansas City Chiefs [2024– ]
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Hit Music on This Day November 22
1945It’s Been a Long, Long Time (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (Kitty Kallen)
Till the End of Time (facts) - Perry Como
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