Events on This Day
1715 - This was a big day for one Thomas Masters, who
became the first American to be granted an English patent. Tom
was the first to master the fine art of cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1792 - Robert B. Thomas published the
first issue of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. By the following year,
circulation had tripled from 3,000 to 9,000. The Almanac cost six pence (about nine
cents).
1837 - William Crompton of Taunton, MA patented the silk,
power loom.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented his invention of dynamite -- a mixture of nitroglycerin and a fine porous powder
called kieselguhr.
1884 - Swiss-born scientist John B. Meyenberg
of St. Louis, MO came up with a nifty idea that earned him a patent this day:
evaporated
milk. Mooo.
1903 - ‘Sunny’
Bob Fitzsimmons beat George Gardner to a pulp in San Francisco (remember, this
was bareknuckle fighting back then). Sunny Bob became the first boxer to capture
three different championships. This time he won the light heavyweight crown; in
1891 he had won the middleweight crown and, in 1897, the heavyweight
crown.
1920 - The first play-by-play coverage of a football game was
broadcast by WTAW radio in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
Texas A&M, 7-3.
1944 - CBS radio presented
The FBI in
Peace and War for the first time. It became one of the longest-running
crime shows on radio -- lasting 14 years.
1944 - The first commissioner of
baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, died at the age of 87. He had served as czar of baseball
for 24 years. Though his appointment and terms were questioned early in his tenure, he is
considered one of those who helped to save the game.
1945 - A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan
classic, H.M.S. Pinafore, was broadcast on radio on The
Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley
Booth in the skit was baseball great Leo ‘The Lip’ Durocher.
1949 - Gargantua the
Great, went to that big jungle in the sky. The gorilla died in Miami at
the ripe old age of 19.
1949 - Rudolph,
the Red-Nosed Reindeer appeared on the music charts and became THE
musical hit of the Christmas season. Although Gene Autry’s rendition
is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly
20,000,000 copies sold.
1952 - Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. If you
missed it, not to worry. The
Mousetrap is the world’s longest-running continuous theatrical production.
1955 - Following a summer at the top of the American
pop charts, Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets became
the #1 song in Great Britain.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower suffered a mild stroke. He recovered rapidly, and was able to attend the mid-December
NATO meeting in Paris.
1958 - The African country of Senegal became
an autonomous State within a federation with the French Sudan.
1960 - Radio actors were put out of work when CBS
radio axed five serials (soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The
Second Mrs. Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering
Streets (after 8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma
Perkins (after 27 wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
there were as many as 45 on the air each day!
1963 - The body of U.S.
President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery,
following a requiem mass in Washington DC.
1968 - U.S. novelist (The Jungle) and social reformer Upton B. Sinclair died. He was 90 years old.
1969 - President Richard M. Nixon renounced germ
weapons as he ordered the destruction of stockpiles in the U.S. Nixon declared,
“I have decided that the United States of America will renounce the use of any form of
deadly biological weapons that either kill or incapacitate.”
1975 - The Netherlands granted the South
American country of Suriname its independence. The Netherlands also agreed to
support the young country for ten years with a total amount of four billion guilders. Dr.
Johan Ferrier became the first president of the independent Suriname and the first prime
minister was Henk Arron.
1976 - The
Band, appearing at the Winterland in San Francisco, announced that this was
to be the group’s last public performance.
1979 - Israel returned the Alma oilfield in the Gulf of Suez to Egypt.
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight championship when Roberto Duran abruptly
quit in round 8 of their match at the Louisiana Superdome. With 17 seconds to go that
eighth round, Duran turned around, walked to his corner and gave up, saying, “No más”
(Spanish for “No more”). Referee Octavio Meyran asked Duran if he was sure, and
Duran repeated himself, “No más, no más.”
1984 - The ‘Golden Bear’, Jack Nicklaus, sunk an 8-foot birdie putt on the last hole to
win the second Skins Game -- for $240,000. He beat Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer
and Gary Player (the 1983 winner).
1984 - William Schroeder became the second recipient of an artificial heart, undergoing surgery at Louisville’s Humana
Hospital.
1986 - President Ronald Reagan announced the resignation of national
security adviser John Poindexter and the firing of Poindexter aide Lt. Col. Oliver North.
All in the aftermath of the secret Iran-Contra arms sale.
1987 - Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago (1983-1987), died. Washington,
who was 65 years old, suffered a massive heart attack at his desk in City Hall.
1988 - An earthquake near Saguenay, eastern Canada and measuring
5.9 on the Richter scale was felt widely across Canada and in the northeastern United
States.
1989 - More than 500,000 demonstrators gathered in
Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they scoffed at a Communist Party shakeup and cheered
Alexander
Dubček, the reformer ousted in 1968.
1990 - Poland
held its first popular presidential election. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa received a plurality of votes this day.
He won a runoff election December 9 and became President of the Republic of
Poland. Walesa served until defeated in the election of November 1995.
1994 - Sony Corporation co-founder Akio
Morita announced his resignation (for health reasons) as chairman of the
electronics giant.
1995 - At the top of U.S. pop-music charts were
Whitney Houston’s single, Exhale (Shoop Shoop) and Alice in Chains’ album,
Alice in Chains.
1998 - New movies in the U.S.: Babe: Pig in the
City, from Universal Pictures; Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar’s A Bug’s Life;
Home Fries,
from Warner Bros.; Artisan Entertainment’s Ringmaster; and Very Bad Things, from Polygram Films.
1999 - Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube
off the coast near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The boy, his mother, stepfather, and eleven
other Cubans had boarded a small boat in Cuba and attempted to cross the ocean to the U.S.
Elian was one of three to survive (his mother and stepfather both drowned). He lived with
relatives in Miami until he was seized by the INS in an early morning raid on April 22,
2000. He returned to Cuba with his father on June 28.
2000 - The last day of the U.N. World Climate
Change conference at the Hague (Netherlands) produced only a declaration of intent to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. A compromise between U.S. and E.U. negotiators failed. An increase of 4.5
to 8 degrees Fahrenheit was predicted in the following 100 years if greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced.
2001 - Advanced Cell Technology, a biotechnology
company in Worcester, MA claimed to have created the first early human embryo clones.
The company said it had cloned human embryos to the six-cell stage, but with the aim of creating
treatments for disease. None of the clones survived.
2001 - U.S. marines landed near Kandahar marking the first
major use of U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed
into law the Department of Homeland Security. Tom Ridge was named as head of
the Cabinet-level office.
2002 - U.S. federal investigators reported that
they had uncovered the largest identity theft ring to that time. They said three men had
victimized over 30,000 people and caused the loss of millions of dollars.
2002 - Czech-born film director Karel Reisz died in London. Reisz fled Nazi occupation in 1938. His film career
began in England and moved on to Hollywood where his work included The French Lieutenant’s
Woman.
2003 - Sales of Mexican green onions plunged
after a hepatitis outbreak in the U.S. was traced to northwestern Mexico,
forcing farmers in this valley to defend the safety of their produce and find ways to
stay afloat financially.
2005 - Papua New Guinea officials decided to begin
evacuating the 1,500 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands
to Bougainville, 100 km away. The Carteret Islands (also known as Carteret Atol),
with a maximum elevation of 1.5 metres, were the first inhabited land to be abandoned to rising sea levels.
2007 - 50 people were missing after a boat sank off a southern Bangladesh
island bordering Myanmar waters. The wooden fishing boat went down near Saint Martin’s
island, about 75 miles south of the coastal resort town of Cox’s Bazar. Some 50 people did manage
to swim ashore or were rescued by local fishing boats.
2008 - Armenia won its second straight gold medal at the Chess
Olympiad in Germany, defeating China 2.5-1.5 in the 11th and final round.
2008 - The Bush administration unveiled a set of
new programs intended to pump $800 billion into the U.S. economy and help to thaw frozen credit
markets. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) said the list of banks it considered to be in trouble totaled 171.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.:
Me and Orson
Welles, starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin,
Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan and Imogen Poots; Ninja Assassin, with Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho
Kosugi and Rick Yune; Old
Dogs, starring Robin Williams, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Bernie Mac, Matt
Dillon, Seth Green, Lori Loughlin, Rita Wilson and Ella Bleu Travolta; the animated The Princess and the
Frog, featuring the voiceds of Anika Noni Rose, Terrence Howard, John Goodman,
Keith David, Jim Cummings, Jenifer Lewis and Oprah Winfrey; and The Road,
starring Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
2009 - Toyota announced the recall of
some 4.26 million vehicles. The auto giant said it would fix accelerator pedals on those cars to prevent them from becoming
stuck, leading to unintentional acceleration.
2010 - U.S. forces found a sophisticated tunnel used to smuggle drugs between Mexico and San Diego,
the second such discovery in the region in less than a month. The 2,200-foot passage ran from
a residence in Tijuana to a warehouse in San Diego’s Otay Mesa area. From the U.S. side,
there was a stairway leading to a room about 50 feet underground that was full of marijuana --
some 20 tons of the stuff.
2011 - It was Black Friday, marking the start
of the U.S. holiday shopping season. A shopper pepper-sprayed other bargain hunters in Los Angeles and
robbers in South Carolina and northern California shot at customers to steal their purchases. Happy Holidays!
2012 - The Rolling Stones returned to London’s 02 Arena for the
first of five concerts to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of their debut. The Stones went on to play nineteen shows in the U.S. in
spring 2013, before doing three in Europe, one at Glastonbury Festival 2013 and two in Hyde
Park in July.
2013 - Ten former National Hockey League players filed a federal lawsuit in Washington DC over concussions they received during their careers. The
class-action lawsuit claimed the NHL had not done enough to protect players from
concussions.
2013 - A falcon statuette, made for the 1941 film
Maltese Falcon, sold for $4.085 million at auction
at Bonhams in
New York City. It was one of two statuettes cast, but the only one validated by
Warner Bros. film studio.
2014 - The U.S. FDA announced calorie labeling rules, requiring establishments
that sell prepared foods and have 20 or more locations to post calorie content on their
menus and displays -- effective November 2015. The new federal rules standardized
requirements, helping to avoid situations in which a chain restaurant subject to the
federal requirements had to meet different requirements in different states.
2014 - More auction news from New York City: the
Lion costume from 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and the piano from
the 1942 film Casablanca sold for over $3 million each.
2015 - A nuclear treaty beteeen the U.S. and South Koria
went into effect that saw the U.S. governing South Korea’s commercial nuclear activities for 20
years. The treaty replaced a previous accord reached in 1972 and included the
possibility of South Korea gaining the ability to enrich uranium to produce non-weapons-grade
nuclear fuel -- depending on future negotiations with the United States.
2016 -New movies in the U.S. included: Behind
the Cove, with David Hance, Katsunori Horihata and Joji Morishita; Dear
Zindagi, starring Alia Bhatt, Shah Rukh Khan and Angad Bedi; Evolution, starring Max Brebant, Roxane Duran and
Julie-Marie Parmentier; Lion, starring Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel;
and Mifune: The Last Samurai, with Wataru Akashi, Kyôko
Kagawa and Takeshi Katô.
2016 - India’s top court stopped firecracker sales in and around New Delhi as the worst season
for air pollution began. This time of year was popular for weddings, and families often set off firecrackers
to celebrate. Weak winter winds and countless garbage fires people set to stay warm also caused air pollution to
peak in winter. New Delhi’s air pollution was among the worst in the world.
2016 - San Francisco’s MUNI (Municipal Transportation Agency) passengers began
riding for free following a hack of the agency’s computer systems over the Thanksgiving holiday. The hack
had left the agency with locked kiosks and computers and the hackers claimed to have 30GB of stolen
data, including the personal information of employees and riders. They demaded that the agency fix
its vulnerable systems and pay a ransom of 100 Bitcoins, or about $73,000. If their demands were not
met, they said they would release all of the personal information. Passengers continued to ride for
free until the system was restored on Nov 27. No info was released. No ransom was paid.
2016 - Fidel Castro, former Cuban dictator, died in Havana at
90 years of age. The Cuban government ordered nine days of national mourning. Castro had led a rebel army to improbable
victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century (1959-2006)
of ruling Cuba.
2017 - On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence
Against Women: France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced an initiative to address violence against and harassment of women in France.
Macron’s plans were aimed at erasing the sense of shame that breeds silence among victims, and
changing what he said was France’s sexist culture.
2017 - In Russia’s ongoing war against the free press, President Vladimir
Putin signed a law to allow authorities to list foreign media operating in Russia as ‘foreign
agents’. This, in response to what he said was unacceptable U.S. pressure on Russian media.
2018 - A winter storm blanketed much of the U.S. central Midwest.
The blizzard grounded some 1200 airline flights. By midday, blizzard warnings were extended to
parts of eastern Illinois and Chicago, where snow fell at some 2 inches per hour.
2018 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shut down the San Ysidro border crossing in southern California
and fired tear gas to push back migrants away from the border fence. This, after hundreds of
people had tried to evade a Mexican police blockade and ran toward the border crossing that
leads into San Diego. Forty-two people were arrested for illegally crossing the border.
2019 - This was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Tens of thousands of women marched as the U.N. women’s agency kicked off 16 days of activism
against gender-based violence. Historically, the date (Nov 25) is based on the date of the 1960
assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic;
the killings were ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. In 1981, activists at the
Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros marked November 25 as a day to combat and
raise awareness of violence against women more broadly; on December 17, 1999, the date received
its official United Nations resolution.
2019 - A leak of secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents
revealed details of how over one million detainees in China were being indoctrinated, controlled
and punished in a huge network of internment camps. The papers, dated to 2017 and leaked
to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), were dubbed The China
Cables and featured instructions to “never allow escapes” from the camps.
2019 - An Egyptian court handed down death sentences to seven
people convicted of carrying out attacks that killed 11 policemen in 2016. The Cairo Criminal
Court also sentenced 18 others to 10-15 years in prison for the same charges.
2020 - Donald Trump pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security
adviser, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian diplomat.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court, voting 5 to 4, barred the restrictions on religious services in New York that Governor
Andrew Cuomo had imposed.
2020 - Britain unveiled plans for more massive state spending. This,
despite soaring debt because of the coronavirus. The spending increases included pay rises for
nurses to support the ravaged economy. The United Kingdom borrowed nearly 400 billion pounds to
pay for the massive COVID-19 hit to its economy, and the budget deficit jumped to its highest
since World War II.
2021 - Pope Francis declared five Catholic priests who were killed during the Paris Commune revolutionary government that took control
of Paris in 1871 were martyrs who were killed out of “hatred for the faith.”
2021 - The Czech government declared a 30-day state of emergency ordering
early closure of bars and clubs and a ban on Christmas markets as Europe battled a surge in coronavirus cases.
2022 - Three people were killed and 11 more injured in a mass shooting at two separate schools
in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo. The shootings occurred about 50 miles north of the state’s
capital city of Vitoria. Authorities said the 16-year-old shooter, a former student, was seen on
security footage dressed in military combat and holding a semi-automatic weapon. While events such as this
were rare in Brazil, the country had seen a large increase in gun ownership under the tenure of ousted
President Jair Bolsonaro.
2022 - The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a passenger who had gone overboard from a cruise ship, after he
had been stranded in the water for hours. The man was reported missing from the Carnival Valor
cruise ship, on its way from New Orleans to Cozumel, a Mexican island in the Caribbean. He was spotted
in the water about 20 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River. While he was reportedly suffering
from mild hypothermia and shock, he was said to be in overall good condition.
2023 - Online shopping saw a record boom ahead of Cyber Monday. Retailers slashed prices across their digital
platforms, as consumers are getting ahead of the action with record clicks at online stores. While retail
Black Friday spending was muted, online shopping was up 7.5% from 2022. The $9.8 billion marked a new
record for online shopping on Black Friday.
and more...
Birthdays on This Day
November 25
1835 - Andrew Carnegie
industrialist: founder of
Carnegie Steel Corporation; philanthropist: after selling Carnegie Steel he devoted the rest of
his life to giving his fortune away: Carnegie Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, Carnegie Corporation
of New York and Carnegie Hall in New York City, Carnegie-Mellon University (formerly Carnegie
Institute of Technology, Andrew Carnegie Library; he said, “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust
which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ...
The man who dies ... rich dies disgraced.”; died Aug 11, 1919 
1846 - Carrie
Nation
temperance leader: took a hatchet to bottles in saloons; died June 9, 1911
1881 - Angelo Roncalli
Pope John XXIII: 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1958-1963];
died June 3, 1963
1896 - Virgil Thomson
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Louisiana Story; music critic: New York
Herald-Tribune [1940 to 1954]; died Sep 30, 1989
1902 - Eddie Shore
hockey: Regina Capitals,
Edmonton Eskimos, Boston Bruins [helped the Bruins win their first Stanley Cup in 1929]; nominated
to seven all-star teams; died
Mar 16, 1985
1914 - Joe DiMaggio
‘The Yankee Clipper’: Baseball Hall of Famer: New York Yankees outfielder [World Series:
1936-1939, 1941, 1942, 1947, 1949-1951/all-star: 1936-1942, 1946-1951/3-time MVP: 1939,
1941, 1947]; major league record: hit in 56 consecutive games; husband of actress Marilyn
Monroe; died Mar 8, 1999; more
1920 - Ricardo Montalban
Emmy Award-winning actor:
How the West was Won-Part II [2/19/78]; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,
Fantasy Island, Heaven Help Us, The Colbys, Sayonara, Cheyenne
Autumn, The Singing Nun, Sweet Charity, Escape from the Planet of the
Apes, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad; TV commercials: Chrysler
Cordova; died Jan 14, 2009
1920 - Noel Neil
actress: Adventures
of Superman [1958], Atom Man vs. Superman, Adventures of Frank and Jesse
James, The Lawless Rider, Surge of Power; died Jul 3, 2016
1923 - Art Wall Jr.
golf champion: Masters [1959]; died Oct 31, 2001
1926 - Jeffrey Hunter
actor: Super Colt 38,
A Guide for the Married Man, Joaquín Murrieta,
The Longest Day, The True Story of Jesse James, Single-Handed; died May 27, 1969
1931 - Nat Adderley
musician:
cornet, mellophone, French horn, trumpet: Sermonette, Work Song; brother of Cannonball
Adderley: died Jan 2, 2000
1933 - Kathryn Grant Crosby (Olive Kathryn Grandstaff)
actress: Rear Window,
Unchained, The Phenix City Story, The Guns of Fort Petticoat, The 7th
Voyage of Sinbad, Anatomy of a Murder, 1001 Arabian Nights, The Initiation
of Sarah, A Bing Crosby Christmas; wife of singer Bing Crosby; died Sep 20, 2024
1933 - Lenny Moore
Pro
Football Hall of Famer [flanker, running back]: Baltimore Colts: rushed for 5,174
yards; 363 receptions for 6,039 yards; scored 113 touchdowns [scored touchdowns in record
18 consecutive games]
1940 - Joe Gibbs
Pro
Football Hall of Famer: coach: Washington Redskins: 5 division championships, four Super Bowls,
three wins; NASCAR Winston Cup racing team owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
1941 - Percy Sledge
singer: When a
Man Loves a Woman, Warm and Tender Love, It Tears Me Up, Take Time
to Know Her, I’ll Be Your Everything; died Apr 14, 2015
1942 - Bob Lind
singer,
songwriter: Elusive
Butterfly, Remember the Rain, Truly Julie’s Blues, Cheryl’s Goin’
Home
1944 - Bob Matheson
football:
Miami Dolphins LB: Super Bowl XI, XII, XIII
1944 - Ben Stein
lawyer, speech writer [for Presidents Nixon and Ford], columnist, author, screenwriter, actor: Win Ben Stein’s Money, Turn Ben Stein On
1945 - Lee Michaels
musician: guitar, singer: Do You Know What I Mean?, Can I Get a Witness?
1945 - George Webster
College Football Hall of Famer: Michigan State; NFL:
Houston Oilers outside linebacker: Rookie of the Year [1967], Pittsburgh Steelers, New
England Patriots; died Apr 19, 2007
1947 - Val Fuentes
musician:
drums: group: It’s a Beautiful Day: Bulgaria, Soapstone Mountain,
Anytime, Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby
1947 - John Larroquette
Emmy Award-winning actor:
Night Court [1984-1985, 1985-1986, 1986-1987, 1987-1988]; The John Larroquette
Show, Doctors’ Hospital, Richie Rich, Altered States, Stripes,
Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock, Meatballs 2, Boston Legal,
McBride, Deception, Me, Myself and I, The Librarians, The Good Fight
1947 - Tracey Walter
actor: Nash Bridges,
Best of the West, Something Wild, Married to the Mob, Batman,
City Slickers, Conan the Destroyer, The Silence of the Lambs,
Philadelphia, Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate [2004]
1951 - Bucky Dent
baseball:
shortstop: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975], NY Yankees [World Series: 1977, 1978/all-star:
1980, 1981], Texas Rangers, KC Royals; manager: NY Yankees
1952 - Ernest Harden Jr.
actor: The
Jeffersons, White Men Can’t Jump, The Final Terror
1955 - Bruno Tonioli
dancer, choreographer, TV personality: Strictly Come Dancing; TV judge: Dancing with the Stars
1959 - Steve Rothery
musician: guitar: group: Marillion: Market Square Heroes, Grendel, Lavender,
Heart of Lothian
1960 - Amy Grant
singer:
Baby Baby, LP: w/Art Garfunkel: The Animal’s Christmas; more
1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr.
‘John-John’; attorney; cofounder/editor: George magazine; son of U.S. President John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy; killed in
plane crash [w/wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette] July 16, 1999
1963 - Kevin Chamberlin
actor: Jessie,
Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lucky Number Slevin, The Girl Next Door,
Taking Woodstock, Grace and Frankie, Team Kayli, The Prom;
Broadway: The Addams Family, Wicked, Dirty Blonde, Seussical
1963 - Bernie Kosar
football:
Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins QB
1965 - Cris Carter
football
[wide receiver]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Miami
Dolphins; TV sports analyst: HBO: Inside the N.F.L.
1965 - Dougray Scott
actor: Heist, The
Cone Gatherer, Perfect Creature, The Truth About Love, Mission: Impossible
II, Desperate Housewives
1966 - Billy Burke
actor: Revolution,
Twilight film series, 24, Red Riding Hood, The Closer,
Wonderland, Ladder 49, Along Came a Spider, Final Jeopardy,
Lights Out
1966 - Stacy Lattisaw
singer:
Let Me Be Your Angel, Jump to the Beat, Love on a Two-Way Street,
Miracles, Attack of the Name Game
1968 - John Johnstone
baseball
[pitcher]: Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants
1969 - Jill Hennessy
actress: Law & Order,
RoboCop 3, Molly, Nuremberg, The Acting Class, Exit Wounds,
Crossing Jordan
1969 - Anthony Peeler
basketball
[guard]: Univ of Missouri; NBA: LA Lakers, Vancouver Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves,
Sacramento Kings and Washington Wizards
1971 - Christina Applegate
actress: Married ...... with
Children, Heart of the City, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Streets,
Wild Bill, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Samantha Who?
1973 - Erick Strickland
basketball
[guard]: Univ of Nebraska; NBA: Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Vancouver Grizzlies, Boston Celtics,
Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Dallas Mavericks
1974 - Kenneth Mitchell
actor:
The Quinn-tuplets, Home of the Giants, The Recruit, The Green,
Ghost Whisperer
1975 - Octavio Dotel
baseball [pitcher]: New York Mets, Houston Astros, Oakland
Athletics
1976 - Donovan McNabb
football
[quarterback]: Univ of Syracuse; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [Super Bowl XXXIX]
1977 - Jill Flint
actress: Royal Pains,
The Good Wife, Cadillac Records, How I Got Lost, Fake, The Night
Shift
1979 - Joel Kinnaman
actor: Easy
Money, The Killing, RoboCop, Suicide Squad, Jonah Falk
film series, Knight of Cups, Child 44
1980 - Nick Swisher
baseball [outfield]: Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, New York
Yankees: 2009 World Series champs
1981 - Xabi Alonso
Spanish footballer [central midfielder]: Real Sociedad [2000–2004];
Liverpool [2004–2009]; Real Madrid [2009–2014]; Bayern Munich [2014]; 2010 Spain
World Cup Championship team
1981 - Barbara Pierce Bush
daughter of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush; twin sister of Jenna Bush
Hager
1981 - Jenna Bush Hager
daughter of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush; twin sister of Barbara
Pierce Bush
1983 - Paty Cantú
songwriter, singer:
duo: Lu [w/Mario Sandoval]: Por Besarte, Una Confusión, La Vida Después de Ti
1983 - Joey Chestnut
Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating
Contest champion: 2007-2014, 2016-2022: in 2021 he consumed 76 hot dogs and buns, breaking
his own world
record
1985 - Haley Webb
actress: Rushlights,
On the Inside, The Final Destination, Sugar Mountain, Teen Wolf; more
1986 - Katie Cassidy
actress: Arrow,
Melrose Place, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, When a Stranger
Calls, Black Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Taken,
Monte Carlo, Harper’s Island, Click, Taken, The
Scribbler
1989 - Stephen Lunsford
actor: Teen Wolf,
The List, Private Practice, The Young and the Restless
1990 -
Stephanie Hsu
actress:
Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Path, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel;
Broadway:
she was the origininal Christine Canigula in Be More Chill and Karen the Computer in
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day
November 25
1948
Buttons and Bows
(facts) -
Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China
(facts) -
The Kay Kyser Orchestra
(vocal: Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood)
A Tree in the Meadow
(facts) -
Margaret Whiting
One Has My Name (The
Other Has My Heart)
(facts) -
Jimmy Wakely
1957Jailhouse Rock
(facts) -
Elvis Presley
You Send Me
(facts) -
Sam Cooke
Little Bitty Pretty One
(facts) -
Thurston Harris
Wake Up Little Susie
(facts) -
The Everly Brothers
1966You Keep Me Hangin’ On
(facts) -
The Supremes
Good Vibrations
(facts) -
The Beach Boys
Winchester Cathedral
(facts) -
The New Vaudeville Band
I Get the Fever
(facts) -
Bill Anderson
1975That’s the Way (I Like It)
(facts) - KC & The
Sunshine Band
Fly, Robin, Fly
(facts) - Silver Convention
The Way I Want to Touch
You
(facts) - Captain & Tennille
Rocky
(facts) -
Dickey Lee
1984Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
(facts) - Wham!
I Feel for You
(facts) -
Chaka Khan
Out of Touch
(facts) -
Daryl Hall & John Oates
You Could’ve Heard a Heart Break
(facts) -
Johnny Lee
1993I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
(facts) -
Meat Loaf
Again
(facts) -
Janet Jackson
Gangsta Lean
(facts) -
DRS
Almost Goodbye
(facts) -
Mark Chesnutt
2002Lose Yourself
(facts) -
Eminem
Die Another Day
(facts) -
Madonna
The Game of Love
(facts) -
Santana featuring Michelle Branch
Somebody Like You
(facts) - Keith Urban
2011We Found Love
(facts) - Rihanna featuring
Calvin Harris
Sexy and I Know It (facts) - LMFAO
Someone Like You (facts) - Adele
Crazy Girl
(facts) - Eli Young Band
2020Mood (facts) - 24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior
Positions (facts) - Ariana Grande
Laugh Now Cry Later (facts) - Drake featuring Lil Durk
I Hope
(facts) - Gabby Barrett
and even more...
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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