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Birthdates which occurred on November 15:
1397 Nicholas V pope (1447-55); ended schism, founded Vatican Library
1708 William Pitt the Elder (Whig) UK PM (1756-61, 66-68) `Great Commoner'
1738 Sir William Herschel astronomer (discovered Uranus)
1815 John Banvard NYC, painted world's largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1862 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany, writer (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912)
1874 August Krogh Denmark, physiologist (Nobel-1920)
1879 Lewis Stone Worcester MA, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1881 Franklin P Adams Chicago IL, columnist (Information Please)
1882 Felix Frankfurter Vienna Austria, US supreme court justice (1939-62)
1886 Pedro Sanjuan San Sebastian, Spain, composer (Castilla)
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe Sun Prairie WI, painter (Cow's Skull)
1887 Marianne Moore St Louis, poet (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems)
1891 Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1891 W Averell Harriman US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1895 Ina Claire actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
1897 Sacheverell Sitwell English poet/writer (People's Palace)
1905 Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1907 Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel
1909 Don Large Canada, choral director (Wayne King)
1914 Jorge Bolet Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)
1919 Carol Bruce Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian Carlson-WKRP)
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner La, judge (People's Court)
1922 Francesco Rosi Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano)
1925 Howard Baker (Sen-R-TN), presidential chief of staff
1929 Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor, mindless moron (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1931 John Kerr NYC, actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum)
1932 Petula Clark England, singer (Downtown, My Love)
1933 Barbara Carson Memphis TN, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country)
1933 Jack Burns Boston MA, comedian (Burns & Schreiber)
1934 Joanna Barnes Boston, actress (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie)
1937 Yaphet Kotto NYC, actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe)
1939 Erik Hansen Denmark, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Thalmus Rasulala [Jack Crowder], Miami FL, actor (Blacula, Roots)
1940 Sam Waterston Cambridge MA, actor (Law & Order, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate)
1942 Daniel Barenboim Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist/conductor
1945 Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad [Fryeda Anderson] Sweden, rocker (ABBA)
1946 Janet Lennon Culver City CA, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1954 Beverly D'Angelo Columbus Ohio, actress (Vacation, European Vacation)
1955 Oliver Conant NYC, actor (Summer of '42)
1956 Ashley Cox Dallas Texas, playmate (December, 1977)
1968 Brenda Alyce Bassett Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1968 James Brady Brooklyn NY, columnist (NY Post)
1970 Karin Von Breeschoteen Rotterdam Holland, Playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 Mirjam Von Breeschoteen Rotterdam Holland, Playmate (Sept, 1989)
1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips 9th in sucession to British throne

Deaths which occurred on November 15:
0565 Justitianus I, [Petrus Sabbatius], Byzantine emperor (527-65), dies
1280 Albertus Magnus German scholar, dies at 87
1630 Johann Kepler German astronomer, dies at 58
1897 John Mercer Langston dies at 67
1958 Tyrone Power actor, dies of a heart attack at 44
1963 Fritz Reiner conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at 74
1978 Margaret Mead anthropologist, dies in NY at 76
1983 John LeMesurier actor, dies at 71
1984 Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center
1996 Alger Hiss, former State Department official, spy, died in New York just four days after his 92nd birthday
1998 Kwame Ture, the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 KEIPER JOHN C.---RENOVO PA.
1966 RAVENNA HARRY M. III---SAN ANTONIO TX.
1966 TIMMONS BRUCE ALLAN FORT LAUDERDALE FL.
[CRAFT OVERTURNED SUBJ DROWNED]
1968 BIRCHIM JAMES D.---INDEPENDENCE CA.
1969 GRAF JOHN G.---GLENDALE CA
[DIED ESCAPING 02/15/70]
1969 SUBER RANDOLPH B.---BALLWIN MO.
1969 WHITE ROBERT T.---ST CHARLES IL.
[04/01/73 RELEASED BY PRG, ALIVE IN 98]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1315 Swiss soldiers ambush and slaughter invading Austrians in the battle of Morgarten.
1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1533 The "explorer" Francisco Pizarro enters Cuzco, Peru
1626 The Pilgrim Fathers, who have settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors
1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to the Netherlands
1763 Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 The Articles of Confederation, instituting perpetual union of the United States of America, are adopted by Congress
1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes 1st issue
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1845 The opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1864 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1864 Sherman burns Atlanta
1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1884 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin
1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal
1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection
1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1926 NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1935 Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated
1937 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
1949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM
1950 1st Negro player in organized hockey-Arthur Dorrington signed
1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1959 Richard Hickock & Perry Smith kill Clutters
1960 Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
1960 The first submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina.
1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
1965 In the second day of combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia drang Valley
1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 Gemini XII returns to Earth
1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War
1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indecent language in Tampa, FL
1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1976 A Syrian "peace force" takes control of Beirut, Lebanon
1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1983 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver
1987 NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
1988 PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 President Bush signs the Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1990 The "Keating Five"--Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.; Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.; John Glenn, D-Ohio; John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Donald Riegle, D-Mich.--maintained their innocence at the opening of Senate hearings into charges of influence peddling on behalf of S&L kingpin Charles Keating.
1991 A federal appeals panel threw out former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter's felony convictions in the Iran-Contra affair, saying his immunized testimony to Congress was improperly used against him.
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 games
2000 Al Gore made a surprise proposal for a statewide hand recount of Florida's 6 million ballots - an idea immediately rejected by George W. Bush. Earlier, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris had rejected requests from the counties to update presidential vote totals with the results of hand recounts under way at Gore's urging.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Belgium : King's Day
Brazil : Republic Day (1889)
Japan : 7-5-3 Festival Day (parents give thanks for girls 7 and 3 and boys 5 and 3)
West Germany : Repentance Day (Wednesday)
US : American Enterprise Day
US : Doublespeak Day
US : Holidays Are Pickle Days (thru 12-31)
One Nation Under God Month

Religious Observances
Christian : St Leopold
RC : Mem of St Albert the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor (opt)

Religious History
1626 The original Mayflower "pilgrims" (Separatists), having lived in their American colony for six years, bought out their London investors for 1,800 pounds.
1760 Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Our love to Him is the proof and measure of what we know of His love to us.'
1804 Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Corruption always begins the day, but morning prayer never fails to set my mind in a right frame.'
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.'
1957 Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III officially established the Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, former Syrian Orthodox metropolitan of Jerusalem, was appointed primate of the new archdiocese, and soon after took up residence in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."

Question of the day...
Is the Hokey Pokey really what it's all About???

Murphys Law of the day...(Abbott's Admonitions)
If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question

Todays piece of completely useless information...
In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.