This date in history

1778​

Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.

1821​

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and political revolutionary (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment) is born.

1831​

Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.

1885​

George S. Patton, U.S. Army commander in World War II is born.

1889​

Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union.

1909​

Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

1918​

The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I.

1919​

The first two-minutes' silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War.

1921​

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated.

1922
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (Slaughterhouse Five) is born.
*Loved his book Breakfast of Champions)*

1925​

Jonathan Winters, comedian is born.

1933​

The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota.

1938​

Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith.

1953​

The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1966​

The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit.

1973​

Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire.

1987​

An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Irises" from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby's in New York.

2004​

Palestine Liberation organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; cause of death has never been conclusively determined.
 
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1035​

King Canute of Norway dies.

1276​

Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales.

1859​

The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon.

1863​

Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside's troops at Knoxville.

1867​

Mount Vesuvius erupts.

1903​

The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible.

1923​

Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup.

1927​

Canada is admitted to the League of Nations.

1928​

The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111.

1929​

Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco is born.

1938​

Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.

1941​

Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company.

1944​

U.S. fighters wipe out a Japanese convoy near Leyte, consisting of six destroyers, four transports and 8,000 troops.

1944​

The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord.

1945​

Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of several well-known bands including Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is born.

1948​

Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal.

1968​

The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.

1968​

Sammy Sosa, pro baseball player from Dominican Republic; only MLB player to hit 60 or more home runs in a single season three times, he was denied entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 after as-yet unproven allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs is born.

1971​

President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.

1987​

Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow's Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.

1990​

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.
(so it wasn't Al Gore)

1996​

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident.

1997​

Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2003​

The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.
 
“An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon is supposed to have said. But unfortunately for the armies of his time, the food available to the stomachs of those hungry soldiers was neither appetizing nor nutritious--consisting primarily of hard bread and salted meat. Napoleon wanted to better feed his army, so he offered a prize of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a better way to store and preserve food.
The chef Nicolas Appert rose to the challenge. After years of trial and error he eventually perfected a method of putting food in jars and then submerging the jars in boiling water to preserve the food and seal the jars. In other words, he invented canning.
Appert won the prize and the fame that came with it. The process he invented is essentially the same process we still use today.
Appert is still celebrated and well-known in France (where "canning" is called "appertization"), but he has faded into obscurity in the rest of the world, despite being responsible for one of humanity's most important inventions.
Today is the birthday of Nicolas Appert. He was born on November 17, 1749.

A DAY LATE...SORRY NICKY
 
Longer gone than lived. Remembering John Lennon.

Bill Kenny

Peter Jackson’s three-part re-examination of The Beatles, Get Back, aired on Disney+ this Thanksgiving weekend. It’s hard to believe the events depicted happened 52 years ago, but harder still to realize it was 41 years ago today that John Lennon was murdered. For those of us who came of age when The Beatles first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, we need no reminder,

I was born the year Dwight David Eisenhower was elected US President. Rock and roll was either very rhythm and blues-oriented (and called 'race music') or was so white it glowed in the dark with melodies from the Brill Building professionals sung by any fresh face who showed up at the auditions.

The perspiring and aspiring rock and roll kids in the United Kingdom who spent hours trying to copy every chord change of any R&B song they heard had no idea that in the USA, the music to which they were so devoted had been co-opted and to a considerable extent castrated by safe-as-houses imitators. Their world then was so different from our world now that words fail, which is why (perhaps) so many of us who came of age in The Sixties turned to music in the first place as a replacement for language.

If all you know of John Lennon is what you've read/seen, you cannot imagine the electricity late-night American Top 40 radio had when The Beatles were on. The Liverpool lads stuck and stayed because they had talent and the ear of a generation who sought a voice while they, themselves, searched for the sound they had heard years earlier. They may have never realized they had become the object for which they searched-we on other hand never cared and embraced them as the Soundtrack of the World to Be.

The Beatles 'broke big in America' in the aftermath of the murder of John F. Kennedy and I've never believed that was a coincidence. They were the standard by which all other pop music was measured. It felt, for someone in his teens for much of their public career, that The Beatles had been around forever but when they went dark in 1970, they had been a chart presence for less than a decade.

Where there were four, only two are alive today. All of them spent, and continue to spend, their solo careers battling unreal expectations, measured by critics and fans alike against an impossible standard no one could match.

With Lennon's murder forty-one years ago, the death of the public John overshadowed the personal tragedy of his two sons, Julian, and Sean, as well as the pain and grief his wife, Yoko Ono, and his late first spouse, Cynthia, felt and feel every day of their lives, but most especially today.

It's tempting when revisiting history to forget it can just as easily be written as his story because in this case, the bandmate, the father, the husband, were all walk-ons in the Beatlemania movie Mark David Chapman so abruptly and completely ended forty-one years ago.

For many who never knew Lennon, except through his music, today is a painfully long day. There's little we can do except watch the wheels go round and round and wonder what might have been.
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Miss ya Johnny...

 
wader said:
Longer gone than lived. Remembering John Lennon.

Bill Kenny

Peter Jackson’s three-part re-examination of The Beatles, Get Back, aired on Disney+ this Thanksgiving weekend. It’s hard to believe the events depicted happened 52 years ago, but harder still to realize it was 41 years ago today that John Lennon was murdered. For those of us who came of age when The Beatles first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, we need no reminder,

I was born the year Dwight David Eisenhower was elected US President. Rock and roll was either very rhythm and blues-oriented (and called 'race music') or was so white it glowed in the dark with melodies from the Brill Building professionals sung by any fresh face who showed up at the auditions.

The perspiring and aspiring rock and roll kids in the United Kingdom who spent hours trying to copy every chord change of any R&B song they heard had no idea that in the USA, the music to which they were so devoted had been co-opted and to a considerable extent castrated by safe-as-houses imitators. Their world then was so different from our world now that words fail, which is why (perhaps) so many of us who came of age in The Sixties turned to music in the first place as a replacement for language.

If all you know of John Lennon is what you've read/seen, you cannot imagine the electricity late-night American Top 40 radio had when The Beatles were on. The Liverpool lads stuck and stayed because they had talent and the ear of a generation who sought a voice while they, themselves, searched for the sound they had heard years earlier. They may have never realized they had become the object for which they searched-we on other hand never cared and embraced them as the Soundtrack of the World to Be.

The Beatles 'broke big in America' in the aftermath of the murder of John F. Kennedy and I've never believed that was a coincidence. They were the standard by which all other pop music was measured. It felt, for someone in his teens for much of their public career, that The Beatles had been around forever but when they went dark in 1970, they had been a chart presence for less than a decade.

Where there were four, only two are alive today. All of them spent, and continue to spend, their solo careers battling unreal expectations, measured by critics and fans alike against an impossible standard no one could match.

With Lennon's murder forty-one years ago, the death of the public John overshadowed the personal tragedy of his two sons, Julian, and Sean, as well as the pain and grief his wife, Yoko Ono, and his late first spouse, Cynthia, felt and feel every day of their lives, but most especially today.

It's tempting when revisiting history to forget it can just as easily be written as his story because in this case, the bandmate, the father, the husband, were all walk-ons in the Beatlemania movie Mark David Chapman so abruptly and completely ended forty-one years ago.

For many who never knew Lennon, except through his music, today is a painfully long day. There's little we can do except watch the wheels go round and round and wonder what might have been.
=============

Miss ya Johnny...
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me too wader :(,,,,,,,,,,,><))):<
 
On January 8, 1883, after reaching the five-mile mark of his night patrol, the surfman from the Green Run Inlet Life-Saving Station fought gale winds and shoulder-high snowdrifts to return to his station three hours later to make his report; a ship had wrecked just off the coast of Assateague Island.
The Keeper of Green Run, George C. Birch, and his surfmen headed out of the warmth of the station and into the frigid night to rescue the crew. As they pulled the 3,000 lb surfboat through 12 inches of snow on top of wet sand, heavy winds blew snow and sleet in their faces. After pulling for two miles, Keeper Birch realized his men were tiring and ordered them to launch the boat into the roiling surf and row the remaining 3 ¼ miles to the wreck through an angry winter ocean. When the surfmen reached the scene they rescued six sailors from the sinking Wyoming, a three-masted schooner that was bound for New York City. Within hours of the rescue, the Wyoming and its cargo became a total loss.
(Text: Kelly Goetz Photo: USCG Historian's Office/Public Domain)

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