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🏰 On this day in History - November 23, 2024

1991 A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS

1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal

1942 Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender

1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta

1991 Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57)

1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan

1700 Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI

1939 Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star

1966 Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year

1931 Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague

1334 St Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast

1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1989 Xenophobia Zol•tas sworn in as premier of Greece

1970 KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

1926 No‰l Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in NYC

1950 Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres

1937 Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier

1942 Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days

1942 3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders

1983 USSR leave weapon disarmament talks

1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth NYC after 36 perfs

1909 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec)

1947 Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)

1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy

1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched

1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad

1940 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes

1912 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game

1984 Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game & beat Miami 47-45

1930 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage

1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St

1577 Water Geuzen under capt Slope enter Amsterdam

1980 National Black Independent Party forms

1953 KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast

1863 Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN begins

1988 France performs nuclear test

1940 SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire

1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1943 US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island & Makin from Japs

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances

1942 Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia

1864 -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)

1936 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce

1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium

1892 P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games

1946 "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 79 performances

1942 Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed

1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis

1997 Jana Novotna (Czech) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ

1990 Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck

1885 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united

1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB & mated for STS-6

1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral

1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1991 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols

1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"

1983 Soyuz T-9 lands

1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council

1993 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 216 perfs

1959 "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances

1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson

1975 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8

1887 Opera "Trumpeter of S„ckingen" 1st American production (NYC)

1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft Myers Golf Classic

1937 John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men," premieres in NYC

1889 Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)

1992 "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth NYC for 232 perfs

1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia

1897 Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars

1892 Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed

1960 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year

1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized

1165 Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome

1921 Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes

1971 Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement

1936 Life magazine hit newsstands

1977 "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs

1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti

1996 Irebe Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World

1948 Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects

1744 English premier John Carteret resigns

1974 60 Ethiopia govt officials executed

1705 Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses," premieres in London

1923 Germany's Stresemann govt falls to SPD

1584 English parliament throws out Jesuits

1946 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6

1871 Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens

1980 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10

1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

1982 FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads

1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England

1984 Limited-over intl cricket debut for Wasim Akram, v NZ

1556 King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts

1834 Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres

1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)

1964 Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy

1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"

1982 NY Islanders & Minn North Stars play to an 8-8 tie

1897 Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love

1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal

1963 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)

1940 Romania signs Driemogendheden pact

1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House

1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China

1943 Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team

1937 Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in NYC

1990 Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak v WI), scores 0 & 0

1947 French govt of Schumann, forms

1946 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000

1991 Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)

1991 Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season & 15,031 for career

1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF)

1988 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract

1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes

1991 Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games

1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1965 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)

1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY)

1953 WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1876 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn

1943 1st printing of illegal "Warheid"

1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital

1962 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP

1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston

1997 Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship

1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

1941 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow

1963 "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater NYC after 24 perfs

1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

1945 Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends

1944 US 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg

1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation

1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

1992 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold

1963 Horatio Alger Society founded

1783 Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)

1923 German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD

1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don

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