November 7
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1805 - “Great joy in camp we are in view of the ocean, this great Pacific Ocean which we been so long anxious to see. And the roreing or noise made by the waves brakeing on the rockey shores (as I suppose) may be heard distinctly.” These words were written by William Clark after the Lewis and Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time.1820 - James Monroe, the 5th President of U.S., was reelected. Monroe was unopposed for the Democratic-Republican party nomination and ran unopposed in the general election. Only one elector did not vote for him. The reason (according to legend) was so that George Washington would be the only president unanimously chosen by the electoral college.
1848 - General Zachary Taylor emerged as a hero of the Mexican War (1846-1848) and was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Whig convention in June 1848. He defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, and was elected the 12th President of the United States this day.
1874 - Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly, created a satirical drawing of an elephant about to fall into a giant hole. The elephant represented the Republican party and was used in reference to Ulysses S. Grant’s possible bid for a third term. Grant was a Republican. The symbol stuck and has been used ever since to represent the G.O.P. both in political cartoons and by the party itself.
1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook of New York City. He probably had no idea how appropriate his name was for such an invention...
1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook of New York City. He probably had no idea how appropriate his name was for such an invention...
1876 - The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number of popular votes and lacked only one electoral vote to claim a majority in the electoral college. Twenty disputed electoral votes, however, kept hopes alive for Republican Governor Rutherford B. (Birchard) Hayes of Ohio. When all was said and done, the Electoral college selected Hayes as the 19th President of the United States.
1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie in British Columbia. The 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad started in Montreal, Quebec, running between Montreal and Port Moody, B.C.
1914 - The New Republic magazine was printed for the first time.
1916 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President, was reelected. The outcome of the election was one of the few in U.S. history that hinged on foreign affairs. Europe was fighting a world war, and so far, President Wilson had kept the U.S. neutral. Running with the slogan, "He Kept Us Out of War," Woodrow Wilson was re-elected by a narrow margin. The very next year, Wilson’s neutrality in the European war ended. The Germans refused to curtail their submarine warfare after 120 Americans were killed aboard the British liner, Lusitania. Congress voted overwhelmingly to go to war and Wilson proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”
1930 - The Waltz You Saved for Me, by ‘The Waltz King’ himself, Wayne King, was recorded on Victor. It became King’s theme.
1932 - CBS radio presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played Buck in the serial over the years (1932-1947).
1933 - Pennsylvania’s Blue Laws meant that lots of things couldn’t be done on Sunday. Shopping was one. Drinking was another. Sports was yet another. The votes that were counted this day in the Keystone State eliminated sports from the forbidden activities. Fans in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia rejoiced!
1937 - Dr. Christian debuted on CBS radio. Jean Hersholt played the part of the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954. Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River. Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and lip ice).
1938 - The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.
1940 - The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in 1940 to connect the city of Tacoma and the surrounding Puget Sound with the Peninsula area. The bridge soon became a popular tourist attraction as people came from all around the area to pay their toll to ride the roller-coaster that was called Galloping Gertie. The design flaws that allowed that coaster effect were to become the bridge’s undoing, and it collapsed at approximately 11:00 a.m. this day, a mere four months and seven days after dedication.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey. F.D.R. was the only President to be elected for more than two terms; he was elected four times with three different Vice Presidents. He died in office on April 12, 1945, after serving 53 days of his fourth term. Vice President Harry Truman filled the remainder of the term and was elected President in 1948.
1946 - A coin-operated television receiver was displayed in New York City. To sneak a peak at various test patterns and a model of Felix the Cat on this the ‘Tradio-Vision’ machine, folks dropped in a quarter.
1948 - An adaptation of the mystery play, The Storm, became the first production of Studio One on CBS-TV. Margaret Sullivan starred -- for $500. Studio One continued until 1958.
1952 - Felix Bloch of Stanford University and E.M. Purcell of Harvard won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on measuring the magnetic properties of atomic particles.
1956 - Elvis Presley hit the charts with Love Me. The song was the first million-seller to make the charts without being released as a single. It was, instead, an EP (extended play) 45 rpm, with three other songs on it: Rip It Up, Paralyzed and When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again -- on RCA Victor.
1963 - Elston Howard of the New York Yankees was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. Howard was the first black player to receive the honor.
1965 - Poppin’ Fresh, the Pillsbury Doughboy was introduced -- in a Pillsbury Crescent Rolls commercial.
1967 - Surveyor 6 was launched on its way to the moon. It became the first spacecraft to lift off the moon.
1970 - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? was released by Columbia. It became the third tune by Chicago to hit the pop music charts. Make Me Smile and 25 or 6 to 4 were previous hits. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? made it to #7 on the charts (January 7, 1971).
1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were reelected in a landslide victory (60.7% to 37.5%) over Democrats George McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver).
1976 - Gone With the Wind was aired (over two nights) on NBC-TV. The showing was the highest-rated TV show to that time. 65 percent of all viewers turned on their sets to watch Scarlet O’Hara and Rhett Butler.
1980 - A movie great died. Steve McQueen, famous for his roles in The Getaway, Papillon, The Sand Pebbles and so many others, died at age 50.
1984 - Joe Namath, quarterback of the New York Jets and famous for passes both on and off the field, married Deborah Lynn Mays on this day.
1987 - Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love was the #1 album in the U.S. The rest of the top-five for the week: 2)-Bad (Michael Jackson); 3)-Dirty Dancing (soundtrack); 4)-Whitesnake (Whitesnake); 5)-A Memory Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd).
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor’s race in Virginia, becoming the first elected black governor in U.S. history; and David N. Dinkins was elected New York City’s first black mayor.
1990 - Mary Robinson was elected the first female president of Ireland for a seven-year term.
1991 - Future (2002) Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson stunned the sports world as he announced that he was retiring from the game because he had tested positive for the AIDS virus.
1992 - Former Czechoslovakian leader Alexander Dubcek died. He was 70 years old. Dubcek’s failed attempt to loosen the Communist grip on his country had become known as the Prague Spring.
1994 - The Electrical Engineering Times ran a cover story about flaws in Intel’s Pentium computer chip. The bug, an obscure flaw that caused extremely rare computation errors when performing certain types of mathematical calculations, eventually caused Intel to replace any Pentium processor affected by the flaw, regardless of whether the user was a mathmetician or not. Intel took a $475 million charge against earnings for the quarter to cover the expense of replacing all of those chips.
1996 - The U.S. liquor industry voted to drop its decades-old voluntary ban on broadcast advertising.
1997 - Bean (“The Ultimate Disaster Movie”), starring Rowan Atkinson, Peter Macnicol and Pamela Reed; Mad City (“One man will make a mistake. The other will make it into a spectacle.”), with Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta and Alan Alda; and Starship Troopers (“A New Kind Of Enemy. A New Kind Of War.”), starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Seth Gilliam, Patrick Muldoon, Michael Ironside and Marshall Bell.
1998 - 77-year-old John Glenn returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery, visibly weak but elated after the mission. With this flight, Glenn, still a sitting U.S. senator, had become the oldest person to fly in space as a crew member of the shuttle and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
1999 - Joseph Chebet and Adriana Fernandez put the frustration of second place behind them, as they won the New York City Marathon. Chebet of Kenya, the runner-up the previous two years, used a powerful last-second kick to finish with a time of 2:09:20. Fernandez of Mexico, who also finished second the previous year, easily won the women’s division with a time of 2:25:06, the second-fastest in the race's history. “I was feeling very strong and decided to take off,” Fernandez said.
2000 - Election day in the U.S.: Americans went to the polls for an election that would result in a split decision for George W. Bush and Al Gore. Florida’s disputed electoral votes emerged as critical.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first First Lady to be elected to the United States Senate. She defeated Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
2001 - Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. agreed to pay $41.5 million to head off lawsuits by the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands over defective tires.
2002 - Following his party’s election losses, Dick Gephardt stepped down as U.S. House Democratic leader.
2003 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Elf, with Will Ferrell, James Caan, Edward Asner, Patrick Baynham, Jane Bradbury, Annie Brebner, Zooey Deschanel, Claire Lautier, Faizon Love, Bob Newhart, Luke Pohl, Michael Roberds, Amy Sedaris, Richard Side, Mary Steenburgen and Daniel Tay; and Love Actually, starring Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Rory MacGregor, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, and Liam Neeson.
2004 - Actor, singer Howard Keel died, six weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Although Keel starred in many memorable stage productions and films, including Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Show Boat, Kiss Me, Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, he may be best remembered as oil baron Clayton Farlow in the TV series Dallas.
2005 - India’s foreign minister, K. Natwar Singh, was forced to step down from his post amid allegations that he and the governing Indian National Congress had illegally benefited from the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq.
2005 - In the eleventh consecutive night of unrest, rioting spread to nearly every city in France.
2006 - Panama was awarded a seat on the UN Security Council on the 48th ballot.
2006 - Arizona became the first U.S. state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage.
2006 - South Dakota rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions.
2006 - Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, former California state governor, was elected California attorney general.
2006 - Eliot Spitzer defeated John Faso to become the first Democratic governor of New York since 1994.
2006 - Joe Lieberman won the Connecticut Senate election over Democrat Ned Lamont, who had defeated Lieberman in the Democratic primary, forcing Lieberman to run as an independent.
2007 - Kenny Chesney won Entertainer of the Year and Carrie Underwood won as Best Female Vocalist at the annual Country Music Association Awards in Nashville.
2008 - Movies opening in the U.S.: JCVD, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff and Anne Paulicevich; ; the animated Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, featuring the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd, Alec Baldwin and Will.i.am; Repo! The Genetic Opera!, with Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Paris Hilton, Kevin Graham Ogilvie, Anthony Stewart Head and Sarah Brightman; Role Models, with Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks and Nicole Randall Johnson; and Soul Men, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sean Hayes, Sharon Leal, Jennifer Coolidge, Isaac Hayes, Affion Crockett, John Legend, Adam Herschman, Fatso Fasano and Jackie Long.
2008 - The U.S. Labor Department said employers cut 240,000 jobs in October 2008, pushing the U.S. unemployment rate to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent.
2008 - General Motors reported $2.5 billion losses in the third quarter, burning through $6.9 billion in cash and said it could run out of cash in 2009. Ford Motor Co. said it lost $129 million in the third quarter and had burned through $7.7 billion in cash.
2008 - U.S. President–elect Obama held his first news conference and vowed to pass a stimulus plan as his first presidential project.
2009 - In a speech delivered in Cairo, Egypt, China’s Premier Wen Jiaobao sought to reassure the world’s Muslims about his country’s goodwill towards them. This, at a time when Beijing was criticized for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.
2009 - The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed landmark health care reform legislation (220-215), handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his #1 domestic priority.
2010 - Activists in Germany rappelled down from a high bridge, broke through police lines and chained themselves to train tracks, trying to halt a shipment of nuclear waste. This, in protest of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plans to keep Germany using nuclear power.
2011 - Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter at his trial in Los Angeles. Proscecutors had painted Murray as a reckless caregiver who administered the lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.
2011 - Federal and state police searched an Acapulco, Mexico prison. The pre-dawn raid netted two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, 19 prostitutes and two sacks filled with marijuana. Police also found dozens of TVs, several bottles of alcohol -- and knives.
2012 - A U.S. federal judge blocked enforcement of a provision of California’s newly approved sex-trafficking law (Proposition 35) that required 73,000 registered sex offenders to reveal their Internet identities to police.
2012 - A snow and rain storm moved into the Northeast U.S., bringing dangerous winds and knocking out power to a region where hundreds of thousands were still in the dark after Superstorm Sandy. The wintry mix fell on parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
2013 - A video surfaced featuring a ranting Toronto Mayor Rob Ford threatening to murder someone and “poke his eyes out.” The video caused deepening concerns among both critics and allies that Ford was not fit to lead Canada’s largest city.
2013 - Swiss scientists confirmed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat apparently ingested lethal radioactive polonium before his death in 2004 and had high levels of it in his body that could not have been accidental. Palestinian officials have alleged since his death that Israel poisoned Arafat. But Derek Hill, a radiation expert at University College London, pointed out that the polonium findings could have been the result of contamination. “Somebody might have tried to doctor the evidence for their own political objectives,” he said. The Swiss scientists noted in their report they could not account for the ‘chain of custody’ of the specimens between Arafat’s death and when they were received in Lausanne in February 2013.
2014 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: the documentaries, 21 Years: Richard Linklater, On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter and Actress; the animated, Big Hero 6, featuring the voices of Genesis Rodriguez, Jamie Chung, T.J. Miller, Alan Tudyk Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Damon Wayans Jr., Katie Lowes, Maya Rudolph, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, Scott Adsit, Scott Adsit, Charles Adler and Marcella Lentz-Pope; Elsa & Fred, starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer and Marcia Gay; Jessabelle, with Sarah Snook, Mark Webber and Joelle Carter; Open Windows, starring Sasha Grey, Elijah Wood and Neil Maskell; The Theory of Everything, with Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne and Charlie Cox; and The Way He Looks, with Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi and Tess Amorim.
2014 - A federal judge cleared Detroit to emerge from bankruptcy. The Motor City was biggest U.S. city to ever file for bankruptcy.
2014 - Ian Edmondson, a former news editor at the News of the World, was sentenced to eight months in prison. Edmondson admitted to being involved in phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspaper in London, U.K.
2015 - Donald Trump hosted Saturday Night Live, following weeks of increasingly sharp criticism and mounting calls for him to be dropped from the show. Until this show, just eight politicians had served as guest hosts in the NBC-TV sketch comedy series’ 40 years.
2015 - An independent commission, headed by Dick Pound, former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, reported that Russia had “sabotaged the 2012 London Olympic Games” by running a state-sponsored doping program. According to the report, six Russian athletes should not have competed because they recorded abnormal results in their blood biological passports beforehand. Two of them, Mariya Savinova and Ekaterina Poistogova, won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 800m.
2016 - Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general (1993-2001), died at her home in Miami, Florida from complications of Parkinson’s disease. She was 78 years old.
2016 - On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, Madonna treated people in Washington Square Park, in the heart of Manhattan, to a surprise outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Several hundred people watched the pop singer perform. “This is a concert that is about unifying us, and it’s about keeping America great, not making America great again.” Madonna said. Meanwhile, Donald Trump headed for Michigan, where he framed the Nov 8 election as a middle class rebellion. “...the American working class is going to strike back, finally,” Trump said.
2017 - Scotland’s devolved government issued an apology to men convicted in the past for same-sex activity and passed a new law which allowed them to clear their names.
2017 - POTUS Trump said tougher gun laws would not have prevented a mass shooting at a south Texas church, arguing that more restrictions might have led to more casualties. And according to columnist Richard Wolffe, Trump was correct when he said gun violence is a mental health problem at the highest level, and Wolffe said, in the quote of the year, “U.S. leaders need urgent treatment.”
2018 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions submitted his resignation at the request of the POTUS. Trump announced in a tweet that Matthew Whitaker, Session’s Chief of Staff, would take over as acting attorney general.
2018 - 28-year-old former Marine Ian David Long released a smoke bomb and opened fire killing 12 people at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks. Long then turned the gun on himself. Some 200 people were inside the bar, which was hosting a student line-dancing night. (One survivor said he and his friends also escaped death in 2017 in the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert.)
2019 - U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero ordered POTUS Donald Trump to turn over eight years of his tax returns to New York state prosecutors.
2019 - Americans William Kaelin of the U.S. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University and Peter Ratcliffe of Oxford University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anemia and cancer.
2020 - The United Arab Emirates announced a major overhaul of the country’s Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalizing so-called “honor killings” (the murder of women perceived to have brought dishonour upon relatives).
2020 - Joe Biden was declared the winner in Pennsylvania and, with that, got more than 270 Electoral College votes -- the number needed to be elected president. Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. Biden won the popular vote with a record-breaking 74 million votes to Donald Trump’s 70 million+ votes, the second-highest tally on record. Kamala Harris became the first woman, as well as the first Black person, first Indian-American, and first Asian-American, to be elected vice president.
2020 - North Dakota and South Dakota had the worst rate of coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. over the previous 30 days. Despite advances in treating COVID-19 patients, hundreds more people had died in recent weeks than during any other period — a grim exclamation point on the virus outbreak slamming the northern Plains and Upper Midwest.
2021 - Actor Dean Stockwell died in New Mexico at 85 years of age. His films include Anchors Away (1945), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), Song of the Thin Man (1947), Compulsion (1959), Long Days Journey Into Night (1962), Paris, Texas (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Married to the Mob (1988) and The Player (1992).
2021 - South African Athol Williams, who testified at a state inquiry into massive corruption allegations, left the country fearing for his life. Athol was a whistle-blower who implicated dozens of individuals in an ongoing Zondo Commission investigation and feared possible reprisal from the company he had ‘whistled’ on.
2022 - The Russian Defense Ministry made a rare public statement in response to a public outcry over heavy casualties among recently conscripted soldiers in key battles in eastern Ukraine. The ministry downplayed reported deaths in the 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade, the lead unit in the area, saying “the losses ... do not exceed 1 percent of the combat personnel and 7 percent of the wounded.” Russian troops had denounced the “incomprehensible battle” in Donetsk with as many as 300 men killed in action.
2022 - French tennis star Caroline Garcia scored the biggest title win of her career beating Aryna Sabalenka 7–6, 6–4 in the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Finals in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Birthdays on This Day November 7
1867 - Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski)
Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1903]: study of radiation; chemist: discovered radium and polonium; died July 4, 19341902 - Ed (Edward Benton) Dodd
cartoonist: Mark Trail; died May 27, 19911903 - (Ira) Dean Jagger
Academy Award-winning actor: Twelve O’clock High [1949]; Elmer Gantry, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas, King Creole, The Robe, Vanishing Point, Mr. Novak; died Feb 5,19911905 - William Alwyn
composer, conductor: film scores: The Running Man, Swiss Family Robinson, A Night to Remember, Safari, The Seekers, The Crimson Pirate, The Long Memory; died Sep 12, 19851913 - Albert Camus
Nobel Prize-winning writer [1957]; Le Mythe de Sisyphe; died Jan 4, 19601914 - Archie Campbell
CMA Comedian of the Year [1969], country singer, comedian: Trouble in the Amen Corner, Beeping Sleauty, Rindercella, The Men in My Little Girl’s Life; Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; died Aug 29, 19871916 - Joe Bushkin
pianist, songwriter: Oh! Look at Me Now, Hot Time in the Town of Berlin; actor: The Rat Race, A Couple of Joes; died Nov 3, 20041916 - Joe Cobb
actor: played Joe in the Our Gang series of films; died May 21, 20021918 - Billy Graham
evangelist: TV host: Hour of Decision, The Billy Graham Crusade; died Feb 21, 20181922 - Al Hirt
musician: trumpet: Java, Sugar Lips, Flight of the Bumble Bee as theme song for TV’s The Green Hornet; played in singer Don Gibson’s band; a regular on: Make Your Own Kind of Music, Fanfare; died Apr 27, 19991926 - Joan Sutherland
singer [La Stupenda -- ‘The Stupendous One’]: opera soprano; died Oct 10, 20101929 - Ray Renfro
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Cleveland Browns [career average of 19.6 yards-per-catch, 5,508 yards receiving, 281 receptions; coach: Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions; died Aug 4, 19971930 - Barry Newman
actor: Petrocelli, Nightingales, The Edge of Night, Vanishing Point; died May 11, 20231938 - Dee (Delectus) Clark
singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse; died Dec 7, 19901938 - Jim (James Lee) Kaat
baseball: pitcher: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1962, 1966/World Series: 1965], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Yankees, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982]; sportscaster: ABC Sports1942 - Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella)
singer: Poor Side of Town, Memphis, Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin’, Baby I Need Your Lovin’1943 - Joni Mitchell (Roberta Anderson)
songwriter: Willy, Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock; singer: Help Me, Free Man in Paris, Both Sides Now1944 - Tommy Hart
football: San Francisco 49ers DE1944 - Joe Niekro
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros [all-star: 1979], NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1987]; died Oct 27, 20061951 - Lawrence O’Donnell
TV anchor, actor, political commentator, MSNBC host: The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell [2010- ]; aide/senior advisor to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan [1989-1995]; Staff Director for the Senate Finance Committee [1993-1995]1952 - David Petraeus
4-star U.S. Army General: Commander of U.S. Central Command [2008-2010]; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency [2011–2012]1957 - Christopher Knight
actor: The Brady Bunch, Another World, A Very Brady Christmas, Good Girls Don’t, The Brady Bunch Movie1959 - Keith Lockhart
conductor: Boston Pops orchestra; associate conductor: Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras; alumnus of Furman Univ and Brevard Music Center1960 - Tommy Thayer
musician: lead guitar: group: KISS: Strutter, Deuce, Got to Choose, Hotter Than Hell, C’Mon and Love, Rock and Roll All Nite, Detroit Rock City1962 - Bill Allen
actor: Rad, Hard Time Romance, Sioux City, Born on the Fourth of July, Ransom, Alien Nation, Family Ties, Hotel1964 - Dana Plato
actress: Diff’rent Strokes, Return to Boggy Creek, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle; died May 8, 19991964 - Shannon Whirry
actress: Mach 2, Me, Myself and Irene, Active Stealth, Omega Doom, Ringer, The Granny, Lady in Waiting, Body of Influence1967 - Dave Wainhouse
baseball [pitcher]: Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals1968 - Russ Springer
baseball [pitcher]: Louisiana State Univ; NFL: New York Yankees, California Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals1969 - Michelle Clunie
actress: Queer as Folk, Make It or Break It, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, The Usual Suspects, JAG, Judging Amy, ER, Boy Meets World, Diagnosis Murder, House, Without a Trace, Make It or Break It, CSI, A Comedy of Eros1969 - Bryant H. McGill
author, poet: The Tree of Life, Truths Once Unknown, An Uncle, Red Flame Bloom, The Weeping Willow Tree, Honor Growth’s Desire, Visions of Glory1969 - Michel Picard
hockey [left wing]: Hartford Whalers, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers1971 - Bronson Picket
actor: Another World, As the World Turns, Wild Card, West Bank Brooklyn, The Real Blonde, Any Day Now1971 - Todd Ritchie
baseball: [pitcher] Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox,Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays1972 - Christopher Daniel Barnes
actor: Shut Up and Kiss Me!, A Pig’s Tale, The Brady Bunch Movie, Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story, Just Perfect; voice actor: Spider-Man: The Animated Series1972 - Jason London
actor: 7th Heaven, The Man in the Moon, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Mixed Signals, Broken Vessels, Alien Cargo; twin brother of Jeremy London1972 - Jeremy London
actor: 7th Heaven, I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, Breaking Free, The Babysitter, The Red Lion, Bad to the Bone; twin brother of Jason London1972 - Bianca Trump (Wendy Smith)
actress [1991-2000]: X-rated films: One Night Love Affair, It’s a Wonderful Sexlife, Bianca Trump’s Towers, The Adventures of Seymore Butts, Maid Service, Foreskin Gump, Busty Babes in Heat 71973 - Yunjin Kim
actress: Lost, Mother, Seven Days, Harmony, Heartbeat, The Neighbor, Mistresses1974 - Kris Benson
baseball [pitcher]: Clemson Univ; Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets1975 - Stephen Alexander
football [tight end]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers, Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos1976 - Mark Philippoussis
tennis [Australia]: set world record for the fastest serve [March 7, 1997] when he served a 142.3 mph ace1978 - Rio Ferdinand
English footballer [centre-back]: Manchester United and three different national teams; amassed 81 caps for England in total, has been a member of three FIFA World Cup squads1983 - Adam DeVine
actor: Workaholics, Adam DeVine’s House Party, Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 2, Modern Family, Workaholics1987 - Rachele Brooke Smith
actress, dancer: Center Stage: Turn It Up, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, Burlesque, The Beach Bar, Lip Service, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Iron Man 2, 17 Again1996 - Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor)
New Zealand songwriter, singer: Royals, Tennis Court, Green Light, Team, Yellow Flicker Beat2000 - Dara Reneé
actress: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Black-ish, Freaky Friday2001 - Amybeth McNulty
actress: Anne with an E, Anne of Green Gables, Maternal, Black Medicine
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Hit Music on This Day November 7
1948A Tree in the Meadow (facts) - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows (facts) - Dinah Shore
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