November 24
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1835 - The Corps of Rangers, later formally known as the Texas Rangers, was organized to protect the frontier from Indians. The mounted police force was authorized by the provincial government. The rangers were paid $1.25 a day.1874 - Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois found just what he had been waiting for -- in his mailbox. It was the patent for his invention: barbed wire.
1903 - For you self-starters out there, this special note: The automatic self-starter was patented by Clyde J. Coleman of New York City.
1918 - The Gasoline Alley Comic Strip, by Frank King, debuted.
1937 - Three lovely ladies, known as The Andrews Sisters, recorded Decca record number 1562 this day. It became one of their biggest hits: Bei Mir Bist Du Schön.
1939 - Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was beamed coast to coast on NBC radio. The special guests during this broadcast were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.
1941 - Gus Arriola’s comic strip Gordo debuted; it ran until Feb 24, 1985.
1944 - U.S. bombers based on the island of Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.
1947 - The Cleveland Indians renewed the managerial contract of Lou Boudreau for an additional two years.
1947 - The first Postmaster General of the United States, to be promoted from the rank and file, was named. Jesse M. Donaldson had moved through the post office beginning as a letter carrier in 1908.
1950 - The musical comedy, Guys and Dolls, from the pen of Frank Loesser, opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. The show ran for some 1,200 performances.
1956 - Pajama Game closed at the St. James Theater in New York City -- after 1063 performances.
1958 - Jackie Wilson’s Lonely Teardrops was released, as was a disk by Richie Valens featuring Donna on one side and La Bamba on the other.
1958 - Harold Jenkins, who changed his name to Conway Twitty, got his first #1 hit on this day. It’s Only Make Believe was the most popular song in the U.S. for one week.
1960 - The Tiros 2 weather satellite was launched. The Tiros 2 was designed to test experimental television techniques and infrared equipment for a worldwide meteorological satellite information system.
1962 - On the cover of TV Guide: Jackie Kennedy and her story, The World of Jacqueline Kennedy. Other Articles: Milburn Stone and Fair Exchange.
1963 - In a scene captured on live national television, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
1967 - Actor and TV host, Gary Collins, and former (1959) Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley, were married on this day.
1970 - The nation’s outstanding collegiate football player of the year received the annual Heisman Memorial Trophy. Jim Plunkett was a quarterback for the Stanford Cardinal and later went on to a sterling career in the NFL.
1971 - It was a dark, freezing-cold, rainy Thanksgiving eve when Dan Cooper, now better known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest Orient airliner in Portland, Oregon. The chain-smoking Cooper, in his mid-forties, wore dark glasses, a dark suit and tie, and white shirt. He carried a black briefcase containing what resembled a bomb, using it to hijack the Boeing 727 plane. Cooper demanded and received $200,000, then parachuted from the plane over the Cascade Mountains in Southwestern Washington, never to be seen again. ($5,880 of the loot was found on the banks of the Columbia River in 1980.) Cooper left several lasting contributions ... the mystery: why did he do it, did he survive, and if so, where did he go and what did he do with the rest of the money; and a new aircraft design called the "Cooper Vane", a device that prevents the tail stairways on Boeing 727s from being lowered while in flight (Cooper’s escape route).
1972 - A Friday night show that would compete head-to-head with NBC’s Midnight Special premiered. In Concert featured Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Blood Sweat and Tears, Seals and Crofts and Poco. Robert W. Morgan of KHJ, Los Angeles was the offstage announcer for the ABC-TV show that was staged before a live audience. In Concert was the creation of the guy who dreamed up the fictitious group The Archies and brought fame to The Monkees: rock promoter, Don Kirshner. (In Concert was aired as part of ABC-TV’s Wide World of Entertainment.)
1976 - An earthquake struck Van province in Turkey with 5,291 confirmed dead and over 5,000 injured; 50,000 people were left homeless with the destruction of the town of Muradiye and hundreds of villages.
1980 - Actor George Raft died of leukemia in New York City. He was 85 years old. Raft appered in over 75 films during a span of a half-century.
1982 - Hurricane Iwa (pronounced Eva) swept Hawaii, causing heavy damage to the island of Kauai, but no deaths.
1983 - The Palestine Liberty Organization (PLO) exchanged six Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners.
1985 - The hijacking of an EgyptAir jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended violently as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane. Fifty-eight people died in the raid, in addition to two others killed by the hijackers.
1986 - Buffalo Sabres center Gilbert Perreault announced that he was weary of hockey life and was hanging up his skates after 17 seasons of fights, slashes, gashes, body slams, trips, spins, head jams, cross checks, body blocks and dodging hockey pucks. What the heck took him so long? And have his teeth grown back?
1986 - The American Eagle silver dollar, like its gold counterpart, became all the rage on this, its first day of issue -- by selling out. An additional 250,000 coins were also ordered this day by coin dealers.
1991 - Rock singer Freddie Mercury died in London of pneumonia brought on by AIDS. He was 45 years old.
1992 - A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 jetliner crashed on a domestic flight, killing all 141 people on board. The plane flew into a 7,000 ft. mountain near Guilin, Guangxi, 15 miles from the airport while on apporach. An apparent malfunction of the thrust lever caused a loss of control of the aircraft.
1992 - The U.S. flag was lowered for the last time -- on the last American base in the Philippines. The U.S. naval base at Subic Bay had been the center of American military operations in Southeast Asia. But Washington and Manila had been unable to agree to terms for a new lease on the land, so the old lease was allowed to expire. The event ended nearly a century of U.S. military presence in the former American colony.
1993 - The Brady Bill was passed by the U.S. Senate. The battle over the bill had been long and loud since its introduction in 1987, dividing gun-control supporters and opponents. The major issures were background checks of would-be handgun purchasers, bans on semi-automatic assault weapons and ‘Saturday night specials’, and the licensing and registration of handguns.
1995 - Ireland narrowly voted to end a 70-year ban on divorce. The voters approved a constitutional amendment legalizing divorce and remarriage by 50.23%.
1996 - On the eve of an Asia-Pacific trade conference in the Philippines, U.S. President Bill Clinton met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Both sides agreed to exchange presidential visits over the following two years.
1997 - Yamaichi Securities firm, Japan’s fourth largest, announced its shutdown due to debts totaling $24 billion. It become the third Japanese financial company to collapse in a month.
1998 - America Online, the largest Internet access service, announced plans to acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion.
1999 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: End of Days (“When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.”), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney and Rod Steiger; Flawless (“They couldn't like each other less or need each other more.”), with Robert Deniro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller and Wanda De Jesus; and the animated Toy Story 2 (“The Toys Are Back!”), with the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer and Don Rickles).
1999 - A ferry carrying more than 300 people caught fire and capsized in raging seas off the coast of northeast China’s Shandong province. 280 people were killed.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the bitter struggle for the White House. The High Court agreed to hear George W. Bush’s position that extended Florida ballot counting violated federal law.
2001 - A Crossair regional airliner carrying 33 people crashed near Zurich, Switzerland. The jet crashed while approaching the Zurich airport killing 24 people, including U.S.-German pop singer Melanie Thornton. Nine people survived the disaster.
2003 - A new FCC regulation, effective on this day, allowed cell phone users in the U.S. to transfer their telephone numbers to a different carrier.
2003 - A Virginia jury imposed the death penalty on John Allen Muhammad, convicted of masterminding the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC region. (Muhammad was executed in Virginia Nov 10, 2009.)
2003 - Hall-of-Fame baseball pitcher Warren Spahn died in Broken Arrow, OK. He was 82 years old. Spahn won more games than any other left-hander in history.
2004 - These films were new in the U.S.: Alexander, with Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rory McCann, Elliot Cowan and Joseph Morgan; Christmas with the Kranks, starring Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh; and The Work and the Glory, starring Alexander Carroll, Sam Hennings, Brenda Strong, Tiffany Dupont, Brighton Hertford, Colin Ford, Sarah Darling, Phillip DeVona, Charles Howerton, Eric Johnson, Emily Podleski, Jonathan Scarfe, Jarron Vosburg, John Woodhouse and Ryan Wood.
2004 - Arthur Hailey, author of the 1968 novel Airport, died in the Bahamas at 84 years of age.
2005 - Two people were injured in an accident at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. M&M’s balloon became tangled in a light pole near Times Square and the head of the street lamp fell on the spectators.
2006 - Panama’s government reported that heavy rains and flooding had left eight people dead and had damaged hundreds of homes.
2006 - Author William Diehl died on this day, just ten days before his 82nd birthday (he was born Dec 4, 1924). Diehl began his first book, Sharkey’s Machine, at 50 years of age (1978). He also wrote Primal Fear in 1996.
2007 - Full service was restored on the Paris Metro and most French trains were running after transport workers ended their crippling strike.
2007 - A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 49 homes and forcing the evacuation of most of the city of Malibu, California.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II) granted pardons to 14 individuals and commuted the prison sentences of two others convicted of misdeeds including drug offenses, tax evasion, wildlife violations and bank embezzlement.
2009 - Italian prostitute Patrizia D’Addario’s memoir, Gradisca, Presidente (At Your Pleasure, Premier), went on sale. In the book, D’Addario claimed that she had slept with Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the promise that he would help her set up a countryside inn, but she got nothing in return for her services. She did tell of her amazement at the 73-year-old Italian prime minister’s stamina.
2009 - The Catholic diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska agreed to a $10-million settlement with representatives of some 300 alleged victims of sex abuse by clergy.
2010 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Burlesque, starring Cher, Christina Aguilera, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell and Cam Gigandet; Faster, with Carla Gugino, Dwayne Johnson, Maggie Grace, Moon Bloodgood and Billy Bob Thornton; Love and Other Drugs, starring Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, Judy Greer, Jaimie Alexander and Hank Azaria; Tangled, with Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ronny Pearlman and M.C. Gainey; the documentary The Legend of Pale Male; and The Nutcracker in 3D, with Hunyadi Aron, Pepe Balderrama, Jonathan Coyne, Frances de la Tour and Fernanda Dorogi.
2010 - Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress, was convicted of illegally funneling corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. (DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison but is free on bail while appealing his conviction.)
2012 - India began issuing Chinese citizens visas that were embossed with maps of India showing all territories claimed by New Delhi. The move was in response to China’s revised passports that showed disputed territory near their shared border as being part of China.
2013 - A major winter storm dumped freezing rain and snow in the U.S. southwest and least 13 people were killed in storm-related accidents: Arizona (1), California (3), Oklahoma (4), New Mexico (1) and Texas (4).
2013 - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly condemned the international community’s nuclear deal with Iran. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry disagreed, saying that Israel had been made safer by the deal.
2014 - A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station. That new crew included Italy’s first female astronaut.
2014 - Barack Obama recognized 18 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor. The winners included TV journalist Tom Brokaw, singer Stevie Wonder, golfer Charles Sifford, economist Robert Solow, actresses Meryl Streep and Marlo Thomas, and human-rights campaigner Ethel Kennedy.
2015 - Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border after it had violated Turkish air space. The pilot was shot dead by rebels as he parachuted to the ground. The action was one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia in half a century.
2015 - A rocket from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin private space company landed upright following a test flight in West Texas.
2016 - Tens of thousands of residents were ordered to leave Haifa after wildfires tore across central and northern Israel. Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich said politically motivated arson might have been behind some of the blazes and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Palestinian incitement for fueling attacks.
2016 - Florence Henderson, who played the cheerful mom in the 1970s sitcom The Brady Bunch, died after suffering heart failure. She was 82. Although her best-known role as the matriarch of The Brady Bunch only ran for five seasons, it lived on in syndication for decades, cementing Henderson’s status as one of TV’s most beloved moms. The Brady Bunch “represents what people always wanted: a loving family. It’s such a gentle, innocent, sweet show, and I guess it proved there’s always an audience for that,” Henderson said in 1999. Premiering in 1969, it also was among the first shows to introduce the blended family to TV. As its theme song reminded viewers each week, Henderson’s Carol was a single mother raising three daughters when she met her TV husband, Robert Reed’s Mike Brady, a single father who was raising three boys. The eight of them became The Brady Bunch with a quirky housekeeper, played by Ann B. Davis, thrown into the mix.
2017 - A French court halted sales of two pesticides made by U.S. chemicals giant Dow Chemical after an environmental group raised fears that the pesticides, Transform and Closer, could be harmful to bees.
2018 - French police firing tear gas and using water cannon clashed with protesters in Paris who were angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies. It was the second weekend of protests by the gilets jaunes (yellow vests/jackets) movement across France and what was supposed to be a peaceful protest degenerated rapidly.
2019 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper removed Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, the Navy’s top civilian, over the case of a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct in Iraq. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher had won the backing of President Donald Trump, but Spencer vehemently disagreed and was displeased that the White House had interfered and tried to pressure him to let Gallagher retire as a Navy SEAL.
2019 - Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg (77), the former mayor of New York City, jumped into the U.S. presidential race, adding another moderate voice to a crowded field of Democratic contenders seeking to face Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. Bloomberg brought a “narrow following but boundless bank account” to the crowded Democratic primary.
2019 - People turned out in huge numbers in Hong Kong to vote in district council elections seen as a test of support for chief executive Carrie Lam -- following six months of pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong residents handed an overwhelming (almost 90%) victory to pro-democracy candidates in a vote for local district councils, a stunning repudiation of the city’s Beijing-backed government after months of increasingly violent protests seeking meaningful elections. Lam said she would “listen humbly” to the views of the public, but Beijing took a less conciliatory tone.
2020 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 30,000-mark for the first time, as optimism that COVID-19 vaccines would open the way to economic recovery fueled a Wall Street surge.
2020 - Democrat Joe Biden was certified as winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania and Nevada, culminating three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges by Donald Trump.
2020 - Fox News reached a settlement with the parents of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee staff member who was killed in an apparent botched robbery. The network had falsely cast Rich’s 2016 death as a political conspiracy. (Fox had falsely asserted Rich had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign.)
2020 - Purdue Pharma, owned and operated by the Sackler family while it pushed the painkilling opioid OxyContin to addicts, formally pled guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a plea agreement. The charges included conspiring to defraud U.S. officials and pay illegal kickbacks to both doctors and an electronic healthcare records vendor called Practice Fusion, all to help keep opioid prescriptions flowing. (In Sep 2021, the Sackler family won immunity from opioid lawsuits.)
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: the animated Encanto, featuring characters voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero and John Leguizamo; For the Love of Money, with Katt Williams, Keri Hilson and Rotimi; House of Gucci, starring Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Al Pacino, Sophia Loren and Jeremy Irons; National Champions, with Alexander Ludwig, Timothy Olyphant, J.K. Simmons and Kristin Chenoweth; Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, starring Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen and Donal Logue; The Humans, with Beanie Feldstein, June Squibb and Steven Yeun; and The Shuroo Process, starring Fiona Dourif, Brad Dourif and Eric Roberts.
2021 - NASA launched a spacecraft to test a plan to save humanity from potential killer asteroids. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft would be the first to alter an asteroid’s path, a technique that may be used to defend the planet in the future. (On 11 October 2022, NASA declared DART a success, confirming it had hit and altered minor-planet moon Dimorphos’ orbital period around asteroid Didymos by about 32 minutes, surpassing the pre-defined success threshold of 73 seconds.)
2021 - Apple Inc issued alert messages to at least six Thai activists and researchers who had been critical of the government, warning it believed their iPhones had been targeted by “state-sponsored attackers.”
2022 - Iranian authorities arrested prominent Iranian soccer player Voria Ghafouri, a frequent government critic, on charges of damaging the national team’s reputation, per state-linked Iranian media outlets. Ghafouri, a former member of Iran’s national team, was arrested after current team members faced intense scrutiny. During a match with England, Iranian players declined to sing their country’s national anthem in what was widely interpreted as a show of support for women’s rights protests that have erupted back home.
2022 - President Biden renewed his call for a ban on assault weapons. “The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick,” Biden said -- after two recent and high-profile deadly shootings. In one, a night manager at a Virginia Walmart opened fire on co-workers, killing six people. In the other, a suspect was charged with murder and hate crimes after a shooting that left five people dead at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
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Birthdays on This Day November 24
1632 - Benedict Baruch Spinoza
philosopher, writer: A Treatise on Religious and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Political Treatise, Hebrew Grammar; died Feb 21, 16771713 - Laurence Sterne
author: Tristam Shandy; died Mar 18, 17681784 - Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President [1849-1850]; married to Margaret Smith [one son, five daughters]; nickname: Old Rough and Ready; died July 9, 18501868 - Scott Joplin
King of ragtime music, composer, musician: guitar, piano, bugle: Original Rags, Maple Leaf Rag, The Ragtime Dance, The Entertainer, operas: The Guest of Honor, Treemonisha; died Apr 1, 19171877 - Alben Barkley
35th Vice President of the U.S. [1949-1953]; died Apr 30, 19561888 - Dale Carnegie
lecturer, author: How to Win Friends & Influence People; died Nov 1, 19551895 - Corinne Griffith
actress, silent film star: The Garden of Eden, Lilies of the Field; died July 13, 19791901 - William H. (Henry) Vanderbilt
politician: Governor of Rhode Island [1939-1941]; grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; died April 14, 19811905 - Irving Allen
Academy Award-winning film producer, director: Climbing the Matterhorn [1948]; Genghis Khan, Murderers’ Row, The Silencers, The Desperados, Matt Helm; died Dec 17, 19871911 - Kirby Grant
actor: Sky King, Yukon Vengeance, Northwest Territory, Comin’ Round the Mountain, Snow Dog, Singin’ Spurs, Sing While You Dance, Penthouse Rhythm; died Oct 30, 19851911 - Joseph ‘Ducky Wucky’ Medwick
Baseball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers; career: batted .300 or better 14 times and won both the MVP and the ‘Triple Crown’ [1937} when he led the loop (senior circuit) in 12 departments; died Mar 21, 19751912 - Garson Kanin
writer: A Gift of Time, Tracy & Hepburn; director: Adam’s Rib, Pat & Mike, Tom, Dick & Harry; died Mar 13, 19991912 - Teddy Wilson
jazz pianist: Carelessly, Where the Lazy River Goes By, My Melancholy Baby, Remember Me?, You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming, Honeysuckle Rose, Ain’t Misbehavin’; bandleader, arranger; died July 31, 19861913 - Howard Duff
actor: Felony Squad, Mr. Adams and Eve, Flamingo Road, Knots Landing, Dante, Dallas, East of Eden, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Naked City, Oh God!, Book 2; died July 8, 19901913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald
actress: Arthur series, Easy Money, Harry and Tonto, The Last American Hero, Ten North Frederick, The Obsessed, Watch on the Rhine, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Department Store, Our Private World; died July 17, 20051915 - Helen Cherry
actress: Anglo Saxon Attitudes, The Girl in a Swing, No Longer Alone, Decision to Burn, Flipper’s New Adventure, Three Cases of Murder; died Sep 27, 20011921 - John V. Lindsay
politician: two-term mayor of New York City [1966-1973]; died Dec 19, 20001925 - Al Cohn
jazz composer, musician: tenor sax; died Feb 5, 19881925 - William F. Buckley Jr.
writer, commentator, editor: National Review; author: God and Man at Yale; host: Firing Line; died Feb 27, 20081927 - Alfredo Kraus
opera singer: tenor: Lucia, Werther; died Sep 10, 19991929 - John Henry Johnson
Pro Football Hall of Famer [fullback]: San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Oilers; career: rushed for 6,803 yards and 48 touchdowns, 186 receptions for 1,478 yards and 7 touchdowns; died Jun 3, 20111930 - Yale Lary
Pro Football Hall of Famer [defensive back, punter]: Detroit Lions; career: 50 interceptions, returned 3 punts for touchdowns, 44.3 yard punting average, played in 9 Pro Bowls; died May 11, 20171931 - Stan Jones
Pro Football Hall of Famer [guard, tackle, defensive tackle]: Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins; career: played in 7 consecutive Pro Bowls, was the first to rely on weight-lifting to attain football readiness; died May 21, 20101933 - René Enríquez
actor: Hill Street Blues, Bulletproof, The Evil That Men Do; died Mar 23, 19901938 - Oscar Robertson
Basketball Hall of Famer: ‘The Big O’: basketball: Cincinnati Royals guard: Rookie of the Year [1960], NBA MVP [1964]; Milwaukee Bucks: NBA Championship; NBA’s 35th Anniversary Team [1980]1939 - Jim (James Thomas) Northrup
baseball: Detroit Tigers [two grand slams in one game: 6/24/68; World Series: 1968], Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos; died Jun 8, 20111939 - Jim Yester
musician: guitar, sax, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You1940 - Johnny Carver
singer: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, You Really Haven’t Changed, Afternoon Delight, Don’t Tell [That Sweet Ole Lady of Mine], Tonight Someone’s Falling in Love, Living Next Door to Alice, Your Lily White Hands, Hold Me Tight, Sweet Wine1941 - Pete (Randolph) Best
musician: drums: original Beatle pre-Ringo Starr; autobiography: Beatle!1941 - Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn
musician: bass: groups: Mar-Keys; Booker T & The MG’s: Hang ’Em High, Time is Tight; died May 13, 20121942 - Billy Connolly
actor: Boondock II: All Saints Day, The Snow Geese, Garfield 2, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Last Samurai, White Oleander1943 - Dave Bing
Basketball Hall of Famer: Detroit Pistons guard: Rookie of the Year [1966], NBA scoring leader [1968]; Washington Bullets, Boston Celtics1945 - Lee Michaels
singer: Do You Know What I Mean1947 - Dwight Schultz
actor: The A-Team, Star Trek; The Next Generation, Fat Man and Little Boy1948 - Rudy Tomjanovich
basketball: Univ. of Michigan [all-American], Houston Rockets player, head coach1948 - Steve (Stephen Wayne) Yeager
baseball: catcher: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981: shared 3-way MVP award], Seattle Mariners1949 - Henry Bibby
basketball: only man to play for championship teams in NCAA, NBA & CBA; UCLA [point guard on 3 NCAA national championship teams], NBA: NY Knicks [NBA championship team in 1973], New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Diego, CBA: Lancaster (PA) Lightning [player-coach and won a title], Savannah, Tulsa, Oklahoma City; coach: USC1950 - Bob Burns
musician: drums: group: Lynard Skynard: Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, Saturday Night Special, Swamp Music; died Apr 3, 20151950 - Stanley Livingston
actor: My Three Sons1956 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Tony Award-winning actor: Seven Guitars [1996]; films, TV: Castle, Low Winter Sun, Coming to America, Domestic Disturbance, New York Undercover, NYPD Blue, Touched by an Angel, The West Wing1957 - Denise Crosby
actress: Star Trek: The Next Generation, 48 Hrs., Curse of the Pink Panther, Pet Sematary, Red Shoe Diaries 13: Four on the Floor, Deep Impact1957 - Chris Hayes
musician: guitar: group: Huey Lewis & The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, Stuck with You1962 - John Squire
musician: guitar: group: The Stone Roses: Fool’s Gold, What the World is Waiting For, Elephant Stone, One Love1963 - Lisa Howard
actress: Bounty Hunters, Sealed With a Kiss, Replikator, The War of the Roses, Moonstruck, I’ll Take Manhattan, Easy Prey1964 - Garret Dillahunt
actor: Raising Hope, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road, Winter’s Bone, The Last House on the Left1964 - Conleth Hill
actor: Game of Thrones, Foyles War, Meaningful Sex, A Patch of Fog1964 - Brad Sherwood
actor: The Drew Carey Show, Jane White Is Sick and Twisted, Dill Scallion, Short Cinema, That Darn Cat, Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women, Whose Line Is It Anyway?1965 - Shirley Henderson
actress: Trainspotting, Bridget Jones film series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Topsy-Turvy, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Frozen, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Anna Karenina, Okja1967 - Cal Eldred
baseball [pitcher]: Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals1967 - Al Martin
baseball [left field]: USC; Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Devil Rays1968 - Dave Hansen
baseball: LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners1968 - Dawn Robinson
singer: founding member of En Vogue: Hold On, Lies, You Don’t Have to Worry, My Lovin’ [You’re Never Gonna Get It], Giving Him Something He Can Feel, Don’t Let Go [Love]1971 - Lola Glaudini
actress: Criminal Minds, The Sopranos, The Good Guys, The King of Queens, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Boomtown, Special Unit 2, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Las Vegas, Two and a Half Men, Monk, ER, Persons Unknown, Certain Prey, Person of Interest, Blue Bloods1971 - Keith Primeau
hockey [center]: Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers
1976 - Artrell Hawkins
football [cornerback]: Univ of Cincinnati; NFL: Cincinnati Bengals [1998–200], Carolina Panthers [2004], Washington Redskins [2005], New England Patriots [2005–2006], New York Jets [2008]1977 - Colin Hanks
actor: Roswell, Band of Brothers, Dexter, The Good Guys, The House Bunny, The Great Buck Howard, Lucky, NCIS; eldest son of actor Tom Hanks1978 - Gary Baxter
football [cornerback]: Baylor Univ; NFL: Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns1978 - Katherine Heigl
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Prince Valiant, Bride of Chucky, The Tempest, Roswell; more1979 - Carmelita Jeter
sprinter [specialty is 100 meters]: second fastest woman of all time, IAAF World Champion in the 100 meters; at the 2012 London Olympics, she won a gold medal in 4×100 m relay, silver in 100 meters, bronze in 200 meters1980 - Donald Strickland
football [defensive back]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers1983 - Meredith Henderson
actress: The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, MythQuest, Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, Queer as Folk, Heartstopper, Beach Girls, Stranger at the Door, Beachbound, A Wind at My Back Christmas1983 - Karine Vanasse
actress: Revenge, Pan Am, Polytechnique, Séraphin: Heart of Stone, Emporte-moi, X-Men: Days of Future Past, All the Wrong Reasons1988 - Elena Satine
actress: Revenge, Magic City, Just Go with It, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Smallville, NCIS1990 - Sarah Hyland
actress: Modern Family, Struck by Lightning, Conception, Cougars, Inc., All My Children, One Life to Live
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Hit Music on This Day November 24
1947I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
Near You (facts) - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
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