November 28
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1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.1895 - The first automobile race in America began, as six cars traveled from Jackson Park in Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois. J. Frank Duryea was the winner, traveling at a blazing speed of 7 and 1/2 miles per hour! It took him 7 hrs. 53 minutes to make the trek (bathroom stops not included). He won $2,000 for the effort.
1922 - The first skywriting display happened on this day. The words “Hello USA” were written in the sky over New York City. It was a short time later that the invention of Captain Cyril Turner was applied for commercial use.
1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time. Using his fast-paced, ingenious patter, he invented a new form of comedy that delighted audiences from coast to coast.
1942 - Coffee rationing began in the United States, lasting through the end of World War II.
1942 - A tragic fire at the famed Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, MA killed nearly 500 people, including popular western actor Charles ‘Buck’ Jones. It is believed that the fire started in a corner of one of the lounges when a customer unscrewed a light bulbs to provide some privacy for himself and his date. The bartender ordered a busboy to replace the bulb, but the lounge was so dark that the busboy lit a match to find the socket. A short time later, flames appeared and spread to a nearby tinsel palm tree. When the ceiling (festooned in billows of blue satin fabric) exploded into flames, the entire crowd stampeded. The Cocoanut Grove fire prompted major efforts in fire prevention and control for U.S. nightclubs and other related places of assembly.
1944 - The MGM musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien, opened in New York City.
1945 - Dwight Filley Davis died at the age of 66. Davis was a sportsman, tennis player, presidential aide, secretary of war (under Calvin Coolidge), and donated the tennis Davis Cup in 1945.
1947 - Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), died. He was 44 years old.
1948 - The Polaroid Land Camera first went on sale at a Boston department store. The 40 series, model 95, roll film camera went on sale for $89.75.
1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers when a strike of photoengravers shut down publication. The good news: Sales increased for magazines and paperback books. The bad news: Have you ever tried lining a bird cage with paperback books?
1956 - Holding the #1 spot on the music charts: Guy Mitchell singing Singing the Blues. The song remained at the top of the Hit Parade for 10 weeks. Here’s a bit of trivia: Ray Conniff whistled the intro to Singing the Blues.
1958 - The U.S. reported the first full-range firing of an I.C.B.M. (intercontinental ballistic missile). The missle was launched from launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced in a televised address that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in memory of President John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated six days earlier. President Johnson said the name change had been sanctioned by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. Johnson also ordered the space facility to be renamed John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA. On May 18, 1973 Florida Governor Rueben Askew signed a Florida statute requiring that Cape Kennedy be renamed Cape Canaveral. The name John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA was not changed.
1966 - “Oh-bo-de-o-do...” The New Vaudeville Band received a gold record for Winchester Cathedral this day.
1967 - The first pulsar was detected -- by graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and professor Antony Hewish at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England. A puls(ating st)ar is believed to be a rapidly rotating neutron star that emit pulses of radiation, especially radio waves, with a high degree of regularity.
1968 - John and Yoko appeared at the Marylebone Magistrates’ Court. John pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis resin and was fined 150 pounds plus court costs.
1970 - From our Now Here’s Some Real Trivia dept.: Montego Bay by Bobby Bloom peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1973 - The Arab League summit in Algiers recognized Palestine on this day.
1974 - John Lennon appeared in concert for the last time -- at NYC’s Madison Square Garden. Lennon joined Elton John to sing Whatever Gets You Through the Night as well as I Saw Her Standing There.
1975 - U.S. President Gerald Ford nominated Federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.
1976 - Stage and motion picture actress Rosalind Russell died. She was 69 years old.
1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10-30 on a sightseeing flight to the South Pole crashed into the slopes of Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
1981 - Alabama football coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant won his 315th victory to become college football’s all-time career victory leader. Bryant surpassed Amos Alonzo Stagg with the win. (This record was broken four years later, in October 1985, by Grambling head coach Eddie Robinson.)
1984 - Leaving Chicago behind, Phil Donahue headed to New York for his daily talk show that reached an estimated 7 million people each day. To that time, Phil and actress-wife Marlo Thomas had commuted for four years to be together in matrimony.
1986 - NBC’s Ahmad Rashad heard the acceptance of his marriage proposal from Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of the Detroit Lions-New York Jets football game.
1987 - A South African Airways Boeing 747 went down south of Mauritius in rough seas. 159 people were killed.
1988 - Picasso’s Acrobat and Young Harlequin brought £21 million at Christie’s in London. The painting was one of many that Adolf Hitler had sold in 1939 to ‘cleanse’ Germany of the disturbing images created by painters such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland by way of Hungary.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, who conferred the premiership on John Major.
1992 - Whitney Houston’s single, I Will Always Love You, began an incredible fourteen-week run at the top of the U.S. singles chart. The song, from the soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard, was #1 through Feb 27, 1993.
1993 - Game-show host Garry Moore died on Hilton Head Island, SC. He was 78 years old. Moore hosted The Garry Moore Show, I’ve Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, and many others.
1994 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was clubbed to death in the Columbia Correctional Institute by a fellow inmate. Dahmer was serving several life terms for the killing of 17 young men and boys over a 13-year rampage of necrophilia and dismemberment in the 1980s.
1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the $6-billion National Highway System Designation Act of 1995. The road bill ended the federal 55 mph speed limit. The law also repealed penalties for states that did not have motorcycle helmet laws.
1996 - The U.S. space shuttle Columbia had a screw loose. A stuck hatch (later blamed on that loose screw) prevented astronauts Tammy Jernigan and Tom Jones from taking a spacewalk. “I'm pushing as hard as I can,” Jones said. “It just doesn't seem to want to move,” Jernigan agreed.
1998 - Lately, by Divine, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. The song, went on to sell over a million copies.
2000 - Former Texas Congressman Henry B. González, who had served 37 years on Capitol Hill, died in San Antonio at the age of 84.
2001 - Enron Corporation, once the world’s largest energy trader, began to collapse after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion merger deal. Major credit rating agencies downgraded Enron’s bonds to ‘junk’ status.
2002 - Three suicide bombers attacked an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, killing themselves and thirtenn others. And two missiles were fired at, but missed, an Israeli airliner taking off from the Mombasa airport.
2003 - Ohio authorities said they had linked the Nov 25 death of Gail Knisley to at least one of ten other reports of shots fired at vehicles along I-270.
2004 - A private jet crashed while taking off from Montrose, CO. NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol escaped with his son, Charles. Another son, Edward (14), was killed in the crash, along with two crewmen.
2005 - An explosion in a coal mine in the Chinese central province of Shaanxi killed 88 miners and left 36 trapped underground.
2006 - Canada’s Parliament formally recognized the French-speaking people of Quebec as a nation within Canada. It was a largely symbolic motion that required no constitutional amendment or change of law.
2006 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that the government discriminates against blind people by printing money in bills that all feel the same. Judge James Robertson also ordered the U.S. Treasury Department to fix the problem.
2007 - The Oakland, CA city auditor reported that employees had been allowed to cash out unused vacation time and had received millions of dollars in perks, much of it not subject to scrutiny.
2008 - 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, a Long Island Wal-Mart worker, was killed as a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at Valley Stream Wal-Mart and knocked him down. (In 2009 Wal-Mart agreed to pay nearly $2 million and improve safety at its 92 New York stores as part of a deal with prosecutors that avoided criminal charges in the trampling death.)
2009 - Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit, increasing its ability to independently gather intelligence. Cabinet Office official Hisashi Michigami said, “The satellite will gather intelligence for defense and diplomatic purposes. We hope to upgrade our ability to gather intelligence on our own. Intelligence gathering is vital to our national security.”
2010 - 250,000+ classified U.S. State Department documents were released by online-whistleblower WikiLeaks. Among the leaked memos was information that Iranian Red Crescent ambulances were used to smuggle weapons to Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group during its 2006 war with Israel. Documents also detailed concerns by US officials in Baghdad about Iran’s influence on Iraq. Memos also said King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had repeatedly urged the U.S. to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear program and stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. And one cable revealed that the U.S. had kept nuclear weapons in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.
2010 - Canadian comic actor Leslie Nielsen died in Florida at 84 years of age of complications from pneumonia. Nielsen was the star of a string of madcap spoof movies including Airplane!, The Naked Gun film series, Spy Hard, Police Squad! TV series, Mr. Magoo (1997) and Wrongfully Accused.
2011 - 46-year-old Ginger White of Georgia said that she and Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain had been in a 13-year extramarital affair.
2011 - The U.S. shut down 150 Web sites accused of selling knock-off or pirated merchandise to unsuspecting online bargain hunters. The government seized the domain names for the sites that sold everything from fake replica NBA jerseys to replica Louis Vuitton handbags and imitation Ugg boots.
2012 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned BP Plc from being included in any new federal contracts because of its “lack of business integrity” after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In August 2013 BP sued to get the banned lifted, saying the ban unfairly included 21 of its subsidiaries that were not linked to fatal blast and spill in 2010.
2013 - Kenya launched construction of a Chinese-funded $13.8 billion (€10 billion) railway project, hoping to dramatically increase trade and boost the country’s position as a regional economic powerhouse.
2014 - New movies in the U.S. included: the horror thriller, The Babadook, with Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall and Noah Wiseman; Before I Disappear, with Emmy Rossum, Ron Perlman and Paul Wesley; and The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode.
2014 - British police complained because stores had brought U.S.-like Black Friday sales to Britain, with the event(s) descending into chaotic fist fights as frenzied consumers battled to grab discounted goods.
2014 - Pope Francis arrived in Turkey and encouraged Muslim leaders to take a stronger stand against extremists who were twisting their religion to justify terrorism. The Pontif condemned the Islamic State group’s assault on Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria.
2015 - China’s state news reported that police had busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets. Gun possession is illegal in China.
2016 - Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali-born Ohio State University student, plowed his car into a group of pedestrians in Columbus and then got out and stabbed 11 people with a butcher knife. Campus officer Alan Horujko shot and killed Artan.
2016 - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the U.S. and Havana in more than half a century arrived Monday morning at Cuba’s Jose Marti International Airport. The American Airlines jet with 145 passengers arrived just three days after the death of Fidel Castro.
2017 - 22-year-old Karim Baratov of Canada pleaded guilty in San Francisco to charges stemming from a massive security breach at Yahoo. Officials said Baratov was a ‘hacker-for-hire’ paid by members of the Russian Federal Security Service. Baratov was later sentenced to five years in prison and fined $250,000.
2017 - Airbus, Siemens and Rolls-Royce said they were teaming up to develop a hybrid passenger plane that would use a single electric turbofan along with three conventional jet engines running on aviation fuel. The hybrid jet would generate electric power through a turbine within the plane. That power would be used to turn the fan blades of the single electric turbofan engine.
2018 - The U.S. Justice Dept. charged Iranian hackers Faramarz Shahi Savandi (34) and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri (27) with a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme with ransomware attack that they started in January 2016.
2018 - And speaking of dastardly acts, U.S. authorities said five inmates in the Carolinas had been indicted for extorting more than half a million dollars from military personnel across the country, using illegal cell phones to pose as underage women on dating sites. Inmates used contraband phones to join dating websites, contacting and exchanging nude images with service members across the country.
2019 - Italian police said they had uncovered a plot to form a new Nazi party and had seized a cache of weapons during searches across the country.
2019 - 36-year-old U.S. programmer Virgil Griffith, known for being the creator of WikiScanner, a Wikipedia article tracker, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport. He faced 20 years in prison if convicted of flouting U.S. law to give North Korea advice on evading American sanctions by using cryptocurrency. At the time of his arrest, Griffith was a resident of Singapore. (In 2021 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. law relating to money laundering using cryptocurrency and sanctions related to North Korea.)
2020 - Thousands of critics of a proposed security law gathered across France in protest. A provision of the law would restrict sharing images of police officers in the country. Officers in Paris (who had been advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations) fired tear gas to disperse rowdy protesters in the largely peaceful crowd. The pending legislation was strongly criticised by journalists and rights groups who argued that it would curtail press freedom and lead to less police accountability. (In May 2021 France’s constitutional council rejected the controversial provision.)
2020 - The British government appointed Conservative Nadhim Zahawi as vaccines minister as it prepared to inoculate millions of people against the COVID-19 coronavirus.
2021 - Israel’s government approved the immigration of three thousand Jews from war-torn Ethiopia. Some of the immigrants had waited for decades to join their relatives in Israel.
2021 - Morocco suspended all incoming air travel for two weeks because of the rapid spread of the new omicron COVID 19 variant.
2022 - The 2022 Cocaine “super-cartel” that controlled one-third of European trade was broken up in Operation Desert Light by Europol. 49 people were arrested -- with 30 tons of the drug seized.
2022 - Merriam-Webster selected ‘gaslighting’ as the 2022 Word of the Year. Defined as “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage,” made the top of the list because of its importance in the current ‘age of misinformation,’ which is full of “fake news, conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deep fakes.” Other top words included oligarch, omicron, codify, LGBTQIA, sentient, raid, and queen consort.
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Birthdays on This Day November 28
1628 - John Bunyan
author: A Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War; died Aug 31, 16881632 - Jean Baptiste Lully
musician, opera composer: Cadmus and Hermione, Amadis de Gaule, Roland, Armide et Renaud; died Mar 22, 16871757 - William Blake
poet: Songs of Innocence; artist: engraved his own poems and drawings on copper plates; died Aug 12, 18271866 - Henry Bacon
architect, designer of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC; died Feb 16, 19241895 - José Iturbi
musician, pianist, conductor: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; died June 28, 19801906 - Henry Picard
World Golf Hall of Famer: 26 PGA wins, including Masters [1938] and PGA Championship [1939]; died Apr 30, 19971907 - Charles Alston
artist: The Family, Black Man, Black Woman, Walking; died Apr 27, 19771910 - Russell Napier
actor: The Time Machine [1949 BBC teleplay], The Black Windmill, Twisted Nerve, It!, H.M.S. Defiant, The Never Never Murder, The Last Train, The Witness; died Aug 19, 19741915 - Dick Vance
musician: trumpet; died Jan 1, 19851922 - Wes Westrum
baseball: San Francisco Giants catcher [all-star: 1952, 1953]; NY Mets, SF Giants manager; died May 28, 20021923 - Gloria Grahame (Hallward)
Academy Award-winning actress: The Bad and the Beautiful [1952]; Oklahoma!, It’s a Wonderful Life, Not as a Stranger, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book I; died Oct 5, 19811923 - James Karen
actor: Broadway: A Streecar Named Desire; TV: As the World Turns; films: A House on a Hill, Mulholland Dr., Thirteen Days, Any Given Sunday, Apt Pupil, Behind Enemy Lines, Joyride, Up Close & Personal; died Oct 23, 20181929 - Berry Gordy Jr.
songwriter, record producer, founder: Motown Records1932 - Ethel Ennis
singer: w/Benny Goodman Orchestra; died Feb 17, 20191933 - Hope Lange
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir [1968-1969, 1969-1970]; Bus Stop, Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Wild in the Country, Pocketful of Miracles, That Certain Summer; died Dec 19, 20031936 - Gary Hart (Gary Warren Hartpence)
U.S. Senator from Colorado; U.S. presidential candidate [1984]1938 - Michael Ritchie
director: The Scout, Cops and Robbersons, Fletch, Semi-Tough, The Bad News Bears, The Candidate; died Apr 16, 20011939 - Gary Troxel
singer: group: The Fleetwoods: Mr. Blue, Come Softly to Me1940 - Bruce Channel
singer: Hey! Baby, Going Back to Louisiana, Keep On1941 - Norm Beaudin
hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Minnesota North Stars1942 - Paul Warfield
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Miami Dolphins wide receiver: Super Bowl: VI, VII, VIII; Cleveland Browns1943 - R.B. Greaves
singer: Take a Letter Maria; singer Sam Cooke’s nephew; died Sep 27, 20121943 - Randy (Randall Stuart) Newman
composer: scores for Toy Story, Avalon, Parenthood, The Natural, Ragtime, Monk TV series (It’s a Jungle Out There); singer, songwriter: Short People, theme from The Marshall Chronicles: Fallin’ in Love, theme from Cop Rock: Under the Gun; songwriter: Love Story, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Sail Away; more1944 - Rita Mae Brown
poet, author: Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, Sudden Death, High Hearts1946 - Joe Dante
film director: Gremlins, The Howling Piranha, Explorers, Innerspace, The ’Burbs, Matinee, Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Second Civil War, Masters of Horror (Homecoming), Amazing Stories, Hawaii Five-O1946 - Susan Spencer
news correspondent: CBS, 48 Hours1948 - Beeb Birtles
musician: guitar: group: The Little River Band: It’s a Long Way There, Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me1948 - Vern Den Herder
football: Miami Dolphins defensive end: Super Bowl: VI, VII, VIII, XVII1949 - Alexander Godunov (Boris Alexandrovich Godunov)
ballet dancer; actor: Die Hard, The Money Pit, Witness; died May 18, 19951949 - Paul Shaffer
band leader: Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with David Letterman; comedian: A Year at the Top, Saturday Night Live1950 - Ed Harris
actor: Westworld, Riders of the Purple Sage, Nixon, Apollo 13, The Firm, Glengarry Glen Ross, China Moon, Places in the Heart, The Right Stuff, Knightriders1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson
actress: Law & Order, Drop Dead Diva, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, Black Snake Moan, A Mother’s Prayer, Terminator 2: Judgment Day1959 - Judd Nelson
actor: Blindfold: Acts of Obsession, Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes, St. Elmo’s Fire, The Breakfast Club1961 - Alfonso Cuarón
Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer: Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, A Little Princess1962 - Matt Cameron
musician: drums: groups: Soundgarden: LPs: Ultramega OK, Louder Than Love, Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, and Down on the Upside; Pearl Jam: LPs: Binaural, Riot Act, Pearl Jam, Live on Two Legs1962 - Jon Stewart
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; The Problem with Jon Stewart, The Larry Sanders Show, The Jon Stewart Show, Elmopalooza!, Death to Smoochy; host: 43rd Annual Grammy Awards [2001], 44th Annual Grammy Awards [2002], 78th Annual Academy Awards [2006]1963 - Johnny Newman
basketball [forward]: NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, Charlotte Hornets, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks1963 - Walter Weiss
baseball [shosrtstop]: Univ of North Carolina; Oakland Athletics, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Atlanta Braves1964 - John Burkett
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox1964 - Roy Tarpley
basketball: Dallas Mavericks; died Jan 9, 20151965 - Matt Williams
baseball [shortstop, third base]: Nevada-Las Vegas; San Francisco Giants [1987–1996], Cleveland Indians [1997], Arizona Diamondbacks [1998–2003]: 2001 World Series champs; coach: Arizona Diamondbacks [2010–2013]1967 - Anna Nicole Smith
model: Playboy Playmate [May 1992], Playmate of the Year [1993]; actress: The Hudsucker Proxy, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult; died Feb 8, 20071969 - Pedro Astacio
baseball [pitcher]: LA Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres1969 - Dale Carter
football [cornerback]: Univ of Tennessee; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens1970 - Todd Perry
football [guard]: Univ of Kentucky; NFL: Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins1974 - Jason Ferguson
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Georgia; NFL: New York Jets [1997–2004], Dallas Cowboys [2005–2007], Miami Dolphins [2008–2009])1975 - Sunny Mabrey
actress: Once Upon a Time, Memphis Beat, The New Guy, XXX: State of the Union, Species III1976 - Ryan Kwanten
actor: True Blood, Home and Away, The Knights of Badassdom, Don’t Fade Away, American Brown1978 - Aimee Garcia
actress: Lucifer, George Lopez, Dexter, Greetings from Tucson, All About the Andersons, Major Movie Star, Spanglish, Trauma, Hawaii Five-01979 - Daniel Henney
actor: Three Rivers, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, My Name is Kim Sam Soon, Family Outing, Hawaii Five-0, My Lovely Sam Soon1982 - Leandro Barbosa
‘The Brazilian Blur’: basketball [guard]: NBA: Phoenix Suns [2003–2010]; Toronto Raptors [2010–2012]; Indiana Pacers [2012]; Boston Celtics [2012–2013]; Phoenix Suns [2014]; Golden State Warriors [2014–2016]: 2015 NBA champs; Phoenix Suns [2016–2017]1984 - Andrew Bogut
basketball [center]: NBA: Milwaukee Bucks [2005–2012]; Golden State Warriors [2012–2015]: 2015 NBA champions; Cleveland Cavaliers [2016]; Los Angeles Lakers [2017-2018]1984 - Marc André Fleury
hockey [goaltender]: NHL Pittsburgh Penguins [2003-2017]: 2009, 2016, 2017 Stanley Cup champs; Vegas Golden Knights [2017–2018]1984 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
actress: Live Free or Die Hard, Bobby, Final Destination 3, Monster Island, The Long Road Home, Wolf Lake, Black Christmas1987 - Karen Gillan
actress: Doctor Who, Doctor Who Prom, Doctor Who Confidential, Not Another Happy Ending, New Town Killers, We’ll Take Manhattan1988 - Scarlett Pomers
actress: Star Trek: Voyager, Reba, A Ring of Endless Light, Geppetto, Erin Brockovich, Happy, Texas, Slappy and the Stinkers, The Baby-Sitters Club1992 - Adam Hicks
actor: Zeke and Luther, Lemonade Mouth, Jonas L.A., Pair of Kings, The 12 Dogs of Christmas
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Hit Music on This Day November 28
1951Sin (It’s No) (facts) - Eddy Howard
Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
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