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On This Day
November 19Copyright 1989-2007 epicidiot.com
1969 Second and third men to walk on the Moon: U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan Bean.
1959 Edsel: The automobile is discontinued by Ford. With fewer than 100,000 sold since its 1957 introduction, it is one of the most famous examples of bureaucratic failures in U.S. industry.
1959 Rocky and His Friends debuts on ABC. His "friends" included Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale and of course Bullwinkle the Moose.
1956 Edsel: Ford announces the name of its upcoming radical new automobile.
1893 First color newspaper supplement, in the New York World.
1863 Gettysburg Address: Pres. Lincoln delivers his famous speech.
1794 First U.S. extradition treaty with a foreign country: The Jay Treaty is signed with Great Britain. It was proclaimed law in 1796.
1962 Jodie Foster (Alicia Christian Foster), American actress. Film: Taxi Driver (1976), The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane (1977), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). When she was three, she posed bare bottomed for a Coppertone suntan lotion advertisement.
1942 Calvin Richard Klein, American fashion designer.
1941 Dan Haggerty, American actor. TV: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (title role).
1938 Ted Turner (Robert Edward Turner III), American media mogul, founder of Turner Broadcasting, Cable News Network (CNN), and owner of the Atlanta Braves and Hawks.
1936 Dick Cavett, American talk show host.
1934 David Guard, American folk singer, with the Kingston Trio.
1933 Larry King, American talk-show host for CNN.
1921 d. 1993 Roy Campanella, American baseball Hall of Famer, National League MVP (1951, 1953, and 1955).
1917 d. 1984 Indira Nehru Gandhi, prime minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), she was killed by two of her own bodyguards.
1905 d. 1956 Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader of the Big Band Era, brother of Jimmy.
1902 d. 1978 Trevor Bardette, American actor. TV: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (Old Man Clanton).
1831 d. 1881 James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. President (Mar. 4 - Sept. 19, 1881), assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1752 d. 1818 George Rogers Clark, military leader of the American Revolution.
1600 d. 1649 Charles I, King of England (1625-49). He was convicted of treason by Parliament and beheaded.
1988 b. 1950 Christina Onassis, Greek shipping executive, daughter of Aristotle Onassis.
1975 b. 1912 Elizabeth Taylor, British novelist. Quote: People with no vices usually have annoying virtues. (source: Fifth 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said)
1967 b. 1884 Casimir Funk, Polish-born American chemist. He discovered vitamins (1912) and coined the word "vitamin."
1887 b. 1849 Emma Lazarus, American poet who wrote the poem that appears on the Statue of Liberty.
1850 b. 1780 Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th U.S. Vice-President (1837-41).
1828 b. 1797 Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer.
498 b. ???? Anastasius II, Italian religious leader, 50th Pope (496-498).
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