Wednesday 19 November 2014

Today in History for 19th November 2014

Historical Events


1621 - Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel

1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)

1943 - U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1967 - The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1973 - Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair

1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space


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Famous Birthdays


1835 - Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905

1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)

1956 - Scott Jacoby, Chicago Ill, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High)

1960 - "Lovely" Elizabeth, Frankfurt Ky, WWF's 1st lady of wrestling

1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter

1979 - John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player


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Famous Deaths


1472 - Joannes/Basilius Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea, dies

1924 - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered

1942 - Edouard Combe, composer, dies at 76

1984 - George D Aiken, (Sen-R-Vt, 1941-75), dies at 92

1992 - Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91

2011 - Michael Hastings, British playwright, dies at 74


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