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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances 5 Recorded this day

Events

• 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, following General George McClellan's removal.
• 1872 - Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
• 1875 - Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C, Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year).
• 1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
• 1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the United States made an official trip outside of the United States).
• 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands as a result of the German Revolution.
• 1918 - Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.
• 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch fails: In Munich, policeman and troops crush the first Nazi Party attempt to seize control of the German government.
• 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured.
• 1938 - Holocaust: Kristallnacht (also Reichspogromnacht) begins - In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).
• 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
• 1963 - 1963 Miike coal-mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.
• 1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: In New York City, 22-year old Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the war in Vietnam (this was the second such incident in a week; on November 2 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing in front of The Pentagon).
• 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
• 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down).
• 1998 - In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ.
• 2002 - In Los Angeles, California, television and film actor Merlin Santana is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car parked on the 3800 block of Victoria Avenue.
• 2003 - A total lunar eclipse is seen in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia.
• 2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has killed 17 people, during the holy month of Ramadan. This attack comes amid tensions within the kingdom with a surge of Islamic extremism militancy. It has been attributed to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror organisation.

• 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (d. 1586)
• 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
• 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (d. 1883)
• 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
• 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
• 1853 - Stanford White, architect
• 1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (d. 1934)
• 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician
• 1877 - Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet (d. 1938)
• 1879 - Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
• 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (d. 1960)
• 1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (d. 1942)
• 1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (d. 1955)
• 1885 - Velimir Chlebnikov, writer (d. 1922)
• 1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (d. 1966)
• 1889 - Jean Monnet, internationalist (d. 1979)
• 1889 - Claude Rains, actor (d. 1967)
• 1892 - Mabel Normand, silent film actress (d. 1930)
• 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)
• 1915 - Sargent Shriver, former candidate for Vice President of the United States, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy
• 1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
• 1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (d. 1965)
• 1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (d. 1974)
• 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
• 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (d. 1996)
• 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
• 1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
• 1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician (d. "Creedence Clearwater Revival")
• 1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
• 1978 - Sisqo, rap music singer

• 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
• 1911 - Howard Pyle, author
• 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer
• 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress
• 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
• 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel
• 1953 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
• 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
• 1988 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal.
• 1991 - Yves Montand, actor
• 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
• 2002 - Heinrich Schiemann, TV anchor
• 2003 - Art Carney, American actor

• 1897 "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) J. W. Myers
• 1900 "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani) cornet Herbert L. Clarke
• 1901 "I'm Tired" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) S. H. Dudley
• 1901 "Baby Mine" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Leo Friedman) S. H. Dudley
• 1901 "Tact" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) S. H. Dudley
• 1904 "Just For The Sake Of Society" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Kerry Mills) James McCool
• 1905 "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" (w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt) Billy Murray
• 1905 "Good-bye Flo" (w.m. George M. Cohan) Billy Murray & Haydn Quartette
• 1906 "He's A Cousin Of Mine" (w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein) Clarice Vance
• 1906 "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" (w.m. Harry Hoyt) Clarice Vance
• 1906 "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" (w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard) Helen Trix
• 1927 "Forgive Me" (w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager) Grace Quine
• 1927 "Maggie McGee" (Rule, Wallis) Grace Quine
• 1932 "I Could Make A Good Living At That" (Cottrell, Lawton) George Formby
• 1932 "Let’s All Go To Reno" (Cottrell) George Formby
• 1932 "How Deep Is The Ocean?" (w.m. Irving Berlin) Elsie Carlisle Chenil Dance Orchestra
• 1932 "I've Got The World On A String" (w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen) Cab Calloway & his Orchestra
• 1933 "This Is Romance" (w. Edward Heyman m. Duke Vernon) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "And So Goodbye" (w.m. Allie Wrubel) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "Hand In Hand" (Pola-Vienna) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "Sing, Gipsy, Sing" (Winn, Marlen) Anona Winn
• 1934 "June In January" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "Love Is Just Around The Corner" (w. Leo Robin m. Lewis E. Gensler) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "With Every Breath I Take" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "Maybe I'm Wrong Again" (Bennett, Trent) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1938 "You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)" (w.m. Gene Autry) Dick Todd & Three Reasons Leonard Joy
• 1938 "Buck Dance Rhythm" (Gaillard) Slim And Slam
• 1938 "Boogie Woogie" (m. Clarence "Pine Top" Smith) Count Basie
• 1939 "Do I Love You?" (w.m. Cole Porter) Helen Forrest Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Blacking Out The Flat" (Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch) Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch
• 1940 "The Golden Wedding" (m. Gabriel-Marie) Woody Herman & his Orchestra
• 1943 "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" (w. Frank Loesser m. Arthur Schwartz) Hildegarde
• 1943 "I'll Be Seeing You" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain) Hildegarde
• 1944 "It Could Happen To You" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Love, Here Is My Heart" (w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Some Other Time" (w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Leonard Bernstein) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1945 "Over The Rainbow" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Walking My Baby Back Home" (w.m. Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Yesterdays" (w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Georgia On My Mind" (w. Stuart Gorrell m. Hoagy Carmichael) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1946 "It's The Same Old Dream" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Artie Shaw
• 1946 "I Believe" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Art Shaw
• 1946 "When You're Around" (Artie Shaw, Johnny Lehman) Lillian Lane Art Shaw & his Orchestra
• 1946 "Who?" (w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern) Judy Garland O/Lennie Hayton
• 1947 "Body And Soul" (w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. John W. Green) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
• 1947 "I'm Glad There Is You" (w. Paul Medeira m. Jimmy Dorsey) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
• 1948 "More Beer!" (Julian H. Miller) Ames Brothers
• 1948 "You, You, You Are The One" (w. Milton Leeds & Fred Wise m. Tetos Demey) Ames Brothers
• 1949 "It Isn't Fair" (w. Richard Himber m. Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato) Don Cornell Sammy Kaye & his "Swing & Sway" Orchestra
• 1951 "It Had To Be You" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "Makin' Whoopee" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day & Danny Thomas O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "My Buddy" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1954 "It Must Be So" (w.m. Peggy Lee) Peggy Lee O/Sy Oliver
• 1955 "Jamaica Farewell" (w.m. Lord Burgess) Harry Belafonte
• 1963 "I Believe" (w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman) Bachelors
• 1987 "Children Will Listen" (w.m. Stephen Sondheim) Bernadette Peters O/Paul Gemignani

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