On This Day - Nov 22
Nov 22nd, 2007 by Mark
Thanksgiving day. If you live in America you have much to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving.
click continue to see who was born and what happened today
Born Today:
- French explorer of North America Rene Robert de La Salle in 1643
- English novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in 1819
- French statesman and military leader Charles de Gaulle in 1890
- Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, in 1898
- composers Hoagy Carmichael in 1899 and Benjamin Britten in 1913
- comedian Rodney Dangerfield in 1921
- actress Geraldine Page in 1924; actors Robert Vaughn in 1932 (age 75) and Tom Conti in 1941 (age 66); writer/director and Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam in 1940 (age 67);
- Guion S. Bluford, Jr., the first black U.S. astronaut in space, in 1942 (age 65)
- tennis legend Billie Jean King in 1943 (age 64
- tennis player Boris Becker in 1967 (age 40)
Tody in History:
- In 1718, Edward Teach, also known as the pirate Blackbeard, was killed off North Carolina’s Outer Banks during a battle with a British navy force.
- In 1935, a Pan American Martin 130 "flying boat" called the China Clipper began regular trans-Pacific mail service. The flight from San Francisco to Manila, Philippines, took 59 hours and 48 minutes.
- In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 46 and in the third year of his first
term, was assassinated during a motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was
charged with Kennedy’s slaying but was killed before he could go to trial. Vice
President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the nation’s 36th chief executive. - In 1977, the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde jetliner began scheduled flights
to New York from London and Paris. - In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned after 11 years in
office as England’s longest-serving leader of the 20th century.