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ArcaMax History and Quotes for Charles Saturday November 29,
2003
Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2003
with 32 to follow.
Those born on this date
include Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1803;
author Louisa May Alcott in 1832; Chinese Empress
Dowager Tz'u Hsi in 1835; English electrical engineer
John Fleming, who devised the radio tube-diode, in 1849;
film choreographer Busby Berkeley in 1895; Irish
novelist C.S. Lewis in 1898; actress Diane Ladd and
French President Jacques Chirac, both in 1932 (age 71);
musician/composer Chuck Mangione in 1940 (age 63);
comedians Garry Shandling in 1949 (age 54) and Howie
Mandel in 1955 (age 48); filmmaker Joel Coen in 1954
(age 49); and actors Cathy Moriarty in 1960 (age 43),
Kim Delaney in 1961 (age 42) and Andrew McCarthy in 1962
(age 41).
On this date in history:
In
1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated his invention, a
hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved
metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a
Little Lamb" into the machine, which played back his
voice.
In 1890, the first Army-Navy football game
was played. The Navy Middies won, 24-0.
In 1929,
Lt. Cmdr. Richard Byrd and three crewmen became the
first people to fly over the South Pole.
In 1947,
despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations voted
for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the
independent Jewish state of Israel.
In 1963,
President Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to
investigate the assassination of President
Kennedy.
In1986, movie icon Cary Grant died of a
stroke at the age of 82.
In 1988, Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev told a landmark Supreme Soviet session
that the country's system of government needed radical
change.
In 1989, Romanian Olympic gymnastic hero
Nadia Comaneci fled to Hungary. She eventually came to
the United States.
Also in 1989, Indian Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi resigned after his Congress )
Party lost its majority in national parliamentary
elections.
In 1990, the U.N. Security Council
passed a resolution authorizing "all necessary means,"
including military force, against Iraq if it does not
withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991. It was the first
such resolution since U.N. sponsorship of the Korean War
in 1950.
In 1991, a dust storm in Coalinga,
Calif., triggered a massive pileup by more than 250
vehicles on Interstate 5, killing 15 people and injuring
more than 100.
In 1992, blacks killed four whites
and wounded 17 more in an unusual attack at a South
African golf club. The attack was thought to be the
first by blacks against white civilians since the 1990
legalization of anti-apartheid groups.
In 1994,
voters in Norway rejected a proposal to join the
European Union.
In 1996, astronomers announced
that an asteroid would pass within 3.3 million miles of
Earth -- a "near miss" in galactic terms.
In
1997, some 28,000 couples gathered in Washington, D.C.'s
RFK Stadium for a "wedding" performed by the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon of the Unification Church.
In 2001,
George Harrison, lead guitarist and spiritual anchor of
the Beatles, died of cancer. He was 58.
In 2002,
United Airlines shares lost nearly one-third of their
value as the nation's second-largest airline teetered on
the brink of bankruptcy..
A thought for the day:
Helmuth von Moltke wrote, "A war, even the most
victorious, is a national misfortune."
Copyright
2003 by United Press International. All rights
reserved.
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Classic
Quotes
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"Some people
think football is a matter of life and death. I don't
like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more
serious than that."
Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times
(UK) Oct. 4
1981
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"Football is a
mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American
life. Violence and committee meetings."
George F.
Will (1941 - )
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"Not
every age is fit for childish sports."
Titus
Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184
BC)
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"If all the year
were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as
to work."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The
First Part of King Henry the
IV'
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"Baseball is 90%
mental, the other half is physical."
Yogi Berra
(1925 - )
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