Today in History for November 1978

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 43 of 43

1st - NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
2nd - Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
2nd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
3rd - 1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV
3rd - Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
3rd - Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
3rd - USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
4th - Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
4th - Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
4th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
4th - 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available
5th - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
5th - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
5th - Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
6th - Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
6th - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
7th - Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
7th - CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
Playwright Tom Stoppard 8th - Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day," premieres in London
9th - NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
10th - Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
10th - Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
10th - Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
11th - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
12th - "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
12th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
13th - NASA launches HEAO
15th - 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
15th - Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
15th - Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
16th - Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
18th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19th - Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
21st - Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
26th - 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
26th - 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
26th - 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
28th - 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
28th - Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
29th - UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
29th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
30th - France performs nuclear test

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 71 of 71

1st - Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1st - Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
2nd - Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
4th - Carmen Cali, American baseball player
4th - John Grabow, American baseball player
6th - Nicole Dubuc, actress (Robin-Major Dad)
6th - Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
6th - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
6th - Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
6th - Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
6th - Taryn Manning, American actress
7th - Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
7th - Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
7th - Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (TOKIO)
8th - Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
8th - Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
8th - Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
8th - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
8th - Maurice Evans, American basketball player
9th - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
9th - Todd Self, American baseball player
9th - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
10th - Eve, American rapper
10th - Kyla Cole, Slovak adult actress
11th - Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
12th - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
12th - Alexandra Maria Lara, German Romanian actress
12th - Ashley Williams, American actress
12th - Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer ,and WWE Diva
13th - Nikolai Fraiture, American bassist (The Strokes)
14th - Xavier Nady, American baseball player
14th - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
16th - Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
16th - Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
16th - Carolina Parra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
17th - Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress
17th - Reggie Wayne, American football player
18th - Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
19th - Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
19th - Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
20th - Ryan Leslie, American singer/songwriter
20th - Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer
20th - Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
21st - Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress
21st - Sara Tanaka, American actress
22nd - Magdalena Grzybowska, Poznan Pol, tennis star (1995 Futures Slovakia)
22nd - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
23rd - Aliane Baquerot, NYC, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
23rd - Kayvan Novak, English actor
Actress Katherine Heigl (24th) 24th - Katherine Heigl, Washington, D.C., actress (Grey's Anatomy)
25th - Lauren Hewitt, Australian 100m/200m runner (Olympics-96)
25th - Laurie Miller, Miss Alaska Teen USA (1997)
25th - Ringo Shiina, Japanese musician
26th - Sarah Cahill, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1996)
26th - Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
27th - Joshua Harris, actor (Locked Up: A Mother's Rage)
27th - Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
27th - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
27th - Shy Love, adult film actress
27th - Mike Skinner, English musician
28th - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
28th - Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
28th - Freddie Mitchell, American football player
28th - Brent Albright, American professional wrestler
28th - Ryan Leslie, American producer
29th - Dimitrious Konstantopolous, Greek footballer
29th - Ludwika Paleta, Polish-born actress
29th - Alessandro Fei, Italian volleyball player
30th - Emil Steiner, American writer
30th - Clay Aiken, American singer
30th - Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

4th - "The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)
17th - Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

5th - Denis O'Dea, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 73
6th - Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
6th - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
7th - Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
7th - Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86
8th - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
9th - Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
9th - Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
10th - Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
10th - Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
12th - Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71
13th - George Hearne, South African cricketer (open bat in 3 Tests 1922-24), dies
15th - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies in NY at 76
16th - Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75
17th - Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct), dies at 75
17th - James J "Gene" Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80
18th - Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
18th - Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 member
20th - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
25th - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
27th - George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White
27th - Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor), shot by Dan White
27th - Susan Damante Shaw, actress (Wilderness Family), dies at 58
28th - Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), dies at 69
28th - Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
29th - Alan Richardson, composer, dies at 74