Today in History for November 1996

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 46 of 46

2nd - "Hughie," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
3rd - "It's a Slippery Slope," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
3rd - 26th NYC Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
3rd - 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54
3rd - Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
3rd - Toray Japan Queens Cup
5th - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of
6th - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
7th - "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
7th - NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
7th - Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
11th - Braves John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award
12th - Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
13th - "Three Sisters," closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
13th - Joel Armengaud discovers 2^1398269 - 1 (35th known Mersenne prime)
13th - Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP
14th - "Chicago," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC
14th - Texas Ranger Juan Gonzalez wins AL MVP
15th - "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
Baseball Player Derek Jeter 16th - "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
16th - 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards
17th - "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
17th - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational
18th - Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
19th - "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
19th - "Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC
19th - Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
19th - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
19th - The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
19th - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
21st - "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
21st - A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
22nd - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
23rd - Irene Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 23rd - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
24th - "Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
24th - CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Edmonton, 43-37 at Hamilton
24th - Karrie Webb wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
24th - Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup
24th - Mohammad Wasim scores 109 on Test Cricket debut, Pakistan v NZ Lahore
24th - Rookie Karrie Webb wins LPGA Tour Championship
25th - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
26th - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
26th - Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
26th - Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf
26th - Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 1 of 1

9th - Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

13th - "A Room With A View" actor Daniel Day-Lewis (39) weds "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits" screenwriter Rebecca Miller (34) in Vermont
14th - King of Pop Michael Jackson (38) weds Debbie Rowe (38) in Sydney, Australia
16th - "What Part of No" country singer Lorrie Morgan (37) weds singer Jon Randall (29) in Nashville
23rd - Actor and comedian Chris Rock (31) weds founder and executive director of StyleWorks Malaak Compton
30th - Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey
30th - "All My Children" actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 83 of 83

1st - Junius Richard Jayawardene, PM of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
1st - Maati Bouabid, PM of Morroco (1979-83), dies
2nd - Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies
2nd - Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72
2nd - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
3rd - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57
3rd - Heather Swift, local councellor, dies at 79
3rd - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75
3rd - Michael Burchill, actor, dies at 65
3rd - Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
4th - Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72
5th - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
5th - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
5th - Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72
5th - Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81
6th - Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53
6th - Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
6th - Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
7th - Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84
7th - Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57
7th - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81
7th - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
8th - Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
8th - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
9th - Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
9th - Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
10th - Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
10th - Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
10th - Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
11th - Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47
12th - Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72
12th - Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
12th - John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51
13th - Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist, dies at 86
13th - William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician, dies at 80
13th - Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)
14th - Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, lloyd's underwriter, dies at 77
14th - Joseph Bernardin, cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, dies at 68
14th - Liz Knights, publisher, dies at 41
14th - Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst, dies at 96
14th - Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights), dies at 88
15th - Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
16th - George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73
16th - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87
16th - John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88
17th - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45
17th - Johan Fleming Ramsland, broadcaster, dies at 54
18th - David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
18th - John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
19th - Denis Jenkinson, journalist, dies at 74
19th - Edward Kassner, music publisher, dies at 76
19th - Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73
19th - Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat, dies at 90
20th - Bert Geoffrey Achong, electron microscopist, dies at 67
21st - Bernard William George Rose, organist, dies at 80
21st - Edward George Edwards, chenist, dies at 82
21st - Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8), dies at 92
22nd - Maria Casares, actress (Orpheus, Rebel Nun), dies at 73
22nd - Mark Lenard, actor (Sarek-Star Trek), dies of cancer at 68
22nd - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60
23rd - Art Porter, saxophonist, dies at 35
23rd - George Nicholas, cartoon animator, dies at 85
23rd - Mohamed Amin, cameraman, dies at 53
23rd - Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84
23rd - Sayed Idries Shah, thinker, dies at 72
24th - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67
24th - Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist, dies at 76
24th - Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85
25th - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79
25th - Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86
25th - Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser, dies at 87
26th - Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
26th - Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
26th - Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
26th - Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
26th - Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82
27th - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
28th - Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano, dies at 84
29th - Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
30th - Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
30th - Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89
30th - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
30th - Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies at 71