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Daily Calendar for Sunday, November 17, 2013

Died

  • Queen Mary I of England –
  • Auguste Rodin (sculptor) –
  • Roger Peckinpaugh (baseball player) –
  • Immanuel Velikovsky (author) –
  • Esther Rolle (actress) –
  • Dick O'Neill (actor) –
  • Abba Eban (statesman, dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades) –
  • Irving Brecher (comedy writer) –

Born

  • George Grote (historian) –
  • August Wilhelm Ambros (composer) –
  • Grace Abbott (American reformer) –
  • Lee Strasberg (director) –
  • Isamu Noguchi (sculptor) –
  • Stanley Cohen (biochemist) –
  • Rock Hudson (actor) –
  • Bob Mathias (decathlon athlete) –
  • Gordon Lightfoot (singer) –
  • Martin Scorsese (director) –
  • Tom Seaver (baseball player) –
  • Danny DeVito (actor) –
  • Sophie Marceau (actress) –
  • Daisy Fuentes (model & television host) –
  • Raquel Castro (actress) –

Events

  • The U.S. Congress met for the first time in the Capitol, Washington, D.C.–
  • Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer sighted Antarctica–
  • First U.S. postage stamp of American eagle issued–
  • Douglas C. Engelbart patented the computer mouse–
  • A turkey was plucked in 1 minute 30 seconds, setting world record–
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated as Governor of California–
  • The soap opera All My Children taped its 9,000th episode–
  • The world’s oldest champagne (salvaged from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea) was uncorked and sampled. Wine experts date the bottles as being from the early 19th century.–

Weather

  • Remarkable aurora borealis shows were seen throughout the United States–
  • A tornado touched down in Cass County, Indiana–

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