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Daily Calendar for Monday, November 15, 2021

Died

  • Johannes Kepler (astronomer) –
  • Lionel Barrymore (actor) –
  • Margaret Mead (author) –

Born

  • Sir William Herschel (astronomer) –
  • James O'Neill (actor) –
  • Franklin Pierce Adams (newspaper columnist) –
  • Felix Frankfurter (U.S. Supreme Court justice) –
  • Georgia O'Keeffe (painter) –
  • Marianne Moore (poet) –
  • Joseph Wapner (judge & TV personality) –
  • Ed Asner (actor) –
  • Petula Clark (singer) –
  • Sam Waterston (actor) –
  • Kevin Eubanks (musician & The Tonight Show bandleader) –
  • Helen Mersi Kelesi (tennis player) –
  • Jonny Lee Miller (actor) –
  • Zena Grey (actress) –

Events

  • Pikes Peak first sighted by Zebulon M. Pike–
  • First U.S. poultry show began, Boston, Massachusetts–
  • First meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations–
  • Sadie Hawkins Day debuted in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip–
  • First gas-turbine electric locomotive in the United States was track-tested, Erie, Pennsylvania–
  • Elvis Presley’s first movie, Love Me Tender, premiered–
  • Walt Disney announced plans to build Epcot Center –
  • A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck Japan–

Weather

  • Forty-five inches of snow fell on Watertown, New York, in 24 hours–
  • Thirty-five tornadoes ripped through the Midwest–

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