From: U17801@UICVM.BITNET (Little Inquisitor)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 21:20:53 GMT
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And I betcha I'm taller than the Little Penguin de Vito!
                                                        Renato
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                            NOVEMBER 17

     BIRTHDAYS:  Pierre Mignard, French painter, court portraitist (1612-
95);  Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Verendrye, French-
Canadian explorer, seignor, fur-trader, explorer of Manitoba, the
Dakotas, and western Minnesota (1685-1749);  Jean Antoine Nollet,
French natural philosopher (1700);  Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, French
mathematician & scientist (1717-83);  Louis XVIII, King of France after
restoration of the monarchy in 1814 (1755-1824);  Marshal Macdonald,
Duke of Tarentum, Bonapartist general (1765);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  August Ferdinand Mobius,
German astronomer, mathematician, deviser of the eponymous strip, a
3-dimensional 1-sided band with a continuous surface (1790-1868);  Joao
Carlos Saldanha, Portuguese general, statesman, premier (1790-1876);
George Grote, English classicist & historian, author of a famous History
of Greece (1794-1871);  Frederick Leypoldt, German born U.S.
publisher & bibliographer (1835);  Grace Abbot, U.S. social worker &
reformer (1878-1939);  Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount of
Alamein, British field marshall (1887-1976);  Lee Strasberg, U.S. theatre
director & acting teacher (1901-82);  Walter Hallstein, German diplomat
(1901-82);  Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-born U.S. physicist (1902);
Isamu Noguchi, U.S. sculptor (1904);  William Franklin "Billy" Graham,
U.S. Baptist minister, evangelist (1918);  Hershy Kay, U.S. composer
(1919-81);  Aristide Pereira, Cape Verdean statesman, president (1923);
Roy Fitzgerald, better known as Rock Hudson, U.S. actor (1925-91);
Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer & songwriter (1938);  Lauren
Hutton, U.S. model & actress (1943);  Danny de Vito, U.S. actor (1944);
Renato Barahona, historian of Spain (19??).

     DEATHS:  Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (2664);  Bishop John Earle
(1665);  Alain Rene le Sage (1747);  Thomas, Duke of Newcastle (1768);
Empress Catharine the Great (1796);  Queen Charlotte of England
(1818);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1637, Anne Hutchinson was
banished from Massachusetts; in 1681 Dryden's Absalom and
Achitophel was published;  in 1679-81, November 17 was celebrated in
England as Queen Elizabeth's Day, complete with processions, anti-
papist demonstrations and "pope-burnings," and commemorations of the
killing of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey.;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is the feast of St. Gregory the Wonder-
worker (Thaumaturgus), traditionally invoked in time of earthquake &
flood; it is also the feast of St. Hilda, patron of business & professional
women.  On this day in 1919 Sylvia Beach opened the bookshop &
press, Shakespeare & Co., in Paris.
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