From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on November 5:
Date: 5 Nov 1992 15:27:08 GMT
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    Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but
    incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an
    organization.
                    Jon Bentley


 Birthdates Which Occur on November 5: 
1971  21 Corin (Corky) Nemec Little Rock, actor (Tucker, My Name Is Steven)
1963  29 Andrea McArdle Phila., actress (Annie); sun will come out tomorrow
   and   Tatum O'Neal [Mrs. John MacEnroe] LA (Paper Moon, Little Darlings)
1959  33 Rob Fisher rocker (Climie Fisher - Love Changes)
1952  40 Bill Walton Calif., NBA star (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1947  45 Oleg Antropov USSR, volleyball player (Olympic gold 1968)
   and   Peter Noone rock vocalist (Herman's Hermits)
1946  46 Gram Parsons  rock guitarist, vocalist (Byrds)
   and   Patricia K. Kuhl speech & hearing scientist, infancy researcher
1943  49 Sam Shepard Ill., actor, playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1942  50 Elke Sommer Berlin, actress (Oscar, 10 Little Indians)
1941  51 Art Garfunkel  Forest Hills, NY, singer (Bridge over Troubled Waters)
   and   Patricia Hardy actress (Occasional Wife)
1935  57 Lester Piggott British jockey
1931  61 Ike Turner a.k.a. Mr. Tina Turner, singer (A Fool in Love)
1924  68 John G. Davies  British astronomer, pioneer in radio astronomy
1915  77 Moe Biller NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1913  79 Vivien Leigh actress (Gone with the Wind)
1911  81 Roy Rogers cowboy (Happy Trails to You, Roy & Trigger)
1905  87 Joel McCrea actor (Barbary Coast)
1894  98 Eugen Zador  Bataszik, Hungary, US composer (Diana)
1892 100 J.B.S. Haldane  Oxford, biologist, writer (Heredity & Politics)
1891 101 Earle (Greasy) Neale NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1887 105 Paul Wittgenstein  Wien (Vienna), pianist, left-hand specialist
1885 107 Will Durant writer, historian (The Story of Civilization)
1884 108 James Elroy Flecker English poet, dramatist (Hassan)
1876 116 Raymond Duchamp-Villon Cubist sculptor (Head of Baudelaire)
1867 125 Elton (Icebox) Chamberlin  Buffalo, NY, baseball pitcher (157 wins)
1857 135 Ida Tarbell muckraker; Standard Oil was VERY unhappy
1855 137 Eugene V. Debs labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1849 143 Rui Barbosa Brazilian statesman, jurist, essayist, civil libertarian
1778 214 Giovanni Battista Belzoni  Padua, Egyptologist, archaeologist
1494 498 Hans Sachs German poet, song composer, dramatist
1271 721 Mahmud Ghazan  Mongol il-khan of Iran; made Islam the state religion

 Deaths Which Occured November 5: 
1938  54 Wm. P. Lane last survivor of 1st college football game, dies at 87

 Holidays Which Occur November 5: 
         Thanksgiving Day (Liberia)

 Religious Observances on November 5: 
   705   Commemoration of St. Bertilla, virgin (RC)

 Things to Remember for November 5:
         Flower - Chrysanthemum                Gem - Topaz
 16 Days Astrological sign:  Scorpio
 11 Days Taurid meteor shower (derived from Comet Enke)
         Nonf Nov. in the Roman calendar

 Highlights in History Which Occur November 5: 
1989   3 Vikings beat Rams 23-21 by a safety in OT without scoring a TD
         Minnesota's Rich Karlis ties NFL record with 7 FGs (in 7 attempts)
1988   4 Japan beats major-league baseball all-stars 2-1 in Tokyo (game 1 of 7)
1987   5 South Africa frees Govan Mbeki, 77-year-old former ANC leader
   and   Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1984   8 Hundreds of thousands of blacks strike in South Africa
1982  10 1.55-m earthworm (not a record) found, Herne Bay, Kent, England
   and   Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
1977  15 Marc Wilson of BYU sets NCAA passing record of 571 yards
1974  18 Ella Grasso (D-Conn.) elected 1st US woman governor not preceded by
         her husband
1973  19 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1967  25 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full earth disk
1966  26 Tennis player Taylor (UK) beats Gasiorek (Poland) 27-29, 31-29, 6-4
1964  28 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1957  35 Mrs. Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2=" soccer pool ticket
1956  36 Israeli forces open Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping
   and   Britain & France invade Egypt at Port Said
1955  37 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1953  39 Paul Searls saws through a log 32" in girth in 86.4 seconds, Seattle
1949  43 Wyoming scores 103 points in college football vs. Northern Colorado
1946  46 John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) elected to House of Representatives
   and   Celtic Chuck Conners (The Rifleman) shatters a backboard in NBA game
1938  54 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1928  64 Golfer Walter Hagen wins PGA tournament 4th year in a row
1927  65 Walter Hagen wins his 4th straight PGA championship
1916  76 Sheriff's deputies fire on Wobblies, kill 5, Everett, Wash.
1914  78 Britain annexes Cyprus
1911  81 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, completing 1st transcontinental
         airplane flight (many stops)
1895  97 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B. Selden
1886 106 1st English edition of "Capital" by Marx & Engels is published
1872 120 Susan B. Anthony arrested for trying to vote for president ($100 fine)
1867 125 Wisconsin voters defeat negro & women's suffrage
1838 154 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1781 211 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the United States in Congress
         assembled" (8 years before Washington)
1716 276 Land purchased for 1st American theater, Williamsburg, Va.
1688 304 William of Orange & Protestant army land in England
1685 307 Jewish Congregation Beracha VeShalom of Surinam dedicated
1639 353 1st American colonial post office established, Boston
1605 387 Gunpowder Plot - Catholics try to blow up English Parliament
         Plot uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes later hanged
1492 500 Christopher Columbus learns of maize from the Indians of Cuba

 That's all for TODAY!



From: quan@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Suu Quan)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:18:00 GMT
Subject: Successful Vietnamese in Europe
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server