From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on November 12
Date: 12 Nov 1992 14:30:49 GMT
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    The only time to be positive is when you're positive 
    you are wrong.


 Birthdates Which Occur on November 12: 
1961  31 Nadia Comaneci Romania, gymnast (Olympic gold 1976, 1980)
1956  36 Koji Gushiken  Osaka, Japan, Olympic gymnast (all-around gold 1984)
1945  47 Neil Young Canada, singer, songwriter (Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1944  48 Booker T. Jones musician (MGs)
1943  49 Stefanie Powers Hollywood, actress (Girl from UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
   and   Brian Hyland  Queens, NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy...Bikini)
1939  53 Lucia Popp  Uhorska Ves, Czechoslovakia, soprano (Die Zauberflvte)
1937  55 Adm. Richard H. Truly Fayette, Miss., astronaut (STS-2, 8, T2, T4)
   and   Ina Balin actress (Danger in Paradise)
1934  58 Charles Manson a.k.a. No Name Maddox, Cincinnati, multiple murderer
1929  63 Grace Kelly Philadelphia, actress, princess of Monaco (Rear Window)
1922  70 Kim Hunter US actress (Lilith, Planet of the Apes)
1920  72 Richard Quine Detroit, actor (Clay Pigeon)
1915  77 Roland Barthes French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer)
1914  78 Sylvi Saimo Finland, 500-m kayaker (Olympic gold 1952)
   and   Roberto Cavanagh Argentina, polo player (Olympic gold 1936)
1912  80 Alphonse (Tuffy) Leemans NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1908  84 Harry A. Blackmun Ill., Supreme Court justice (1970-  )
1903  89 Jack Oakie  Sedalia, Mo., actor, comedian (The Great Dictator)
1891 101 Seth Nicholson Ill., discoverer of 4 satellites of Jupiter
1889 103 DeWitt Wallace St. Paul, Minn., publisher, "Readers Digest" founder
1866 126 Sun Yat-sen father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional date)
1842 150 John Strutt Lord Rayleigh, English physicist (Nobel 1904)
1840 152 Auguste Rodin French sculptor (The Kiss, The Thinker)
1833 159 Aleksandr P. Borodin  St. Petersburg, composer (Robert LeDiable) (OS)
1820 172 William Hayley poet, biographer (Romney, Milton, Cowper)
1817 175 Baha'u'llah [Mirza Husayn Ali] founder of the Baha'm faith
1815 177 Elizabeth Cady Stanton  Johnstown, NY, suffragist
1790 202 Letitia Christian Tyler  Va., President Tyler's 1st first lady
1769 223 Amelia Opie  Norfolk, England, novelist, poet (Father & Daughter)
1651 341 Juana Inis de la Cruz  Mixico, poet, nun
1493 499 Paracelsus  Switzerland, physician, alchemist (1 2 days)

 Holidays Which Occur November 12: 

 Religious Observances on November 12: 
         Commemoration of Charles Simeon, priest, 1836 (Ang)
         Memorial of St. Josaphat Kuncevyc, bishop, martyr, 1623 (RC)

 Things to Remember for November 12: 
         Flower - Chrysanthemum                Gem - Topaz
  9 Days Astrological sign:  Scorpio
  4 Days Taurid meteor shower (derived from Comet Enke)
         Russian dates are Old Style to 1918, New Style thereafter
         Annelid & arthropod fossils appear, Australia (geoyear 620)

 Highlights in History Which Occur November 12:
1928  64  British steamer 'Vestris' capsized and sank off Virginia
          Capes with loss of 110, including the Captain.
1982  10 Yuri V. Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader
1981  11 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice (space shuttle Columbia)
   and   1st balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1980  12 US space probe Voyager 1 flies past Saturn at 124,000 km
1977  15 Loggins & Messina release their last LP, "Finale"
   and   Jerry Pushcar finishes canoe trip from New Orleans to Nome, AK, 306 d
   and   New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial
1976  16 Texas removes "American Heritage Dictionary" & 5 others from approved
         high-school textbook list for obscenity
1975  17 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retires after 36 years
1971  21 Arches National Park, Utah established
1970  22 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, kills an estimated 300,000
1965  27 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1961  31 Stalingrad, Russia renamed "Volgograd"
1960  32 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm (yes, cm!) altitude
1956  36 Largest known iceberg (335 x 96 km, 31,000 km2) sighted, South Pacific
1955  37 Smallest college football crowd - 1 - San Jose St. at Washington St.
1954  38 Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor closed
1953  39 US district judge Grim rules NFL can black out TV home games
1948  44 Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1946  46 1st "autobank" (banking by car) established, in Chicago
   and   Walt Disney's "Song of the South" is released
1944  48 German battleship "Tirpitz" sunk off Norway
1936  56 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
   and   1st TV gardening show
1933  59 Nazis receive only 92% of vote running unopposed in Germany
   and   1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
   and   1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1931  61 Toronto Maple Leafs Garden opens - Leafs beat Blackhawks 2-1
1927  65 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1926  66 1st airplane bombing in US - rival bootleggers, Williamson Co., Ill.
1923  69 Hitler arrested, placed in prison (where he begins "Mein Kampf")
1921  71 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1920  72 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1918  74 Austrian Republic proclaimed
1910  82 1st movie stunt - man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
   and   Record 6,381 pheasants shot by 9 guns, Tot-Megyer estate, Hungary
1906  86 410 C (1050 F), Craftonville, Cal. - 48-state record high for November
1902  90 Enrico Caruso records "Vesti la giubba" from "I Pagliacci"
1894  98 Lawrence Hargrave ascends 5 m using 4 box kites, Stanwell Park, NSW
1892 100 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1859 133 Jules Leotard performs the 1st flying trapeze circus act (Paris)
         (He also designed the garment that bears his name)
1846 146 Ether (as an anesthetic) patented, by Dr. W.T.G. Morton, Mass.
1841 151 Oldest Anglo-Jewish newspaper, "Jewish Chronicle," appears, London
1799 193 1st record of a meteoric shower observed in US, off Florida Keys

 That's all for TODAY!