Back after one million requests: November 16, 1532 Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperors honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans. Pizarros men massacre the Incans and capture Atahualpa, forcing him to convert to Christianity before eventually killing him. I bet this is not what Jesus wanted when He asked us to let our lights shine before men. This method continues to be used, even though theres rarely killing involved. Kinda like that guy that figures the voters are too stupid to figure it out....even tho there is alotta stupid voters out there. I pray I aint one of em. Nov 16, 1901 A spare, low-slung car called the Torpedo Racer—basically a square platform on bicycle wheels—breaks the world speed record for electric cars in Coney Island, New York. The cars builder and pilot, an engineer named Andrew Riker, managed to coax his machine one mile down the straight dirt track in just 63 seconds (thats about 57 mph; today, by contrast, the world speed record for an electric vehicle is about 245 mph). The battery-powered Torpedo Racer held onto its record for ten years. He was packed with Die Hards! They all buried in a landfill somewhere. Nov 16,1957 Notre Dame beats Oklahoma 7-0, ending the Sooners’ 47-game, 1,512-day college football winning streak. The game also marked the first time in more than 120 games that Oklahoma didn’t score a single point. Sooners fans were stunned. Some cried; some sat in the stadium for more than an hour after the game was over. But, as Sooners coach Bud Wilkinson said in the locker room after the game, There wasn’t anything mysterious about it. We just got beat.. Florida State hung on to their streak last nite. By a thread. Nov 16, 1959 Did the young Austrian nun named Maria really take to the hills surrounding Salzburg to sing spontaneously of her love of music? Did she comfort herself with thoughts of copper kettles, and did she swoon to her future husbands song about an alpine flower while the creeping menace of Nazism spread across central Europe? No, the real-life Maria von Trapp did none of those things. She was indeed a former nun, and she did indeed marry Count Georg von Trapp and become stepmother to his large brood of children, but nearly all of the particulars she related in her 1949 book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, were ignored by the creators of the Broadway musical her memoir inspired. And while the liberties taken by the shows writers, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and by its composer and lyricist, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, caused some consternation to the real Maria von Trapp and to her stepchildren, according to many later reports, those liberties made The Sound of Music a smash success from the very night of its Broadway opening on this day in 1959. The only other thing I gotta say bout this is, Doe Ray Mi! Born Nov 16: 1436 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (Helleveeg 1569 - Paul Sartorius, composer 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha) 1603 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673) 1609 - Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669) 1615 - Guillaume Dumanoir, composer 1642 - Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt admiral of Zeeland 1643 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703) 1653 - Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1707-09) 1684 - Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg) 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond dAlembert, French Enlightenment philosophe/mathematician (Encyclopédie), (d. 1783) 1822 - Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 1827 - James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49) 1829 - Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS] 1835 - Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891) 1873 - William Christopher Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) (d. 1958) 1890 - Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53) 1890 - George Seldes, journalist 1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978) 1892 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953) 1893 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist 1896 - Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984) 1897 - Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon England, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) 1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951) 1899 - Mary Margaret McBride, Paris Mo, radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC) 1902 - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist 1904 - Eddie Condon, Goodland Ind, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condons Floor Show) 1907 - Burgess Meredith, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), (d. 1997) 1912 - George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners) 1916 - Daws Butler, Toledo OH, animation voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound) 1920 - Betty Hicks, LPGA golfer 1922 - Royal Dano, NYC, actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II) 1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist 1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate 1931 - Bob Gibson, rocker 1931 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006) 1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician 1932 - Barbara Romack, LPGA golfer 1938 - Toni Brown, US guitarist/singer/keyboardist (Joy of Cooking) 1938 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002) 1940 - Chris Balderstone, cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976) 1941 - Ann Dore McLaughlin, US Secretary of Labor (1987- ) 1943 - Winfred Blue Lovett, US singer (Manhattans-One Life to Live) 1944 - Charles Jay Hammer, actor (Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light) 1945 - Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co) 1945 - Steve Railsback, Dallas, Texas, American actor (The Stunt Man, Escape 2000) 1946 - Barbara Leigh, Ringgold Ga, actress (Vampirella) 1947 - Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer 1948 - Aline Issermann, director (Amant Magnifiquew) 1948 - Chi Coltrane, US pianist/singer 1948 - Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic 1949 - Pattie Santos, rocker 1950 - Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 38, STS 50, 64) 1950 - David Leisure, actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest) 1957 - Frank Milton Pete Higgins II, VP (Microsoft Desktop) 1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor 1958 - Harry Rushakoff, rocker (Concrete Blonde) 1958 - Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach) 1958 - Roberto Guerrero, Medelin Colombia, Indy racer (Rookie of Year 1984 1959 - Bert Cameron, Spanish Town Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silv-1988) 1959 - Corey Allen Pavin, Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1995 US Open) 1961 - Frank Bruno, Hammersmith, British boxer (European champ) 1963 - Zina Garrison Jackson, Houston Texas, tennis star (1988/90 Wimbledon) Hi 1965 - Glen Edward Day, Mobile AL, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-2nd) 1965 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress (Normal People) 1966 - Dan Nowosielski, Montreal Quebec, fencing epee (Olympics-96) 1967 - Lisa Bonet, SF, actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart) 1967 - Craig Arnold, American poet 1968 - Chris Haney, Baltimore MD, pitcher (KC Royals) 1968 - Ebrahim Essop-Adam, cricketer (one ODI for Zimbabwe 1992) 1968 - Melvin Stewart, US butterfly swimmer (200m record) 1971 - Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer 1971 - Koshi Rikdo, Japanese mangaka 1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer 1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress 1973 - Howard Smothers, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles) 1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1994) 1977 - Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor 1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, New York, actress (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight) 1979 - Bruce Irons, American surfer 1980 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player 1980 - Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier 1980 - Carol Huynh, 2008 Canadian Gold Medalist,48 kg. wrestling 1981 - Allison Crowe, Canadian singer 1981 - Caitlin Glass, American voice actress 1981 - Osi Umenyiora, English-born NFL football player 1982 - Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player 1982 - Ronald Pognon, French athlete 1982 - Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player 1983 - Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender 1983 - Britta Steffen, German swimmer 1983 - K, South Korean singer 1984 - Gemma Atkinson, British actress and model 1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress 1986 - Saeko, Japanese actress 1992 - Adam Robert Worton, Newark DE, twin actor (Babys Day Out) 1992 - Jacob Joseph Worton, Newark DE, twin actor (Babys Day Out) 1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American child actor. Now you might not be impressed that you was bornt the same day as some South African Rugby player...but maybe hes impressed. He knows yall was all bornt nekked just like him! God loves ya both.
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