Friday November 15, 2013 Today is: National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, National Bundt (Pan) Day, National Philanthropy Day On This Day in History: 1777 - After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agrees to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union 1806 - Approaching the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains during his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a distant mountain peak that looks like a small blue cloud. The mountain was later named Pikes Peak in his honor. 1859 - Charles Dickens serialized novel, A Tale of Two Cities, comes to a close, as the final chapter is published in Dickens circular, All the Year Round. 1867 - The first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or messenger.1889 - After a 49-year reign, Pedro II, the second and last emperor of Brazil, is deposed in a military coup. 1887 - Granville T. Woods patents the multiplex telegraph, enabling trains to communicate by telegraph and dispatchers to locate trains. 1943 - Heinrich Himmler makes public an order that Gypsies and those of mixed Gypsy blood are to be put on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps. 1956 - Love Me Tender, featuring the singer Elvis Presley in his big-screen debut, premieres in New York City at the Paramount Theater. Set in Texas following the American Civil War, the film, which co-starred Richard Egan and Debra Paget, featured Elvis as Clint Reno, the younger brother of a Confederate soldier. Originally titled The Reno Brothers, the movie was renamed Love Me Tender before its release, after a song of the same name that Reno sings during the film. 1957 - In a long and rambling interview with an American reporter, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claims that the Soviet Union has missile superiority over the United States and challenges America to a missile shooting match to prove his assertion. The interview further fueled fears in the United States that the nation was falling perilously behind the Soviets in the arms race. 1959 - The Clutter family is killed on their Kansas farm. Their murders are the inspiration for Truman Capotes book In Cold Blood. 1965 - At the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, 28-year-old Californian Craig Breedlove sets a new land-speed record--600.601 miles an hour--in his car, the Spirit of America, which cost $250,000 and was powered by a surplus engine from a Navy jet. 1966 - Gen. Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses a gathering at Brown University and approximately 60 students walk out to protest his defense of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Some of those who remained shouted and heckled Wheeler, while others attempted to storm the stage. Outside, over 100 students continued the protest. 1969 - Singer Janis Joplin is arrested for using vulgar and indecent language at her own concert in Tampa, Florida. 1969 - The first color TV commercial in Britain was aired, for Birdseye Peas. 1969 - Dave Thomas opened the first Wendys Hamburger restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. 1969 - Following a symbolic three-day March Against Death, the second national moratorium opens with mass demonstrations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. 1977 - President Jimmy Carter welcomes Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, and his wife, Empress (or Shahbanou) Farrah, to Washington. Over the next two days, Carter and Pahlavi discussed improving relations between the two countries. Two years later, the two leaders political fates would be further entwined when Islamic fundamentalists overthrew the shah and took Americans hostage in Tehran. 1979 - Margaret Thatcher publicly unmasks art historian Anthony Blunt as the fourth man in a notorious Soviet spy ring. 1984 - Baby Fae, a month-old infant who had received a baboon-heart transplant, dies at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California. 1993 - Joey Buttafuoco is sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher had shot Buttafuccos wife. Born on This Day: 1887 - Georgia Totto OKeeffe, American artist. 1891 - Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, Popularly known as the Desert Fox, German Field Marshal of World War II. 1929 - Edward Asner, American film, television, stage, and voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. 1930 - James Graham J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). 1932 - Petula Sally Olwen Clark, English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades. 1939 - Yaphet Frederick Kotto, African-American actor, known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. 1940 - Samuel Atkinson Sam Waterston, American actor, producer and director. 1945 - Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, a.k.a. Frida Lyngstad, Swedish pop and jazz singer. She was one of the four members of the Swedish group ABBA. 1965 - Dianna Linn Meyers nee: Tawney, Wife of Paul ric Meyers and the most beautiful woman he knows. Died on This Day: 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. 1958 - Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr., American film and stage actor. From 1930s to the 1950s Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. 1978 - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. 1998 - Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a. Kwame Ture; Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. If you were born on this day in 1965 the song your parents would been rocking to most often wouldve been Get Off of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as a follow-up single to the successful (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction. The song topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom in the weeks following its release in November 1965. Recorded in early September of that year, the song is noted for its drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Keith Richards. The lyrics are defiant and rebellious, which was common practice for the Rolling Stones around that time as they were beginning to cultivate their infamous bad boy image. The Stones have said that the song is written as a reaction to their sudden popularity after the success of Satisfaction. The song deals with their aversion to peoples expectations of them.
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