Friday November 29, 2013 Today is: National Chocolates Day, Throw Out Your Leftovers Day, Electronic Greetings Day, Flossing Day, International Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian People, Maize Day, National Day of Listening, National Native American Heritage Day, Sinkie Day (Some call it The Sink Day when you eat over the sink all the Thanksgiving leftovers.), Youre Welcomegiving Day On This Day in History: 1775 - The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, establishes a Committee of Secret Correspondence. The committees goal was to provide European nations with a Patriot interpretation of events in Britains North American colonies, in the hope of soliciting aid for the American war effort. 1812 - Napoleon retreats from Russia and crosses the Berezina River with heavy losses. Today, Berezina is a synonym for disaster in French. 1864 - peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivingtons Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado. 1929 - American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes. 1942 - Coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States. Despite record coffee production in Latin American countries, the growing demand for the bean from both military and civilian sources, and the demands placed on shipping, which was needed for other purposes, required the limiting of its availability. 1947 - Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state. 1952 - Making good on his most dramatic presidential campaign promise, newly elected Dwight D. Eisenhower goes to Korea to see whether he can find the key to ending the bitter and frustrating Korean War. 1963 - One week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President Lyndon Johnson establishes a special commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination. 1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that Robert McNamara will resign from his position as secretary of defense to become the new president of the World Bank. 1991 - A massive car and truck collision in Coalinga, California, kills 17 people. More than 100 vehicles were involved in the accident on Interstate 5, which was caused by a dust storm. 1997 - Plastic bags are a serious danger to marine mammals. A 65 foot, 70 ton finback whale died off the coast of Spain. Its digestive tract had been blocked by 30 plastic bags, and several hard plastic objects. 1997 - Reports from Chile about giant rats, that had been feeding on the droppings of hormone fattened poultry, were attacking farm animals near Santiago. 2010 - Stating they were gifts, Pablo Picassos former electrician reveals he has 271 previously unknown works by the artist. 2011 - Conrad Murray, the physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of singer Michael Jackson, is sentenced in a Los Angeles County courtroom to four years behind bars. The iconic pop star died at age 50 at his California home after suffering cardiac arrest while under the influence of propofol, a surgical anesthetic given to him by Murray as a sleep aid. Born on This Day: 1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jos Boys. 1895 - Busby Berkeley, nee: Busby Berkeley William Enos, Highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. 1898 - Clive Staples C.S. Lewis, Irish novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. 1932 - Diane Ladd, nee: Rose Diane Ladner, American actress, film director, producer and author. 1940 - Charles Frank Chuck Mangione, American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, Feels So Good. 1949 - Garry Emmanuel Shandling, American comedian, actor and writer. 1955 - Howard Michael Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, television host, and voice actor. 1962 - Andrew Thomas McCarthy, American actor, award-winning travel writer and television director. 1964 - Donald Frank Don Cheadle, Jr., American actor and producer. Died on This Day: 1530 - Thomas Wolsey, English political figure and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. When Henry VIII became king of England in 1509, Wolsey became the Kings almoner. (a social-service worker in a hospital) 1872 - Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery. 1981 - Natalie Wood, nee: Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko; Russian: Наталья Николаевна Захаренко, American film and television actress. 1986 - Cary Grant, nee: Archibald Alexander Leach, English stage and Hollywood film actor who became an American citizen in 1942. 1991 - Ralph Rexford Bellamy, American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. 2001 - George Harrison, MBE, English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. If you were born on this day in 1975 your parents wouldve heard Fly, Robin, Fly by Silver Convention topping Billboards Hot 100. Recorded by the German group Silver Convention, the song was released as a single from their 1975 album Save Me. In the United States, it rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1975, staying there for three weeks. The single also was No. 1 on the soul singles chart for one week. Fly, Robin, Fly also spent three weeks at No. 1 on the disco/dance charts. It was the first song by a German pop group to reach number one on the American music charts.
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