Happy Birthday Greg Lake! November 10: In 1520 Denmarks King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden; in 1580, after a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland; in 1619 René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy; in 1702 English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Annes War; in 1766 the last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queens College (now Rutgers University); in 1775 the United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas; in 1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, Dr. Livingstone, I presume?; in 1918 the Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air; in 1944 the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371; in 1951, with the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States; in 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery; in 1975 the 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board; in 1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0; in 1989 German citizens begin to bring the Berlin Wall down; in 2006 the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated. Birthdays: German priest and leader of the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther (1483); German poet/playwright Friedrich Schiller (1759); English inventor (flush toilets!) George Jennings (1810); Welsh actor Richard Burton (1925); actor Roy Scheider (1932); Apollo 17 command module pilot Ronald Evans (1933); actor/activist Russell Means (1939); English lyricist Tim Rice (1944); King Crimson/Emerson Lake & Palmer vocalist/bassist/guitarist Greg Lake (1947); actress Mackenzie Phillips (1959); English author/illustrator/screenwriter Neil Gaiman (1960); Medal of Honor recipient Jason Dunham (1981). Music: In 1967 The Beatles film three separate videos for their new single, Hello Goodbye, at Londons Saville Theatre - the three are eventually edited together to form one video; in 1973 John Lennon meets with legendary producer Phil Spector in New York to begin work on an album of oldies covers entitled Rock n Roll; in 1974 Led Zeppelins Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform an all-acoustic version of Stairway To Heaven while visiting a Japanese talk show; in 2002 on the How I Spent My Strummer Vacation episode of The Simpsons guest stars Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, and Brian Setzer operate a rock and roll fantasy camp; in 1967 The Moody Blues release Nights In White Satin; in 1973 Elton Johns LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road hits #1, in 1979 Eagles Heartache Tonight hits #1.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:00:43 +0000
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