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1731 - Peking was hit by an earthquake. Some 100,000 people were killed.1875 - A.J. Ehrrichson of Akron, OH patented the oat-crushing machine.
1887 - The first softball game was played -- in Chicago, IL. The game was really called indoor baseball; it used a broomstick for a bat and a boxing glove for a ball.
1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, wit and dramatist, died in poverty and exile in Paris after earlier serving two years in prison for homosexual offences. Wilde was known for The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1922 - Actress Sarah Bernhardt made her last appearance on the stage. She played in the final performance of Daniel, being presented in Turin, Italy.
1939 - Harry James and his big band recorded Concerto for Trumpet -- on Columbia 78s.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married. Lucy filed for divorce the day after their final TV show was filmed in 1960.
1943 - Nat ‘King’ Cole and his trio recorded Straighten Up and Fly Right on Capitol Records. It was the first recording for the King Cole trio.
1948 - Soviet Communists completed the division of Berlin, locating the government in the Russian sector.
1950 - President Harry Truman declared that the U.S. might use the atomic bomb, if necessary, to win peace in Korea.
1953 - French parachutists under Col De Castries attacked Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. (French forces were defeated by the Vietminh in 1954.)
1954 - Sir Winston Churchill celebrated his 80th birthday in London. The festivities were said to be the greatest ever held for a British subject.
1956 - Archie Moore was defeated by Floyd Patterson. Patterson won the heavyweight boxing title vacated by the retired Rocky Marciano. At the age of 21, Patterson was the youngest boxer to be named heavyweight champion.
1959 - Joe Foss was named American Football League commissioner. He made about $30,000 a year in salary for the job.
1962 - U Thant of Burma was unanimously appointed Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly. He had been chosen to head the world body after Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September 1961.
1966 - The former British colony of Barbados became an independent nation.
1967 - South Arabia, including Aden, was declared independent (from the United Kingdom) and was renamed the People’s Republic of South Yemen.
1968 - Diana Ross and The Supremes hit the #1 spot on the music charts with Love Child. The somewhat controversial tune (for the times) stayed at the top for two weeks.
1971 - ABC-TV presented Brian’s Song as the ABC Movie of the Week. The touching story was about Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo and his friendship with Gayle Sayers, who watched Brian die a tragic death. The movie got a rating of 32.9 and a 48 share. The theme song, Brian’s Song, was performed by Michel Legrand.
1974 - The Eagles hit, Best of My Love, was released. It would take until March 1, 1975 for it to reach the #1 spot on the top 40 charts.
1977 - Eric Sevareid retired from CBS-TV. He left CBS after 38 years of working with famous names in the TV news biz ... folks like Morrow, Collingwood, Trout, Cronkite, Edwards, Rather, Kuralt, Wallace, Dean and others.
1977 - David Bowie joined Bing Crosby on Crosby’s annual Christmas special. They sang Little Drummer Boy.
1983 - Radio Shack announced the Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000 computer. It used the 80186 chip.
1986 - Ivan Lendl became the first tennis player in the world to gain career earnings exceeding $10 million.
1990 - Author Norman Cousins died of a heart attack in Los Angeles at the age of 75.
1991 - PM Dawn’s Set Adrift on Memory Bliss hit #1 in the U.S. The rappers folded another song -- Spandau Ballet’s True -- into theirs, making for a very nice musical effect.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court sustained women’s basic right to abortion. The court voted 6-3 against reviving a 1990 Guam law that prohibited nearly all such procedures.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill (the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) into law. It required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
1994 - Talk about bad luck. Nearly 1,000 passengers and crew fled the cruise ship Achille Lauro after it caught fire off the coast of Somalia en route from Genoa to the Sychelles. The ship sank two days later. This was the same Achille Lauro that had been hijacked by Palestinians in October 1985.
1995 - President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland. He implored Roman Catholics and Protestants alike not to “allow the ship of peace to sink on the rocks of old habits and hard grudges.”
1996 - Singer Tiny Tim died after suffering a heart attack during a benefit performance in Minneapolis, MN. He was 71 years old. Tiny Tim died as he lived, singing Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
1996 - Some 150,000 people filled the streets of Belgrade in protest against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1998 - Deutsche Bank AG announced its intention to acquire Bankers Trust Corp. The $10.1 billion deal created the world’s largest financial institution.
1999 - The FTC approved the $81 billion merger of Exxon and Mobil Oil that had been under way since Dec 1997.
1999 - Seattle riot police struggled with at least 40,000 protestors who forced the World Trade Organization to cancel the opening session of its 3-day 135-nation trade summit. Mayor Paul Schell declared a state of emergency and a night curfew and Governor Gary Locke called in the National Guard to assist.
2000 - George Bush proceeded with presidential transition plans as Al Gore asked a Florida judge to begin an immediate review of 13,000 ballots from Palm Beach and Dade counties.
2001 - These films opened in the U.S.: The Affair of the Necklace, starring Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Adrien Brody, Joely Richardson, Christopher Walken and Brian Cox; Behind Enemy Lines, with Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith, Olek Krupa, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield and Vladimir Mashkov; Texas Rangers, starring Dylan McDermott, James Van Der Beek, Ashton Kutcher, Robert Patrick, Randy Travis, Usher Raymond, Alfred Molina, Jon Abrahams, Tom Skerritt, Rachael Leigh Cook, Leonor Varela and Marco Leonardi.
2002 - A fire roared through the La Guajira nightclub, in the basement of the Hotel Venezuela in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. The blaze killed 47 people and injured a dozen others.
2004 - Ken Jennings ended his winning streak on Jeapardy when he missed a seemingly easy question, “Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.” The correct reply would have been, “What is H&R Block?” But Jennings guessed, “Federal Express,” ending his remarkable run as the biggest winner in TV game show history with a haul of $2,520,700.
2005 - Surgeons in France performed the first human face transplant -- on a woman who had lost her nose, lips and chin when she was attacked by a dog.
2006 - British police reported traces of radiation had been found at a dozen sites in Britain as the investigation widened into the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Awake opened in U.S. theatres. The crime thriller stars Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin, Terrence Howard, Steven Hinkle, Jennifer Pedersen, Sam Robards, Poorna Jagannathan and Court Young.
2007 - Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel died at 69 years of age. He became an international icon by staging many bone-breaking, rocket-powered jumps and stunts on his motorcycles. His most famous death-defying attempts included the Snake River Canyon in Idaho, the fountains at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, and a line of 14 buses at Wembley Stadium. Evel Knievel also made the Guinness Book of Records for the 433 bone fractures sustained in jumps that failed.
2008 - Iran announced that it was willing to help neighboring Arab countries build joint light-water nuclear power plants.
2008 - Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón pledged to clean up corruption within his administration and vowed that his government would never negotiate with drug lords. This, while the bodies of 9 decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana, part of a wave of violence that claimed dozens of lives over the weekend in the border city plagued by warring drug traffickers.
2008 - A Swiss program to give addicts government-authorized heroin was overwhelmingly approved. Voters simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.
2009 - The world’s largest atom smasher in Switzerland broke the world record for proton acceleration. The Large Hadron Collider fired particle beams with 20 percent more power than the American lab that previously held the record.
2010 - British students protested for a third day over plans to triple university tuition fees. Police arrested 153 people during the protests in London. (By Aug 2011 the Higher Education Policy Institute [Hepi] predicted that many universities would have to reduce tuition fees to stem the tide of students leaving for more affordable colleges.)
2011 - Turkey imposed tough economic sanctions on Syria, freezing assets of officials involved in the government’s crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising, suspending ties with the nation’s central bank and banning all military sales.
2012 - New motion pictures in U.S. theatres: Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella and Sam Shepard; The Collection, with Josh Stewart, Christopher McDonald, Navi Rawat, Johanna Braddy, Lee Tergesen, Daniel Sharman, Andre Royo and Erin Way; Ex-Girlfriends, starring Jennifer Carpenter, ... Kristen Connolly and Alexander Poe; the documentary Hecho en México; King Kelly, with Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge, Roderick Hill, Will Brill and Jonny Orsini; and Parked, starring Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton and David Wilmot.
2012 - Mexico’s attorney general compiled a list showing that some 25,000 adults and children had gone missing in Mexico in the previous six years. The list chronicled the disappearance of those thousands of people in the chaos and violence that had enveloped Mexico during its struggle against drug mafias and crime gangs.
2013 - Five east African countries, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, signed a protocol to establish a monetary union with a single currency -- modelled after the eurozone. This, despite emerging cracks within the EAC, which were affecting the future pace of regional integration.
2013 - Actor Paul Walker (40), a star of the Fast and Furious film series, died in a fiery crash in Valencia, CA, north of Los Angeles. Roger Rodas, Walker’s friend and financial advisor, was driving the 2005 Porsche (at 100 mph -- or faster) that crashed and was also killed.
2014 - A thousand gay rights activists marched through New Delhi, to demand an end to discrimination against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) in India.
2015 - Russia said it would restrict imports of Turkish fruit and vegetables as part of a package of sanctions following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey the previous week. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said his country would not apologize to Russia for shooting down the warplane, saying, “Protection of Turkish airspace, Turkish borders is a national duty, and our army did their job to protect this airspace. But if the Russian side wants to talk, and wants to prevent any future unintentional events like this, we are ready to talk.”
2016 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) reached a deal among its 14 member countries to curtail oil production. OPEC ministers confirmed it had secured a cut in its oil production for the first time since 2008 -- from 33.8 million barrels a day to 32.5 million b/d in an effort to prop up prices. Oil prices had fallen by more than half since mid-2014 due to the global oversupply and booming U.S. shale production.
2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May repeated her condemnation of POTUS Donald Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim videos posted by a British far-right leader. One of the videos Trump highlighted to his 43.6 million Twitter followers from the feed of Jaydan Fransen of Britain First purported to show a group of Muslims pushing a boy off a roof. Another claimed to show a Muslim destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a third claimed to show a Muslim immigrant hitting a Dutch boy on crutches. A Theresa May spokesperson said, “Britain First seeks to divide communities by their use of hateful narratives that peddle lies and stoke tensions. They cause anxiety to law-abiding people. British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values this country represents: decency, tolerance and respect.”
2018 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The Possession of Hannah Grace, starring Stana Katic, Shay Mitchell and Grey Damon; Anna and the Apocalypse, with Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming and Sarah Swire; Blood Brother, with China Anne McClain, Jack Kesy and Noëlle Renée Bercy; DriverX, starring Patrick Fabian, Tanya Clarke and Desmin Borges; the animated Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer, featuring the voices of Morena Baccarin, Josh Hutcherson, John Cleese, Martin Short, Christopher Jacot and Samantha Bee; Head Full of Honey, with Claire Forlani, Eric Roberts and Emily Mortimer; Never Look Away, starring Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch and Paula Beer; and Sicilian Ghost Story, with Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez and Corinne Musallari.
2019 - The Marriott International hotel chain reported that the database of its Starwood reservation system had been hacked and personal info of up to 500 million guests going back to 2014 had been compromised.
2019 - George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, died after a battle with vascular Parkinson’s disease at his home in Houston, Texas. He was 94 years old. Bush was the 41st president of the U.S. (1989-1993) and the 43rd vice president (1981-1989). A member of the Republican Party, he also served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was often called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, or Bush 41 to distinguish him from his eldest son George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from (2001-2009).
2019 - A Russian MiG-31K interceptor jet carried out a test of the Kinjal (Dagger) hypersonic missile in Russia’s part of the Arctic. Russia has said the Kinjal could hit targets up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles) distant with nuclear or conventional warheads and that the missiles had been deployed in Russia’s southern military district.
2020 - Arizona and Wisconsin certified their presidential election results in favor of Joe Biden. This, as Donald Trump continued to whine about the results.
2020 - Moderna applied for U.S. and European emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine after full results from a late-stage study showed it was 94.1% effective.
2021 - Barbados became a republic on this day, as it severed imperial ties with Britain some 400 years after English ships first reached the Caribbean island. President-elect Sandra Mason replaced Queen Elizabeth as head of state.
2021 - The U.S. warned of “serious consequences” if Russia escalated the conflict in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t pay any attention and continued to mobilize troops on the border of his neighboring country. (Some three months later, Russia mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with no “serious consequences” by/from the U.S.)
2021 - The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban so-called ghost guns, untraceable firearms that are typically sold in kits for at-home assembly without serial numbers or background checks.
2022 - Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie died. She was 79. McVie, born Christine Perfect, married Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie and joined the group in 1971. She wrote some of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits, including Little Lies, Everywhere, Don’t Stop, Say You Love Me and Songbird. McVie had been suffering from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.
2022 - The House Ways and Committee received several years of former POTUS Trump’s tax returns from the Treasury Department. The delivery came after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s challenge of a lower court’s ruling that the House had the authority to get the documents from the IRS.
2022 - The Biden administration announced plans to provide $75 million to help three Native American tribes move away from coastal areas or rivers to higher ground as climate change causes sea levels to rise. The Newtok Village and Native Village of Napakiak in Alaska, and the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state would get $25 million to begin relocating buildings inland. The administration also awarded $5 million grants to eight more tribes for planning relocations. “We must safeguard Indian Country from the intensifying and unique impacts of climate change,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said.
2023 - Russia's Supreme Court called the LGBTQ+ movement an extremist organization -- effectively outlawing it in Russia. In a closed hearing, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Justice Ministry’s lawsuit accusing the LGBTQ+ movement of inciting social and religious discord.
2023 - A New York appeals court reinstated a gag order barring Donald Trump from publicly disparaging court staff in his civil fraud trial. Judge Arthur Engoron, who was presiding over the state's $250 million fraud lawsuit Trump, had issued the order after Trump publicly accused a court clerk of being biased against him.
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Birthdays on This Day November 30
1554 - Philip Sidney
poet: Arcadia; statesman, soldier: dying, he gave his water bottle to another dying soldier and uttered this famous quote: “Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.”; died Oct 17, 15861667 - Jonathan Swift
satirist: Gulliver’s Travels, Thoughts on Religion; died Oct 19, 17451835 - Mark Twain
writer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper; died Apr 21, 19101874 - Sir Winston Churchill
British soldier, statesman, prime minister, author, first man to be made an honorary citizen of the U.S. [by an act of Congress on April 9, 1963]; died Jan 24, 19651912 - Gordon Parks
photographer: Vogue, LIFE magazines, "He turned his rage against racism into a creative force."; author: To Smile in Autumn: A Memoir, Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective; poet, filmmaker, novelist, composer; died Mar 7, 20061916 - Michael Gwynn
actor: Fawlty Towers, State of Emergency, Act of Betrayal, The Crowning Gift, Jason and the Argonauts, Cleopatra, Barabbas, Some People; died Jan 29, 19761918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
actor: The F.B.I., 77 Sunset Strip, Hot Shots!, The Gathering: Part 2, Terror Out of the Sky, Airport ’75, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Hotel; voice of Alfred in Batman-the Animated Series; died May 2, 20141920 - Virginia Mayo
actress: Midnight Witness, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Silver Chalice, The West Point Story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Best Years of Our Lives; died Jan 17, 20051924 - Shirley Chisholm
politician: first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress; author; quote: “When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”; died Jan 1, 20051924 - Allan Sherman
comedian: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!; associate producer: I’ve Got a Secret; died Nov 20, 19731926 - Richard Crenna
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Rape of Richard Beck, ABC Theatre [1984-85]; Slattery’s People, The Real McCoys, Our Miss Brooks, It Takes Two, All’s Fair, Gabriel’s Fire, Centennial, Sabrina, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Rambo 3, On the Wings of Eagles, Rambo, First Blood, Part 2, The Flamingo Kid, Body Heat, The Sand Pebbles, Pride of St. Louis, Wrongfully Accused, Judging Amy; died Jan 17, 20031927 - Robert Guillaume
Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1978-79], Benson [1984-85]; Pacific Station, A Good Day to Die, North and South Book 1, The Meteor Man, Superfly T.N.T.; voice of Det. Catfish: Fish Police; died Oct 24, 20171928 - Rex Reason
actor: Band of Angels, This Island Earth, The Roaring Twenties, Man Without a Gun; died Nov 19, 20151929 - Dick Clark
TV producer, host: American Bandstand, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, The $25,000 Pyramid, TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Dick Clark Presents the Rock and Roll Years, The Dick Clark Show, Dick Clark’s Golden Greats, Dick Clark’s Live Wednesday, Dick Clark’s Nighttime, Dick Clark’s World of Talent, Puttin’ on the Hits, Live! Dick Clark Presents, The Challengers; executive producer: Keep on Cruisin’, In Person from the Palace; former Philadelphia DJ; died Apr 18, 20121930 - G. Gordon Liddy
politician, radio host: The G-Man, The G. Gordon Liddy Show; died Mar 30, 20211931 - Jack Sheldon
musician: trumpet: recorded w/Jimmy Giuffre, Herb Geller, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman; singer: soundtracks: Speechless, Stuart Saves His Family; voice actor: Conjunction Junction, I’m Just a Bill; actor: Run Buddy Run, The Merv Griffin Show, Dragnet, Hard Time, Radioland Murders, For the Boys, Freaky Friday, Under the Yum Yum Tree; jokester: known for his spontaneous monologues; died Dec 27, 20191931 - Teddy Wilburn
singer: group: Wilburn Brothers: Which One is to Blame; Grand Ole Opry [1941]; died Nov 24, 20031931 - Bill Walsh
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers; football coach: Stanford University, San Francisco 49ers: Super Bowl XVI, XIX, XXIII; died Jul 30, 20071935 - Woody Allen
Academy Award-winning writer and director: Annie Hall [1977]; Radio Days, Alice; Academy Award-winning writer: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; actor, writer, director: Sleeper, Husbands and Wives, Annie Hall, Mighty Aphrodite, Manhattan Murder Mystery, New York Stories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, Bananas; actor, writer: Play It Again, Sam, What’s New Pussycat?; actor: Scenes from a Mall, Casino Royale; comedy writer; Your Show of Shows, The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom1935 - Jack Reno
singer: Repeat After Me, Hitchin’ a Ride, I Want One; died Nov 1, 20081936 - Abbie Hoffman
activist: 1960s cultural revolutionary [Yippie]; one of the Chicago Eight; author: Revolution for the Hell of It, Steal this Book; died Apr 12, 19891937 - Jimmy Bowen
singer: I’m Stickin’ with You, Party Doll; record producer: Hollywood: Reprise-Warner Bros [Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr]; Nashville: Hank Williams, Jr., The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Garth Brooks1937 - Ridley Scott
director: White Squall, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Thelma and Louise, Black Rain, Someone to Watch Over Me, Legend, Blade Runner, Alien, The Duelists; brother of director Tony Scott1943 - Rob Grill
singer: group: The Grass Roots: Midnight Confessions, Let’s Live for Today; died Jul 11, 20111943 - Leo Lyons
musician: bass: groups: Jaybirds, Ten Years After: I’m Going Home, Love Like a Man1944 - Luther Ingram
musician, singer: [If Lovin’ You Is Wrong] I Don’t Want to be Right; died Mar 19, 20071945 - Roger Glover
musician: bass: groups: Episode Six, Rainbow, Deep Purple: Black Night1947 - David Mamet
director: Oleanna, Homicide, House of Games, Things Change; playwright: Hoffa, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables, The Verdict, The Postman Always Rings Twice1950 - Craig Swan
baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [NL ERA title: 1978 - 2.43], California Angels1950 - Paul Westphal
basketball guard: Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics; coach: Southwestern Baptist Bible College, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix Suns; died Jan 2, 20211951 - June Chadwick
actress: Forbidden World, The Last Horror Film, This is Spinal Tap, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Going to Extremes, Star Trek: Away Team1952 - Mandy Patinkin
Tony Award-winning actor: Evita [1980]; True Colors, The Doctor, Dick Tracy, Alien Nation, The Princess Bride, Sunday in the Park with George, Yentl, French Postcards, Chicago Hope1953 - Shuggie Otis Jr.
musician: guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboards: LPs: Here Comes Shuggie Otis, Freedom Flight, Inspiration Information, Omaha Bar-B-Que1954 - George McArdle
musician: bass guitarist: group: Little River Band: Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me1954 - June Pointer
singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, He’s So Shy, Slow Hand, Jump [For My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, I’m So Excited, Dare Me, Yes We Can Can, How Long [Betcha Got a Chick on the Side]; solo: LP: Baby Sister; died Apr 11, 20061955 - Billy Idol (Broad)
musician: guitar, singer: Mony, Mony, Eyes Without a Face, Dancing with Myself, White Wedding, Rebel Yell, To Be a Lover, Speed, Cradle of Love; songwriter: Hot in the City; more1955 - Kevin Conroy
actor: Chain of Desire, The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton, Tour of Duty, Rachel Gunn, R.N., Ohara, voice of Batman: Batman-The Animated Series1957 - John Aston
musician: guitar: groups: Photons, Psychedelic Furs: We Love You, Love My Way, Heaven, Pretty in Pink1957 - Richard Barbieri
musician: drums: group: Japan: Don’t Rain on My Parade, The Unconventional, The Tenant, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Taking Islands in Africa, I Second That Emotion, Cantonese Boy, Bamboo Houses, Forbidden Colours; composer: for Ballet Rambert1957 - Colin Mochrie
actor, improvisational comedian: Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Comedy Bar, Wingin’ It, Please Kill Mr. Know It All; more1960 - Gary Lineker
English footballer [striker]: holds England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored [1986, 1990]; he retired from international football with eighty caps and forty-eight goals; TV host: BBC: Match of the Day1962 - Bo Jackson
baseball: KC Royals [all-star: 1989], Chicago White Sox, California Angels; football: LA Raiders RB [Heisman Trophy: 1985]1965 - Ben Stiller
actor: The Ben Stiller Show, Reality Bites, Flirting with Disaster, The Cable Guy, There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Starsky & Hutch, Heavyweights, Tropic Thunder, Night at the Museum film series1968 - Des’ree
singer: Feel So High, Mind Adventures, Why Should I Love You, Delicate, You Gotta Be, I Ain’t Movin’, Little Child, Life1969 - Mark Lewis
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles1969 - Amy Ryan
actress: Gone Baby Gone, The Wire, In Treatment, The Office, Jack Goes Boating, In Treatment, Win Win, The Tomb1970 - Robert Griffith
football [safety]: San Diego State Univ; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals1970 - Perrey Reeves
actress: Entourage, Rules of Engagement, Family Style, Grey’s Anatomy, Old School, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, American Dreamz, The X-Files, Kicking and Screaming, Escape to Witch Mountain, Child’s Play 31971 - Ray Durham
baseball [second base]: Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants1971 - Jessalyn Gilsig
actress: Boston Public, Nip/Tuck, Imaginary Bitches, Glee, Smart Cookies, Vikings1971 - Matt Lawton
baseball: Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates1971 - Iván Rodriguez
baseball [catcher]: Texas Rangers [1991–2002]; Florida Marlins [2003]: 2003 World Series champs; Detroit Tigers [2004–2008]: 2006 World Series; New York Yankees [2008]; Houston Astros [2009]; Texas Rangers [2009]; Washington Nationals [2010–2011]1972 - Alan Van Sprang
actor: The Tudors, Diary of the Dead, Saw III, Land of the Dead et al., Anonymous Rex, In the Dark, Do or Die, Narc, Earth Angels1973 - Jason Reso aka Christian Cage
pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Wrestlemania XV, Summerslam, WWF Insurrextion, WWF King of the Ring, WWF Armageddon1974 - Marcellus Wiley
football [defensive end]: Columbia Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars1975 - Mark Blount
basketball [center]: Univ of Pittsburgh; NBA: Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets1978 - Clay Aiken
singer: runner-up winner of American Idol: The Search for a Superstar [2003]: album: Measure of a Man: Invisible, This is the Night, The Way1978 - Jordan Belfi
actor: Mexican Sunrise, Blood Deep, Pope Dreams, The Custodial Code, Close to Home, Remote, Elephant in the Living Room, Moonlight, Entourage1980 - Shane Victorino
baseball [left, center field]: San Diego Padres [2003]; Philadelphia Phillies [2005–2012]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2012]; Boston Red Sox [2013–2015]; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim [2015]1982 - Elisha Cuthbert
actress: 24, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Airspeed, Old School, Happy Endings1985 - Kaley Cuoco
actress: The Big Bang Theory, 8 Simple Rules, Lucky 13, The Penthouse, Hop, The Last Ride, The Flight Attendant1990 - Magnus Carlsen
Norwegian chess grandmaster: has held the #1 position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 2011; holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at an elite level in classical chess1994 - Nyjah Huston
pro skateboarder: gold medals at SLS Super Crown World Championship in 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019; 12 gold medals at the X Games
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Hit Music on This Day November 30
1944The Trolley Song (facts) - Judy Garland
I’ll Walk Alone (facts) - Dinah Shore
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