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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30, 2025: The Sunday After
Thanksgiving (US): Thanksgiving Sunday: -- An especial Sunday in
the liturgical calendar of many different American Christian
denominations, Thanksgiving Sunday especially focuses on
thankfulness to God for all good things received during the prior
year generally and during the Thanksgiving Day holiday season
particularly.It is also a day where frantic Thanksgiving travelers
are likewise encouraged to give each other some grace! As is
tradition, millions of Americans will cross many a state line to
be with loved ones over Thanksgiving weekend -- which means the
same hoards of holidaymakers will return from whence they came on
what has been called the busiest travel day of the year:
Thanksgiving Sunday! According to the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), more than 3 million travelers passed through
security checkpoints on Thanksgiving Sunday, November 30, 2025 -
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 29-30, 2023: New York City (New
York, NYC): The History Of New York City: Manhattan:
Manhattanhenges: Sunrise Manhattanhenge Day: -- Sunrise
Manhattanhenge occurs, when the rising Sun's disk is visible above
the horizon as it lines up with the east-west streets of the main
street grid of Manhattan, New York City. Excellent places for
viewing Manhattanhenge are 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th
Streets. Manhattanhenge, also jocularly called the Manhattan
Solstice, an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun
is aligned with the east-west streets of the main street grid of
Manhattan, New York City. The sunsets and sunrises each align
twice a year, on dates evenly spaced around the summer solstice
and winter solstice. The Summer Solstice 2022 Manhattanhenge dates
are as follows: On May 29, 2022, Half-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs,
when the upper half of the setting Sun's disk is visible above the
horizon; On May 30, 2022, Full-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs, when the
full setting Sun's disk is visible above the horizon; On July 11,
2022, Full-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs, when the full setting Sun's
disk is visible above the horizon; On July 12, 2022, Half-Sun
Manhattanhenge occurs, when the upper half of the setting Sun's
disk is visible above the horizon. On November 29 -30, 2022,
Sunrise Manhattanhenge occurs, when the rising Sund's disk is
visible above the horizon; Sunrise Manhattanhenge repeats on
January 11-12, 2023. The term Manhattanhenge was coined in 1997 by
astrophysicist and native New Yorker Neil deGrasse Tyson of The
American Museum of Natural History in their magazine "Natural
History". It is a reference to Stonehenge, the prehistoric
monument located in Wiltshire, England, which was constructed so
that the rising sun, seen from the center of the monument at the
time of the summer solstice, aligned with the outer "Heel
Stone" of the monument. The precise dates of Manhattanhenge
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30: Perpetual Youth Day: -- This
day is celebrated to mark the birthday of one of the greatest
television presenters and pioneers of rock and roll music - Dick
Clark. His show, "American Bandstand," was on air for
over 30 years, becoming the most sought-after show by youth across
the country, and the stepping stone for many great artists we have
now come to know and love. This American icon paved the way for
racially inclusive T.V shows and helped people fall in love with
rock 'n roll. Perpetual Youth Day is celebrated in recognition of
Clark's success and his impact on the youth over the years.
Contrary to what its name may suggest, Perpetual Youth Day goes
beyond a celebration of the youth in our society. This day honors
a great television presenter, actor, producer, cultural icon, and
also a rock and roll pioneer that changed the game for many
renowned musicians, and touched the lives of teenagers worldwide.
Dick Clark was an American radio and television personality who
graced our screens from the mid to late 20th century. He dedicated
his time and skills to providing premium and inclusive television
shows to the general public, specifically the youth. Dick was not
always his name however, he was born Richard Wagstaff Clark in
Bronxville, New York on November 30, 1929. Richard took on the
Dick Clark personality and name once he moved to Philadelphia in
1952, and four years later, he became the permanent host of the
show, "Bob Horn's Bandstand," which eventually became
known as "American Bandstand." Through the show, Dick
Clark was able to introduce rock and roll to many Americans, and
also exposed the likes of Ike & Tina Turner, Madonna, Stevie
Wonder, and many renowned artists to the world. "American
Bandstand" was one of the first racially inclusive shows to
hit the big screens, and is also the longest-running variety show
in T.V. history. Dick Clark was a pioneer for rock and roll at a
time when the world was not at all accepting of the now popular
genre. He was considered to be the world's oldest teenager due to
his unmatched connection with his teenage audience, and as of
1990, over two-thirds of the people who had been initiated into
the "Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame," had their first
television debut on his show. Clark was the star of other shows
beyond Bandstand, such as the "Pyramid Game Show" and
"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve". Perpetual Youth
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30: Native American Indian
Heritage Month: -- The last day of the commemorative month that
aims to provide a platform for Native people in the United States
of America to share their culture, traditions, music, crafts,
dance, and ways and concepts of life. This gives Native people the
opportunity to express to their community, both city, county and
state officials their concerns and solutions for building bridges
of understanding and friendship in their local area. Federal
Agencies are encouraged to provide educational programs for their
employees regarding Native American history, rights, culture and
contemporary issues, to better assist them in their jobs and for
overall awareness. On August 3, 1990, President of the United
States George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as
National American Indian Heritage Month. The bill read in part
that "The President has authorized and requested to call upon
Federal, State and local Governments, groups and organizations and
the people of the United States to observe such month with
appropriate programs, ceremonies and activities". This
landmark bill honoring America's Native people represented a major
step in the establishment of this celebration which began in 1976
when a Cherokee/Osage Indian named Jerry C. Elliott-High Eagle
authored Native American Awareness Week legislation the first
historical week of recognition in the nation for native peoples.
This led to 1986 with then President Ronald Reagan proclaiming
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30: Computer Security Day: --
Computer Security Day on November 30th reminds us to protect our
computers. Every day, computers become faster and more advanced.
Protecting the resources, tools, and information on them protects
the people who use them, too. Since the first home computer, how
we use them has changed. Today, we use computers to stay
connected. We bank and work from home. While computers are on
every campus in every school, many gain an education right from
home. We do our taxes, attend meetings, and research complex
issues all on computers. It makes sense to do everything possible
to keep these powerful machines secure. Right? Some of them hold a
lifetime of data. Precious and irreplaceable photos, journals,
novels, passwords. It is vital to protect even a portion of that
information. Our very identity exists on computers. Identity
theft, fraud, ransomware, and viruses constantly attack our
computers. They seek the most vulnerable users. In an instant,
they take us offline, derailing a lifetime of accomplishment.
Protect your family and business by giving your computers a
security check-up. To observe Computer Security Day: review your
computer's security now and on a regular basis. Use the checklist
below to secure your computer. If you use social media, it is also
a good time to review your settings. Social media is another way
identity thieves, viruses, and computer fraud is committed. Spread
the word on social media using #ComputerSecurityDay to inform
others how they can secure their data! CHECKLIST: Enable Windows
Update; Install and keep running antivirus software; Turn on
Windows Firewall; Keep all software updated; Always use strong
passwords; Don't share passwords and don't write them down; A
password is required to access my computer; Remove unused
programs; Secure your wireless network; Back up critical data; Use
caution when browsing the Internet; log off the computer when I'm
not using it; web browser does not store or remember my passwords;
Periodically remove temporary Internet files. In 1988, the
Association for Computer Security launched the first Computer
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30: Day Of Remembrance For All
Victims Of Chemical Warfare: -- An international commemoration
created by the United Nations that is held to remember and honor
the victims of chemical warfare and to affirm the Organization of
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' commitment to the cause.
Today aims to encourage efforts for eliminating the use of
chemical weapons. Chemical weapons were first invented in 1913 by
a German chemist named Fritz Haber. He is best known for inventing
the Haber-Bosch process that synthesizes ammonia from nitrogen gas
and hydrogen gas, which aids in synthesizing fertilizers. This
invention is used in global food production and supports nearly
half of the world's population. However, this isn't Haber's only
life-changing invention. During World War I, Haber signed the
Manifesto of the Ninety-Three, in which he and other German
scientists and scholars declared their support of the German
military. Haber developed and weaponized poisonous gasses to be
used in trench warfare, as well as gas masks and filters to
protect against them. The Germans first used their chemical
weapons in Belgium in 1915 at the Second Battle Of Ypres,
releasing 168 tons of chlorine gas. From then on, Haber and his
team continued to experiment and further developed their chemicals
to make them more effective. These efforts were later continued in
America where they developed a gas that released irritants, making
soldiers take off their masks and be exposed to the gas. There is
no doubt that these chemical weapons would be much stronger and
more fatal had they continued being developed. In 1992, a treaty
was drafted named the Chemical Weapons Convention and was enacted
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November 30, 1381: The Middle Ages (The
Medieval Period, The Mediaeval Period): Peasant Revolts: Medieval
And Early Modern European Peasant Wars: The Peasants' Revolt (Wat
Tyler's Rebellion, The Great Rising): -- The Peasants' Revolt, a
major uprising across large parts of England that began on May 30,
1381 caused by the socio-economic and political tensions generated
by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the
conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, instability
within the local leadership of London, and a host of other causes,
comes to an end after most of the rebel leaders were tracked down
and executed and at least 1,500 rebels had been killed. The
Peasants' Revolt has been widely studied by academics. The final
trigger for the revolt was the intervention of a royal official,
John Bampton, in Essex on May 30 1381, when his attempts to
collect unpaid poll taxes in Brentwood ended in a violent
confrontation, which rapidly spread across the south-east of the
country. A wide spectrum of rural society, including many local
artisans and village officials, rose up in protest, burning court
records and opening the local gaols. The rebels sought a reduction
in taxation, an end to the system of unfree labour known as
serfdom, and the removal of the King's senior officials and law
courts. Inspired by the sermons of the radical cleric John Ball
and led by Wat Tyler, a contingent of Kentish rebels advanced on
London. They were met at Blackheath by representatives of the
royal government, who unsuccessfully attempted to persuade them to
return home. King Richard II, then aged 14, retreated to the
safety of the Tower of London, but most of the royal forces were
abroad or in northern England. On 13 June, the rebels entered
London and, joined by many local townsfolk, attacked the gaols,
destroyed the Savoy Palace, set fire to law books and buildings in
the Temple, and killed anyone associated with the royal
government. The following day, Richard met the rebels at Mile End
and acceded to most of their demands, including the abolition of
serfdom. Meanwhile, rebels entered the Tower of London, killing
the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, whom they found
inside. On 15 June, Richard left the city to meet Tyler and the
rebels at Smithfield. Violence broke out, and Richard's party
killed Tyler. Richard defused the tense situation long enough for
London's mayor, William Walworth, to gather a militia from the
city and disperse the rebel forces. Richard immediately began to
re-establish order in London and rescinded his previous grants to
the rebels. The revolt had also spread into East Anglia, where the
University of Cambridge was attacked and many royal officials were
killed. Unrest continued until the intervention of Henry
Despenser, who defeated a rebel army at the Battle of North
Walsham on 25 or 26 June. Troubles extended north to York,
Beverley and Scarborough, and as far west as Bridgwater in
Somerset. Richard mobilised 4,000 soldiers to restore order. Late
19th-century historians used a range of sources from contemporary
chroniclers to assemble an account of the uprising, and these were
supplemented in the 20th century by research using court records
and local archives. Interpretations of the revolt have shifted
over the years. It was once seen as a defining moment in English
history, but modern academics are less certain of its impact on
subsequent social and economic history. The revolt heavily
influenced the course of the Hundred Years' War, by deterring
later Parliaments from raising additional taxes to pay for
military campaigns in France. The revolt has been widely used in
socialist literature, including by the author William Morris, and
remains a potent political symbol for the political left,
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30, 1667: #BOTD: #HBD! Jonathan
Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer
(first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who
became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common
sobriquet, "Dean Swift" (d. October 19, 1745) is #born
in Dublin, Ireland. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale
of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
(1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).
He is regarded by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the foremost
prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for
his poetry. He originally published all of his works under
pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B.
Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire,
the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing
style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire
being subsequently termed "Swiftian". His best known
full-length work is "Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into
Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel
Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships",
published by Benjamin Motte on October 28, 1726. It is a satire of
both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary
subgenre, and is a classic of English literature. Swift claimed
that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather
than divert it". The book was an immediate success. The
English dramatist John Gay remarked "It is universally read,
from the cabinet council to the nursery." Jonathan Swift died
in the city of his birth, Dublin, Ireland, aged 79. After being
laid out in public view for the people of Dublin to pay their last
respects, he was buried in his own cathedral by Esther Johnson's
side, in accordance with his wishes. The bulk of his fortune (12
pounds) was left to found a hospital for the mentally ill,
originally known as St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles, which
opened in 1757, and which still exists as a psychiatric hospital.
In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best
novels of all time in which Gulliver's Travels is listed as "a
satirical masterpiece".
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November 30, 1835: #BOTD: #HBD! Mark
Twain, American author, journalist, novelist, humorist,
entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer and critic, lauded as the
"greatest humorist this country has produced" and whom
William Faulkner called him "the father of American
literature" (d. April 21, 1910) is #born Samuel Langhorne
Clemens in Florida, Missouri shortly after an appearance of
Halley's Comet; he predicted that he would "go out with it"
as well, and indeed he died the day after the comet returned. Mark
Twain became famous as author of the novels The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
(1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the
setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an
apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter,
contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion
Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi
River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred
humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism
for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. His humorous story,
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was
published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel
in Angels Camp, California where he had spent some time as a
miner. The short story brought international attention and was
even translated into French. His wit and satire, in prose and in
speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend
to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures,
but he invested in ventures that lost most of it: notably the
Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of
its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the
wake of these financial setbacks, but he eventually overcame his
financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He
chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, even after
he had no legal responsibility to do so. Mark Twain died of a
heart attack in Stormfield, the mansion built for him in Redding,
Connecticut, aged 74. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira,
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November 30, 1874: #BOTD: #HBD! Winston
Churchill, British statesman, army officer, artist, painter,
historian and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from
1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955 (d. January 24, 1965) is
#born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England. Sir Winston
Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PCc, DL, FRS, RA, as a
Member of Parliament (MP), represented five constituencies over
the course of his career. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain
to victory during the Second World War. He led the Conservative
Party for fifteen years from 1940 to 1955. Churchill was #born
into an aristocratic family, the son of an English politician and
American socialite. Joining the British Army, he saw action in
British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War,
gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his
campaigns. Moving into politics, before the First World War, he
served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and
First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal
government. During the war, Churchill departed from government
following the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign. He briefly resumed
active army service on the Western Front as a battalion commander
in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government under
Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, Secretary Of State for War,
Secretary Of State for Air, then Secretary Of State for the
Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Baldwin's Conservative government
of 1924-1929, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925
to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as
creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Out of office
during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi
Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. At the outbreak of the
Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the
Admiralty. Following Neville Chamberlain's resignation in May
1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His speeches and radio
broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during
the difficult days of 1940-41 when the British Commonwealth and
Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to Adolf
Hitler. He led Britain as Prime Minister until after the German
surrender in 1945. After the Conservative Party's defeat in the
1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the
Labour Government. He publicly warned of an "Iron Curtain"
of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. He was
re-elected Prime Minister in the 1951 election. His second term
was preoccupied by foreign affairs, including the Malayan
Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War, and a UK-backed Iranian
coup. Domestically his government laid great emphasis on
house-building. Churchill suffered a serious stroke in 1953 and
retired as Prime Minister in 1955, although he remained an MP
until 1964. He died of a stroke at the age of 90 in Kensington,
London, England on the seventieth anniversary of his father's
death. He was given a state funeral six days later on 30 January,
the first for a non-royal person since Lord Carson in 1935. He was
given a state funeral six days later on January 30, , the first
for a non-royal person since Lord Carson in 1935. Planning for
Churchill's funeral had begun in 1953 under the code-name of
"Operation Hope Not" and a detailed plan had been
produced by 1958. His coffin lay in state at Westminster Hall for
three days and the funeral ceremony was at St Paul's Cathedral.
Afterwards, the coffin was taken by boat along the River Thames to
Waterloo Station and from there by a special train to the family
plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near his birthplace at
Blenheim Palace. Churchill was an accomplished artist and took
great pleasure in painting; he was so successful as a painter that
had he only painted, he still would have attained fame as a
financially and professionally successful artist. Named the
Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is among the
most influential people in British history, consistently ranking
well in opinion polls of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. As
a writer, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his
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Today, November 30, 2025
November 30, 1912: #BOTD: #HBD! Gordon
Parks, African American photographer, film director, pianist,
songwriter, composer, poet, writer and painter, first African
American to produce and direct major motion pictures, developing
films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black
Americans, and creating the "blaxploitation" genre, best
remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans taken during
the 1940s for a federal government project of the Farm Security
Administration, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and
as the director of the 1971 film Shaft (d. March 7, 2006) is #born
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks in Fort Scott, Kansas.
Gordon Parks became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism
in the 1940s through 1970s, particularly in issues of civil
rights, poverty and African Americans, and in glamour photography.
Parks died of complications from high blood pressure and prostate
cancer at his home in Manhattan at the age of 93. He is buried at
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November 30, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Efrem
Zimbalist, Jr., American soldier and actor best known for his
starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The
F.B.I. (d. May 2, 2014) #born in 1918 in New York City to Jewish
immigrants Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (1889-1985), a famous Russian-born
violinist, and Alma Gluck (1884-1938), an equally famous
Romanian-born operatic soprano. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is also known
as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series
Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth
in Batman: The Animated Series and associated spin-offs. He also
voiced Doctor Octopus in the 1990s Spider-Man animated series and
the 2000 PC, Dreamcast and PlayStation Spider-Man action-adventure
video game, and Justin Hammer from the second season of the 1994
Iron Man animated series. Zimbalist was drafted in 1941. Inducted
into the United States Army, he completed his initial training at
Fort Dix, New Jersey. Selected for officer candidate school, after
graduation in 1943 he received his commission as a second
lieutenant of Infantry. Zimbalist was assigned as a platoon leader
in Company L, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division and
participated in combat in Europe following the Normandy landings.
He was discharged at the end of the war, and his awards and
decorations included the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman
Badge, in addition to the Purple Heart he received for a shrapnel
wound to his leg during the battle of Huertgen Forest. Zimbalist
was most widely known for his starring role as Inspector Lewis
Erskine in the Quinn Martin television production The F.B.I.,
which premiered on September 19, 1965 and aired its final episode
on September 8, 1974. Zimbalist was generous in his praise of
producer Martin and of his own experience starring in the show.
Those who worked with him were equally admiring of the star's
professionalism and likable personality. Zimbalist maintained a
strong personal relationship with F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover,
who requested that the show be technically accurate and portray
his agents in the best possible light, and he insisted actors
playing F.B.I. employees undergo a background check. Zimbalist
subsequently spent a week in contact with Hoover in Washington,
D.C. and at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The men
remained mutual admirers for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover
held up Zimbalist as a model for F.B.I. employees' personal
appearance. The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation honored the character of Lewis Erskine in
1985 with a set of retired credentials, and on June 8, 2009 FBI
Director Robert Mueller presented Zimbalist with a plaque honoring
him for his work on the series. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. died from
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November 30, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Shirley
Chisholm, African American politician and Presidential Medal Of
Freedom recipient who in 1968 became the first black woman elected
to the United States Congress and the first woman or African
American nominated for President at a major party convention (d.
January 1, 2005) is #born Shirley Anita Chisholm in Brooklyn, New
York City, to immigrant parents of Guyanese and Barbaridan
descent. She spent a critical portion of her childhood in
Barbados, where her family was from, and would always consider
herself a Barbadian American. Chisholm represented New York's 12th
congressional district, a district centered on Bedford-Stuyvesant,
for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Back in the United States,
Chisholm studied and worked in early childhood education, becoming
involved in local Democratic party politics in the 1950s. In 1964,
overcoming some resistance because she was a woman, she was
elected to the New York State Assembly. Four years later she was
elected to Congress, where she led expansion of food and nutrition
programs for the poor and rose to party leadership. In 1972, she
became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for
President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the
Democratic Party's nomination. She retired from Congress in 1983
and taught at Mount Holyoke College, while continuing her
political organizing. Although nominated for an ambassadorship in
1993, health issues caused her to withdraw. Shirley Chisholm died
at her home in Ormond Beach, Florida; her health had been in
decline after she had suffered a series of small strokes the
previous summer. At her funeral, held in Palm Coast, Florida, the
minister said that Chisholm had brought about change because "she
showed up, she stood up and she spoke up." She is buried in
the Birchwood Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, where
the legend inscribed on her vault reads: "Unbought and
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November 30, 1936: World's Fairs: The
Great Exhibition Of The Works Of Industry Of All Nations (The
Great Exhibition, The Crystal Palace Exhibition): Conflagrations:
Conflagrations In The United Kingdom: Conflagrations In England:
The Destruction By Fire Of The Crystal Palance: -- The Crystal
Palace, a cast iron and plate glass structure originally built in
Hyde Park, London to house The Great Exhibition Of 1851, the first
World's Fair, and then later relocated to an open area of South
London known as Penge Place, one of the great wonders of the age,
is destroyed by fire. That evening, Sir Henry Buckland, manager of
the Crystal Palace board of trustees, was walking his dog near the
Palace with his daughter Crystal, named after the building, when
they noticed a red glow within it. When Buckland went inside, he
found two of his employees fighting a small office fire that had
started after an explosion in the women's cloakroom. Realising
that it was a serious fire, they called the Penge fire brigade.
Although 89 fire engines and over 400 firemen arrived, they were
unable to extinguish it. Within hours, the Palace was destroyed:
the glow was visible across eight counties. The fire spread
quickly in the high winds that night, in part because of the dry
old timber flooring, and the huge quantity of flammable materials
in the building. Buckland said, "In a few hours we have seen
the end of the Crystal Palace. Yet it will live in the memories
not only of Englishmen, but the whole world". One-hundred
thousand people came to Sydenham Hill to watch the blaze, among
them Winston Churchill, who said, "This is the end of an
age". Just as in 1866, when the north transept burnt down,
the building was not adequately insured to cover the cost of
rebuilding (at least 2M PS). The South Tower and much of the lower
level of the Palace had been used for tests by television pioneer
John Logie Baird for his mechanical television experiments, and
much of his work was destroyed in the fire. Baird is reported to
have suspected the fire was a deliberate act of sabotage against
his work on developing television, but the true cause remains
unknown. The last singer to perform there before the fire was the
Australian ballad contralto Essie Ackland. All that was left
standing after the fire were the two water towers and a section of
the north end of the main nave which was too badly damaged to be
saved. The south tower to the right of the Crystal Palace entrance
was taken down shortly after the fire, as the damage sustained had
undermined its integrity and presented a major risk to houses
nearby. Thos. W. Ward Ltd., Sheffield, dismantled the Crystal
Palace. The north tower was demolished with explosives in 1941. No
reason was given for its removal; it was rumoured that it was to
remove a landmark for German aircraft in the Second World War. In
fact Luftwaffe bombers actually navigated their way to central
London by tracking the Thames. The Crystal Palace grounds were
used as a manufacturing base for aircraft radar screens and other
hi-tech equipment of the time. This remained a secret until well
after the war. The Crystal Palace transmitting station was built
on the former aquarium site in the mid-1950s and still serves as
one of London's main television transmission masts. In northern
corner of the park is the Crystal Palace Bowl, a natural
amphitheatre where large-scale open-air summer concerts have been
held since the 1960s. These have ranged from classical and
orchestral music, to rock, pop, blues and reggae. Pink Floyd, Bob
Marley, Elton John, Eric Clapton, and The Beach Boys played the
Bowl during its heyday. The stage was rebuilt in 1997 with an
award-winning permanent structure designed by Ian Ritchie. The
Bowl has been inactive as a music venue for several years, and the
stage has fallen into a state of disrepair, but as of March 2020
London Borough of Bromley Council are working with a local action
group to find "creative and community-minded business
proposals to reactivate the cherished concert platform". In
2020 the base and foundation of the south tower were given
historic status.[77] They are located near the Crystal Palace
Museum on Anerley Hill, which is dedicated to the history of the
building. The Crystal Palace boasted the greatest area of glass
ever seen in a building; its 293,000 panes of glass, manufactured
by the Chance Brothers, astonished visitors with its clear walls
and ceilings that did not require interior lights. It has been
suggested that the name of the building resulted from a piece
penned by the playwright Douglas Jerrold, who in July 1850 wrote
in the satirical magazine Punch about the forthcoming Great
Exhibition, referring to a "palace of very crystal".
Designed by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851
feet (564 m) long, with an interior height of 128 feet (39 m), and
was three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral. The
990,000-square-foot building with its 128-foot-high ceiling was
completed in thirty-nine weeks. The Crystal Palace was built as a
temporary structure to house the first world's fair, The Great
Exhibition Of The Works Of Industry Of All Nations, also known as
The Great Exhibition, The Crystal Palace Exhibition, an
international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London,
from May 1 to October 15, 1851. It was the first in a series of
world's fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became
popular in the 19th century. The event was organised by Henry Cole
and Prince Albert, husband of Victoria, Queen of the United
Kingdom. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world
gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m2) exhibition space
to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial
Revolution. Organised by Howard Staunton, the first international
chess tournament took place at the Exhibition. The world's first
soft drink, Schweppes, was the official sponsor of the event.
Famous people of the time attended the Great Exhibition, including
Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday (who assisted with the
planning and judging of exhibits), Samuel Colt, members of the
Orleanist royal family and the writers Charlotte Bronte, Charles
Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, and William
Makepeace Thackeray. The future Arts and Crafts proponent William
Morris, then a teenager, later said he refused to attend the
Exhibition on the grounds of taste. The opening music, under the
superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett, was directed by
George Thomas Smart. After it was moved to the top of Penge Peak
next to Sydenham Hill, an affluent suburb of large villas, at the
end of the exhibition in June 1854, it remained there until its
destruction by fire in November 1936. The nearby residential area
was renamed Crystal Palace after the landmark. This included the
Crystal Palace Park that surrounds the site, home of the Crystal
Palace National Sports Centre, which was previously a football
stadium that hosted the FA Cup Final between 1895 and 1914.
Crystal Palace F.C. were founded at the site and played at the Cup
Final venue in their early years. The park still contains Benjamin
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November 30, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Abbie
Hoffman, American political and social activist and author,
co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), member of
the Chicago Eight/Chicago Seven, leader of the Flower Power
movement (d. April 12, 1989) is #born Abbot Howard Hoffman into
the middle class Jewish family of Florence (nee Schanberg) and
John Hoffman in Worcester, Massachusetts. Hoffman was arrested and
tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role
in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during
the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin,
David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee
Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the
"Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated
from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the
defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot,
the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman continued his
activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war
movement and the counterculture era. Abbie Hoffman died in his
apartment in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania of an intentional
overdose of 150 phenobarbital tablets and liquor, aged 52. Two
hundred pages of handwritten notes were nearby, many detailing his
moods. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1980. He had
recently changed treatment medications and was reportedly
depressed when his 83-year-old mother was diagnosed with cancer
(she died in 1996 at age 90). Some who were close to him claimed
that he was also unhappy about reaching middle age, combined with
the fact that the liberal upheaval of the 1960s had produced a
conservative backlash in the 1980s. In 1984, he had expressed
dismay that the current generation of young people were not as
interested in protesting and social activism as the youth had been
during the 1960s. His death was officially ruled a suicide.
Hoffman's fellow Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger disputed
this; he said, "I don't believe for one moment the suicide
thing" and said that Hoffman had "numerous plans for the
future." However, the coroner stood by the ruling, saying,
"There is no way to take that amount of phenobarbital without
intent. It was intentional and self-inflicted." His memorial
service was held a week later in Worcester, Massachusetts, at
Temple Emanuel, the synagogue that he attended as a child, with
1,000 friends and family members in attendance. His remains were
reportedly cremated, and the ashes scattered; however, there is an
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November 30, 1939: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Winter War (The Russo-Finnish War): --
Twenty Russian divisions of Soviet forces cross the Finnish border
in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish
cities, starting The Winter War. It began with the Soviet Invasion
Of Finland on November 30, 1939 (three months after the outbreak
of World War II), and it ended with the signing of the Moscow
Peace Treaty on March 13, 1940. The League Of Nations deemed the
attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the League on 14
December 1939. Though also known as the Russo-Finnish War, the
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November 30, 1947: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Decolonization Of Asia: The Arab-Israeli
Conflict: Mandatory Palestine: Intercommunal Conflict In Mandatory
Palestine: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The United Nations
Partition Plan for Palestine (United Nations Resolution 181 (II)):
The 1947-1948 Civil War In Mandatory Palestine: -- In reaction to
the United Nations General Assembly's adoption the day prior of UN
General Assembly Resolution 181, which created independent Arab
and Jewish States and a Special International Regime for the city
of Jerusalem, The 1947-1948 Civil War In Mandatory Palestine
begins, a war which would ultimately result in the founding of The
State Of Israel and The 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The partition plan
had been accepted by The Jewish Agency for Palestine and by most
Zionist factions, despite its perceived limitations; only the
fringes expressed dissatisfaction over territorial limits set on
the proposed Jewish State. The Arab Higher Committee, the Arab
League and other Arab leaders and governments rejected it and
indicated an unwillingness to accept any form of territorial
division, arguing that it violated the principles of national
self-determination in the UN Charter which granted people the
right to decide their own destiny. They announced their intention
to take all necessary measures to prevent the implementation of
the resolution, and immediately afterwards the 1947-48 Civil War
in Mandatory Palestine broke out, the beginning of the 1948
Palestine War, and the plan was not implemented. The Partition
Plan, a four-part document attached to the resolution, provided
for the termination of the Mandate, the progressive withdrawal of
British armed forces and the delineation of boundaries between the
two States and Jerusalem. Part I of the Plan stipulated that the
Mandate would be terminated as soon as possible and the United
Kingdom would withdraw no later than August 1, 1948. The new
states would come into existence two months after the withdrawal,
but no later than October 1, 1948. The Plan sought to address the
conflicting objectives and claims of two competing movements,
Palestinian nationalism and Jewish nationalism, or Zionism. The
Plan also called for Economic Union between the proposed states,
and for the protection of religious and minority rights. While
Jewish organizations collaborated with UNSCOP during the
deliberations, the Arab Palestinian leadership opted not to
participate. The 1947-1948 Civil war In Mandatory Palestine was
the first phase of The 1947-1949 Palestine war. During the civil
war, the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine clashed (the
latter supported by the Arab Liberation Army) while the British,
who had the obligation to maintain order, organized their
withdrawal and intervened only on an occasional basis. At the end
of the civil war phase of the war, from April 1948 to mid-May,
Zionist forces embarked on an offensive (Plan Dalet) that involved
conquering cities and territories in Palestine allocated to a
future Jewish state, as well as those allocated to the corpus
separatum of Jerusalem and a future Arab state according to the
1947 Partition plan for Palestine. This offensive greatly
accelerated the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, which was
effected by various violent means, including a number of massacres
such as the widely publicized Deir Yassin Massacre, when Zionist
paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem,
killing at least 107 Palestinian villagers, including women and
children., an attack was conducted primarily by the Irgun and Lehi
with support by the Haganah and Palmach, a massacre carried out
despite the village having agreed to a non-aggression pact. When
the British Mandate of Palestine ended on May 14, 1948, and with
the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, the
surrounding Arab states-Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, and
Syria-invaded what had just ceased to be Mandatory Palestine, and
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November 30: Chronology: Calendars: The
Months Of The Year: -- November ends, eleventh month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the latter being the most
widely used calendar in the world. November succeeds October and
precedes December. November is a month of late autumn in the
Northern Hemisphere and late spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
November retained its name (from Latin and Greek octo meaning
"nine") because it was the 9th month in the original
ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, with March being
the first month of the year. About 700 BC, it became the eleventh
month when January and February were added to the year before
March by King Numa Pompilius. Ancient Roman observances for
November include Ludi Plebeii (Latin, "The Plebeian Games"),
held from November 4 to November 17; Epulum Jovis, a ritual feast
of The Ides Of November held on November 13; and Brumalia, a
winter solstice festival celebrated in the eastern part of the
Roman Empire, begin on November 24. Among the Anglo-Saxons,
November was known as Blotmonath (Anglo Saxon: Blot, "Sacrifice"
and Monath, "Month"), because it was in this month that
the cattle which were to be offered as sacrifices to the gods were
slaughtered. October corresponds partly to the month of Brumaire
and partly to the month of Frimaire of The French Republican
Calendar. October's birthstones are topaz, especially yellow
topaz, and citrine, a transparent and yellow variety of quartz:
Its birth flower is the chrysanthemum sometimes abbreviated to
"mums" or "chrysanths". The zodiac signs are
Scorpio (until November 22) and Sagittarius (from then on).
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30: Dinovember: -- An annual
November observance invented in 2012 concludes where on each
night, toy dinosaurs undergo arrangement into charming or
mischievous positions making them look alive. Every morning,
children find dinosaurs, which remain frozen, while they appear in
various positions throughout the setting. The toy decorations
undergo changes similar to Elf on the Shelf, but the organizers
keep it free from commercial interests.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! Dick
Clark, American radio and television host and producer, film
actor, game show host, founder of Dick Clark Productions and a
cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American
Bandstand from 1957 to 1988 (d. April 18, 2012) is #born Richard
Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, New York. He also hosted the game
show Pyramid and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which
transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations. As host of
American Bandstand, Clark introduced rock & roll to many
Americans. The show gave many new music artists their first
exposure to national audiences, including Iggy Pop, Ike & Tina
Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Prince,
Talking Heads, Simon & Garfunkel and Madonna. Episodes he
hosted were among the first in which blacks and whites performed
on the same stage, and likewise among the first in which the live
studio audience sat without racial segregation. Singer Paul Anka
claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a "youth
culture". Due to his perennially youthful appearance and his
largely teenaged audience of American Bandstand, Clark was often
referred to as "America's oldest teenager" or "the
world's oldest teenager". In his off-stage roles, Clark
served as Chief Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions (a
financial interest in which he sold off in his later years). He
also founded the American Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain
modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973, he created and produced
the annual American Music Awards show, similar to the Grammy
Awards. Clark suffered a stroke in December 2004. With speech
ability impaired, Clark returned to his New Year's Rockin' Eve
show a year later on December 31, 2005. Subsequently, he appeared
at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, and every New Year's
Rockin' Eve show through the December 31, 2011 episode. Dick Clark
died of a heart attack at a hospital in Santa Monica, California,
aged 82, shortly after undergoing a transurethral resection
procedure to treat an enlarged prostate. After his estate obtained
the necessary environmental permits, he was cremated on April 20,
and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: George H.
W. Bush, American lieutenant, politician and businessman who
served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to
1993 (b. June 12, 1924) #dies after a long battle with vascular
Parkinson's disease at his home in Houston, Texas at the age of
94, the last World War II veteran to serve as US President. He is
buried at The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in
College Station, Brazos County, Texas. George H. W. Bush was born
George Herbert Walker Bush in Milton, Massachusetts. He is usually
called George H. W. Bush or Bush 41, to distinguish him from his
eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as president from 2001 to
2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush also served in the
U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, as Director of Central Intelligence, and as the 43rd vice
president of the United States. Bush was raised in Greenwich,
Connecticut and attended Phillips Academy before serving in the
United States Navy during World War II. After the war, he
graduated from Yale University and moved to West Texas, where he
established a successful oil company. After an unsuccessful run
for the United States Senate, he won election to the 7th
congressional district of Texas in 1966. President Richard Nixon
appointed Bush to the position of Ambassador to the United Nations
in 1971 and to the position of chairman of the Republican National
Committee in 1973. In 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed him as
the Chief of the Liaison Office in China, and in 1976 Bush became
the Director of Central Intelligence. Bush ran for president in
1980, but was defeated in the Republican presidential primaries by
Ronald Reagan. He was then elected vice president in 1980 and 1984
as Reagan's running mate. In the 1988 presidential election, Bush
defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis, becoming the first incumbent
vice president to be elected president in 152 years. Foreign
policy drove the Bush presidency, as he navigated the final years
of the Cold War and played a key role in the reunification of
Germany. Bush presided over the invasion of Panama and the Gulf
War, ending the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in the latter conflict.
Though the agreement was not ratified until after he left office,
Bush negotiated and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), which created a trade bloc consisting of the United
States, Canada, and Mexico. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988
campaign promise by signing a bill that increased taxes and helped
reduce the federal budget deficit. He also signed the Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990 and appointed David Souter and
Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Bush lost the 1992
presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton following an
economic recession and the decreased importance of foreign policy
in a post-Cold War political climate. After leaving office in
1993, Bush was active in humanitarian activities, often working
alongside Clinton, his former opponent. With George W. Bush's
victory in the 2000 presidential election, Bush and his son became
the second father-son pair to serve as the nation's president,
following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Another son, Jeb Bush,
unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in
the 2016 Republican primaries. Historians generally rank Bush as
an above average president.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Jiang
Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary
of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, 5th President
of China from 1993 to 2003 (b. August 17, 1926) #dies in Shanghai,
China at 12:13 pm from leukemia and multiple organ failures,
according to the Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency. On the
day of Jiang's death, the government released a notice that the
national flags would be flown half-staff in key locations of
Beijing and diplomatic missions abroad. Due to the ceaseless
boorish behavior of cultural revolution-raised Xi Jinping,
foreigners were not invited to attend official mourning
activities. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were
scattered into the mouth of Yangtze River. Jiang Zemin was born
Zemin Jiang in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, Kiangtu County, Kiangsu,
Republic Of China. Jiang has been described as the "core of
the third generation" of Communist Party leaders since 1989.
Jiang came to power unexpectedly as a compromise candidate
following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, when he replaced
Zhao Ziyang as General Secretary after Zhao was ousted for his
support for the student movement. With the waning influence of
Eight Elders due to old age and with the death of Deng Xiaoping in
1997, Jiang consolidated his hold on power and became the
"paramount leader" of the party and the country in the
1990s. Urged by Deng's Southern Tour in 1992 to accelerate
"opening up and reform", Jiang officially introduced the
term "socialist market economy" in his speech during the
14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held later
that year, ending a period of ideological uncertainty and economic
stagnation following 1989. Under Jiang's leadership, China
experienced substantial economic growth with the continuation of
reforms, saw the peaceful return of Hong Kong from the United
Kingdom in 1997 and Macau from Portugal in 1999 and improved its
relations with the outside world while the Communist Party
maintained its tight control over the government. His
contributions to party doctrine, known as the "Three
Represents," were written into the party's constitution in
2002. Jiang vacated the post of party General Secretary and
Politburo Standing Committee in 2002, but did not relinquish all
of his leadership titles until 2005, and continued to influence
affairs until much later. Jiang is the longest-living paramount
leader in the history of the PRC, surpassing Deng Xiaoping on
February 14, 2019.
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One) is #born in Parangipettai, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu,
India. Mahavatar Babaji is the name given to an ancient Indian
yogi by Yogiraj Lahiri Mahasaya, and several of his disciples, who
reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings
were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his 1946 book
Autobiography of a Yogi, including a report of Yogananda's own
meeting with the yogi. Another account was given by Sri Yukteswar
Giri in his 1894 book The Holy Science. According to Sri M's
autobiography (Apprenticed To A Himalayan Master), Babaji was Lord
Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji
changing his form to that of Lord Shiva. All of these accounts,
along with additional reported meetings, are described in various
biographies. According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has
resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan
regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of
disciples and others. He has been refered to as "The
Deathless Indian Avatar and God-Man, so no death date has been
ascribed to him.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1782: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment:
The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The
Treaty Of Paris (1783): -- Representatives of the United States
and King George III of Great Britain, meeting in Paris, France,
sign preliminary peace articles. They were formalized and likewise
signed in Paris on September 3, 1783 as The Treaty Of Paris
(1783), and it officially ended the American Revolutionary War and
the overall state of conflict between the two countries. The
treaty declared the U.S. "...to be free, sovereign and
independent states..." and that the British Crown
"...relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and
territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof." It
set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and
the United States of America, on lines "exceedingly generous"
to the latter. Details included fishing rights and restoration of
property and prisoners of war. Only Article 1 of the treaty, which
acknowledges the United States' existence as free, sovereign, and
independent states, remains in force. This treaty, and the
separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that
supported the American cause - France, Spain, and the Dutch
Republic - are known collectively as The Peace Of Paris (1783).
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Vincent
Scully, American art historian who was Sterling Professor (highest
academic rank at Yale University, akin to the rank of university
professor at other universities) Emeritus of the History of Art in
Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books
and both producer and host of documentaries on the subject (b.
August 21, 1920) #dies at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia of
complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 97. His burial details
are not publicly disclosed. Vincent Scully was born Vincent Joseph
Scully Jr. in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was raised.
Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most
influential architectural teacher ever." His lectures at Yale
were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and
regularly received standing ovations. Scully was a fierce critic
of the 1963 destruction of New York's original Pennsylvania
Station, memorably writing of it that, "One entered the city
like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat."
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Today, November 30, 2025November X, 1930: #DOTD: #RIP: Alfred
Wegener, German meteorologist, geophysicist, climatologist,
geologist, and polar researcher, during his lifetime primarily
known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of
polar research, but today most remembered as the originator of
continental drift hypothesis (b. November 1, 1880) #dies in
Greenland on an unknown date in November 1930 while returning from
an expedition to bring food to a group of researchers camped in
the middle of an icecap. He supplied the camp successfully, but
there was not enough food at the camp for him to stay there. He
and a colleague, Rasmus Villumsen, took dog sleds to travel to
another camp although they never reached it. Alfred Wegener was
born Alfred Lothar Wegener in Berlin, German Empire. By suggesting
in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth
(German: Kontinentalverschiebung), his hypothesis was so
controversial that he and his theory were widely rejected by
mainstream geology until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such
as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift,
and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of plate
tectonics. Wegener was involved in several expeditions to
Greenland to study polar air circulation before the existence of
the jet stream was accepted. Expedition participants made many
meteorological observations and were the first to overwinter on
the inland Greenland ice sheet and the first to bore ice cores on
a moving Arctic glacier. Sometime in November 1930: Alfred Wegener
died in Greenland while returning from an expedition to bring food
to a group of researchers camped in the middle of an icecap. He
supplied the camp successfully, but there was not enough food at
the camp for him to stay there. He and a colleague, Rasmus
Villumsen, took dog sleds to travel to another camp although they
never reached it. Villumsen buried the body with great care, and a
pair of skis marked the grave site. After burying Wegener,
Villumsen had resumed his journey to West camp, but he was never
seen again. Six months later, on May 12, 1931, the grave was
discovered halfway between Eismitte and West camp. Expedition
members built a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the ice and snow, and
Alfred Wegener's body was laid to rest in it. Wegener had been 50
years of age and a heavy smoker, and it was believed that he had
died of heart failure brought on by overexertion. Villumsen was 23
when he died, and it is estimated that his body, and Wegener's
diary, now lie under more than 100 metres (330 ft) of accumulated
ice and snow.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1952: #BOTD: #HBD! Mandy
Patinkin, American actor and singer, is #born Mandel Bruce
Patinkin in Chicago, Illinois, into the Jewish family of Doris Lee
"Doralee" (nee Sinton) (1925-2014), a homemaker who
wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook, and
Lester Don Patinkin (1919-1972), who operated two large
Chicago-area metal factories, The People's Iron & Metal
Company and The Scrap Corporation Of America. Mandy Patinkin is
well known for his portrayal of Inigo Montoya in the 1987 movie
The Princess Bride. His other film credits include Yentl (1983),
Alien Nation (1988), Dick Tracy (1990), and Wish I Was Here
(2014). He has appeared in major roles in television series such
as Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me, and Criminal Minds, and currently
plays Saul Berenson in the Showtime series Homeland. He is a noted
interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim and is known
for his work in musical theater, originating iconic roles such as
Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George and Che in the
original Broadway production of Evita.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Jim
Nabors, American actor, singer, and comedian, widely known for his
signature character, Gomer Pyle (d. June 12, 1930) #dies at his
Honolulu, Hawaii, home aged 87. He was cremated and the ashes were
scattered in Honolulu. The United States Marine Corps released a
statement on Nabors: "Semper Fi, Gomer Pyle. Rest in peace
Jim Nabors, one of the few to ever be named an Honorary Marine."
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Carol Burnett paid
tribute to Nabors saying they were "close friends for 52
years. ... My heart is heavy. I'm grateful he was a large part of
my life. I miss him. I love him." IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan
praised Nabors's performance of "Back Home Again in Indiana".
Journalist Larry King praised Nabors as a "gentle man with
immense talent" while sending condolences to his family. Jim
Nabors was born James Thurston Nabors in Sylacauga, Alabama.
Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith while working at a Santa
Monica nightclub, and he later joined The Andy Griffith Show,
where he played the good-natured, unsophisticated Gomer Pyle. The
character proved so popular that Nabors was given his own
successful spin-off show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Nabors also became
a popular guest on variety shows that showcased his rich baritone
singing voice in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the featured guest on
every season premiere of The Carol Burnett Show and he had two
specials of his own in 1969 and 1974. He signed a recording
contract with Columbia Records in 1965 and subsequently recorded
numerous albums and singles, most of them containing romantic
ballads. He recorded for Ranwood Records during the late 1970s.
Nabors was also known for singing "Back Home Again In
Indiana" before the start of the Indianapolis 500, held
annually on the Memorial Day weekend. He sang the unofficial
Indiana anthem almost every year from 1972 to 2014, except for
occasional absences due to illness or scheduling conflicts. On
January 15, 2013, Nabors married his partner of 38 years, Stan
Cadwallader, at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Washington,
a month after same-sex marriage became legal in Washington. They
had met in the 1970s, when Cadwallader was a fireman in Honolulu,
and began dating in 1975. Although Nabors's homosexuality was not
widely known before this, it was also not completely secret. For
instance, Nabors brought his then-partner Cadwallader along to his
Indy 500 performance in 1978. A longstanding rumor maintains that
Nabors married actor Rock Hudson in the early 1970s, shortly
before Nabors began his relationship with Cadwallader. Not only
was same-sex marriage not yet legal anywhere in the United States
at the time, but the two closeted gay actors were, according to
each, never more than casual friends. According to Hudson, the
story originated with a group of "middle-aged homosexuals who
live in Huntington Beach", who sent out joke invitations for
their annual get-together. One year, the group invited its members
to witness "the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors",
at which Hudson would take the surname of Nabors' most famous
character, Gomer Pyle, becoming "Rock Pyle". The rumors
spread, and because of this the two made sure they were never seen
in public together.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Jim
Nabors, American actor, singer, and comedian, widely known for his
signature character, Gomer Pyle (d. June 12, 1930) #dies at his
Honolulu, Hawaii, home aged 87. He was cremated and the ashes were
scattered in Honolulu. The United States Marine Corps released a
statement on Nabors: "Semper Fi, Gomer Pyle. Rest in peace
Jim Nabors, one of the few to ever be named an Honorary Marine."
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Carol Burnett paid
tribute to Nabors saying they were "close friends for 52
years. ... My heart is heavy. I'm grateful he was a large part of
my life. I miss him. I love him." IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan
praised Nabors's performance of "Back Home Again in Indiana".
Journalist Larry King praised Nabors as a "gentle man with
immense talent" while sending condolences to his family. Jim
Nabors was born James Thurston Nabors in Sylacauga, Alabama.
Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith while working at a Santa
Monica nightclub, and he later joined The Andy Griffith Show,
where he played the good-natured, unsophisticated Gomer Pyle. The
character proved so popular that Nabors was given his own
successful spin-off show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Nabors also became
a popular guest on variety shows that showcased his rich baritone
singing voice in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the featured guest on
every season premiere of The Carol Burnett Show and he had two
specials of his own in 1969 and 1974. He signed a recording
contract with Columbia Records in 1965 and subsequently recorded
numerous albums and singles, most of them containing romantic
ballads. He recorded for Ranwood Records during the late 1970s.
Nabors was also known for singing "Back Home Again In
Indiana" before the start of the Indianapolis 500, held
annually on the Memorial Day weekend. He sang the unofficial
Indiana anthem almost every year from 1972 to 2014, except for
occasional absences due to illness or scheduling conflicts. On
January 15, 2013, Nabors married his partner of 38 years, Stan
Cadwallader, at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Washington,
a month after same-sex marriage became legal in Washington. They
had met in the 1970s, when Cadwallader was a fireman in Honolulu,
and began dating in 1975. Although Nabors's homosexuality was not
widely known before this, it was also not completely secret. For
instance, Nabors brought his then-partner Cadwallader along to his
Indy 500 performance in 1978. A longstanding rumor maintains that
Nabors married actor Rock Hudson in the early 1970s, shortly
before Nabors began his relationship with Cadwallader. Not only
was same-sex marriage not yet legal anywhere in the United States
at the time, but the two closeted gay actors were, according to
each, never more than casual friends. According to Hudson, the
story originated with a group of "middle-aged homosexuals who
live in Huntington Beach", who sent out joke invitations for
their annual get-together. One year, the group invited its members
to witness "the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors",
at which Hudson would take the surname of Nabors' most famous
character, Gomer Pyle, becoming "Rock Pyle". The rumors
spread, and because of this the two made sure they were never seen
in public together.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert
Guillaume, African American actor and singer, known for his role
in Soap and its spin-off, Benson, as well as for voicing the
mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and related franchise film and
media (d. October 24, 2017) is #born Robert Peter Williams in St.
Louis, Missouri. In a career that spanned more than 50 years he
worked extensively on stage, television and film. He was nominated
for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Nathan Detroit in Guys and
Dolls, and twice won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of the
character Benson DuBois, once in 1979 on Soap and in 1985 on
Benson. He also won a Grammy Award in 1995 for his spoken word
performance of an audiobook version of The Lion King. He is also
known for his role as Eli Vance in the video game Half-Life 2.
Guillaume was the first African American actor to portray the
title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.
Robert Guillaume died of prostate cancer at his home in Los
Angeles, California, aged 89. He was cremated, and the final
disposition of his ashes are unknown.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1900: #DOTD: #RIP: Oscar
Wilde, Irish poet, playwright and journalist (b. October 16, 1854)
#dies in Paris, France aged 46, of meningitis, then known as
cerebral meningitis, an acute or chronic inflammation of the
protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. He is
buried at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Different opinions are
given as to the cause of the disease: Richard Ellmann judged it
was syphilitic; Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, thought this to
be a misconception, noting that Wilde's meningitis followed a
surgical intervention, perhaps a mastoidectomy, a procedure
performed to remove the mastoid air cells (air bubbles in the
skull) near the middle ear. Wilde's physicians, Paul Cleiss and
A'Court Tucker, reported that the condition stemmed from an old
suppuration (collection of pus) of the right ear from the prison
injury when he collapsed during chapel from illness and hunger,
which had been treated for several years, and made no allusion to
syphilis. Born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde at 21 Westland
Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College),
he was the second of three children born to an Anglo-Irish
intellectual couple: Lady Jane Wilde (nee Elgee), Irish poet under
the pen name "Speranza", Irish nationalist and Irish
folklorist; and Sir William Wilde, otolaryngologist (ENT doctor of
the head and neck), ophthalmologist (eye doctor) and author of
significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore,
particularly concerning his native Ireland. Oscar Wilde, after
writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, became one of the
most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best
remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of
Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for
gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and
early death at age 46. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent
French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he
demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at
Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with
the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors,
Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to
London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a
spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary
activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United
States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art"
and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he
worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit,
flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became
one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the
1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series
of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence,
duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The
Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct
aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social
themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in
French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due
to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects
on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society
comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most
successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. At the height of
his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
was still being performed in London, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess
of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of
Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed
evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own
arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more
trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour,
the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his
last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously
in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey
through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier
philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for
France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his
last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem
commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1964: #DOTD: #RIP: Don
Redman, African American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader,
singer and composer (b. July 29, 1900 #dies in New York City, aged
64; according to his brother-in-law, Velibor Pedevski, the cause
was liver failure. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
Don Redman was born Donald Matthew Redman in Piedmont, Mineral
County, West Virginia. His father was a music teacher, his mother
was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of three,
joined his first band at the age of six and by the age of 12 was
proficient on all wind instruments ranging from trumpet to oboe as
well as piano. He studied at Storer College in Harper's Ferry and
at the Boston Conservatory, then joined Billy Page's Broadway
Syncopaters in New York City. (He was the uncle of saxophonist
Dewey Redman, and thus great-uncle of saxophonist Joshua Redman
and trumpeter Carlos Redman.) In 1923, Redman joined the Fletcher
Henderson orchestra, mostly playing clarinet and saxophones. He
began writing arrangements, and Redman did much to formulate the
sound that was to become swing. A trademark of Redman's
arrangements was the band playing harmony under written solos. He
played brass and reed sections off each other in a call-response
pattern, having one section punctuate the figures of another, and
moved the melody around different orchestral sections and
soloists. His use of this technique was sophisticated, highly
innovative, and formed the basis of much big band jazz writing in
the following decades. In 1927 Jean Goldkette convinced Redman to
join McKinney's Cotton Pickers as their musical director and
leader. He was responsible for their great success and arranged
over half of their music (splitting the arranging duties with John
Nesbitt through 1931). Redman was occasionally featured as their
vocalist, displaying a charming, humorous vocal style. Redman then
formed his own band in 1931, which got a residency at the famous
Manhattan jazz club Connie's Inn. Redman signed with Brunswick
Records and also did a series of radio broadcasts. Redman and his
Orchestra also provided music for the animated short I Heard, part
of the Betty Boop series produced by Fleischer Studios and
distributed by Paramount. Redman composed original music for the
short, which was released on September 1, 1933. The Brunswick
records Redman made between 1931-1934 were some of the most
complex pre-swing hot jazz arrangements of popular tunes. Redman's
band didn't rely on just a driving rhythm or great soloists, but
it had an overall level of arranging sophistication that was
seldom heard by other black bands of the period. The popular
vocalist, Harlan Lattimore, provided about half of the vocals
during this period. In 1933, his band made a Vitaphone short film
for Warner Bros. Redman recorded for Brunswick through 1934. He
then did a number of sides for ARC in 1936 (issued on their
Vocalion, Perfect, Melotone, etc.) and in 1937, he pioneered a
series of swing re-arrangements of old classic pop tunes for the
Variety label. His use of a swinging vocal group (called "The
Swing Choir") was very modern and even today, quite usual,
with Redman's sophisticated counterpoint melodies. He signed with
Bluebird in 1938 and recorded with them until 1940, when he
disbanded. When Redman disbanded his orchestra, he concentrated on
freelance work writing arrangements. Some of his arrangements
became hits for Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. He
traveled to Europe in 1946 leading an all-star band that included
Don Byas, Tyree Glenn, and Billy Taylor. He appeared on Uptown
Jubilee on the CBS Television network for the 1949 season. In the
1950s he was music director for singer Pearl Bailey. In the early
1960s he played piano for the Georgia Minstrels Concert and
soprano sax with Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's band. He was named
a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame on May 6, 2009.
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1996: #DOTD: #RIP: Tiny Tim,
American singer, ukulele player and musical archivist (b. April
12, 1932) #dies of a heart attack aged 63 at a gala benefit hosted
by the Women's Club of Minneapolis suffered on stage in the middle
of a rendition of his hit, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips".
He is buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Born
Herbert Butros Khaury in Manhattan, New York City, known also as
Herbert Buckingham Khaury, and professionally as Tiny Tim, he is
best remembered for his cover hits "Tiptoe Through the
Tulips" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the
Moonlight", which he sang in a high falsetto voice. His
mother Tillie (nee Staff), a garment worker, was the daughter of a
rabbi; father, Butros Khaury, a textile worker from Beirut, was
the son of a Maronite Catholic priest. Khaury displayed musical
talent at a very young age. At the age of five, his father gave
him a vintage wind-up Gramophone and a 78-RPM record of "Beautiful
Ohio" by Henry Burr. He would sit for hours listening to the
record. At the age of six, he began teaching himself guitar. By
his pre-teen years, he developed a passion for records,
specifically those from the 1900s through the 1930s. He began
spending most of his free time at the New York Public Library,
reading about the history of the phonograph industry and its first
recording artists. He researched sheet music, often making
photographic copies to take home to learn, a hobby he continued
for his entire life. He attended George Washington High School in
Washington Heights, Manhattan. At eleven years of age, Khaury
began learning to play the violin and enjoyed performing at home
for his parents. He later picked up the mandolin and the ukulele
(which became his signature instrument). During his recovery from
having his appendix removed in 1945, he read the Bible and
listened to music on the radio; after his recovery, he rarely left
his room except to go to school, where he was a mediocre student.
After repeating his sophomore year of high school, he dropped out,
taking a series of menial jobs. In a 1968 interview on The Tonight
Show, he described the discovery of his ability to sing in an
upper register: "I was listening to the radio and singing
along; as I was singing I said 'Gee, it's strange. I can go up
high as well.'" In a 1969 interview he said he was listening
to Rudy Vallee sing in a falsetto, and "had something of a
revelation - I never knew that I had another top register,"
describing it as a religious experience. By the early 1950s, he
had landed a job as a messenger at the New York office of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where he became ever more fascinated
with the entertainment industry. He then entered a local talent
show and sang "You Are My Sunshine" in his newly
discovered falsetto. He started performing at dance club amateur
nights under different names, such as Texarkana Tex, Judas K.
Foxglove, Vernon Castle, and Emmett Swink. To stand out from the
crowd of performers he wore wild clothing and, after seeing an old
poster of a long-haired Rudolph Valentino, grew his own hair out
to shoulder length and wore pasty white facial makeup. His mother
did not understand Herbert's change in appearance and was
intending to take her son, now in his twenties, to see a
psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital, until his father stepped in. In
1959, he dropped all his other stage names and performed as "Larry
Love, the Singing Canary" at Hubert's Museum and Live Flea
Circus in New York City's Times Square. While performing there, he
signed with a manager who sent him on auditions throughout the
Greenwich Village section of New York, where he performed unpaid
amateur gigs, playing the ukulele and singing in his falsetto
voice the song which became his signature, "Tiptoe Through
the Tulips". Film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "I first saw
Tiny Tim very early in his career, in Greenwich Village in the
winter of 1962-63. There was a convention of college newspaper
editors, and a few of us - I remember Jeff Greenfield coming along
- went to the Black Pussycat and found ourselves being entertained
by a man the likes of whom we'd not seen before. He was already
locally popular." In 1963, he landed his first paying gig at
Page 3, a gay and lesbian club in Greenwich Village, playing 6
hours a night, 6 nights a week, for 96 USD per month. He performed
for the next two years as "Dary Dover", and after that,
"Sir Timothy Timms". After being booked to follow a
"midget" (sic) act, his manager, George King, billed the
6'1" (185 cm) Khaury using the ironic stage name "Tiny
Tim". The name stuck. Tiny Tim appeared in Jack Smith's
Normal Love (1963), as well as the independent feature film You
Are What You Eat (1968) in which he sang the Ronettes song "Be
My Baby" in his falsetto range; also featured was a rendition
of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe", with Tim singing
the Cher parts in his falsetto voice, along with Eleanor
Barooshian singing Sonny Bono's baritone part. These tracks were
recorded with musicians who later joined The Band. The "I Got
You Babe" performance led to a booking on the Rowan and
Martin's Laugh-In, a popular American television comedy-variety
show. Co-host Dan Rowan announced that Laugh-In believed in
showcasing new talent, and introduced Tiny Tim. The singer entered
carrying a shopping bag, pulled his Martin soprano ukulele from
it, and sang a medley of "A Tisket A Tasket" and "On
The Good Ship Lollipop" as an apparently genuinely
dumbfounded co-host Dick Martin watched. For his third number on
Laugh-In, Tiny Tim entered blowing kisses, preceded by an
elaborate procession of the cast and, after a short interview, he
sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips". In 1968, his first
album God Bless Tiny Tim was released. It contained an
orchestrated version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips",
which became a hit after being released as a single. For All My
Little Friends (1969) was a collection of children's songs and was
nominated for a Grammy Award. Tiny Tim was married three times,
and had one daughter from his first marriage to the then
17-year-old Victoria Budinger - also known as "Miss Vicki"
- at the age of 37.Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki on The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson on December 17, 1969, with 40 million
people watching. Shortly after their marriage, Miss Vicki
discovered she was pregnant, but the child was stillborn five
months later. Khaury buried the child with a headstone that read
"It". Budinger had a second pregnancy with Khaury a year
later, and in 1971, the couple gave birth to daughter Tulip
Victoria. Tiny Tim and Victoria Budinger divorced three years
later. Budinger subsequently had several marriages. Tiny Tim
married Jan Alweiss ("Miss Jan") in 1984, and Susan
Marie Gardner ("Miss Sue") in 1995. Gardner was a 39
year old Harvard graduate and a fan of Tim's since she was 12.
When Tiny Tim first became well known to the American public, many
people erroneously believed that he was British. Many pundits and
journalists debated whether the character being presented was just
an orchestrated act or the real thing. "It quickly became
clear that he was genuine," however, and that he could
probably be best described as "a lonely outcast intoxicated
by fame" and "a romantic" always in pursuit of his
ideal dream. After his career highlights in the late 1960s, Tiny
Tim's television appearances dwindled, and his popularity began to
wane. He continued to play concerts around the United States,
making several lucrative appearances in Las Vegas. When his
recording contract ended with Reprise, he founded his own record
label and humorously named it Vic Tim Records, as a pun on the
combination of his wife's name with that of his own. He performed
with the American alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven in
1986. He played the lead role in the 1987 horror film Blood
Harvest, acting the role of Mervo. In the 1990s, he released
several albums, including Rock (1993), I Love Me (1993), and Girl
(1996). Tiny Tim played the ukulele left-handed (but the guitar
right-handed), though he retained the standard string placement.
The instruments he played included a vintage Martin, a Favilla,
and a Johnston metal resonator. Tiny was a huge fan of Arthur
Godfrey and taught himself to play using a method book that came
with the Godfrey-endorsed Maccaferri Islander plastic ukulele. On
September 28, 1996, Tiny suffered a heart attack just as he began
singing at a ukulele festival at the Montague Grange Hall in
Montague, Massachusetts (this hall is often confused in accounts
of the incident with the nearby Montague Bookmill, at which he had
recorded a video interview earlier that same day). He was
hospitalized at the nearby Franklin County Medical Center in
Greenfield for approximately three weeks before being discharged
with strong admonitions not to perform again because of his
health, weight, and dietary needs for his diabetic and heart
conditions. Nevertheless, he ignored the advice. On November 30,
1996, he was playing at a gala benefit hosted by the Women's Club
of Minneapolis. He had let his third wife ("Miss Sue")
know before the show that he was not feeling well, but did not
want to disappoint the fans. By the end of his performance, most
of the audience had left. While performing his last number of the
evening, he suffered another heart attack on stage in the middle
of a rendition of his hit, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips".
His wife asked him if he was feeling all right, and he said he was
not; she was helping him back to their table when he collapsed,
and never regained consciousness. EMTs performed on-site CPR and
transported him to Hennepin County Medical Center, where after
repeated revival attempts he was pronounced dead at 11:20 pm. His
remains are entombed in a mausoleum in Lakewood Cemetery in
Minneapolis. His cover of "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in
the Moonlight" was featured in the "Help Wanted"
segment of the first episode of the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.
His rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was a main
part of the 2011 horror film Insidious and also used as a bass
track in "The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda" in the mix
Tip Toe. In Ursula Dubosarsky's trilogy for children, The Strange
Adventures of Isador Brown, the hero Isador's Daddy has long red
hair and plays the ukulele, and is, according to the author, based
on and inspired by Tiny Tim. He also appeared in WWE in 1993, in a
skit with Jerry Lawler on "King's Court" while going
under his king gimmick at the time. Lawler smashed Tim's ukulele,
forcing Tim to cry.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Evel
Knievel (1971) George Hamilton DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Evel
Knievel, American motorcycle rider, stuntman and entertainer (b.
October 17, 1938) #dies in Clearwater, Florida, aged 69; he had
been suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for
many years. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Butte,
Montana. Born Robert Craig Knievel in Butte, Montana, he attempted
over the course of his career more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle
jumps. During his career, Knievel may have suffered more than 433
bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World
Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime".
However, this number could be exaggerated: his son Robbie told a
reporter in June 2014 that his father had broken 40 to 50 bones;
Knievel himself claimed he broke 35. On January 7 and 8, 1971,
Knievel set the record by selling over 100,000 tickets to
back-to-back performances at the Houston Astrodome. On February
28, he set a new world record by jumping 19 cars with his
Harley-Davidson XR-750 at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario,
California. The 19-car jump was filmed for the movie Evel Knievel.
Knievel held the record for 27 years until Bubba Blackwell jumped
20 cars in 1998 with an XR-750. In 2015, Doug Danger surpassed
that number with 22 cars, accomplishing this feat on Evel
Knievel's actual vintage 1972 Harley-Davidson XR-750. For 35
years, Knievel held the record for jumping the most stacked cars
on a Harley-Davidson XR-750 (the record was broken in October
2008). His historic XR-750 is now part of the collection of the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Made of steel,
aluminum and fiberglass, the customized motorcycle weighs about
300 pounds. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame
in 1999. He died of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida, in
2007, aged 69.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Key
To Watergate: Call Girl Scandal Investigation DVD, MP4, USB
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1930: #BOTD: G. Gordon
Liddy, American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal
(d. March 30, 2021) is #born George Gordon Battle Liddy in
Brooklyn, New York. G. Gordon Liddy is best known as the chief
operative in the White House Plumbers unit that existed from July
to September 1971, during Richard Nixon's presidency. He was
convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his
role in the Watergate scandal. Separately, along with E. Howard
Hunt, Liddy organized and directed the burglary of the Democratic
National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in May
and June 1972. After five of Liddy's operatives were arrested
inside the DNC offices on June 17, 1972, subsequent investigations
of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy
was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and refusing to testify to
the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He served nearly
fifty-two months in federal prisons. Liddy later joined with
(former Harvard University professor) Timothy Leary for a series
of popular debates on various college campuses, and similarly
worked with Al Franken in the late 1990s. Liddy served as a radio
talk show host from 1992 until his retirement on July 27, 2012.
His radio show as of 2009 was syndicated in 160 markets by Radio
America and on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio
stations in the United States. He had been a guest panelist for
Fox News Channel in addition to appearing in a cameo role or as a
guest celebrity talent in several television shows. G. Gordon
Liddy died at his daughter's house in Fairfax County, Virginia at
the age of 90 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He is
buried at Saint Peters Cemetery in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Jack
Benny Presents Golden Memories Of Radio LPs CD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Bert
Gordon, American comedian known as "The Mad Russian" and
voice actor who appeared in vaudeville, radio, and in film (b.
April 8, 1895) #dies of cancer at his home in Duarte, California
at the age of 79. He is buried at Eden Memorial Park in Los
Angeles, Mission Hills, California. Born Barney Gorodetsky in
Manhattan, New York, he appeared in many roles over his lengthy
career. As "The Mad Russian", he was a regular on The
Eddie Cantor Program, and also appeared on The Jack Benny Program,
and The Abbott and Costello Program. In 1945 he starred in his own
film vehicle, How Doooo You Do!!!, directed by Ralph Murphy; the
film takes its title from Gordon's distinctive way of introducing
himself, which became a catch phrase in the early 1940s. After
1942, Bert Gordon was no longer referred to on the Eddie Cantor
Show as The Mad Russian, but as "Our Russian Friend,"
this presumably so as not to give offense to Stalin, the Russians
having recently switched alliance so as to be on the side of the
Allies. Following the defeat of Germany in the spring of 1945, and
Russia then being at odds with the United States, Bert Gordon was
dropped from the show entirely. Gordon played himself in an
episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1964 along with several other
radio-era performers.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Golden Age Of Comedy 5 Album Set CD, MP3, USB Stick
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Allan
Sherman, American actor, comedian, comedy writer, song parodist,
television producer and singer (d. November 20, 1973) is #born
Allan Copelon to the Jewish family of Rose Sherman and Percy
Copelon, an auto mechanic and race car driver who weighed over 350
pounds and died while attempting a 100-day diet, Allan adopted his
mother's maiden name when his parents divorced when he was in
grade school. Allan Sherman became famous as a song parodist in
the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer (1962),
became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His
biggest hit single was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", a
comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences
to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. In his final
years, Sherman's alcoholism and weight gain caused severe
deterioration of his health; he later developed diabetes and
struggled with lung disease. In 1966, his wife Dee filed for
divorce and received full custody of their son and daughter.
Sherman lived on unemployment benefits for a time and moved into
the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital for
a short time before his death to lose weight. He died at his home
in West Hollywood, ten days shy of his 49th birthday. He is
entombed in Culver City, California's Hillside Memorial Park
Cemetery.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
America: The Second Century Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1930: #DOTD: #RIP: Mother
Jones, Irish-born American organizer, former schoolteacher and
dressmaker, called "the most dangerous woman in America"
in 1902 for her success in organizing mine workers and their
families against the mine owners, prominent union organizer,
community organizer, and activist (b. May 1, 1830
[Self-Proclaimed] #dies at the farm of her friends Walter and
Lillie May Burgess in what was then Silver Spring, Maryland, now
part of Adelphi. There was a funeral Mass at St. Gabriel's in
Washington, D.C. She is buried in the Union Miners Cemetery in
Mount Olive, Illinois, alongside miners who died in the 1898
Battle of Virden. She called these miners, killed in
strike-related violence, "her boys." In 1932, about
15,000 Illinois mine workers gathered in Mount Olive to protest
against the United Mine Workers, which soon became the Progressive
Mine Workers of America. Convinced that they had acted in the
spirit of Mother Jones, the miners decided to place a proper
headstone on her grave. By 1936, the miners had saved up more than
16K USD and were able to purchase "eighty tons of Minnesota
pink granite, with bronze statues of two miners flanking a
twenty-foot shaft featuring a bas-relief of Mother Jones at its
center." On October 11, 1936, also known as Miners' Day, an
estimated 50,000 people arrived at Mother Jones's grave to see the
new gravestone and memorial. Since then, October 11 is not only
known as Miners' Day but is also referred to and celebrated in
Mount Olive as "Mother Jones's Day." The farm where she
died began to advertise itself as the "Mother Jones Rest
Home" in 1932, before being sold to a Baptist church in 1956.
The site is now marked with a Maryland Historical Trust marker,
and a nearby elementary school is named in her honor. Mother Jones
was born Mary G. Harris on the north side of Cork, Ireland. Her
exact date of birth is uncertain; she was baptized on August 1,
1837, so it is presumed she was actually born on 1837, not in her
self-proclaimed birth year. She amd her family were victims of the
Great Famine, which drove more than a million families, including
her family the Harrises, to immigrate to North America when Harris
was 10. Mother Jones helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans
on child labor, and co-founded the socialist trade union, the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and
four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop
and all of her belongings were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire
of 1871, she then devoted herself to organizing and advancing the
cause of Labor, using the slogan, "Join the Union, boys."
She became an organizer for the Knights Of Labor and the United
Mine Workers union. She also sought to prohibit child labor; in
1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in
the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's
march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore
Roosevelt in New York. She remained active until the very end,
giving her last speech on her self-problaimed 100th birthday.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lux
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Virginia
Mayo, American actress, dancer and beauty (d. January 17, 2005) is
#born Virginia Clara Jones in St. Louis, Missouri. She was in a
series of popular comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner
Bros. biggest box-office draw in the late 1940s. She also
co-starred in the 1946 Oscar-winning movie The Best Years of Our
Lives. Mayo was one of the first to be awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hers is located at 1751 Vine Street.
Virginia Mayo died sof pneumonia and complications of congestive
heart failure in a nursing home in Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles,
California, aged 84. She is buried next to her husband Michael
O'Shea in Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Park in Westlake Village,
California.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Tommy:
The Who In Concert 1989 DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 1955: #BOTD: #HBD! Billy
Idol, English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor who achieved
fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer
of Generation X, then later embarked on a solo career which led to
international recognition and made him a lead artist during the
MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in America, is
#born William Michael Albert Broad in Stanmore, London Borough Of
Harrow, Greater London, England, to Irish housewife Joan (nee
O'Sullivan) and English salesman William Alfred Broad. His mother
was from Cork, while his father was from Birmingham and therefore
qualifies for Irish citizenship through his mother, but it is
unknown if he has ever applied for it. Idol began his music career
in 1976 as a guitarist in the punk rock band Chelsea, but left the
group after a few weeks and formed Generation X with his former
Chelsea bandmate Tony James. With Idol as lead singer, the band
achieved success in the UK and released three studio albums on
Chrysalis Records before disbanding. In 1981, Idol moved to New
York City to pursue his solo career in collaboration with
guitarist Steve Stevens. His debut studio album Billy Idol (1982)
was a commercial success, and Idol became a staple of the then-new
television channel MTV with the music videos for his singles
"Dancing With Myself" and "White Wedding".
Idol's second studio album Rebel Yell (1983) was a major
commercial success, featuring hit singles "Rebel Yell"
and "Eyes Without a Face". The album was certified
double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) for selling 2 million copies in America, and he then
released Whiplash Smile (1986). He released the greatest hits
album Idol Songs: 11 of the Best (1988), which went platinum in
the UK, and then released Charmed Life (1990) and the concept
album Cyberpunk (1993). Idol spent the second half of the 1990s
focusing on his personal life out of the public eye. In 1990, he
broke his leg in a motorcycle accident, and later said in his
biography Dancing With Myself (2014) that "by the time the
motorcycle accident happened, had been living by the credo 'live
every day as if it's your last, and one day you're sure to be
right'". He made a musical comeback with the release of
Devil's Playground (2005) and later released Kings & Queens of
the Underground (2014) and Dream Into It (2025).
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock &
Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 30, 2025November 30, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Christine
McVie, English singer, songwriter and keyboardist best known as
one of the three lead vocalists and the keyboardist of Fleetwood
Mac (b. July 12, 1943) #dies of a stroke in hospital in London,
Englad at the age of 79. She had been suffering from metastatic
cancer of unknown primary origin. Her remains were cremated, and
the final disposition of her ashes are known only to have been
given to family or friends. In a statement following her death,
Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone
could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in
their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had
been her "best friend in the whole world". Christine
McVie was born Christine Anne Perfect in the village of Greenodd
in the Furness area of Lancashire, England. Known professionally
as Christine McVie following her marriage to John McVie, bassist
of Fleetwood Mac (formerly of John Mayal And The Bluesbreakers),
she joined the band in 1970. She released three solo albums. McVie
is known for her contralto vocals and her direct but poignant
lyrics, which concentrated on love and relationships. Eight of her
songs appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. In
1998 McVie was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a
member of Fleetwood Mac and received the Brit Award for
Outstanding Contribution to Music. The same year, after almost 30
years with the band, she opted to leave and lived in
semi-retirement for nearly 15 years. McVie released one solo album
in 2004. In September 2013, McVie appeared on stage with Fleetwood
Mac at London's O2 Arena. She rejoined the band in October 2014,
ready for Fleetwood Mac's On with the Show tour. In 2014 she
received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the
British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Native
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Today, November 30, 2025November 30: Native Women's Equal Pay
Day: -- Marks the day that Native women need to work until they
made what white men made in the previous year. In other words, it
takes Native women 21 months to earn what white men earn in 12
months due to the disparity in pay. This is an important issue to
highlight and this day brings it to light by spreading awareness
about the inequality of pay for women. This holiday encourages us
to raise awareness on such a topic and recognize the numerous
struggles that women face. Wage gaps in terms of gender and race
have been around since the beginning of civilization. It wasn't
until the 1860s that the public raised their voice against this
disparity in the U.S. under the rallying cry of 'Equal Pay for
Equal Work.' This was spearheaded by women's rights activists
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who made a case for
bridging the wage gap in their newspaper, "The Revolution,"
and in speeches such as 'The Power of the Ballot to Bring Women
Equal Pay for Equal Work.' With the adoption of the Equal Pay Act
in 1963, the next significant attempt to fix the disparity on a
national level came two decades later. It made it illegal for
businesses to pay male and female employees different wages for
jobs that require equal ability, effort, and responsibility and
performed under identical working conditions. It did, however,
allow for a few exceptions, such as compensation packages based on
seniority or merit. When President John F. Kennedy signed the bill
into law, he stated that paying men and women different rates for
the same work was "an unconscionable practice," noting
that "the average woman worker gets barely 60% of the average
wage for men." A year later, in 1964, Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act was enacted, making it illegal to make judgments based
on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. However, gender
and race disparity in pay has persisted in society and is larger
for certain groups than others. Native women make 60 cents for
every dollar made by white men. They have to put in additional 9
months of work to earn what a white man does in a year. This
inequality needs to be brought to the forefront and awareness is
the first step to it. Hence, September 8 of every year is
dedicated to being Native Women's Equal Pay Day.
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