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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 534 BC: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Theatre: Acting: The History Of Acting: -- Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. He was, according to Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as him or herself). In other sources, he is said to have introduced the first principal actor in addition to the chorus. Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs (songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains). He is credited with introducing a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories, distinguishing between the characters with the aid of different masks. This new style was called tragedy, and Thespis was the most popular exponent of it. Eventually, in 534 BC competitions to find the best tragedy were instituted at the City Dionysia in Athens, and Thespis won the first documented competition. Capitalising on his success, Thespis also invented theatrical touring; he would tour various cities while carrying his costumes, masks and other props in a horse-drawn wagon. He therefore is the creator of acting. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/greek-fire-ancient-greece-in-the-modern-era-tv-documentary-series.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1248: The History Of Spain: The Reconquista (Spanish: "Reconquest") (The Reconquest Of Al-Andalus): The Siege Of Seville: -- The Christian forces of King Ferdinand III Of Castile succeed in their 16-month military investment (the military process of surrounding an enemy fort or town with armed forces to prevent entry or escape) of the Andalusian town of Seville in southern Spain. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Although eclipsed somewhat in geopolitical importance by the rapid capture of Cordoba in 1236, an event which sent a shockwave through the Muslim world, The Siege Of Seville was nonetheless the most complex military operation undertaken by Fernando III. It was also the last major operation of the Early Reconquista, and also marked the first appearance of military significance of indigenous naval forces of Castile-Leon; in effect, Ramon de Bonifaz was the first admiral of Castile, although he never held an official title of that kind. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/timeline-tv-series-on-the-middle-ages-in-tv-newscast-format-2-dvd-se2.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1859: #BOTD: Billy The Kid, also known as William H. Bonney, American Old Wild West outlaw gunfighter (d. July 14, 1881) is #born Henry McCarty in New York City on either September 17 or November 23, 1859. He killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21 by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. He took part in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, an Old West conflict between rival factions, which began in 1878, in New Mexico Territory, the predecessor to the modern state of New Mexico, and dragged on until 1881. During that time, he allegedly took part in three murders. McCarty was orphaned at age 13. The owner of a boarding house gave him a room in exchange for work. His first arrest was for stealing food at age 16 in late 1875. Ten days later, he robbed a Chinese laundry and was arrested, but he escaped only two days later. He tried to stay with his stepfather, and then fled from New Mexico Territory into neighboring Arizona Territory, making him both an outlaw and a federal fugitive. After murdering a blacksmith during an altercation in August 1877, Bonney became a wanted man in Arizona Territory and returned to New Mexico, where he joined a group of cattle rustlers. He became a well-known figure in the region when he joined the Regulators and took part in the Lincoln County War. In April 1878, the Regulators killed three men, including Lincoln County Sheriff William J. Brady and one of his deputies. Bonney and two other Regulators were later charged with killing all three men. Bonney's notoriety grew in December 1880 when the Las Vegas Gazette in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and The Sun in New York City carried stories about his crimes. Sheriff Pat Garrett captured Bonney later that month at Stinking Springs, New Mexico. In April 1881, Bonney was tried and convicted of the murder of Brady, and was sentenced to hang in May of that year. He escaped from jail again on April 28, 1881, killing two sheriff's deputies in the process and evading capture for more than two months. Billy The Kid died when he was shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner, aged 21. He is buried at Old Fort Sumner Cemetery in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. During the following decades, legends that Bonney had survived that night grew, and a number of men claimed to be him. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-documents-the-legendary-west-w-ben-johnson-dvd-download.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1887: #BOTD: #HBD! Boris Karloff, English actor and horror film star (d. February 2, 1969) is #born William Henry Pratt in London, England. Pimarily known for his roles in horror films, he portrayed Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939), which resulted in his immense popularity. He also appeared as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932). His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). For his contribution to film and television, Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A longtime heavy smoker, he had emphysema which left him with only half of one lung still functioning when he contracted bronchitis in late 1968 and was hospitalised at University College Hospital in London, England. He died of pneumonia at King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, in Sussex, at the age of 81. His body was cremated following a requested modest service at Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey, where his ashes are interred. He is commemorated there by a plaque in The Garden Of Remembrance. A memorial service was held at St Paul's, Covent Garden ("The Actors' Church"), London, England, where there is also a plaque. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/british-intelligence-1940-boris-karloff-wwi-spy-film-dvd-mp19404.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1888: #BOTD: #HBD! Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, mime artist, musician, singer and secret diplomatic courier for the United States (d. September 28, 1964) is #born Adolph Marx in Manhattan, New York. Harpo was the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho Marx and Chico Marx, Harpo' comic style was visual, being an example of both clown and pantomime traditions. He wore a curly reddish blonde wig, and never spoke during performances (he blew a horn or whistled to communicate). He frequently used props such as a horn cane, made up of a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn, and he played the harp in most of his films. In 1933, following U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, Harpo spent six weeks in Moscow as a performer and goodwill ambassador. His tour was a huge success, and the show ran for six weeks. Harpo's name was transliterated into Russian, using the Cyrillic alphabet, as "XAPNO MAPKC," which is how he was billed during his Soviet Union appearances. Harpo, having no knowledge of Russian, pronounced it as "Exapno Mapcase". At that time, Harpo and the Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov became friends and even performed a routine on stage together. During this time he served as a secret courier, delivering communiques to and from the US embassy in Moscow at the request of Ambassador William Christian Bullitt Jr., smuggling the messages in and out of the Soviet Union by taping a sealed envelope to his leg beneath his trousers. Marx recounted his relief at his voyage's end: "I pulled up my pants, ripped off the tape, unwound the straps, handed over the dispatches from Ambassador Bullitt, and gave my leg its first scratch in ten days." Harpo Marx died on his 28th wedding anniversary at age 75 in a West Los Angeles hospital, one day after undergoing heart surgery. Harpo's death was said to have hit the surviving Marx brothers very hard. Groucho's son Arthur Marx, who attended the funeral with most of the Marx family, later said that Harpo's funeral was the only time in his life that he ever saw his father cry. In his will, Harpo Marx donated his trademark harp to the State of Israel, where it was later used in an Israeli orchestra. His remains were cremated at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and a portion of his ashes were allegedly scattered in the sand trap at the 7th hole of a golf course in Rancho Mirage, California. He was survived by his wife Susan, four children Bill, Alex, Jimmy, and Minnie and younger brothers Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ten-year-lunch-wit-and-legend-of-algonquin-round-table-dvd.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1939: The United States: The History Of The United States: Federal Holidays In The United States: Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving [US], American Thanksgiving): Franksgiving: -- Thanksgiving is celebrated for the first time not on the last Thursday of November but rather on that year's fourth Thursday, in accordance with President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order to that effect. This change was intended to help boost the economy by providing an extra seven days for Christmas shopping. Despite this decision leading to significant public backlash, with many people deriding the holiday as Franksgiving, in December 1941, just after America's entry into World War II, Congress made it a point to approve the president's traditional yearly Thanksgiving Proclamation, especially that proclamation's designating the federal Thanksgiving Day holiday as the fourth Thursday in November, starting in 1942. As a result, Thanksgiving would from then on be celebrated between November 22 and 28, the fourth Thursdays of any given November. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/franklin-roosevelt-documentaries-dual-layer-dvd.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1943: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Gilbert And Marshall Islands Campaign: Operation Galvanic: The Battle Of Tarawa: -- The Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. On November 20, The Battle Of Tarawa began in the Pacific War, as American troops attacked the Japanese on the heavily fortified Gilbert Islands. It took eight days for the 5th Amphibious Corps, 2nd Marine Division and the 27th Infantry Division to take Tarawa and Makin Islands. Over 1,000 Americans were killed with 2,311 wounded. The Japanese lost 4,700. The Battle Of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) (November 20-23, 1943) began in the Pacific War as American troops attacked the Japanese on the heavily fortified Gilbert Islands. The Battle Of Tarawa was fought on November 20-23, 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll. The Battle Of Tarawa was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region. It was also the first time in the Pacific War that the United States had faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance, but on Tarawa the 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps. The losses on Tarawa were incurred within 76 hours. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/return-to-tarawa-dvd-bill-burrud-world-war-ii-pacific-war.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1946: The Indochina Wars: The 1945-46 War In Vietnam (The War in Vietnam 1945-1946, The First Indochina War, Operation Masterdom, Southern Resistance War): Events Leading To The 1945-46 War In Vietnam: The Haiphong Incident (The Haiphong Massacre, The Shelling Of Haiphong): -- The shocking and tragic chain of events that led to The First Indochina War -- and ultimately to the The Vietnam War with America -- begins as the French cruiser Suffren and several avisos (medium-sized warships designed for colonial service) bombard the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong in North Vietnam, killing between 2,000 and 6,000 Vietnamese. This incident was the first armed clash in a series of events that would lead to The Battle Of Hanoi on December 19, 1946, which marked the official outbreak of the First Indochina War. After World War II, the future of the Vietnamese territory was in question. After being under years of French colonial rule followed by Japanese rule during the war, Vietnam began to seek independence. Specifically, the Japanese renounced French claims to the Vietnamese territory on March 9, 1945, officially declaring Vietnam independent over France and under the control of Emperor B?o D?i. This was counteracted by a rebellion on September 2, 1945, when Ho Chi Minh and his guerilla army declared the official birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh became the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and demanded complete autonomy from Europe. The French disregarded these claims of autonomy and quickly moved to resettle Vietnam as a member for the French Union. However, complete colonization was no longer an option due to power dynamics in the west and on March 6, 1946, after receiving pressure from the western allies, Jean Sainteny, French Commissioner for Northern Indochina met with Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi and signed the Ho-Sainteny agreement. The agreement officially gave Vietnam independence as "a free state with its own government, parliament, army and finances, forming part of the Indochinese Federation and the French Union". Additionally, the treaty allowed for the French to have a military presence in Vietnam for the following five years. At the time of the signing, it was widely thought that Ho Chi Minh had given many concessions to the French. By allowing the continued presence of the French army, Ho Chi Minh allowed for a continuation of the French colonial control of the past. The Communist newspaper Les Temps modernes criticized the signing of the deal, calling the agreement "the lamentable surrender of all our [Communists] ideological and political plans". On the French side, Thierry d'Argenlieu illustrated French optimism regarding the treaty in a communique he wrote to the Parisian government: "On the French level, the armed forces are assured of a friendly reception and we are pre-empting any reproach for opening hostilities ... We are fully safeguarding French economic and cultural interests now and for the future." Vietnamese worries in regards to the agreement soon came to fruition as France began to exert the same colonial authority it had formally denounced in the treaty. France created a virtual naval blockade of Haiphong by continuing to have a strong naval presence in the Gulf of Tonkin. That led the Vietnamese to reach out for peace talks to curb French influence in the region. These peace talks came in the form of the Fontainebleau Agreements, which occurred at the Palace of Fontainebleau and were led by Ph?m Van D?ng for the Vietnamese and Max Andre on the side of the French, beginning on July 6, 1946. The conference at the palace was held to discuss the provisions of the Ho-Sainteny Agreement. At the conference, the French refused to revise the original treaty in any way. The Vietnamese leadership, led by Ho Chi Minh, settled to sign a modus vivendi, postponing talks to a later date. These talks never occurred due to the outbreak of violence in November. On the morning of November 20, 1946, a French patrol ship seized a Chinese junk attempting to bring contraband into Haiphong. While seemingly routine, the seizure of the ship was the beginning of a chain of unfortunate events. Vietnamese soldiers reacted to the seizure by firing on the French ship from the shore, killing 23 soldiers. Armed clashes immediately broke out on land between French and Vietnamese nationalists, with a French burial party being ambushed, losing six more men. The French immediately worked to dissipate the conflict and stopped the outbreak by agreeing to respect Vietnamese sovereignty in Haiphong on November 22, 1946. This, however, was only the beginning of the incident. Once the news of the skirmish came to Admiral d'Argenlieu in Paris, he sent a cable to Jean Etienne Valluy, commander of French forces in Indochina, ordering him to use force against the Vietnamese in Haiphong. Valluy, in turn, sent an order to Colonel Debes, commander of the French troops at Haiphong, stating, "It appears clear that we are up against premeditated aggressions carefully staged by the Vietnamese regular army ... The moment has come to give a severe lesson to those who have treacherously attacked you. Use all the means at your disposal to make yourself complete master of Haiphong." Debes then issued an ultimatum to the Vietnamese in Haiphong demanding a withdrawal from the French section and Chinese sections of the city, including the port. In the order, Debes invoked the Franco-Chinese agreement of February 28, 1946, as justification for demanding the Vietnamese evacuation of parts of the city. Debes argued that the treaty gave France protective rights over the Chinese in Vietnam and thus gave them jurisdiction to engage in combat. After the Vietnamese failed to evacuate in time, the French began a bombardment of the Vietnamese sections of the city, using three French avisos: Chevreuil (Chamois-class minesweeping sloop), Savorgnan de Brazza and Dumont d'Urville. The role of the cruiser Suffren in the bombardment is controversial, as some versions of events suggest the ship participated in the shelling and others claim it arrived after the action had already been carried out. By November 28, 1946, Colonel Debes had taken complete control over the town. While reports about the total number of casualties from the bombardment range widely from upwards of twenty thousand to less than one hundred. Today the most commonly cited estimate is around 6,000 deaths as reported by the French sociologist Paul Mus. The historian Georgette Elgey considers this estimate to be perhaps excessive as it represents 10% of the city's population, but nevertheless describes the incident as by far the deadliest of the war. The Viet Minh spread an estimate of 10,000 to 20,000 killed. French intelligence services also secretly spread this figure with intention of showing that the communist Vietnamese state could not protect its population from the French military. In a letter from December 1946, Ho Chi Minh reported around 3,000 killed during the incident in the fighting. General Valluy estimated that there were 300 killed. The US consul reported around 2,000 killed. In return, French forces lost 29 men killed in Hai Phong from November 20 to 23. Immediately after the shelling, the French government sought peace. All violence was ended by the afternoon of November 22 and tensions seemed to have been alleviated. This was not the case. Less than two weeks after the shelling, after receiving pressure from Paris to "teach the Vietnamese a lesson" General Morliere ordered a complete Vietnamese withdrawal from the city, demanding all Viet Minh military elements to be evacuated from Haiphong. By early December 1946, Haiphong was under complete French military occupation. The aggressive actions of the French regarding the occupation of Haiphong made it clear in the eyes of the Viet Minh that the French intended on maintaining a colonial presence in Vietnam. The threat of the French establishing a separate southern state in Vietnam by besieging the city of Hanoi became a top priority for the Viet Minh to counteract. On December 2, as a final effort to maintain good relations between the two nations, French Commissioner Sainteny (of the Ho-Sainteny agreement) visited Hanoi to reach an agreement for a ceasefire. This proved unsuccessful as the French insistence on maintaining complete military control of Haiphong stalled all negotiations. The December 16 election of the socialist Leon Blum as the Premier of France offered hope to Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese, as the French socialists had a much more tolerant policy towards Vietnamese independence. That hope proved to be misplaced, as by the time Blum came into office violence between the Vietnamese and French was already widespread. As relations between France and Vietnam continued to worsen, Ho Chi Minh issued a plea for peace between the two nations on December 12, stating, "Neither France nor Viet Nam can afford the luxury of a bloody war". Ho, however, was not completely supported in his call for peace. Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Vietnamese army was convinced that open confrontation was inevitable. Giap was certain that the takeover of Haiphong signaled France's intent to attack and take over Hanoi. This led to Giap focusing on arming the Hanoi militias in preparation for an attack. The Vietnamese media reflected the concerns of General Giap. In an article on December 10, 1946, a Hanoi newspaper stated, "The grave hour has arrived. The Hanoi Committee of the Viet Minh Front calls on the people to be calm, to be united, and to be ready to rise when the government gives the order [to rebel against the French]." The Vietminh government, in turn, reacted to the plea to prepare, building barricades in the streets of Hanoi and engaging in armed skirmishes with French legionnaires. The final ultimatum to the Vietnamese was issued on December 19, when General Morliere ordered the leading Viet Minh militia, Tu Ve ("self-defence"), to completely disarm. That night, all electricity was turned off in Hanoi and the city was left in complete darkness. The Vietnamese (specifically the Tu Ve militia) attacked the French from within Hanoi with machine guns, artillery, and mortars. Thousands of French soldiers and Vietnamese civilians lost their lives. The French reacted by storming Hanoi the following day, forcing the Vietnamese government to take refuge outside of the city. Ho Chi Minh himself was forced to flee Hanoi for a more remote mountainous area. The attack can be characterized as a preemptive strike against the French after the overtaking of Haiphong endangered Vietnamese claims to Hanoi and all of Vietnam. The uprising in Hanoi escalated the aggression between the French and Viet Minh into the First Indochina War. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/one-of-the-reasons-whythe-war-in-vietnam-194546-dvd-downlo194546.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1950: #BOTD: #HBD! Charles Schumer, American lawyer and politician, serving from January 20, 2021 to January 3, 2025 as Senate Majority Leader, and in two stints as Senate Minority Leader from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025, is #born Charles Ellis Schumer into a Jewish family in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York City, and is a second cousin, once removed, of comedian Amy Schumer. A member of the Democratic Party, Schumer is as of 2022 in his fourth Senate term, having held his seat since 1999, and is the senior United States senator from New York. He is the dean of New York's congressional delegation. A native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Schumer was a three-term member of the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1980. He served nine terms in the United States House Of Representatives from 1981 to 1999, first representing New York's 16th congressional district before being redistricted to the 10th congressional district in 1983 and 9th congressional district ten years later. In 1998, Schumer was elected to the Senate, defeating three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato. He was reelected in 2004 with 71% of the vote, in 2010 with 66% of the vote, in 2016 with 70% of the vote, and in 2022 with 56% of the vote as of November 16. Schumer chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2009, overseeing 14 Democratic gains in the Senate in the 2006 and 2008 elections. He was the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin. He served as Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate from 2007 to 2017 and chaired the Senate Democratic Policy Committee from 2011 to 2017. Schumer won his fourth term in the Senate in 2016 and was then unanimously elected Democratic leader to succeed Harry Reid, who was retiring. In January 2021, Schumer became Senate Majority Leader, and the second Jewish leader of either chamber of Congress. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/bank-of-crooks-amp-criminals-the-bcci-scandal-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1959: France: The History Of France: The Modern History Of France: The Presidency Of Charles De Gaulle: Pan-Europeanism: European Integration: de Gaulle's Europe, From The Atlantic To The Urals Speech: --- French President Charles de Gaulle delivers in Strasbourg his "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals" speech calling for European integration, the process of industrial, political, legal, economic, social and cultural integration of states wholly or partially in Europe. In his speech, he declared "Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the destiny of the world." European integration has primarily come about through the European Union and its policies. de Gaulle had set himself the taks of building Franco-German cooperation as the cornerstone of the European Economic Community (EEC), paying the first state visit to Germany by a French head of state since Napoleon. In January 1963, Germany and France signed the Elysee Treaty, a treaty of friendship. France also reduced its dollar reserves, trading them for gold from the Federal government of the United States, thereby reducing American economic influence abroad. His expression, "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals", has often been cited throughout the history of European integration. It became, for the next ten years, a favourite political rallying cry of de Gaulle's. His vision stood in contrast to the Atlanticism of the United States and Britain, preferring instead a Europe that would act as a third pole between the United States and the Soviet Union. By including in his ideal of Europe all the territory up to the Urals, de Gaulle was implicitly offering detente to the Soviets. As the last chief of government of the Fourth Republic, de Gaulle made sure that the Treaty of Rome creating the European Economic Community was fully implemented, and that the British project of Free Trade Area was rejected, to the extent that he was sometimes considered as a "Father of Europe". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/de-gaulle-and-france-3-part-tv-documentary-series-2-disc-dvd-s32.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1971: China: The History Of China: China And The United Nations: The People's Republic Of China's Replacement Of The Republic Of China At The United Nations: The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 (The Resolution On Admitting Peking): -- In accordance with the October 25, 1971 General Assembly Resolution 2758 which recognized the People's Republic Of China as the sole legal China, the President of The Security Council and the other representatives make statements welcoming the representatives of the People's Republic of China for the first time; at that moment, The Republic Of China (Taiwan) lost not only its Security Council seat, but any representation in the UN. As one of the victorious Allies of World War II (the Chinese theatre of which was the Second Sino-Japanese War), The Republic Of China (ROC) joined the UN as one of its founding member countries in 1945. The subsequent resumption of the Chinese Civil War between the government of Republic Of China and the rebel forces of the Chinese Communist Party, led to the latter's victory on the mainland and the establishment of the People's Republic Of China (PRC) in 1949. Nearly all of Mainland China was soon under its control and the ROC government (then referred to in the West as "Nationalist China") retreated to the island of Taiwan. The One-China policy advocated by both governments dismantled the solution of dual representation but, amid the Cold War and Korean War, the United States and its allies opposed the replacement of the ROC at the United Nations until 1971, although they were persuaded to pressure the government of the ROC to accept international recognition of Mongolia's independence in 1961. The PRC sought to be recognized by the United Nations from the 1950s, but at least until 1961, the United States managed to keep the PRC out of the UN. The General Assembly Resolution 1668 which demanded a majority of two thirds for the recognition of new members was adopted in 1961. Canada and other allies of the United States individually shifted their recognitions of China to the PRC, which the US opposed. Some attempted to recognize both Chinas separately which both Chinas opposed declaring each one was the only legitimate representative of China. Annual motions to replace the ROC with the PRC were introduced first by the Soviet Union, then India and also Albania, but these were defeated. Amid the Sino-Soviet split and Vietnam War, United States President Richard Nixon entered into negotiations with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, initially through a secret 1971 trip undertaken by Henry Kissinger to visit Zhou Enlai. On October 25, 1971, a motion to recognize the People's Republic Of China as the sole legal China, initiated by 17 UN members led by Albania, was passed as General Assembly Resolution 2758. It was supported by most of the communist states (including the Soviet Union) and non-aligned countries (such as India), but also by some NATO countries, such as the United Kingdom and France. After the PRC was seated on 15 November 1971, Nixon then personally visited mainland China the next year, beginning the normalization of PRC-USA relations. The Republic Of China maintained the view it was the sole legitimate representative of China until 1988, but eventually turned to a foreign policy which sought international recognition through a so-called checkbook diplomacy. These moves have been opposed and mostly blocked by the People's Republic Of China, forcing the Republic Of China to join international organizations under other names, including "Chinese Taipei" at the International Olympic Committee. The Republic Of China's most recent request for admission was turned down in 2007, but a number of European governments-led by the United States-protested to the UN's Office of Legal Affairs to force the global body and its secretary-general to stop using the reference "Taiwan is a part of China". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/heart-of-the-dragon-dvds-post-mao-china-all-12-tv-shows-3-di123.html

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Today, November 23, 2025

November 23, 1981: Scandals: Political Scandals: Political Scandals Of The United States: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1979-1985): The Iran-Iraq War: Iran-United States Relations: The Iran-Contra Affair (The Iran-Contra Scandal): -- Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, a term describing three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress, so execution of this directive was performed covertly. Entititled "NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION DIRECTIVE ON CUBA AND CENTRAL AMERICA", NSDD-17 read: "U.S. policy toward the Americas is characterized by strong support for those nations which embrace t~e principles of democracy and freedom for their people in a stable and peaceful environment. u.s. policy is therefore to assist in defeating the insurgency in El Salvador, and to oppose actions by Cuba, Nicaragua, or others to introduce into Central America heavy weapons, troops from outside the region, trained subversives, or arms and military supplies for insurgents. To adequately support u.s. policy, the following decisions have been made by the President based on discussion at the November 16, 1981 meeting of the National Security Council: 1. Create a public information task force to inform the publ_ic and Congress of the critical situation in the area. 2. Economic support for a number of Central American and Caribbean countries (estimate 250M USD to 300M USD FY 1982 supplemental) 3. Agreement to use most of the 50M USD Section .506 authority to increase military assistance to El Salvador and Honduras. Reprogram additional funds as necessary. 4. Provide military training for indigenous units and leaders both in and out of country 5. Enhance U.S. and host country intelligence capa-bilities and sharing in the Caribbean Basin area. 6. Maintain trade and credit to Nicaragua as long as the government permits the private sector to operate effectively. 7. Expedite measures to tighten the economic sanctions against Cuba. 8. Encourage cooperative efforts to defeat externally-supported insurgency by pursuing a multilateral step-by-step approach. 9. Support democratic forces in Nicaragua. 10. Prepare appropriate military contingency plans for action against Cuban forces should they be introduced into Central America. 11. Improve military preparedness against Cuba and develop contingency plans for action against Cuba." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-the-ironcontra-scandal-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: An Old Time Radio Thanksgiving Broadcast MP3 Set CD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23: National Eat A Cranberry Day: -- An annual encouragement for the Thanksiving season for us to take a bite of the bright red cranberry - but brace yourself Found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs, or trailing vines, that grow up to 7 feet long and 8 inches high. Their stems are slender and wiry, and they have small evergreen leaves. The cranberry flowers are dark pink with very distinct reflexed petals, leaving the style and stamens fully exposed and pointing forward. The fruit of the cranberry plant is a berry that is larger than the leaves and is initially white but when ripe, turns a deep red. Cranberries' acidity overwhelms their sweetness. They're a major commercial crop in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. Wisconsin leads in cranberry production with over half of U.S. production. We mostly find cranberries processed into products such as juice, sauce, jam, or sweetened dried cranberries. Cranberry sauce is considered an indispensable part of a traditional American Thanksgiving meal. Due to their nutrient content and antioxidant qualities, raw cranberries are marketed as a superfruit. There are three to four species of cranberry, classified into two sections. Producers make white cranberry juice from cranberries harvested after they've matured but before they turn their characteristic dark red color. Some producers make cranberry wine in the cranberry-growing regions of the United States. Laboratory studies indicate that extracts containing cranberry may have anti-aging effects. The word cranberry comes from "craneberry"; first named by the early European settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane. Also, the word "cran" means "nerve" in French, the nationality and heritage of many European settlers. Anyone celebrating this holiday will need to incorporate cranberries with other foods. Since cranberries have such a pungent flavor, they hold their own when baked, sauteed, boiled, blended, or pureed. This list will give you ample opportunity to eat a cranberry and explore a variety of ways to enjoy them, too! Bake them. Try a Cranberry Lemon Scone recipe! The sweet and tart combination will be a perfect start to your morning. Get your health kick-started. A Cranberry Smoothie may not meet the definition of "eat a cranberry" but we'll let it slide - it's too good to pass up! Add sun-dried cranberries to your oatmeal, yogurt, popcorn or trail mix. The tart berries will offer a morning or mid-day pick-me-up that traditional snacks don't. It might also put you in a holiday mood. Bring cranberries to the savory side by making a marinade. Share all your favorite ways to enjoy a cranberry and use #EatACranberryDay to post on social media! https://store.earthstation1.com/an-old-time-radio-thanksgiving-broadcast-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics Vol. 5 MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23: National Cashew Day: -- Celebrated every year on November 23 all around the United States, this kidney-shaped nut isn't just loved in the United States, it is also popular around the globe. They have innumerable uses - snack on them, cook with them, and even get drunk off of them! Cashews are indeed elite nuts that deserve a day to celebrate them. National Cashew Day is that special day dedicated to enjoying the crunchy, savory, and versatile nut in many ways. The name 'cashew' comes from the Portuguese for its fruit, 'caju' or 'acaju,' derived from the Tupian word 'acaju,' which means 'nut that produces itself.' Cashews, unlike other nuts, grow like tails out of the bottom of cashew apples. Their trees are generally huge, but Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, is home to the world's largest cashew tree, which covers more than 81,000 square feet, almost 70 times the size of a regular one! The outer covering of the cashew nut contains an anacardic acid that causes skin irritation, which is why when Europeans first discovered cashews in Brazil in 1558, they thought they were inedible. The Tupi-Indians, a local native tribe, showed the Portuguese the value of the actual seed, which they had discovered while watching the local capuchin monkeys. They trained the Portuguese to roast the seeds to get the irritant off. Not only did they come to enjoy the taste of cashews, they even made wine out of its fruit's pulp. The Portuguese were such fans of the nut that their missionaries brought cashews to Goa, India, in 1560. The Indian climate proved the perfect fit to plant them, and cashews took the country by storm. Indians even discovered healing properties within the nut, adding to its popularity. Cashews spread rapidly through Southeast Asia and Africa and became essential parts of their food and commerce. It wasn't until 1905 that cashews reached the United States. They initially saw a slow spread, only becoming popular around the mid-1920s when the General Food Corporation began regularly shipping cashews to the U.S. and Europe. Once Americans got a taste of it, the demand for cashews spiked. By 1941, about 22,046.23 tons were imported from India annually. Research has shown that these nuts are effective antidepressants. They are rich in minerals and vitamins and a perfect ingredient for soups, stews, desserts, especially in Latin American and Asian cuisine. Other parts of the main plant, including the fruit, oil, pulp, bark, are just as valuable. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-5-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia WWI Aftermath DVD, MP4, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1917: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The African Theatre Of World War I: The Middle Eastern Theater Of World War I: The Sykes-Picot Agreement: -- The Russian Bolshevik government makes public the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France signed in 1916 that defined mutually agreed-to spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire, including such territories as Iraq and Syria. Three days later, on November 26, 1917, The Manchester Guardian newspaper published the text of the agreement. During the closing years of the war, T.E. Lawrence, later popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, sought to convince his superiors in the British government that Arab independence was in their interests, but the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement contradicted the promises of independence that he had made to the Arabs, and thereby frustrated his work. The Sykes-Picot Agreement also had the assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Entente would achieve success in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I and formed part of a series of secret agreements contemplating its partition. The primary negotiations leading to the agreement took place between November 23, 1915 and January 3, 1916, on which date the British and French diplomats, Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, initialled an agreed memorandum. The agreement was ratified by their respective governments on May 9 and 16, 1916. The agreement effectively divided the Ottoman provinces outside the Arabian Peninsula into areas of British and French control and influence. The British- and French-controlled countries were divided by the Sykes-Picot line. The agreement allocated to the UK control of what is today southern Israel and Palestine, Jordan and southern Iraq, and an additional small area that included the ports of Haifa and Acre to allow access to the Mediterranean. France was to control southeastern Turkey, the Kurdistan Region, Syria and Lebanon. As a result of the included Sazonov-Paleologue Agreement, Russia was to get Western Armenia in addition to Constantinople and the Turkish Straits already promised under the 1915 Constantinople Agreement. Italy assented to the agreement in 1917 via the Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and received southern Anatolia. The Palestine region, with a smaller area than the later Mandatory Palestine, was to fall under an "international administration". The agreement was initially used directly as the basis for the 1918 Anglo-French Modus Vivendi, which provided a framework for the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in the Levant. More broadly it was to lead, indirectly, to the subsequent partitioning of the Ottoman Empire following Ottoman defeat in 1918. Shortly after the war, the French ceded Palestine and Mosul to the British. Mandates in the Levant and Mesopotamia were assigned at the April 1920 San Remo conference following the Sykes-Picot framework; the British Mandate for Palestine ran until 1948, the British Mandate for Mesopotamia was to be replaced by a similar treaty with Mandatory Iraq, and the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon lasted until 1946. The Anatolian parts of the agreement were assigned by the August 1920 Treaty of Sevres; however, these ambitions were thwarted by the 1919-23 Turkish War Of Independence and the subsequent Treaty of Lausanne. The agreement is seen by many as a turning point in Western and Arab relations. It reneged upon the UK's promises to Arabs regarding a national Arab homeland in the area of Greater Syria in exchange for supporting the British against the Ottoman Empire. The agreement, along with others, was made public by the Bolsheviks in Moscow on November 23, 1917, and was thereafter repeated in The Manchester Guardian three days later, such that "the British were embarrassed, the Arabs dismayed and the Turks delighted". The agreement's legacy has led to much resentment in the region, among Arabs in particular but also among Kurds who were denied an independent state. https://store.earthstation1.com/a-dangerous-man-lawrence-after-arabia-19921992.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Salvadoran Civil War (1990 Documentary) MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1925: #BOTD: Jose Napoleon Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, mayor of San Salvador before running a losing race for the presidency in 1972 in an election widely viewed as fraudulent, leader of El Salvador's civil-military Junta from 1980 to 1982 following its 1979 coup d'etat, elected president in 1984 after defeating the center-right ARENA party leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, President of El Salvador from June 1, 1984 to June 1, 1989 (d. February 23, 1990) is #born Jose Napoleon Duarte Fuentes in the city of Santa Ana, Santa Ana department, El Salvador. Supported by the American Reagan Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency, his time in office occurred during the worst years of The Salvadoran Civil War, which saw numerous abuses and massacres of the civilian population by the Salvadoran security forces and the death squads linked to them. He died of stomach cancer in El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador, aged 64. He is buried in Jardines Del Recuerdo Cemetery in San Salvador. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-salvadoran-civil-war-1990-documentary-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Secret Game 1917 WWI Spy Film Sessue Hayakawa DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (b. June 10,1889) #dies from a cerebral thrombosis, complicated by pneumonia at the age of 87. He was buried in the Chokeiji Temple Cemetery in Toyama, Japan. Born Kintaro Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, he one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood. After being expelled from the Japanese naval academy and surviving a suicide attempt at 18, Hayakawa attended the University of Chicago, where he studied political economics and quarterbacked the school's football team. Upon graduating, he traveled to Los Angeles in order to board a scheduled ship back to Japan, but decided to try out acting in Little Tokyo. There, Hayakawa impressed Hollywood figures and was signed on to star in The Typhoon (1914). He made his breakthrough in The Cheat (1915), and thereafter became famous for his roles as a forbidden lover. Hayakawa was one of the highest paid stars of his time, earning 5K USD per week in 1915, and 2M USD per year through his own production company from 1918 to 1921. Hayakawa's popularity and sex appeal ("his most rabid fan base was white women") unsettled many segments of American society which were filled with feelings of the Yellow Peril. With two World Wars taking place throughout his career, and rising anti-Asian sentiment in the United States, the types of roles that he usually played were gradually "taken over by other actors who were not as threatening as Hayakawa in terms of race and sex". Hayakawa left Hollywood in 1922 and worked in Japanese and European cinema for many years before making his Hollywood comeback in Tokyo Joe (1949). Of his talkies, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hayakawa starred in over 80 feature films, and two of his films (The Cheat and The Bridge on the River Kwai) stand in the United States National Film Registry. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-secret-game-1917-dvd-sessue-hayakawa1917.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Akira Kurosawa (1979) Film Director Documentary DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor who first made a name for himself as the lecherous antagonist of the Wakadaisho series (1961-1981) of films, and in Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Sanjuro (1962) and Dodes'ka-den (1970) (d. March 24, 2021) is #born Tanaka Kunie in Toki District, Gifu Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. He is also well-known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films, namely the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973-1974), and for starring in the Kita no Kuni Kara (1981-2002) television series. Tanaka was nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Gakko in 1993. He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor for Nogare no Machi and Izakaya Choji in 1983, and the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for Uhohho Tankentai in 1986. For his contributions to the arts, the Japanese government decorated Tanaka with the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1999 and the Order of the Rising Sun in 2006. Kunie Tanaka died of natural causes in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, aged 88. Tanaka's funeral was held with his family. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. https://store.earthstation1.com/akira-kurosawa-film-director-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Coup De Torchon aka Clean Slate (1981) DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: Philippe Noiret (fill-EEP new-ahr-REY), French film actor with more than 100 film roles to his credit, best known for his roles as Alfredo in Cinema Paradiso (1988), Pablo Neruda in Il Postino, and Major Dellaplane in Bertrand Tavernier's Life and Nothing But (b. October 1, 1930) #dies of cancer in Paris, France, aged 76. He is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery, Montparnasse, Paris, France. Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 Andre Techine cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first Cesar Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second Cesar came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. Philippe Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycee Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalaureat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Theatre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debre and Andre Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnes Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sete. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part-I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Metro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Therese Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Theophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. Noiret appeared in Hollywood-financed films by Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz), George Cukor (Justine), Ted Kotcheff (Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?), Peter Yates (Murphy's War) and Anatole Litvak (The Night of the Generals). "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation-all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies-all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." He often joked with interviewers about his virtually non-stop work schedule, telling Joe Leydon in 1989: "You never know what will be the success of a film. And it's always comfortable to be making another film when you're reading terrible notices for your last film. You can say, 'Well, that's a pity, but I'm already working on another job.' It helps in your living. You see, if you're only making one film a year, or one film every year and a half, it's hard. Because when it's a failure, what do you do? What do you become? You're dead." https://store.earthstation1.com/coup-de-torchon-aka-clean-slate-1981-dvd-mp4-usb-19814.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics III DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Steve Landesberg, American actor, comedian and screenwriter, best known for his role as the erudite, unflappable police detective Arthur P. Dietrich on the ABC sitcom Barney Miller, for which he was nominated for three Emmy Awards (d. December 20, 2010) is #born in the Bronx, New York. He was part of improv group New York Stickball Team, which performed several shows that aired on cable television shortly after Barney Miller went off the air. Landesberg was a member of the cast of the 1974 CBS situation comedy Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. He made guest appearances on The Tonight Show, The Rockford Files, Law & Order, Saturday Night Live, The Golden Girls, Ghost Whisperer, That '70s Show and Everybody Hates Chris. He starred in Starz's original show Head Case as Dr. Myron Finkelstein. He appeared in the motion pictures Wild Hogs, Leader of the Band, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He appeared in 124 episodes of Barney Miller as Det. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich, starting from the last episode of the 1975 season until the end of the series in 1982. Landesberg also co-starred in the TV pilot Black Bart, a spin-off of Blazing Saddles. He attempted a comeback to television playing a public defender in Seattle in an unsold sitcom pilot, The Best Defense, later aired on June 19, 1995, on ABC. In the mid-1980s, Landesberg was the spokesman in TV and print advertisements for Northwestern Bell's long-distance telephone services. He also was a TV spokesman for AAMCO Transmissions in the 1980s and early 1990s, and for The Discovery Channel, Canadian Airlines and Office Depot in the 1990s. He and his wife, Nancy Ross Landesberg, had a daughter, Elizabeth. Landesberg died from colon cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 74. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Nancy Ross. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-iii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: John Cleese Interview With Melvyn Bragg 1986 DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor who made his name on British television and found his greatest fame in 1975 for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (b. April, 7 1930) #dies aged 86 of vascular dementia at the Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, London, England, a historic building which is used as a retirement home for professional actors, actresses and members of other theatrical professions. His funeral took place on December 1, the same day his death was publicly announced. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his family. On December 2, 2016, BBC One broadcast the Fawlty Towers episode "Communication Problems" in his memory. John Cleese paid tribute to Sachs, describing him as a "sweet, sweet man". Andrew Sachs was born Andreas Siegfried Sachs in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina (nee Schrott-Fiecht), a Lutheran librarian, and Hans Emil Sachs, a Jewish insurance broker. The family moved to Britain in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He had a long career in acting and voice-over work for television, film and radio. He was successful well into his eighties, with roles in numerous films such as Quartet, and as Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street. https://store.earthstation1.com/john-cleese-interview-with-melvyn-bragg-dvd-1986.html

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Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978-1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the handsome astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965-1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie (b. September 21, 1931) #dies at Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas, Texas from complications of acute myeloid leukemia, aged 81. His remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered over Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas; Southfork Ranch includes the Ewing Mansion, the setting for the television series Dallas. Larry Hagman was born Larry Martin Hagman Larry Hagman in Fort Worth, Texas. His mother was Mary Martin, Broadway actress and musical comedy star who became famous after his birth. His father, Benjamin Jackson Hagman, who was of Swedish descent, was an accountant and lawyer who worked as a district attorney. Hagman's parents divorced in 1936 when he was five years old. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including Fail-Safe, Harry And Tonto, S.O.B., Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances also included guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s until his death, and a reprise of his signature role on the 2012 revival of Dallas. Hagman also worked as a television producer and director. Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Civil War: A Video Image History JPG Set + MPG DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1863: November 11, 1864: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Chattanooga Campaign: The Battles Of Chattanooga: The Battle Of Chattanooga (The Third Battle Of Chattanooga): -- The Battle Of Chattanooga begins as Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops. The following day, The Battle Of Lookout Mountain would be fought as Union forces under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker would assault Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and defeat Confederate forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson. Lookout Mountain was one engagement in the Chattanooga battles between Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Military Division of the Mississippi and the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg. It drove in the Confederate left flank and allowed Hooker's men to assist in the Battle Of Missionary Ridge the following day, which routed Bragg's army, lifting the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opening the gateway into the Deep South. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-civil-war-a-video-image-history-photo-cd-mpg-video-cdrom.html

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Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: David Dinkins, African American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993, becoming the first African American to hold the office (b. July 10, 1927) #dies from unspecified natural causes at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, at age 93, just over a month after the death of his wife, Joyce. He is buried at The Cathedral Church Of Saint John The Divine in Manhattan, New York City. He was born David Norman Dinkins in Trenton, New Jersey. Before entering politics, Dinkins was among the more than 20,000 Montford Point Marines, the first African American U.S. Marines; he served from 1945 to 1946. He graduated cum laude from Howard University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1956. A longtime member of Harlem's Carver Democratic Club, Dinkins began his electoral career by serving in the New York State Assembly in 1966, eventually advancing to Manhattan borough president before becoming mayor. After leaving office, Dinkins joined the faculty of Columbia University while remaining active in municipal politics. https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: America: The Second Century Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1876: Crime: Organized Crime: Organized Crime In The United States: Political Corruption In The United States: Democratic Party Corruption: Political Machines In The United States: Irish-American Crime: Organized Crime: Secret Societies In The United States: Tammany Hall (The Society Of St. Tammany, The Sons Of St. Tammany, The Columbian Order, The Tammany Society): The Extradition Of Boss Tweed: -- William M. "Boss" Tweed, corrupt Tammany Hall leader, is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. He was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City and a director of the Erie Railroad, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel. Tweed was elected to the United States House Of Representatives in 1852 and the New York County board of supervisors in 1858, the year he became the head of the Tammany Hall political machine. He was also elected to the New York State Senate in 1867, but Tweed's greatest influence came from being an appointed member of a number of boards and commissions, his control over political patronage in New York City through Tammany, and his ability to ensure the loyalty of voters through jobs he could create and dispense on city-related projects. Tweed was convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between 25M and 45M USD from New York City taxpayers through political corruption, although later estimates ranged as high as 200M USD. Unable to make bail, he escaped from jail once, but was returned to custody. He died in the Ludlow Street Jail. https://store.earthstation1.com/america-the-second-century-us-2nd-100-years-history-621006.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1914: 20th Century Revolutions: The Mexican Revolution: The Battle Of Veracruz: The United States Occupation Of Veracruz: -- The last U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. The Tampico Affair began as a minor incident involving U.S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to Mexican dictator General Victoriano Huerta during the guerra de las facciones (faction wars) phase of the Mexican Revolution. A misunderstanding occurred on April 9, 1914, but developed into a breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two countries. As a result, the United States invaded the port city of Veracruz, occupying it for more than six months. This contributed to the fall of President Victoriano Huerta, who resigned in July 1914. In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, de facto President Huerta struggled to defend his power and territory from the forces of Emiliano Zapata in the state of Morelos and the rapid advance of the Northern opposition Constitutionalists under the leadership of Venustiano Carranza. By March 26, 1914, Carranza's forces were 10 mi (16 km) from the prosperous coastal oil town of Tampico, Tamaulipas. There was a considerable settlement of U.S. citizens in the area due to the immense investment by U.S. firms in the local oil industry. Several U.S. Navy warships commanded by Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo were deployed off the coast for the stated purpose of protecting American citizens and property. The U.S. occupation of Veracruz resulted in widespread anti-American sentiment among Mexican residents, and other U.S. warships were used to evacuate U.S. nationals from both the Gulf Coast and the west coast of Mexico, taking them to refugee centers in San Diego, California; Texas; and New Orleans. As a result of anti-American sentiment, Mexico maintained neutrality during World War I, refusing to support the U.S. in Europe, all the while continuing to do business with Germany. With the U.S. threatening to invade in 1918 to take control of Tampico oil fields, Mexican President Venustiano Carranza threatened to have them destroyed to prevent their falling under U.S. control. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ragged-revolution-mexican-revolt-191019101920.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Shevardnadze Uncovered Eduard Shevardnadze's Georgia DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2003: 21st Century Revolutions: Post-Soviet States (The Former Soviet Union, Former Soviet Republics): Post Cold War Conflicts In Europe: Colour Revolutions (Color Revolutions: Coloured Revolutions, Colored Revolutions): Non-Violent Revolutions: The Rose Revolution (The Revolution Of Roses): -- Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. The Revolution of Roses, often translated into English as the Rose Revolution (Georgian: Vardebis Revolutsia), was a pro-Western peaceful change of power in Georgia in November 2003. The revolution was brought about by widespread protests over the disputed parliamentary elections and culminated in the ousting of President Eduard Shevardnadze, which marked the end of the Soviet era of leadership in the country. The event derives its name from the climactic moment, when demonstrators led by Mikheil Saakashvili stormed the Parliament session with red roses in hand. Consisting of twenty days of protests from November 3 to 23, 2003, the Revolution triggered new presidential and parliamentary elections in Georgia, which established the United National Movement as the dominant ruling party. Following the Rose Revolution, Georgia pursued a decidedly pro-Western foreign policy and declared European and Euro-Atlantic integration as its main priority; this change in trajectory contributed to Georgia's tensions with Russia, which continue to this day. https://store.earthstation1.com/shevardnadze-uncovered-eduard-shevardnadze39s-georgia-dvd-mp4-394.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Murder In Mississippi: Freedom Summer Murders Informants DVD MP4 USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Andrew Goodman, American social worker and civil rights activist (d. June 21, 1964) is #born Andrew Goodman in the Upper West Side of New York City, at 161 West 86 Street, the second of three boys born of Robert and Carolyn Goodman, who like his fellow murdered activist Michael Schwerner, was Jewish. He was one of three Civil Rights Movement activists murdered during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964, a crime collectively known as The Murders Of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner: The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer Murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, occured when civil rights workers, two white and one black, were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, after they left Meridian, Mississippi, at 9 a.m. to investigate a church burning. They were expected back by 4 p.m. When they failed to return, a search was begun. Their murdered bodies were discovered on August 4. The victims were James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City. All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization, the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. This registration effort was a part of contesting over 70 years of laws and practices that supported a systematic policy, begun by several states in 1890, of disenfranchisement of potential black voters. The three men had traveled from Meridian to the community of Longdale to talk with congregation members at a black church that had been burned. The trio was thereafter arrested by Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price following a traffic stop outside Philadelphia, Mississippi for speeding, escorted to the local jail, and held for a number of hours. As the three left town in their car, they were followed by law enforcement and others. Before leaving Neshoba County, the car was pulled over and all three were abducted, driven to another location, and shot at close range. The three men's bodies were then transported to an earthen dam where they were buried. The disappearance of the three men was initially investigated as a missing persons case. The civil rights workers' burnt-out car was found near a swamp three days after their disappearance. An extensive search of the area was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), local and state authorities, and four hundred United States Navy sailors. The three men's bodies were only discovered two months later thanks to a tip-off. During the investigation it emerged that members of the local White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia Police Department were involved in the incident. Andrew Goodman's body was reinterred at Mount Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens County, New York. The murder of the activists sparked national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based on the events. In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged eighteen individuals with civil rights violations. Seven were convicted and received relatively minor sentences for their actions. Outrage over the activists' disappearances helped gain passage of the Civil Rights Act Of 1964. On the 41st anniversary of the murders, on June 21, 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, was convicted of manslaughter as a result of the case having been reopened in 2004 by the state of Mississippi for his part in the crimes. He was given a 60-year sentence. On June 20, 2016, federal and state authorities officially closed the case and dispensed with the possibility of further prosecution. Killen died in prison in January 2018. https://store.earthstation1.com/murder-in-mississippi-freedom-summer-murders-informants-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Universal Newsreels: The Space Race Films DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1960: Rocket Launches: The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Weather Satellites (Meteorological Satellites): Communications Satellites: Television Infrared Observation Satellites (TIROS): TIROS-2 (TIROS-B, TIROS-II): -- TIROS-2, a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite, the second in a series TIROS satellites, is launched atop a Thor DM-19 Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 17A (LC-17A) at 11:13:03 UTC. TIROS 2 functioned nominally until January 22, 1962. The satellite orbited the Earth once every 98 minutes, at an inclination of 48.5dg. Its perigee was 609 kilometers (329 nmi) and apogee was 742 kilometers (401 nmi). The satellite maintained a spin rate of 8-12 rpm by the use of five diametrically opposed pairs of small, solid-fuel thrusters. The spin axis could be oriented to within 1-2dg accuracy by the use of a magnetic attitude control device, consisting of 250 coils of wire wound around the outer surface of the spacecraft. The interaction between the induced magnetic field in the spacecraft and the earth's magnetic field provided the necessary torque for attitude control. TIROS 2 was powered by 9,260 1-by-2-cm silicon solar cells. It had two independent television camera subsystems for taking pictures of cloud cover, plus a five-channel medium-resolution scanning radiometer and a two channel non-scanning low resolution radiometer for measuring radiation from the earth and its atmosphere. TIROS 2 added two infrared radiometers to TIROS 1 instruments, which allowed more analysis of frontal zones. TIROS 2 re-entered the earth's atmospher in May 2014. https://store.earthstation1.com/universal-newsreels-the-space-race-films-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Russian Right Stuff: Soviet Space Program TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1972: Rocket Launches (Failed): The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The Soviet Union: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Soviet Lunar Program: The N1/L3 (Russian: Raketa-Nositel, "Carrier Rocket") -- The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket, a super heavy-lift launch vehicle (SHLLV) intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit. The N1 was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V and was intended to enable crewed travel to Earth's Moon and beyond, with studies beginning as early as 1959. Its first stage remains the most powerful rocket stage ever built, but all of the four flown N1 Block A first stages failed because of a lack of static test firings that did not reveal plumbing issues and other adverse characteristics with the large cluster of thirty engines and its complex fuel and oxidizer feeder system. The N1-L3 version was designed to compete with the United States Apollo program to land a person on the Moon, using a similar lunar orbit rendezvous method. The basic N1 launch vehicle had three stages, which were to carry the L3 lunar payload into low Earth orbit with two cosmonauts. The L3 contained one stage for trans-lunar injection; another stage used for mid-course corrections, lunar orbit insertion, and the first part of the descent to the lunar surface; a single-pilot LK Lander spacecraft; and a two-pilot Soyuz 7K-LOK lunar orbital spacecraft for return to Earth. N1-L3 was underfunded and rushed, starting development in October 1965, almost four years after the Saturn V. The project was badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966. Each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed, with the second attempt resulting in the vehicle crashing back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff and causing one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history. The N1 program was suspended in 1974, and officially canceled in 1976. All details of the Soviet crewed lunar programs were kept secret until the Soviet Union was nearing collapse in 1989. https://store.earthstation1.com/russian-right-stuff-dvd-set-space-program-secret-history-2-disc2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #8 American Action DVD, MP4, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Junior Walker, African American singer and saxophonist who recorded for Motown during the 1960s (b. June 14, 1931) #dies of cancer at the age of 64, in Battle Creek, Michigan. He had been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Foundation that year. He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, in Battle Creek, Michigan, under a marker inscribed with both his birth name of Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr. and his stage name. Walker also performed as a session and live-performing saxophonist with the band Foreigner during the 1980s. Walker was born in Blytheville, Arkansas, and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. He began playing saxophone while in high school, and his saxophone style was the anchor for the sound of the bands he later played in. His career started when he developed his own band in the mid-1950s as the Jumping Jacks. His longtime friend and drummer Billy Nicks (1935-2017) formed his own group, the Rhythm Rockers. Periodically, Nicks would sit in on Jumping Jack's shows, and Walker would sit in on the Rhythm Rockers shows. Nicks obtained a permanent gig at a local TV station in South Bend, Indiana, and asked Walker to join him and keyboard player Fred Patton permanently. Nicks asked Willie Woods (1936-1997), a local singer, to perform with the group; Woods would learn how to play guitar. When Nicks was drafted into the United States Army, Walker convinced the band to move from South Bend to Battle Creek, Michigan. While performing in Benton Harbor, Walker found a drummer, Tony Washington, to replace Nicks.Eventually, Fred Patton left the group, and Victor Thomas stepped in. The original name, The Rhythm Rockers, was changed to "The All Stars." Walker's style was inspired by jump blues and early R & B, particularly players like Louis Jordan, Earl Bostic, and Illinois Jacquet. The group was spotted by Johnny Bristol, and in 1961 he recommended them to Harvey Fuqua, who had his own record labels. Once the group started recording on the Harvey label, their name was changed to Jr. Walker All Stars. The name was modified again when Fuqua's labels were taken over by Motown's Berry Gordy, and Jr. Walker & the All Stars became members of the Motown family, recording for their Soul imprint in 1964. The members of the band changed after the acquisition of the Harvey label. Tony Washington, the drummer, quit the group, and James Graves joined. Their first and signature hit was "Shotgun", written and composed by Walker and produced by Berry Gordy, which featured the Funk Brothers' James Jamerson on bass and Benny Benjamin on drums. "Shotgun" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the R & B chart in 1965, and was followed by many other hits, such as "(I'm a) Road Runner", "Shake and Fingerpop" and remakes of two Motown songs "Come See About Me" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", that had previously been hits for the Supremes and Marvin Gaye respectively. In 1966, Graves left and was replaced by old cohort Billy "Stix" Nicks, and Walker's hits continued apace with tunes such as "I'm a Road Runner" and "Pucker Up Buttercup". In 1969, the group had another hit enter the top 5, "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)". A Motown quality control meeting rejected this song for single release, but radio station DJs made the track popular, resulting in Motown releasing it as a single, whereupon it reached No. 4 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on the R & B chart. From that time on, Walker sang more on the records than earlier in their career. He landed several more R & B Top Ten hits over the next few years, with the last coming in 1972. He toured the UK in 1970 with drummer Jerome Teasley (Wilson Pickett), guitarist Phil Wright (brother of Betty "Clean Up Woman" Wright), keyboardist Sonny Holley (The Temptations) and brilliant young Liverpool UK bassist Norm Bellis (Apple). The band played two venues on each of the 14 nights. The finale was at The Valbonne in London's West End. They were joined on stage by The Four Tops for an impromptu set. In 1979, Walker went solo, disbanding the All Stars, and was signed to Norman Whitfield's Whitfield Records label, but he was not as successful on his own as he had been with the All Stars in his Motown period. Walker re-formed the All Stars in the 1980s. On April 11, 1981, Walker was the musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live. Foreigner's 1981 album 4 featured Walker's sax solo on "Urgent". He later recorded his own version of the song for the 1983 All Stars's album Blow the House Down. Walker's version was also featured in the 1985 Madonna film Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1983, Walker was re-signed with Motown. In the same year, he appeared as a part of the Motown 25 television special which aired on May 16, 1983. In 1988, Walker played opposite Sam Moore as one-half of the fictional soul duo The Swanky Modes in the comedy Tapeheads. Several songs were recorded for the soundtrack, including "Bet Your Bottom Dollar" and "Ordinary Man", produced by ex-Blondie member Nigel Harrison. Walker's "Shotgun" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. Jr. Walker & The All Stars were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2007. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-8-where-american-action-is-dv8.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WWII: US Pop Vs Third Reich Marching Songs MP3 Set DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: Anita O'Day, American jazz singer and self proclaimed "song stylist" widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer" (b. October 18, 1919) #dies in her sleep on Thanksgiving Day in West Hollywood, California at the age of 87 of cardiac arrest. Her remains were cremated, and her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica, California. Born Anita Belle Colton in Kansas City, Missouri, she refused to pander to any female stereotype; O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money. While maintaining a central core of hard swing, O'Day's skills in improvisation of rhythm and melody rank her among the pioneers of bebop. She cited Martha Raye as the primary influence on her vocal style, also expressing admiration for Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday. She always maintained that the accidental excision of her uvula during a childhood tonsillectomy left her incapable of vibrato, and unable to maintain long phrases. That botched operation, she claimed, forced her to develop a more percussive style based on short notes and rhythmic drive. However, when she was in good voice she could stretch long notes with strong crescendos and a telescoping vibrato, e.g. her live version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, captured in Bert Stern's film Jazz on a Summer's Day. She is known for her solo work and for her outstanding work with such artists as Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, her albums recorded for Norman Granz, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader and Thelonious Monk. While living with husband Carl Hoff in Los Angeles in March 1947, two undercover policemen came to their home during a party at which Dizzy Gillespie was playing from the branches of a tree in their front yard. They found a small bag of marijuana, for which Anita and Carl were arrested. On August 11, Judge Harold B. Landreth found them guilty and handed down 90-day sentences. https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-us-pop-and-third-reich-marching-songs-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius TV Documentary Series DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Constance Cummings, American-English actress and beauty (b. May 15, 1910) #dies in Wardington, Oxfordshire, England, aged 95, from natural causes. Her remains were cremated; the final disposition of her ashes are not publicly disclosed. Constance Cummings CBE was born in Seattle, Washington, the only daughter and younger child of Kate Logan (nee Cummings), a concert soprano, and Dallas Vernon Halverstadt, a lawyer. After her parents separated when she was 10 years old, she never saw her father. She attended St. Nicholas Girls' School in Seattle. The San Diego Stock Company gave Cummings her initial acting opportunity in a "walk-on part" playing a prostitute in a 1926 production of Seventh Heaven. She debuted on Broadway as a chorus girl, a member of the ensemble in Treasure Girl (1928) by the age of 18. While appearing on Broadway, she was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to Hollywood in 1931. Between 1931 and 1934, Cummings appeared in more than 20 films, including Movie Crazy opposite Harold Lloyd, and American Madness, directed by Frank Capra. She was married to the playwright and screenwriter Benn Levy from July 3, 1933 until his death in 1973. As Levy was from Britain, Cummings moved there and continued acting, both in films and on the stage, in Britain. Few of her films were hits in the US, although Blithe Spirit, adapted from the Noel Coward play, was popular. Levy went on to write and direct films for Cummings, such as The Jealous God (1939); he also served in the UK Parliament from 1945-50 as the Labour MP for Eton and Slough. They had a son and a daughter. She played Mary Tyrone in the Royal National Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night opposite Laurence Olivier, and later recreated the role for television. She also originated the role of Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in its London debut. In 1979, Cummings won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Emily Stilson in the drama Wings (1978-79) (written by Arthur Kopit), a play about a former aviator (Stilson) who has suffered a stroke, from which she struggles to recover. This role also brought her Obie and Drama Desk awards and an Olivier nomination. In 1982, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her work in The Chalk Garden. She received an Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her performance in Long Day's Journey into Night. On January 1, 1974, Cummings, who resided in Britain for many decades until her death, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her contributions to the British entertainment industry. She was a committee member of the Royal Court Theatre and the Arts Council. She has a star in the Motion Pictures section on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960. https://store.earthstation1.com/harold-lloyd-the-third-genius-dvd-2-part-tv-serie2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old Time Radio Comedy MegaSet MP3 Collection DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Marie Wilson, American radio, film, and television actress, and beauty (b. August 19, 1916) #dies aged 56 in Hollywood, California, U.S. from cancer. She as interred in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills. Marie Wilson was born Katherine Elizabeth Wilson in Anaheim, California. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma, a media franchise that was spawned by a top-rated, long-running radio situation comedy created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard. The radio show was so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated the films, television, a comic strip and a comic book that comprise the franchise. Marie Wilson portrayed the title character Irma Peterson on radio, in two films and the television series. The radio series was broadcast on CBS from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954. Her nickname at Anaheim High School was Maybelle. Wilson graduated from high school in 1933. Although Wilson was afraid of the microphone used in radio, she played scatterbrained Irma Peterson in the radio comedy My Friend Irma from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954. Wilson began her career in Hollywood in the 1934 film Down to Their Last Yacht as a ship passenger, and then appeared in Babes in Toyland as Mary Quite Contrary. Wilson appeared in Ladies Crave Excitement (1935), The Girl Friend (1935), Stars Over Broadway (1935), Miss Pacific Fleet (1935),] The Big Noise (1936), Melody for Two (1937), Boy Meets Girl (1938), Sweepstakes Winner (1939), Virginia (1941), She's in the Army (1942), You Can't Ration Love (1944), Young Widow (1946), and Never Wave at a WAC (1952). In 1936, she played Miss Murgatroyd in Satan Met a Lady, a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel The Maltese Falcon1 by Dashiell Hammett. She was in The Great Garrick as Nicolle in 1937. Wilson was in Fools for Scandal as Myrtle in 1938. She was in Waterfront in 1939 as Ruby Waters. In 1949, she played Irma Peterson in the film My Friend Irma, reprising her role from the radio series. In 1950, she again played Irma in My Friend Irma Goes West. In 1952, she played Jane Sweet in A Girl in Every Port, based on the short story They Sell Sailors Elephants by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. In 1957, she played Marie Antoinette in The Story of Mankind, loosely based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Wilson's last film was 1962's Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, based on the novel by Edward Streeter. Wilson also had roles in short films, including Bum Voyage (1934), Slide, Nellie, Slide (1936), Vitaphone Pictorial Revue (Series 2 No. 6) (1938), and Vitaphone Pictorial Revue (Series 2 No. 12). Wilson first appeared on television in the series My Friend Irma from 1952 to 1954. She was in two episodes of Burke's Law. Wilson was in the short-lived television series Where's Huddles?. Her last role was in 1972 as Margaret Cooperman in Love, American Style. Wilson was a guest on The Ed Sullivan Show on four occasions. Wilson's talents have been recognized with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for radio at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard, for television at 6765 Hollywood Boulevard and for movies at 6601 Hollywood Boulevard. Wilson's left leg was the model for a 35-foot (sometimes referred to as 34-foot), two-ton sculpture outside the Theme Hoisery (later Sanderson Hoisery) plant on Olympic and Barrington in West Los Angeles. The DuPont Co. commissioned the plaster leg, which was painted as if to be wearing nylons, to promote its new nylons product. Wilson was hoisted thigh-level at the sculpture's unveiling August 6, 1949. Wilson was married to actor Allan Nixon from 1942 through 1950. Her 1951 marriage to actor Robert Fallon lasted until her death from cancer at age 56. Wilson was interred in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills. https://store.earthstation1.com/old-time-radio-comedy-mp3-dvd-megaset-2-dis32.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Private Life Of Don Juan 1934 Douglas Fairbanks DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 23, 2025
November 23, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: Merle Oberon, Indian-American-British actress, singer and beauty who began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII (b. February 19, 1911) #dies in Malibu, California at the age of 68 after suffering a stroke. Her body is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in Bombay, British India, Merle was given "Queenie" as a nickname, in honour of Queen Mary, who visited India along with King George V in 1911, the year of her birth. For most of her life, Merle protected herself by concealing the truth about her parentage, claiming that she had been born in Tasmania, Australia, and that her birth records had been destroyed in a fire. She was raised as though she was the daughter of Arthur Terrence O'Brien Thompson, a British mechanical engineer from Darlington who worked in Indian Railways and his partner, Charlotte Selby, a Eurasian from Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Her mother also had Maori ancestry. However, according to her birth certificate, Merle's biological mother was Charlotte's then-12-year-old daughter, Constance. Charlotte had herself given birth to Constance at the age of 14, the result of rape by Henry Alfred Selby, the Anglo-Irish foreman of a tea plantation. To avoid scandal, Charlotte raised Merle as Constance's half-sister. After her success in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973. In 1914, when Merle was 3, her presumptive fathre Arthur Thompson joined the British Army and later died of pneumonia on the Western Front during the Battle Of The Somme. Merle and Charlotte led an impoverished existence in shabby flats in Bombay for a few years. Then, in 1917, they moved to better circumstances in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata). Oberon received a foundation scholarship to attend La Martiniere Calcutta for Girls, one of the best private schools in Calcutta. There, she was constantly taunted for her mixed ethnicity, eventually leading her to quit school and receive lessons at home. Oberon first performed with the Calcutta Amateur Dramatic Society. She was also completely enamored with films and enjoyed going out to nightclubs. Indian journalist Sunanda K. Datta-Ray claimed that Merle worked as a telephone operator in Calcutta under the name Queenie Thomson and won a contest at Firpo's Restaurant there, before the outset of her film career. In Firpo's, in 1929, Merle met a former actor, Colonel Ben Finney, and dated him; however, when he saw Charlotte one night at her flat, he realized Oberon was of mixed ancestry and ended the relationship. However, Finney promised to introduce her to Rex Ingram of Victorine Studios (whom he had known through his relationship with the late Barbara La Marr), if she was prepared to travel to France, which she readily did. After packing all their belongings and moving to France, Oberon and her mother found that their supposed benefactor avoided them, although he had left a good word for Oberon with Ingram at the studios in Nice. Ingram liked Oberon's exotic appearance and quickly hired her to be an extra in a party scene in a film named The Three Passions. Oberon arrived in England for the first time in 1928, aged 17. Initially she worked as a club hostess under the name Queenie O'Brien and played in minor and unbilled roles in various films. "I couldn't dance or sing or write or paint. The only possible opening seemed to be in some line in which I could use my face. This was, in fact, no better than a hundred other faces, but it did possess a fortunately photogenic quality," she told a journalist at Film Weekly in 1939. In view of the information discovered since this 1939 article should be seen as part of a myth perpetrated by Oberon. Her film career received a major boost when the director Alexander Korda took an interest and gave her a small but prominent role, under the name Merle Oberon, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) opposite Charles Laughton. The film became a major success and she was then given leading roles, such as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) with Leslie Howard, who became her lover for a while. Oberon's career benefited from her relationship with, and later marriage to, Korda. He sold "shares" of her contract to producer Samuel Goldwyn, who gave her good vehicles in Hollywood. Her "mother" stayed behind in England. Oberon earned her sole Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for The Dark Angel (1935) produced by Goldwyn. Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to one biographer even wanted to marry him, but he was not faithful to her. She was selected to star in Korda's 1937 film, I, Claudius, as Messalina, but her injuries in a car accident resulted in the film being abandoned. She went on to appear as Cathy in the highly acclaimed film Wuthering Heights (opposite Laurence Olivier; 1939), as George Sand in A Song to Remember (1945) and as the Empress Josephine in Desiree (1954). According to Princess Merle, the biography written by Charles Higham with Roy Moseley, Oberon suffered damage to her complexion in 1940 from a combination of cosmetic poisoning and an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs. Alexander Korda sent her to a skin specialist in New York City, where she underwent several dermabrasion procedures. The results, however, were only partially successful; without makeup, noticeable pitting and indentation of her skin could be seen. Oberon's mother, Charlotte Selby, who was actually her birth grandmother, died in 1937. In 1949, Oberon commissioned paintings of Charlotte from an old photograph, which hung in all her homes until Oberon's own death in 1979. Oberon married director Alexander Korda in 1939. Still married, she had a brief affair in 1941 with Richard Hillary, an RAF fighter pilot who had been badly burned in the Battle Of Britain. They met while he was on a goodwill tour of the United States. He later became well known as the author of a best-selling book, The Last Enemy. Oberon had an on-again, off-again affair with actor John Wayne from 1938 to 1947. Oberon became Lady Korda when her husband was knighted in 1942 by George VI for his contribution to the war effort. At the time, the couple were based at Hills House in Denham, England. She divorced him in 1945, to marry cinematographer Lucien Ballard. Ballard devised a special camera light for her to eliminate on film her facial scars suffered in a 1937 accident. The light became known as the "Obie". She and Ballard divorced in 1949. Oberon next married Italian-born industrialist Bruno Pagliai in 1957, adopted two children with him and lived in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. In 1973, Oberon met then 36-year-old Dutch actor Robert Wolders while they filmed Interval. Oberon divorced Pagliai and married Wolders, who was 25 years her junior, in 1975. To avoid prejudice over her mixed background, Oberon created a "cover story" of being born and raised in Tasmania, Australia, and her birth records being destroyed in a fire. The story eventually unravelled after her death. Oberon is known to have been to Australia only twice. Her first visit was in 1965, on a film promotion. Although a visit to Hobart was scheduled, after journalists in Sydney pressed her for details of her early life, she became ill and shortly afterwards left for Mexico. In 1978, the year before her death, she agreed to visit Hobart for a Lord Mayoral reception. The Lord Mayor of Hobart became aware shortly before the reception that there was no proof she had been born in Tasmania but, to save face, went ahead with the reception. Shortly after arriving at the reception, Oberon, however, to the disappointment of many, denied she had been born in Tasmania. She then excused herself, claiming illness, and was unavailable to answer any more questions about her background. On the way to the reception, she had told her driver that as a child she was on a ship with her father, who became ill when it was passing Hobart. They were taken ashore so he could be treated and so she spent some of her early years on the island. During her Hobart stay, she remained in her hotel, gave no other interviews, and did not visit the theatre named in her honour. Oberon retired after Interval and moved with Wolders to Malibu, California, where she died in 1979, aged 68, after suffering a stroke. Her body was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Oberon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard) for her contributions to Motion Pictures. Michael Korda, nephew of Alexander Korda, wrote a roman a clef about Oberon after her death titled Queenie. This was adapted into a television miniseries starring Mia Sara. F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon was made into the television series, with Jennifer Beals playing Margo Taft, a character based on Oberon. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-private-life-of-don-juan-dvd-douglas-fairbanks-merle-oberon.html