Sunday, November 18, 2012

November 18 - Observer





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Family Birthdays
Aunt Marla


This Day In History
326
The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1307
William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1493
Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1626
St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1865
Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1883
American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1926
George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize".
1928
Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1963
The first push-button telephone goes into service.


Famous Birthdays
1630
Empress Eleanor Gonzaga of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
1736
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German composer and harpsichordist (d. 1800)
1785
Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1841)
1787
Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1836
Sir W. S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911)
1899
Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born American violinist and conductor (d. 1985)
1901
George Gallup, American statistician and pollster (d. 1984)
1908
Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (d. 2001)
1909
Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)
1923
Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
1939
Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, critic and essayist
1946
Alan Dean Foster, American writer
1947
Jameson Parker, American actor
1953
Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1961
Steven Moffat, Scottish television writer and producer

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