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100 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1924 | Allan Sherman: Parody singer / songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah) | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Klaus Huber: Composer | |||
30 Nov 1924 | 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Last French / Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Elliott Blackstone, American police officer and activist (d. 2006) | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Shirley Chisholm, American educator and politician (d. 2005) | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Allan Sherman, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) | |||
30 Nov 1924 | birth Allan Sherman, singer, (1963 US No.2 & UK No.14 single 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah'). He died on 21st November 1973 aged 49. | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Allan Sherman parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah) | |||
30 Nov 1924 | Shirley Chisholm (D-Rep-NY), 1st black congresswoman/presidential candidate | |||
30 Nov 1924 | 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio | |||
30 Nov 1924
Transatlantic radio photo fax |
Transatlantic radio photo fax In 1924, the first photographs sent by radio across the Atlantic as a public demonstration were received in New York. and published next day in the New York Herald Tribune. Pictures of officials were accompanied by a photo of the Oxford team winning in a relay race at Cambridge, a steamship aground on the banks of the Thames, and an image of the written proverb, "One picture is worth a thousand words." (A relay was made on 6 Jul 1924 when a picture of Charles E Hughes, Secretary of State, was transmitted on a circuit beginning at the RCA Laboratories, by wire to New Brunswick, N.J., then radio to Brentwood, England and wire to London. By further wire and radio links, the signal was recorded back at the origin.) |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1949 | Arthur Lee Washington, Jr.: Neptune, New Jersey -- Murderer (FBI Most Wanted) | |||
30 Nov 1949 | Chinese Communists captured Chungking | |||
30 Nov 1949 | KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting | |||
30 Nov 1949 | Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek actor and singer (d. 2004) | |||
30 Nov 1949 | Jimmy London, Jamaican singer-songwriter | |||
30 Nov 1949 | birth Terry Reid, UK singer, member of Peter Jay's Jaywalkers. Reid turned down the job as lead singer with Led Zeppelin. | |||
30 Nov 1949 | Arthur Lee Washington Jr one of FBI's most wanted | |||
30 Nov 1949 | Chinese Communists captured Chungking | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1974 | Luther Broughton: HB (Philadelphia Eagles) | |||
30 Nov 1974 | Marcellus Wiley: Defensive end (Buffalo Bills) | |||
30 Nov 1974 | "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances | |||
30 Nov 1974 | "Mack & Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances | |||
30 Nov 1974 | 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs. Canucks) | |||
30 Nov 1974 | Miss Teenage America Pageant | |||
30 Nov 1974 | Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson & Gray in Ethiopia) | |||
30 Nov 1974 | 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks) | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 1999 | Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925) | |||
30 Nov 1999 | In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. | |||
30 Nov 1999 | British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. | |||
30 Nov 1999 | Don 'Sugarcane' Harris was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment at the age of 61. The American guitarist and violinist was part of the 50's duo Don & Dewey. He also worked with Little Richard, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker and Johnny Otis. | |||
30 Nov 1999 | Elton John was blasted by the Boy Scout Association after he appeared on stage at London's Albert Hall performing 'It's A Sin' with six male dancers dressed as Boy Scouts. The dancers had peeled of their uniforms during the performance. | |||
30 Nov 1999
Robert A. Swanson |
death Robert A. Swanson Died 30 Nov 1999 at age 52 (born 29 Nov 1947). American chemist who, at age 29, cofounded Genentech, Inc. (1976), a research-based company that pioneered the biotechnology industry. His cofounder, distinguished biochemist, Herbert Boyer, had developed one of the key techniques that opened up the possibility of the transfer of genes from one organism to another. Boyer was a pioneer using restriction enzymes to snip segments of DNA out of cells. In 1977, Genentech began mass- producing their first human protein by splicing a gene into bacteria. In 1978, Genentech created the first drug produced by genetic engineering, human-type insulin. It was also the first biotechnology company to sell its own drug, human growth hormone. Swanson died after a long battle against brain cancer. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 2004 | Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1920) | |||
30 Nov 2004 | Seung Sahn, South Korean spiritual leader, founded the Kwan Um School of Zen (b. 1927) | |||
30 Nov 2004 | Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings. | |||
30 Nov 2004 | Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 2009 | The death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately was the most searched for topic on Google's UK site in 2009. It was closely followed by the rise of Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle Microsoft revealed that the death of Michael Jackson dominated its Bing search engine results during the year. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
30 Nov 2014 | Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (b. 1932) | |||
30 Nov 2014 | Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1961) | |||
30 Nov 2014 | Martin Litton, American rafter and environmentalist (b. 1917) | |||
30 Nov 2014 | Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (b. 1924) | |||
30 Nov 2014 | Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (b. 1914) |