On this day, November 20th, 1965, Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D, was born in New York City. Mike D is a co-founder of The Beastie Boys, he sings, raps and plays drums for the group.
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On this day, November 19th, in 1920, Gene Eliza Tierney was born in Brooklyn. Her father was a successful insurance broker, and her mother was previously a physical education teacher. Much of her upbringing was completed in Connecticut, and she attended two years in Brillamont finishing school in Switzerland. In 1938 she returned to the US and attended Miss Porter's School. At 17 she vistited Wartner Brothers' Studio in California, where director Anatole Litvak, suggested that Tierney become an actress owing to her beauty. The studio offered her a contract which she refused upon her parents' advice. After her coming-out party as a debutante, on September 24, 1938, she pursued acting, but at her father's insistance, "in the legitimate theater." She studied acting in Greenwich Village, and was the protegee of Broadway producer-director George Abbot. Her Broadway debute was in What a Life, in 1938 where she carried a bucket of water across the stage. One critic noted in Variety magazine, that "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I've ever seen." Tierney eventually signed a six-month contract with Columbia Pictures in 1939. She eventually went on to star in her best known role as the title character in the 1944 movie Laura. She went on a year later, in 1945, to be nominated for an Academy Awards for her performance in Leave Her to Heaven. Other notable roles were as Miranda Well in Dragonwyck with Walter Huston and Vincent Price in 1946, as Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs Muir in 1947, and Anne Scott in The Left hand of God in 1955. Tierney was married twice, first to Oleg Cassini, with whom she had two daughters, and subsequently to Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee. Between the two she was involved withe John F. Kennedy for a year, though Kennedy indicated he could never marry her due to her political ambitions. (When he eventually won the 1960 Presidential Election, she set him a note of congratulation, though she later indicated she voted for Richard Nixon because, "I thought that he would make a better President.") In 1991, Tierney died of emphysema in Houston Texas. She was then interred in Glenwood Cemebary in Houston Texas. On this day, November 18th, 1865, Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published by the New York Saturday Press. The short story was Twain's first successful literary endeavor, bring him national attention. The grand international rifle-match at Creedmoor - second day shooting at a thousand yards Digital ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c34451 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c34451 Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-134451 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA On this day, November 17th, 1871 the National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York. The controversial organization was formed by Civil War veterans led by Army and Navy Journal editor, William Conant Church. The NRA advocates firearm ownership on the principle that the right to bear arms is a civil liberty. On this day, November 16th, 1907, Cunard's Line RMS Mauretania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. The RMS Mauretania was the sister ship of the RMS Lusitania. On this day, November 15th, 1926, NBC radio network opens with 24 stations. NBC is headquartered at the GE Building in Rockefeller Center. On November 14th, 1889 pioneering journalist Nellie Bly began an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She is successfull completing the trip in seventy-two days. Bly, originally from Pittsburgh left to make her mark in New York City. She made her claim to fame after working for Joseph Pulitzer, and feigning insanity to investigate reports of neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. On this day, November 13th, 1927 the Holland Tunnel opens to traffic. It is the first vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. On this day, November 12th, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in New York, New York. Stanton would go on to play an influential role in the suffrage movement. She traveled the country giving speeches as well as speaking in front of Congress several times on the issue. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked side by side to help the next generation of suffragettes reach their goal. Incident in Cherry Valley - fate of Jane Wells / from the original picture by Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887); Thomas Phillibrown, engraver. Jane Wells is pleading for her life, and a man attempts to protect her from an Indian who is about to kill her. House behind them is being burned by Loyalists and Indians led by Major Walter Butler and Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant, Cherry Valley, New York. Published: N.Y. : Martin, Johnson & Co. publishers, c1856. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c11117. On this day, November 11th, 1778, the Cherry Valley Massacre takes place. During the American Revolutionary War in eastern New York, Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village killing more than forty civilians and soldiers. |
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