November 19
Today in America's Present Past
1752 | Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark was born.
1794 | The Jay Treaty is executed.
1831 | POTUS: President James Garfield was born.
1834 | POTUS: President Franklin Pierce wed Jane Appleton.
1861 | Poet Julia Ward Howe pens the ”Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
1862 | Cleric Billy Sunday was born.
1863 | POTUS: Republican President Lincoln dedicates the national memorial at the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania delivering his famous Gettysburg Address.
1872 | E. D. Barbour was issued a patent for a “calculator.”
1873 | Democrat William Magear Tweed “Boss Tweed,” of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city.
1875 | Explorer, solider and archaeologist Hiram Bingham was born.
1887 | Poet Emma Lazarus died.
1899 | Poet Allen Tate was born.
1904 | Murder Nathan Leopold was born.
1905 | Musician Tommy Dorsey was born.
1907 | Author Jack Schaefer was born.
1916 | Samuel Goldwyn, Edgar and Archibald Selwyn created Hollywood’s Goldwyn Pictures.
1923 | The Oklahoma State Senate impeached and removed Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.
1923 | Frankl Lloyd Wright wed Maude Noel.
1926 | Diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick was born.
1933 | Journalist Larry King was born.
1935 | Entrepreneur Jack Welch was born.
1936 | Chemist Yuan T. Lee was born.
1938 | Entrepreneur Ted Turner was born.
1939 | Comic superheroes Flash and Hawkman first appear in “Flash Comics No. 1” published by DC.
1939 | Joe DiMaggio wed Dorothy Arnold.
1941 | Actor Dan Haggerty was born.
1942 | Designer Calvin Klein was born.
1942 | Poet Sharon Olds was born.
1950 | General Eisenhower became the Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1953 | SCOTUS: The Court rules (7-2) that baseball is a sport, not a business (Toolson v. New York Yankees).
1955 | National Review debuted.
1959 | Actress Allison Janney was born.
1961 | Actress Meg Ryan was born.
1962 | Actress Jodi Foster was born.
1965 | Kellogg’s Pop Tarts pastries were created.
1974 | Author Louise Fitzhugh died.
1975 | Film: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” debuted.
1976 | Entrepreneur Jack Dorsey was born.
1983 | Actor Adam Driver was born.
1986 | Muhammad Ali wed Yolanda Williams.
1998 | Director Alan J Pakula died.
2017 | Mass murder Charles Manson died.
2023 | First Lady Rosalynn Carter died.