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Summoned at 01:28pm on Saturday, November 21, 2009
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| histo: | Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 |
| holid: | Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany |
| events: | 83 million people tune into "Dallas" to see who shot J.R. (1980) Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape (1973) Honolulu Harbor discovered. (1794) J. de Rozier makes first balloon flight (1783) North Carolina becomes the 12th state (1789) Opening of the Alcan Highway (1942) The Verrazano Narrows opened to traffic, linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island (1964) Thomas Edison announced the invention of a phonograph, which he dubbed a "talking machine." (1877) |
| lives: | Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz, born (1904) Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire is born (1694) Goldie Hawn, actress, is born (1945) Juliet Mills, actress (1941) Laurence Luckinbill, actor (1934) Lorna Luft, actress-singer (1952) Marlo Thomas, actress (1937) Natalia Makarova, ballet dancer (1940) Rene Magritte, artist, is born (1898) Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line (1787) Stan Musial, baseball Hall-of-Famer (1920) Vivian Blaine, actress-singer (1921) Voltaire, thinker (1694) |
| music: | Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet. (1959) |
| world: | Day of Prayer & Repentance (Federal Republic of Germany) |