today.nukz.net: Almanac November 16 :: Mary Margaret McBride

Mary Margaret McBride (November 16, 1899 - April 7, 1976) was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 years; she is also remembered for her few months of pioneering television, as an early sign of radio success not guaranteeing a transition to the new medium. She was sometimes known as "The First Lady of Radio."

Events

534 – A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 – American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
1793 – French Revolution: Ninety anti-republican Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
1857 – Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1940 – World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 – Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1943 – World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1944 – Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur river was launched
1944 – Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.
1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 – A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

Births

42 BC – Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1436 – Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521)
1569 – Paul Sartorius, German composer and organist (d. 1609)
1603 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1643 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
1715 – Girolamo Abos, Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music (d. 1760)
1717 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
1720 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
1753 – James McHenry, American statesman (d. 1816)
1758 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1766 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
1811 – John Bright, British politician (d. 1889)
1836 – King Kalakaua, of Hawai?i (d. 1891)
1839 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1841 – Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1851 – Minnie Hauk, American soprano (d. 1929)
1862 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944)
1873 – W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
1878 – Maxie Long, American runner (d. 1959)
1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1883 – Emil Breitkreutz, American middle distance runner (d. 1972)
1885 – Monsignor Sir Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1888 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and pianist (d. 1957)
1889 – George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
1889 – Dietrich Kraiß, German Nazi officer (d. 1944)
1890 – Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (d. 1956)
1892 – Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)
1892 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
1896 – Joan Lindsay, Australian novelist (d. 1984)
1896 – Oswald Mosley, British politician and founder of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)
1896 – Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone (d. 1960)
1897 – Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
1899 – Mary Margaret McBride, American radio interview host (d. 1976)
1904 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
1905 – Eddie Condon, American jazz banjoist and guitarist (d. 1973)
1907 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
1909 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad, 3rd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 3rd successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (d. 1982)
1914 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy and double agent, aka Agent Zigzag (d. 1997)
1915 – Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, Cajun accordionist (d. 2007)
1915 – Jean Fritz, American children's author
1916 – Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
1916 – Al Lucas, Canadian jazz double-bassist (d. 1983)
1922 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
1922 – José Saramago, Portuguese novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010)
1924 – Mel Patton, American sprinter
1925 – Gianfranco Dell'Innocenti, Italian footballer
1927 – Dolo Coker, jazz pianist and composer (d. 1983)
1928 – Clu Gulager, American actor
1930 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet and academic
1930 – Paul Foytack, American baseball player
1930 – Salvatore Riina, Italian Mafia leader
1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
1931 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (Howlin' Wolf's band)
1933 – Garnet Mimms, American singer
1935 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (d. 2010)
1935 – Elizabeth Drew, American journalist and author
1936 – John Moore, Australian politician
1938 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1940 – Donna McKechnie, American actress and dancer
1941 – Gerry Marshall, British race car driver (d. 2005)
1941 – Dan Penn, American singer-songwriter
1942 – Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1942 – Joanna Pettet, English actress
1944 – Oliver Braddick, British psychologist
1946 – Terence McKenna, American writer and public speaker (d. 2000)
1946 – Jo Jo White, American basketball player
1947 – Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
1947 – Omar Ruiz Hernández, Cuban dissident journalist
1948 – Horst Bertram, German footballer
1948 – Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
1948 – Chi Coltrane, American rock-pop-jazz songwriter, pianist, and singer
1949 – Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (d. 2010)
1950 – David Leisure, American actor
1950 – John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist
1951 – Miguel Sandoval, American actor
1952 – Robin McKinley, American novelist
1952 – Peter Keefe, American television producer (d. 2010)
1952 – Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist in Biblioteca Marciana, essayist and translator
1952 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1953 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor
1954 – Andrea Barrett, American novelist
1954 – Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004)
1954 – Luis Conte, Cuban percussionist
1954 – Dick Gross, Australian politician
1954 – Arrow, calypso and soca musician, born Alphonsus Cassell
1955 – Pierre Larouche, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Terry Labonte, American race car driver
1957 – Jacques Gamblin, French actor
1958 – Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1958 – Boris Krivokapic, Serbian academic
1961 – Frank Bruno, British boxer
1961 – Corinne Hermès, French singer
1962 – Gary Mounfield, English bassist (The Stone Roses, Primal Scream)
1962 – Josh Silver, American keyboardist (Type O Negative)
1963 – Meenakshi Seshadri, Indian actress
1963 – Steve Arguelles, British jazz drummer
1964 – Dwight Gooden, American baseball player
1964 – Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer
1964 – Harry J. Lennix, American actor
1964 – Maeve Quinlan, American actress
1964 – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress
1965 – Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer
1965 – Mark Benton, English actor
1966 – Joey Cape, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, The Playing Favorites, and Scorpios)
1966 – Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 – Dean McDermott, Canadian actor
1966 – Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer
1966 – Dave Kushner, American guitarist (Velvet Revolver)
1967 – Craig Arnold, American poet
1967 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
1968 – Vlado Šola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
1968 – Melvin Stewart, American swimmer
1970 – Martha Plimpton, American actress
1970 – Logan Mader, American guitarist (Machine Head)
1971 – Tanja Damaske, German javelin thrower
1971 – Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer
1971 – Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
1971 – Koshi Rikdo, Japanese manga artist
1971 – Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
1972 – Missi Pyle, American actress
1973 – Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner
1973 – Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
1974 – Eric Judy, American bassist (Modest Mouse)
1974 – Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
1974 – Paul Scholes, British footballer
1975 – Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Mario Barravecchia, Belgian singer
1976 – Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer
1976 – Danny Wallace, British author
1976 – Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer
1977 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
1977 – Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
1978 – Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
1978 – Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
1978 – Carolina Parra, Brazilian guitarist and drummer (CSS)
1979 – Tony Frias, American footballer
1979 – Bruce Irons, American surfer
1980 – Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
1980 – Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
1980 – Moris Carrozzieri, Italian footballer
1980 – Carol Huynh, Canadian freestyle wrestler
1981 – Allison Crowe, Canadian singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
1981 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress
1981 – Kate Miller-Heidke, Australian singer-songwriter
1981 – Osi Umenyiora, English-born American football player
1982 – Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player
1982 – Ronald Pognon, French sprinter
1982 – Amar'e Stoudemire, American basketball player
1983 – Chris Gocong, American football player
1983 – K, South Korean-born Japanese singer
1983 – Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
1983 – Britta Steffen, German swimmer
1984 – Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
1984 – Mark Bunn, English footballer
1986 – Saeko, Japanese actress
1986 – Maxime Médard, French rugby player
1988 – Siva Kaneswaran, British singer (The Wanted)
1991 – Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1995 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor

Deaths

498 – Pope Anastasius II
1093 – Saint Margaret of Scotland, Hungarian-born queen-consort of King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. c. 1045)
1240 – Saint Edmund Rich, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1175)
1272 – King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1328 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
1613 – Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
1628 – Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer (b. c. 1555)
1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
1695 – Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
1724 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar (b. 1702)
1745 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
1773 – John Hawkesworth, English writer
1779 – Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
1790 – Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 – King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
1802 – André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
1806 – Moses Cleaveland, American lawyer and surveyor; namesake of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1836 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
1878 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1874)
1884 – František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
1885 – Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844)
1903 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b.1895)
1907 – Robert I, Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
1908 – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
1911 – A. A. Ames, American politician (b. 1842)
1911 – Lawrence Feuerbach, American athlete (b. 1879)
1922 – Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1939 – Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1866)
1947 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1877)
1950 – Bob Smith, American physician and temperance activist (b. 1879)
1956 – Otori Tanigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (b. 1887)
1960 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
1961 – Sam Rayburn, American politician (b. 1882)
1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
1972 – Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
1973 – Alan Watts, English writer and philosopher (b. 1915)
1974 – Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882)
1980 – Jayan, Indian actor (b.1938)
1982 – Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
1982 – Lenny Murphy, Northern Irish loyalist figure (b. 1952)
1982 – Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1984 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
1986 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress (b. 1923)
1987 – Jim Brewer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
1987 – Zubir Said, Singaporean composer (b. 1907)
1989 – Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
1993 – Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (b. 1939)
1993 – Achille Zavatta, Tunisia-born French clown (b. 1915)
1994 – Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)
1994 – Chet Powers, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
2000 – Ahmet Kaya, Turkish singer and composer (b. 1957)
2000 – DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
2000 – Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
2001 – Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
2003 – Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2004 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (b. 1945)
2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2005 – Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
2005 – Donald Watson, English vegan advocate (b. 1910)
2006 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2006 – Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
2007 – Harold Alfond, American businessman (b. 1914)
2007 – Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1947)
2007 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)
2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (b. 1916)
2009 – Edward Woodward, British actor (b. 1930)
2009 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
2010 – Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (b. 1952)
2010 – Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (b. 1912)
2010 – Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
2010 – Britton Chance, American molecular biologist and yachtsman (b. 1913)