today.nukz.net: Almanac November 22

Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.

American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.

Events

498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1858 – Denver, Colorado is founded.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
1908 – The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1969 – In American football, the University of Michigan upset Ohio State University, 24-12, in Bo Schembechler's first season as Michigan's head coach. The win set off the 10 Year War between Schembechler and Ohio State's Woody Hayes. (See also Michigan-Ohio State rivalry).
1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003 – 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident, shortly after takeoff the left wing is hit by a surface-to-air missile and is forced to land.
2004 – In Global governance, Decision o916-d1 adopted as mission statement: 'To create an accepted framework for all humankind, that is self-regulating and which enables every person to achieve their fullest potential in harmony with the world and its place in existence.'
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Births

1458 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1515 – Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland (d. 1560)
1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1602 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1635 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (d. 1760)
1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1744 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and politician (d. 1810)
1780 – Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1787 – Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
1808 – Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1819 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
1861 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)
1868 – John Nance Garner, American politician (d. 1967)
1869 – André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1870 – Howard Brockway, American composer (d. 1951)
1873 – L.S. Amery, British politician (d. 1955)
1873 – Alfred Bowerman, English cricket player (d. 1947)
1874 – Eugène Balme, French shooter (d. 1914)
1875 – Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (d. 1960)
1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast (d. 1934)
1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss businessman (d. 1930)
1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1918)
1884 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer (d. 1953)
1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman (d. 1970)
1893 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1900 – Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, American humanitarian, co-founder of U.S. Committee for UNICEF (d. 1987)
1901 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
1902 – Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-born American cellist (d. 1942)
1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
1913 – Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (d. 2006)
1914 – Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
1917 – Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1918 – Claiborne Pell, American politician (d. 2009)
1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
1920 – Anne Crawford, British actress (d. 1956)
1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
1922 – Eugene Stoner, Designer of the AR-15 Rifle (d. 1997)
1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
1923 – Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
1925 – Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
1926 – Gene Berce, American basketball player
1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 – Arthur Jones, American inventor (d. 2007)
1928 – Timothy Beaumont, British noble (d. 2008)
1929 – Staughton Lynd, American historian
1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor
1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1936 – Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Bahraini politician
1938 – Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1938 – John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (d. 2010)
1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor
1939 – Tom West, American computer engineer and industry executive
1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
1940 – Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
1941 – Tom Conti, British actor
1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1942 – Guion Bluford, American astronaut
1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker
1943 – Roger L. Simon, American novelist and screenwriter
1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 – Tom Freston, American television executive
1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1947 – Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1948 – Radomir Antic, Serbian football manager
1948 – Stewart Graeme Guthrie, New Zealand Police officer (d. 1990)
1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States
1949 – David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish football manager
1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician
1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
1957 – Donny Deutsch, American television personality and advertising executive
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
1958 – Bruce Payne, English actor
1958 – Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter
1959 – Eddie Frierson, American voice actor and stage actor
1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian voice actress
1960 – Léos Carax, French film director
1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean operatic soprano
1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and TV personality
1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
1963 – Scoop Jackson, American sportswriter
1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player
1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-born American pro football coach
1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor and director
1963 – Corinne Russell, British actress
1964 – Robbie Slater, Australian footballer
1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer
1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1965 – Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
1966 – Ed Ferrara, American pro wrestler and commentator
1966 – Richard Stanley, South African film director
1966 – Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor
1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player and convicted sex offender
1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer
1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player
1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer
1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer
1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer
1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 – Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish pop singer
1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 – Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
1980 – Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1980 – David Artell, English footballer
1981 – Ben Adams, English singer
1981 – Joleigh Fioravanti, American actress
1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress
1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
1985 – Austin Brown, American singer
1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
1985 – James Roby, English rugby league footballer
1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player
1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer of Moroccan descent
1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor
1988 – Jyoti Guptara, British/Swiss novelist
1988 – Suresh Guptara, Indian novelist
1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
1991 – Diana Danielle, American/Malaysian actress
1991 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo)

Deaths

365 – Felix II, antipope
950 – King Lothair II of Italy
1286 – King Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
1318 – Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich of Russia (b. 1271)
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English explorer
1617 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
1694 – John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
1718 – Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (db. 1680)
1774 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
1783 – John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician (b. 1759)
1875 – Henry Wilson, American politician (b. 1812)
1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1893 – James Calder, American academic and educator (b. 1826)
1900 – Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
1916 – Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1917 – Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1941 – Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 – Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1944 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
1946 – Burt McKinnie, American golfer (b. 1879)
1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 – Roderick McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1882)
1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born American choreographer (b. 1882)
1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian physician (b. 1905)
1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963 – C. S. Lewis, Northern Irish author (b. 1898)
1963 – J. D. Tippit, American law enforcement officer (b. 1924)
1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian politician (b. 1913)
1980 – Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1980 – Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
1986 – William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1989 – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1989 – Rene Moawad, Lebanonese politician (b. 1925)
1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
1993 – Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
1994 – Forrest White, American musical instruments industry figure (b. 1920)
1996 – María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
1996 – Terence Donovan, British photographer and film director (b. 1936)
1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)
1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
1998 – Nicky Blair, American actor (b. 1926)
2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2001 – Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and recording industry executive (b. 1918)
2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-born Swiss choreographer (b. 1929)
2007 – Verity Lambert, British television producer (b. 1935)
2008 – MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
2010 – Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)
2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)