Today in History for 11th November 2017:
Historical Events
1640 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
1958 – AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1975 – Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr – 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs
1987 – Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1990 – Calif’s Chuck Finley and Seattle’s Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US and Japanese all-star teams
1994 – Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex” for $ 30,800,000
Famous Birthdays
1870 – Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)
1888 – Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India
1910 – Raemer Schreiber, American physicist (Manhattan Project) who helped develop the first atomic bomb during World War II and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki, born in McMinnville, Oregon (d. 1998)
1925 – Jonathan Winters, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork and Mindy), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2013)
1932 – Al Levitt, American jazz drummer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
1937 – Warner Wolf, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV), born in Washington, D.C.
Famous Deaths
1912 – Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1942 – Hector Abbas, Flemish actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1954 – John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81
1974 – Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80
1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
2006 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)