Morning all. Ahhh the smell of 30 or 40 million turkeys being baked, wafting up from south of the border is about to commence. I may have to do up a bird tomorrow in honor of that. :D
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1765 Frederick County, Md., repudiated the British Stamp Act.
1804 Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
1889 The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1903 Singer Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in ''Rigoletto.''
1936 Life magazine, created by Henry R. Luce, was first published.
On Nov. 23, 1943, during World War II, United States forces seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.
1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended.
1971 The People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
1980 A series of earthquakes devastated southern Italy, killing some 4,800 people.
2000 In a setback for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade County to resume counting ballots by hand.
2001 The U.N. war crimes tribunal said it would try former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia.
2001 An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a van in the West Bank, killing Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a leading member of the Islamic militant Hamas group.
2003 Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as president of Georgia in the face of protests.
2004 Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko declared himself the winner of Ukraine's disputed presidential election and took a symbolic oath of office.
2004 Dan Rather announced he would step down as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News" in March 2005.
Birthdays....
(Lite)Rock musician Bruce Hornsby turns 51 years old today.
60 Susan Anspach
Actress
60 James Doyle
Governor of Wisconsin
60 Steve Landesberg
Actor (''Barney Miller'')
29 Page Kennedy
Actor (''Desperate Housewives'')
26 Kelly Brook
Actress (''Smallville'')
Hey, have a good day everyone.
:D