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On This Day In History for November 22, 2017

This is the 326th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining in 2017.

* It was on this date in 1928, that the premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.

* Also on November 22, 1935, the China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

* November 22, 1954, the Humane Society of the United States is founded.

* It was 54 years ago today, that U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald.

* Also today in 1968, The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).

* 40 years ago today, British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

* Also on November 22, 1987, Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

* It was 29 years ago today, in Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

* 22 years ago today, Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* English ornithologist and ichthyologist, Francis Willughby, born on this date in 1635.

* René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer was born on that same date in 1643.

* English businessman, founder of the Thomas Cook Group, Thomas Cook was born 209 years ago today.

* Born November 22, 1897, German astronomer and educator  Paul Oswald Ahnert.

* French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Louis Néel, born on this date in 1904.

* Mikhail Mil, the Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant was born 108 years ago today.

* American colonel, pilot, and astronaut,  Guion Bluford is 75 today.

* American computer scientist, engineer, and academic, Elaine Weyuker, born on this date in 1945.

* Also turning 67 today is American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor  Steven Van Zandt.

* American actress, Jamie Lee Curtis, born on this date in 1958.

* American computer programmer and author, Randal L. Schwartz is 56 today.

* Also born on that same date in 1961, American actress,  Mariel Hemingway.

* American actor and activist, Mark Ruffalo, born on this date in 1967.

* Also turning 44 today is American astronomer and scholar Chad Trujillo.

* Also born on that same date in 1980, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster,  Shawn Fanning.

* American actress, Scarlett Johansson, born on this date in 1984.

Listener Birthdays

November

* 22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)

* 25 – Lane Williams

* 26 – Joanie

* 27 – Brad P. from NJ

* 28 – Ben Sweetser

* If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 22, 2017

News

* The ISS is getting a long, long overdue printer upgrade