(Friday, November 25, 1944, noon local time, Thursday, November 24, 1944, 11:00 p.m. EWT; during the Bombing of Tokyo, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo today in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.
Video: 'Meeting in Vladivostok (1974)' (Nov. 23-24, 1974)
(Sunday, November 24, 1974) — American President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev agreed today to terms that would limit both nations an “equal aggregate number” of various weapons on the second and final day of the Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control.
Video: '1984 - Doug Flutie's Miracle pass.mpg'
(Friday, November 23, 1984, late afternoon EST) — Quarterback Doug Flutie enhanced his legend today with a last-play touchdown pass that soared 64 yards, just out of reach of three defenders at the goal-line and into the hands of Gerard Phelan to give Boston College a 47-45 victory over Miami before a crowd of 30,235 in the Orange Bowl. Continue reading Flutie’s last-second Hail Mary pass overcomes Miami 30 years ago today (Nov 23 1984)
Video: 'Meeting in Vladivostok (1974)' (Nov. 23-24, 1974)
(Saturday, November 23, 1974) — The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, a two-day summit between American President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev for the purpose of extending arms control provisions between the Soviet Union and the United States, began this afternoon in Vladivostok, Russia. Continue reading Ford, Brezhnev begin two-day summit in Vladivostok, Russia 40 years ago today (Nov 23 1974)
2011 Victories for Animals - The Humane Society of the United States'
(Monday, November 22, 1954) — The Humane Society of the United States, a nonprofit organization designed to address animal cruelties, was incorporated today as the National Humane Society.
(Monday, November 22, 1954) — Former President Herbert Hoover, arriving from the United States for a six-day visit as guest of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, received a warm welcome today at the airport in Bonn, West Germany (click here to watch a video of Hoover’s arrival at 22:06).
Video: 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (trailer)
(Wednesday, November 22, 1944) — Meet Me in St. Louis, a musical film about an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair in 1904, premiered today in St. Louis (it would premiere in New York on Nov. 28, 1944).
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, the film starred Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake and Marjorie Main.
Video: 'The First Battle Of Ypres 1914'
(Sunday, November 22, 1914; part of the Race to the Sea on the Western Front of the First World War) — The First Battle of Ypres, fought for the strategically important town of Ypres in western Belgium, ended today with an Allied victory against Germany.
ETHEL MERMAN - ANYTHING GOES 1979
(Wednesday, November 21, 1934) — The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney and set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London, opened today at the Alvin Theatre (now known as the Neil Simon Theatre) on Broadway in New York.
Video: 'George C. Marshall reads Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixbey'
(Monday, November 21, 1864; during American Civil War) — A letter was signed tdoay by President Abraham Lincoln expressing condolences to Lydia Bixby, a widow in Boston whose five sons supposedly died while fighting in the Civil War.
As it turned out, only two of Mrs. Bixby’s sons had been killed in battle. Also, historians are not certain that Lincoln actually wrote the letter.
Still, the text has been widely praised as one of Lincoln’s finest works of writing alongside the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address
