On This Day:
Friday November 22, 2013 This is the 326th day of the year, with 39 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: wedding anniversaries Traditionally, each wedding anniversary is celebrated with a gift made from a different material. While there are many lists of gifts for particular wedding anniversaries, here is a list of traditional ones: First - Paper; Second - Cotton; Third - Leather; Fourth - Fruit/Flowers; Fifth - Wood; Sixth - Candy/Iron; Seventh - Wool/Copper; Eighth - Bronze/Pottery; Ninth - Pottery/Willow; Tenth - Tin/Aluminum; Eleventh - Steel; Twelfth - Silk/Linen; Thirteenth - Lace; Fourteenth - Ivory; Fifteenth - Crystal; Twentieth - China; Twenty-Fifth - Silver; Thirtieth - Pearl; Thirty-Fifth - Coral; Fortieth - Ruby; Forty-Fifth - Sapphire; Fiftieth - Gold; Fifty-fifth - Emerald; Sixtieth - Diamond; Seventieth - Platinum. It isn't clear when the traditional list came into existence; it probably evolved over time. Calling years 25 and 50 'Silver' and 'Gold' may have originated in medieval Europe, where wives were given a silver wreath to celebrate their twenty-fifth year of marriage and a gol d wreath for their fiftieth anniversary.
Holidays Lebanon: National Day/Independence Day (from France 1943).
Feast day of St. Cecilia or Cecily, and Saints Philemon and Apphia.
Events 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.
1718 - English pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach or Edward Thatch) was killed in a battle off the Virginia coast.
1847 - Astor Place Opera House, New York City's first operatic theater, was opened.
1906 - The SOS distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention.
1935 - The flying boat, The China Clipper, left San Francisco on the first transpacific air-mail flight.
1938 - The first coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought extinct, was caught off the South African coast.
1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met to discuss strategies for defeating Japan.
1946 - Biro ball point pens went on sale, invented by Hungarian journalist László Biro.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected of assassinating the president, was arrested. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States of America.
1975 - Juan Carlos I was sworn in as King of Spain, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco.
1977 - Passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began.
1986 - The U.S. Justice Department found a memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North's office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale.
1988 - The B-2 stealth bomber was revealed to Congress and the media.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister in British history, resigned after 11 years.
1996 - The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa underwent heart surgery in Calcutta, India
2000 - Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney was hospitalized with what doctors called a very slight heart attack.
Births 1643 - René-Robert La Salle, French explorer of North America.
1744 - Abigail Smith Adams, wife of John Adams, second President of the United States.
1808 - Thomas Cook, English travel package pioneer.
1819 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist.
1889 - Wiley Post, American airman, first to fly solo around the world (1933).
1890 - French president Charles de Gaulle.
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, pianist, singer.
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen, American comedian and actor.
1940 - Terry Gilliam, American director, and member of the comedy group Monty Python.
1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player.
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American film actress.
1967 - Boris Becker, German-born professional tennis player.
Deaths 1718 - Edward Teach (Blackbeard), famous English pirate.
1916 - Jack London, American novelist and short-story writer.
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America, assassinated.
1980 - Mae West, American stage and film actress.
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