This Day In History

November 22nd

1899  The Marconi Wireless Company of America incorporated in the State of New Jersey.
1906  At the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin, it was voted to use SOS (Morse Code ...--... ) as the letters for the new international signal meaning Save Our Souls, or Save Our Ship.
1917  The formation of the National Hockey League established in Montreal, Canada.
1963  US President Kennedy assasinated in Dallas, Texas, to this day, there is controversy that it was a collective conspiracy of the Mafia, Cubans, and Communist Russians.
1977  Entertainer Tony Orlando came out of retirement after 3 months after being distressed  of the suicide death of his good friend, Freddie Printz, to perform in San Carlos, California.
1980  Actress Mae West dies at age 87 in Hollywood, California.

1890  President of France Charles DeGaulle
1899  Songwriter Hoagy (Hoagland) Carmichael
1921  Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (born as Jacob Cohen)
1932  Actor Robert Vaughn
1943  Tennis Star Billie Jean King (Moffitt)
1949  Musician Steve Van Zandt
1958  Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of Actor Tony Curtis
1961  Actress Mariel Hemingway

1962

• Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons

• Return to Sender - Elvis Presley

• Next Door to an Angel - Neil Sedaka

• I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow

1970

• I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family

• The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

• Somebody's Been Sleeping - 100 Proof Aged in Soul

• Fifteen Years Ago - Conway Twitty

1978

• MacArthur Park - Donna Summer

• Double Vision - Foreigner

• How Much I Feel - Ambrosia

• Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell

1986

• Human - Human League

• You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi

• Word Up - Cameo

• You're Still New to Me - Marie Osmond with Paul Davis

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