Have You Heard, today (11/12) marks 73 years since the start of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
The Allied victory was the first major win in World War Two over the Japanese.
Before Guadalcanal, the Japanese navy was considered superior.
After Guadalcanal, that belief was switched to the U.S. Navy.
It never switched back.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected Major League Baseball’s first commissioner 95 years ago today (11/12/1920).
Landis came to baseball after serving as a federal judge, the bench to which he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Judge Landis was known as a tough arbitrator in the courtroom and baseball needed a tough leader to help “clean up the game,” after the 1919 Black Sox Scandal and other cases in which players were suspected of “throwing” games.
Landis was just that, serving as commissioner until he died in 1944 at the age of 78.
Sportscaster Al Michaels is 71 today.
Canadian singer/songwriter/guitarist Neil Young is 70.
Canadian actor Ryan Gosling is 35.
The space shuttle Columbia blasted off 34 years ago today, thus becoming the first craft to fly into space twice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born 200 years ago today (11/12/1815).
Stanton, along with Susan B. Anthony, was our country’s most-outspoken proponent for women’s rights in the 19th century and not just for voting rights.
Her opinions ran so deep that she opposed the 14th and 15th amendments which gave legal protection and voting rights to African-American men, because the same rights were given to no American woman.
Stanton died 18 years before the 19th amendment saw her dream come true.
She was 86.
This is hard to believe but if Grace Kelly were alive, she’d be 86 today. She died when she was only 52.
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