Beethoven, Moby-Dick and Alcatraz Takeover-14 November 20 News Items

Beethoven, Moby-Dick and Alcatraz Takeover-14 November 20 News Items

By Cupertino REALTOR® Michelle Carr Crowe

“Beethoven, Moby-Dick and the Alcatraz Takeover have what in common?”

All three share an important newsworthy anniversary on November 20^th.

Curious to learn more about Beethoven, Moby-Dick and the Alcatraz Takeover? Read to find out about these and other interesting tales that happened on November 20^th.

·         1805 – Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio premieres in Vienna.

·         1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks a Nantucket whaling ship the 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville cited this event as part of the inspiration for his 1851 novel Moby-Dick.)

·         1945 – Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

·         1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

·         1962 – Cuban missile crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of Cuba.

·         1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

·         1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.

·         1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

·         1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset inJerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

·         1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

·         1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

·         1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

·         1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

·         2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.

While these interesting facts about Beethoven, Moby-Dick and the Alcatraz Takeover on November 20th have nothing to do with my real estate business selling Silicon Valley homes to families in San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga in Santa Clara County, Calif., they add fun and entertainment to life.

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Images courtesy of Michelle Carr-Crowe’s private collection, the public domain, the U.S. government or www.freedigitalphotos.net.Facts compiled from Wikipedia, Smithsonian, HistoryOrb and MentalFloss among others.

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