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Today in History 11/26/16

November 26, 2016 by GµårÐïåñ
Today in History
(1941) FDR backpedals, abandons “Franksgiving”
1941 After bowing to public pressure, US President Franklin Roosevelt signs a bill to set Thanksgiving Day as the fourth Thursday in November. Two years prior, in a bid to boost retail sales, Roosevelt had shifted the holiday a week earlier, a move met with public outrage and derided as the creation of “Franksgiving.” .

Franksgiving is a portmanteau of “Franklin” and “Thanksgiving”, coined by Atlantic City mayor Thomas D. Taggart, Jr. to describe the American Thanksgiving holiday from 1939–1941.

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving one week earlier than normal, believing that doing so would help bolster retail sales during one of the final years of the Great Depression. This led to much upheaval and protest, causing some to deride the holiday as Franksgiving. Thanksgiving (after 1941) takes place on the fourth Thursday of November.

— Source: wiki/Franksgiving
(1942) Rick’s Café Américain opens its doors as ‘Casablanca’ premieres
At its premiere, few involved in the production expect ‘Casablanca’ to cause much of a stir, despite its star power in Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. But the film will go into wide distribution in January, and as time goes by, its characters, theme song, and dialogue will go on to reach iconic status. . 1942

Fiftieth anniversary print (1992) of classic World War II story, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains et al, looks terrific in glorious black and white. A half century later, it still is a sublimely romantic, soul-satisfying experience.

Release date: Nov 26, 1942 (United States)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Gross revenue: $3.70 million USD
Featured song: As Time Goes By
Screenwriters: Julius J. Epstein · Philip G. Epstein · Howard Koch · Casey Robinson
Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture · Academy Award for Best Director · Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

— Source: wiki/Casablanca_(film)
— IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/
(1975) Squeaky Fromme guilty in attempted assassination of Ford
1975 A jury finds Fromme, a follower of serial killer Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford. On September 5, Fromme, dressed as a nun, pointed a gun at the president but was quickly subdued. She will be sentenced to life in prison, but then will be granted parole in 2009. .

Lynette Alice “Squeaky” Fromme is an American would-be assassin best known for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. A member of the infamous “Manson family”, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination attempt and released on parole on August 14, 2009, after serving 34 years.

Born: Oct 22, 1948 (age 68) · Santa Monica, CA
Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
Romance: Bill Siddons
Movies: Manson
Education: El Camino College
Parents: William Fromme (Father) · Helen Benzinger (Mother)


Highlights

  • 1969: After Manson and some of his followers were arrested for the Tate/La Bianca murders in 1969, Fromme and the remaining “Manson family” camped outside of the trial.

  • 1969: In the uncut edition of The Frighteners (1996), disturbed FBI Agent Milton Dammers (portrayed by Jeffrey Combs) claims to have been Fromme’s “sex slave” while undercover with the Manson Family in 1969.

  • 1975: In March 1975, during Led Zeppelin’s 1975 North American concert tour, Fromme spoke with Danny Goldberg, the vice president of the band’s record company at the hotel at which the band was staying in L.A.

  • 1979: In 1979, Fromme was transferred out of Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin in Dublin, California, for attacking a fellow inmate, Julienne Bušić, with the claw-end of a hammer.

  • 1985: Fromme first became eligible for parole in 1985, and was entitled by federal law to a mandatory hearing after 30 years, but could waive that hearing and apply for release at a later date.

  • 1987: On December 23, 1987, she escaped from the Federal Prison Camp, Alderson in Alderson, West Virginia, attempting to meet Manson, who she had heard had testicular cancer.

  • 2009: Fromme was released on parole from Federal Medical Center, Carswell on August 14, 2009.

— Source: wiki/Lynette_Fromme
(1992) Queen Elizabeth agrees to pay income tax
In a surprise announcement, Queen Elizabeth II breaks with tradition to become the first British monarch to pay income tax since the 1930s. The move is seen as a public relations move to appease a public weary of supporting the monarchy during a prolonged recession, though Buckingham Palace denies this.. 1992

Breaking with legal and royal tradition, Queen Elizabeth II will voluntarily pay tax on her private income and personally absorb a larger share of the public cost of the royal family’s expenses, the Government declared today.

In what appeared to be a well-timed public relations initiative to defuse festering resentment over the royal wealth and life style among Britain’s recession-weary public, Prime Minister John Major disclosed the Queen’s proposals in a surprise statement this afternoon before the House of Commons.

The 1992 Windsor Castle fire occurred on 20 November 1992 in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of Queen Elizabeth II. The castle suffered extensive damage in the fire and was fully repaired within the next few years at a cost of £36.5 million, in a project led by the conservation architects Donald Insall Associates. It led to the Queen paying tax on her income, and to Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s other official residence, being opened to the public to help pay for the restoration work.

— Source: www.nytimes.com/1992/11/27/world/in-switch-from-tradition-queen-will-pay-taxes.html
— Additional Background: wiki/1992_Windsor_Castle_fire
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