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"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." - George Shultz

"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals." - Ralph Bunche

Dec 9 Actor Kirk Douglas born (1916); Actress Dame Judi Dench born (1934); “A Charlie Brown Christmas” debuts (1965); Diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche dies (1971); World Health Organization confirms smallpox has been eradicated (1979).

"Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing." - Chuck Yeager

Dec 6 Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn born (1932); Pearl Harbor naval base bombed by Japan (1941); Basketball legend Larry Bird born (1956); Apollo 17, the final Apollo moon mission, is launched (1972); Sound barrier-breaking pilot Chuck Yeager dies (2020).

"Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak–and speak in such a way that people will remember it." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dec 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies (1791); Walt Disney born (1901); 21st Amendment ratified in the US, repealing the nationwide ban on alcohol (1933); Montgomery Bus Boycott begins (1955); Nelson Mandela dies (2013).

"The only real defense was to remember that no one could take away my self-respect and dignity — only I could do that." - Terry Anderson

Dec 4 English philosopher Thomas Hobbes dies (1679); President Woodrow Wilson travels to Versailles for WWI peace talks (1918); Jay-Z born (1969); Tyra Banks born (1973); American journalist Terry Anderson released after more than six years as hostage in Lebanon (1991).

"This is the urgency: Live! And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind." - Gwendolyn Brooks, from "The Second Sermon on the Warpland"

Dec 3 Rock star Ozzy Osbourne born (1948); Actress Julianne Moore born (1960); First human heart transplant carried out (1967); Mikhail Gorbachev and George HW Bush declare end to Cold War (1989); Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks dies (2000).

Dec 2 Abolitionist John Brown dies (1859); Scientists achieve first human-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction (1942); Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace born (1946); US Environmental Protection Agwncy created (1970); Britney Spears born (1981); Pablo Escobar is killed (1993).

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

Dec 1 First moving assembly line introduced by Ford Motor Company (1913); Rosa Parks arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat (1955); Author and activist James Baldwin dies (1987); World AIDS Day commemorated for the first time (1988).

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"If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can." - Billy Idol

Nov 30 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II ends the siege of Paris (978); Preliminary Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, signed (1782); Woody Allen born (1935); London's Crystal Palace destroyed by fire (1936); Billy Idol born (1955)

Nov 29 "Chronicles of Narnia" author CS Lewis born (1898); Warren Commission is established to investigate President Kennedy's assassination (1963); Social activist Dorothy Day dies (1980); The Beatles guitarist George Harrison dies (2001).

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"At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don’t. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought." - Tina Turner

Nov 26: Abolitionist Sojourner Truth dies (1883); National Hockey League founded (1917); "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz born (1922); Archaeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter King Tut's tomb (1922); Singer and actress Tina Turner born (1939).

"Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust." - Andrew Carnegie

Nov 25 Businessman Andrew Carnegie born (1835); Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” opens, becoming the longest-running play in history (1952); John F. Kennedy Jr. born (1960); Author Upton Sinclair dies (1968); Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies (2016).

"It takes a lot of courage to be happy, but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again." - Florence Henderson

Nov 24 Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” published (1859); Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed just two days after assassinating President Kennedy (1963); Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies (1991); “Brady Bunch” actress Florence Henderson dies (2016).

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky

Nov 23 First issue of Life magazine published (1936); First episode of "Doctor Who" airs on BBC (1963); Hockey great Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th goal (1988); Children’s book author Roald Dahl dies (1990); Miley Cyrus born (1992).

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London

Nov 22 Author Jack London dies (1916); Tennis star and activist Billie Jean King born (1943); President John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963); Author C.S. Lewis dies (1963); Max Headroom hijacking of Chicago TV signals (1987); British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announces resignation (1990).

Nov 21 French philosopher Voltaire born (1694); Thomas Edison announces phonograph invention (1877); Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk born (1965); Baseball great Ken Griffey Jr. born (1969); Robert Mugabe resigns as president of Zimbabwe after 37 years in office (2017).

"There are only four kinds of people in the world—those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers." - Rosalynn Carter

Nov 19 President James Garfield born (1831); President Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address (1863); Indira Gandhi, first and only female prime minister of India, born (1917); Actress Meg Ryan born (1961); First lady Rosalynn Carter dies (2023).

"A word after a word after a word is power." - Margaret Atwood

Nov 18 Disney's "Steamboat Willie," first cartoon with synchronized sound, premieres (1928); Poet and novelist Margaret Atwood born (1939); 918 people die Jonestown, Guyana (1978); Massachusetts court ruling makes the state the first to recognize same-sex marriage (2003)

"Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nov 17 Suez Canal opens (1869); Actor Danny DeVito born (1944); Former US national security adviser Susan Rice born (1964); Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as governor of California (2003); First known case of COVID-19 traced to man who visited Wuhan, China (2019)

"Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out." - WC Handy

Nov 16 Blues musician WC Handy born (1873); UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, is founded (1945); Benazir Bhutto elected prime minister of Pakistan, first woman to lead Muslim-majority country (1988); Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman dies (2006)

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Nov 15 Articles of Confederation is adopted by Continental Congress (1777); Artist Georgia O’Keeffe born (1887); Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead dies (1978); Mircosoft releases first Xbox gaming console (2001); World population tops 8 billion (2022).

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington

Nov 14 Nov 14 French painter Claude Monet born (1840); "Moby-Dick" is first published in the US (1851); Albert Einstein first presents quantum theory of light (1908); Booker T. Washington dies (1915); Condoleezza Rice born (1954).

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"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it." - Whoopi Goldberg

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Nov 13 Walt Disney’s groundbreaking animated film "Fantasia" premieres (1940); Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg born (1955); Montgomery bus boycott pushes US Supreme Court to rule Alabama bus segregation illegal (1956); Kim Ng named first female MLB general manager (2020)