- 1789] Death and Taxes: Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" (11/13)...
- 1926] NNNNNBC: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) debuts with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network broadcast is a 4-hour special featuring live big band music from the Waldorf Astoria (11/15)...
- 1967] Triple Crown MVP: The Red Sox' Carl Yastrzemski wins the AL MVP in a year that made him a Hall of Famer. All Yaz does is win the Triple Crown (highest batting average, most home runs (tie) and runs batted in). It was the best individual performance by any player (including Mantle & Maris) I've ever witnessed. To this day, there hasn't been another Triple Crown winner yet (11/15)...
- 1968] Premiered on this date: "Yellow Submarine", the animated movie (11/13)...1997] The Disney musical "The Lion King" opens on Broadway (11/13)...
- 1974] "Happy Trails": Karen Silkwood, 28, a technician and union activist from Oklahoma who inspired a movie of her life, is killed in a suspicious car crash (11/13)...
- 1979] Vote for the "Gipper": Former California Governor Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination while visiting New York (11/13)...
- 1979] 'Chocolate Thunder': 76er Darryl Dawkins shatters a fiberglass backboard doing a monster dunk in Kansas City and starts a new fad that provides ESPN with about a million 'Sports Update' show opens (11/13)...
- 1986] It's a family affair: Doubleday Publishing agrees to sell the Mets to Nelson Doubleday & Fred Wilpon for $80.7 million (11/14). The publishing company bought the team for a then-record $21.1 million in 1980...
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