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- SOARA Elmer Saturday - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, November 16, 2024
- Membership Meeting - 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, November 18, 2024
- SOARA Board Meeting - 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, November 25, 2024
- SOARA Elmer Saturday - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, December 14, 2024
- Membership Meeting - 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, January 27, 2025
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Today in History
1930 - Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America
1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide, with Hubert Humphrey as his vice president, defeating Republican candidate Barry Goldwater
1968 - David Pearson is declared NASCAR Grand National champion as Cale Yarborough wins season ending Peach State 200 at Jefferson, Georgia; Pearson finishes 126 points ahead of Bobby Isaac to secure his 2nd title
1985 - French McLaren driver Alain Prost wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 4th in the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 20 points from Italian Michele Alboreto
2012 - Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 2 winners: George Vancouver, Groupie Doll, Tapizar, Mizdirection, Shanghai Bobby, Little Mike, Trinniberg, Wise Dan, Fort Larned
2023 - 38th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Kate Bush; Sheryl Crow; Missy Elliott; George Michael; Willie Nelson; Rage Against the Machine; The Spinners; DJ Kool Herc; Link Wray; Chaka Khan; Al Kooper; Bernie Taupin; and Don Cornelius
1781 - Friedrich Wollank, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1831)
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1931 - Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Turkish freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 57kg 1956, 62kg 1960; World C'ship gold 1954, 57, 59), born in Söğütpınar, Turkey (d. 2022)
1940 - Charlie Gallagher, Scottish soccer inside forward (2 caps Republic of Ireland; Celtic, Dumbarton), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2021)
1951 - Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News, born in Jersey City, New Jersey
1983 - Julie Marie Berman, American actress (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
1708 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau and daughter of Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, dies at 71
1911 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, Spanish composer, dies at 79
1945 - James Frederick Wagner, father of Priscilla Presley, dies in a plane crash
1983 - Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American Emmy Award-winning conductor (CBS Symphony; Columbia Pan-American Orchestra), and composer (The Great City), dies during heart surgery at 82
1993 - John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), dies at 65
2022 - Wang Tao, Chinese soccer striker (2 caps; Dalian Wanda FC) and executive (founder BSU FC), dies at 52