History for November 16

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Burgess Meredith 1908, Clu Gulager 1928, Steve Railsback 1948 


Marg Helgenberger 1958 - Actress ("C.S.I."), Oksana Baiul 1977, Maggie Gyllenhaal 1977 - Actress 


1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown. 


1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission. 


1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law. 


1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. 


1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration. 


1999 - Chrica Adams, the pregnant girlfriend of Rae Carruth, was shot four times in her car. She died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived. Carruth was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the murder. 


2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.