December 7, 2010

• The anniversary of Cicero's assassination (43 BC)
  
• 80 years since the first television commercial, an ad for I.J. Fox Furries who sponsored the CBS TV broadcast of the The Fox Trappers (1930)
  
• 69 years since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII (1941)
  
• 100 years since the birth of "The King of Swing:" Popular swing, big band, and lounge act Louis Prima (born 1910, died 1978)
  
• International Civil Aviation Day (as created by the UN General assembly in 1994 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on International Civil Aviation).

November 22, 2010

• Anniversary of the founding of Denver, Colorado (1858)


• 66 years ago the Humane Society was founded (1954)


• 47 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas (1963)


• 15 years ago Toy Story is released, and is the first feature length film using entirely computer generated imagery (1995)


• 5 years ago Angela Markel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany


• Shawn Fanning, Napster developer turns 30 (1980)
  
• 30 years since the death of silver screen actress Mae West (1980), she was 87 at the time of her death.