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Rapidly expanding natural gas transmission lines and large importations of heavy fuel oil are producing a shift in the nation's established fuel markets and causing serious repercussions in both the coal and domestic oil refining industries.
In 1815 at a ceremony at The Hague, Wilhelm I of Orange was crowned the first King of the Netherlands and the Netherlands East Indies. For 200 years before, the Indies had been ruled indirectly through the Dutch East India Trading Company.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 5 -- Michigan turned back a stubborn Purdue team, 20 to 12, today and moved a step closer to its third Big Ten football title in a row. Purdue, a two-touchdown underdog, made it a scrap all the way. It outclassed Michigan most of the final half and got the only touchdown made in the last two periods. A crowd of 95,207 saw the game.
1949Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (died 2024)[†]
Elwood Hughes Edwards Jr. was an American voice actor. He was best known as the voice of various soundmarks for the Internet service provider America Online which he first recorded in 1989. This included AOL's trademark "You've got mail" greeting.
1949Ariel Henry, Haitian prime-minister, neurosurgeon, and politician[†]
Ariel Henry is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who served as the acting prime minister of Haiti from the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021 until his resignation in 2024, due to armed gangs taking over much of Port-au-Prince and being trapped outside of Haiti. During the period when the position of President of Haiti was vacant, executive authority was exercised by the Council of Ministers, which Henry presided over as acting prime minister. He also served as the acting Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities.
1949Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-American musician[†]
Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, timbalero, and composer. While living in his native Cuba, Sandoval was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became his friend and mentor and helped him defect from Cuba while on tour with the United Nation Orchestra. Sandoval became an American naturalized citizen in 1998. His life was the subject of the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) starring Andy García.