TV show host Larry King

Events in 1933 and 19-11

Events in US in the birth year of Larry King

• Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
• Roosevelt inaugurated (“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”); launches New Deal.
• Prohibition repealed. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in stocks and bonds.

Birthday Larry King (19-11) in history

• Day 19-11 year 1703: The death of a mysterious masked man, he was imprisoned in the Bastille prison in Paris. His true identity was the cause of many conspiracies, and his story became the basis for the literary works of François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
• Day 19-11 year 1794: John Jay and Lord Grenville signed Jay's Treaty.
• Day 19-11 year 1863: Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.
• Day 19-11 year 1977: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
• Day 19-11 year 1985: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva.
• Day 19-11 year 1990: Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was rescinded after it was discovered they didn't do their own singing.