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On November 16, 1959, The Sound of Music opened on
Broadway, becoming a smash success from the first night.
The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin
and Theodore Bikel, won five Tony Awards, including
Best Musical, out of nine nominations.
On November 15, 1867, the first stock ticker was unveiled in
New York City. The advent of the ticker revolutionized the
stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available
to investors around the country.
Prior to this development, information from the New York
Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792,
traveled by mail or messenger.
The ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan, who
configured a telegraph machine to print stock quotes
on streams of paper tape (the same paper tape later
used in ticker-tape parades).
The ticker, which caught on quickly with investors, got
its name from the sound its type wheel made.
Edward Augustin Calahan (1838–1912)
The First Stock Ticker – Postcard.
Craig Breedlove (March 23, 1937 – April 4, 2023)
On November 15, 1965 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, 28-
year-old Californian Craig Breedlove set a new land-speed record,
600.601 miles an hour, in his car, the Spirit of America, which
cost $250,000 and was powered by a surplus engine from a
Navy jet.
He drove across the desert twice that day, since international
world-record rules require a car to make two timed one-mile
runs in one hour. The average speed of the two trips was logged.
During his first trip, Breedlove traveled at a rate of 593.178 mph;
during his second, the first time any person had officially gone
faster than 600 mph, he traveled at a rate of 608.201 mph. “That
600 is about a thousand times better than 599,” he said afterward.
“Boy, it’s a great feeling.”
Spirit of America on exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
On November 15, 1956, Love Me Tender, featuring the singer
Elvis Presley in his big-screen debut, premiered in New York
City at the Paramount Theater. Set in Texas following the
American Civil War, the film, which co-starred Richard Egan
and Debra Paget, featured Elvis as Clint Reno, the younger
brother of a Confederate soldier.
Originally titled The Reno Brothers, the movie was renamed
Love Me Tender before its release, after a song of the same
name that Reno sings during the film.
On November 14, 1832, New York City’s New York and Harlem
company premiered the nation’s first horse-drawn street car.
The street car made its debut on Bowery and Fourth Avenue in Manhattan, between Prince and 14th Street, it marked New
York’s first-ever mass transit offering. Within two weeks,
passengers were charged 12.5 cents a ride.
