DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE November 14, 1895 – Frank “The Fence” Lausche, born in Cleveland, becomes a minor league baseball player but gives it up for law school and politics. He becomes the only five-term governor in Ohio history. November 14, 1856 - Mark Twain, 19, writes a letter to his mother in Hannibal that he is living in Cincinnati, has a job as a printer and that things are fine.
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John Hunt Morgan

November 13, 1863 – John Hunt Morgan and some followers tunnel out of a jail cell in the Ohio Penitentiary to an airshaft. They return to their cells, wait a week, fashion a rope from prison uniforms and reach the prison yard. Morgan uses $1,000 smuggled in a Bible from his sister to buy a train ticket to Cincinnati, which leads to an escape to Kentucky.
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Alliance

Alliance is the only town in America with a Main Street that is a dead end on both ends.
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The Twist

November 11, 1958: Celebrating a renewed contract with powerhouse R&B label King Records, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters go into King’s Cincinnati studio and record an upbeat tune called The Twist. Though Ballard’s original version eventually becomes a modest hit, it is left to Chubby Checker to cover it and create the greatest dance tune of all time.
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Glen Buxton

November 10, 1947 – Glen Buxton (dies Oct. 19, 1997) is born in Akron but moves to Arizona where he creates a band called the Earwigs. Eventually landing with Alice Cooper’s band, Buxton is credited as lead guitarist for Cooper and co-writes School’s Out, I’m Eighteen and Elected. Rolling Stone named him one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. He wrote Eighteen in a backroom of the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati.
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Great Lakes Hurricane

November 9, 1913 – Called the Great Lakes Hurricane, a storm blows in from the north with unsurpassed power. Some 235 crewmen lose their lives as 12 commercial ships go down. Winds hit 79 mph in Cleveland.
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Rick Steiner

November 8, 1946 - Rick Steiner is born in North Avondale in Cincinnati. Steiner sells T-shirts on the carnival circuit, becomes a world champion poker player and then, with a lifelong pal, pluck and luck, produces an amazing string of Broadway hits: Big River, Into the Woods, A Secret Garden, The Producers, Chicago, The Wedding Singer, Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray and Jersey Boys.
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