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~ On This Day in History ~
« on: December 21, 2012, 11:21:27 AM »
This Day in History for 21st December


Historical Events


                                               
French President                                                 Author and Nobel                  First Director of the FBI J             
Charles de Gaulle                                       Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann           Edgar Hoover


1163 - Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
1561 - Archbishop Granvelle installed
1582 - Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
1598 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on     
           Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually 
           taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically
            ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11]
1650 - Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1688 - Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
1784 - John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
1788 - Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
1829 - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1835 - HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1844 - The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting
           the Cooperative movement.
1849 - 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
1864 - General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia
1866 - Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
1890 - Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1891 - 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1898 - Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
1900 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
1907 - Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
1909 - 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 - Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in NYC
1909 - U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1910 - Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
1912 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1913 - 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1914 - "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
1914 - 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler,
           Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
1915 - 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
1918 - Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim
           Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
1919 - J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1920 - Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC
1921 - Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
1923 - Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
1925 - Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1925 - Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against NZ
1926 - Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
1929 - 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1932 - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 - Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1933 - Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
1933 - Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1933 - Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1936 - Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
1937 - 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1937 - O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust
1939 - Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
1941 - Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
1941 - Chicago bears win the NFL championship
1941 - David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 - German submarine U-567 sinks
1941 - Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
1942 - US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
1944 - Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1945 - "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
1945 - Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in NYC
1946 - "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
1946 - Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
1946 - Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
1946 - Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis
1948 - O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
1948 - State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
1949 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
1950 - Cole Porte's musical "Out of this World" premieres at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 - Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1952 - WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1957 - Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
1958 - Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
1959 - 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
1959 - Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
1959 - Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1961 - Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
1961 - JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda
1962 - Angolin leaves Comecon
1962 - US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
1966 - USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
1968 - Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1968 - David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in Calif
1969 - Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
1969 - Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1970 - WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1972 - Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1973 - Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
1973 - The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1975 - "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances
1975 - "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
1975 - 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1975 - 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1975 - Madagascar adopts constitution
1975 - Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington   
           Caps in 4:57
1976 - 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1976 - Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
1976 - UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
1978 - Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder1979 - Gary Unger plays in
            record 914th consecutive NHL game
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1980 - Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1981 - Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
1983 - Musical "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
1983 - NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1983 - NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
1984 - Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
1984 - USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
1985 - ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 - Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 - Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
1986 - 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1986 - Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1987 - 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 - Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
1988 - Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 - NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1988 - Pan AM Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb killing 243 passengers and 16 crew (also known
           as the Lockerbie bombing)
1989 - VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
1990 - Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
1991 - 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991 - El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
1991 - Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of
           Independent States
1992 - Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1994 - Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
1995 - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 - SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
1995 - The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 - Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
1997 - Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
1997 - Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
1997 - Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
1997 - Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
1997 - Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2006 - Puzzle Play aired to network Ten, replacing In the Box
2007 - The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech 
           Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders.
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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2012, 11:49:42 AM »
This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Weddings


1762 - British Explorer Captain James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
1959 - Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
1977 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet marries 1st
           wife actress Lindsay Crouse   
1983 - Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
1991 - Actress Jane Fonda (55) weds CNN founder Ted Turner at the groom's home in north Florida
1996 - Famous singer Lionel Richie (47) weds clothing designer Diane Alexander (30) at Metropolitan 
           Club in New York
2008 - Talk show host Craig Ferguson (46) weds art dealer Megan Wallace Cunningham (26) in
           Chester, Vermont

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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2012, 02:14:50 PM »
This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Divorces


1945 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" 
           Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn divorce after 5 years of marriage.
2010 - "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (51) divorces actress Georgina Sutcliffe (32) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2012, 02:27:55 PM »
This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Birthdays


                                         
Archbishop of Canterbury                     Actress Jane Fonda (1937)            Actor Samuel L Jackson (1948)             
Thomas Becket (1117)                                       


1117 - Thomas Becket, Cheapside, London, archbishop of Canterbury (1162-1170), (d. 1170)
1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1518 - Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician
1537 - Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
1596 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
1616 - Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer
1628 - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer
1639 - Jean Racin, writer
1714 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1728 - Hermann Friedrich Raupach, composer
1756 - Thomas Anton Kunz, composer
1778 - Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
1795 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1800 - Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
1805 - Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1810 - Ludwig Schuncke, composer
1815 - Thomas Couture, French painter/author
1818 - Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
1818 - Lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
1823 - Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
1826 - Ernst Pauer, composer
1832 - John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1840 - Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1848 - Edward Everett Rice, composer
1849 - James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
1850 - Zdenek Fibich, composer
1851 - Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1853 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1859 - Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
1860 - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)
1867 - John Winter Thompson, composer
1872 - Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
1872 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
1873 - Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
1874 - Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1878 - Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 - Theodore Limperg, business economist (substitute value)
1885 - Frank Patrick, Canadian hockey player (d. 1960)
1886 - George Norman Peterkin, composer
1886 - Hermann A J Kees, German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology)
1889 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
1890 - Fred M Vinson, US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53)
1890 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1891 - John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of House (1962-70)
1892 - Rebecca West, [Cicily I F Andrews], Engl author (Meaning of Treason)
1892 - Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19)
1892 - Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980)
1895 - Paul Hoffer, composer
1896 - Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-min Socialist Business
1896 - Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland
1896 - Leroy Robertson, composer
1898 - Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
1899 - Guy Wilkerson, TX, actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron)
1900 - Oda Schaefer, German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only)
1900 - Wischnewski, writer
1901 - Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer
1901 - Robin Irvine, London England, actor (Easy Virtue)
1905 - Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of Spring)
1907 - Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary (Poet in Love)
1908 - Pat Weaver, LA California, TV Executive (started Today show)
1909 - George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state
1909 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
1911 - Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)
1911 - Paul Burkhard, composer
1913 - Raich Carter, soccer star
1914 - Ivan Generalić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
1915 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
1916 - Eve Perrick, journalist
1916 - John Boon, publisher
1917 - Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
1917 - Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
1917 - Sophie Masloff, American politician
1918 - Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Nazi/4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81)/Austrian pres (1986-92)
1919 - Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1920 - Bob Bindig, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1920 - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
1921 - Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina
1921 - James Tye, safety expert
1921 - Joan Dickson, cellist
1922 - Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)
1923 - Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan
1924 - Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
1924 - Johan W "Jo" van Marle, KNVB-chairman (1980-93)
1924 - Rita Reys, [Maria Reijs], Dutch jazz singer
1926 - John Herbert McDowell, composer
1926 - Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares Tx, actor (Rio Bravo)
1926 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
1927 - Michael Carreras, film director
1928 - Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
1928 - Thomas Rajna, composer
1929 - Jack Philip Cannon, composer
1930 - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
1931 - Caroline Kaart, [Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer
1931 - David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections)
1932 - Ilja Zeljenka, composer
1932 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
1933 - Huib Eversdijk, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1933 - Jackie Hendriks, cricketer (West Indian wicket-keeper of 60's)
1933 - Miklos Kocsar, composer
1934 - Hanif Mohammad, cricketer (prolific Pakistani batsman 1952-69)
1935 - Phil Donahue, Cleve Ohio, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
1935 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (d. 1967)
1935 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (d. 2003)
1935 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba
1937 - Harald V, King of Norway (1991-present)
1937 - Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit
1937 - Donald F. Munson, American politician
1938 - Larry Bryggman, Concord CA, actor (Dr John Dixon-As the World Turns)
1939 - Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
1940 - Frank Zappa, Baltimore, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)
1940 - Paul, [Ray Hildebrand], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1942 - Carla Thomas, US singer (Let Me Be Good to You)
1942 - Hu Jintao, Chinese president
1942 - Reinhard Mey, German singer
1943 - Albert Lee, rocker
1943 - Jack Nance, actor (Rubbed Out)
1943 - Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
1943 - André Arthur. Quebec radio host
1944 - Jared Martin, NYC, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, LA California, conductor (NY Phil Young People)
1944 - Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
1944 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1945 - Doug Walters, cricketer (Aussie batting genius 1965-81 Extrovert)
1945 - Millie Hughes-Fulford, Wells Tx, astronaut (STS 40)
1946 - Carl Dean Wilson, Hawthorne California, rock vocalist (Beach Boys-Barbie)
1946 - Christopher Keene, Berkeley California, conductor (La Traviata)
1946 - Josh Mostel, NY, actor (Windy City, Animal Behavior, Money Pit)
1947 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish musician
1948 - Barry Gordon, Brookline Mass, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
1948 - Carol Potter, NYC, actress (Beverly Hills 90210, Today's FBI)
1948 - Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
1948 - Samuel L Jackson, Washington DC, actor (Amos & Andrew, White Sand, Pulp Fiction)
1948 - Willem AFG Vermeend, Dutch economist/undersecretary of Finance (1994-)
1948 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician
1949 - Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician
1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film producer
1950 - Lillebjørn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1952 - Dennis Boutsikaris, Newark NJ, actor (Batteries Not Included)
1952 - Steve Furniss, US swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1952 - Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player
1953 - Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500)
1953 - Betty Wright, US gospel/singer/TV hostess (Little Miss Broadway)
1953 - Tina Brown, journalist (New Yorker)
1954 - Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Fort Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
1955 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
1956 - Kevin Burnham, Hollis NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-8th-1992, 96)
1956 - Lee Roy Parnell, Abilene Texas, country singer (Oughta be a Law)
1957 - Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease)
1957 - Lisa Gerritsen, LA California, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1957 - Ray Romano, Queens NY, actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1957 - Tom Henke, American baseball player
1957 - Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, LA California, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1988)
1960 - Andy Van Slyke, baseball player
1960 - Michael Swain, Elizabeth NJ, judoka (Olympics-bronze-88)
1960 - Roger McDowell, Cincinnati OH, pitcher (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
1960 - Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist
1961 - Trevor Bayliss, cricketer (NSW batsman)
1961 - Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
1961 - Ryuji Sasai, Japanese composer
1962 - Christy Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1964 - Ed Jongsma, Dutch pop bassist (Sleeze Beez-Look Like Hell)
1964 - Joey Kocur, Calgary, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1964 - Keith Taylor, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1964 - Rob Kelly, English football manager
1964 - Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress
1965 - Andy Dick, Charleston SC, actor (Matthew-Newsradio)
1965 - Gabrielle Glaser, musician (Luscious Jackson)
1965 - Rodney Thomas, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1965 - Sue Thomas, Texarkana TX, LPGA golfer (1991 Orix Hawaiian Ladies-14th)
1965 - Anke Engelke, German comedian
1966 - Karri Turner, American actress
1967 - Ervin Johnson, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1967 - Kristi Cooke, Marion Ohio, Miss Ohio-America (1991)
1967 - Terry Mills, NBA forward (Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons)
1967 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia
1968 - Anthony Lynn, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
1969 - Chuck Smith, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Julie Delpy, actress (Before Sunrise)
1969 - Leon Searcy, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers, Jackson Jaguars)
1969 - Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer
1970 - Irving Spikes, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Monique Ambers, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1970 - Ronnie Woolfork, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Ernest Hunter, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Irena Slavutskay, Israel, athlete (Oly-1996)
1971 - Jey Phillips, WLAF DB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tommie Boyd, NFL/WLAF receiver (Detroit Lions, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Mathieu Chedid, French musician
1971 - Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef
1971 - Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel, The X's)
1972 - Latroy Hawkins, American baseball player
1972 - Dustin Hermanson, American baseball player
1972 - Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer
1973 - Mike Alstott, fullback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer
1974 - Karrie Webb, Ayr Queensland Aus, LPGA golfer (1994 Aust Strokeplay)
1974 - Raymond Austin, cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1974 - Tommie Boyd, wide reciever (Detroit Lions)
1975 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
1976 - Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower
1978 - Amber Corwin, Harbor City Ca, figure skater (1997 National Sr - 5th)
1978 - Michael Vitar, LA California, actor (D2, D3, Sunset Grill, Sandlot Kids)
1979 - Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer
1980 - Royce Ring, American Major League Baseball Player
1981 - Cristian Zaccardo, Italian football player
1981 - Frankie Abernathy, American actress, The Real World: San Diego (d. 2007)
1981 - Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
1981 - Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer
1982 - Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1982 - Erica Hayden, American journalist and radio personality
1982 - Philip Humber, American baseball player
1982 - Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Darren Potter, Irish football player
1984 - Jackson Rathbone, American Actor
1985 - James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
1987 - Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2012, 02:36:57 PM »
This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Deaths


                                         
US Secretary of State Frank                  US General George S Patton                         
    Kellogg (1937)                                                      (1945)                           


72 - Thomas the Apostle
918 - Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies
1295 - Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)
1308 - Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies at 64
1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies
1504 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
1549 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1579 - Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1597 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch jesuit/saint, dies at 76
1674 - Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66
1734 - Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 54
1736 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45
1755 - Caspar Ruetz, composer, dies at 47
1807 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)
1820 - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45
1824 - James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
1859 - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66
1864 - William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
1889 - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61
1889 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
1890 - Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73
1900 - Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
1906 - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58
1907 - Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
1914 - A O Jones, cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies
1920 - Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death
1921 - P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
1927 - Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
1928 - Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v South Africa 1895-96), dies
1928 - Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78
1933 - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54
1935 - Kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45
1937 - Frank Kellogg, US Secretary of State and Nobel laureate, dies at 80
1940 - F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
1942 - Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63
1945 - George S Patton, US General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60
1948 - Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
1955 - Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
1956 - Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79
1957 - Eric Coates, composer, dies at 71
1958 - H[arry] B[yron] Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon), dies at 83
1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher/writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74
1959 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1963 - Jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies
1964 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
1965 - Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55
1967 - Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64
1972 - Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
1974 - Richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47
1974 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
1975 - William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61
1976 - Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies
1979 - Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies
1980 - Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1983 - Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73
1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
1987 - Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies
1987 - John Spence, founding No Doubt member (b. 1969)
1988 - Bob Steele, [Robert Bradbury], dies after short illness at 60
1988 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81
1989 - Jan Cikker, composer, dies at 78
1990 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; b. 1910)
1992 - Albert King, US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71
1992 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87
1992 - Stella Adler, US actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90
1992 - Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94
1993 - Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
1994 - Dean Rusk, US Sect of State, dies at 85
1994 - Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37
1995 - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
1995 - Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90
1996 - Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90
1996 - Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96
1997 - Bruce Woodcock, boxer, dies at 76
1997 - Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64
1997 - Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78
1998 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (b. 1914)
1998 - Karl Denver, Scottish singer (b 1931)
1998 - Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 {b. 1904)
2001 - Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
2003 - Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish playboy and businessman (b. 1924)
2004 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
2005 - Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
2006 - Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (b. 1914)
2006 - Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2007 - Ken Hendricks, American businessman (b. 1941)
2010 - Enzo Bearzot, Italian football player and manager (b. 1927)

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2012, 04:01:32 PM »
This Day in History for 22nd December


Historical Events


401 - St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
795 - Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 - Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 - Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 - English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 - Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 - Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 - Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 - Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 - Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2012, 04:05:23 PM »
This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Weddings


1968 - Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
2000 - Pop singer Madonna (42) weds film director Guy Ritchie (32) at Skibo Castle in Scotland
2005 - "Ospreys" Rugby star Shane Williams (28) weds Gail Lacey at Twyn Church in Garnant, West Wales
2005 - Brazilian actress Danielle Winits (31) weds model Cassio Reis at Capela Santa Ines in Rio de
           Janeiro
2007 - Former "Saturday Night Live" host Jimmy Fallon (33) weds Hollywood producer Nancy Juvonen (40) on Necker Island in Caribbean
2011 - "Big Bang Theory" Indian actor Kunal Nayyar (30) weds Miss India 2006 winner Neha Kapur
           (28) in New Delhi, India

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2012, 04:06:39 PM »
This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Divorces


2006 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sandra Oh (35) divorces Oscar-winning Sideways director Alexander
            Payne (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2012, 04:11:20 PM »
This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Birthdays




US Secretary of State
Frank Kellogg (1856)
                           

1095 - Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1400 - Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
1428 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
1459 - Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
1515 - Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland
1523 - Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1573 - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen
1624 - Tomas Micieres, composer
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1643 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1684 - Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum)

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2012, 04:13:21 PM »
This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Deaths




Children's Author Beatrix
Potter (1943)
                           

69 - Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome
1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1337 - Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
1419 - John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
1440 - Bluebeard, pirate, executed
1550 - Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
1603 - Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1566) Reigned 1595-1603.
1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1668 - Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
1721 - Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
1723 - Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70
1738 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2012, 10:05:27 PM »
This Day in History for 23rd December


Historical Events


                                           
US President Thomas Jefferson          US President Woodrow Wilson                  Dictator Fidel Castro 


             
Mystery Writer Agatha Christie          38th US President Gerald R Ford

619 - Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops
          stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.
1482 - Peace of Atrecht
1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
1620 - French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
1672 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
1688 - English king Jacob II flees to France
1690 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
1724 - Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Aust Neth
1728 - Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin
1751 - France sets plan to tax clergymen
1776 - Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
1776 - Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
1779 - Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
1783 - General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the
           Army to Congress
1788 - Maryland votes to cede a 10 sqaure mile area for Dist of Columbia
1793 - Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
1823 - "Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
1832 - Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
1834 - Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
1852 - 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1862 - Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind"
           by Jefferson Davis
1867 - 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
1876 - Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
1893 - Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1894 - Debussy's ballet "L'aprés-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris
1899 - British Fieldmarshall Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa for the 2nd Boer
           War
1899 - Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
1907 - 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
1909 - Albert becomes king of Belgians
1911 - Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich
1911 - Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
1912 - 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
1912 - Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1914 - World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1915 - J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in NYC
1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai
            peninsula.
1917 - 3 British warships come close to Holland
1919 - 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 - Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1920 - Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1920 - King George V signs Home Rule Act
1921 - Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1922 - BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1922 - Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
1923 - Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
1925 - Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
1926 - KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1928 - NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1930 - Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1930 - Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
1933 - Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
1933 - Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1936 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1937 - First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1938 - Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"
1938 - Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1939 - Finnish counter offensive at Summa
1939 - South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1940 - John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in NYC
1941 - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1941 - British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
1941 - Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
1942 - Allies air attack on Den Helder
1943 - 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
1943 - Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1944 - Beginning of harsh winter
1945 - Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
1945 - Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
1946 - Belgian Council of State forms
1946 - Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1946 - U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
1947 - Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
1951 - Last Belgian communities get electricity
1951 - 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleveland
           Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1953 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent
           Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
1957 - Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson v South Africa
1958 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 perfs
1958 - Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco
1960 - De Quay's Dutch government falls
1960 - King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
1961 - KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 - Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1961 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
1962 - Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1962 - Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
1963 - Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
1963 - Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
1964 - India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1966 - Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
1967 - Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy
1968 - 1st US case of space motion sickness
1968 - 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea
1968 - Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
1968 - North Korea releases Pueblo crew
1970 - 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
1970 - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 - NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test
1972 - 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
1972 - 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
1972 - Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi
1972 - Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1972 - "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown
            reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1973 - "Young & Restless" premieres on TV
1973 - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1973 - French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
1974 - "Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances
1974 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
1975 - Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1975 - Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents
1978 - Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against NY Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers,
           5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
1979 - NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in NYC
1981 - Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033
1982 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983 - Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
1984 - Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
1986 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop,
           round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1986 - Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
1987 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres Gerald
           R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1990 - "Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 perfs
1990 - Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1991 - NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1994 - Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
1996 - 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
1997 - Chic Bull coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)
1997 - Colo Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1997 - Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
1997 - US Agriculture Dept estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
2002 - A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
2003 - PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
2004 - Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
2005 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2012, 10:19:00 PM »
This Day in History for 23rd December


Famous Weddings


1997 - Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow
2004 - CBS executive Les Moonves (55) weds CBS' "Early Show" co-host Julie Chen (34) on a private     
           estate in Acapulco
2005 - Soccer star player Kaka (23) weds Brazilian singer Caroline Celico (18) at Igreja Renascer em Cristo in Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005 - "Are You Being Served?" actor John Inman (70) weds Ron Lynch at Westminster Register
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2005 - "Jurassic Park" actress Laura Dern (38) weds musician Ben Harper (36) in Los Angeles
2007 - "Dr. Izzie Stevens" actress Katherine Heigl (29) weds singer-songwriter Josh Kelley (27) at Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2012, 11:13:12 PM »
This Day in History for 23rd December


Famous Birthdays


                                                      
Queen of the Palmyrene Empire    Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1805)              Cosmetics Mogul Madame
in Roman Syria Zenobia (245)                                                                                        C J Walker (1867)

245 - Zenobia, Palmyra, Syria, Queen of Palmyra, (d. 274)
1173 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)
1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1544 - Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)
1548 - Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)
1582 - Severo Bonini, composer
1597 - Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
1644 - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer
1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer
1699 - Joseph Gibbs, composer
1709 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer
1714 - Johann Siebenkas, composer
1716 - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer
1732 - Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame)
1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
1749 - Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer
1750 - Frederik Augustus I, the Righteous, king of Saxony (1806-27)
1758 - Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York
1763 - John Davy, composer
1777 - Aleksandr I P Romanov, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
1780 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher
1790 - Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
1795 - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer (Atlas Universel)
1804 - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk)
1805 - Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vermont, founder (Mormon Church), (d. 1844)
1808 - Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1812 - Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
1812 - William Hauser, composer
1815 - Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat
1818 - David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
1823 - Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer
1827 - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa)
1828 - Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter)
1830 - Adam Minchejmer, composer
1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
1845 - Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr (found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal)
1845 - Gustave Ador, union president of Austria (1919)
1854 - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
1855 - Alan Gray, composer
1858 - Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright (Life in Russian Theater)
1860 - Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I)
1862 - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium)
1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
1867 - Madame C J Walker, Louisiana, cosmetic mogul (Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company), (d. 1919)
1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
1883 - Hubert M E Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45)
1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
1886 - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Message from the Madhouse)
1887 - Eric Blore, London England, actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad)
1887 - John Cromwell, Toledo OH, actor/director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage)
1888 - Eric Blore, English/US actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad)
1888 - Friedrich Wolf, writer
1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
1893 - Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father)
1894 - Arthur Gilligan, cricketer (England captain in 1920's)
1896 - Alberto Hemsi, composer
1896 - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard)
1897 - Julien Carette, Paris France, actor (Sylvia & the Phantom)
1900 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
1901 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (PGA 1922, 23, 33)
1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
1903 - Fredi [Fredericka] Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan)
1903 - Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer (When the Cranes Fly)
1905 - Arn Bjornsson, composer
1906 - Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered)
1907 - Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)
1907 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
1908 - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine)
1909 - Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934)
1909 - Don Cleverley, cricketer (two Tests for NZ 1932 & 1946, took 0-130)
1909 - Maurice Denham, Beckenham England, actor (Mr Love, Damn the Defiant)
1910 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961)
1911 - James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller)
1911 - Niels Jerne, immunologist
1913 - Hans Henkemans, composer
1913 - Leo A Ketelaars, Dutch oratorio vocalist
1914 - Dezider Kardos, composer
1916 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974- )
1918 - Jose Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers)
1918 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
1919 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (d. 2006)
1921 - Gerald S O'Loughlin, NYC, actor (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels)
1922 - Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant
1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
1923 - Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, TV host (Price is Right)
1923 - James Stockdale, admiral (Vietnam)/Ross Perot's 1992 running mate
1923 - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster
1923 - Leonard Stern, NYC, producer/TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart)
1923 - Lucas M Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana (1977-94)
1923 - Milt Okun, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Starland Vocal Band Show)
1923 - Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas)
1923 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
1923 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
1924 - Floyd Kalber, Omaha Neb, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973)
1925 - Harry Guardino, NYC, actor (Monty Nash, Perry Mason, Hill St Blues)
1926 - Dusan Kostic, composer
1926 - James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker
1926 - Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds)
1927 - Joseph Castaldo, composer
1928 - Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer
1929 - Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
1931 - Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World)
1932 - Revjames Cleveland, rocker
1932 - Tertius Metcalf, businessman
1933 - Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989- )
1935 - Esther Phillips, [EM Jones], US singer (When a Woman Loves a Man)
1935 - Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
1936 - Bobby Ross, NFL coach (San Diego Chargers)
1936 - Claude Albert Coppens, composer
1936 - Frederic Forrest, Waxahachie TX, actor (Music Box, Lonesone Dove)
1936 - James Stacy, LA California, actor (Fred-Adv of Ozzie & Harriet)
1937 - Karol Joseph Bobko, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6, STS 51D, STS 51J)
1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
1939 - Johnny Kidd, [Frederick Heath], London, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates)
1940 - Eugene Record, US singer (Chi Lites-Give it Away)
1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, Wash DC, rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
1940 - Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician
1941 - Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled)
1941 - Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire)
1941 - Ron Bushy, American musician
1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
1941 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
1942 - Friedrich Schenker, composer
1942 - Jerry Koosman, pitcher (NY Mets)
1943 - Derek Small, rocker (Spinal Tap)
1943 - Harry Shearer, LA California, actor (SNL, Simpsons, Pure Luck)
1943 - Peter Quaife, Devon England, rock bassist (Kinks-Long Tall Sally)
1943 - Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor/director (One Evening at Eva)
1943 - Ross Edwards, composer
1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, German wife of King Carl XVI of Sweden (1973- )
1943 - Stephen Wallace, director (For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride)
1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
1944 - D J D Dees, pharmacist/Dutch minister of WVC (VVD)
1944 - U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India)
1944 - Wesley Clark, American military officer
1945 - Georges Aperghis, composer
1945 - Richard C Wohlhuter, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1945 - Ronald Bushy, rocker (Iron Butterfly-Ina gada davida)
1946 - Tony Craig, [Kulasa], Pittsburgh PA, actor (That Boy Next Door)
1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
1947 - Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY)
1948 - Susan Lucci, Scarsdale NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess)
1948 - Jack Ham, American football player (Steelers)
1948 - Leslie Moonves, American television executive
1949 - Luther Grosvenor, rocker (Spooky Tooth)
1949 - Wally Edwards, cricketer (three Tests Australia v England 1974)
1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
1950 - Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
1951 - Johnny Contardo, singer (Sha Na Na)
1952 - Hans Abrahamsen, composer
1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
1953 - John Callahan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Craig-Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest)
1953 - Tatsumi Fujinami, wrestler (WWF/NWA)
1953 - Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
1954 - Brian Teacher, San Diego Cal, tennis star
1956 - Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari)
1956 - Dave Murray, London, English heavy metal guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Dan Bigras, Canadian singer
1957 - Trisha Goddard, English television presenter
1958 - Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979)
1958 - Joan Severance, Houston Tx, actress (Hear No Evil, See No Evil)
1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
1959 - Geoff Willis, British engineer
1960 - William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen-Move Any Mountain)
1960 - Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
1962 - Jerry Reynolds, NBA guard/forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1962 - Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver
1962 - Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director
1963 - Carol Peterka, Little Falls MN, team handball back court (Oly-92, 96)
1963 - Jim Harbaugh, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Keiji Muto, wrestler (NWA/WWC/NJPW)
1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
1964 - Andy Gabel, Chicago Ill, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Petr Klima, Chaomutov Cze, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Eddie Vedder, heavy metal singer (Pearl Jam-Justine)
1966 - Hans van Arum, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse, Willem II)
1967 - Lamar Lathon, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer
1967 - Tim Fountain, British playwright
1968 - Quincy Jones III, Swedish-American musician
1969 - Rodney Culver, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Stephen Grant, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Greg Biffle, American racecar driver
1969 - Rob Pelinka, American sports agent
1970 - Kimberly Ann Cooley, Grand Forks ND, Miss America-ND (1996)
1970 - Martha Byrne, actress (Lily Grimaldi-As the World Turns)
1970 - Raymont Harris, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1970 - Shannon Noelle DePuy, Lynchburg Va, Miss Virg-America (1991-top 10)
1971 - Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive)
1971 - Pete Bercich, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 - Steve Stenstrom, quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1971 - Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer
1971 - Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
1971 - Wim Vansevenant, Belgian cyclist
1973 - Tony Graziani, quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
1975 - Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
1976 - Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer
1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
1977 - Becky Ruehl, Lakeside Park Ky, diver (Olympics-4th-1996)
1977 - Helen Mahmastol, Miss Universe-Estonia (1996)
1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
1977 - Jari Mäenpää, Finnish guitarist and singer
1977 - Paul Shirley, American basketball player
1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
1978 - Jodie Marsh, British glamour model
1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
1979 - Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player
1979 - Holly Madison, American model
1979 - Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
1980 - Cody Ross, American baseball player
1981 - Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuban boxer
1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
1983 - Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
1985 - Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
1988 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
1993 - Nathan Waddle, New Zealander
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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2012, 11:18:47 PM »
This Day in History for 23rd December


Famous Deaths


558 - Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62
679 - Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
918 - Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies. Born 890
1116 - Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies
1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
1236 - Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies
1502 - Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57
1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
1569 - St Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1588 - Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37
1619 - Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47
1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
1652 - John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68
1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
1688 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21
1696 - Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60
1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1793 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1812 - Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73
1834 - Reverend Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
1891 - Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81
1908 - Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72
1908 - Francois A Gevaert, Belg/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68
1911 - Karl L Hoschna, composer, dies at 34
1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
1913 - James Middleton, cricketer (24 wkt of lefty pace S Af 1895-1903), dies
1915 - Roland Leighton, dies at 20
1925 - A S C Wallis, [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies
1930 - Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
1931 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
1938 - Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies at 70
1939 - Anthony H G Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49
1943 - Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64
1945 - Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39
1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
1948 - Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) & 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64
1950 - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72
1951 - Alfreds Kalnins, composer, dies at 72
1951 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
1953 - Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
1959 - Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78
1959 - Lester Lonergan Jr, actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
1959 - Lord Irwin, ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78
1961 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (b. 1910)
1962 - George Saiko, writer, dies at 70
1962 - Luis Alberni, actor (Topaze), dies at 76
1964 - Arrigo Pedrollo, composer, dies at 86
1966 - Hv Doderer, writer, dies at 70
1966 - Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68
1967 - Karen Verne, actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49
1967 - Richard Flury, composer, dies at 71
1967 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75
1969 - Donald Foster, actor (Scaramouche), dies after long illness at 80
1970 - Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
1971 - Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84
1972 - Charles Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], body builder, dies at 79
1973 - Arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies
1975 - Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
1976 - Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies
1976 - Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80
1976 - Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72
1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
1982 - Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 62
1982 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer, dies at 45
1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
1984 - Joan Lindsay, Australian author (b. 1896)
1985 - James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
1989 - Josef Alexander, composer, dies at 82
1990 - Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies
1991 - Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73
1992 - Cyril Walters, cricketer (11 Tests for England, 784 runs), dies
1992 - Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep), dies at 42
1993 - Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92
1994 - Charles Shirley, jazz arranger, dies at 74
1994 - Didier Rocher, son of French cosmetic maker Yves Rocher, dies at 41
1994 - Nora Dunfree, US actress (Grass Harp), dies at 78
1994 - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies at 89
1995 - David Land, impressario, dies at 77
1995 - Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer, dies at 87
1995 - Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles, actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84
1996 - Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85
1996 - Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69
1997 - Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90
1997 - Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist, dies at 76
1997 - Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, dies at 76
1997 - Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist, dies at 39

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2012, 11:34:07 PM »
This Day in History for 24th December


Historical Events


                                           
Captain/Explorer James Cook             Ford Motor Company Founder
                                                                        Henry Ford

563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
640 - John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1046 - Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
1294 - Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII
1476 - 400 Burgundian soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
1515 - Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1565 - Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition
1568 - Uprising of Morisco's in Granada
1593 - Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1651 - John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
1715 - Swedish troops occupy Norway
1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook
1798 - Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1799 - Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered
1814 - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1832 - 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia
1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1851 - Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes
1860 - Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC
1864 - Battle of Gordonsville, VA
1865 - Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1871 - Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
1874 - Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
1884 - Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
1893 - Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1894 - Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
1894 - Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
1898 - Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
1900 - Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
1904 - German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
1906 - Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1910 - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1912 - Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1914 - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1920 - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
1922 - BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"
1922 - London Coloseum opens
1924 - 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
1924 - Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
1924 - Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
1924 - School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
1927 - Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af
1928 - George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC
1930 - Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
1930 - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
1932 - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1933 - Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1934 - Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
1935 - Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms
1936 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
1937 - Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
1939 - World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1941 - 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
1942 - 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1942 - Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
1943 - FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1943 - Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London
1946 - 4th French republic established
1946 - US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty
1946 - France's Fourth Republic is founded.
1948 - 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Mass)
1948 - Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
1950 - Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
1951 - 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
1951 - United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
1953 - 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1953 - KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - René Coty elected pres of France
1953 - Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1954 - Council for the Children Protection forms in Neth
1954 - Laos gains its independence
1956 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
1956 - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
1960 - Dutch bishops question papacy values
1961 - Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
1964 - Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1966 - "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1966 - Luna 13 lands on Moon
1966 - USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1967 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
1968 - WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
1971 - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret
           Koepcke found 10 days later
1973 - Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
1973 - District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect
           their own local government.
1974 - Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1979 - 1st Ariane-rocket launched
1980 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a
           Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1984 - Palace coup in Mauritania
1986 - French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
1986 - Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
1989 - Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 - Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
1990 - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
1990 - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1992 - Pres Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger of Iran-contra affair
1994 - 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
1997 - The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
1997 - The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2000 - The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.
2003 - The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. 
            inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.