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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2012, 07:43:12 AM »
This Day in History for 28th December


Historical Events


                                   
Playwright George Bernard Shaw             Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong                       
                                                 

                              
Playwright Tennessee Williams               Country singer Tammy Wynette

418 - St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
801 - Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
1065 - Westminister Abbey consecrated in London
1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
1614 - Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
1732 - 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
1768 - King Taksin was coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established
           Thonburi as a capital.
1816 - American Colonization Society organizes
1821 - Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
1828 - 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
1832 - John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with Pres Jackson)
1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico
1846 - Iowa becomes 29th state
1849 - M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
1850 - Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Egypt Station, MS
1867 - United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1869 - William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
1877 - John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill
1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
1879 - North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
1887 - Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
1893 - French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
1895 - Film makers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
1897 - Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris
1902 - 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1902 - Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
1903 - Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC
1904 - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1905 - Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1905 - NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253
1906 - Ecuador adopts its constitution
1908 - Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy (nearly 80,000 died)
1910 - Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)
1912 - National Council of Young Israel convenes
1912 - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
1915 - SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
1923 - George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC
1925 - George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC
1926 - Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
1926 - Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
1926 - Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW
1926 - Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
1927 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC
1928 - Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
1928 - Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
1931 - Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
1935 - W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
1935 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet
           Union.
1937 - Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
1938 - Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype.
1940 - Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
1941 - State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
1942 - Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
1942 - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1943 - All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed
1944 - Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
1944 - Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC
1945 - Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
1947 - Chic Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
1948 - IDF crosses Egyptian border
1948 - Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
1948 - US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
1949 - 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs
1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1952 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
1953 - WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
1954 - KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
1956 - Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
1957 - CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
1958 - What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
1961 - Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC
1962 - UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
1963 - "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 - "Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
1963 - Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
1964 - Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin
1964 - Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins
1966 - 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange
1968 - 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
1968 - 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1968 - Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 - Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
1968 - KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 - Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
1970 - "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs
1970 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
1971 - Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet
1972 - Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea
1972 - Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
1973 - Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
1974 - 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
1974 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine
           congress.
1975 - "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
1975 - 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
1975 - Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
1975 - Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
1975 - Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
1976 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs
1976 - Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
1978 - 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
1980 - Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
1981 - Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1983 - 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1983 - Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29
1983 - US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
1983 - Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants
1984 - Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
1984 - TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
1986 - Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors wins Davis Cup
1987 - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home
           near Dover Ark
1988 - John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1988 - US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989 - Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
1990 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1990 - Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
1991 - 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
1991 - Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
1991 - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
1991 - Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
1991 - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
1993 - John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
1994 - Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
1994 - Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
1996 - India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning
1997 - Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against
           humanity committed during World War II.
2007 - Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
2008 - The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The
           first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
2009 - 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing
           the Day of Ashura.

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2012, 07:45:21 AM »
This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Weddings


1936 - British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh
            McCorquodale
1957 - "Rebel Without A Cause" actress Natalie Wood (19) weds actor Robert Wagner (27) at
            Scottsdale United Methodist Church in Scottsdale, Arizona
1994 - Billy Ray Cyrus (Achy Breaky Heart) weds Leticia Finley
2008 - "Cheers" actor Woody Harrelson (47) weds longtime girlfriend Laura Louie (43) in Maui Island
2010 - "Thor" actor Chris Hemsworth (27) weds spanish actress Elsa Pataky (34) in Indonesia
2011 - "Stargate SG-1" actor Christopher Judge (47) weds actress and model Gianna Patton (33)

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2012, 07:46:20 AM »
This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Divorces


2010 - Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum
           due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2012, 07:54:19 AM »
This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Birthdays


                                                 
US President Woodrow Wilson (1856)     Actress Maggie Smith (1934)                Actor Denzel Washington (1954)                         
 

1164 - Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)
1484 - Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen
1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
1619 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
1631 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist
1635 - Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)
1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)
1694 - Ceslav Vanura, composer
1731 - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master
1738 - Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer
1751 - Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer
1753 - Johan Wikmanson, composer
1763 - John Molson, founded Montreal brewery (Molsons)
1778 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)
1783 - Robert Gallenberg, composer
1787 - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao
1801 - James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1805 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer
1812 - Julius Reitz, composer
1822 - William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1823 - Thomas Alexander Scott, Asst Secy War (Union), died in 1881
1826 - Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens)
1827 - Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General (Union), died in 1862
1828 - Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
1833 - Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1835 - Archibald Geikie, British geologist
1837 - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer
1842 - Calixa Lavallee, composer
1845 - Homer Newton Bartlett, composer
1849 - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck
1856 - [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (28 pres-D-1912-21, Nobel 1919)
1859 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
1859 - John W Fortescue, military historian
1860 - Alexander von Fielitz, composer
1865 - Félix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna)
1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
1868 - Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)
1880 - Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet
1882 - Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
1883 - A Wolfenstein, writer
1884 - Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier (1950-52)/communist hunter
1887 - Charles Dingle
1888 - Gabriel von Wayditch, composer
1889 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1890 - Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter (Road to Bali, China)
1894 - Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot (Eagle of Flanders)
1894 - Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
1896 - Roger Huntington Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Masks)
1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
1898 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1902 - Mortimer J Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
1902 - Shen Congwen, writer
1903 - John von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)
1903 - Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
1904 - Clabon W Allen, Australian/British astronomer
1904 - Sergei Yutkevich, St Petersburg Russia, director (Otello, Banya)
1905 - Cliff Arquette, Toledo Oh, comedian (Charlie Weaver)
1905 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
1905 - Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda the Rajkumar of Vizianagram (Ind)
1907 - Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel
1908 - Lew Ayres, Minn, actor (All Quiet on Western Front, Dr Kildare)
1909 - Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1909 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija)
1910 - John Kerr, NZ, cricketer (opening batsman in 1930s)
1911 - Phani Majumdar, film maker
1911 - Sam Levenson, NYC, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)
1913 - Lou Jacobi, Toronto Ontario, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba)
1914 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)
1914 - Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)
1915 - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, US gospel/singer (Staple Singers)
1916 - Noel Johnson, British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash)
1917 - Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad & Tobago (1976-87)
1919 - Inocenti Carreno, composer
1920 - Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles), (d. 2012)
1921 - Eddy Doorenbos, Dutch vocalist/pianist/guitarist
1921 - Johnny Otis, R&B singer
1922 - Nyron Sultan Asgarali, cricketer (West Indian opening bat 1957)
1922 - Stan Lee, comics artist/creator (Spiderman, Incredible Hulk)
1923 - Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War)
1924 - Johnny Otis, [Veliotes], composer (Every Beat of My Heart)
1924 - Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
1924 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
1925 - Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough
1925 - Hildegard Knef, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique), (d. 2002)
1926 - Donald Carr, cricketer (England player in 50's, later MCC honcho)
1927 - Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK)
1927 - Martin Milner, Detroit Mich, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)
1927 - Simon Raven, English playwright/critic (Alms for Oblivion)
1928 - Kamillo Lendvay, composer
1928 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (d. 2001)
1929 - Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
1929 - Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
1929 - Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
1931 - Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance
1931 - Guy Debord, situationist
1931 - John de Mol, Dutch vocalist/composer/producer
1932 - Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer
1932 - Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (Blood of Requited Love)
1932 - Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader
1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
1932 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
1933 - Jack Perkins, Cleve Ohio, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine)
1933 - John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician
1934 - David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Dakota Road, Barton Fink)
1934 - John Akers, business executive
1934 - Maggie Smith, Ilford England, actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
1934 - Peggy Wilson, golfer
1934 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
1935 - Fernando Lopes, Portugal, director (Encoberto, Matar Saudades)
1936 - Nichelle Nichols, Robbins Ill, actress (Uhura-Star Trek)
1936 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
1936 - Lawrence Schiller, American journalist
1937 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938 - Bruce Yarnell, LA California, actor (Outlaws)
1938 - Charles Neville, US rock vocalist/saxophonist (Neville Brothers)
1938 - Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator
1938 - Richard Sudhalter, British(?) writer/jazz musician
1939 - Philip Anschutz, American businessman
1940 - Alvin Elliot Singleton, composer
1940 - Lonnie Liston Smith, US jazz performer (Cosmic Echoes, Magic Lady)
1941 - Don Francisco, Spanish variety show host (Sabado Gigante)
1941 - Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricket leg-spinner (1959-77)
1942 - Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
1943 - Bobby Comstock, rocker
1943 - David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada (L) (1982- )
1943 - Oscar D Dhlomo, South African sect-gen of Inkatha (1978-90)
1943 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
1944 - Johnny Isakson, American politician
1944 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal (1972- )
1945 - Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1945 - Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief (Daily Telegraph)
1946 - Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)
1946 - Hubie Green, golfer (US Open-1977, PGA-1985)
1946 - Jorge Velasquez, sportsman
1946 - Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota
1947 - Andrew Olle, broadcaster
1947 - Aurelio Rodriguez, baseball player
1947 - Dick Diamonde, [Van Der Sluys], Hilversum, rock bassist (Easybeats)
1948 - Jorge Velasquez, jockey (Kentucky Derby-1981, Preakness-1981)
1950 - Alex Chilton, Memphis Tenn, rock guitarist/vocalist (Box Tops)
1950 - Øivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor
1951 - Kenneth Pope, NFLer
1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
1952 - Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
1952 - S Epatha Merkerson, Saginaw MI, actress (Lt Van Buren-Law and Order)
1952 - Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
1953 - Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
1953 - Robert Pittman, TV executive/developer (MTV)
1954 - Denzel Washington, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere)
1954 - Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise)
1954 - Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, Saturday Night Live, Amanda's)
1956 - Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator)
1956 - Michael Gibbons, rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Don't be a Hero)
1956 - Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
1957 - Anne Sargeant, Australian netballer
1958 - Carl Marsden, bodyguard
1958 - Carlos Carson, football player
1958 - Joe Diffie, Tulsa Ok, country singer/guitarist (Home)
1958 - Mike McGuire, Haleyville Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1958 - Terry Butcher, British soccer player
1959 - Everson Walls, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants)
1959 - Ana Torroja, Spanish singer (Mecano)
1959 - Phil Abrams, American actor
1960 - Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce)
1960 - John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star
1960 - Marty Roe, Lebanon Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1960 - Raymond Bourque, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, Boston)
1960 - Terri Garber, Miami FL, actress (Leslie Carrington-Dynasty)
1960 - Zane Smith, Madison WI, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1961 - Heather Hafner, Santa Barbara Ca, WPVA volleyballer (National-7th-90)
1961 - Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and football coach
1962 - Keith Lee, basketball player (Memphis State)
1962 - Rachel Z, American pianist
1962 - Melissa R. Kelly, former Maryland politician
1963 - Malcolm Gets, actor (Richard Karinsky-Caroline In the City)
1963 - Mel Stottlemyre Jr, pitcher (Toronto Blues Jays)
1963 - Willow Bay, TV host (Good Morning America)
1964 - Charles Sinek, dance skater (& Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd)
1964 - Maite Zúñiga, Spanish athlete
1965 - Colleen Dion, actress (Brett Gardner-Another World)
1965 - Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984)
1965 - Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd)
1966 - Joe Wolf, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 - Paul Lynch, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
1968 - Darrick Brownlow, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot SD, Miss SD-America (1991)
1968 - Jozef Dano, Skalica CZE, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 - Kurt Schulz, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1969 - James Trapp, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
1970 - Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Haarlem Neth, tennis star (95, 96 Oklahoma City)
1970 - Elizabeth McIntyre, Dunbar WV, Miss America-WV (1996)
1970 - James Jett, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Melvin Nieves, San Juan Puerto Rico, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1971 - Michael Watkins, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Steve Morrison, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder
1971 - Benny Agbayani, American baseball player
1971 - William Gates, American basketball player
1972 - Adam Clawson, Salt Lake City UT, slalom single canoe (Olympic-19th-96)
1972 - Adam Vinatieri, WLAF punter/kicker (Amsterdam Admirals, NE Patriots)
1972 - Jean-Francois Jomphe, Havre St-pierre Ca, NHL right wing (Anaheim)
1972 - Jim Kitts, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy, Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Patrick Rafter, Queensland Aust, tennis star (1993 USTA/Aptos California)
1972 - Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer
1973 - Bobby Taylor, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Garth John Da Silva, Auckland NZ, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Herborg Kråkevik, Norwegian singer and actress
1973 - Seth Meyers, American actor
1974 - Rob Niedermayer, Cassiar, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1975 - Kesley Perrin, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1975 - Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)
1977 - Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player
1978 - Chris Coyne, Australian footballer
1978 - John Legend, American musician
1979 - James Blake, American tennis player
1979 - Bill Hall, American baseball player
1979 - Senna Guemmour, German Singer (Monrose)
1980 - Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer
1980 - Vanessa Ferlito, American actress
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby
1981 - Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
1981 - Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer
1981 - Sienna Miller, British actress
1982 - Cedric Benson, American footballer
1982 - François Gourmet, Belgian decathlete
1982 - Quinton Porter, American footballer
1982 - Kevin Pereira, American television host
1983 - Mike He, Taiwanese actor
1984 - Leroy Lita, English footballer
1984 - Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler/Model
1984 - Alex Lloyd, British racing driver
1985 - Kamani Hill, American footballer
1986 - Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
1987 - Thomas Dekker, American actor
1989 - Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
1990 - David Archuleta, American Idol runner-up, American Singer

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #34 on: December 28, 2012, 07:58:33 AM »
This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Deaths


                                  
French Engineer Gustave Eiffel (1923)        Author Susan Sontag (2004)                       
 

300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
1446 - Clement VIII, (Sanchez Muñoz), Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies
1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
1542 - Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52
1622 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55
1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)
1673 - Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77
1694 - Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 [NS=Jan 7]
1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
1706 - Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)
1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)
1772 - Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82
1775 - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of (Neth Indies), dies at 61
1779 - Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64
1793 - Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75
1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
1830 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 83
1859 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies
1860 - Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57
1862 - Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54
1870 - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72
1870 - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64
1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
1878 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90
1884 - Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56
1891 - Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47
1897 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
1903 - George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46
1915 - Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78
1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
1918 - George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
1923 - Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1932 - John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies
1935 - Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies
1937 - Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
1938 - Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48
1943 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1945 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
1946 - Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85
1947 - Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
1948 - Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
1949 - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39
1949 - W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60
1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
1956 - Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76
1959 - Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)
1961 - Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 - Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies
1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
1967 - Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90
1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
1969 - Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78
1970 - L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65
1971 - Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42
1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
1978 - Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82
1980 - Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
1980 - Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
1982 - Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84
1983 - Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
1983 - William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91
1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
1984 - Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, dies
1986 - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77
1987 - Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
1988 - Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59
1989 - Robert Wickler, dies
1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
1990 - Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65
1990 - Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46
1990 - Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies
1991 - Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39
1991 - Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure
1992 - Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80
1993 - Howard Caine, dies
1993 - Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61
1993 - William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89
1994 - Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60
1995 - Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84
1997 - George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80
1997 - James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89
1997 - Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68
1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)
2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer, dies from Myelodysplastic syndrome at 71
2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Prime Minister (b. 1953)
2007 - Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (b. 1982)
2009 - James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan, American musician drummer of Avenged Sevenfold (b. 1981)
2010 - Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921)

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #35 on: December 29, 2012, 07:49:08 AM »
This Day in History for 29th December


Historical Events


                                   
Archbishop of Canterbury                       Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                    Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Thomas Becket

                 
Singer & Actress                                      Reggae Musician Bob Marley
Barbra Streisand

                   
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova          Singer-Songwriter Courtney Love


1170 - Assassination inside Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury by
           followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican
           Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
1503 - Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
1539 - St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
1541 - Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
1558 - Charles V, German Emperor, buried
1705 - Prosper Jolyot's "Idomenée," premieres in Paris
1708 - Great Alliance occupies Gent
1778 - English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
1782 - 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
1786 - French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked
1812 - The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS
           Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.
1813 - British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
1835 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the
           Mississippi River to the United States.
1837 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
1837 - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1841 - King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
1845 - Texas admitted as 28th state
1848 - Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
1851 - 1st American Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston
           Massachusetts.
1852 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1857 - Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar
1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
1862 - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
1862 - Bowling ball invented
1864 - Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1867 - 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
1876 - 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
1890 - US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
1891 - Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1895 - Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
1899 - English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up
1900 - General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
1903 - French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
1906 - Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
1908 - Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
1911 - Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1911 - SF Symphony formed
1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
1911 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
1913 - 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
1920 - The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
1920 - Yugoslav government bans communist party
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1922 - Dutch Constitution proclaimed
1922 - Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1926 - Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
1926 - Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
1929 - Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
1930 - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi
           River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1931 - Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
1931 - Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW
1933 - Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds
1934 - 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden)
1934 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid
1934 - Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
1937 - 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
1937 - Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1937 - Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1938 - Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
1939 - First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
1940 - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
1940 - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
1944 - Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced
1944 - Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1947 - Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1948 - "Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
1948 - Canada recognizes Israel
1948 - US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1949 - 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
1949 - Hungary nationalized its industries
1951 - Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
1952 - 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
1954 - Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts,
           comes into being
1955 - Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
1957 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
1957 - Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
1958 - Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
1958 - TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
1959 - Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in NYC
1962 - Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days
1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
1965 - "Thunderball" premieres in US
1965 - CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
1965 - Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
1966 - Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
1967 - Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
1967 - Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
1968 - Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
1968 - Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
1968 - NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
1969 - NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
1972 - Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 - Life magazine ceases publication
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG
1974 - Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC
1975 - 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
1977 - Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in NYC
1978 - Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
1978 - Spain constitution goes into effect
1978 - Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG
1979 - Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1980 - Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
1982 - Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1982 - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
1983 - Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* v WI
1983 - Graeme Yallop completes 268 v Pakistan at cricket MCG
1983 - US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1984 - 5th United Negro College Fund
1984 - Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
1984 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
1988 - Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1988 - Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1989 - Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
1989 - Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1989 - Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1991 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1991 - 12th United Negro College Fund
1991 - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
1992 - Gov Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency
1993 - Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1993 - Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
1994 - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1994 - Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
1994 - Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1994 - Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG
1996 - "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1996 - "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
1996 - "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
1997 - Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
1997 - Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1997 - Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
1997 - Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over
           1 million.
2001 - Mesa Redonda shopping center fire, Lima, Peru, at least 291 killed.

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #36 on: December 29, 2012, 07:51:47 AM »
This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Weddings


1876 - Frederic A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie
1957 - "Steve and Eydie" singer duo Steve Lawrence (22) weds Eydie Gorme (29) at the home of
           Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas
1990 - Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
1994 - Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
2004 - Former X-Files Gillian Anderson (36) weds former journalist and documentary filmmaker Julian
          Ozanne (42) on Shella island in Lamu, Kenya
2005 - "One Life To Live" actress Bree Williamson (26) weds surfer Josh Evans near the Flor Blanca
            Resort in Mal Pais, Costa Rica
2006 - Comedian Jay Mohr (36) weds "Las Vegas" actress Nikki Cox (28) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los
           Angeles, California

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This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Divorces


2006 - One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush (24) divorces actor Chad Michael Murray (25) for the reason
           of fraud after 5 months of marriage
2006 - Greatest NBA basketball player of all time Michael Jordan (43) divorces Juanita Vanoy (47) due
           to irreconcilable differences after 17 years of marriage

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #38 on: December 29, 2012, 08:00:42 AM »
This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Birthdays


                                   
British Prime Minister                             Actress Mary Tyler Moore (1937)              Actress Sophia Loren (1968)
William Gladstone (1809)


1563 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer
1586 - Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona
1678 - Gotthard Wagner, composer
1709 - Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], Kolomenskoye, Moscow, tsarina of Russia (1741-62) and daughter of Peter the Great
1721 - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1743 - Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1767 - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer
1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
1792 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe)
1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
1800 - Charles Goodyear, New Haven, Connecticut, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber), (d.
           1860)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
1808 - Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament member
1809 - Albert Pike, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94), (d. 1898)
1813 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer
1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
1831 - Adam Badeau, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1833 - John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks)
1843 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)
1850 - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer
1856 - Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes integral)
1859 - Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20)
1866 - Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19)
1869 - Bill Howell, cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century)
1876 - Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
1879 - Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I)
1880 - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer
1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1887 - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer
1888 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1892 - Emory Parnell, St Paul MN, actress (Rocket Man, County Fair)
1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)
1897 - Hermann Heiss, composer
1898 - Jeanne Leleu, composer
1899 - Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992)
1900 - Willie Humphrey, jazz Clarinetist
1902 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957)
1903 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter/bandleader
1907 - James Gardner, designer
1908 - Claire Dodd, AR, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy)
1908 - Gerben Sonderman, Dutch test pilot (Fokker)
1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
1913 - Laurence Gower, academic
1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
1915 - Charles L[eonard] Harness, US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead)
1915 - John P W Meefout, Dutch sculptor (Laying Woman)
1915 - Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value)
1915 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
1917 - Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) (1973- )
1917 - Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
1919 - Pieter Terpstra, Dutch journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T)
1919 - Roman Vlad, composer
1920 - Syd Dernley, hangman
1920 - Viveca Lindfors, Uppsala Sweden, actress (Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
1921 - Dobrica Cosic, writer
1921 - Mala Powers, SF California, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac) [or 12/20/31]
1921 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
1925 - Pete Dye, American golf course architect
1927 - Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
1928 - Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show)
1930 - Willy Giefer, composer
1931 - Barbara Steele, England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows)
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005)
1932 - Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson)
1933 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist
1934 - Ed Flanders, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere)
1934 - Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1935 - Tony Bramall, England, auto dealer/multi-millionaire (Harrogate)
1936 - Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
1936 - Vitaly Alexeyevich Godzyatsky, composer
1937 - Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People)
1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
1938 - Jon Voight, Yonkers, NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
1938 - Wayne Huizenga, CEO (Waste Management, Blockbuster, Miami Dolphins)
1939 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives (1978- )
1940 - Brigitte Kronauer, writer
1940 - Ed Buce, Keiser Ar, country singer (Texas)
1940 - Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist (Come off that Roof)
1941 - Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1942 - Jerry Summers, rocker
1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, (d. 2012)
1943 - JHR Maij-Wegge, Dutch traffic minister (19..-94)
1944 - Rodney Redmond, NZ cricket (opener scored century in Test v Pak 1973)
1945 - Adje Roland, Dutch disc-jockey
1946 - Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Ky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, vocalist (Money)
1946 - Paul Trible, (Sen-R-Va)
1947 - Cozy Powell, England, rock drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, ELP)
1947 - Ted Danson, SD California, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
1947 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
1949 - Syed Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer)
1950 - Jon Polito, Phila, actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide)
1951 - Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator)
1951 - Yvonne Elliman, US actress/singer (I Don't Know How to Love Him)
1951 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, Bethlehem Pa, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker)
1952 - Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1953 - Kate Schmidt, US javelin thrower (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams, American author/murderer (executed 2005)
1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
1954 - Glenn Myernick, Trenton NJ, US soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
1954 - Roger Voudouris, Sacramento Ca, rock vocalist
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1955 - Jan Pijnenburg, Dutch rock drummer (Doe Maar-Bomb)
1955 - Neil Giraldo, rocker (Pat Benatar Band)
1956 - Dolf de Vries, Dutch musical/director/arranger (Josephine)
1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
1957 - Brad Grey, American film producer
1957 - Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
1958 - Curt Allen Byrum, Onida SD, PGA golfer (1989 Hardee's Golf Classic)
1959 - Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol)
1959 - Paula Poundstone, comedienne (Emmy Awards)
1960 - Dave Gilbert, cricketer (Aussie pace bowler in 9 Tests 1985-86)
1960 - David Boon, cricketer (short backward square from Tasmania)
1960 - Katerina Didaskou, Greek actress
1960 - Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots
1961 - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer
1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
1962 - Devon White, Kingston Jamacia, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1963 - Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
1963 - Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
1963 - Sean Payton, American football coach
1964 - Craig Grebeck, Cerritos CA, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1964 - Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah-Head of the Class)
1965 - David Delfino, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1965 - Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
1966 - Bruce Bulina, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Alberta Open)
1966 - Drew Hartt, Calgary Alta, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Desert Tour)
1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
1967 - Henry Jones, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1967 - Jason Gould, son of Elliot Gould/Barbra Streisand, (Prince of Tides)
1967 - Kevin Toth, Cleveland Ohio, shot putter
1967 - Tony Tolbert, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist
1967 - Andy Wachowski, American director
1968 - Carlo H L Ponti Jr, son of Carlo Ponti & Sophia Loren
1968 - Darren Perry, NFL free safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - James Mouton, Denver CO, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
1969 - Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
1970 - Yaroslav Ihorovych Pustovyi, Kostroma Ukraine, cosmonaut
1970 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer
1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
1970 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
1971 - Jay Fiedler, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Jay Fiedler, WLAF QB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Margot Thien, SD California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Mark Montreuil, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Toby Mills, WLAF corner (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Jessica Lee McMinn, Miss North Carolina USA (1996)
1972 - Malcolm Seabron, NFL wide receiver (Houston Oilers)
1972 - Melissa Hall, Miss USA-Minnesota (1997)
1972 - Randy Neal, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Jude Law, British actor
1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
1973 - Tomas Perez, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 - Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
1974 - Brad Hodge, cricketer (promising Victorian middle-order batsman)
1974 - James Darling, linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Tom Knight, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor
1974 - Richie Sexson, American baseball player
1975 - Kalin Olson, Hot Springs Ark, playmate (Aug 1997)
1975 - Jaret Wright, American baseball player
1976 - Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
1977 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
1977 - Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
1978 - Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress
1978 - Kieron Dyer, English footballer
1978 - LaToya London, American singer
1979 - Laura Larson, Miss Maine Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
1979 - Ariel Schrag, American Cartoonist
1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
1982 - Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Quebec singer
1983 - Jessica Andrews, American country/pop singer
1985 - Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
1986 - Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model
1988 - Agnes Szavay, Hungary tennis player
1989 - Nathan Forbes, British footballer
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #39 on: December 29, 2012, 08:04:01 AM »
This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Deaths




Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Becket (1170)


721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
1141 - Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed
1170 - Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52
1558 - Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31
1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
1619 - Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
1630 - Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51
1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 - Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
1731 - J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46
1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
1815 - Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
1821 - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61
1822 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67
1825 - Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77
1835 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29
1836 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83
1847 - William Crotch, composer, dies at 72
1871 - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71
1877 - Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1890 - Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
1891 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68
1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet, dies at 64 in London
1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1898 - Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74
1915 - Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1925 - Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60
1926 - Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51
1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
1933 - Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
1942 - Frank D Adams, Canadian geologist, dies at 83
1943 - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75
1947 - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78
1952 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54
1953 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
1956 - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73
1957 - Tom Richmond, cricketer (Notts leg-spinner took 2-86 in Eng Test), die
1958 - Doris Humphrey, US dancer/choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63
1959 - Robin Humphrey Milford, composer, dies at 56
1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
1964 - Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63
1964 - Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77
1968 - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 - John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58
1970 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1971 - Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87
1972 - Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83
1975 - Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1976 - Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter (Oly-silver-76), dies at 22
1980 - Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
1980 - Tim Hardin, US singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39
1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1981 - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41
1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1982 - Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at 79
1984 - Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84
1986 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54
1986 - John Antill, composer, dies at 82
1986 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92
1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
1991 - Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64
1992 - LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87
1992 - Vivienne Segal, US actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies at 95
1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
1994 - Eugene Tanner Jr, singer, dies at 58
1994 - Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68
1995 - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85
1995 - Louise Chaplin, actress, dies at 87
1995 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86
1995 - Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81
1996 - Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77
1996 - Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86
1996 - Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90
1996 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83
1996 - Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89
1996 - Robert Morris, lawyer, dies at 81
1996 - Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67
1996 - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85
1997 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist, dies at 82
1997 - Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82
1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
2001 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
           1912)
2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2007 - Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)
2008 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938)
2009 - "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American former professional wrestler and football player (b. 1960)
2009 - Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of
           China (b. 1956)
2010 - Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #40 on: December 30, 2012, 08:46:22 AM »
This Day in History for 30th December


Historical Events


                                                      
Naturalist Charles Darwin                First Director of the FBI J Edgar Hoover            Astronomer Edwin Hubble

                   
NHL all-time top scorer                       Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
Wayne Gretzky


987 - French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king
1317 - Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
1621 - English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1665 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
1666 - Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
1672 - Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth
1685 - Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1689 - Henry Purcell & Tates opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chesea
1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1731 - 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)
1794 - French troops conquer Grave Neth
1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1813 - Danzig surrenders to allied armies
1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)
1835 - After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney
1836 - Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die
1844 - Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
1853 - A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
1854 - Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1861 - US, banks stops payments in gold
1869 - Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
1873 - American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
1875 - Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
1877 - Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres
1884 - Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1888 - Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star
1892 - Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
1893 - Russia signs military accord with France
1896 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5
1896 - José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila.
1897 - Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
1903 - Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history
1903 - American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1903 - Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
1905 - Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho.
1906 - Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
1906 - The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
1907 - Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set
1911 - Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Aust at MCG
1911 - Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
1913 - Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
1915 - Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
1917 - -32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
1917 - -37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
1918 - John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
1922 - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
1925 - NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
1926 - Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC
1926 - Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
1927 - Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
1929 - Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC
1929 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
1932 - Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG
1933 - -50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
1933 - Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
1933 - Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton
1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1936 - United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1938 - Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin)
1939 - Bradman scores 267 SA v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century
1939 - O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days
1940 - California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
1941 - Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer
1941 - Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
1941 - Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
1943 - Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
1943 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
1944 - King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
1947 - 36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1947 - King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
1947 - Romanian republic proclaimed
1948 - "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1949 - India recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
1952 - Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1953 - The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
1954 - "House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 165 performances
1954 - 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1954 - Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in NYC
1956 - NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
1957 - Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns
1957 - New York Giants win NFL championship
1958 - French franc devalued
1959 - George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
1961 - Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
1962 - Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
1963 - "Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV
1963 - Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
1963 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1964 - Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
1967 - Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1967 - Great Western Forum opens in LA
1968 - -48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1973 - 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
1973 - Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
1973 - Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
1974 - Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1975 - "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances
1975 - Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Carter holds 1st news conference by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1978 - "King & I" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
1978 - Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
1979 - Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
1979 - Togo adopts constitution
1980 - "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV
1981 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
1982 - Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in NYC
1982 - England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
1982 - US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
1984 - Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
1985 - Pakistan restores constitution
1987 - Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
1987 - Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
1988 - Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
1988 - Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
1988 - Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard
1988 - North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
1989 - 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
1989 - Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
1990 - "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
1990 - 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1992 - Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
1992 - Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
1993 - "Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" closes at Palace NYC after 7 perfs
1993 - Vatican recognizes Israel
1995 - Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10
1995 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982.
1996 - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
1997 - An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt
1997 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
2000 - Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
2003 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair.
2004 - A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
2005 - Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
2006 - Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #41 on: December 30, 2012, 08:48:54 AM »
This Day in History for 30th December


Famous Weddings

1816 - English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries
           2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary
           Wollstonecraft.
1941 - Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
1993 - Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35)
1996 - "The Last Emperor" Chinese actress Vivian Wu (30) weds producer-director Oscar Costo (43)
           in Shanghai, China
2004 - Boston Red Sox centerfielder Johnny Damon (31) weds Michelle Mangan at Ritz Carlton
           Grande Lakes Hotel in Orlando, Florida
2006 - Canadian pair figure skaters David Pelletier (31) weds partner Jamie Sale (28) at the Fairmont
           Banff Springs hotel in Alberta, Canada
2011 - Scottish actor David Tennant (40) weds actress Georgia Moffett (27) in London, United
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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #42 on: December 30, 2012, 09:02:34 AM »
This Day in History for 30th December


Famous Birthdays


                                                      
Poet Rudyard Kipling (1865)                    Singer Davy Jones (1945)                          Golfer Tiger Woods (1975)


39 - Titus, 10th Roman Emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
1204 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
1552 - Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
1566 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1569 - Georg Quitschreiber, composer
1642 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
1644 - Philips van Almonde, Dutch Zeeuws lt-admiral
1673 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
1678 - William Croft, composer
1722 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
1740 - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759)
1741 - Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer
1756 - Pavel Vranicky, composer
1774 - Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, Dutch historian/literary [or Dec 31]
1775 - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer
1784 - Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven
1818 - James Cantey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1874
1819 - John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1819 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest)
1828 - Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1847 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists
1848 - Mary Frances Allitsen, composer
1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1853 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer
1855 - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity)
1859 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer
1864 - Alessandro Longo, composer
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), (d. 1936)
1867 - Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard Titanic)
1869 - Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
1869 - Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
1872 - William A Larned, tennis champ (US Open-1901)
1873 - Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944)
1878 - William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
1879 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Inst)
1880 - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
1883 - Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
1883 - Mary Forbes, Hornsey England, actress (Terror by Night)
1884 - Karl Heinrich David, composer
1884 - Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
1887 - Henry George Ley, composer
1889 - Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren)
1890 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)
1891 - Antoine Pinay, French premier (1952)/minister of Foreign affairs
1892 - Jaromir Fiala, composer
1892 - John Litel, Albany WI, actor (Virginia City, My Hero)
1895 - August De Boodt, Belgian politician
1896 - Tom Keene, Rochester NY, actor (Our Daily Bread)
1897 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
1898 - Vincent Lopez, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1899 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
1904 - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) [NS]
1905 - Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
1906 - Carol Reed, motion picture director (3rd Man)
1906 - Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe
1907 - Christina E "Christine" Auwen, Dutch model/singer (Haghezangers)
1907 - Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician
1910 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass, Waterfront)
1910 - Herman van der Horst, Dutch cinematographer (Faja Lobbi)
1910 - Paul Frederic Bowles, US composer/writer (Shelting Sky)
1911 - Jeanette Nolan, LA California, actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian)
1913 - Svend Simon Schultz, composer
1913 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
1914 - Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America)
1914 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 - Nancy Coleman, Everett WA, actress (Edge of Darkness)
1917 - Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004)
1918 - W Eugene Smith, US photographer (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden)
1919 - David Valentine Willcocks, composer
1919 - Dick Spooner, England, cricket wicketkeeper (Godfrey Evans' shadow)
1919 - Jo Van Fleet, Oakland, actress (Gunfight at OK Corral, East of Eden)
1920 - Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist
1920 - Michael Allinson, London England (George Washington)
1920 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
1921 - Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader
1921 - Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon
1923 - Sara A Lidman, Swedish author (Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi)
1926 - Stanley Tracey, composer
1927 - Bernard Barrow, NYC, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving)
1927 - M Lawrence Antouin, college president (Emeritis)
1928 - Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
1928 - Jack Lord, NYC, actor (Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre)
1929 - Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
1929 - Bob Bouma, Dutch TV host (For a Postcard in the Front Row)
1929 - Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
1930 - Jerome Theisen, benedictine
1931 - Charles A Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut
1931 - Richard Christ, writer
1931 - Skeeter Davis, [Mary Penick], Dry Ridge Ky, singer (End of World)
1932 - John Hillerman, Denison Tx, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles)
1934 - Barry Briggs, NZ auto maker (World Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66)
1934 - Nicolas Coster, Lond, actor (Our Private World, Ryan's Four) [or 12/3]
1934 - Russ Tamblyn, LA California, actor (Win Place or Steal, Twin Peaks)
1934 - John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
1934 - Joseph Bologna, American actor
1934 - Joseph P. Hoar, former US Central Command commander
1934 - Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
1935 - Bruno Canino, composer
1935 - Omar [Albert B] Bongo, president of Gabon (1967- )
1935 - Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
1935 - Jack Riley, American actor
1937 - John Hartford, NYC, country singer (Gentle on My Mind)
1937 - Paul Stookey, singer/musician (Peter, Paul, & Mary)
1937 - Gordon Banks, English footballer
1938 - Joseph Bologna, Brooklyn NY, actor (Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year)
1939 - Del Shannon, [Charles Westover], Coopersville Mich, rocker (Runaway)
1939 - Doeke Eisma, sociologist/Dutch MP (D66)
1939 - Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007)
1940 - James Burrows, TV producer/director (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers)
1941 - Mel Renfro, American football player
1942 - Fred Ward, SD California, actor (Chain Reaction, Thunderheart, Equinox)
1942 - Michael Nesmith, Houston, rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1942 - Robert Quine, rocker
1942 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
1942 - Guy Edwards, English racing driver
1942 - Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
1943 - Rolf Gehlhaar, composer
1944 - William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral, former U.S. Central Command commander
1945 - Davy Jones, Manchester England, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville), (d. 2012)
1945 - John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot
1945 - Preston Andrew Trombly, composer
1945 - Concetta Tomei, American actress
1945 - Vernon Wells, Australian actor
1947 - Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
1947 - Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor (Barnaby West-Wagon Train)
1947 - Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader (South Africa Democratic Party)
1948 - Surinder Amarnath, cricketer (son of Lala 124 on debut v NZ 1976)
1949 - Bruce Davidson, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)
1949 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician
1950 - Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader (UDF)
1950 - Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author
1951 - Nancy LaMott, singer
1951 - Doug Allder, English footballer
1952 - Larry Bartlett, photographic printer
1952 - Somtow Sucharitkul, [SP Somtow], Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters)
1952 - June Anderson, American soprano
1953 - Daniel T Barry, Norwalk Ct, PhD/MD/astronaut (STS 72)
1953 - Bill Kazmaier, American powerlifter
1953 - Harald Schmautz, German-born journalist
1953 - Meredith Vieira, American television journalist
1955 - Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000)
1956 - "Cherie" Samba (Mbimba N'zinga), Zaire painter (Pitie la prostituee)
1956 - Patricia Kalember, actress (Sisters)
1956 - Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress (Moesia, Designing Women)
1956 - Suzy Bogguss, Aledo Ill, singer (I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart)
1957 - Matt Lauer, TV host (Today Show)
1957 - Patricia Kalember, Schnectady NY, actress (Georgie Whitsig-Sisters)
1958 - Brandon Clark, NYC, actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks)
1958 - Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut (STS 68, 82)
1958 - Rod Harrington, English darts player
1959 - Tracey Ullman, Slough England, singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
1959 - Josée Verner, French Canadian politician
1960 - Addy Bucek, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1961 - Ben Johnson, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988-disqualified)
1961 - Sue Malaxos, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1961 - Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
1961 - Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
1962 - Paul Crowder, rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love)
1962 - Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian
1963 - Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress (Ferragosto OK)
1963 - Johnny van 't Schip, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Genua)
1963 - Milan Srejber, Czech, tennis star
1963 - Robert Jenkins, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1963 - Chandler Burr, American author
1964 - Kimberly Taylor, [Cindy], model/Penthouse Pet (1990)
1964 - Kris Tschetter, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1992 Northgate Computer)
1964 - Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits)
1965 - Brad McNamara, cricketer (NSW all-rounder)
1965 - David Baker, Sheffield England, UK cyclist
1965 - Tony Jones, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1965 - Heidi Fleiss, American madam
1967 - Colleen Miller, Winnipeg Manitoba, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Kevin Dahl, Regina, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1968 - Sean Higgins, NBA guard/forward (Phila 76ers, Portland Trailblazers)
1969 - Anthuan Maybank, Georgetown SC, 200m/400m runner
1969 - Jeff Thomason, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Michelle McGann, West Palm Beach FL, golfer (1995 Sara Lee Classic)
1969 - Dave England, American television personality
1969 - Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai)
1970 - Grant Carter, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Gus Nketia, Auckland NZ, 100m sprint (Olympics-96)
1970 - Kevin Salvadori, NBA center (Sacramento Kings)
1970 - Robert Hall, WLAF wide reciever (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Scotty Lewis, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Steve Hardin, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Ind Colts, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Sylvester Wright, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, US fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1971 - Daniel Sunjata, American actor
1972 - Kerry Collins, NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Loren Meyer, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1972 - Maureen Flannigan, actress (Evie-Out of This World)
1972 - Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
1973 - Don Reid, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons)
1973 - Robert Walker, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
1974 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
1975 - Tiger Woods, Cypress, California, golfer (16 Major and 74 PGA wins)
1976 - Rhoshii Wells, Austin Tx, middleweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Solveig Lilja Gudmundsdottir, Miss Iceland Universe (1997)
1976 - A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player
1977 - Laila Ali, American boxer
1977 - Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
1977 - Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
1978 - Dikla Hamdy, Miss Israel Universe (1997)
1978 - Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer
1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor
1979 - Flávio, Angolan footballer
1980 - Eliza Dushku, Boston MA, actress (This Boy's Life, True Lies, Journey)
1980 - Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer
1981 - Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
1981 - Matt Ulrich, American football player
1982 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
1982 - Dawan Landry, American football player
1982 - Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
1983 - Rachel & Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau
1984 - Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - LeBron James, American basketball player
1985 - Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
1987 - Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model
1988 - Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
1989 - Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #43 on: December 30, 2012, 09:06:19 AM »
This Day in History for 30th December


Famous Deaths



Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein (2006)


274 - St Felix I, dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
1460 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne killed in Battle of Wakefield. (b. 1411)
1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
1591 - Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1777 - Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
1788 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45
1821 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42
1825 - Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64
1828 - Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38
1832 - Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1870 - ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered
1893 - Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72
1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1895 - LP Hartley, British writer, dies
1896 - Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies
1899 - James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1912 - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60
1931 - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62
1940 - Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79
1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
1943 - Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
1944 - Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1946 - Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78
1946 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65
1947 - Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58
1951 - Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76
1952 - Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
1959 - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1961 - Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
1966 - Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1966 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), dies at 72
1967 - Bert Berns, US songwriter/producer (Twist & Shout), dies at about 38
1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
1970 - Sonny Liston, World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64), found dead at 38
1971 - Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58
1971 - Jan Mul, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1973 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101
1979 - Richard Rodgers, composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
1981 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
1984 - Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
1986 - Jiri Jaroch, composer, dies at 66
1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
1989 - Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
1992 - Caesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies
1992 - Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
1993 - Mack David, US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
1993 - [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
1994 - Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79
1995 - Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
1995 - Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
1996 - Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
1996 - Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
1996 - Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89
1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
2002 - Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941)
2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 94
2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
2006 - Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad at 69
2006 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute
            Regiment in the Falklands War
2006 - Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
2008 - Dick Green, Canadian actor
2009 - Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
2009 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b.1940)
2010 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)
2010 - Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
2011 - Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born ceramic designer, dies at 105
2011 - Mirko Tremaglia, fiercely nationalist Italian politician, dies at 85

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #44 on: December 31, 2012, 04:46:23 PM »
This Day in History for 31st December


Historical Events


                                                      
Classical music prodigy Mozart                Discoverer of Radium Marie Curie           Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra

                   
33rd US President                                   Russian President Boris Yeltsin
Harry Trumanr


406 - 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz
406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
535 - Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year.
765 - Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
870 - Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1229 - James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian conquest of the island of Majorca.
1492 - 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
1502 - Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino
1564 - Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion
1600 - British East India Company chartered
1604 - Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam
1621 - Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov
1660 - James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1669 - France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty
1670 - France & England sign Boyne-treaty
1680 - Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
1687 - 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
1688 - Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham [OS=Dec 21]
1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1700 - Frisia/Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 1/12/1701
1708 - Great Alliance captures Bridge
1711 - Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander
1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk
1756 - Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles
1758 - British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal
1762 - Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1775 - Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
1776 - Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors
1779 - English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels
1781 - Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
1783 - Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states
1805 - End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
1831 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1841 - Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1859 - Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
1861 - 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
1862 - -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River/Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennesse in American Civil War
1862 - President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
1862 - Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
1862 - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
1870 - J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
1879 - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
1879 - Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace
1879 - Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's Opera "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in NYC
1890 - Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
1896 - 25th auto built in US
1897 - Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
1902 - Boers & British army sign peace treaty
1904 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
1906 - French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
1907 - For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
1907 - G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1910 - US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1911 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1914 - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000
1917 - Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
1918 - Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
1920 - Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG
1921 - Last San Francisco firehorses retired
1923 - 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
1923 - BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
1923 - H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC
1924 - Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
1925 - 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry
1927 - Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
1929 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri
1930 - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
1930 - US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
1932 - John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC
1934 - Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
1935 - CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1935 - Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
1938 - Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
1938 - Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70
1939 - 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)
1939 - Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99
1940 - 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)
1941 - Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1942 - 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
1942 - Battle in Barents Sea
1942 - Potatoes rationed in Holland
1943 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
1944 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1944 - Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
1944 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.
1945 - Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA v Aust Services
1945 - Ratification of UN Charter completed
1946 - French troops leave Lebanon
1946 - Pres Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1948 - Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
1949 - 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
1950 - Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
1951 - 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
1953 - Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
1953 - WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
1953 - Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
1955 - "Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
1955 - The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
1957 - AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
1958 - 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2)
1958 - Cubans dictator Batista flees
1958 - International Geophyscial Year ends
1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1961 - "lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
1961 - 1st performance of Beach Boys
1961 - Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
1961 - Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
1961 - Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
1961 - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1962 - "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1962 - American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
1962 - Dutch leave New Guinea
1962 - Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
1962 - Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs
1963 - Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1963 - Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
1963 - Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time
1964 - Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
1964 - Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN
1966 - Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
1966 - Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
1966 - Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92
1966 - Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
1967 - "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 perfs
1967 - 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118
1967 - Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
1967 - Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13°F)
1968 - 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1968 - 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144
1968 - NY Jets win AFL championship
1969 - Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
1970 - Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1970 - Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
1970 - President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
1970 - Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
1971 - KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1972 - 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0
1972 - Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
1972 - Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
1972 - Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
1973 - 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23
1973 - 61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61)
1973 - Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year
1974 - 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10
1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year NY Yank contract
1974 - Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
1974 - Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1974 - NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million
1974 - Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
1975 - 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6
1976 - TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
1976 - The Cars played their 1st gig
1977 - "Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 perfs
1977 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 124 performances
1977 - Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
1977 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
1977 - Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
1977 - Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
1977 - WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1978 - "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 1859 performances
1978 - "Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 199 performances
1978 - CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
1978 - Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
1978 - Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
1979 - Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
1980 - A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1980 - NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1980 - Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
1981 - CNN Headline News debuts
1981 - Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
1981 - Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000
1982 - CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
1982 - NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
1982 - TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
1983 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1983 - Jose Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium
1983 - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
1984 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash
1984 - NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
1984 - Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta
1984 - US leaves UNESCO
1986 - Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
1986 - Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
1986 - WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
1989 - "Me & My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
1989 - "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1989 - Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles
1989 - Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year
1990 - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
1990 - Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
1991 - CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
1991 - Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
1991 - Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
1991 - J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner
1991 - USSR, last day of existence
1992 - Target date for Europe's single market
1993 - Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years
1994 - 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
1994 - Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
1994 - This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
1995 - "Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon NYC
1995 - "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
1995 - "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
1995 - "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
1995 - "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1995 - "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances
1995 - 62nd Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech beats Texas
1995 - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
1995 - Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
1997 - Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
1997 - Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service
1997 - More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
1997 - Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba
1997 - S Afr & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
1998 - US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
1998 - Exchange rates between the euro and legacy currencies in the Eurozone become fixed.
1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
1999 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
2007 - Bocaue Fire. Seven people injured when a fire razed several fireworks stores in the Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
2007 - The Massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.