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This Day in History for 16th December


Famous Birthdays

                 
Novelist Jane Austen (1775)                Sci-Fi Author Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917)


1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Madrid, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII, (d. 1536)
1584 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
1622 - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder
1652 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer
1714 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
1716 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
1717 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)
1734 - Georg Peter Weimar, composer
1742 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
1748 - Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer
1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn, Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy), (d. 1827)
1775 - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer
1775 - Jane Austen, Winchester, Hampshire, novelist (Pride and Prejudice), (d. 1817)
1776 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
1777 - Janos Fusz, composer
1787 - Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
1790 - King Léopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
1804 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)
1809 - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance
1812 - William Grose, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1819 - Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1822 - Charles Edward Horsley, composer
1825 - Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1825 - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer
1827 - John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer
1828 - John Beatty, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
1830 - John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1834 - Leon Walras, French economist (border use theory)
1847 - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer
1850 - Fred Morley, cricketer (legendary Notts & England bowler 1880-83)
1851 - Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch premier (1905-08)
1857 - Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
1861 - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
1862 - Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe)
1863 - George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
1863 - Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
1865 - Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor
1867 - Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
1869 - Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
1869 - Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
1872 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
1879 - William Duncan, Scotland, actor (Thunder Trail)
1882 - Jack Hobbs, cricketer (1st-class runs, the most ever)
1882 - John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953)
1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner effect)
1882 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
1883 - Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director (Max Prend un Bain)
1888 - Alphonse Juin, French marshal
1892 - A "Shon Nene" Morales, Antillean/Neth very old lady
1892 - Cameron Prud'Homme, Auburn CA, actor (Rainmaker)
1893 - Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat
1895 - Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia
1897 - Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer (three Tests for South Africa 1927-29)
1897 - Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright (Le Canari et le Cerise)
1899 - Harold Walter Bailey, philologist
1899 - Noel Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award)
1900 - Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers)
1901 - Margaret Mead, Phila, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
1903 - Hardie Albright, Pittsburgh, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter)
1903 - Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (El hombre deshabitado)
1904 - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist
1905 - Piet Hein, poet/inventor
1906 - John Morrison, politician/landowner
1906 - Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner
1906 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
1907 - Ray C Bliss, (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman
1907 - Syd Curnow, cricketer (South African batsman in 7 Tests 1930-32)
1908 - Remedios Varo, Anglès Spain, Spain-Mexican Surrealist artist
1909 - Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter
1909 - Lall Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match)
1910 - Freddie Brown, Peru, cricketer ("Lettuces! Hearts as big as ")
1910 - Robert Noehren, composer
1910 - Stanojlo Rajicic, composer
1915 - Georgy Sviridov, Soviet neoromantic composer (The Blizzard, Time, Forward!)
1915 - Turk Murphy, American trombonist (d. 1987)
1916 - Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer
1916 - Udom Patpongsiri, property developer
1917 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Minehead England, science fiction author (2001, 2010,
           Childhood's End)
1917 - Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar
1918 - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer
1918 - Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006)
1919 - Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], Dutch folk vocalist (Small Yodel Boy)
1922 - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist
1922 - Cy Leslie, American music and video executive (d. 2008)
1923 - Tip [Silvio A] Marugg, Antillian writer (Weekend pilgrimage)
1923 - Werner Haentjes, composer
1926 - Alfred Koerppen, composer
1926 - James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
1927 - G Randall P D Garrett, US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!)
1927 - Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease)
1928 - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian
1928 - Philip K[indred] Dick, US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner)
1929 - Ian Board, barkeeper
1929 - Nicholas Courtney, English actor
1932 - Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer (Humpback Horse)
1936 - Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
1937 - Jim Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1937 - Joe Farrell, rocker
1937 - Joyce Bulifant, Newport News Va, actress (Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1938 - Michael Greer, Durham NC, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
1938 - Frank Deford, American sportswriter
1938 - Liv Ullmann, Tokyo, Japan, Norwegian actress and director (The Emigrants, Persona)
1940 - Dimitri van Toren, Dutch vocalist/composer
1941 - Lesley Stahl, newscaster/correspondent (CBS)
1942 - Donald Carcieri, American politician, governor of Rhode Island
1943 - Anthony 'Tony' Hicks, Nelson Lancashire, British rock guitarist (The Hollies)
1943 - Steven Bochco, prod (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere, NYPD Blue)
1944 - John Abercrombie, rocker
1945 - Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist
1945 - Bobby George, English professional darts player
1945 - Yukio Hattori, Japanese Iron Chef commentator
1946 - Adriaan van Dis, Dutch TV host/writer (Promised Country)
1946 - Benny Andersson, Stockholm Sweden, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!)
1946 - Fred Borgman, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1946 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor and harpsichordist
1947 - Ben Cross, London, UK, English actor (Chariots of Fire, Star Trek)
1947 - Vincent Matthews, US, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
1948 - Christopher Biggins, English actor
1949 - Billy Gibbons, Houston Texas, jazz/rock guitarist (Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top)
1950 - Caroline Munro, Windsor, actress (Golden Voyage of Sinbad) [or 1/16]
1950 - Ieremia Tabai, pres of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) (1979-91)
1950 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007)
1950 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
1951 - Robben Ford, American guitarist
1952 - Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court)
1952 - Joel Garner, Christ Church, Barbados, West Indian cricketer (two-metre West Indian pace
           bowler 1977-87)
1952 - Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer
1953 - Filip Bolluyt, Dutch actor (Daybreak)
1954 - Joslyn Y Hoyte-Smith, Barbados, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1955 - Carol M Browner, US Administrator (EPA)
1955 - Graeme Stevenson, cricketer (England medium pacer 1980-81)
1955 - Xander Berkeley, American actor
1955 - Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1958 - Bart Oates, NFL center (NY Giants, SF 49ers)
1959 - Alison La Placa, NJ, actress (Duet, Catherine-John Larroquette Show)
1959 - Steven Irvine, rock drummer (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
1960 - Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer
1961 - William Melvin "Bill" Hicks, Valdosta, Georgia, American stand-up comedian and social critic
1961 - Kelly Tough, Vancouver BC, playmate (Oct, 1981)
1962 - Jon Tenney, actor (Brooklyn South)
1962 - Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress (Devil in the Flesh)
1962 - Melanie Smith, Scranton Pa, actress (Emily-As the World Turns)
1962 - William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1963 - Benjamin Bratt, California, actor (Det Reynaldo Curtis-Law & Order)
1963 - Brian Clark, Brandon Man, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morden Pro-Am)
1963 - Cathy Johnston-Forbes, High Point NC, LPGA golfer (1990 du Maurier)
1963 - Silvio Diliberto, WLAF kicker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1963 - Jeff Carson, American singer
1964 - Billy Ripken, Havre de Grace MD, 2nd baseman (Bal Orioles, Texas Rangers)
1964 - Evelyn Conley, SF California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-7th-1989)
1964 - Gail Harris, Dewsbury England, actress (Virtual Desire)
1964 - Heike Drechsler, Gera German DR, sprinter (1988 world record)
1965 - Brent Franklin, Barrie Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Japan Open-2nd)
1965 - Chris Jones, Utica NY, outfielder (NY Mets)
1965 - Cynthia Lynne White, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Miss Oklahoma-America (1991-top 10)
1965 - Moe Elewonibi, NFL/CFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, BC Lions)
1965 - Page Dunlap, Harrisonburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Women's-8th)
1965 - Romallis Ellis, Wash DC, lightweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1965 - Melanie Sloan, American attorney
1966 - Clifford Robinson, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers)
1966 - Dennis Wise, English footballer
1967 - Donovan Bailey, Manchester Jamaica, Canada 100m runner (Oly-2 gold-96)
1967 - Miranda Otto, Australian actress
1968 - Darryll Lewis, NFL cornerback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1968 - Paul Scherrer, actor (Children of Corn II, Free Spirit)
1968 - Wendy Doolan, Sydney Australia, LPGA golfer (1991 Brit Amat Champ-2nd)
1969 - Charles Mincy, NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1969 - Craig White, cricketer (England all-rounder 1994-95, AIS graduate)
1969 - Martin Ulrich, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1971 - Catherine "Cathy" Symon, Wash DC, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kristen Kane, Jacksonville Fl, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Michael S McCary, [Boss], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1971 - Paul van Dyk, German DJ
1972 - Angela Bloomfield, New Zealand actress
1972 - Charles Gipson, American baseball player
1972 - Željko Kalac, Australian soccer player
1973 - Kristie Boogert, Rotterdam Neth, tennis star (1996 Paris)
1973 - Scott Storch, Canadian-American hip-hop producer
1974 - Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
1975 - Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer
1975 - Nawo Kawakita, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone)
1975 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1975 - Jonathan Scarfe, Canadian actor
1977 - Sylvain Distin, French footballer
1977 - Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer
1978 - Kaine, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
1979 - Nicole Werra, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer
1979 - Jessie Ward, American professional wrestler
1979 - Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
1981 - Took Leng How, Malaysian criminal (d. 2006)
1981 - Flo Rida, American rapper
1981 - Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer
1981 - Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
1982 - Garnon Davies, Welsh actor
1982 - Antrel Rolle, National Football League defensive back
1983 - Kelenna Azubuike, English basketball player
1983 - Danielle Lloyd, English model
1985 - Keita Tachibana, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1987 - Hallee Hirsh, American actress
1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 16th December


Famous Deaths

Businessman and restaurateur
Colonel Sanders (1980)


705 - Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625)
714 - Pepin/Pippin II, of Herstal/Héristal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Duke and Prince of the Franks, dies
867 - Eberhard of Friuli
875 - Ado of Vienne, French archbishop of Vienne, dies at about 75
882 - John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies
999 - Saint Adelaide, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Emperor Otto I and regent to Otto II, dies at
         about 68
1325 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
1378 - Otto III of Montferrat
1379 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England
1404 - Albrecht of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria, dies at about 74
1470 - John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
1598 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean Naval Commander, shot at the naval Battle of Noryang. (b. 1545)
1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. circa 1608)
1670 - Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies
1672 - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
1673 - Juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68
1687 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
1719 - Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, Dutch theologist (anti-jansenism), dies at 78
1751 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
1765 - Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor
1774 - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80
1781 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56
1783 - Johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84
1783 - Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
1790 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer, dies at 38
1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
1816 - Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73
1833 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55
1852 - Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59
1852 - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer, dies at 80
1858 - Richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69
1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73
1861 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71
1870 - Stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31
1871 - Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73
1874 - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79
1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies at 57
1898 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
1914 - Ivan Zajc, composer, dies at 82
1920 - Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies
1921 - Charles Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, dies at 86
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated
1923 - Pongrac Kacsoh, composer, dies at 50
1927 - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88
1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
1931 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at 82
1935 - Thelma Todd, actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30
1940 - M Eugene F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies
1940 - William Wallace, composer, dies at 80
1940 - Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1944 - Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies at 40
1944 - Don Meyer Basketball coach Northern State, Lipscomb, and Hamline
1945 - Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits harakiri
1949 - Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed
1950 - Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at 70
1956 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
1960 - Anna Luther, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), dies at 63
1961 - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer, dies at 61
1961 - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at 93
1965 - William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91
1973 - Syd Barnes, cricketer (13 Tests for Australia 1938-48), dies
1974 - Kostas Varnalis, writer, dies
1976 - George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies
1976 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (Social Credit Party of Canada) (b. 1917)
1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
1978 - Blanche Calloway, US singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76
1980 - Harland Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
1980 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
1982 - Anthony C B Chapman, England, formula 1 racer, dies at 54
1982 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars (b.
          1928)
1983 - Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at 74
1984 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
1985 - Dick Pollard, cricketer (England fast-medium bowler 1946-48), dies
1985 - Merv Waite, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust 1938, 1 wkt avg 190), dies
1985 - Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant
1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
1987 - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
1988 - H "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (11 Tests for Australia 1921-29), dies
1988 - Sylvester, American singer (b. 1948)
1989 - Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies
1989 - Lee Van Cleef, US actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 64
1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59
1989 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (b. 1913)
1990 - Douglas Campbell, American pilot (b. 1896)
1991 - Fred D Scott, actor (2 Gun Troubador), dies
1992 - Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, Dutch writer (Snow White), dies at 80
1992 - Rinus Terlouw, Dutch soccer player/trainer (Sparta), dies
1993 - Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46
1993 - Kakuei Tanaka, premier of Japan (1972-74), dies at 75
1993 - Moses Gunn, actor (Roots), dies of asthma at 64
1993 - Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75
1993 - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer (Volkskrant), dies at 68
1993 - Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
1994 - Mary Durack, author dies at 81
1994 - Samuel Lipman, music critic, dies at 60
1995 - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85
1995 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
1996 - Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader, dies at 85
1996 - Joe Coral, bookmaker, dies at 92
1996 - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86
1997 - Nicolette Larson, singer (Lotta Love), dies from brain seizure at 45
1997 - Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If), dies at 52
1998 - William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
2001 - Stuart Adamson, English-born Scottish musician (The Skids, Big Country) (b. 1958)
2001 - Stefan Heym, German author (b. 1913)
2003 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician and songwriter (b. 1945)
2004 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2004 - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American abstract painter dies aged 92
2005 - Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
2005 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (b. 1937)
2005 - John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
2006 - Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
2006 - Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
2006 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (b. 1951)
2009 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (b. 1930)
2009 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, controversial South African Health Minister (b. 1940)
2009 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (b. 1956)
2010 - Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1923)
2011 - Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (Excalibur), dies of esophageal cancer at 75

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th December


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Composer Franz Schubert                        Aviator Orville Wright

                 
German WWII Field Marshal                        Actress Judy Garland
Erwin Rommel


283 - St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
546 - Gothic War (535-554): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine
         garrison.
920 - Romanos I is crowned as co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
942 - Assassination of William I Longsword, 2nd Duke of Normandy.
1398 - Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1526 - Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
1526 - Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
1531 - Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1572 - Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1586 - Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1587 - The Earl Leicester's army leaves Netherlands
1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura
           Shigeharu.
1638 - French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
1718 - France, Britain and Austria declare war on Spain.
1728 - Congregation Shearith Israel of NY purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build
           NY's 1st synagogue
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army retreats to Scotland
1777 - France recognizes independence of British colonies in America
1777 - George Washington's army returns to Valley Forge, Pa
1788 - Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1790 - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1791 - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1792 - Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1798 - 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
1807 - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1819 - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
1821 - Kentucky abolishes debtors' prisons
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
1852 - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1860 - Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
1862 - Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1865 - Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" premieres
1875 - Violent bread riots in Montreal
1885 - France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1887 - Georges Feydeau's "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
1892 - Tchaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette" premieres in St Petersburg
1893 - Russia ratifies Double Alliance with France
1894 - Cricket day 3 1T Aus v Eng Eng 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inn
1895 - Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
1895 - George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1900 - 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians
           excluded-considered too easy
1900 - New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1902 - Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist" premieres in Berlin
1903 - At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1907 - Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
1909 - Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
1914 - Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
1914 - Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1914 - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1919 - Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
1920 - AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
1920 - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920 - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920 - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1922 - Last British troops leave Irish Free State
1923 - Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
1924 - 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
1925 - Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
1925 - Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1926 - German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
1926 - KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1926 - Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
1926 - Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the ‎1926 coup d'état‎ is successful.
1927 - Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours
1927 - US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1927 - Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
1928 - John McGraw backs NL Pres John Heydler's designated hitter idea
1932 - Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll
1933 - B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng v India at Bombay
1933 - Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
1933 - Spain's 2nd government of Lerroux forms
1933 - NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1936 - Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
1938 - Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1939 - German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
1940 - British troops occupy Sollum, Egypt
1941 - Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese Timor
1941 - German submarine U-31 sunk
1941 - German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.
1942 - Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1943 - Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1944 - M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
1944 - US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees
           released.
1944 - US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
1946 - Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea
1946 - US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1947 - NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1947 - WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Regina" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances
1949 - Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1951 - Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1953 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953 - FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
1954 - 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1954 - WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 - "On The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1959 - 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1960 - "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 perfs
1960 - "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
1960 - Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
1961 - Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
1961 - India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
1961 - Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
1962 - Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
1962 - Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1963 - Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
1963 - West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
1965 - Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert
1965 - British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965 - David Levy begins his search for comets
1965 - Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
1965 - Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1967 - WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind
           thousands of UFO sightings
1970 - Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1971 - "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
1971 - Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
1971 - Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1972 - New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
1972 - WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
1973 - Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
1975 - 1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
1975 - John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court
1975 - Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
1976 - Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1977 - Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
1977 - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL)
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1978 - Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
1979 - Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Mauritania provisional constitution published
1981 - Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
1983 - "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 5 performances
1983 - Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
1983 - Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
1983 - The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
1984 - NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
1984 - NJ Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0
1986 - US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
1986 - Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant
           (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1987 - Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1988 - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988 - Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
1988 - NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
1988 - USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1989 - Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello as president
1989 - Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA v WA)
1989 - Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1989 - The longest-running American sitcom The Simpsons had its debut.
1990 - KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
1991 - Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
1991 - NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
1991 - Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
1991 - Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1992 - "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
1992 - Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1993 - Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
1993 - Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
1993 - Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
1994 - KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
1995 - "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as
           the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace
           accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential
           elections within two years.
2003 - The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two
           counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2003 - SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2005 - Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2007 - Republic of Lakotah asserts independence from the United States
2012 - 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
2012 - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
2012 - 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
2012 - NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field

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This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Weddings

1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1915 - Journalist Benito Mussolini marries Rachele Guidi in Treviglio Lombardy
1969 - 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
1993 - Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
1994 - Actress Heather Locklear (33) weds Bon Jovi lead guitarist Richie Sambora (35) at The
           American Cathedral in Paris, France
1994 - Queen of Pop Celine Dion (26) weds her manager Rene Angelil (52) at Notre Dame Basilica in
           Montreal, Canada
2005 - Race car driver Gary Paffett (24) weds his lady love Lisa in England
2005 - "Modern Day Drifter" country singer Dierks Bentley (30) weds Cassidy Black in Mexico
2005 - Australian country singer Kasey Chambers (29) weds singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson in
           Avoca, New South Wales
2006 - Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer Jaci Velasquez (27) weds "Salvador" lead singer
           Nic Gonzalez in Austin, Texas
2011 - Backstreet Boys member A. J. McLean (34) weds model Rochelle Karidis (30) in an outdoor
           wedding at Beverly Hills, California
2011 - "The Descendants" actress Judy Greer (36) weds "Real Time with Bill Mahe"r co-executive
           producer Dean Johnsen at the Los Angeles Athletic Club
2012 - Minnesota Vikings football quarterback Christian Ponder (25) weds ESPN reporter Samantha
           Steele (27) in Hudson, Wisconsin

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Divorces

2007 - Actor Dermot Mulroney (44) divorces actress Catherine Keener (48) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 17 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
American Political Columnist &               Publisher Bob Guccione (1930)                Actress Milla Jovovich (1975)
Presidential Speechwriter
 William Safire (1929)


1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1554 - Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne
1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, soldier/chemist/engraver/mathematician, commander in the
           English Civil War and first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, (d. 1682)
1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
1638 - Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer
1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
1706 - Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire)
1734 - William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto)
1770 - Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
1778 - Hunphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements)
1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
1797 - Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
1800 - Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary)
1801 - Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
1819 - Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1820 - Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1821 - Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824 - John Kerr, System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)
1824 - Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1824 - Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
1830 - Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie)
1833 - James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1835 - Alexander E Agassiz, US, businessman/biologist/geology
1838 - Berthold Tours, composer
1840 - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer
1842 - Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (continous groups)
1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
1848 - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer
1853 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
1853 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
1859 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
1861 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
1863 - Ion Vidu, composer
1864 - John Felix August Korling, composer
1869 - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer
1873 - Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (Inheritors)
1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
1881 - Aubrey Faulkner, cricketer (great S Afr all-rounder early 20th cent)
1881 - Johannes CB "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter
1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
1887 - Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1891 - Robertson Hare, London England, actor (Our Girl Friday, Banana Ridge)
1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
1893 - Erwin Piscator, German stage director (Der Stellvertreter)
1894 - Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops)
1894 - Hans Henny Jahnn, writer
1894 - Hans [Henry] Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
1894 - Willem Schermerhorn, Neth premier (1945-46)
1894 - David Butler, San Francisco California, director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane)
1900 - Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer/conductor
1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Simon Drach, writer
1903 - Erskine P Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
1903 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
1904 - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) [OS]
1904 - Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
1905 - Joseph Heifitz, film director
1905 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
1905 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
1906 - Fernando Lopez-Garcia, composer
1908 - Willard Frank Libby, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960))
1908 - William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer
1910 - Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India)
1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
1911 - William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
1914 - Mushtaq Ali, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's)
1915 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
1916 - Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertainer/poet (Kolderliedjes)
1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
1917 - Louis Salvador Palange, composer
1920 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tilsit East Prussia, actor (Kafka, Music Box)
1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
1922 - Eric Brand, diplomat
1922 - Hubert H A Beckers, Curacaoan opera singer
1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
1925 - Rijk de Gooyer, Dutch actor (Black Rider, Rififi in Amsterdam)
1926 - Jeremy Brooks, writer
1926 - Patrice Wymore, Miltonville KS, actress (The Big Tree)
1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 - Richard Long, Chicago Illinois, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor)
1928 - Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist
1929 - William Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon), (d. 2009)
1930 - Bob Guccione, [Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni), (d. 2010)
1930 - Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
1930 - Makoto Moroi, composer
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
1931 - Yvonne Keuls, [Bamberg], Dutch writer (Jan Rap & Co)
1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
1933 - Bruce Morrison, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1963)
1933 - Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet
1934 - Ray Wilson, English footballer
1935 - Cal Ripken Sr, baseball manager (Balt Orioles)
1935 - George Lindsey, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show), (d. 2012)
1936 - Frank Martinus Arion, [F Efraim M], Antilles, writer (Double Play)
1936 - Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1937 - Art Neville, New Orleans LA, vocalist (Neville Brothers)
1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
1939 - Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down)
1939 - James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
1939 - Novella Nelson, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
1939 - Charles V Bush, Washington, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force
           Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page), (d. 2012)
1940 - Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
1942 - Bernard Hill, Manchester, actor (Bellman & True, New World, Bounty)
1942 - Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days)
1943 - Dave Dee, rocker
1943 - William Brooks, composer
1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
1944 - Ference Bene, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker, US, sci-fi author (Saga of Well World)
1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
1945 - Christopher Cazenove, England, actor (Ben-Dynasty)
1945 - Ernie Hudson, Benton Harbor MI, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds)
1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
1946 - Albert Padmore, cricketer (WI off-spinner mid-70s)
1946 - Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV)
1947 - Marilyn Hassett, LA Ca
1947 - Simon Bates, English DJ
1947 - Wes Studi, actor (Last of the Mohicans)
1948 - Jim Alexander, rocker
1948 - Jim Bonfanti, rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
1949 - Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm)
1949 - Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
1950 - Carlton Barrett, Jamaicans reggae drummer (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1950 - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
1951 - Tatyana Kazankina, USSR, middle distance runner (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 - Wanda Hutchison, rocker
1952 - Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment (PvdA)
1952 - Mickey Jones, Wash DC, rock bassist
1953 - Barry Livingston, Los Angeles California, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
1953 - Ikue Ile Mori, rocker
1953 - Mark Gane, Toronto Canada, rocker (M+M)
1953 - Bill Pullman, Hornell NY, actor (Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day)
1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
1957 - Bob Ojeda, pitcher (NY Mets)
1958 - Mike Mills, US pop bassist (REM-One I Love)
1959 - Albert King, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
1959 - Michelle Mackall, Washington DC, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's-32nd)
1959 - Tammie Green, Somerset OH, LPGA golfer (1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
1961 - Sarah Dallin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
1961 - Venice Kong, St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985)
1962 - Giulla Boschi, Italian actress (Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus)
1962 - Rocco Anthony Mediate, Greensburg PA, PGA golfer (1991 Doral-Ryder)
1962 - Paul Dobson, English footballer
1964 - Eric Brown, NYC, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
1964 - Frank Musil, Pardubice Cze, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1964 - Joe Wolf, NBA forward/center (Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets)
1964 - Tyrone Braxton, NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 - Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
1964 - Michele Tafoya, American sportscaster
1965 - Craig Berube, Calahoo, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1965 - Jeff Grayer, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Olympics-bronze-1988)
1965 - Scott Edward Gump, Rockledge FL, PGA golfer (1991 International-2nd)
1966 - Hans Visser, Dutch soccer player (MVV, FC Utrecht)
1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
1967 - Alan Nolet, Toronto Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Pauline Maurice, Welland Ontario, softball outfielder (Olympics-96)
1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Montreal, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens)
1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician
1968 - Curtis Pride, Washington DC, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1968 - Jeff[rey] Klepacki, Kearny NJ, rower (Olympics-1992, 96)
1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
1969 - Dean Wilson, Kaneohe Hawaii, golfer (1991 Western Athletic)
1969 - Marc Davis, Oceanside California, 3K steeplechase runner (Goodwill-gold-94)
1969 - Marty Carter, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1969 - Rob Maas, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 - Scott Player, WLAF punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist
1970 - Benedictine, [St Bernard]; becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
1970 - Earl Dotson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Michael Mols, soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 - Alyson Habetz, Crowley LA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 - Carl Reeves, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1971 - Mark Byers, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Nikki McCray, Collierville Tenn, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Sari Kristiina Fisk, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1971 - Tony Richardson, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
1972 - Brian Williams, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Dewayne Washington, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Don Davis, linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
1972 - Ivan Pedroso, Cuba, long jumper (Olympics-4th-92)
1972 - John Abraham, Indian actor
1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
1974 - Giovonni Ribisi, actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, New Leave it To Beaver)
1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
1975 - Milla Jovovich, Kiev Ukraine, actress (Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin)
1975 - Napiera Danielle Groves, Miss USA-Wash DC (1997, Miss Congeniality)
1975 - Nick Farrell, East York Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
1976 - Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer
1976 - Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
1976 - Andrew Simpson, Chertsey, Surrey, sailor (Oly gld 2008), (d. 2013)
1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
1978 - Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
1978 - Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer (Three Days Grace)
1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
1979 - Cheri Vivette Alexander, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, Belleville, Illinois, American actress (Judy Winslow-Family Matters) and porn
           star
1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
1981 - Emma Laaksonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1982 - Josh Barfield, American baseball player
1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
1982 - Ryan Moats, National Football League runningback
1984 - Andrew Davies, English footballer
1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1992 - Thomas Law, British Actor
1992 - Jordan Garrett, American actor
1994 - Nat Wolff, American actor, and singer-songwriter
2007 - James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Deaths

                 
Military and Political Leader                  Supreme Leader of North Korea
Simon Bolivar (1830)                                    Kim Jong-il (2011)


535 - Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
695 - Begga, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693]
1187 - Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1213 - Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
1471 - Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies
1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82
1651 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81
1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1679 - Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
1711 - Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
1751 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
1811 - John Antes, composer, dies at 71
1811 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54
1829 - Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80
1830 - Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa
           Marta, Colombia
1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21
1847 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
1860 - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
1870 - Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
1881 - Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
1891 - Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian
           funded expedition
1891 - Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the
           Congo
1893 - Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
1899 - Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle
1907 - Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83
1913 - Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61
1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
1917 - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1925 - A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies
1926 - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70
1930 - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
1933 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1937 - Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72
1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1944 - Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26
1944 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1946 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84
1948 - Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68
1949 - David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72
1956 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48
1957 - Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
1961 - Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
1962 - Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70
1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1965 - Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
1966 - Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68
1967 - Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1967 - [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect, dies at 83
1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1969 - Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1972 - Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63
1973 - Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1973 - Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74
1975 - Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1975 - Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
1982 - Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1982 - Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90
1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
1983 - Erik Christensen, NHL player
1985 - Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
1986 - Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 - Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
1990 - Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1990 - Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79
1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 - Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
1993 - Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer
1994 - Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
1995 - Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
1996 - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
1996 - Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85
1996 - Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 - Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22
1996 - Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61
1996 - Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
1997 - Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86
1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
2002 - James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
2003 - Brian Lee, father of Wikipedia user, James Lee (b. 1948)
2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929)
2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2008 - Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
2008 - Sammy Baugh, American football player (b. 1914)
2008 - Freddy Breck, German schlager singer, composer, record producer and news anchor (b.
          1942)
2009 - Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
2009 - Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
2009 - Dan O'Bannon, Screenwriter, after a short illness (b.1943)
2010 - Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
2010 - Walt Dropo, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2011 - Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart
           attack at 70
2012 - Daniel K. Inouye, American politician, dies from respiratory complications at 88

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th December


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky              Marxist Revolutionary and
                                                                                                                           Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin

                 
Children's Author Dr. Seuss                   Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry


218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the
              Roman Republic.
1118 - Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden
1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan
           Dynasty of China.
1352 - Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
1406 - Anton van Bourgondies becomes duke of Brabant
1603 - Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies
1621 - English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
1719 - Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
1774 - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia
1777 - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1783 - English king George III fires government of Portland
1787 - New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she
           later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1796 - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1799 - George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
1813 - British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
1832 - Charles Darwins visits Vurland
1839 - 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
1849 - William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
1858 - Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i/d villa of lovers Rossini
1859 - South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
1862 - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
1865 - 1st US cattle importation law passed
1869 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
1878 - French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
1878 - John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1888 - Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1890 - Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda
1892 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres
1892 - Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony premieres
1894 - Cricket day 4 1T Aus v Eng England following on 4-268, 7 in front
1898 - Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
1899 - Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts appointed Brit supreme commander in South Africa
1900 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the
           Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1905 - H V Hordern takes 8-81 in 2nd innings of F-C debut (NSW v Qld)
1912 - Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by
           Charles Dawson.
1917 - Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
1920 - 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1923 - International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
1930 - Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours
1932 - Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
1935 - Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
1935 - Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1935 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1936 - 1st giant panda imported into US
1936 - Queensland cricket all out for 49 v Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
1936 - Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in SF
1939 - Finnish army recaptures Agläjärvi
1941 - German submarine U-434 sinks
1941 - Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
1944 - US Destroyers Hull, Spence & Monaghan sink in typhoon (Philippines)
1944 - Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
1945 - Uruguay joins UN
1946 - TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
1948 - Indonesia begins its 2nd political election
1948 - WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Philadelphia Eagles beat LA Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
1952 - Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleve Indians president
1953 - KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
1956 - Japan admitted to UN
1956 - Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankee radio-TV announcer
1957 - Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1958 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1958 - 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1959 - Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
1960 - General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
1961 - Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
1961 - For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
1961 - India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
1961 - KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
1963 - Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
1964 - "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances
1964 - "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)
1964 - During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 7 performances
1965 - Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1965 - Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
1966 - Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 333 performances
1969 - Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 perfs
1970 - Polish uprising fails
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - 1st Candlelight Processional
1971 - CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
1971 - People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1971 - US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
1972 - US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1973 - Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1973 - Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
1974 - SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1976 - "A Star is Born", with Barbra Striesand, premieres
1976 - "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
1976 - Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1977 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
1977 - Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1980 - Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
1980 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
1980 - IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1980 - Vietnam adopts constitution
1982 - Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1983 - NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
1984 - 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
1985 - "Jerry's Girls" opens at St James Theater NYC for 139 performances
1985 - UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1986 - Mr Gates serves as acting director of CIA
1987 - Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
1988 - 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
1988 - Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
1989 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
1989 - Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in NYC
1990 - NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
1990 - NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Wash DC as 6 finalist
           for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
1991 - DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
1991 - General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
1992 - FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
1993 - Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
1994 - "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 8 performances
1994 - "What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 12 perf
1994 - Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
1994 - General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro & Jack Wagner wed
1994 - Norman, Couples & Azinger wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
1994 - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1996 - Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe & England
1996 - US TV industry execs agree to adopt a ratings system
1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a
           language or dialect.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments,
           including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 - 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would
           face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his
           reelection campaign one month earlier.
2012 - 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy
2012 - 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan
2012 - The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th December


Famous Weddings

1915 - US President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1932 - Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (19) weds Raymond Parks (29) in Montgomery, Alabama
1983 - Wrestler Hulk Hogan (30) weds Linda Claridge
1987 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future Prime Minister, marries Asif Ali Zardari

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Physicist J. J. Thomson (1856)       Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin (1878)      Director Steven Spielberg (1946)


Singer Christina Aguilera (1980)


1507 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
1562 - Philipp Dulichius, composer
1569 - Jakob Hassler, composer
1602 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
1610 - Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist
1620 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
1633 - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised
1633 - Willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised
1635 - Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian
1661 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
1662 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)
1667 - Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer
1707 - Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement)
1725 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791)
1734 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer
1760 - Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary (Om sku skuespillerkunsten)
1779 - Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history")
1788 - Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder/composer
1803 - William Allen, (Rep/Gov-Oh)
1811 - Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1812 - Wiktor Kazynski, composer
1816 - Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1819 - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija)
1825 - Charles Griffin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1826 - Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
1826 - Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
1835 - George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922)
1837 - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP)
1844 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist
1848 - Karl Schroder, composer
1851 - Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino hero, orator and satirist (d. 1896)
1852 - Gaetano Coronaro, composer
1856 - J. J. Thomson, Manchester, England, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
1860 - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
1861 - Lionel Monckton, composer
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, Graz Austria, His assassination in 1914 led to
           declarations of war in WWI
1867 - Antoon van Welie, Dutch painter
1870 - Andres Randolf, Denmark, actor (The Kiss)
1870 - Saki, [Hector Hugo Munro], Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came)
1873 - Adolf Vogl, composer
1873 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)
1877 - Max Pallenberg, Austria, actor (Brave Suender)/husb of Fritzi Massary
1878 - Joseph Stalin [Josef], Gori, Russian Empire, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-1953), (d.
           1953)
1879 - Paul Klee, Münchenbuchsee Switzerland, Swiss/German abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
1884 - Philippe van Isacker, Belgian minister
1886 - Ty Cobb, American baseball player, Colo, batted .367, stole 892 bases (Det Tigers) (d. 1961)
1888 - Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady)
1888 - Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
1890 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM)
1897 - Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker
1897 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
1898 - Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist
1904 - George Stevens, US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade)
1904 - Wilf Carter, country singer
1905 - Richard Sturzenegger, composer
1906 - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher
1906 - Kam Tong, actor (Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song)
1907 - Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)
1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984)
1908 - Celia Johnson, England, actress (Happy Breed, Brief encounter)
1909 - Mona Barrie, [Smith], London England, actress (Dawn on Great Divide)
1910 - Abe Burrows, Brooklyn New York, American Broadway composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY)
1910 - Eric Tindall, cricketer (All Black rep who kept wicket in 5 Tests)
1911 - Helen Vlachos, journalist
1911 - Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday)
1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002)
1913 - Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight)
1913 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer
1913 - Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound)
1913 - Saburo Takata, composer
1913 - Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971)
1913 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
1914 - Jerry Zipkin, socialite
1915 - Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52)
1916 - Betty Grable, St Louis, great legs/actress (Gay Divorcee)
1917 - Ossie Davis, Cogdell GA, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam)
1920 - Rita Streich, German singer
1920 - Willis Conover, broadcaster
1922 - Larry D Mann, Toronto Canada, actor (Marty-Accidental Family)
1923 - Lotti [Charlotte] van der Gaag, Dutch sculptor/painter
1926 - Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
1927 - Ramsey Clark, US attorney General (1967-69)
1927 - Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey)
1927 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
1928 - Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal
1929 - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player
1930 - Bill Skowron [Moose], Chicago, Illinois, MLB First baseman (NY Yankees), (d. 2012)
1931 - Gunnel Lindblom, Goeteborg Sweden, actor (Hunger, Virgin Spring)
1931 - Noel McGregor, cricketer (batted in 25 Tests for NZ 1955-65)
1931 - Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager
1931 - Alison Plowden, English historian (d. 2007)
1932 - Roger Smith, South Gate California, actor (77 Sunset Strip)
1933 - Arthur Leigh Allen, Suspected Zodiac serial killer (d. 1992)
1934 - Boris Valentinovich Volynov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
1935 - Jacques Pépin, French chef
1936 - Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1938 - [Bryan] Chas Chandler, rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1938 - Roger E. Mosley, American actor
1939 - Christoffel "Stoffel" van de Merwe, S Afr minister of Education
1939 - Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer/actress/playwright
1939 - Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear)
1939 - Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer (Olympic-Silver-1960)
1939 - Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Arnold Long, cricketer (prolific wicketkeeper for Surrey & Sussex)
1940 - Bramwell Morrison, member of Sharon, Lois & Bram
1941 - Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Company-Cheap Thrills)
1941 - Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpeter and composer
1942 - William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V
1942 - Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor
1943 - Alan Rudolph, actor (Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven)
1943 - Bobby Keyes, rocker
1943 - Keith Richards, England, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1945 - Birenda Bir Bikram, King of Nepal (1972- )
1945 - Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1946 - Hubie Green, Birmingham Ala, PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
1946 - Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
1946 - Steven Spielberg, Cincinnati, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
1947 - Eddie Antar, founder/CEO (Crazy Eddie Electronics Store)
1948 - Bryan "Chas" Changler, Newcastle, rock bassist (Animals)
1948 - Bill Nelson, English musician (Be Bop Deluxe)
1948 - Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer
1949 - Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy)
1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Melbourne Aust, director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel)
1950 - Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight)
1950 - Martha Johnson, Toronto Canada, rocker (M+M)
1950 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002)
1951 - Andrew S Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut (STS 77, STS 89/91)
1951 - Candice Rialson, Santa Monica California, actress (Chatterbox)
1953 - Elliot Easton, [Elliot Shapiro], Brooklyn NY, rock guitarist (Cars)
1953 - Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
1954 - Ray Liotta, Newark NJ, actor (Sacha-Casablanca, Goodfellas)
1956 - Reinhold Ewald, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-25)
1956 - Ron White, American comedian
1957 - John Webster, rocker (Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel)
1959 - Barrie Chase, actress (Mardi Gras, Cape Fear)
1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
1961 - Brian Orser, Canada, figure skater (Olympics-Silver-88)
1961 - Ken Foreman, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
1961 - Lalchand Rajput, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1985-86)
1961 - Thomas Strittmatter, writer
1962 - Renaldo Lapuz, Filipino-American Singer
1963 - Charles Oakley, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1963 - Lori McNeil, San Diego California, tennis star (1995 Oakland doubles)
1963 - Brad Pitt, Shawnee, Oklahoma, American actor (12 Monkeys, Fight Club)
1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
1963 - Pauline Ester, French singer
1963 - Allan Kayser, American actor
1964 - Don Beebe, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Robson Green, English actor and singer
1965 - Angeliki Kaneltopoutous, Greece, tennis star
1965 - Brian Walton, Ottawa Ontario, points race cyclist (Olympics-silver-96)
1965 - Fawna Maclaren, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1989)
1965 - Willie Blair, Paintsville KY, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1965 - Mick Collins, American musician (The Gories, The Dirtbombs)
1965 - Tommy Davidson, American actor
1966 - Aaron Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1966 - Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian actress (Ugly Dirty & Bad)
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys)
1966 - Patricia Neder, Wauykesha WI, team handball right wing (Olymp-92, 96)
1966 - Steve Dullaghan, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1966 - Terry Phelps, Larchmont NY, tennis star
1966 - Tracy Byrd, country singer
1966 - Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress
1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator)
1967 - Bob Corkum, Salisbury, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1967 - Charles Christopher Rymer, Cleveland TN, PGA golfer (1995 Shell-3rd)
1967 - Dan McGwire, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Tracy Hayworth, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons)
1967 - Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
1968 - Aaron Craver, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Casper Van Dien, actor (Starship Troopers)
1968 - Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer
1969 - Andrew Murphy, Australian long jumper/triple jumper (Olympics-96)
1969 - Chris Dausin, WLAF corner/guard (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Joanne Mills, Sydney Aust, golfer (T25 Holden 1994 Women's Aust Open)
1969 - Joe Randa, Milwaukee WI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - Keith Piper, cricketer (Warwickshire & England A wicketkeeper)
1969 - Marco Coleman, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins, San Diego Chargers)
1969 - T C Wright, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
1969 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer
1970 - Lucious Harris, NBA guard (NJ Nets, Dallas Mavericks)
1970 - Anthony Catanzaro, American fitness model
1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
1970 - DMX, American rapper and actor
1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
1970 - Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
1970 - Johnny Yeo, English artist
1971 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Barcelona, tennis star (Oly-silv/bronze-92)
1971 - Frank Pimiskern, CFL safety (BC Lions)
1971 - Joe Dziedzic, Minneapolis, NHL left wing (Pitts Penguins)
1971 - Markus Finke, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Neil Little, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1971 - Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer
1972 - Eric Unverzagt, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Sea Seahawks, Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Jeff Nelson, Prince Albert, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1972 - Marcos Ondruska, South Africa, tennis star
1972 - Trevor Chowning, American Pop Artist
1972 - DJ Lethal, Latvian-born American DJ (House of Pain, Limp Bizkit)
1972 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory) and businessman
1973 - Jason Williams, Gonzales LA, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Keith Washington, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Peter Boulware, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1974 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
1974 - Bill Duggan, American television actor and host
1975 - Michael Barry, Toronto, Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese comedian
1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
1977 - José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Naomi Lang, Arcata California, dance skater (& Peter Tchernyshev)
1978 - Ali Curtis, American soccer player
1978 - Katie Holmes, Toledo, Ohio, American actress (Dawson's Creek, Batman Begins)
1979 - Carlos, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer (Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants)
1982 - Dave Luetkenhoelter, American bassist (Kutless)
1983 - Darren Carter, English footballer
1983 - Steph Jones, American R&B singer
1985 - Tara Conner, 2006 Miss USA
1985 - Hana Soukupová, Czech supermodel
1987 - Miki Andō, Japanese figure skater
1987 - Ayaka, Japanese singer
1987 - Fernando Jara, Panamanian-American jockey
1989 - Ashley Benson, American actress
1989 - Ashley Slanina-Davies, Hollyoaks actress

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This Day in History for 18th December


Famous Deaths

French Naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1829)


468 - Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita
821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
1133 - Hildebert, French writer
1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
1505 - John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed
1565 - Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62
1577 - Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32
1597 - Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67
1633 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62
1638 - Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies
1651 - Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54
1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)
1710 - Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62
1732 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59
1737 - Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93
1751 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62
1779 - Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68
1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
1799 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)
1803 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59
1829 - Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French naturalist, dies at 85
1831 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75
1835 - Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82
1839 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75
1841 - Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60
1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)
1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
1858 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81
1862 - Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 of malarial fever
1865 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70
1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40
1892 - Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88
1897 - Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70
1899 - John William Glover, composer, dies at 84
1911 - Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79
1918 - Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72
1919 - Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56
1919 - John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27
1928 - Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55
1931 - John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35
1932 - Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82
1935 - Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies
1936 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
1937 - S S Schultz, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
1939 - Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
1942 - Charlie Walker, cricketer (Aust tourist to England 1930, 1938), dies
1948 - Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers
1959 - Dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66
1963 - Winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at 58
1966 - Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico
1971 - Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61
1971 - Bobby Jones Jr, amateur golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at 69
1971 - Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
1973 - Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64
1973 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (b. 1908)
1974 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)
1976 - George Emmett, cricketer (England opener v Aust Old Trafford 1948), dies
1977 - Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80
1977 - Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
1980 - Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
1981 - Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
1982 - Raymond Emery, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1952, 46 runs, 2 wkts), dies
1982 - Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Neth cellist, dies at 70
1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916)
1985 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
1986 - Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies
1987 - Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
1990 - Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
1990 - Paul Tortelier, composer, dies at 76
1991 - June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
1991 - George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
1992 - Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83
1992 - Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77
1992 - Mother Clare Hale, cared for NYC AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74
1993 - Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
1994 - Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor/director, dies at 71
1994 - Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98
1994 - Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64
1994 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (b. 1916)
1995 - Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76
1995 - Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70
1995 - Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69
1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
1995 - Brian Brockless, English organist (b. 1926)
1996 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74
1997 - Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33
1998 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
2000 - Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
2000 - Randolph Apperson Hearst, son of W. Randolph Hearst and father of Patty (b. 1915)
2000 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter (b. 1959)
2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927)
2001 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (b. 1914)
2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934)
2002 - Wayne Owens, former U.S. Congressman (D-Utah) (b. 1937)
2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
2005 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
2006 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
2006 - Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (1905)
2006 - Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (b. 1943)
2006 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, journalist and political activist (b. 1923)
2007 - Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court judge (b. 1924)
2007 - Jack Linkletter, American television host, son of Art Linkletter (b. 1937)
2007 - Bill Strauss, American writer on generations, satirist, and founder of the Capitol Steps (b.
           1947)
2008 - Majel Barrett, American actress and producer of Star Trek, also the widow of Gene
           Roddenberry (b. 1932)
2008 - Mark Felt, the infamous Deep Throat, American FBI official and whistle blower during the
           Watergate Scandal (b. 1932)
2010 - Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2010 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (b. 1940)
2010 - Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist and classical scholar (b. 1913)
2010 - James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (b. 1925)
2012 - Marcus Worsley, British Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, dies at 87

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This Day in History for 19th December


Historical Events

                                   
Novelist Charles Dickens                          Naturalist Charles Darwin           Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

                                   
Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary        Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                 Film Director Stanley Kubrick
Ho Chi Minh

                                   
British Prime Minister                                NHL all-time top scorer                       42nd US President Bill Clinton
Margaret Thatcher                                            Wayne Gretzky


324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
401 - St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1055 - Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
1154 - King Henry II of England crowned
1551 - Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1562 - Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Condé captured
1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee to France
1696 - Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris
1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's
           Almanack"
1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the
           times that try men's souls"
1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
1783 - British government of William Pitt the Younger forms
1788 - Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US
1828 - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ
1842 - US recognizes independence of Hawaii
1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
1854 - Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR
1861 - Battle of Black Water
1862 - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
1867 - Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
1871 - Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
1881 - Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels)
1884 - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1887 - Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
1888 - Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1889 - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
1891 - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
1891 - Canadian Rugby Union forms
1894 - Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113
1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
1904 - Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to
           Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
1907 - 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania
1910 - 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1913 - Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title
1916 - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
1917 - Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
1919 - American Meteorological Society found
1920 - 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
1920 - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I
           of Greece and a plebiscite.
1922 - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
1924 - Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings
1924 - The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1928 - 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1930 - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
1931 - Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG
1931 - Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
1933 - Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
1934 - Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
1939 - Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
1941 - German submarine U-574 sinks
1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
1943 - Military coup in Bolivia
1945 - Austrian Republic re-establishes
1945 - Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris
1946 - Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London
1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1948 - 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
1948 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
1948 - Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
1948 - Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
1949 - Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland
1949 - WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1951 - Nazi General Christiansen leaves Nethe
1952 - Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
1953 - KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
1958 - 1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for
           Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
1959 - 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
1960 - Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
1961 - UK begins using decimal currency
1961 - Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization
1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
1962 - Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
1965 - French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
1968 - WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 - Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
1971 - "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
1971 - CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1971 - Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
1972 - Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
1973 - "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
1973 - Grenada adopts constitution
1974 - "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
1974 - Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
1975 - Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
1976 - Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ
1976 - John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi
1976 - Pres Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin
1976 - Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose
           40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
1977 - Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
1980 - Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1980 - Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee, Cornwall, lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken
           coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters
           of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
1984 - China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & British PM Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
1984 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1984 - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
1984 - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
1985 - "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1985 - Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
1985 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1986 - Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion
           against free agency
1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series,
           sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500
1987 - Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
1987 - Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
1988 - NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
1988 - Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1988 - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
1989 - American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
1989 - Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1991 - "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1991 - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
1991 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
1993 - "Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
1993 - Guinee general Lansana re-elected president
1994 - Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
1995 - Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
1996 - "Once Upon a Matress" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
1997 - MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of
           impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a
           Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel,
           Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo
           Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2007 - The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their
           treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with
           an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.
2012 - UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
2012 - Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female
           president

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Weddings

1895 - Poet Robert Frost (21) weds Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts
1912 - Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel
1919 - Composer and songwriter Cole Porter (28) weds socialite Linda Lee Thomas (36)
1998 - Actress Vivica A. Fox (34) weds singer Christopher Harvest at the Park Plaza in Los Angeles,
           California
2009 - Actor-singer Kevin Jonas (22) weds Danielle Deleasa (23) at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New
           York

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Divorces

1995 - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor Ralph Richardson (1902)                    Singer Edith Piaf (1915)                      Actor Jake Gyllenhaal (1980)


1036 - Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
1498 - Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist
1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1676 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist
1683 - Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1723 - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother
1744 - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland
1753 - John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy)
1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1779 - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver
1783 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem)
1784 - Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1790 - William Parry, England, Arctic explorer
1792 - [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal
1796 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright
1797 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer
1809 - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont (life cycle of tapeworms)
1813 - Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone)
1814 - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65)
1817 - James Jay Archer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1864
1819 - James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1821 - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader
1824 - Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97)
1825 - George Frederick Bristow, composer
1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
1832 - John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone
1836 - Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator (PTA)
1837 - John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1849 - Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke & steel operation
1852 - A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907)
1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)\
1861 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator
1861 - Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
1864 - Adolf Sandberger, composer
1865 - Hermann Hirt, Magdeburg Prussia, linguist (Indo-European Grammar)
1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, New Orleans La, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays)
1865 - Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint
1869 - Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer)
1875 - Carter G Woodson, New Canton Va, American historian (black studies)
1876 - Carlo Gatti, composer
1878 - Anton Lajovic, composer
1879 - Beals C Wright, tennis champ (US Open-1905)
1879 - Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer
1880 - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer
1882 - Walter Braunfels, composer
1883 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer
1883 - [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect
1884 - Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
1884 - Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer
1885 - F S Flint, London England, translator/poet (imagist movement)
1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 - Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch)
1890 - Klaas Painter, vicar/antifascist (Occupies possession) [or 1880]
1890 - Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar (Occupied Territory)
1891 - Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86)
1894 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
1894 - Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33)
1894 - Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo Japan, architect (modern sukiya style)
1895 - Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)
1895 - Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Jazz Player)
1896 - John Seldon Whale, theologian
1897 - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator
1901 - Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist
1902 - Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)
1902 - Ralph Richardson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, actor (Anna Karenina, Dr Zhivago), (d. 1983)
1903 - Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms)
1903 - George Davis Snell, Bradford, Massachusetts, American geneticist (H-2 gene)
1903 - Theo Harych, writer
1905 - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer
1906 - H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)
1906 - Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
1909 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1910 - Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks)
1910 - Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet/novelist
1913 - William C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart)
1915 - Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow), (d. 1963)
1916 - Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)
1916 - Hal Hastings, NYC, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
1916 - Mervyn Wallace, cricketer (13 Tests for NZ, latterly as capt)
1917 - Graham Sharp, ice skater
1919 - Benedict Freedman, New York, NY, novelist and mathematician (Mrs Mike), (d. 2012)
1920 - David Susskind, NYC, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
1920 - Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936) [NS]
1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
1921 - Ludvik Podest, composer
1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
1923 - Luigi Innocenti, designer
1923 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Edmund Purdom, England, actor (Asissi Underground, Pieces)
1924 - Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1924 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1924 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
1924 - Gary Morton, second husband of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
1925 - Jimmy Dickens, Bolt WV, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1925 - Tankred Torst, writer
1925 - Robert Sherman, New York City, New York, songwriter (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), (d.
           2012)
1926 - Bobby Layne, NFL QB (Detroit Lions)
1926 - Jeanne Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
1926 - Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
1927 - James Booth, Croydon, Surrey, English actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum)
1928 - Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer (Letting Down My Hair)
1928 - Michael Hurd, composer
1928 - Nathan Oliveira, American artist
1929 - Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
1929 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1932 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
1933 - Cicely Tyson, Harlem NYC, actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman)
1933 - Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
1934 - Al Kaline, Baltimore MD, Hall of Fame outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1934 - Rudi Carrell, [Rudolf W Kesselman], Dutch showmaster
1934 - Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician
1935 - Barbara Bostock, American actress
1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 - Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
1940 - Phil Ochs, El Paso Tx, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)
1941 - Maurice White, Memphis TN, rock vocalist (Earth, Wind & Fire-Spirit)
1942 - Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer
1942 - Rufus, French actor
1943 - William De Vries, Bkln, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
1943 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
1944 - Alvin Lee, Nottingham England, rock vocals/guitarist (10 Years After), (d. 2013)
1944 - Maurice White, rocker
1944 - Richard Leakey, anthropologist
1944 - Tim Reid, Norfolk VA, American actor and comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place)
1944 - Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist (Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic)
1944 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
1945 - Elaine Joyce, Cleveland Ohio, actress (City of Angels, Mr Merlin)
1945 - John McEuen, rocker (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, singer (Money, As Tears Go By)
1946 - Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor (SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$)
1946 - Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
1947 - Janie Fricke, South Whitley In, singer (It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy)
1948 - Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Claudia A Kolb, US, 200m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-silver-1964)
1949 - Lenny White, rocker
1949 - Nancy Kyes, American actress
1949 - Sebastian, Danish musician
1951 - Fred W Leslie, Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1953 - Peter McEwan, cricketer (NZ batsman early 80's)
1955 - Susil Fernando, cricketer (5 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1956 - Alice Barrett, NYC, actress (Frankie Frame-Another World)
1956 - Tom Lawless, American baseball player
1957 - Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1957 - Kevin McHale, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1957 - Liz Glazowski, Chicago Ill, playmate (April, 1980)
1957 - Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
1957 - John Gulager, American film director
1958 - Iqbal Sikander, cricketer (Pakistan leg-spinner 1992 World Cup)
1958 - Limahl, British rocker (Kajagoogoo-Too Shy)
1958 - Rick Pearson, Marianna FL, Nike golfer (1990 Yuma Open)
1959 - Edward Metgod, Dutch soccer goalie (Haarlem, Sparta)
1959 - Kathryn "Furu" Carpenter, Marshall Mich, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1960 - Mike Lookinland, Mt Pleasant Utah, actor (Bobby-Brady Bunch)
1960 - Michelangelo Signorile, American writer
1961 - Reggie White, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1962 - Bettina Huebers, Hamburg GFR, claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney
1962 - Charith Senanayake, cricketer (played for Sri Lanka v NZ 1991)
1962 - Jill Talley, American actress
1963 - Chris Greatrex, LPGA golfer (1995 Fielcrest Cannon Classic-71st)
1963 - Jennifer Beals, Chicago Ill, actress (Flashdance, Bride)
1963 - Karen Bliss-Livingston, Quakertown PA, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers)
1964 - Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath)
1964 - Lorie Kane, PEI Canada, LPGA golfer (du Maurier Ltd-1994, 95)
1964 - Mike Fetters, Van Nuys CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1964 - Randall McDaniel, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1965 - Chuckii Booker, rocker
1965 - Jessica Steen, Toronto, actress (Earth II, Homefront, Trial & Error)
1965 - Chito Martínez, Belizean baseball player
1966 - Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier (Olympic-gold-1988, 92)
1966 - Courtney Griffin, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1966 - Eric Weinrich, Roanoke, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1966 - Monique Oliver, Malibu Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-4th-1994)
1966 - Rajesh Chauhan, cricketer (Indian off-spinner since 1993)
1966 - Robert MacNaughton, NYC, actor (ET)
1966 - Roberto Beam, soccer player (Vitesse/MVV)
1967 - Doug Johns, South Bend IN, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1967 - Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
1967 - Criss Angel, Illusionist,Actor, Musician, etc.
1968 - Jennifer Devine, Portland OR, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kristy Swanson, actress (Knots Landing, Buffy Vampire Slayer)
1969 - Michael Bates, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers)
1969 - Mike Alexander, WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Nayan Mongia, cricketer (Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- )
1969 - Santana Dotson, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Scott Pearson, Cornwall, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1969 - Tom Gugliotta, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1969 - Richard Hammond, English television presenter
1969 - Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler
1970 - Jon Cleveland, Fresno CA, Canadian 100m/200m swimmer (Oly-br-92, 96)
1970 - Robert Lang, Teplice CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, Los Angeles)
1970 - Wendy Miles, Australia, golfer (1993 T77 Alpine Aust Ladies Masters)
1970 - Zac Foley, rock bassist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 - Tyson Beckford, American model
1971 - Amy Locane, Trenton NJ, actress (Andrea-Spencer, Sandy-Melrose Place)
1971 - Jen[nifer] Dore, Kearny NJ, rower (Olympics-4TH-96)
1971 - Mike Groh, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Liz Cho, American television reporter
1972 - Alyssa Jane Milano, Brooklyn NY, actress (Samantha-Who's the Boss)
1972 - Warren Sapp, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Waverly Jackson, DL (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Rosa Blasi, American actress
1973 - Kebu Stewart, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1973 - Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1974 - Bryant Westbrook, cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Jake Plummer, quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Ricky Ponting, cricketer (prodigious Tasmania batsman, Australia 1995)
1974 - Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM)
1975 - Casual, [Jon Owens], rapper
1975 - Kristin Folkl, St Louis MO, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Oly-96)
1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer
1975 - Jon Smith, British writer
1977 - Maria Joana Parizotto, Miss Universe-Brazil (1996)
1977 - Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
1978 - Lauren Petty, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 - Kevin Devine, American musician
1979 - Paola Rey, Colombian actress
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, Los Angeles, California, actor (Donnie Darko, Jarhead)
1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
1981 - Stevie Ficker, Miss Oregon Teen USA (1997)
1982 - Maurice Williams, American basketball player
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1982 - Vincent Accardi, American musician
1983 - Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
1985 - Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer
1985 - Lady Sovereign, English musician
1986 - Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer
1987 - Karim Benzema, French footballer
1987 - Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
1988 - Peter Winn, English footballer
1988 - Paulina Gretzky, American-born Canadian actress and model
1991 - Declan Galbraith, English singer
1996 - Paige Speakman, England, born 19 days before her twin sister