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This Day in History for 9th December


Famous Deaths

                   
Diplomat and Nobel Laureate            Boxing Champ Archie Moore (1998) 
Ralph Bunche (1971)


1165 - Malcom IV, King of Scots (1153-65), dies at 24
1292 - Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies
1437 - Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70
1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
1565 - Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
1625 - Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78
1636 - Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90
1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
1640 - Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565)
1641 - Anthonie "Antoon" van Dyck, Flemish painter, dies at 42
1669 - Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Ital Pope (1667-69), dies
1674 - Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65
1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
1706 - Pedro II, king of Portugal (1683-1706), dies at 58
1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
1767 - Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies
1770 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer, dies at 80
1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
1814 - Jose Angel Lamas, composer, dies at 39
1819 - Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide
1827 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer, dies at 90
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy
           (b. 1757)
1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
1893 - George Elvey, composer, dies at 77
1905 - Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 66
1916 - P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
1916 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1924 - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel), dies at 70
1925 - Eugene Gigout, composer, dies at 81
1929 - Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v South Africa 1899), dies
1930 - Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
1933 - Morice Bird, cricketer (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies
1935 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1940 - Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
1941 - Leonard "Leo" Polak, Dutch philosopher, dies in Sachsenhausen at 61
1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
1944 - Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
1948 - Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies
1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1956 - Hans Barth, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
1959 - Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
1964 - Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77
1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
1966 - Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice
           (b. 1898)
1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 - Ralph Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67
1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1974 - George Carew, cricketer (4 Tests for WI between 1935 & 1949), dies
1974 - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer, dies at 64
1975 - William A Wellman, US director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79
1976 - Nino Martini, actor (Here's to Romance), dies at 71
1977 - Clarice Lispector, writer, dies
1979 - Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster, dies in NYC at 84
1981 - Tonny Til, rocker, dies at 56
1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
1982 - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87
1982 - Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at 53
1982 - Leon Jaworski, special prosecutor (Watergate), dies at 77
1982 - Marty Robbins, country singer, dies
1982 - Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80
1982 - Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at 55
1983 - David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53
1984 - Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
1990 - Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies at 80
1992 - Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (All in the Family, LA Law), dies at 71
1993 - Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67
1993 - Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1994 - Garnet Silk, Jamaican raggae-singer, dies at 28
1994 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94), dies at 82
1994 - Maureen Cox Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo, dies of Leukemia at 48
1994 - Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85
1995 - Benny Lee, entertainer, dies at 84
1995 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (aviator), dies
1995 - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic, dies at 75
1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56
1995 - Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40
1995 - Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys & Dolls), dies of heart failure at 74
1996 - Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87
1996 - Alain Poher, French pres of European Parliament (1966-69), dies
1996 - Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist, dies at 84
1996 - Faron Young, country singer, commits suicide at 64
1996 - Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor, dies at 83
1996 - Mary Douglas Nichol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 83
1996 - Raphael Samuel, historian, dies at 32
1996 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
1997 - Tamara Geva, dancer, dies at 91
1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer, dies at 81
2001 - Michael Carver, British soldier (b. 1915)
2002 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
2002 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
2003 - Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2007 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
2008 - Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1972)
2008 - Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
2009 - Gene Barry, American actor, dies of congestive heart failure at 90
2010 - Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
2010 - James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2010 - John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (b. 1938)
2012 - Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and author, dies from an infection at 89
2012 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 43
2012 - Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, dies at 91

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This Day in History for 10th December


Historical Events

                                   
Physicist & Mathematician                      Physicist and Nobel Laureate                   Physicist/Nobel Laureate
Isaac Newton                                            Wilhelm Röntgen                                    Johannes van der Waals

                                   
Social Worker and Nobel Laureate        Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson            Chemist & Peace Activist
Jane Addams                                                                                                            Linus Pauling

                                   
Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist             Israeli Prime Minister                              Author Elie Wiesel
Martin Luther King Jr.                                  Menachem Begin
                                                                     
                 
New York Yankees Owner                      Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat
George Steinbrenner


741 - Zacharias becomes Pope
1041 - Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe
           elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1294 - Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 - France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 - Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1672 - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper
           De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1688 - King James II flees London
1690 - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester
1799 - Metric system established in France
1810 - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40
           rounds)
1816 - Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
1831 - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
1864 - General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling
           railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas
           lamps.
1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1869 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1882 - John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres
1887 - Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
1896 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1896 - Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
1898 - The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
1899 - -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa
1899 - Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
1899 - Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin
1899 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1901 - First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
1903 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie
1904 - King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
1904 - Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1907 - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with
           400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
1910 - Johannes van der Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 - Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 - French government returns to Paris
1918 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919 - NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1919 - NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his
           duties
1919 - Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
1922 - Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1922 - Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1923 - Polish government of Grabski forms
1924 - Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 
           1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1924 - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1925 - George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel prize
1926 - 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1926 - 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1929 - Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
1932 - King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1934 - Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1934 - NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
1934 - Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
1935 - As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 - White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
1936 - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1936 - Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 - Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1938 - 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1938 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0
1939 - KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1940 - British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 - British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 - Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942 - North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
1943 - British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 - 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 - German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
1945 - Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
1945 - Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 - USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1952 - Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 - WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs
1953 - KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
1954 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1954 - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1956 - Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1958 - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 - U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 - Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1961 - USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1962 - Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 - 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1965 - "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1965 - Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
1965 - Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
1966 - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 - Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
1970 - North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
1971 - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 - Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 - Space probe Helios 1 launched
1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 - Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
1976 - Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 - "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1978 - 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
1978 - In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 - Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
1979 - Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 - Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 - -13] El Salvador army kills 900
1981 - Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in NYC
1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear
           free-zone in South Asia.
1982 - Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1982 - Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1983 - 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
1983 - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 - Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
1983 - Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1985 - Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 - Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 - Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1987 - "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
1988 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
1989 - President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1990 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 - Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1991 - "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1991 - IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 - Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
1991 - Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees
           owner George Steinbrenner
1992 - "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs
1992 - NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
1992 - NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
1992 - Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1994 - 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 - Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 - 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
1995 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1995 - Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 - Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 - Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks
           previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the
           Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice
           Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
2006 - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the
           government to resign.
2012 - Google begins selling US$99 laptops
2012 - 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan
           County, China
2012 - 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
2012 - Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record

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This Day in History for 10th December


Famous Weddings

1915 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson marries 2nd wife Edith Galt, a descendant of native
           American Pocahontas
1961 - Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1994 - Former Senate Majority Leader Mitchell (61) weds sports marketing executive Heather
           MacLachlan (35) at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City
2005 - "Audioslave" drummer Brad Wilk (37) weds "Seven Year Bitch" former lead vocalist Selene Vigil
           near the frozen waters of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe
2005 - Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated model Isabeli Fontana (22) weds actor-model Henri
           Castelli (27) at Fort Are Joao in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2005 - Rugby Star Clyde Rathbone (24) weds Carrie-Ann Leeson in South Africa
2005 - Gustavo Rojo's daughter and actress Ana Patricia Rojo (31) weds Andres Puentes Jr at the
           San Jose del Calvario church in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
2005 - Country music artist Garth Brooks (43) weds singer Trisha Yearwood (41) in Claremore,
           Oklahoma
2005 - Actress Jane Danson (27) weds "Brookside" actor Robert Beck (35) at Gibbon Bridge Hotel in
           Lancashire, England

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Abolitionist                                             Poet Emily Dickinson (1830)              Poet Nelly Sachs (1891)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805)


1394 - King James I of Scotland, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, (1406-1437), (d. 1437)
1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1538 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1679 - Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders
1691 - Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist
1741 - Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1764 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
1765 - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot
1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
1794 - James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
1813 - Errico Petrella, composer
1813 - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
1815 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 - David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny)
1822 - Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, Neukirchen, German composer
1823 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer
1824 - George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)
1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886)
1831 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
1851 - Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1868 - Louis Victor Saar, composer
1870 - Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses)
1870 - Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
1870 - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)
1870 - T R McKibbin, cricketer (NSW & Aust off-spinner late 19th century)
1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
1872 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
1872 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1880 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1882 - Otto Neurath, Aust/Brit philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences)
1883 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1885 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer
1885 - Mario Varvoglis, composer
1886 - Victor McLaglen, Tunbridge Wells, England, actor (Informer - Academy Award 1935)
1886 - William Booth, cricketer (Yorks all-rounder, England before WW I)
1889 - Ray Collins, Sacramento CA, actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie)
1890 - George Merritt, London England, actor (I Monster, Q Planes)
1891 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), (d. 1970)
1893 - Walter Rein, composer
1894 - Earnest Haenchen, German new testament expert
1894 - Gertrud Kolmar, writer
1894 - Paul Dessau, composer
1897 - Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love)
1898 - Anton Mauve, Dutch painter
1898 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS]
1901 - F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
1903 - George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro)
1903 - Una Merkel, Covington Ky, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
1903 - William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
1907 - Amedeo Nazzari, Cagliari Sardinia Italy, actor (Lure of Sila)
1907 - Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director
1907 - Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)
1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1908 - Arnold A van Ruler, Dutch theologist
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
1910 - Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
1910 - Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street)
1911 - Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
1912 - Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf)
1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
1913 - Morton Gould, Richmond Hill NY, prolific composer (Verdun)
1913 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress and singer (Road to Bali)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 - Anne Gwynne, Waco TX, actress (Ride 'em Cowboy, House of Frankenstein)
1918 - Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music
1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1919 - Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer
1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1920 - Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1922 - Allen Dwight Sapp, composer
1923 - Abelardo Quinteros, composer
1923 - Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
1923 - Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
1925 - Carolyn Ashley Kizer, US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)
1925 - Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 - Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, composer
1926 - Eddie Jones, "Guitar Slim" rocker
1926 - Harry Fowler, Lambeth, London, actor (Great: Isambard Kingdom Brunel), (d. 2012)
1928 - John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1928 - Dan Blocker, De Kalb Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
1930 - Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep/Republican Natl chairman
1933 - Grenville Alabaster, cricketer (NZ tourist to Aust 1973-74)
1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1933 - Larry Morris, Atlanta, Georgia, NFL Linebacker (NFL 1960s All-Decade Team), (d. 2012)
1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
1937 - Don Bies, Cottonwood ID, PGA golfer (1975 Sammy Davis Jr)
1937 - Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
1940 - William Fred Dempster, Berkeley California, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
1941 - Jeff Jones, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler in 60's)
1941 - Peter Michael Goetz, actor (Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives)
1941 - Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1941 - Tommy Kirk, actor (Old Yeller)
1941 - Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
1942 - Bear Bossu, [Berend F Gertenbach], actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant)
1943 - Chad Stuart, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1943 - Jessica Cleaves, rocker
1943 - Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
1944 - Tisha Sterling, Hollywood California, actress (Coogan's Bluff)
1945 - Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist/producer
1946 - Chris Kefford, rocker
1946 - Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
1946 - Walter "Clyde" Orange, Florida, rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot)
1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
1947 - Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1948 - Brendan Harkin, rocker
1948 - Ralph Tavares, rocker
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1949 - Linda Galloway, LPGA golfer
1950 - Simon Owen, Wanganui NZ, Australasia golfer
1950 - Tom Towles, American actor
1951 - Frank Beard, US country rock drummer (ZZ Topp)
1951 - Johnny Rodriquez, US, actor (Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party)
1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1952 - Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
1953 - Jack Scalia, actor/director (Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force)
1954 - Jack Hues, English musician
1955 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1956 - Michael VerMeulen, journalist
1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor, (d. 2012)
1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and
           speaker
1958 - John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
1958 - Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
1959 - Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
1959 - Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Belfast, actor/director (High Season, Dead Again)
1960 - Paul Assenmacher, Detroit MI, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1961 - Mark McKoy, Canadian track star (world record 50m indoor)
1961 - Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
1962 - John de Wolf, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 - Doug Henry, Sacramento CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1963 - Gerald Sandel, soccer player (Sparta)
1963 - Michael Lofton, Montgomery Ala, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1963 - Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
1964 - Luis Polonia, Santiago City Dom Rep, outfielder (NY Yanks, Orioles)
1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1965 - Jennifer Wyatt, Vancouver Canada, golfer (1992 Crestar-Farm Fresh)
1965 - J Mascis, American musician
1965 - Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 - Eric Naposki, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1966 - Norberto Martin, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1968 - Rob Davis, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Darren Berry, cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 - Nadim Khan, cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)
1969 - Rob Blake, Simcoe Ont, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, LA Kings)
1969 - Todd Furdyk, CFL tackle (BC Lions)
1970 - Bryant Stith, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 - Amanda Hardy, Altona Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Carla Sacramento, Lisbon, 1.5k runner
1971 - Manjula Munasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI pace bowler)
1971 - Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1972 - Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
1973 - Bernard Holsey, defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1973 - Marcus Wall, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Rusty LaRue, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1977 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 - Brandon Novak, American skateboarder
1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1982 - Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1982 - Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
1984 - Jayson Paul, American professional wrestler
1985 - T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
1986 - Matthew Bates, English footballer
1986 - Ryoichi Tsukada, Japanese acrobat
1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine footballer
1990 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th December


Famous Deaths

                 
Inventor/Nobel Prize founder               Journalist and Author Damon Runyon (1946)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1896)


949 - Herman I, Duke of Swabia
969 - Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1490 - Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90
1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1524 - Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death
1572 - Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72
1595 - Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59
1603 - William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's physician, dies at 59
1616 - Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74
1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1638 - Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49
1665 - Tarquinio Mercula, composer, dies
1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1749 - Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], writer (Voltaire), dies at 42
1770 - Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80
1805 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43
1826 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer, dies at 68
1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1833 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79
1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1875 - Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84
1877 - Federico Ricci, composer, dies at 68
1877 - Jared Kirtland, US physician/naturalist, dies
1888 - Mariano Obiols, composer, dies at 79
1889 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50
1890 - Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84
1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1904 - James Cranston, cricketer (scored 16 & 15 in Test for England), dies
1909 - Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
1910 - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76
1911 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94
1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1921 - Viktor Jacobi, composer, dies at 38
1926 - Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime
           minister (b. 1845)
1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
1931 - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
1935 - John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78
1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69
1936 - Robert Abel, cricketer (744 runs in 13 Tests for Eng 1888-1902), dies
1938 - Mario Pilati, composer, dies at 35
1939 - Wilhelm Grosz, composer, dies at 45
1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
1946 - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer, dies at 66
1946 - Walter Johnson, great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 59
1951 - Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1958 - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, dies at 72
1958 - Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
1959 - Charles Jones, cricket batsman (WI in 4 Tests 1930-35, 63 runs), dies
1959 - Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40
1964 - Sam Cooke, US, singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel at 33
1965 - Henry (Dixon) Cowell, US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68
1966 - Boris Koutzen, composer, dies at 65
1967 - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer, dies at 71
1967 - Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash
1967 - Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1967 - Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26
1967 - Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash
1967 - Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82
1968 - Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65
1968 - Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
1969 - Franco Capuana, composer, dies at 75
1969 - Leigh Harline, composer, dies at 62
1971 - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch min of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57
1972 - Mark A Van Doren, US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78
1973 - Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81
1974 - Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50
1977 - Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 - Edward D Wood Jr, director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54
1978 - Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75
1979 - Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67
1979 - Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84
1981 - John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89
1982 - Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
1982 - Roy Webb, composer, dies at 94
1983 - Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84
1983 - Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents), dies at 74
1986 - Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
1986 - Susan Cabot-Roman, actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), dies
1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
1988 - Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS
1988 - Richard Castellano, aqctor (Honor thy Father), dies at 55
1990 - Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
1991 - Berenice Abbott, US photographer, dies at 93
1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1992 - Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies
1992 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1993 - Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42
1994 - Garnett Silk, vocalist, dies at 28
1994 - George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85
1994 - Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies
1994 - Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor, dies at 92
1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1995 - Darren Robinson, singer, dies at 28
1995 - Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer, dies at 48
1995 - John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85
1995 - Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95
1995 - Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88
1996 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34
1996 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62
1997 - Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97
1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
1999 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (b. 1945)
2005 - Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)
2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Former Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
2007 - Aqsa Parvez, Canadian victim of an honor crime (b. 1991)
2008 - Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
2010 - John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
2010 - J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
2010 - MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
2012 - Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi President, dies from heart surgery complications at 81

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th December


Historical Events

                                   
French Enlightenment Philosopher      31st US President Herbert Hoover      Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson
Voltaire

                                   
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio                  US President John F. Kennedy           Musician and Beatle John Lennon

                                   
Heavyweight Boxing Champion                 264th Pope John Paul II             Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 Muhammad Ali


359 - Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
384 - St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366
1282 - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at
           Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259
1419 - Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
1477 - Duchess Maria of Burgundy ends the 'Great Privilege'
1572 - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law,
           Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. Commemorations/celebrations on Fête
           de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend.
1618 - Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1665 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
1688 - King James II captured in Kent.
1710 - Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England)
1730 - Voltaire's "Brutus" premieres in Paris
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
1812 - 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
1816 - Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union
1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1866 - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
1872 - 1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1882 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance,
           Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1882 - Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
1888 - French Panama Canal Company fails
1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
1903 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
1905 - 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
1905 - British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms
1905 - A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev.
1906 - US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1907 - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
1908 - Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres
1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1909 - Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat
           Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
1913 - "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
1916 - David Lloyd George forms British war government
1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1919 - Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
1925 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
1926 - Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
1926 - Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW
1928 - Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
1928 - NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
1930 - Bank of the United States closes in New York City
1931 - Japan leaves the Gold Standard
1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ,
           South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
1932 - SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
1934 - 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
1934 - 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
1934 - Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
1934 - NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1936 - Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry
           Wallis Simpson
1937 - 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1937 - Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1938 - NY Giants win NFL championship
1939 - New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1940 - Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
1941 - Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
1941 - Germany & Italy declare war on US
1941 - Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000
1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941 - Japanese occupy Guam
1942 - Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
1944 - Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
1945 - Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
1946 - Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
1946 - Spain suspended from UN
1946 - UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1947 - Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308
           performances
1947 - Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
1948 - WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 - WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
1949 - Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
1949 - WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
1950 - Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement
1953 - KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1954 - Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
1956 - Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
1958 - 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
1958 - Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in NYC
1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent
           Hadley & Joe Deaestri
1960 - Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
1960 - Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC
1960 - Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
1961 - "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1961 - Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
1961 - JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown
           terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1965 - "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
1965 - "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 - Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
1967 - 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1967 - Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
1967 - People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967 - SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1968 - KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1968 - US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
1969 - Libya adopts constitution
1970 - John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "Sorry"
1970 - Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
1970 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1972 - Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
1972 - Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
1973 - Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
1973 - NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
1973 - Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
1973 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George
           "Doc" Medich
1978 - 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made
           off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
1979 - Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
1979 - Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1980 - Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
1980 - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as
           either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 - Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees
1981 - Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
1981 - Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
1981 - Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1981 - UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
1981 - Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
1981 - El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla
           campaign during the country's civil war.
1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1983 - 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)
1983 - Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1984 - "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
1984 - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
1985 - Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
1985 - Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
1985 - General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
1985 - NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21
           goals
1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
1986 - South Africa censors press
1987 - Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
1989 - "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
1989 - Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
1990 - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
1991 - William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
1992 - Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
1992 - WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
1993 - 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
1993 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1994 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1994 - Russian troops enter Chechnya
1995 - Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
1997 - "Sunshine Boys" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 - Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
1997 - The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens
           for signature.
1998 - Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101
2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2005 - The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, England, is rocked by explosions, causing a
           huge oil fire.
2005 - Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting
           in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla
           Sydney. These are followed up by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in
           Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
2007 - Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations
           office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
2008 - Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2009 - Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2010 - Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and
           injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
2012 - 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
2012 - HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
2012 - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most
           lucrative academic prize in the world

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This Day in History for 11th December


Famous Weddings

1946 - "Bill Haley & His Comets" rock and roll musician Bill Haley (21) weds Dorothy Crowe
2010 - "Good Charlotte" lead vocalist Joel Madden (31) weds fashion designer and actress Nicole
           Richie (30) at Beverly Hills, California
2010 - Actress Joanna Garcia (32) weds New York Yankees` Nick Swisher (31) at Breakers Hotel &
           Resort in Palm Beach, Florida

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This Day in History for 11th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
American Statesman                      Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863)          Writer and Nobel Laureate
 George Mason (1725)                                                                                          Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)


Singer/Dancer/Actress Rita Moreno (1931)


1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 - Pope Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Florence, Italy (1513-21), (d. 1521)
1566 - Manuel Cardoso, composer
1676 - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer
1709 - Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)
1712 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)
1725 - George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)
1757 - Charles Wesley, composer
1758 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer
1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
1781 - David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
1783 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
1793 - Pietro Coppola, composer
1797 - Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
1801 - Grabbe, writer
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1810 - Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
1823 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
1835 - Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM
1836 - Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner
1838 - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
1838 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer
1840 - Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
1849 - Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman)
1855 - Julian Edwards, composer
1856 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, Dover Delware, US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification)
1868 - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
1873 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
1874 - Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag)
1876 - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer
1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1882 - Fiorello La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45)
1882 - Max Born, Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1889 - Paul Kornfeld, writer
1889 - Walter Knott, American farmer (d. 1981)
1890 - Carlos Gardel, tango singer (d. 1935)
1892 - Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
1896 - Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense (WW II) [OS-Dec 2]
1898 - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet (Barfotabarn)
1899 - Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst
1904 - Joe Coral, bookmaker
1904 - Marge, American cartoonist (d 1993)
1905 - Eugen Fink, German philosopher
1905 - Gilbert Roland, [Luis Alonso], Juarez Mex, actor (Juarez, Barbarosa)
1905 - Koos van de Griend, composer
1905 - Robert Henriques, English writer (d. 1967)
1906 - Birago Diop, Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
1907 - Norbert Rosseau, composer
1908 - Elliott Cook Carter Jr, NYC, composer (Tom & Lily), (d. 2012)
1909 - Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991)
1909 - John Wyer, English sports car racing team manager (d.1989)
1910 - Robert Grieve, civil servant
1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
1911 - Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988)
1911 - Vincent Henry Kemp, poet
1912 - Carlo Ponti, Magenta, Lombardy, Italian producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago)
1913 - Jean Marais, Cherbourgh France, actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus)
1915 - Anna van Beers, [Graeve], actress (A Woman like Eve)
1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Kislovodsk, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970), (d. 2008)
1919 - Marie Windsor, [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, American actress (Double Deal)
1920 - Eddy Firestone, SF California, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
1921 - Maila Nurmi, Petsamo Finland, actress (Vampira)
1922 - Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award)
1922 - Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1922 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1922 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
1923 - Betsy Blair, actress (Marty)
1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
1927 - Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 - John Buscema, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1928 - Tomas Gutierrez Alea, filmmaker
1929 - S P "Fergie" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner)
1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z)
1930 - Leonard Friedman, violinist
1930 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, leader B-sect/guru of rich
1931 - Richard Devon, Glendale CA, actor (Battle of Blood Island)
1931 - Rita Moreno, [Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico, singer, dancer and actress
           (West Side Story)
1932 - Anne Heywood, [Violet Pretty], Engl, Miss GB (1949)/actress (Brain)
1932 - Wynn Irwin, NYC, actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time)
1933 - Earnest P van Altena, author/interpreter (Chansons van Earnest)
1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
1934 - Salim Durani, cricketer (successful Indian batsman of 60's)
1935 - Femke Boersma, Dutch actress (Verjaring, Pastorale 1943)
1935 - Ferdinand A. Porsche, Stuttgart, Germany, car designer (Porsche 911), (d. 2012)
1935 - Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
1936 - Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister (-1992)
1936 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937 - Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law & Order (1986- )
1937 - Jim Harrison, American writer
1938 - Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer
1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 - David Gates, Tulsa Ok, rock vocalist (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You)
1939 - Thomas McGuane, US, writer (Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks)
1939 - Tom Hayden, 60's activist/Mr Jane Fonda/(Rep-D-Ca)
1940 - Donna Mills, Chicago, Illinois, American actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
1941 - Max Baucus, (Sen-D-Mont)
1941 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer/conductor
1942 - Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1962)
1943 - John Kerry, Aurora, Colorado, American politician and 2004 presidential nominee of the
           Democratic Party
1944 - Booker T Jones, US organist (Booker T & MGs-Green Onions) [or Nov 12]
1944 - Brenda Lee, [Brenda Mae Tarpley], Lithonia Ga, singer (I'm Sorry)
1944 - David Ashley White, composer
1944 - Lynda Day George, San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
1944 - Teri Garr, Lakewood, Ohio, American actress (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein)
1944 - Jon Garrison, American tenor
1945 - Robert Pickett, rocker
1946 - Rick McCosker, cricketer (fine Australian opener 1975-80)
1947 - Tom Fuccello, Newark NJ, actor (Dave-Dallas)
1948 - Elizabeth Baur, Los Angeles California, actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer)
1948 - Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek composer
1950 - Christine Onassis [Andreadis], New York City, New York, American-born Greek heiress
           (Aristotle's daughter)
1951 - Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
1952 - Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
1953 - Bess Armstrong, Balt Md, actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws)
1953 - Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
1953 - Peter Isacksen, Dover NH, actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie)
1954 - Bradley Dub Bryant, Amarillo TX, PGA golfer (1995 Walt Disney)
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC)
1954 - Sylvester Clarke, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler & brick-thrower)
1954 - Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic engineer
1954 - Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
1955 - Stu Jackson, Reading Pa, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90)
1956 - Lani Brockman, playwright
1958 - Regina Marsikova, Prague, Czechoslovakian tennis player
1958 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1959 - David Iwasaki-Smith, Warragul VIC, Australasia golfer
1959 - Jean-Louis Lamarre, La Prairie Que, golfer (Quebec PGA-1982, 85)
1959 - Tina Gayle, Frankfurt GFR, Cowboy cheerleader/actress (Kathy-Chips)
1959 - Lisa Gastineau, American reality show star
1960 - Danny Mijovic, Belgrade Yugo, Canadian Tour golfer (1984 Mexican)
1960 - Mary Beth Zimmerman, Mt Vernon IL, LPGA golfer (1987 Henredon Classic)
1960 - Rachel Portman, English film composer
1961 - Mike Henneman, St Charles MO, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Marco Pierre White, English chef and restaurateur
1962 - Curtis Williams, rocker
1962 - Ejo Elburg, Dutch soccer player (Pax, NEC)
1962 - Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record)
1962 - Ben Browder, American actor
1962 - Paul Haslinger, Austrian-born composer
1962 - Nele Karajlić, Bosnian singer
1963 - Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German FR, tennis star
1963 - John Lammers, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1963 - Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force)
1963 - Mark Greatbatch, cricketer (big-hitting NZ opener)
1963 - Jon Brion, American musician/record producer
1964 - Dave Gagner, Chatham, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1964 - Justin Currie, Scottish rock vocalist/bassist (Del Amitri)
1964 - Thomas Howard, Middletown OH, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1964 - Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian
1964 - John Mark Karr, American who claimed involvement in JonBenét Ramsey case
1964 - David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)
1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer
1965 - Jay Bell, Eglin AFB FL, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1965 - Laurie Carr, Dallas Tx, playmate (Dec, 1986)
1966 - Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor
1966 - Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer/actor
1967 - Davidson Matyczuk, Thunder Bay Ont, golfer (Thunder Bay-1986, 87)
1967 - Jackie Gallagher-Smith, LPGA golfer
1967 - Katy Steding, Lake Oswego Oregon, basketball forward (Oly-gold-96)
1967 - Richard Stemp, cricketer (Yorkshire & England A left-arm spinner)
1967 - DJ Yella, American DJ and music producer (N.W.A)
1968 - Derek Bell, Tampa Florida, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1968 - Mark Dailey, Parma Ohio, 1.5k runner
1969 - Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
1969 - Sean Grande, American sportscaster
1969 - Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
1970 - Danan Hughes, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1970 - Doug Nussmeier, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1970 - Errict Rhett, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Victoria Fuller, Santa Barbara California, playmate (Jan, 1996)
1971 - Cedric Ihalauw, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 - Willie McGinest, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, Grums Swe, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1972 - Francisco Rodriguez, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1972 - Robert Robinson, CFL defensive linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Dana Macsim, Romanian television news reporter
1973 - Erin Moorad, Chicago Ill, pairs skater (& Richard Gillam)
1973 - Luke Casserly, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Ralph Intranuovo, East York, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1974 - Kevin Devine, cornerback/kick returner (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
1974 - Ben Shephard, English TV personality
1975 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1975 - Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
1976 - Shareef AbdurRahim, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1977 - Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 - Rider Strong, San Francisco, California, American actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World)
1980 - Arya, Indian actor
1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1981 - Hamish Blake, Australian comedian
1981 - Paul Medhurst, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Yoh Miyamori, Japanese musician (Orange Range)
1984 - Leighton Baines, English footballer
1987 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
1988 - Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess prodigy
1988 - Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
1993 - Gina Miele, American singer and actress

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This Day in History for 11th December


Famous Deaths

Musician Ravi Shankar (2012)


711 - Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
1282 - Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1524 - Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
1573 - Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged
1582 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75
1595 - Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69
1610 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32
1610 - Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered
1686 - Louis II Condé, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65
1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1718 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead invading Norway at Fortress of
           Fredriksten
1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
1747 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)
1748 - Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55
1756 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies
1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1817 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34
1831 - John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55
1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1847 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25
1857 - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73
1872 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1891 - Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
1899 - Andrew Wauchope, British Major-General, dies in Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war,
           South Africa. Another British Major, The Marquess of Winchester also killed.
1902 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
1903 - Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1911 - Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42
1930 - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
1933 - Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1955 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51
1955 - Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 - Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76
1964 - Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
1967 - Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC
1967 - Richard Stohr, composer, dies at 93
1967 - Victor De Sabata, composer, dies at 75
1968 - Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59
1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1972 - John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies
1972 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66
1974 - Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
1975 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1978 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1979 - Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
1979 - James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
1983 - Szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82
1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
1984 - George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90
1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
1986 - Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30
1987 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1990 - Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at 92
1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
1991 - Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71
1991 - Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
1991 - Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70
1992 - Michael Robbins, actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses), dies at 62
1992 - Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90
1993 - Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45
1993 - Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian/French actress (Le roi), dies at 99
1994 - Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102
1994 - Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies
1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1995 - Arthur Mullard, comedian, dies at 82
1995 - John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75
1995 - Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69
1996 - Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93
1996 - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95
1996 - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82
1996 - William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59
1997 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73
1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b.
           1890)
2007 - Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2007 - Grace Paley, American writer (b. 1922)
2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian Actress (b. 1981)
2008 - Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
2008 - Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
2010 - Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
2012 - Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, dies at 92

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This Day in History for 12th December


Historical Events

                                   
Inventor and Nobel Laureate            Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist               38th US President Gerald Ford
Guglielmo Marconi                                    Martin Luther King Jr.

                                   
NHL all-time top scorer                         Heavyweight Boxing Champion               Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby
Wayne Gretzky                                                  Mike Tyson


627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
1098 - 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by
           Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the
           battle for possession of Bosnia.
1474 - Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon
1479 - Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
1524 - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1527 - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1653 - English Barebones Parliament ends
1677 - Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23]
1769 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
1791 - Bank of US opens
1792 - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz
           Joseph Haydn
1800 - Washington DC established as capital of US
1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.
1822 - Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1858 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent)
1862 - Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1870 - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
1884 - 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
1897 - Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
1897 - Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded.
1898 - 1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
1899 - 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1899 - George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing", composed
1901 - Gugliemo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to
           Newfoundland
1903 - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
1904 - CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna" premieres in NYC
1906 - Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1912 - R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly" premieres in NYC
1913 - Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down
           24.39%.
1915 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1915 - Aristide Briand forms French war government
1915 - Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1917 - French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
1917 - Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
1920 - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse" premieres in Paris
1925 - Arthur Heinman coins term "motel"; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
1925 - Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rezā Shāh Pahlavi takes over
1926 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert
1928 - Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe" premieres in NYC
1930 - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1930 - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
1930 - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1931 - Japanese government of Imukai forms
1932 - S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC
1932 - USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937 - NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1937 - Washington Redskins win NFL championship
1937 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized
           & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1939 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1940 - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
1941 - European reservists on Java mobilize
1941 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941 - Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
1942 - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
1945 - Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death
1946 - Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
1946 - Tide detergent introduced
1946 - UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
1947 - United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in
           Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
1949 - AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
1950 - 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
1950 - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 - Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
1953 - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1955 - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell
1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.
1957 - Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
1957 - US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
1958 - Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
1958 - Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
1959 - UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1961 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
1961 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
1963 - Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1964 - Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1964 - Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
1965 - Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)
1965 - Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
1966 - US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
1967 - US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1968 - Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1969 - Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
1969 - Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
1969 - Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale
           dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
1970 - Polish government proclaims price rise
1970 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1970 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
1973 - San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
1975 - Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford
1976 - QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
1979 - Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
1979 - Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
1979 - President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
1980 - US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1981 - "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances
1981 - Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
1981 - Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf
1982 - $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
1982 - 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63)
1982 - Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1983 - A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
1985 - 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
1985 - DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-207
1986 - David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide
1986 - James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden
1986 - Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986 - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 - Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
1987 - Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
1987 - Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
1988 - 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
1988 - NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
1988 - PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
1988 - Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1990 - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
1990 - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
1991 - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
1991 - NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
1991 - Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
1991 - Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
1992 - 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB)
1992 - 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
1992 - Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
1992 - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1992 - NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
1993 - "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
1993 - "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
1993 - WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC
1995 - CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
1995 - Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress
1995 - NBA referees return to work after striking
1995 - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36
           (need 2/3 vote)
1996 - Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
1996 - Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou
1997 - Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris
1997 - Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
1997 - Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
1997 - Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
1997 - SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages
1997 - TWA 800 hearings end
1997 - Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months
           for trying to extort $40 million from him
2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
2006 - Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in
           Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.

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This Day in History for 12th December


Famous Weddings

1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane
           Mitcham
1991 - Actor Richard Gere (42) weds super model Cindy Crawford (25) in Las Vegas
1998 - TV personality Melissa Rivers (30) weds horse breeder John Endicott at The Plaza Hotel in New
           York City
2001 - Actress Ashley Judd (33) weds race car driver Dario Franchetti (28) at Skibo Castle in
           Scotland
2005 - Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger (36) weds country-music heartthrob singer Kenny
           Chesney (37) for the reason of fraud after 4 months of marriage
2008 - Fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger (57) weds former model Dee Ocleppo in Greenwich, Connecticut
2012 - Basketball player Amare Stoudemire (30) weds Alexis Welch in Manhattan

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This Day in History for 12th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Ist US Chief Justice                       Painter/Print Maker Edvard Munch (1863)      Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra (1915)
John Jay (1745) 


1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1574 - Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish King Frederik II and Queen Consort of James I of
           England (d. 1619)
1579 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer
1610 - Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
1630 - Olof Rudbeck, composer
1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
1660 - Peter Rabus, poet/translator (Liberated Britanje)
1673 - Ahmed III, 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30)
1685 - Lodovico Giustini, composer
1712 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen
1715 - Gennaro Manna, composer
1724 - Samuel Hood, Butleigh, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral, (d. 1816)
1745 - John Jay, New York, NY, American statesman, 1st US Chief Justice
1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
1791 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
1792 - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter
1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
1805 - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
1806 - Stand Watie, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1818 - Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
1830 - Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1832 - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (liberal)
1833 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
1835 - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer
1838 - Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars)
1845 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
1848 - William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
1859 - Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
1859 - Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Løten, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream), (d. 1944)
1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
1874 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa)
1875 - Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
1875 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-fieldmarshal (Normandy)
1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
1879 - Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland
1879 - Laura Hope Crews, US, actress (Camille, Gone with the Wind)
1879 - Percy Fletcher, composer
1882 - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theory)
1886 - Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (She Done Him Wrong)
1887 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer
1889 - Vaclav Stepan, composer
1892 - Herman Potočnik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
1893 - Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
1896 - Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson
1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
1902 - Howard Koch, screenwriter
1902 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
1903 - Enid Balint-Edmonds, psychoanalyst
1904 - Jim Christy, righty cricket batter (Transvaal, Queensland & South Africa)
1905 - Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984)
1906 - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, NYC)
1907 - F van Heek, Dutch sociologist
1907 - Fred Elizalde, composer
1907 - Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live-At Dawn We Die)
1909 - Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer
1909 - Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Anna Russell, composer
1912 - Yusef Bedri, educationist
1913 - Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park)
1913 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
1913 - Stanley Bate, composer
1914 - Denis Begbie, cricketer (South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, Hoboken New Jersey, American singer/actor (old blue eyes), (d. 1998)
1917 - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist
1918 - Joe Williams [Joseph Goreed], Cordele, Georgia, American jazz singer (Everyday I have the
           Blues)
1918 - Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Curacao writer (Nanzi)
1919 - Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)
1919 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
1920 - Fred Kida, American comics artist
1922 - Arthur R Hawkins, US pilot/capt (WW II, downed 14 jap planes)
1923 - Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right)
1923 - Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
1924 - Edward I Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89)/judge (People's Court), (d. 2013)
1924 - Francis Miroglio, composer
1924 - Nevit Kodali, composer
1924 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian auto racer
1925 - Cora Lee Johnson, social activist for rural poor
1925 - D G "Dattu" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowling all-rounder for India)
1925 - Ghulam Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959)
1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
1925 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000)
1927 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
1928 - Helen Frankenthaler, NY, abstract expressionist artist (Arden)
1928 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist
1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer (Jamila)
1929 - Doug Ford, cricket wicket-keeper (successful NSW of 50's)
1929 - John Osborne, England, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1930 - Friedrich Voss, composer
1930 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
1931 - Lionel Blair, Montreal, choreographer (Spotlight)
1932 - Robert Pettit, NBA star (St Louis Bombers/1959 MVP)
1934 - Habib Hassan Touma, composer
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, Colima Mexico, President of Mexico (1982-1988), (d. 2012)
1936 - Bengt Emil Johnson, composer
1936 - Iolanda Balas, Romania, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Buford Pusser, American sheriff (d. 1974)
1938 - Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
1938 - Joel Chadabe, composer
1940 - Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
1940 - Shirley Englehorn, LPGA golfer
1940 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1941 - Liesbeth List, Dutch actress/vocalist (Theodorakis)
1941 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer
1941 - Terry Kirkman, Salina Ks, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Association)
1941 - Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1942 - Mike Heron, rock musician
1942 - Mike Pinder, Birmingham England, rocker (Moody Blues)
1942 - Peter Sarstedt, British musician (Where do you go to my lovely?)
1943 - Dave Munden, rock drummer (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 - Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach Fl, guitarist (Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man)
1943 - Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
1943 - Mike Smith, rock musician
1944 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
1944 - Jean Doré, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal
1945 - Alan Ward, rock musician
1945 - Karl Edward Wagner, US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds)
1945 - Leslie Holbert, LPGA golfer
1945 - Susi Hush, TV producer
1945 - Tony Williams, jazz musician
1946 - Clive Bunker, rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1946 - George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
1946 - Marlous Fluitsma, actress (De Prooi, Apart, Alle Dagen Feest)
1947 - Ralph Scala, rock musician
1948 - Ray Jackson, rock musician
1948 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor
1949 - Ricardo Luis Carreras, NYC, bantamweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1949 - Bill Nighy, English actor
1950 - Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
1950 - Rajnikanth, Indian actor
1951 - Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties)
1951 - Steven Alan Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, 61-C, 31, 82)
1952 - Ajit De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan lefty spinner in four Tests 1982)
1952 - Cathy Rigby McCoy, Los Alamitos California, gymnist (Olympic-4th-1968)
1952 - Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest)
1952 - Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
1953 - Bruce Kulick, rock guitarist/singer (KISS)
1954 - Liz Claman, American television anchor
1955 - Lenore Rittenhouse, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank)
1955 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman
1955 - Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Ana Alicia Ortiz, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest)
1956 - Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977)
1956 - Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
1957 - Cy Curnin, Londo, England, rock vocalist (Fixx-Sign of Fire)
1957 - Sheila E.[scovedo], Oakland, California, American singer, drummer and percussionist (Krush
           Grove, Holly Rock)
1957 - Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright
1958 - Sheree J Wilson, Rochester MN, actress (Our Family Honor, Dallas)
1959 - Belouis Some, rock musician (Neville Keighley-Some People)
1959 - Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener)
1959 - Scott D Vangen, Granite Falls MN, astronaut
1960 - Amal Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan wicket-keeper in 9 Tests 1983-88)
1960 - Jaap van Sweden, Dutch violinist/concert master
1961 - Daniel O'Donnell, Donegal, Ireland, singer/Television presented
1961 - Dale Sanderson, CFL guard (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1962 - Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
1962 - Nadeem Ghauri, cricketer (bowled in Test for Pak v Australia 1990)
1962 - Ray Brown, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, SF 49ers)
1962 - Tracy Austin, Rolling Hills California, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
1963 - Teresa Blake, Tuscaloosa Ala, actress (Gloria Marsh-All My Children)
1963 - Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 - Haywood Jeffires, NFL wide receiver (Houston Oilers)
1964 - Rockin' Jeff, rock musician (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
1964 - Sabu, American professional wrestler
1964 - Haywood Jeffries, American football player
1965 - Laurie Grover-Tavares, Newark NJ, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1966 - Cheryl Dickey, Houston Texas, 100m hurdler
1966 - Jim Sandlak, Kitchener, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 - Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
1966 - Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor
1967 - David Szott, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
1967 - John Randle, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Masood Anwar, cricketer (one Test Pakistan v West Indies 1990)
1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
1967 - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
1968 - Chris Walsh, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Kurt Schulz, safety (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Laurie Williams, cricketer (West Indian ODI all-rounder v NZ 1996)
1968 - Ray Ethridge, wide reciever (Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy)
1968 - Kate Humble, English television presenter
1968 - Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
1969 - Carrie Westcott, Mission Hills KS, playmate (Sep, 1993)
1969 - Courtney Hawkins, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 - Doug Terry, NFL/WLAF safety (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1969 - Frank Dikstaal, soccer player (MVV)
1969 - Jane Robinson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kris Wirtz, Red Deer Alberta, ice pairs (1994 Skate Canada)
1969 - Sebastian Savage, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Ivano Newbill, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Jennifer Connelly, Bkln Heights NY, actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer)
1970 - Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains, Teen Wolf II)
1970 - Madchen Amick, Reno NV, actress (Shelly Johnson-Twin Peaks)
1970 - Orlando Brown, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 - Becky Sunshine, [Rebekah Jayne Hunter], Ark, Miss Nude California (1993)
1971 - John Sacca, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tito Wooten, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1971 - Toni Hodgkinson, Auckland NZ, 800m (Olympics-96)
1972 - Greg Randolph, Denver Colorado, road cyclist (Olympics-74th-96)
1972 - Jamal Willis, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1972 - John Walsh, NFL quarterback (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Kara Williams, Miss Texas USA (1996)
1972 - Missy Francis, Los Angeles California, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1972 - Oliver Quass, WLAF kicker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Nicky Eaden, English footballer
1972 - Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner
1972 - Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1972 - Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim (d. 1993)
1972 - Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
1973 - Michael DiVenuto, cricketer (exciting Tasmanian batsman)
1973 - Reinard Wilson, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Stanley Pritchett, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - William Hutton, American engineer
1973 - Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
1974 - Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer
1975 - Mayim Winkelman Bialik, SD, actress (Blossom, Beaches)
1975 - Craig Moore, Australian footballer
1976 - Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness)
1976 - Lloyd Owusu, English/Ghanaian football player
1977 - Bridget Hall, Dallas Texas, model (Ford)
1977 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy models
1977 - Orlando Hudson, American baseball player
1978 - Derrick Delmore, Camp Springs Md, fig skater (1996 Grand Prix champ)
1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1978 - Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
1978 - Louis (artist), Korean singer ("Jung Hwa Ban Jum")
1978 - Jennifer Rovero Playboy Playmate
1979 - Garrett Atkins, American baseball player
1979 - Nate Clements, American football player
1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
1981 - Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
1981 - Ronnie Brown, American football player
1981 - Shane Costa, American baseball player
1981 - Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier
1981 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
1981 - Stephen Warnock, English footballer
1982 - Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer
1984 - Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
1986 - Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
1986 - Thomas Wansey, English actor
1990 - Victor Moses, an English footballer of Nigerian descent
1991 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor

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This Day in History for 12th December


Famous Deaths

Ottoman Sultan Selim II (1574)


884 - Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
1112 - Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
1204 - Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 - Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1600 - John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1677 - Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle
1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1772 - Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1777 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1777 - Reverend Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn England for rape
1788 - Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1812 - John Malchair, composer, dies at 82
1817 - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1836 - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67
1843 - Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71
1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1872 - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
1877 - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
1880 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
1889 - Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1912 - Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1914 - Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport, Louisiana
1920 - Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1920 - Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77
1927 - Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67
1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
1932 - Egon Richter, writer, dies
1933 - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer, dies at 78
1934 - Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
1937 - Alfred Abel, actor (Dr Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57
1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56
1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
1951 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
1956 - Lorenzo Perosi, composer, dies at 83
1957 - Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35
1959 - Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79
1961 - Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91
1962 - Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
1964 - H I "Sailor" Young, cricketer (left-arm bowler Eng v Aust 1899), dies
1965 - Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67
1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65
1968 - Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies
1970 - Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82
1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
1971 - David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
1971 - Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), commits suicide at 43
1971 - Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated
1971 - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47
1976 - Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49
1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1977 - Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill (nee Hozier), widow of Sir Winston, dies at 92
1978 - Clifton Chenier, US accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53
1978 - Fay Compton, actress (Othello), dies at 74
1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
1985 - Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist/road mgr (Rolling Stones), dies at 47
1987 - Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83
1987 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
1988 - John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
1988 - Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (b. 1917)
1991 - Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
1991 - Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
1991 - Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
1992 - Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87
1992 - Jasu Patel, cricketer (29 wkts for India, best 9-69 v Aust), dies
1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
1993 - Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/NVSH-founder, dies at 90
1993 - Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58
1993 - Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61
1994 - Antoine Pinay, French PM (1952)/foreign minister, dies at 102
1994 - Donna J. Stone, poet, dies of heart failure at 61
1994 - Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83
1994 - John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer, dies at 68
1994 - Stuart Allen Roosa, astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at 46
1995 - Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
1995 - David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63
1995 - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97
1995 - James Altgens, JFK assassination photographer, dies at 76
1995 - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies
1995 - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95
1995 - Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50
1996 - Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner, dies at 70
1996 - Jack Perry, businessman, dies at 81
1996 - Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91
1996 - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77
1996 - Vance Oakley Packard, writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82
1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1998 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
1998 - Mo Udall, American politician (b. 1922)
1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
1999 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
2003 - Heydər Əliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
2003 - Keiko, orca (killer whale), star of Free Willy (b. 1976)
2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology
           (b. 1930)
2007 - Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (b. 1931)
2008 - Avery Dulles, Roman Catholic Cardinal, heologian (b. 1918)
2008 - Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916)
2008 - Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot former president (b. 1934)
2010 - Peter Pagel, German footballer (b. 1956)
2010 - Tom Walkinshaw, former racing driver and Formula 1 team owner (b. 1946)

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This Day in History for 13th December


Historical Events

                                   
Novelist Charles Dickens                          Actor James Dean                            36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

 
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to
           his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III
1570 - Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
1572 - Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet (confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under admiral Lumey
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1621 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against
           the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United     
           States National Guard.
1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1668 - Jean Racine's "Britannicus" premieres in Paris
1734 - England & Russia sign trade agreement
1742 - Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1774 - 1st incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire
1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1823 - Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1861 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1864 - Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1879 - 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1889 - Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1895 - 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony
1900 - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
1901 - Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1906 - German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
1907 - George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
1907 - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1916 - Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
1916 - French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
1918 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1919 - Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 - F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1920 - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
1920 - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1930 - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
1930 - Theodore Steeg forms French government
1934 - Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
1936 - Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
1936 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1939 - Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee
1941 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941 - Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
1942 - Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 - Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
1943 - 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 - Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in NYC
1946 - Leon Blum elected French premier
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
1947 - Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1949 - AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1953 - KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson
           retires
1959 - Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
1960 - Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
1960 - Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1961 - Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1961 - Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 - Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1962 - Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1963 - Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
1964 - Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
1964 - In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio
           Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
1965 - Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - United Soccer Association & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1967 - Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1967 - San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in
           eight hours.
1968 - Playland at Beach reopens
1968 - Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1969 - Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1970 - Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
1970 - Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady" premieres in NYC
1971 - John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1973 - MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1973 - World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1974 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
1974 - Malta becomes a republic
1975 - 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
1975 - Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
1975 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1975 - Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
1976 - Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
1979 - "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
1979 - Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1980 - "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 - 70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1)
1981 - Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1982 - 71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62)
1982 - Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1983 - 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1983 - Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
1983 - KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
1983 - Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
1984 - Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
1985 - David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
1985 - Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India)
1987 - Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
1987 - Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
1988 - Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1989 - Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1989 - The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in
           Sweden.
1990 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 - Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1990 - Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1991 - Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
1991 - NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
1992 - "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 - Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 - FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
1993 - Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
1993 - Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
1994 - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
1995 - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
1995 - US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
1996 - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
1996 - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1997 - 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
2000 - The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas later going on a crime
           spree and killing police officer Aubrey Hawkins
2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of
           becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
2001 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the
           terrorists.
2002 - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech
           Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will
           become members from May 1, 2004.
2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see
           Operation Red Dawn).
2004 - Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being
           sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is
           lifted the same day on appeal.
2006 - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
2007 - The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players
           that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players
           to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.
2012 - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
2012 - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute

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This Day in History for 13th December


Famous Weddings

862 - Boudouin Iron Arm & Count of Flanders, elopes with Princess Judith, daughter King Charles of
         West Francia
1951 - Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
2003 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti (68) weds Nicoletta Mantovani at Modena Italy's Teatro
          Comunale