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Born on this Day
1493: Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician,
alchemist
1746: French physicist Jacques Charles
1815: Women's suffrage activist Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
1833: Alexander Borodin was born, the love
child of a Russian prince. Borodin produced Symphony No. 1 which was performed three years
after that. This is an underrated work whose first movement turns a slow and somber
opening idea into an upbeat and happy main theme.
1840: The French sculptor Auguste Rodin (The
Thinker.)
1866: Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China
1903: Actor (Lewis Offield) Jack Oakie
(Lover Come Back, The Rat Race, Song of the Islands, Tin Pan Alley, The Texas Rangers)
1908: Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun
1920: Actor Richard Quine (Babes on
Broadway, For Me and My Gal, director: The World of Suzy Wong, Bell Book and Candle, Hour
to Murder Your Wife, Sex and the Single Girl)
1920: Singer Jo Stafford (Shrimp Boats [Are A-Comin', There's
Dancin' Tonight], Jambalaya, Long Ago and Far Away, No Other Love,
Candy, You Belong to Me, Make Love to Me)
1922: Actress (Janet Cole) Kim Hunter (A
Streetcar Named Desire, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of
Night, Backstairs at the White House)
1922: Actor (Michael Harrison) Sunset Carson
(Stage Door Canteen, Rio Grande Raiders, Alias Billy the Kid)
1929: Princess Grace of Monaco, the former
American movie star Grace Kelly (The Country Girl, To Catch a Thief, High Society, High
Noon, Rear Window, Dial "M" for Murder)
1930: Actress Ann Flood (The Edge of Night)
1939: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ruby Nash
Curtis (Ruby and the Romantics)
1943: Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn
1943: Singer Brian Hyland (Sealed with a
Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Let Me Belong to You)
1943: Rhythm-and-blues singer Jimmy Hayes
(Persuasions)
1944: Rock musician Booker T. Jones (Booker
T. & the MGs)
1944: Pro Football Hall of Famer Ken Houston
1945: Singer-songwriter Neil Young (Only
Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia, group: Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young)
1948: Pro Football Hall of Famer Cliff
Harris
1950: Country singer Barbara Fairchild (The
Teddy Bear Song, Kid Stuff)
1961: Olympic gold medal gymnast Nadia
Comaneci
1964: Rock musician David Ellefson (Megadeth)
1966: Actor David Schwimmer
1970: Figure skater Tonya Harding
1974: Actress Angela Watson ("Step By
Step")
1976: Singer Tevin Campbell
0607: Death of Pope Boniface III
1956: Coronation of Lothair as King of
France
1035: King
Canute dies.
1094: Death of Duncan II, King of Scotland
1308: The Papal Commission investigating
the Templars is seated
1505: Death of Sir John Hawkins
1660: John Bunyan was arrested for
unlicensed preaching. He was imprisoned for 12 years
Today's History Focus
1759: The German poet and dramatist
Freidrich von Schiller
1767: Beethoven's mom and dad married.
Ludwig would arrive three years and four weeks later.
1859: At the Cirque Napoléon in Paris,
Jules Léotard, who was billed as "the daring young man on the
flying trapeze," made his début.
1867: Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1892: The first professional football game
was played in Pittsburgh, between the Allegheny Athletic Association and
the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1899: American evangelist Dwight Lyman
Moody, 62, began his last evangelistic campaign in Kansas City,
Missouri. Becoming ill during the last service, Moody was unable to
complete his message, and died a short time later, on Dec 22.
1915: Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard
University, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in
chemistry.
1920: Bbaseball got its first
"czar" as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected
commissioner of the American and National Leagues.
1921: Representatives of nine nations
gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of
Armaments.
1925: Louis
Armstrong recorded "My Heart" (one of his first
recordings), starting a career that brought him worldwide fame.
1927: Josef Stalin became the undisputed
ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the
Communist Party.
1927: New York’s Holland Tunnel
officially opens.
1927: Canada is admitted to the League of
Nations.
1928: The ocean liner Vestris sinks off
the Virginia Cape with 328 aboard, killing 111.
1933: The first known photo of Loch Ness
monster is taken.
1936: American playwright Eugene O'Neill
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1940: Walt Disney released
"Fantasia". One critic called the film, "as terrific as
anything that has ever happened on the screen."
1941: The German army's drive to take
Moscow was halted on the city's outskirts in World War II.
1942: The World War Two naval Battle of
Guadalcanal began. (The Americans ended up winning a major victory over
the Japanese.)
1946: The first drive-up banking facility
opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois. There were 10
teller windows with slide-out drawers.
1948: Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo
and several other World War Two Japanese leaders were sentenced to death
by a war crimes tribunal.
1954: Ellis
Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since
opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
1967: Pearl Bailey took over the lead in
the Broadway musical, "Hello Dolly" on this day. 'Pearlie Mae'
was a smash hit in the role.
1968: U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas
law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
1970: After a successful London run,
Anthony Quayle starred in the Broadway opening of "Sleuth"
this day.
1971: President Richard Nixon announces
the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.
While the military is responsible for fighting a war, its civilian
superiors not only wage war but also determine how it will be fought.
1980: The US space probe "Voyager
One" came within 77,000 miles of Saturn.
1982: Yuri V. Andropov was elected to
succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party's Central Committee.
1983: Lionel Richie began the first of
four consecutive weeks on top of the music charts as "All Night
Long (All Night)" became the most popular song in the U.S..
1983: President Ronald Reagan, having
concluded a visit to Japan, arrived in South Korea, where he addressed
the nation's parliament, telling its members, "America is your
friend and we are with you."
1984: Spacewalker Joseph Allen became the
first astronaut to rescue a satellite as the "Discovery" space
shuttle made a $35 million rescue. When capturing the wayward satellite,
Allen might have told mission control, "Hey, I can see HBO in here!
The Movie Channel, too! And, look, there's Showtime! Way cool!" The
Palapa B-2 satellite was secured in Discovery's cargo bay for return to
Earth.
1985: Arthur James Walker, a retired Navy
lieutenant commander, was sentenced in Norfolk, Virginia, to life in
prison for his role in a spy ring run by his brother, John A. Walker Jr.
1985: Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's
first Cuban-American mayor.
1986: Iran's U.N. ambassador, Said
Rajaie-Khorassani, denied his government had arranged for the release of
hostages in Lebanon in exchange for U.S.-made arms.
1987: Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of
the Moscow’s Communist party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.
1987: The American Medical Association
issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse
to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV
positive.
1988: The Palestine National Council, the
legislative body of the PLO, opened a four-day meeting in Algiers,
during which delegates proclaimed an independent Palestinian state.
1989: Abortion rights advocates rallied in
cities across the country, including Washington, D.C.
1990: Actress Eve Arden died in Beverly
Hills, California, at age 82.
1990: Japanese Emperor Akihito formally
assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1991: Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev
stated he didn't believe U.S. warnings that a revolt was brewing before
hard-liners staged their coup, but that he had discounted their
information.
1991: Robert Gates was sworn in as CIA
director.
1992: In his first formal post-election
news conference, President-elect Clinton presented a detailed blueprint
for action once he took office, and promised his administration would
have the strictest ethical guidelines in history.
1993: Singer Michael Jackson canceled a
world tour, citing a dependence on painkillers.
1993: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago
was accused by a former pre-seminary student of sexual abuse supposedly
committed more than a decade earlier (the accuser, Steven J. Cook, later
withdrew his charge).
1993: Former Nixon White House chief of
staff H.R. Haldeman died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 67.
1994: President Clinton arrived in the
Philippines to open a campaign for free trade in Asia and to commemorate
World War II Allied victories in the Pacific.
1994: Olympic track-and-field gold
medalist Wilma Rudolph died in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 54.
1995: Israel's ruling Labor Party
unanimously approved Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing slain
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
1995: The space shuttle Atlantis blasted
off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1996: A Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided
shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76
cargo plane, killing 349 people.
1996: Pontiac, Michigan, Jonathan
Schmitz, a guest on "The Jenny Jones Show," was convicted
of second-degree murder for shooting Scott Amedure, a gay man who'd
revealed a crush on Schmitz during a taping of the program. (Schmitz was
later sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison.)
1997: Ramzi Yousef was convicted in New
York of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
1997: Four US businessmen and a Pakistani
were killed by gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan, apparently in retaliation
for the murder conviction of Mir Aimal Kasi in the shooting deaths of
two CIA employees.
1997: Jury selection began in Sacramento,
California, in the trial of accused Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
1998: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley filed a $433 million lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring that it had created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals.
1999: President Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
1999: An earthquake struck western Turkey, killing at least 834 people.
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