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Born on this Day
1556: Jacques Davy Duperron French cardinal, remembered especially for
his part in the conversion of King Henry IV of France to Roman Catholicism.
1562: Lopez da Vega
1609: Henrietta Marie of France, Queen to Charles I, King of England
1638: Catherine of Branganza, wife of Charles II, King of England
1748: The Christian hymnodist Isaac Watts. He wrote innumerable hymns of
the church, including "When I survey the wondrous cross" and "O God, our
help in ages past."
1763: Artist Jean-Germain Drouais He was a historical painter who was
one of the leading early Neoclassicists in France.
1835: Industrialist Andrew Carnegie Today's History Focus
1844: Pioneer German automobile designer Karl Benz
1846: Social reformer Carry Nation
1849: German mathematician Felix Klein
1880: Missionary John Flynn. He was moderator of the Presbyterian Church
in Australia from1939 through 1942. He was a missionary to the country's wild central and
northern inland, and in 1928 founded what later became the Royal Flying Doctor Service of
Australia.
1881: Pope John the 23rd was born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy.
1896: Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City. Thomson was one of the
most influential American music critics of the 20th century, partly because he was one of
the American composers who had studied with Nadia Boulanger.
19??: Paul Robinette (The Walter Eugenes)
1913: Science writer Lewis Thomas
1914: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Joe DiMaggio
1920: Actor Ricardo Montalban
1926: American writer of science fiction and fantasy Poul Anderson
1928: Jazz singer Etta Jones
1931: Jazz musician Nat Adderley
1933: Actress Kathryn Crosby
1940: Singer Percy Sledge
1942: Actor Tracey Walter
1944: Author, actor and game show host Ben Stein
1944: Singer Bob Lind
1947: Actor John Larroquette
1947: Movie director Jonathan Kaplan ("The Accused")
1960: John F. Kennedy Junior
1960: Singer Amy
Grant
1963: Football player Bernie Kosar
1966: Singer Stacy Lattisaw
1971: Actress Christina Applegate
1177: Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem fell to
the Sultan of Egypt
1185: Death of Pope Lucius III
1185: Election of Pope Urban III
1215: John I "Lackland," King of
England, sends to Hubert de Burgh for "40 bacon pigs of the fattest and
least good for eating" to fuel the fire in the mine under the tower of
Rochester Castle
1277: Election of Pope Nicholas III
1314: Coronation of Louis IV as King of
Germany
1491: Treaty signed between Spain and the
Moors in Granada
1715: This was a big day for one Thomas
Masters who became the first American to be granted an English patent. Tom
was the first to master the fine art of cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1783: More than 6,000 British troops evacuated
New York City after signing the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War.
1758: In the French and Indian War, the
British captured Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh.
1817: The first sword swallower to perform in
America gave a show in New York City. Senaa Samma, from Madras, India, was
obliged to use an American sword "as a substitute for the one lately
stolen from him by some villain."
1863: Union ends the siege of Chattanooga,
Tenn., with the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
1867: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
1876: Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys
Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife's village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red
Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.
1882: A Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Iolanthe,"
was premiered in New York and in England simultaneously. It was the only way
to protect the copyright in both hemispheres.
1884: John B. Meyenberg of St Louis patented
evaporated milk.
1912: The American College of Surgeons was
founded in Springfield, Illinois.
1919: Radio station WTAW in College Station,
Texas, broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game,
between Texas and Texas A&M.
1921: Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. 1923:
Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America for the first time.
1930: Earthquake kills 187 in Shizouka, Japan.
1936: The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement
between Japan and Germany to collaborate in opposition to the spread of
communism, was signed.
1944: CBS Radio presented "The FBI in
Peace and War" for the first time. It became one of the longest-running
crime shows on radio - lasting 14 years.
1944: Baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis died at age 78.
1946: Supreme Court grants Oregon Indians land
payment right from the U.S. government
1947: Movie studio executives meeting in New
York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood Ten" who were cited for
contempt of Congress the day before.
1949: "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed
Reindeer" appeared on the music charts this day and became THE musical
hit of the Christmas season. Although Gene Autry's rendition is the most
popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly
20,000,000 copies sold.
1952: Agatha Christie's "The
Mousetrap," listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's
longest running play, opened in London.
1955: The Interstate Commerce Commission bans
segregation in interstate travel.
1957: President Eisenhower suffered a slight
stroke.
1963: The body of President Kennedy was laid
to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1967: INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS by Strawberry
Alarm Clock peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
1973: Maximum speed limits were cut to 55 MPH
this day, by U.S. Presidential order. It was an energy conservation measure
and was also intended to save an estimated 9,000 lives each year.
1973: Greek President George Papadopoulos was
ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1974: Former UN Secretary-General U Thant died
in New York at age 65.
1974: The Irish Republican Army was outlawed
in Britain following the deaths of 21 people in a pub bombing in Birmingham.
1984: William J. Schroeder of Jasper, Indiana,
became the second man to receive a Jarvik-7 artificial heart during a 6 hour
operation at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky. He lived 620
days on the device.
1986: The Iran-Contra affair erupted as
President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from
secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
1987: Harold Washington, the first black mayor
of Chicago, died at age 65 after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall
office
1988: An earthquake centered in eastern Canada
and measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale was felt widely across Canada and in
the northeastern United States.
1989: More than half a million demonstrators
gathered in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they scoffed at a Communist Party
shakeup and cheered Alexander Dubcek, the reformer ousted in 1968.
1990: Poland held its first popular
presidential election, resulting in a plurality of votes for Solidarity
founder Lech Walesa, who won a runoff the next month.
1991: President Bush threatened to veto
anti-crime legislation heading for a final vote in Congress, accusing
Democrats of producing a bill that would actually weaken law enforcement.
1991: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
suffered a setback in his bid to hold the Soviet Union together when leaders
of seven republics refused to endorse a treaty creating a new political
union.
1992: The Czech parliament voted to split the
country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
1992: The Commerce Department reported that
the gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced
within US borders, had advanced at a brisk three-point-nine percent
seasonally adjusted annual rate during the third quarter of 1992.
1993: Violence broke out in the Gaza Strip, a
day after Israeli undercover soldiers killed Imad Akel, the head of the
military wing of Hamas.
1993: Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki
escaped an attempt on his life when Islamic militants detonated a car bomb
near his motorcade.
1993: Author Anthony Burgess died in London at
age 76.
1994: NATO warplanes buzzed the besieged
"safe haven" of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, but did not carry out
airstrikes against rebel Serbs.
1994: Sony Corporation co-founder Akio Morita
retired as chairman of the electronics giant for health reasons.
1995: In his weekly radio address, President
Clinton appealed to America's values and interests as he pleaded for support
for the Bosnia peace agreement.
1995: Serbs in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo
took to the streets by the thousands to protest the peace plan, vowing to
fight to the death.
1995: Ireland voted to legalize divorce in the
closest result in the nation's polling history, a margin of less than 1
percent.
1996: President Clinton won a victory on the
trade front by getting Pacific Rim leaders meeting in the Philippines to
accept the year 2000 as a deadline for cutting tariffs on information
technology.
1996: Testifying for a second day at a civil
trial, O.J. Simpson again denied killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald
Goldman, but couldn't explain how blood believed to be the victims' got into
his Bronco, or how he suffered hand cuts.
1997: President Clinton and Pacific Rim
leaders meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, approved a rescue strategy
for Asian economies shaken by plunging currencies, bank failures and
bankruptcies.
1997: Teamsters President Ron Carey announced
he was taking an unpaid leave of absence to fight an election overseer's
decision barring him from a rerun.
1998: Britain's highest court ruled that
former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was
being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for crimes
committed during his rule.
1998: Comedian Flip Wilson died in Malibu,
California, at age 64.
1998: Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrived in
Tokyo for the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Japan since World
War Two.
1999: Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez was rescued
by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. Elian was one of
three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that had sunk two days
earlier in the Atlantic Ocean; his rescue set off an international custody
battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba.
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