December 6
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December 6
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December is:
Church Library Month
Born on this Day
1421: England's King Henry VI
1478: Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat, writer
1778: French chemist Joseph Gay-Lussac
1822: John Eberhard, built 1st large scale pencil factory in US.
1870: William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
1886: Poet Joyce (Alfred) Kilmer (Trees)
1887: Actress Lynn Fontanne (The Pirate with Alfred Lunt)
1896: Lyricist (Israel Gershvin) Ira Gershwin (Lady Be Good, The Man I
Love, The Man That Got Away)
1903: Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri
1906: Actress Agnes Moorehead (Bewitched)
1913: Swimmer Eleanor Holm
1920: Jazz musician Dave Brubeck (Take Five)
1921: Football player Otto Graham (Cleveland Browns 1950-55)
1924: Baseball player - Wally Cox
1930: Actor, dancer Bobby (Stein) Van (Small Town Girl)
1940: Singer Steve Alaimo (Every Day I Have to Cry Some)
1941: Country singer Helen Cornelius
1942: Singer Len Barry
1945: Actor James Naughton
1945: Baseball shortstop Larry Bowa
1948: Senator Don Nickles (Republican, Oklahoma)
1948: Songwriter, singer Jonathan King (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
1953: Actress JoBeth Williams
1953: Actor Tom Hulce
1953: Actor Kin Shriner
1953: Talk show host Wil Shriner
1954: Actor Miles Chapin
1955: Rock musician Rick Buckler (The Jam)
1955: Comedian Steven Wright
1955: Country singer Bill Lloyd (Foster and Lloyd)
1955: Singer Tish Hinojosa
1956: Rock musician Peter Buck (R.E.M.)
1962: Actress Janine Turner
1962: Rock musician Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl)
1970: Rock musician Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg (Ace of Base)
0342: Death of St. Nicholas 1185: Death of
Alphonso I, King of Portugal
1240: Mongols take Kiev, Russia
1273: St. Thomas Aquinas ceases writing
1323: John of Nottingham and Robert Marshall
of Leicester undertake the murder of Edward II, King of England, by
witchcraft
1352: Death of Pope Clement VI
1362: Coronation of Pope Urban V
1491: Marriage of Duchess Anne of Brittany to
Charles VII of France
1560: Charles IX becomes King of France
1648: "Pride's Purge;" Army control
of the English Parliament
1790: Congress moved from New York to
Philadelphia.
1821: Beethoven finished his piano sonata,
Opus 109.
1846: "The Damnation of Faust"
premiered. It was a failure, but not for musical reasons. Political
disturbances and bad weather kept a lot of people away from the performance.
Berlioz's work is a dramatic legend in four parts, not an opera.
1862: President Lincoln orders the hanging of
39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in
Minnesota. They are to be hanged on Dec. 26.
1873: America's first international football
(soccer) game was played in New Haven, CT this day. Yale defeated Eton
(England) 2-1.
1876: Jack McCall is convicted for the murder
of Wild Bill Hickok and sentenced to hang.
1884: Army engineers completed construction of
the Washington Monument.
1889: Jefferson Davis, the first and only
president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.
1917: More than 1,600 people died in an
explosion when a Belgian relief ship and a French munitions vessel collided
in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1917: Former Czar Nicholas II and family are
made prisoners by the Bolsheviks in Tobolsk.
1917: In the aftermath of the Bolshevik
victory in the Second Russian Revolution, the Finnish Parliment declared
Finland independent of Russia today.
1922: The Irish Free State, forerunner of the
modern Republic of Ireland, was officially proclaimed.
1923: A presidential address was broadcast on
radio for the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of
Congress.
1933: Americans crowded into liquor stores,
bars and cafes to buy their first legal alcoholic beverages in 13 years,
following the repeal of Prohibition.
1944: "Red Bank Boogie", Count
Basie's salute to his hometown, was recorded on Columbia Records. The tune
is a tribute to Red Bank, New Jersey.
1947: Everglades National Park in Florida was
dedicated by President Truman.
1948: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent
Scouts" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for almost 10 years and the
redhead introduced such talent as Pat Boone, The Chordettes, Carmel Quinn,
The McGuire Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Steve
Lawrence, Al Martino and many others.
1950: 'America's Sweetheart', Shirley Temple,
became Shirley Temple Black as she married Charles Black, a socialite and
business executive from San Francisco.
1969: Musician, Cab Calloway turned actor as
he was seen in the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation of
"The Littlest Angel" on NBC. The big band singer, known for such
classics as "Minnie the Moocher", became a movie star in "The
Blues Brothers" (1980) with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd.
1957: America's first attempt at putting a
satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1957: AFL-CIO members voted to expel the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. (The Teamsters were readmitted in
1987.)
1960: Eileen Farrell debuted at the
Metropolitan Opera House in NYC in the title role of Gluck's "Alcestis."
1968: The Commissioner of Baseball, William
Eckert was told, "Yer outta here!" after serving three years of
his 7-year contract. Bowie Kuhn was his replacement.
1969: "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him
Goodbye", by Steam, reached the #1 spot on the top 40. It stayed at the
top for two weeks and was the only major hit for the group.
1973: House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was
sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
1976: Democrat Tip O’Neill is elected as
Speaker of the House.
1982: Eleven soldiers and six civilians were
killed when a bomb planted by the Irish National Liberation Army exploded in
a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
1984: Martina Navratilova's 74-game winning
streak over 11+ months came to an end. The 19-year-old tennis star was
defeated by Helen Sukova in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
1985: John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000
people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets.
A power outage caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut
concert.
1986: University of Miami quarterback, Vinny
Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy.
1987: One day before the arrival of Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators pressing
for free emigration of Soviet Jews marched in Washington.
1987: Moscow, security agents roughed up
Jewish activists and journalists during rival demonstrations for and against
Kremlin policy.
1988: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
arrived for his second US visit to address the United Nations and meet with
President Reagan and President-elect Bush.
1988: The space shuttle "Atlantis"
landed in California.
1988: Rock-and-roll pioneer Roy Orbison died
near Nashville, Tennessee, at age 52.
1989: Fourteen women were shot to death at the
University of Montreal's school of engineering by a man who then took his
own life.
1989: Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East
Germany.
1990: Iraq announced that it would release all
its hostages, saying foreigners could begin leaving in two days.
1990: Vice President Dan Quayle was enshrined
in the Little League Museum's Hall of Excellence.
1991: Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA, testifying at
the trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, denied hearing screams on
the night Patricia Bowman said she was raped by Smith at the Kennedy estate
in West Palm Beach, Florida.
1992: Bowing to anti-foreigner sentiment,
Germany's main political parties agreed to tighten postwar asylum laws.
1992: India, thousands of Hindu extremists
destroyed a mosque, setting off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that
claimed at least two-thousand lives.
1993: When John Cage died in 1992, Manfred
Reichert and his group Ensemble 13 assumed they would never hear the music
they had commissioned from the composer, who had indicated that it was
incomplete. But it was not. A complete score was found in Cage's papers.
1993: A judge in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
sentenced former priest James R. Porter, who'd admitted molesting 28
children in the 1960's, to 18 to 20 years in prison for sexual assault.
1993: Actor Don Ameche died in Scottsdale,
Arizona, at age 85.
1994: Former Associate Attorney General
Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to defrauding his former law partners and
clients of nearly $400,000 while he was a private attorney at the Rose law
firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1994: Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen
announced his resignation.
1994: Orange County, California, one of the
richest communities in the nation, filed for bankruptcy protection due to
investment losses of about $2 billion. They were the largest municipality
ever to do so.
1995: President Clinton vetoed a seven-year
Republican budget-balancing plan.
1995: The House ethics committee sent a highly
critical letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, saying he had committed
three ethics violations.
1995: The New York Times columnist James
Reston died in Washington at age 86.
1996: Stock markets around the world plunged
after comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan were taken to mean
that US stock prices were too high.
1996: Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle
died in Rancho Santa Fe, California, at age 70.
1997: 69 or more people were killed when a
Russian military cargo plane crashed in the Siberian city of Irkutsk seconds
after takeoff.
1998: Endeavour's astronauts connected the
first two building blocks of the international space station in the shuttle
cargo bay.
1998: In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel
Hugo Chavez, who staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six
years earlier, was elected president. people.
1999: The Supreme Court, reconsidering its landmark Miranda ruling, agreed to decide whether police still must warn criminal suspects that they have a "right to remain silent."
1999: SabreTech, an aircraft maintenance company, was convicted of mishandling the oxygen canisters blamed for the cargo hold fire that caused the 1996 ValuJet crash in the Everglades that killed 110
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