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Born on this Day
0912: Otto "the Great," Holy Roman Emperor
1221: Alfonso X (the Wise), King of Castile & Leon
1470: Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikhs
1553: Prospero Alpini, botanist; introduced coffee, bananas to Europe
1616: John Wallis, English mathematician, logician introduced the
infinity math symbol
1749: Declaration of Independence signer Edward Rutledge
1804: Franklin
Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
1834: Scottish poet James Thomson
1859: Outlaw Billy "The Kid" Bonney
1883: Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco
1887: Actor Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) (Frankenstein, The Bride
of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Die Monster, Die!, The Mask
of Fu Manchu, The Mummy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Body Snatcher; narrated How
the Grinch Stole Christmas)
1888: Comedian and Actor Harpo (Adolph) Marx (pretend-mute Marx brother;
accomplished harpist)
1902: Actor Victor Jory (Gone with the Wind, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Miracle Worker, Papillon)
1913: Author Maurice Zolotow (Billy Wilder in Hollywood)
1915: Actress 1915 - Ellen Drew (Hollywood Boulevard, China Sky,
Christmas in July, Dark Mountain)
1917: Actor Michael Gough (Alfred in the "Batman" movies)
1928: Broadway composer Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello)
1929: Actress Sybil Jason (Jacobs)
1930: Former Labor Secretary William E. Brock
1931: Singer Gloria Lynne (I Wish You Love)
1934: Wimbledon Champion tennis player Lew Hoad
1940: Singer Betty Everett (Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss])
1940: Drummer and singer Freddy Marsden (Group: Gerry and the
Pacemakers: Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Ferry Cross the Mersey, How Do You Do It?,
I Like It)
1940: Pitcher Luis Tiant
1941: Actor Franco Nero
1945: Actress Susan Anspach
1945: Actor Steve Landesberg (Barney Miller)
1955: Singer Bruce Hornsby
1959: Actor Maxwell Caulfield (The Colbys)
1960: Actor John Henton
1966: Rock musician Charlie Grover (Sponge)
1966: Rock singer-musician Ken Block (Sister Hazel)
1972: Rapper Kurupt (Tha Dogg Pound)
0955: Death of Edred, King of England
1248: Ferdinand III, King of Castile-Leon, takes Seville
1407: Louis, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles IV of
France, assassinated
1457: Death of Ladislaus V, King of Hungary and Bohemia
1499: Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne,
executed
1583: Edward Arden, heretic, stretched on the Rack in the
Tower of London
1765: Frederick County, Maryland, repudiated the British
Stamp Act.
1785: John Hancock elected President of the Continental
Congress for the second time
1835: The horseshoe manufacturing machine was patented by
Henry Burden of Troy, New York.
1852: Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced
to drop 30 feet.
1863: Patent granted for a process of making color
photographs.
1876: The first intercollegiate football association was
established in Springfield, MA.
1889: The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco,
at the Palais Royale Saloon. The contraption consisted of an Edison tinfoil phonograph
with four listening tubes and a coin slot for each tube.
1903: singer Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in "Rigoletto."
1909: Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation
for the commercial manufacture of airplanes.
1921: President Harding signs the Willis Campell Act,
better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for
medicinal purposes.
1924: Vincent Lopez and some 40 jazz musicians presented a
concert of upbeat music at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC.
1929: Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this
day. Miss Booth was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we
remember when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on radio's classic,
"Duffy's Tavern". She also gave an Oscar-winning performance in 1952 in
"Come Back Little Sheba."
1933: FDR recalls Ambassador Welles from Havana and urges
stability in Cuba.
1935: Ethel Leginska became the first woman to write an
opera - and conduct it. Her original work titled, "Gale" opened at the Chicago
City Opera Company.
1936: "Life," the magazine created by Henry R.
Luce, was first published. It was an immediate sellout. The cover of that famous magazine
showed an obstetrician slapping a baby and the caption read, "LIFE begins."
1936: U.S. abandons the American embassy in Madrid, Spain,
which is engulfed by civil war.
1938: Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the
film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938." "Thanks for the Memory" became
Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope's theme song.
1943: During World War Two, US forces seized control of
the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.
1945: Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat
and butter, ended.
1947: E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first
received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1958: Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the
"GE Theatre" production of "A Turkey for the President."
1959: The musical "Fiorello!," with music by
Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, opened on Broadway.
1968: Four hijack a U.S. jet, with 87 passengers, from
Miami to Cuba.
1971: The People's Republic of China was seated in the UN
Security Council.
1980: Around 48-hundred people were killed by a series of
earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
1985: Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin was arrested
and accused of spying for China. (He committed suicide a year after his conviction.)
1986: Acting against growing political violence and
repeated threats of a coup, Philippine President Corazon Aquino fired Defense Minister
Juan Ponce Enrile and asked for the resignation of her entire Cabinet.
1987: Two days after a riot by Cuban inmates erupted at a
detention center in Oakdale, Louisiana, Cuban detainees at a federal prison in Atlanta
also rioted, seizing hostages in a drama that was not resolved until December fourth.
1988: President-elect Bush announced his choice of Brent
Scowcroft to be his national security adviser.
1988: President Reagan announced he was pocket-vetoing a
bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal employees, saying it was
"excessive and discriminatory."
1989: Lucia Barrera de Cerna, a housekeeper who said she'd
witnessed the slaying of six Jesuit priests and two other people at the Jose Simeon Canas
University in El Salvador, was flown to the U.S. under heavy security.
1990: President Bush conferred separately with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo and Syrian President Hafez Assad in Geneva, seeking Arab
support for his drive to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
1991: Yugoslavia's rival leaders agreed to a new
cease-fire, the 14th of the Balkan civil war.
1992: In Germany, three Turks were killed when rightist
militants firebombed their homes in Moelln; in Berlin, hundreds of demonstrators protested
in solidarity with foreigners.
1992: Country music star Roy Acuff died in Nashville,
Tennessee, at age 89.
1993: President Clinton signed legislation lifting
remaining US sanctions against South Africa, and announced an initiative to spur
investment in South Africa's black private sector.
1994: NATO warplanes blasted Serb missile batteries in two
air raids while Bosnian Serb fighters, for the first time, broke into the U.N.-designated
safe haven of Bihac.
1994: At least 111 people, mostly women and children, were
killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western
city of Nagpur.
1995: Free-lance photographer Charles Rathbun was booked
in Hermosa Beach, California, for investigation of murder in the disappearance of model
Linda Sobek. (Rathbun was convicted of Sobek's murder in November 1996.)
1995: Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic grudgingly
accepted the U.S.-backed peace plan for the former Yugoslavia after meeting with Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic.
1995: Free-lance photographer Charles Rathbun was booked
in Hermosa Beach, Calif., for investigation of murder in the disappearance of model Linda
Sobek. (Rathbun was convicted of Sobek's murder November 1, 1996.)
1995: Movie director Louis Malle died in Beverly Hills,
Calif., at age 63.
1996: A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed
into the waves off Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.
1996: Forty-four people were injured when an Amtrak train
derailed on a Secaucus, New Jersey, bridge.
1996: Following a four-day visit to Australia, President
Clinton arrived in the Philippines for a summit of Asian-Pacific leaders.
1997: Iowa septuplet mom Bobbi McCaughey left the hospital
and returned home while her seven babies stayed behind in intensive care.
1997: Artillery shells fired by Lebanese guerrillas
accidentally struck a village near the Israeli border, killing eight.
1998: Whitewater figure Susan McDougal was acquitted in Santa Monica, California, of embezzling from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife – a case McDougal said was trumped up to pressure her to testify against President Clinton.
1999: Defense Secretary William Cohen called for a military-wide review of conduct after a Pentagon study said up to 75 percent of blacks and other ethnic minorities reported experiencing racially offensive behavior.
1999: In a plea met with scant applause and silent stares, President Clinton told ethnic Albanians in Kosovo that "you must try" to forgive Serb neighbors and stop punishing them for the terror campaign of Slobodan
Milosevic.
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