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Born on this Day
1489: Margaret, Wife of the King of Scotland
1600: Peter Heylin
1632: The master of the French Baroque, Jean-Baptiste Lully, was born.
Lully is the composer who actually stabbed himself in the foot with the staff he was using
to conduct and died from the resulting infection.
1803: Austrian physicist Christian Doppler
1832: Author Louisa May Alcott
1835: Chinese Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi
1849: English electrical engineer John Fleming, who devised the radio
tube-diode
1895: Film choreographer Busby Berkeley
1898: British writer and lay theologian C.S. Lewis
1900: Mildred Elizabeth Sisk, the infamous Axis Sally who broadcast
propaganda from Nazi Germany to Allied troops during the Second World War.
1908: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and Civil Rights leader.
1911: German atomic physicist Konrad
1927: Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Vin Scully
1928: Former Senator & presidential candidate Paul Simon (Democrat,
Illinois)
1934: Blues singer-musician John Mayall
1940: Composer-musician Chuck Mangione
1941: Pop singer Denny Doherty (The Mamas & the Papas)
1941: Country singer Jody Miller
1943: Actress Diane Ladd
1944: Pop singer-musician Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals)
1946: Skier Suzy Chaffee
1949: Comedian Garry Shandling
1954: Movie director Joel Coen ("Fargo")
1955: Actor-comedian Howie Mandel
1957: Actor Jeff Fahey
1960: Actress Cathy Moriarty
1962: Actor Andrew McCarthy
1964: Actress Kim Delaney
1964: Actor Don Cheadle
1965: Actor-producer Neill Barry
1965: Musician Wallis Buchanan (Jamiroquai)
1968: Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Kids on the Block)
1968: Rock musician Martin Carr (Boo Radleys)
1971: Actress Gena Lee Nolin ("Baywatch")
0496: Death of St. Gelasius, Pope
0741: Death of St. Gregory, Pope
0799: Charlemagne returned Pope Leo III to Rome
1198: Death of al Aziz, Caliph of Egypt
1226: Coronation of Louis IX as King of France
1268: Death of Pope Clement IV
1314: Death of Philip IV "the Fair," King of
France
1378: Death of Charles IV, King of Germany
1416: Italian painter Giovanni Bellini, famous for his
altarpieces and historical and mythological paintings, died.
1484: Convention of Spanish Inquisitors held; Constitution
of the Holy Office written, under Tomas de Torquemada
1503: Imprisonment of Caesare Borgia
1516: Death of Giovanni Bellini
1519: Magellan sights South America
1531: Death of Thomas Wolsey
1596: Philip II, King of Spain, admits his nation is
bankrupt
1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England's
King Henry the Eighth, died.
1643: Claudio Monteverdi died in Venice. If the records of
the time are correct, Monteverdi lived to be 76.
1787: Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance,
granting civil status to Protestants.
1864: Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado
Volunteers massacre Blackkettles’s camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand
Creek, Colorado. The Indians were waiting for terms of surrender when they were killed.
Today's History Focus
1872: Horace Greeley, who founded the daily New York Tribune in 1841, died an insane man just three weeks after losing the presidential election to U.S. Grant.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrated his invention, a
hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted
verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into the machine, which played back his
voice.
1890: The first Army-Navy football game was played. The
Navy Middies won, 24-0.
1890: The first Imperial Diet was opened in Japan. It
consisted of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives.
1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels
before he could complete his opera "Turandot." His death was shortly after a
throat cancer operation. (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)
1929: Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd radioed
that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
1939: Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland.
1939: The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland
prior to the Soviet attack on the country.
1945: The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a
republic proclaimed.
1947: The UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling
for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1948: Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time
as the season opens with "Othello."
1949: U.S. announces it will conduct atomic tests at
Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1952: President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his
campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict.
1956: The musical "Bells Are Ringing," starring
Judy Holliday, opened on Broadway.
1961: "Enos" the chimp was launched from Cape
Canaveral aboard the "Mercury-Atlas Five" spacecraft, which orbited earth twice
before returning.
1963: President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl
Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1964: The U.S. Roman Catholic Church instituted sweeping
changes in the liturgy, including the use of English instead of Latin.
1967: Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he
was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1974: A a bill to outlaw the Irish Republican Army became
law in Britain.
1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident
off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.
1982: By a vote of 114-21, the UN General Assembly renewed
its demand that the Soviet Union withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1983: President Reagan, ending two days of talks with
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, agreed on joint defense measures with Israel to
counter what he called a growing Soviet threat in the Middle East.
1984: Taking what he called "the Coors cure,"
artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder got out his hospital bed for the first
time since his operation to sip the can of beer he had requested.
1985: Two spacewalking astronauts from the shuttle
Atlantis assembled a 45-foot beam and a pyramid-shaped structure in a test of techniques
that might be used in future space construction.
1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
1987: A Korean Air jetliner disappeared off Burma, with
the loss of all 115 people aboard; South Korean authorities charged North Korean agents
had planted a bomb aboard the aircraft.
1987: Cuban detainees released 26 hostages they'd been
holding for more than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, Louisiana.
1988: Senate Democrats elected George Mitchell of Maine to
be majority leader, the post being vacated by Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
1988: A divided US Supreme Court ruled that the rights of
criminal defendants are not violated when police unintentionally fail to preserve
potentially vital evidence.
1989: Romanian Olympic gymnastic hero Nadia Comaneci fled
to Hungary. She eventually came to the United States.
1990: The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution
authorizing ``all necessary means,'' including military force, against Iraq if it does not
withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991. It was the first such resolution since U.N.
sponsorship of the Korean War in 1950.
1991: A dust storm in Coalinga, California, triggered a
massive pileup by more than 250 vehicles on Interstate 5, killing 15 people and injuring
more than 100.
1991: The chairman of the Soviet Union's State Bank said
his institution had halted all payments to the national government because it had run out
of money.
1991: Actor Ralph Bellamy died in Santa Monica,
California, at age 87.
1992: A refugee center in western Germany was firebombed
as violence against foreigners continued, despite a police crackdown on neo-Nazis.
1993: The British government won praise and encouragement
in the House of Commons as it defended its secret contacts with the Irish Republican Army.
1994: The House passed the revised General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade by a vote of 288-146.
1994: Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and
its airport hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic
end its civil war.
1995: President Clinton opened a five-day European trip in
London, where he met with Prime Minister John Major, and addressed the British Parliament.
1996: A UN court sentenced a Bosnian Serb army soldier
(Drazen Erdemovic) to ten years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims --
the first international war crimes sentence since World War Two.
1996: John C. Salvi the Third, serving a life sentence for
fatally shooting two abortion clinic receptionists, hanged himself in his Massachusetts
prison cell.
1997: Former Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, the city's
first black mayor who held office for an unprecedented five terms, died at age 79.
games."
1998: Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing
heroin and other narcotics.
1999: Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed an extraordinary Northern Ireland government designed to bring together every branch of opinion within the bitterly divided society.
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