What happened in History on this date

[Phil Deakins]

1974 Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison

That the Red Army Faction (a terrorist group in Germany) and not the Royal Air Force

[Hippie Bowman]

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Phil Deakins wrote:

1974

Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison

That the Red Army Faction (a terrorist group in Germany) and not the Royal Air Force

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Thank you Phil!

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 5th.  Here is today in history.

 

63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
663 - Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
771 - Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1301 - Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee)
1349 - 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
1360 - The French Franc is created.
1408 - Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1448 - Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication
1456 - Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti)
1496 - Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
1590 - Niccolo Sfondrati chosen Pope Gregory XIV
1602 - Giulio Caccini's "Euridice," premieres in Florence
1741 - -6] Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers
1746 - Revolt in Genoa against the Spanish rule.
1757 - Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians
1766 - London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale
1775 - At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Roman Emperor Charlemagne 1776 - 1st US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), forms
1792 - George Washington re-elected US pres
1798 - Government troops occupy Hasselt
1804 - Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
1813 - Lubeck surrenders to allied armies
1815 - Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
1830 - Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique fantastique," premieres in Paris
1831 - Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
1832 - Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US
1837 - Hector Berlioz' "Requiem," premieres
1837 - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
1846 - C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
1847 - Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
1848 - Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery
1854 - Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/andrew-jackson.jpg" /> US President & General Andrew Jackson 1859 - Dion Boucicault's "Octaroon," premieres in NYC
1862 - Battle of Coffeeville, MS
1865 - Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1868 - 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
1876 - Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
1876 - Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
1879 - 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
1881 - 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
1887 - Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo
1890 - Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens," premieres in Karlsruhe
1892 - Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
1892 - Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
1893 - 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1894 - Georges Feydeaus' "L'hôtel du libre échange," premieres in Paris
1896 - Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer," premieres in Leipzig
1905 - Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England
1906 - British government-Balfour resigns
1908 - 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
1914 - 6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats U of Toronto, 14-2
1914 - The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
1918 - Oil refinery on Curacao opens
1920 - Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
1920 - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1924 - Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5
1925 - 13th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats Win Tammany Tigers, 24-1
1925 - German government of Luther falls
1926 - Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," debuts
1928 - England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane
1928 - MW Miklas elected president of Austria
1929 - 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
1931 - CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/albert-einstein.jpg" /> Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein 1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America
1933 - 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
1935 - 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California)
1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
1936 - 24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20
1936 - Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
1941 - Football Writers Association of America organized
1941 - Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in NYC
1941 - Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
1941 - Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
1941 - US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
1942 - CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
1942 - Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work
1942 - West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
1943 - NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
1944 - German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
1945 - "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
1945 - Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/harry-s-truman.jpg" /> 33rd US President Harry Truman 1946 - Pres Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
1947 - Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 - NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
1951 - "Dragnet" premieres
1952 - -8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
1954 - KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
1955 - Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1956 - Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in NYC
1957 - William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in NYC
1957 - NYC is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/rosa-lee-parks.jpg" /> Civil Rights Activist Rosa Lee Parks 1957 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1958 -Phils drop plans for NY sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila

1958 - WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
1959 - Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests
1960 - Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
1964 - Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1966 - "I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 561 performances
1967 - Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
1967 - Benjamin Spock & Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
1970 - Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
1970 - Premiere of Dario Fo's Morte accidentale di un anarchico.
1971 - KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
1972 - 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)
1972 - Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
1972 - Joseph A Walkers "River Niger," premieres in NYC
1973 - Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
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Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg 1973 - Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall
1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
1974 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC
1974 - 1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
1974 - 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1974 - Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
1974 - Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC
1974 - NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms
1974 - Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
1974 - Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
1975 - "Me & Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 453 performances
1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
1976 - Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards
1977 - Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
1978 - EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/oj-simpson.jpg" /> NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 1978 - Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
1978 - Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1978 - Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in NYC
1978 - Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 - Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns
1980 - Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
1981 - 47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern Cal (RB)
1981 - 56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75)
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions
1982 - Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy
1982 - Ingrid Berghmans (Neth) retains judo's world championship
1982 - Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
1982 - Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
1983 - LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
1983 - ICIMOD established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
1984 - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell & Jose Rijo
1984 - French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
1984 - Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
1985 - Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
1985 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1985 - Sam Shepard's "Lie of the Mind," premieres in NYC
1987 - 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
1987 - David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 v NZ at Brisbane
1987 - Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
1988 - NC fed grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud & conspiracy
1988 - Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
1989 - France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1990 - Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter
1990 - Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
1990 - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
1991 - "Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 perfs
1991 - Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
1991 - NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
1993 - "Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
1993 - 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
1993 - Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
1993 - Melissa Mcnamara/Mike Sopringer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1993 - Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39)
1993 - Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela
1993 - The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
1995 - The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
1996 - "Dreams & Nightmares," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1996 - Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
1996 - Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player
1997 - 1st Game at Wash Capitals' MCI Center vs Fla Panthers
1997 - STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands
2005 - The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2005 - The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2006 - Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 - Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/nicholas-ii.jpg" /> Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II 2008 -Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II.

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 6th.  Here is today in history.

 

963 - Leo VIII elected Pope
1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
1160 - Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas," premieres in Arras
1196 - Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
1240 - Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev
1424 - Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1491 - King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
1492 - Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas
1527 - Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
1534 - Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1641 - Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
1648 - Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
1723 - Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
1732 - 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
1756 - British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
1768 - 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
1787 - Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected
1822 - Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
1825 - Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
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Naturalist Charles Darwin 1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
1841 - Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres
1843 - Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
1845 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
1846 - Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1862 - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
1864 - Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
1865 - 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery
1866 - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1870 - Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
1873 - 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1875 - 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
1876 - 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
1876 - City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
1876 - US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
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1877 - Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1882 - Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
1884 - Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
1896 - D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1903 - Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
1904 - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
1907 - Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
1912 - China votes for universal human rights
1913 - White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
1914 - German troops over run Lodz
1916 - German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
1916 - World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/theodore-roosevelt.jpg" /> 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt 1917 - French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
1922 - 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
1922 - 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
1923 - 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
1925 - Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
1925 - Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1929 - Turkey introduces female suffrage
1930 - 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
1930 - Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
1933 - Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US, lifted
1938 - 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1938 - French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1939 - 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
1939 - Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in NYC
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/james-joyce.jpg" /> Novelist & Poet James Joyce 1940 - Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1940 - Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
1941 - Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941 - King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
1941 - NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
1942 - RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
1944 - US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
1952 - Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1953 - Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
1954 - Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
1955 - NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
1956 - "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/nelson-mandela.jpg" /> Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 1956 - Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr
1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1957 - AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
1957 - Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1958 - US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1960 - AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
1961 - 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
1962 - US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
1963 - Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1963 - Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba
1964 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
1964 - KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - President Segni of Italy resigns
1965 - 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
1966 -Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium

1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 - Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
1968 - PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
1968 - WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 - "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 - 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
1971 - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1973 - Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
1973 - NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
1974 - George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
1975 - 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
1975 - Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry
1975 - Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
1976 - War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
1978 - Spain adopts constitution
1980 - Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
1980 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 502
1981 - Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
1982 - Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
1982 - 11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
1983 - A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
1984 - France performs nuclear test
1984 - Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
1986 - 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB)
1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
1987 - Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
1987 - Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1988 - Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
1988 - Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
1988 - Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
1988 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
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Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 1988 - Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
1988 - STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
1988 - Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
1989 - Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52
1989 - Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1990 - NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
1990 - Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
1990 - Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1991 - "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
1991 - "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
1992 - 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1992 - 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
1992 - Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1992 - SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
1992 - SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
1993 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
1994 - Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1994 - Orange County California files for bankruptcy
1994 - Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
1995 - 6th Billboard Music Awards
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1996 - Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
1998 - JC Penney Golf Classic
1998 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
2001 - The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
2005 - Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
2006 -NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

12-5-2012    The world takes five to remember Dave Brubeck, who slipped through the pearly gates while Joe Morello distracted the guards with an irresistably dancy beat in 7/4 time.

 

12-6-2012    One day after striking the word "lunatic" from federal law, a bipartisan group of moderate representatives introduce a bill to declare "wingnut" as Congress' official term of endearment, noting that wingnuts come in both left and right hand thread. Pundits immediately disparage the bill as being heavily biased.

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 7th.  Here is today in history.

43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
1354 - Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1646 - Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry
1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1783 - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1783 - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1808 - James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President
1835 - German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens
1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1862 - Battle of Hartsville, TN
1862 - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
1864 - Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
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Outlaw Jesse James 1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1875 - Natives Sons of the West organized
1876 - NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1885 - 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
1889 - Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London
1891 - 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1907 - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1909 - Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
1911 - Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in NYC
1911 - Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver & Victoria
1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1916 - British government of David Lloyd George forms
1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1920 - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1920 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921 - KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
1924 - German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis & Communists lose)
1925 - Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
1925 - Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in NYC
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1929 - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1929 - Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
1931 - Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
1932 - 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 - Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1935 - CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
1937 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937 - Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1938 - Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in NYC
1938 - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1940 - The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 - Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1941 - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1943 - Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US
1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1944 - General Radescu forms Romanian government
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1949 - 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1952 - KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 - WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
1954 - KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
1956 - Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
1957 - Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
1958 - Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela
1959 - "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1960 - Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
1963 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1964 - George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1967 - "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
1967 - Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 - M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
1968 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
1970 - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 - West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1971 - "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1971 - Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
1972 -Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched

1972 - Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 - Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1973 - Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
1973 - Wings release "Band on the Run"
1975 - 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1975 - Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
1975 - Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1975 - Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
1976 - UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
1977 - Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
1978 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1983 - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1985 - 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 - Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1987 - 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
1987 - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 - Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1988 - NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
1988 - Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1989 - C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in NYC
1990 - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
1990 - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1991 - A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
1993 - Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1994 - 5th Billboard Music Awards
1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 - NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 - US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
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1997 - Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.
2007 -The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 8th.  Here is today in history,

1326 - Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
1710 - Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1777 - Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1794 - 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
1813 - Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1846 - Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres
1849 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples
1852 - Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1857 - 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 - 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana Santiago Chile
1863 - Abraham Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of South
1864 - Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
1869 - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1869 - Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
Outlaw Jesse James 1874 - Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
1875 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg
1876 - Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
1881 - Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1899 - Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1907 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1909 - Bird banding society found
1913 - Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
1914 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914 - Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
US President Abraham Lincoln 1914 - Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step," premieres in NYC
1915 - Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
1921 - Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 - German-US friendship treaty signed
1923 - Labour/Liberals win British parliament
1923 - Salary & price freeze in Germany
1926 - Disappearance of Agatha Christie
1930 - Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
1930 - Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in NYC
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1934 - Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich
1935 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
1936 - Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
1936 - NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 - Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
Mystery Writer Agatha Christie 1938 - LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 - Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
1941 - London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
1941 - Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1941 - SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
1941 - US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1942 - 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
1943 - John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in NYC
1946 - Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs
1948 - "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
1948 - 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
1948 - Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 perfs
1949 - Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1949 - Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," premieres in NYC
1951 - "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs
1951 - AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1952 - Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1953 - 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
1954 - Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC
1954 - WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
1955 - Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes forms
1956 - 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1956 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1956 - Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1959 - Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1959 - President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1960 - Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
1961 - Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 - Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1961 - South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 perfs
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
1962 - Failed coup in Brunei
1962 - Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1963 - "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs
1963 - Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
1963 - 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1963 - Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outsideElkton, Marylandwith a loss of 81 people.
1965 - Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower," premieres in NYC
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
1965 - Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
American Baseball Player Roger Maris

1966 - A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith

1966 - US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 - Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1967 - NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 - Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 - Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1972 - United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1973 - "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
1973 - 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1974 - Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
1974 - Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1975 - "Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
1976 - UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1977 - Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1978 - Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park
1980 - "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 perfs
1982 - Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1982 - Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
1982 - Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
1984 - 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
1984 - Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
1984 - Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
1985 - 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
1985 - Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1985 - Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 - Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1987 - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1987 - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 - President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1987 - The Alianza Lima air disaster.
1988 - Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1989 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1990 - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
1990 - Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1991 - "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
1991 - "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
1991 - Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1991 - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1991 - The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1992 - Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 - NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
1993 - 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 - 4th Billboard Music Awards
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
1993 - Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1994 - "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry 1994 - Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1994 - Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
1996 - "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
1996 - Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1997 - 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2002 - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
2005 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
2008 - Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales.
2009 - Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2010 - With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

 

 

Peace!

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Today in December the 9th.  Here is today in history.

536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.
656 - Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
1212 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1315 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
1425 - Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
1570 - Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
1625 - Netherlands & England sign military treaty
1640 - Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1658 - Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1724 - Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London
1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1747 - England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1762 - British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
1783 - 1st execution at English Newgate-jail
1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1805 - Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1824 - Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
1842 - St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
Lexicographer Noah Webster 1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)
1854 - Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1868 - 1st British government of Gladstone forms
1869 - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1883 - New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
1884 - Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1889 - President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
1894 - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1900 - Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
1902 - AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
1903 - Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1905 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
1905 - Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1906 - NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1907 - Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
1909 - 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
1910 - French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
1913 - Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
1913 - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1917 - British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
1918 - French troops occupies Mainz
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
1924 - Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
1924 - Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
1925 - AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000
1925 - Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1926 - USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1931 - Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in NYC
1931 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 - Spain becomes a republic
1931 - Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
1933 - 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3
1933 - Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1934 - NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
1935 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1936 - AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
1936 - Australia all out 58 v Eng Bradman out for a duck
1939 - 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
1939 - Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 - British assault on Banghazi Libya
1940 - British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
1940 - Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1940 - South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
1941 - 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 - 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
1941 - 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
1941 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941 - Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1941 - Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
1948 - UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
1949 - NFL merges Cleveland Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
1951 - Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ
1953 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1953 - Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
1954 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad
1957 - 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1958 - Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
1960 - 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
1961 - "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1961 - "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1961 - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres
1965 - Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
1967 - Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 - Lyndon B Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House

1967 - Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1968 - KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1970 - Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
1971 - Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1973 - "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
1973 - Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 - St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
1973 - Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
1974 - Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1974 - Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
1974 - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1975 - Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 - Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1978 - 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
1979 - Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 - 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
1981 - Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1982 - Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
1983 - Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
1984 - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1984 - LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
1984 - Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1985 - 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
1985 - Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 - Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
NBA Legend Larry Bird 1987 - Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
1987 - Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988 - NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
1988 - The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
1990 - Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
1990 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
1990 - Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
1990 - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
1990 - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
1991 - 2nd Billboard Music Awards
1992 - 3rd Billboard Music Awards
1992 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
1992 - Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
1992 - Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)
1992 - NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season
1993 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
1993 - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1994 - 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
1994 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
1995 - 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
2003 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center.
44th US President Barack Obama 2008 - The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency..

 

 

Peace!

 

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is December the 10th.  Here is today in history.

741 - Zacharias becomes Pope
1041 - Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1294 - Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 - France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 - Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1672 - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1688 - King James II flees London
1690 - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
1799 - Metric system established in France
1810 - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
1816 - Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1831 - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
1864 - General Shermans armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
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Physicist & Mathematician Isaac Newton 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1869 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1882 - John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres
1887 - Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
1896 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1896 - Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris
1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
1898 - The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
1899 - -15] British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
1899 - Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
1899 - Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang," premieres in Berlin
1899 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/madame-marie-sklodowska-curie.jpg" /> Discoverer of Radium Marie Curie 1903 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1904 - King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
1904 - Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1907 - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
1910 - Johannes van der Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 - Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 - French government returns to Paris
1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1915 - Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
1918 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919 - NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/theodore-roosevelt.jpg" /> 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt 1919 - NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
1919 - Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
1922 - Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1922 - Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1923 - Polish government of Grabski, forms
1924 - Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1924 - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1925 - George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
1926 - 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1926 - 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1929 - Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
1932 - King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/jane-addams.jpg" /> Social Worker and Nobel Laureate Jane Addams 1934 - Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1934 - NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
1934 - Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
1935 - A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 - White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
1936 - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1936 - England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1938 - 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1938 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0
1939 - KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1940 - British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 - British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 - Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/edward-viii.jpg" /> King of Great Britain Edward VIII 1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942 - North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim
1943 - British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 - 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 - German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 - Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
1945 - Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 - USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1952 - Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 - WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 - Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1953 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs
1953 - KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/linus-pauling.jpg" /> Chemist & Peace Activist Linus Pauling 1954 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1954 - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1956 -Establishment of MPLA in Angola

1958 - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 - U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 - Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1961 - Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1961 - USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1962 - Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 - 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1965 - "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1965 - Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
1965 - Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
1966 - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 - Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
1970 - North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
1971 - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 - Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 - Space probe Helios 1 launched
1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 - Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
1976 - Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 - "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1978 - 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin 1978 - In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 - Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
1979 - Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 - Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 - -13] El Salvador army kills 900
1981 - Jules Feiffer's "Grownups," premieres in NYC
1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
1982 - Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1982 - Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1983 - 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
1983 - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 - Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
1983 - Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1985 - Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 - Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 - Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1987 - "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
1988 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
1989 - President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1990 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 - Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1991 - "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1991 - IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 - Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
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1992 - "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs
1992 - NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
1992 - NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
1992 - Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1994 - 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 - Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 - 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
1995 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1995 - Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 - Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 - Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
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2006 -One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is December the 11th.  Here is today in history.

 

359 - Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
384 - St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366
1282 - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259
1419 - Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
1477 - Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie
1572 - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. Commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend.
1618 - Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1665 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
1688 - King James II arrested
1710 - Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
1730 - Voltaire's "Brutus," premieres in Paris
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
1812 - 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
1816 - Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state
1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
Philosophe Voltaire

1866 - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
1872 - 1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1882 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1882 - Victorien Sardous "Fedora," with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
1888 - French Panama Canal company fails
1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
1901 - Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
1903 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
1905 - 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
1905 - British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms
1905 - A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev.
1906 - US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1907 - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
1908 - Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden," premieres
1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1909 - Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
1916 - David Lloyd George forms British war government
1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1919 - Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
1925 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
1926 - Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
1926 - Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW
31st US President Herbert Hoover

1928 - Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
1928 - NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
1930 - Bank of the United States closes in New York City
1931 - Japan leaves the Golden Standard
1931 - Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
1932 - SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
1934 - 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
1934 - 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
1934 - Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
1934 - NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1936 - King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne, Duke of York becomes King George VI
1937 - 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1937 - Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1938 - NY Giants win NFL championship
1939 - New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
King of Great Britain Edward VIII

1940 - Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
1941 - Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
1941 - Germany & Italy declare war on US
1941 - Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000
1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941 - Japanese occupy Guam
1942 - Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
1944 - Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
1945 - Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
1946 - Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
1946 - Spain suspended from UN
1946 - UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1947 - "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
1947 - Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in Wings," premieres in NYC
1947 - Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
1948 - WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 - WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
1949 - Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
1949 - WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
1950 - Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement
1953 - KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1954 - Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
1956 - Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
1958 - 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
1958 - Archibald MacLeish's "JB," premieres in NYC
1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
American Baseball Player Roger Maris

1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
1960 - Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
1960 - Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC
1960 - Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
1961 - "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1961 - Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
1961 - JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1965 - "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
1965 - "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 - Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards

1967 - 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1967 - Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
1967 - People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967 - SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1968 - KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1968 - US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
1969 - Libya adopts constitution
1970 - John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "**bleep**"
1970 - Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
1970 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1972 - Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
1972 - Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
1973 - Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
1973 - NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
1973 - Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
1973 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
Rocker/Beatle John Lennon

1978 - 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
1979 - Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
1979 - Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1980 - Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
1980 - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 - Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees
1981 - Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
1981 - Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
1981 - Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1981 - UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
1981 - Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
1981 - El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war.
1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1983 - 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)
1983 - Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
264th Pope John Paul II

1984 - "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
1984 - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
1985 - Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
1985 - Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
1985 - General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
1985 - NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals
1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
1986 - South Africa censors press
1987 - Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
1989 - "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
1989 - Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
1990 - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
1991 - William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
1992 - Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
1992 - WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
1993 - 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
1993 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1994 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1994 - Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenie
1995 - Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
1997 - "Sunshine Boys," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 - Fed judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
1997 - The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens for signature.
1998 - Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101
2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2005 - The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire.
2005 - Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed up by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
2007 - Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
2008 - Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2009 - Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2010 - Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.

 

 

Peace!

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 12th.  Here is today in history.

 

627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
1098 - 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession of Bosnia.
1474 - Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon
1479 - Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
1524 - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1527 - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1653 - Barebone-parliament ends
1677 - Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23]
1769 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
1791 - Bank of US opens
1792 - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800 - Washington DC established as capital of US
1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.
1822 - Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1858 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent)
1862 - Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1870 - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
1884 - 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
1897 - Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
1897 - Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded.
1898 - 1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
1899 - 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1899 - George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
1901 - Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
1903 - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
1904 - CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in NYC
1906 - Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1912 - R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in NYC
1913 - "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1913 - Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
1915 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1915 - Aristide Briand forms French war government
1915 - Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1916 - Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1917 - French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
1917 - Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
1920 - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris
1925 - Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
1925 - Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
1925 - Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
1926 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert
1928 - Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe," premieres in NYC
1930 - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1930 - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
1930 - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1931 - Japanese government of Imukai forms
1932 - S N Behrmans "Biography," premieres in NYC
1932 - USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937 - NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1937 - Washington Redskins win NFL championship
1937 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1939 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1940 - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
1941 - European reservists on Java mobilizes
1941 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941 - Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
1942 - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.
1945 - Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
1946 - Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
1946 - Tide detergent introduced
1946 - UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
1947 - United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
1949 - AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
1950 - 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
1950 - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 - Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
1953 - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1955 - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christoper Cockerell
1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.
1957 - Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
1957 - US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
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Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham
1958 - Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
1958 - Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
1959 - UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1961 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
1961 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
1963 - Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1964 - Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1964 - Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
1965 - Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales)
1965 -Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155

1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
1966 - US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
1967 - US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1968 - Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1969 - Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
1969 - Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
1969 - Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
1970 - Polish government proclaims price rise
1970 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1970 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
1973 - San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
1975 - Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford
1976 - QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
1979 - Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
1979 - Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
1979 - President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
1980 - US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1981 - "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances
1981 - Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
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NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky 1981 - Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf
1982 - $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
1982 - 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63)
1982 - Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1983 - A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
1985 - 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
1985 - DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-207
1986 - David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide
1986 - James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden
1986 - Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986 - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 - Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
1987 - Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
1987 - Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
1988 - 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
1988 - NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
1988 - PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
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1990 - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
1990 - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
1991 - Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
1991 - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
1991 - NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
1991 - Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
1991 - Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
1992 - 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB)
1992 - 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
1992 - Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
1992 - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1992 - NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
1993 - "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
1993 - "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
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1995 - CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
1995 - Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress
1995 - NBA referees return to work after striking
1995 - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
1996 - Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
1996 - Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou
1997 - Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris
1997 - Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
1997 - Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
1997 - Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
1997 - SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages
1997 - TWA 800 hearings end
1997 - Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
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Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 13th.  Here is today in history.

 

1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III
1570 - Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
1572 - Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under admiral Lumey
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1621 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1668 - Jean Racines "Britannicus," premieres in Paris
1734 - England & Russia sign trade agreement
1742 - Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1774 - 1st incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire
1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1823 - Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
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Novelist Charles Dickens 1861 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1864 - Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1879 - 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1889 - Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1895 - 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony
1900 - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
1901 - Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1906 - German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
1907 - George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
1907 - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
1913 - Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1916 - Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
1916 - French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
1918 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1919 - Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 - F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1920 - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
1920 - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1930 - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
1930 - Theodore Steeg forms French government
1934 - Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
1936 - Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
1936 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1939 - Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
1941 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941 - Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1942 - Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 - Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
1943 - 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 - Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in NYC
1946 - Leon Blum elected French premier
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
1947 - Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1949 - AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
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1953 - KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires
1959 - Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
1960 - Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
1960 - Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1961 - Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1961 - Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 - Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1962 - Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1963 - Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
1964 - Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
1964 - In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
1965 - Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - United Soccer Association & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1967 - Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1967 - San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours.
1968 - Playland at Beach reopens
1968 - Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1969 - Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1970 - Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
1970 - Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in NYC
1971 - John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1973 - MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1973 - World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1974 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
1974 - Malta becomes a republic
1975 -1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)

1975 - Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
1975 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1975 - Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
1976 - Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
1979 - "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
1979 - Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1980 - "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 - 70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1)
1981 - Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1982 - 71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62)
1982 - Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1983 - 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1983 - British Airways incorporates
1983 - Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
1983 - KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
1983 - Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
1984 - Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
1985 - David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
1985 - Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India)
1987 - Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
1987 - Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
1988 - Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1989 - Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1989 - The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden.
1990 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 - Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1990 - Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1991 - Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
1991 - NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
1992 - "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 - Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 - FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
1993 - Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
1993 - Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
1994 - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
1995 - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
1995 - US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
1996 - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
1996 - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1997 - 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
2000 - The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
2001 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
2002 - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
2004 - Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.
2006 - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
2007 -The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.

 

 

Peace!

[Phil Deakins]

13th December. The RL alt of Phil Deakins was born

[Hippie Bowman]

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13th December. The RL alt of Phil Deakins was born

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Peace!

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 14th.  Here is today in history.

 

644 - Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
867 - Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
872 - John VIII elected as Catholic Pope
1124 - Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)
1287 - Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
1542 - Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old
1575 - Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1582 - Zealand/Brabant Neth adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25
1600 - Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die
1656 - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1702 - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
1708 - Prosper Jolyot's "Electre," premieres in Paris
1774 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary
1782 - Charleston, SC evacuated by British
1793 - 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
1819 - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
1825 - Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
1836 - The Toledo War unofficially ends.
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Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart 1849 - 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
1863 - Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
1882 - Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
1889 - American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
1894 - Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus v Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)
1894 - Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren
1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
1901 - 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1903 - Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut
1907 - The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1913 - Greece formally takes possession of Crete
1914 - Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
1915 - Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1917 - UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/giacomo-puccini.jpg" /> Composer Giacomo Puccini 1918 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in NYC
1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC
1923 - Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
1924 - Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou
1924 - Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma," premieres in Paris
1926 - Danish Madsen government, forms
1927 - Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1928 - 2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man
1929 - Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
1930 - NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
1931 - 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
1932 - French government of Herriot falls
1933 - Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
1934 - 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
1935 - Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban
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1938 - AL permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games
1938 - Major leagues agrees on standard ball
1938 - Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
1938 - Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president
1939 - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1941 - 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
1941 - Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
1941 - U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
1944 - Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1944 - Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
1944 - German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
1945 - Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl," premieres in NYC
1946 - "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 perfs
1946 - Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
1946 - UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
1947 - Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1950 - "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs
1950 - UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1950 - Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
1952 - KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 - R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut v Pakistan, Calcutta
1952 - Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
1953 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax
1954 - WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
1955 - Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic
1956 - Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO
1957 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 perfs
1957 - "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances
1959 - Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
1959 - J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m
1960 - Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
1960 - Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
1960 - Washington Senators joins American League
1961 - Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
1962 - Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 - Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
1965 - "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances
1967 - DNA created in a test tube
1969 - "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
1969 - Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta
1969 - Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 - Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
1972 -Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor

1974 - Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
1974 - Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes
1975 - "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
1975 - 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
1975 - WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1976 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
1977 - "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC
1977 - Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
1977 - Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash
1977 - Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, v England at Lahore
1977 - War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1978 - "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
1980 - Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 - At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 - Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 - Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 - New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
1982 - Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 - "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances
1984 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1985 - US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1986 - Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
1987 - Allan Border scores 205 v NZ to become Australia's top rungetter
1987 - Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1988 - CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
1988 - NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
1988 - Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
1988 - US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
1990 - Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
1990 - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1991 - 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
1991 - Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
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Heavyweight Boxing Champ Lennox Lewis 1992 - Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him
1993 - Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
1995 - "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
1996 - 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 - 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)
1997 - "View From the Bridge," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - Diners Club Senior Golf Match
1997 - Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches
1997 - Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals
2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2003 - President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein.
2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
2008 -President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is December the 15th.  Here is today in history.

 

533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.
687 - St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
1124 - Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
1167 - Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1467 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
1569 - Westmoreland flees to Scotland
1582 - Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine
1582 - Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
1586 - Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
1593 - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1612 - Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1640 - Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
1660 - Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
1664 - English colonizing Connecticut
1667 - Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
1680 - Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
1688 - Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
1745 - Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
1791 - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1792 - 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
1794 - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
1810 - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
1815 - Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
1820 - 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1859 - GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
1863 - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
1863 - Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita).
1864 - Battle of Nashville, TN
1864 - Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
1868 - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1874 - 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1961/" target=_blank>1961 - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
1961 - Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time

1961 - JFK visits Puerto Rico
1961 - L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
1962 - Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
1964 - 1st time 4 people in space
1964 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1965 - 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
1965 - D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London
1965 - Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1965 - Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
1965 - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
1966 - "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1966 - John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
1967 - Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
1967 - Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
1967 - Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
1967 - The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
1969 - Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1970 - Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
1970 - S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1970 - Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness
1973 - Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
1973 - Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
1973 - Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
1973 - US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
1974 - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
1976 - Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
1976 - Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN.
1978 - Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1978 - Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
1979 - World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
1980 - NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
1980 - Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 - ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1981 - 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503
1982 - Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
1982 - Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 - Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
1982 - Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1983 - 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
1983 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1983 - Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1983 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC
1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2009/" target=_blank>2009 - Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 16th.  Here is today in history.

 

755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
882 - Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
1392 - Nanboku-chō - Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1431 - King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
1538 - King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
1575 - The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
1577 - Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory
1598 - Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the Korean and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Korean victory.
1617 - Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay)
1631 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
1653 - Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
1659 - General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1707 - Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1740 - Prussian Libya falls to Silezie
1761 - Seven Years' War: After four-month siege, Russian army under Pyotr Rumyantsev takes Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg (German: Kolberg).
1767 - Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers
1773 - Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
1809 - Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1965/" target=_blank>1965 - Gemini 6 returns to Earth
1965 - Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
1965 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga

1966 - Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
1968 - KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
1969 - Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
1969 - "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing
1970 - 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
1971 - Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
1971 - India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders
1972 - Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
1972 - Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
1973 - O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
1973 - US kidnap victem Paul Getty III freed
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV
1975 - Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1998/" target=_blank>1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 17th.  Here is today in history.

 

2011	In the Philippines, flash floods from Tropical Storm Washi killed at least 400 people, with more missing
2011	Protesters in Cario's Tahir Square are beaten by Egyptian Army soldiers in a second day of skirmishes resulting in 10 deaths and hundreds of injured
2010	The first ever HIV infection is announced in the Cook Islands
2010	The United Kingdom gives prisoners serving less than four years the right to vote
2004	President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director
1995	"School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 23 performances
1994	KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
1993	Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
1993	Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
1993	Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
1993	Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
1992	"Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 22 performances
1992	General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1991	Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
1991	NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
1991	Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago
1991	Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1990	KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
1989	78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1989	Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president
1989	Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA vs. WA)
1989	Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1988	77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988	Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Caps)
1988	New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
1988	USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
1988	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1987	Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1986	U.S. Congress forms Irangate committee
1986	Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1984	New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
1984	New Jersey Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0
1983	"Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 5 performances
1983	Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
1983	Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
1981	Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier
1980	Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980	Mauritania provisional constitution published
1979	Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph
1978	OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1978	Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1977	Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia vs. India at the WACA, aged 41
1977	Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st U.S. TV appearance (SNL)
1977	France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976	Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1975	1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
1975	Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life
1973	Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
1972	New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan
1972	WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
1971	"Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
1971	Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir
1971	Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1970	Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1969	50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
1969	USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1967	WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965	Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland and Supremes concert
1965	British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965	David Levy begins his search for comets
1965	Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
1963	Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
1963	West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
1962	Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places)
1962	Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1961	Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
1961	India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies
1961	Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
1960	"La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 835 performances
1960	"Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 448 performances
1960	Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio," premieres
1959	"On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1959	1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1957	U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
1954	1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1954	WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953	Dmitri Shostakovich' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953	FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications
1951	Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1949	"Regina" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 86 performances
1949	Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1947	NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1947	WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1946	Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea
1946	U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1944	Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1944	Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
1944	M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St
1944	U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast
1944	U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
1943	Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942	Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1941	Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
1941	German submarine U-31 sunk
1941	German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1940	British troops occupies Sollum
1939	German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
1938	Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1936	Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
1933	B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, England vs. India at Bombay
1933	Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
1933	Spain's 2nd Government of Lerroux forms
1933	NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
1932	Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll
1928	John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea
1927	U.S. submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1927	Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
1926	German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
1926	KYA-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions
1926	Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras
1925	Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
1925	Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1924	1st U.S. diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York
1923	Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
1922	Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
1920	AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
1920	British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920	Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920	South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1919	Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
1914	Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
1914	Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1914	Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1909	Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
1907	Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
1903	At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1902	Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist," premieres in Berlin
1900	1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
1900	New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1895	Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C.
1895	George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1893	Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
1892	Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St. Petersburg
1887	Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
1885	France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1875	Violent bread riots in Montreal
1865	Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete" Symphony," premieres
1864	Battle of Franklin, TN
1862	General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1860	Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
1852	1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1832	HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
1821	Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
1819	Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
1798	1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
1792	Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1791	New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1790	Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1788	Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1777	France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
1777	,George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pennsylvania
1745	Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
1728	Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue
1718	England declares war on Spain
1638	French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
1587	Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
1572	Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1538	Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1526	Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
1526	Pope Clemens VII publishes degree **bleep** ad zero - forms Inquisition
283	St. Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 18th.  Here is today in history.

 

• 218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
• 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia and China.
• 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
• 1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
• 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
• 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
• 1878 – John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
• 1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar
• 1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
• 1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
• 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
• 1912 – The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
• 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
• 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
• 1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.
• 1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
• 1939 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
• 1944 – World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
• 1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.
• 1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
• 1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
• 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
• 1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
• 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
• 1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
• 1978 – Dominica joins the United Nations.
• 1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
• 1989 – The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
• 1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
• 1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
• 2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
• 2005 – The civil war in Chad begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
• 2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
• 2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
• 2010 – Anti-government protests begin in Tunisia, heralding the Arab Spring

 

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

12-18-2012   Around the nation, students on Christmas break borrow their parent's cars and rush to go necking at Fiscal Cliff before it disappears.

12-18-3212    Nearly 1200 years after the great Mayan apocalypse of 2012, archeologists surveying abandoned mines near what was once Deadwood, South Dakota, USA, discover the mummified remains of 41 people huddled under an immense pile of "Hostess Twinkies". Although the remains of the victims were barely identifiable, researchers described the Twinkies as "delicious".

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

12-18-2012

  Around the nation, students on Christmas break borrow their parents cars and rush to go necking at Fiscal Cliff before it disappears.

12-18-3212

    Nearly 1200 years after the great Mayan apocalypse of 2012, archeologists surveying abandoned mines near what was once Deadwood, South Dakota, USA, discover the mummified remains of 41 people huddled under an immense pile of "Hostess Twinkies". Although the remains of the victims were barely identifiable, researchers described the Twinkies as "delicious".

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OMG Maddy!    HEHEH!

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 19th.  Here is today in history.

 

324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
401 - St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1055 - Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
1154 - King Henry II of England crowned
1551 - Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1562 - Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Condé captured
1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee to France
1696 - Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris
1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
1783 - English government of Pitt Jr forms
1788 - Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
1828 - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ
1842 - US recognizes independence of Hawaii
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Novelist Charles Dickens 1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
1854 - Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR
1861 - Battle of Black Water
1862 - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
1867 - Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
1871 - Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
1881 - Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels)
1884 - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1887 - Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
1888 - Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1889 - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
1891 - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
1891 - Canadian Rugby Union forms
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/charles-darwin.jpg" /> Naturalist Charles Darwin 1894 - Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113
1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
1904 - Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
1907 - 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania
1910 - 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1913 - Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title
1916 - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
1917 - Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
1919 - American Meteorological Society found
1920 - 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
1920 - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
1922 - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
1924 - Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings
1924 - The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1928 - 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1930 - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
1931 - Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG
1931 - Joseph A Lyons © becomes premier of Australia
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
1933 - Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
1934 - Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
1939 - Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
1941 - German submarine U-574 sinks
1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
1943 - Military coup in Bolivia
1945 - Austrian Republic re-establishes
1945 - Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris
1946 - Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860," premieres in London
1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1948 - 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
1948 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
1948 - Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
1948 - Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
1949 - Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland
1949 - WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1951 - Nazi General Christiansen leaves Nethe
1952 - Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
1953 - KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
1958 - 1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
1959 - 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/frank-sinatra.jpg" /> Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra 1960 - Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
1961 - British government begins decimal coin system
1961 - Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization
1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
1962 - Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
1965 - French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
1968 - WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 - Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
1971 - "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
1971 - CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1971 - Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
1972 -Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth

1973 - "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
1973 - Grenada adopts constitution
1974 - "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
1974 - Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1975 - Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
1976 - Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ
1976 - John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi
1976 - Pres Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
1976 - Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
1977 - Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
1980 - Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1980 - Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 1984 - China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
1984 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1984 - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
1984 - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
1985 - "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1985 - Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
1985 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1986 - Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500
1987 - Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
1987 - Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
1988 - NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/wayne-gretzky.jpg" /> NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky 1988 - Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1988 - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
1989 - American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
1989 - Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1991 - "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1991 - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
1991 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
1993 - "Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
1993 - Guinee general Lansana re-elected president
1994 - Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
1995 - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
1996 - "Once Upon a Matress," opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
1997 - MTV drops video "Smack My **bleep** Up" by Prodigy
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/bill-clinton.jpg" /> 42nd US President Bill Clinton 2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2007 -The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 20th.  Here is today in history.

 

69 - General Vespasian's troops occupy Rome after defeating the Emperor Vitellius
1046 - Synod of Sutri: German King Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI
1046 - Benedictus IX & Silvester III & names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II at the Council of Sutri
1192 - Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
1448 - Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1585 - English fleet & earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
1600 - Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
1606 - Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown, Virginia
1626 - Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
1661 - Corporation Act enforced in England
1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
1688 - Prince Willem III's troops pull into London
1694 - Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
1780 - England declares war on Netherlands
1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
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Russian Tsar Peter the Great 1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1823 - Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
1830 - England, France, Prussia, Austria & Russia recognize Belgium
1850 - Hawaiian post office established
1860 - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
1861 - Battle of Dranesville, VA
1862 - -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
1862 - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 - Brig-gen Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
1864 - -Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
1865 - De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1880 - Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
1880 - NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/nathan-bedford-forrest.jpg" /> Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest 1883 - Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1891 - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1892 - Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
1893 - 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
1894 - England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket, Australia needed 177 to win, all out at 166 on 6th day
1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1906 - Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
1907 - Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
1912 - J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in NYC
1912 - Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie," premieres in Paris
1915 - Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1917 - Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1918 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in NYC
1919 - Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration
1920 - Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
1920 - Bob Hope became an American citizen
1921 - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1922 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
1922 - Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
1924 - Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1926 - Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
1926 - Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1926 - Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in NYC
1928 - 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que
1928 - Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
1929 - Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
1929 - Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
1930 - Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
1932 - Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
1933 - Bolivia & Paraguay sign weapon cease fire
1935 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1937 - Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
1938 - Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1939 - Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/connie-mack.jpg" /> Baseball Legend Connie Mack 1940 - Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
1941 - Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon
1941 - Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1941 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1942 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1943 - "International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
1944 - Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 - Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1944 - Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
1944 - Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London
1945 - Rationing of auto tires ends in US
1946 - Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1948 - Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
1949 - Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast," premieres
1950 - "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
1952 - KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
1953 - KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1956 - Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
1956 - Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/elvis-presley.jpg" /> Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
1959 - Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
1960 - Auschwitz-commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1962 - D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
1962 - Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 - Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
1963 - Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 -Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins

1964 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1966 - Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
1966 - NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
1966 - Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft, premieres
1967 - "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft, premieres
1967 - 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
1967 - Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
1968 - The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1969 - Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1970 - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
1971 - Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
1972 - Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in NYC
1973 - AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
1973 - Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms
1973 - Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
1974 - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1974 - George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
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Actress Anne Bancroft 1975 - Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
1975 - Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
1976 - "Music Is" opens at St James Theater NYC for 8 performances
1976 - Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1977 - 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
1977 - RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
1978 - H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
1980 - NBC broadcasts NY Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
1980 - USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
1981 - "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1522 performances
1981 - Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) & most turnovers (10)
1981 - Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
1981 - Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in NYC
1983 - El Salvador adopts constitution
1983 - Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/yasser-arafat.jpg" /> Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat 1983 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
1984 - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
1985 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1985 - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
1986 - White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
1987 - "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1987 - 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
1987 - Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
1987 - Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1988 - Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
1988 - NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
1988 - Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
1989 - Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1989 - US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
1990 - Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
1990 - Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
1990 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1991 - NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
1991 - Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
1991 - A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
1992 - Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
1992 - Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
1995 - "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
1995 - American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1998 - Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
1999 - Portugal returns Macau to China
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa is forced out of office.
2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
2005 - US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
2005 - The first same sex civil partnerships in Scotland are celebrated.
2005 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
2006 - A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle.
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/elizabeth-ii.jpg" /> Queen Elizabeth II 2007 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
2007 -The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 21st.  Here is today in history.

 

1163 - Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
1561 - Archbishop Granvelle installed
1582 - Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
1598 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11]
1650 - Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1688 - Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
1784 - John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
1788 - Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
1829 - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1835 - HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1844 - The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1849 - 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
1864 - General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia
1866 - Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
1890 - Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1891 - 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1898 - Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
1900 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1978/" target=_blank>1978 - "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
1978 - Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder

1979 - Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1980 - Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1981 - Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
1983 - Musical "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
1983 - NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1983 - NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
1984 - Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
1984 - USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
1985 - ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 - Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 - Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
1986 - 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1986 - Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1987 - 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 - Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
1988 - Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 - NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1988 - Pan AM Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb killing 243 passengers and 16 crew (also known as the Lockerbie bombing)
1989 - VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
1990 - Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
1991 - 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991 - El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
1991 - Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1992 - Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1994 - Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
1995 - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 - SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
1995 - The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 - Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
1997 - Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
1997 - Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
1997 - Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
1997 - Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
1997 - Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2006 - Puzzle Play aired to network Ten, replacing In the Box
2007 - The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders.

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is December the 22nd.  Here is today in history.

 

401 - St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
795 - Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 - Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 - Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 - English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 - Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 - Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 - Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 - Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 - Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1807 - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 - British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1969/" target=_blank>1969 - Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots

1970 - Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 - KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 - 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 - Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 - Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 - Ted Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
1976 - "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 perfs
1976 - 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1976 - German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 - 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 - Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 - Thailand adopts constitution
1980 - Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 - Pres-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) & James Watt (Interior)
1981 - Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 - Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1982 - William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in NYC
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2010/" target=_blank>2010 - The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama.

 

 

 

Peace!