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Author Topic: On This Date in History Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 07:11 AM                        Rated G December 4th On this day in history .. 1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va) 1680 - A hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great comet 1st seen on December 16 1680 1682 - 1st Gen Assembly in Penn (Chester) 1783 - Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern NYC 1909 - 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26 Toronto Parkdale 6) 1912 - Roald Amundsen reaches South pole 1915 - Panama Pacific International Exposition opens 1957 - 1st edition of Chase's Annual Events published 1965 - Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts 1980 - Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies) 1980 - South Africa grants Transkei independence Famous birthdays for this day .. 1443 - Pope Julius II, (1503-13) patron of Michelangelo Bramante Raphael 1835 - Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom Way of All Flesh) 1861 - Lillian Russell, American singer actress (The Great Mogul) 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (Duino Elegies) 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist historian (or 1795) 1908 - A.D. Hershey, US biologist worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969) 1922 - Deanna Durbin, actress (100 Men and a Girl) 1943 - Patti Chandler, in Cal 1944 - Dennis Wilson, drummer Beach Boys 1949 - Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 01:51 PM                        Rated G On December 5 in history .. 1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola 1776 - Phi Beta Kappa 1st American scholastic fraternity founded 1791 - Mozart dies 1876 - Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench 1933 - 21st Amendment ratified 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed 1935 - 1st coml hydroponics operation established Montebello Ca 1947 - Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis 1951 - Dragnet premiers 1955 - AFL & CIO merge 1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album 1974 - Seattle Seahawks formed 1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus 1982 - University Baptist Church Seattle declares sanctuary for refugees Famous birthdays on December 5 .. 1782 - Martin Van Buren, (D) 8th pres (1837-41) 1839 - George Armstrong Custer, of Little Big Horn fame 1901 - Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse 1901 - Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932) 1902 - Strom Thurmond, (D/R-Sen-SC) 1903 - Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist discovered pion (Nobel 1950) 1905 - Otto Preminger, movie director producer (Laura Exodus) 1947 - Jim Plunkett, NFL quarterback 1947 - Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39) 1951 - Morgan Brittany,  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 01:52 PM                        Rated G On December 6 in history .. 1492 - Haiti discovered by Columbus 1534 - Quito Ecuador founded by Spanish 1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1825 - Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory 1876 - City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time 1882 - Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit 1907 - Coal mine explosions in Monongah WV kills 361 1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) 1921 - Irish Free State gains independence from Britain 1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up 1973 - Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP 1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence Famous birthdays on December 6 .. 1421 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61 1470-71) 1822 - John Eberhard, built 1st large US pencil factory 1870 - William S Hart, star of silent Westerns 1886 - Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees) 1887 - Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy Arms and the Man) 1896 - George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears) 1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful I Got Rhythm) 1898 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist economist 1906 - Agnes Moorehead, (Endorra-Bewitched) 1920 - Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist 1921 - Otto Graham, AAFC NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns) 1925 - Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams NY Giants) 1947 - Chelsea Brown, in Chicago Ill  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 01:54 PM                        Rated G On December 7 in history .. 1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution 1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert 1912 - George Darwin theorized moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean dies 1935 - Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup 1941 - Pearl Harbor attacked (a day that will live in infamy) 1st Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward) 1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires 1960 - France grants Ivory Coast independence (National Day) 1972 - Apollo 17 last of Apollo moon series launched 1975 - 10th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres 1977 - Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent - Black Hawks 4-0 1978 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick 1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1st woman full prof at Harvard U dies Famous birthdays on December 7 .. 1542 - Mary Queen, of Scots 1598 - Gian Bernini, baroque sculptor 1761 - Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum 1873 - Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia) 1878 - Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet 1888 - Joyce Cary, writer 1905 - Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer discovered moons of Uranus Neptune 1915 - Eli Wallach, actor 1923 - Ted Knight, actor (Ted Baxter anchorman) 1924 - Mario Soares, (Socialist) premier of Portugal (1976-78 1983- ) 1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist founder of transformational grammar 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, in Det 1947 - Gregg Allman, singer 1947 - Johnny Bench, baseball catcher 1948 - Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina 1956 - Larry Bird, (Boston Celtics) 1956 - Priscilla Barnes, (3's Company)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 01:59 PM                        Rated G On December 8 in history .. 1831 - James Hoban White House designer dies 1845 - German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid Astra 1863 - Fire in Santiago Chile kills 2 000 1869 - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican I opens in Rome 1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions 1893 - Enlightment of Buddha 1913 - Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1931 - Coaxial cable patented 1940 - 1st NFL championship on natl radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 1941 - SF 1st blackout at 6:15PM. Also US declares war on Japan 1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) 1966 - A terrible Yankee trade Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith 1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth 1980 - John Lennon assassinated in NY by David Mark Chapman 1982 - Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot 1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth Famous birthdays on December 8 .. 0065 - Horace, BC in Rome poet 1626 - Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic 1765 - Eli Whitney, inventor 1832 - Bjírnstjerne Bjírnson, Norwegian writer (Nobel 1903) 1861 - Aristide Maillol, French painter sculptor 1861 - William Crapo Durant, founded GM 1865 - Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer 1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist 1894 - James (Grover) Thurber, in Columbus Oh (Men Women and Dogs) 1903 - Adele Simpson, fashion designer 1906 - Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley) 1908 - John Volpe, former governor of Massachusetts cabinet officer 1922 - John B. (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot 1925 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer actor (Ocean's 11) 1927 - Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4 8 10) 1930 - Maximilian Schell, actor (Odessa File Julia) 1933 - Flip Wilson, comedian actor (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh) 1936 - David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu Mean Streets) 1937 - James MacArthur, actor -- "Book 'Em Danno!" 1953 - Kim Basinger, in Athens Ga (9 1/2 Weeks Man Who Loved Women)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 02:01 PM                        Rated G On December 9 in history .. 1292 - Sa'di great Persian poet (Orchard Rose Garden) dies 1792 - 1st cremation in US 1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper American Minerva 1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold in Wilmington PO 1941 - 300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America HQ 1948 - UN Gen Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide 1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain 1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus Famous birthdays on December 9 .. 1561 - Edwin Sandys, a founder of Va colony 1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32) 1608 - John Milton, poet and puritan (Paradise Lost) 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus stories 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king 1897 - Hermione Gingold, 1898 - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie) 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch of the West) 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, writer film director (Johnny Got His Gun) 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor (Ghost Story) 1911 - Broderick Crawford, actor (All the King's Men Highway Patrol) 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing) 1912 - Thomas P. O'Neill, (D-Mass-Rep) Speaker of the House 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano 1918 - Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral 7 Days in May) 1922 - Redd Foxx, actor and comedian (Sanford and Son) 1925 - Dina Merrill, in NYC 1926 - Luis Miguel Domingu¡n, matador 1928 - Dick Van Patten, actor (Eight Is Enough) 1929 - Robert J.L. Hawke, (Labor) prime minister of Australia (1983- ) 1938 - David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA SD Washington) 1942 - Dick Butkus, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears) 1957 - Donny Osmond, singer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-06-2005 04:40 PM                        Rated G On December 10 in history .. 1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant 1817 - Mississippi becomes 20th state 1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Mass 1869 - Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory 1896 - Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date 1898 - Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain 1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant Fr‚d‚ric Passy) 1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1920 - President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize 1923 - Harold Gould (Rhoda 1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1948 - UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights 1950 - Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize 1958 - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 1962 - Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years 1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Britain 1966 - Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature 1967 - Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26 1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner accepts his Nobel Peace Prize 1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1978 - Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians 1982 - Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth 211 days after take-off 1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize 1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Famous birthdays on December 10 .. 1787 - Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf 1822 - Cesar Franck, in Belgium composer 1824 - George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith) 1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet 1851 - Melvil Dewey, creator of Dewey Decimal System for libraries 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German poet O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966) 1903 - Una Merkel, actress (The Parent Trap) 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, in New Orleans (Road to Bali Greatest Show on Earth) 1946 - Gloria Loring, in NYC 1952 - Susan Hallock Dey, in Ill (First Love LA Law) 1961 - Nia Peeples,  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-06-2005 04:41 PM                        Rated G On December 11 in history .. 1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state 1888 - French Panama Canal company fails 1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed 1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia 1932 - Snow falls in SF 1936 - King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves 1941 - Japanese occupy Guam 1946 - UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1953 - KTVA Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station 1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News Va 1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France 1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry Don Larsen Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri 1961 - JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam 1970 - John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck" 1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10› to 13› 1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George 'Doc' Medich Famous birthdays on December 11 .. 1781 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist inventor of kaleidoscope 1803 - Hector Berlioz, in France composer 1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist 1882 - Fiorello La Guardia, (R) mayor of NYC (1933-45) 1882 - Max Born, German physicist (Nobel 1954) 1905 - Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa) 1913 - Carlo Ponti, director 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970) 1931 - Rita Moreno, actress (The King and I West Side Story) in Puerto Rico 1937 - Anne Heywood, 1944 - Brenda Lee, in Atlanta Georgia 1944 - Donna Mills, in Chicago Illinois 1945 - Lynda Day-George, in Tennessee 1947 - Elizabeth Baur, in Cal 1950 - Christine Onasis, in NYC 1962 - Kim Linehan, swimmer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-06-2005 04:45 PM                        Rated G On December 12 in history .. 1787 - Penns becomes 2nd state 1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum 1899 - George F Grant patents golf tee 1901 - Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal England to US 1921 - Henrietta Leavitt cepheid period-luminosity relation discover dies 1937 - 1st mobile TV unit (NYC) 1963 - Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1964 - Russia launches Voshkod I 1st multi-crew in space (3 men) 1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs ties NFL record 1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves Famous birthdays on December 12 .. 1745 - John Jay, diplomat 1805 - Henry Wells, founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo 1821 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (Madame Bovary) 1852 - Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903) 1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream) 1915 - Frank Sinatra, singer actor (Old Blue Eyes) 1918 - Joe Williams, jazz singer 1923 - Bob Barker, game show host 1924 - Edward Koch, mayor of NYC 1929 - John Osborne, playwright 1938 - Connie Francis, in Newark NJ 1941 - Dionne Warwick, in East Orange NJ 1950 - Billy Smith, goaltender (NY Islanders) 1962 - Holly Gagnier, in LA  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-06-2005 04:47 PM                        Rated G On December 13 in history .. 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world 1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg Va; South beats North 1903 - Wright brothers 1st airplane flight at Kittyhawk 1918 - Wilson 1st to make a foreign visit as Pres 1920 - Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse) 1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres 1968 - Playland at the Beach reopens 1969 - Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager 1974 - Maltese Republic Day 1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur 1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar 1st US coin to honor a woman issued 1981 - Solidarity Day 1982 - Devil's 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini 1983 - Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers Famous birthdays on December 13 .. 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady 1835 - Phillips Brooks, clergyman composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem) 1871 - Russell Porter, 1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist 1913 - Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ 1915 - Ross Macdonald, detective novelist 1920 - George Schultz, secof state 1925 - Dick Van Dyke, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show Mary Poppins) 1929 - Christopher Plummer, actor 1930 - Genevieve Page, 1941 - John Davidson, TV host 1948 - Kathy Garver, in Cal  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-06-2005 04:49 PM                        Rated G On December 14 in history .. 1782 - Charleston SC evacuated by British 1799 - George Washington died at Mt Vernon Va 1819 - Alabama becomes 22nd state 1911 - South Pole 1st reached by Roald Amundsen 1927 - Iraq gains independence from Britain but British troops remain 1962 - Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus) 1971 - Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure 1974 - Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent - Kings 3-0 1980 - Anders Kailur scored in 6th Islander penalty shot 1980 - Yankee catcher Elston Howard dies 1985 - Roger Maris dies at 51 Famous birthdays on December 14 .. 1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and physician 1546 - Tycho Brahe, at Knudstrup Denmark astronomer 1895 - George VI, king of England (1936-52) 1896 - James H. Doolittle, former Air Force general 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, (R-Sen-Maine) 1909 - Edward L. Tatum, American molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958) 1914 - Morey Amsterdam, actor 1922 - Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals) 1932 - Abbe Lane, in Bkln 1932 - Charlie Rich, singer 1935 - Lee Remick, in Boston Mass (Days of Wine and Rose Long Hot Summer) 1938 - Janette Scott, 1946 - Jane Birkin, 1946 - Joyce Wilson (Dawn), in Detroit Michigan 1946 - Patty Duke, in Bkln (Miracle Worker)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-15-2005 10:00 AM                        Rated G On December 15 in history .. 1612 - Simon Marius namer of Jupiter's 4 inner satellites is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Va gave its approval 1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash DC 1859 - G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun 1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden Candiens 3 Americans 1 1939 - 1st coml manufacture of nylon yarn Seaford Delaware 1944 - Bandleader Major Glenn Miller lost over English Channel 1946 - Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL failed to report bribe attempt 1964 - American Radio Relay League founded 1965 - 1st rendevous in space: Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 link up 1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn Janus 1966 - Walt Disney passes away 1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones 1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) 1971 - USSR's Venera 7 becomes the 1st craft to land on Venus 1973 - Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens 1973 - Pirates of Caribbean opens 1980 - Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees 1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet 1985 - Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed Famous birthdays on December 15 .. 1832 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris 1859 - Ludwik Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto 1861 - Charles Edgar Duryea, invented 1st auto built and operated in US 1892 - J. Paul Getty, business tycoon 1933 - Tim Conway, comedian (Carol Burnett Show) 1965 - Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-15-2005 08:46 PM                        Rated G On December 16 in history .. 1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution 1773 - Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor Indians welcome 1857 - Earthquake in Naples Italy 1893 - Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres 1905 - Variety covering all phases of show business 1st published 1907 - Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise 1909 - US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office 1911 - South Pole 1st reached by Norwegian Roald Amundsen 1944 - Battle of the Bulge began 1965 - Gemini VI returns to Earth 1983 - Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time Famous birthdays on December 16 .. 1485 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII 1770 - Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany composer 1775 - Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice) 1863 - George Santayana, philosopher poet humanist 1899 - Sir Noel Coward, playwright 1900 - V.S. Pritchett, literary critic 1901 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa) 1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author (2001 Childhood's End) 1926 - James McCracken, dramatic tenor 1939 - Liv Ullman, in Tokyo Japan (Cries and Whispers) 1941 - Leslie Stahl, TV newsperson 1952 - Elayne Boosler, Comedian 1962 - William Perry, Chicago Bears (The Refrigerator)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-16-2005 10:58 PM                        Rated G On December 17 in history .. 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII 1777 - France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies 1790 - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City 1791 - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st one-way street 1792 - Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city 1843 - Charles Dickens's classic: A Christmas Carol published 1852 - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized 1860 - Anaheim Township created in LA County 1875 - Violent bread riots at Montreal 1903 - At 10:35AM 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Bros 1920 - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands 1933 - 1st professional NFL football game: Chicago Bears vs NY Giants 1944 - M-OceanView streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St 1954 - 1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In 1959 - 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities - On The Beach 1975 - 1st time Islanders shut-out Rangers 3-0 - Billy Smith's 5th 1979 - Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle) Famous birthdays on December 17 .. 1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements 1797 - Joseph Henry, American scientist and inventor 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, poet 1853 - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor theater manager 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L) 10th Canadian PM (1921-30 1935-48) 1894 - Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops conductor 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road God's Little Acre) 1908 - Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock" 1926 - Patrice Wymore, 1929 - William Safire, political columnist 1930 - Julia Meade, 1936 - Roland Sheldon, Yankee Pitcher 1936 - Tommy Steele, singer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-17-2005 08:25 PM                        Rated G On December 18 in history .. 1737 - Antonio Stradivari violin maker dies 1787 - NJ becomes 3rd state 1813 - British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812 1849 - William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope 1865 - 13th Amendment ratified slavery abolished 1898 - Auto speed record set -- 63 kph 1915 - Pres Wilson widowed the year before marries Edith Bolling Galt 1932 - Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game 1945 - Uruguay joined UN 1956 - Japan admitted to the UN 1958 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip 1958 - 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower 1958 - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) 1961 - India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa Damao & Diu 1965 - Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII 1969 - Britain abolished death penalty 1971 - 1st Candlelight Processional 1971 - Diana Lynn dies at 45 1972 - US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam 1973 - Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days 1974 - SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens 1980 - Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76 1985 - UN Security Council unanimously condemns `acts of hostage-taking' Famous birthdays on December 18 .. 1707 - Charles Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement 1709 - Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I) 1779 - Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist "greatest clown in history" 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German Romantic composer 1861 - Edward MacDowell, composer 1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter 1886 - Ty Cobb, played in 3000 games batted .367 stole 892 bases 1888 - Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads) 1890 - Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM) 1910 - Abe Burrows, Broadway impresario 1913 - Willy Brandt, (SD) chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71) 1916 - Betty Grable, in St Louis 1917 - Lynn Bari, actress 1917 - Ossie Davis, 1927 - Ramsey Clark, Attorney General 1934 - Boris V. Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5 21) 1943 - Keith Richard, singer (Rolling Stones) 1947 - Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws Raiders of the Lost Arc) 1950 - Leonard Maltin, Movie reviewer  |  IP: Logged

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