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B12--1898 Jean MacArthur, Nashville Tn, wife of General Douglas MacArthur
B12--1909 Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out)
B12--1946 Sherry Alberoni, actress (Midge-Ed Wynn Show, Debbie-Tom Ewell Show)
B12--1948 Christopher William Stearns, NYC, actor (Mary Kay & Johnny)
B12--1957 Sian Adey-Jones, Ciwyd Wales, Miss Wales (1975)
B12011566 Philip, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, gov of Ft Gorinchem/Nÿmegen
B12011724 Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern)
B12011726 Eggert Olafsson, Icelandic writer
B12011743 Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium)
B12011800 Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer")
B12011826 William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
B12011832 Archibald Gracie Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
B12011835 Micah Jenkins, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
B12011873 Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Neth (1918-25, 29-33
B12011884 Karl Schmidt[-Rottluff], German painter/sculptor (Brücke)
B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer (Nero Wolf)
B12011886 Willem E Crown, Antillian writer
B12011898 Cyril Ritchard, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan)
B12011899 Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
B120119-- Ryan Roxie, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
B12011902 Morris "Red" Badgro, Wash, NFL hall of famer (Yanks, Giants, Dodgers)
B12011904 W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president
B12011905 Charles Finney, US, author (Circus of Dr Lao)
B12011911 Walter Alston, baseball manager (Dodgers)
B12011911 Wim van Nuland, [Willem C Möhlmann], priest/writer (Doorstep)
B12011912 Minoru Yamasaki, architect (World Trade Center, NY)
B12011913 Mary Martin, Weatherford Tx, actress (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
B12011914 Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)
B12011914 Johnny Johnston, St Louis Mo, singer (Make that Spare)
B12011917 Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)
B12011919 Anne Cox Chambers, Dayton Ohio, US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81)
B12011921 Ralph Manza, SF Calif, actor (Banacek, Mama Malone, Newhart)
B12011922 Geraldine McCulloug, Maywood Ill, painter/sculptor (Phoenix)
B12011922 Paul Picerni, NYC, actor (Agent Lee Hobson-Untouchables)
B12011923 Stansfield Turner, CIA director
B12011925 David Doyle, Omaha Neb, actor (John Bosley-Charlie's Angels)
B12011925 Jordan Klein, Miami Fla, cameraman/director (Thunderball)
B12011926 Allyn Ann McLerie, Quebec, actress (Tony Randall Show, Thorn Birds)
B12011926 Keith Michell, Adelaide Australia, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
B12011926 Robert Symonds, Bristow Okla, actor (Roebert E Lee-Blue & Gray)
B12011929 David Doyle, actor (Charley's Angels, Pursuit of Happiness)
B12011929 Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
B12011929 Emily McLaughlin, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
B12011934 Billy Paul, Phila, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
B12011934 Hilly Axwÿk, Suriname social worker
B12011935 Roger Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
B12011935 Woody Allen, [Allen Stuart Konigsberg] Bkln (Zelig, Annie Hall)
B12011936 Lou Rawls, Chicago Ill, singer (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man)
B12011937 Gordon Crosse, Bury Lancashire England, composer (Grace of Todd)
B12011938 Sandy Nelson, Santa Monica, 50s rocker (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
B12011939 Dianne Lennon, LA Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
B12011939 Lee Trevino, Dallas Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1968,71)
B12011940 Richard Pryor, Ill, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
B12011940 Ron Finn, Toronto, NHL linesman
B12011942 John Crowley, US, sci-fi writer (The Deep)
B12011942 Peter Kalikow, Queens NYC, real estate developer/publisher (NY Post)
B12011943 Orton Enderlein, German FR, luge (Olympic-gold-1964)
B12011945 Bette Midler, Patterson NJ, singer/actress (Do You Want to Dance?)
B12011945 John Densmore, LA, drummer (Doors-C'mon Light My Fire)
B12011946 Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ireland, singer (Alone Again Naturally)
B12011946 Ho-Jun Li, Korea PR, rifle (Olympic-gold-1972)
B12011950 Richard Keith, Lafayette La, actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy)
B12011951 Treat Williams, actor (Flashpoint, Hair)
B12011954 Bob Goen, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
B12011955 Uwe Benter, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1972)
B12011958 Charlene Tilton, San Diego Calif, actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas)
B12011960 Carol Alt, [Altman], Queens NY (Mrs Ron Greshner), model (Sports Ill)
B12011962 Stan Albers, Pleasant Beach NJ, actor (Curtis-Loving)
B12011976 Konerak Sinthasomphone, Milwaukee Wisc, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim
B12011978 Arthur Spingarn, founder of NAACP
B12011988 Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
B12021802 Melancthon Smith Wade, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
B12021821 Rufus Barringer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
B12021825 JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89)
B12021837 Charles Garrison Harker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
B12021846 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
B12021859 Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte)
B12021866 Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
B12021868 Francis Jammes, French screenwriter/writer (Jammisme)
B12021884 Ruth Draper, US, lecture artist [or 1989]
B12021885 George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
B12021885 Níkos Kazantazakís, Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
B12021893 William Gaxton, SF Calif, actor (Destry, Convoy)
B12021895 Warren William, [Krech], US, actor (Cæsar in Cleopatra)
B12021896 Georgi K Zjoekov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad
B12021897 Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
B120219-- Bill Erwin, Honey Grove Texas, acor (Glenn-Struck by Lightning)
B120219-- Robert F Simon, Mansfield Oh, actor (Custer, M*A*S*H, Nancy)
B12021902 Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
B12021904 Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
B12021906 John Bentley, England, actor (Hammer the Tuff)
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
B12021908 Robert F Simon, US, actor (Man who shot Liberty Valance)
B12021910 Robert Paige, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
B12021914 Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
B12021914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
B12021915 Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
B12021915 Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
B12021917 Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
B12021918 Milton Delugg, LA Calif, orch leader (Tonight Show)
B12021922 Leo V Gordon, NYC, actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
B12021923 Maria Callas, NYC, soprano (Mademoiselle Award, 1953)
B12021923 Meshulam Riklis, husband of Pia Zadora
B12021924 Alexander Haig Jr, (R) US Sec of State (1981-82)/General
B12021925 Julie Harris, Grosse Pt Mich, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
B12021929 Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
B12021929 Jap Boersma, AR-min/director Amsterdam municipality
B12021929 Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
B12021931 Edwin Meese III, prude, US attorney General (1985-88)
B12021937 Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech)
B12021940 Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
B12021941 Paul C W Chu, China, physicists, superconductivity researcher
B12021944 Cathy Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
B12021950 Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
B12021953 Meg Griffin, DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
B12021953 Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters)
B12021954 Huub Stapel, actor
B12021956 Steven Bauer, Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
B12021958 Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980)
B12021960 Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
B12021962 Tracy Austin, Rolling Hills Calif, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
B12021965 Karrie Mitchell, Arvada Colorado, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
B12021966 Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
B12021967 Sharry Konopski, Longview Wash, playmate (August, 1987)
B12021968 Rena Sofer, actress (Rocky-Loving)
B12021968 Reneé Tenison, Caldwell Id, playmate of the year (Nov, 1989)
B12021973 Monica Seles, Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
B12031368 Charles VI, [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422)
B12031483 Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist
B12031684 Ludvig, Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature
B12031729 Padre Antonio Soler, Olot Spain, composer (Fandango)
B12031755 Gilbert Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington)
B12031795 Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
B12031797 Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
B12031806 Henry Alexander Wise, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
B12031809 Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
B12031822 Charles Adam Heckman, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
B12031826 George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
B12031829 Green Berry Raum, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
B12031838 Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
B12031838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
B12031842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres)
B12031857 Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
B12031862 Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32)
B12031864 Herman Heÿermans Jr, writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City)
B12031875 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist
B12031883 Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
B12031886 Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (röntgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924)
B12031895 Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F
B12031897 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Without My Cloak)
B120319-- Brian Lando, actor (Benjamin Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
B120319-- Mary Alice, actress (Lettie-Different World)
B120319-- Mickey Thomas, vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
B120319-- Moe Keale, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Truck-Hawaii 5-0)
B12031900 Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
B12031900 Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938)
B12031904 Juan E Yrausquin, founder (Party of Patriot Arubans)/minister
B12031907 Connee Boswell, New Orleans La, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
B12031908 Halsey Stevens, Scott NY, composer (Triskelion)
B12031911 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
B12031911 Nino Rota, Milan Italy, composer (Torquemada)
B12031914 Irving Fine, Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)
B12031921 Hans G Kresse, artist (Eric the Viking)
B12031923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
B12031924 John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
B12031926 Hans Otte, German composer/pianist
B12031927 Ferlin Husky, country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
B12031930 Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, French director (Alphaville, Hail Mary)
B12031930 Phyllis Curtin, West Virginia, soprano (NYC Opera)
B12031931 Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director (Sonja)
B12031931 Jaye P Morgan, Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
B12031932 Corry Brokken, singer
B12031934 Nicolas Coster, London, (Lionel-Santa Barbara, Electric Horseman)
B12031934 Viktor V Gorbatko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
B12031938 José Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon)
B12031945 Laura Dean, Staten Island NYC, composer/choreographer (Drumming)
B12031948 Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal musician; ate a bat (Suicide)
B12031949 Heather Menzies, Toronto Canada, actress (Jessica-Logan's Run)
B12031950 John Akii-bua, Uganda, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
B12031951 Danger Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
B12031951 James Turner Brewer, Maywood Ill, basketball player (Oly-silver-1972)
B12031951 Mike Stock, rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
B12031951 Rick Mears, Indy-car racer (over 25 wins)
B12031952 Mel Smith, author (Morons From Outer Space)
B12031953 Franz Klammer, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
B12031955 Melody Anderson, Edmonton Alb, actress (Flash Gordon, Brooke-Manimal)
B12031956 Heart Boucher, Canada actor
B12031959 Kathy Jordan, Penn, tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981)
B12031960 Mike Ramsey, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980)
B12031965 Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
B12031968 Kevin Telles, actor
B12031980 Anna Chlumsky, Chicago Ill, actress (My Girl)
B12031981 Brian Bonsall, actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation)
B12041443 Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
B12041584 John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
B12041795 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
B12041803 Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
B12041812 Elias Smith Dennis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
B12041818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
B12041822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
B12041835 Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
B12041861 Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
B12041865 Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
B12041866 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration)
B12041868 Richard N Roland Holst, artist/painter
B12041875 Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
B12041876 Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron send)
B12041881 Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (July 20th plot)
B12041892 Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator (1936-75)
B12041895 Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
B12041897 Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Dock Worker)
B120419-- Dena Dietrich, Pitts Pa, actress (Dena-Karen, Ethel-The Ropers)
B120419-- Donnelly Rhodes, Winnipeg Manitoba, actor (Dutch-Soap, Double Trouble)
B12041903 Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Nego)
B12041905 Emilio Médici, president Brazil (1969-74)
B12041907 Jo Farmer, author (Catharina & the Magnolia's)
B12041908 A D Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
B12041910 Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata)
B12041910 Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987- )
B12041912 John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], US, sci-fi author (Megalomania)
B12041915 Allan Jackson, Hot Springs Ark, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand)
B12041922 Deanna Durbin, Canada, actress/singer (100 Men & a Girl)
B12041922 Gérard Philipe, French actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps)
B12041923 Charles Keating, district attorney (LA Calif)
B12041923 Maria M Callas, [Kalogeropoulos], Greek/US singer
B12041924 John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)
B12041925 Maurice Binder, NYC, photographer/film titler (James Bond)
B12041930 Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953)
B12041930 Ronnie Corbett, England, comedian (2 Ronnies)
B12041932 Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988- )
B12041933 Horst Buchholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara)
B12041934 Victor French, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Highway to Heaven)
B12041934 Wink Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
B12041937 Max Baer Jr, Oakland Calif, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies)
B12041938 Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992)
B12041940 Freddy Cannon, rocker (Palisades Park)
B12041942 Chris Hillman, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man)
B12041943 Patti Chandler, Calif, actress (Bikini Beach)
B12041944 Dennis Wilson, Calif, drummer/singer (Beach Boys-My Room)
B12041948 Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home)
B12041949 Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds)
B12041950 Charles van de Graf, Dutch TV host
B12041950 Jan Rietman, Dutch radio/TV host
B12041950 Pamela Stephenson, Auckland NZ, actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
B12041951 Patricia Wettig, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something)
B12041952 Ronald M Sega, Cleve Ohio, Phd/Astronaut
B12041956 Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets)
B12041956 Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifer (Olympics-silver-1976)
B12041957 Raul Boesel, Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART)
B12041966 Anne [Anton JR] Krÿger, computer programmer
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, NY, (D) 8th pres (1837-41)
B12051786 Henry Drummond, English banker/apostole
B12051824 Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1867
B12051826 John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904
B12051830 Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away)
B12051839 George Armstrong Custer, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
B12051861 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24)
B12051863 Paul Painlevé, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician
B12051866 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/German/French painter (Der blaue Reiter)
B12051872 Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
B12051880 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor
B12051884 Evert Cornelis, conductor/pianist
B12051885 Dirk H W Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergense School)
B12051890 Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis)
B12051896 Willem F M Lampe, perfect minister Dutch Antilles
B120519-- Jack Russell, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
B120519-- Johnny Douglas, rocker (Kik Tracee-Hot Wire)
B120519-- Pamela Blair, actress (Loving)
B12051901 Grace Moore, US, soprano (One Night to Live)
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, Chicago, animator (Mickey Mouse)
B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 32)
B12051902 J Strom Thurmond, (Sen-D/R-SC)
B12051903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
B12051905 Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer (Laura, Exodus)
B12051907 Lin Piau, Chinese politician
B12051910 Abraham L Polonsky, US writer/director (Tell them Willie Boy is Here)
B12051915 Margaret Hayes, Balt Md, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
B12051921 Peter Hansen, Oakland Calif, actor (Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, Gen Hospital)
B12051926 George Savalas, Bronx NY, actor (Kojak)
B12051927 Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of Thailand (1950- )
B12051932 "Little" Richard, [Penniman], rocker (Tutty Fruity, Lucille)
B12051933 Bernard van Beurden, composer/music educator
B12051934 Joan Didion, US writer (Salvador)
B12051935 Calvin Trillin, author (New Yorker)
B12051938 John J Cale, Oklahoma City, rock guitarist (After Midnight)
B12051942 Randy Kirby, Chicago Ill, actor (Randy-Girl From UNCLE)
B12051945 J W "Corkey" Fornof, New Orleans, stunt coordinator (Octopussy)
B12051946 José Carreras, opera star/actor (I Lombardi)
B12051947 Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins & Messina-Your Mamma Don't Dance)
B12051947 Jim Plunkett, San Jose, CA, NFL quarterback (New England, Oakland)
B12051947 José Carreras, US, actor (I Lombardi)
B12051947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
B12051949 Bruce E Melnick, NYC, Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49)
B12051951 Morgan Brittany, Hollywood Calif, actress (Katherine-Dallas)
B12051953 Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B12051957 Charlene Morett, Darby Pa, field hockey left wing (Oly-bronze-1984)
B12051957 Phil Collen, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
B12051959 Nikki Gianulias, Vallejo Calif, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1979)
B12051962 Connie Needham Newton, Anaheim Calif, actress (Elizabeth-8 is Enough)
B12051963 Carrie Hamilton, actress, Carol Burnett's daughter (Fame)
B12051967 René Shuman, [Shumans], rockabilly-bandleader/ singer)
B12061285 Ferdinand V, king of Castilië & León
B12061421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
B12061732 Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
B12061808 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
B12061809 Stephen Thomas, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
B12061816 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
B12061831 Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
B12061833 John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), died in 1916
B12061843 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher
B12061857 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Lord Jim, Secret Affiliate)
B12061870 William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, US, (male) poet (Trees)
B12061887 Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
B12061892 F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
B12061893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
B12061896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
B12061898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
B12061898 Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
B120619-- Gina Hecht, Houston Tx, actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy)
B120619-- Lindsey Alicy
B12061906 Agnes Moorehead, Clinton Mass, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
B12061906 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician
B12061913 Eleanor Holm, NYC, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
B12061920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist (Take 5)
B12061921 Nicolas A Piña, Venezulian/Aruban songwriter
B12061921 Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns)
B12061924 Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares)
B12061925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
B12061932 Don King, boxing promoter (Mike Tyson)
B12061938 David Ossman, comedian (Firesign Theater)
B12061939 Tomás Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
B12061940 Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
B12061941 Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
B12061941 John Nelson, San José Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
B12061941 Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966)
B12061942 Len Barry, Phila, rocker (Bristol Stomp)
B12061942 Peter Handke, Austrian songwriter (Ritt über den Bodensee)
B12061943 Mike Smith, London Engld, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
B12061945 James Naughton, Middletown Ct, actor (Trauma Center, Making the Grade)
B12061945 Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies)
B12061948 Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla)
B12061948 Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
B12061950 Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
B12061952 Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere)
B12061953 Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals)
B12061953 Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
B12061953 Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
B12061954 Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
B12061955 Steven Wright, droll comedian (Steven Wright Live)
B12061957 Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980)
B12061962 Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
B12061962 Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure)
B12061967 Spanky Marcus, Hollywood Calif, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman)
B1207 967 Aboe Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
B12071542 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587)
B12071598 Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
B12071751 Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
B12071808 Hugh McCulloch, US Secy of Treasury
B12071830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (cemetery)
B12071835 Dom Joseph Pothier, French benediction/musicologist
B12071847 James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
B12071847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
B12071863 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (boskoning)
B12071872 Johan Huizinga, culture historian (Homo Ludens)
B12071873 Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)
B12071876 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
B12071878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
B12071879 Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)
B12071887 Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
B12071888 Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
B12071888 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
B12071888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of Amer Newspaper Guild
B12071891 Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
B120719-- Armando Manzanero, spanish entertainer
B120719-- Mike Minor, SF Cal, actor (Steve-Petticoat Junction, All My Children)
B120719-- Reed St Mark, rock drummer (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
B12071901 A F [Tony] Pugsley, led attack on Walcheren (1944)
B12071905 Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune)
B12071910 Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
B12071912 Louis Prima, New Orleans La, singer (That Old Black Magic)
B12071912 Rod Cameron, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede)
B12071915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], US, sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
B12071915 Eli Wallach, Bkln NY, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
B12071915 Leigh Brackett, US, sci-fi writer (Ginger Star)
B12071923 Ted Knight, Terryville Ct, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
B12071924 Mário Soares, (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983- )
B12071926 Victor Kiam, CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots)
B12071928 Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
B12071932 Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here)
B12071932 Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host (Like Father, Like Son)
B12071936 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
B12071937 Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
B12071942 Harry Chapin, rocker (Taxi, Cats Craddle)
B12071947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds)
B12071947 Peter de Jong, Dutch actor (Maxi-Mini & Maxi)
B12071947 Vincent Baggetta, Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
B12071948 Gary Morris, country singer/actor (Colbys)
B12071948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
B12071949 Tom Waits, Calif, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
B12071951 Henk Temming, singer (Good Goal)
B12071955 Priscilla Barnes, Ft Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, 3s Company)
B12071956 Larry Bird, hoop star (Boston Celtics)
B12071963 Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B12071964 Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
B12071964 Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
B12071966 C Thomas Howell, LA Calif, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man)
B1208 65 -BC- Horace, Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
B12081626 Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
B12081708 Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
B12081741 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
B12081765 Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin)
B12081822 Luther Prentice Bradley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
B12081826 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
B12081828 Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
B12081828 Robert Bullock, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
B12081832 Bjφrnstjerne Bjφrnson, Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903)
B12081861 Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
B12081861 Georges Méliès, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
B12081861 William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
B12081879 Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus)
B12081881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
B12081882 Manuel María Ponce, Fresnillo México, composer (Estrellita)
B12081886 Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo
B12081888 Vesey D'Davoren, character actor
B12081889 W Hervey Allen, US writer/screenwriter (Anthony Adverse)
B12081890 Bohuslav Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
B12081894 James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs)
B12081899 John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Searchers)
B120819-- Dan Hartman, Harrisburg Pa, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
B120819-- Michael Levin, Minneapolis, actor (Ryan's Hope)
B12081903 Adele Simpson, NYC, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
B12081905 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
B12081906 Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
B12081907 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Dobie Gillis)
B12081908 John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
B12081911 Lee J Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
B12081913 Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah)
B12081913 Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Sun Song)
B12081917 Rufo I Wever, Arubians pianist/composer (ca'i organ)
B12081918 Gérard Souzay, Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro)
B12081920 Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
B12081921 Johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
B12081921 Terence Morgan, London England, actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
B12081922 John B (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
B12081922 Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat)
B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
B12081927 Vladimir A Shatalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
B12081930 John Morressy, US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
B12081930 Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
B12081933 Flip Wilson, Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
B12081936 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
B12081937 James MacArthur, LA Calif, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0)
B12081937 Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch Sec of Defense (CDA)
B12081939 James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
B12081939 Jerry Butler, Miss, rocker (Never Give You Up)
B12081940 Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
B12081941 Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch sect of Economic (VVD)
B12081943 Jim Morrison, Melbourne Fla, singer (Doors) is he really dead?
B12081943 Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision)
B12081944 Neil Innes, musician (The Rutles)
B12081946 John Rubinstein, LA Calif, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil)
B12081947 French Leÿnse, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B12081947 Gregg Allman, singer (Allman Brothers-Eat a Peach)
B12081949 Mary Gordon, US, author
B12081952 Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
B12081952 Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover)
B12081953 Kim Basinger, Athens Ga, actress (9½ Weeks, Batman)
B12081953 Roy Firestone, sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments)
B12081958 Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
B12081959 Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
B12081962 Berry van Aerle, soccer star (PSV)
B12081966 Matthew Laborteaux, LA Calif, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
B12081966 Siñead O'Connor, Dublin Ireland, singer (Nothing Compares 2 U)
B12081967 Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate (Mar, 1987)
B12081969 Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
B12091392 Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
B12091561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
B12091569 Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social rights)
B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
B12091608 John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
B12091717 Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
B12091837 Émile Waldteufel, Strasbourg France, waltz composer (The Skaters)
B12091842 Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist)
B12091843 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economiste Français)
B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
B12091853 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884)
B12091868 Fritz Haber, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1918)
B12091882 Joaquín Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
B12091884 Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye)
B12091894 Eddie Dowling, actor (Anywhere USA)
B12091897 Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
B12091898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
B12091899 Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant)
B12091899 Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected)
B120919-- Anne Sward Hanson, actress (Lyla-As the World Turns)
B120919-- Frances Reid, actor (Alice-Days of our Life)
B120919-- Leonard Simon, Norristown Pa, actor (Jim-Just Our Luck)
B120919-- Terri Vandenbosch, actress (As the World Turns)
B12091901 Odön [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian writer
B12091902 Margaret Hamilton, Cleve Ohio, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
B12091902 Richard A Butler, England, Dutch min of Finance/Foreign affairs
B12091905 Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
B12091906 Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orch leader (started Merv Griffin)
B12091906 Greet Koeman, singer
B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story)
B12091910 Dick Elffers, graphic artist
B12091911 Broderick Crawford, Phila, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
B12091911 Lee J Cobb, actor (Virginian, Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
B12091912 Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director
B12091912 Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass)/Speaker of the House
B12091915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
B12091916 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, [Issur Demsky], actor (Gunfight at OK Corral)
B12091922 Redd Foxx, St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show)
B12091925 Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
B12091926 Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spain, matador
B12091928 Dick Van Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
B12091929 John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
B12091929 Robert JL Hawke, (L), PM Australia (1983- )
B12091934 Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
B12091934 Milton Gray Campbell, Plainfield NJ, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1956)
B12091935 Dominico Tromp, Aruba, band leader
B12091938 [David] Deacon Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
B12091941 Beau Bridges, LA Calif, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
B12091942 Dick Butkus, Chicago, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster
B12091942 Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of President 1968)
B12091943 Rick Danko, Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
B12091944 George Baker, [Hans Bouwens], singer (G B Selection)
B12091945 Michael Nouri, Wash DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
B12091949 Tom Kite, McKinney Tx, PGA golfer (Bing Crosby 1983)
B12091950 Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
B12091952 Michael Dorn, actor (Worf-Star Trek Next Generation)
B12091953 John Malkovich, Christopher Ill, actor/director (Killing Field)
B12091953 World B Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
B12091954 Herman Finkers, night club performer
B12091957 Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
B12091963 Bárbara Palacios, Carcas Venz, Miss Universe (1986)
B12091965 Brad Savage, Livdnia Mich, actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
B12091968 Michael Foster, Richmond Va, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
B12091969 Allison Smith, Bronx NY, actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
B12091975 Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & Hendersons)
B12101538 Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
B12101787 Thomas H Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
B12101794 James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
B12101805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator)
B12101813 Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
B12101820 David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
B12101822 César Franck, Liège Belgium, composer (Rébecca)
B12101822 Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1878
B12101824 George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems)
B12101830 Kálmán Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90)
B12101831 Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
B12101870 Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses)
B12101870 Pierre Louÿs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
B12101872 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
B12101883 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
B12101886 Victor McLaglen, England, actor (Informer, Acad Award-1935)
B12101891 Nelly Sachs, Germany, poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966)
B12101897 Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Kraft of the Liebe)
B12101898 Anton Mauve, painter
B121019-- Jason Coppola, rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
B121019-- Joel Brooks, NYC, actor (Lt Dean-Pvt Benjamin, J D-My Sister Sam)
B121019-- Pepsi Demarque, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
B121019-- Tom DeFile, rock bassist (Saigon Kick-New World)
B121019-- Wayne Northrup, actor (Roman-Days of our Life)
B12101901 F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
B12101903 George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro)
B12101903 Una Merkel, Covington Ky, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
B12101903 William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
B12101904 Antonin Novótny, Czechoslovakia, Pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
B12101907 Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director
B12101907 Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)
B12101908 Arnold A van Ruler, theologist
B12101908 Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
B12101910 Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
B12101910 John Hammond Sr, NYC, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
B12101911 Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
B12101913 Morton Gould, NY, unbelievably prolific composer (Verdun)
B12101914 Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress (Road to Bali)
B12101920 Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
B12101923 Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
B12101923 Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
B12101928 John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
B12101929 Dan Blocker, Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
B12101930 Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep
B12101937 Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orch leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
B12101938 Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
B12101941 Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
B12101941 Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
B12101941 Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
B12101943 Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
B12101945 Eric Boom, guitarist/producer
B12101946 Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
B12101947 Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
B12101951 Johnny Rodriquez, US actor(?)
B12101952 Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
B12101958 John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
B12101958 Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
B12101959 Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
B12101959 Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
B12101960 Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor (High Season, Dead Again)
B12101961 Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
B12101963 Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
B12101985 Raven-Symoné Pearman, actress (Cosby)
B12111475 Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21)
B12111781 David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
B12111797 Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
B12111803 Hector Berlioz, Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France, composer (Manqué)
B12111803 Louis H Berlioz, French composer (Requiem, Symphony Fantastique)
B12111810 Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
B12111836 Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner
B12111838 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
B12111840 Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
B12111843 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
B12111849 Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (courageous wife)
B12111856 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
B12111863 Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist/author
B12111874 Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag)
B12111882 Fiorello La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45)
B12111882 Max Born, Germany, physicist (Nobel 1954)
B12111892 Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
B12111894 Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA)
B12111898 Nils JE Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Barfotabarn)
B121119-- Patrick Tovatt, actor (Cal-As the World Turns)
B121119-- Tom Fuccello, Newark NJ, actor (Dave-Dallas)
B12111905 Eugen Fink, German philosopher
B12111905 Gilbert Roland, Mexico, actor (Barbarosa)
B12111906 Birago Diop, Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
B12111908 Elliott Cook Carter Jr, NYC, composer (Tom & Lily)
B12111913 Carlo Ponti, producer, married to Sophia Loren (2 Women)
B12111913 Jean Marais, Cherbourgh France, actress (Donkey Skin, Orpheus)
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
B12111920 Eddy Firestone, SF Calif, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
B12111922 Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award)
B12111922 Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
B12111923 Betsy Blair, actress (Marty)
B12111924 Marie Windsor, [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, actress (Double Deal)
B12111926 Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
B12111927 Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952)
B12111930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z)
B12111931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, leader B-sect/guru of rich
B12111931 Rita Moreno, [Rosa Dolores Alverio], Humacao PR, (West Side Story)
B12111932 Aldár Kovácsi, Hungary, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
B12111932 Anne Heywood, [Violet Pretty], Engl, Miss GB (1949)/actress (Brain)
B12111932 Wynn Irwin, NYC, actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time)
B12111934 Ron Carey, Newark NJ, actor (Barney Miller, Montefuscos, High Anxiety)
B12111935 Femke Boersma, actress
B12111936 Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister (-1992)
B12111939 Thomas McGuane, US, writer
B12111939 Tom Hayden, 60's activist, Mr Jane Fonda, Calif state Assemblyman
B12111940 David Gates, rocker (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You)
B12111941 Max Baucus, (Sen-D-Mont)
B12111941 Rogier van Otterloo, composer/conductor
B12111942 Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1962)
B12111943 Donna Mills, Chicago Illinois, actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
B12111944 Brenda Lee, Atlanta Georgia, singer (I'm Sorry)
B12111944 Lynda Day George, San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
B12111946 Teri Garr, Lakewood Ohio, actress (Mr Mom, Young Frankenstein)
B12111948 Elizabeth Baur, LA Calif, actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer)
B1211195- Isabella Hoffmann, actress (Kate-Dear John)
B12111950 Christine Onassis, [Andreadis], NYC, Aristotle's daughter
B12111951 Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
B12111952 Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
B12111953 Bess Armstrong, Balt Md, actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws)
B12111953 Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
B12111953 Peter Isacksen, Dover NH, actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie)
B12111954 Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC)
B12111955 Stu Jackson, Reading Pa, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90)
B12111958 Nicki Sixx, San Jose Calif, rock guitarist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls)
B12111959 Tina Gayle, Frankfurt GFR, Cowboy cheerleader/actress (Kathy-Chips)
B12111962 Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record)
B12111963 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German FR, tennis star
B12111963 Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force)
B12111965 Laurie Carr, Dallas Tx, playmate (Dec, 1986)
B12111966 Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
B12121673 Ahmed III, 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30)
B12121712 Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen
B12121745 John Jay, diplomat/governor (NY)
B12121805 Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
B12121805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
B12121806 Stand Watie, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
B12121818 Paul Octave Hebert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
B12121830 Joseph Orville Shelby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
B12121833 Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
B12121838 Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (double territory)
B12121848 William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
B12121859 Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
B12121859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
B12121863 Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream)
B12121866 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
B12121875 Karl RG von Rundstedt, German gen-field marshal (Normandy
B12121879 Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland
B12121879 Laura Hope Crews, US, actress (Camille, Gone with the Wind)
B12121882 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theory)
B12121893 Edward G Robinson, Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
B121219-- Al Harrington, American Samoa, actor (Ben Kokua-Hawaii 5-0)
B121219-- Brandon Maggart, Carthage Tn, actor (George-Jennifer Slept Here)
B121219-- Bruce Kulick, rocker (Kiss-Beth)
B121219-- Dave Meniketti, rocker (Y&T-Contagious)
B121219-- Ernie Townsend, actor (Edge of Night)
B121219-- John Johnston, actor (Loving)
B121219-- Rick Ruhl, rock vocalist (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
B121219-- Tatiana, spanish entertainer
B12121906 William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, NYC)
B12121909 Armand H F Boni, [de Goede], Flemish screenwriter/writer=-
B12121912 Fred Angels, Flemish actor/director [or Dec 9]
B12121913 Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
B12121913 Jesse Owens, US, track star (4 golds 1936), spoiled Hitler's olympics
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, Hoboken, singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of board)
B12121917 Heinrich Böll, German writer (Aussatz, Nobel 1972)
B12121918 Joe Williams, jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues)
B12121918 Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Curaçaos writer (Nanzi)
B12121923 Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right)
B12121923 Gerard [K Van de] Reve, writer (Dear guys d'orgel, Typhoid)
B12121924 Edward I Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89)
B12121924 Olivier Gendebien, Belgian auto racer
B12121928 Helen Frankenthaler, NY, abstract expressionist artist (Arden)
B12121929 John Osborne, Engld, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
B12121931 Lionel Blair, Montreal, choreographer (Spotlight)
B12121932 Robert Pettit, NBA star (St Louis Bombers/1959 MVP)
B12121938 Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
B12121940 Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
B12121941 Liesbeth List, actress/singer (Theodorakis)
B12121941 Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
B12121943 Dicky Betts, rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man)
B12121943 Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
B12121945 Karl Edward Wagner, US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds)
B12121946 Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
B12121946 George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
B12121949 Ricardo Luís Carreras, NYC, bantamweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
B12121950 Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
B12121951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties)
B12121951 Steven A Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, STS 61-C, STS-31)
B12121952 Cathy Rigby McCoy, Los Alamitos Calif, gymnist (Olympic-4th-1968)
B12121952 Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest)
B12121956 Ana Alicia, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest)
B12121956 Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977)
B12121957 Cy Curnin, rocker (The Fixx-Sign of Fire)
B12121957 Sheila E[scovedo], disco singer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock)
B12121958 Leo Kenter, drummer (Tröckener Kecks)
B12121958 Sheree J Wilson, actress (Our Family Honor, April-Dallas)
B12121959 Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People)
B12121960 Jap van Sweden, violinist/concert master
B12121962 Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
B12121964 Rockin' Jeff, rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
B12121968 Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy)
B12121969 Carrie Westcott, playmate (Sept, 1993)
B12121970 Jennifer Connelly, Bkln Heights NY, actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer)
B12121970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains, Teen Wolf II)
B12121972 Missy Francis, LA Calif, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
B12121975 Mayim Winkelman Bialik, SD, actress (Blossom, Beaches)
B12131521 Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)
B12131533 Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69)
B12131553 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
B12131797 Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
B12131810 Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
B12131816 Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
B12131816 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
B12131818 Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady (1861-65)
B12131835 Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
B12131853 Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curaçaos musician/composer/screenwriter
B12131860 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director (l'odéon)
B12131863 John Weiss, German new testament
B12131871 Russell W Porter, Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
B12131890 Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please)
B12131897 Drew Pearson, Evanston Ill, newscaster (Drew Pearson)
B12131899 Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
B121319-- Bill Morey, Framingham Mass, actor (Thorn Birds, Tucker's Witch)
B121319-- Lenny Schultz, Bronx NY, comedian (Ball Four, Laugh-in Revival)
B12131903 Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
B12131903 John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WW I)/official war painter
B12131910 Lillian Roth, singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
B12131910 Van Heflin, Walters Okla, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
B12131911 Kenneth Patchen, US, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest)
B12131912 Max Croiset, actor
B12131913 Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
B12131913 Jimmy Carroll, NYC, pianist (Most Important People)
B12131914 Alan L Bullock, British historian
B12131915 Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77)
B12131915 Mark Stevens, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
B12131915 Ross MacDonald, detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
B12131917 Dave Street, LA Calif, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
B12131920 Don Taylor, Freeport Pa, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
B12131920 George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89)
B12131920 Kaysone Phomvihane, chairman (Pathet Lao)/premier/president Laos
B12131922 Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy actor (I Dream of Jeannie)
B12131923 Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP)
B12131924 Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleve Indians)
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
B12131926 Carl Erskine, baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)
B12131929 Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
B12131929 Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
B12131930 Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
B12131930 Robert Prosky, Phila, actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
B12131935 Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
B12131935 Karim Aga Khan, prince/billionaire/husband of Rita Hayworth
B12131937 Rob Houwer, director/producer
B12131940 Steve Harmon, Bkln NY, actor (Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts)
B12131941 John Davidson, Pitts, TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
B12131943 Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player (Red Sox)
B12131948 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist (Steely Dan-Deacon Blues)
B12131948 Kathy Garver, Long Beach Calif, actress (Cissy-Family Affair)
B12131948 Lillian Board, England, 400m (Olympic-silver-1968)
B12131948 Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees)
B12131949 Nana Alexandria, USSR, International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976)
B12131949 R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, US, sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael)
B12131949 Randy Owen, country singer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
B12131949 Roberta A MacAvoy, US, sci-fi writer (Twisting the Rope)
B12131949 Tom Verlaine, musician (Television)
B12131950 Heather North, Pasadena Calif, actress (The Barefoot Executive)
B12131953 Tom Sanders, Jackson Wyoming, aerial cameraman (Living Daylights)
B12131953 Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
B12131954 John Anderson, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
B12131956 Phillip Gregory Hubbard, Canton Oh, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976)
B12131958 Dana Strum, Wash DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
B12131958 Lynn-Holly Johnson, actress (Ice Castles)
B12131959 John Whitaker, Van Nuys Calif, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Expr)
B12131962 Karen Witter, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)
B12131967 Deborah Driggs, Oakland Ca, playmate (Mar, 1990)
B12131967 Jenn Thompson, NYC, actor (Dee-Harper Valley PTA)
B12131973 Christie Clark, LA, actress (Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life)
B12131981 Chelsea Hertford, actress (Major Dad)
B12141363 John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist
B12141503 Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)
B12141824 Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Panthéon)
B12141829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
B12141830 Allen Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
B12141832 Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
B12141837 William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
B12141853 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)
B12141870 Dirk J de Geer, premier (1926-29, 39-40)
B12141870 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50)
B12141883 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer
B12141883 Morihei Ueshiba, founder (Aikido)
B12141895 George VI, king of England (1936-52)
B12141896 James H Doolittle, General (US Air Force)
B12141897 Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine)
B121419-- Celia Weston, Spartanburg SC, actress (Jolene-Alice)
B121419-- Elaine Princi, actress (As the World Turns, Dorian-One Life to Live)
B121419-- Franco, spanish entertainer
B121419-- Robert Lusseir, West Warwick RI, actor (Brent-Man From Atlantis)
B121419-- Sallie Brophy, Phoenix Az, actress (Annie O'Connell-Buckskin)
B12141901 Paul I, King of Greece
B12141908 Laurence Naismith, Surrey England, actor (Judge Fulton-Persuaders)
B12141909 Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
B12141909 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting
B12141911 Spike Jones, Long Beach Calif, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous)
B12141912 Morey Amsterdam, Chicago Ill, comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show)
B12141914 Dan Dailey, NYC, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)
B12141914 Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84)
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show)
B12141914 Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock)
B12141915 Clay Warnick, Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
B12141917 Elyse Knox, Hartford Ct, actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
B12141919 Shirley Jackson, US, writer (Road Through the Wall)
B12141922 Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
B12141922 Don Hewitt, NYC, TV creator (60 Minutes)
B12141923 Gerard [K van het] Reve, writer (Dear Guys)
B12141923 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert
B12141924 Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
B12141924 Siiri Rantanen, Finland, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
B12141927 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD)
B12141932 Abbe Lane, Bkln, aka Mrs Xavier Cugat/singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
B12141932 Charlie Rich, Colt Arkansas, singer (Behind Closed Doors)
B12141932 George Furth, Chicago Ill, actor/dir (Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings)
B12141933 Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I left my heart in SF)
B12141935 Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bath England, actress (Search for the Nile)
B12141935 Lee Remick, Quincy Mass (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer)
B12141936 Robert Allan Ridley Parker, NYC, PhD/astronaut (STS-9, STS-35)
B12141938 Hall Williams, US, actor (Private Benjamin, Sanford & Son)
B12141938 Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)
B12141938 Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian
B12141939 Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy (1961)
B12141939 Hal Williams, Columbus Ohio, actor (Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford & Son)
B12141942 Rex Thompson, NYC, actor (Young Bess, King & I, Her 12 Men)
B12141943 Frank Allen, rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
B12141946 Jane Birkin, actress (Mr Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
B12141946 Joyce Vincent Wilson, Detroit Mich, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
B12141946 Patty Duke, [Anna Marie], Elmhurst NY, actress (Miracle Worker)
B12141946 Stan Smith, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1972)
B12141947 Christopher Parkening, LA Calif, guitarist (transcribed sacred music)
B12141948 Boudewÿn Buch, writer/TV host
B12141949 Bill Buckner, Calif, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series
B12141949 Cliff Williams, bass (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
B12141949 Dee Wallace Stone, KC Mo, actress (Critters, Secret Admirer, 10)
B12141950 Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
B12141951 Jan Timman, chess player
B12141953 Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
B12141953 Vÿay Amritraj, India, tennis player/actor (Octopussy)
B12141954 James Horean, actor (Loving)
B12141956 Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein, Slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
B12141956 T K Carter, LA Calif, actor (Mike-Punky Brewster, Just our Luck)
B12141958 Jan Dÿksma, bassist (Weekend at Waikiki)
B12141958 Mike Scott, rocker (Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior)
B12141958 Steven Rock-Savage, Mellville Louisiana, (LSU), actor
B12141959 Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer
B12141960 Catherine G Coleman, Charleston SC, USAF Capt/astronaut
B12141962 Ginger Lynn Allen, Rockford Ill, XXX actress (Vice Academy 2)
B12141963 Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood)
B12141964 C(arl) J(eff) Snare, Wash DC, vocalist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
B12141964 Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains)
B12141967 Noelle Beck, Baltimore, actress (Trisha-Loving, Fletch Lives)
B12141977 Tisha Dabber, Shelbyville Indiana, actress (New Mickey Mouse Club)
B1215 37 Claudius Nero, 5th Roman emperor (54-68); didn't fiddle as Rome burned
B12151610 David Teniers II, Flemish (court)painter (Theatrum Pictorium)
B12151787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
B12151793 Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
B12151802 János Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower)
B12151836 Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel)
B12151848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
B12151852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
B12151852 Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
B12151852 Tewfik Pasja, khedive (viceroy) of Egypt)
B12151853 Jean BA Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
B12151859 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish physician/linguist (Esperanto)
B12151859 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, created Esperanto
B12151860 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
B12151863 Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
B12151863 Paul [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier
B12151879 Hugo WC Bordewÿk, Dutch lawyer
B12151879 Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance)
B12151882 Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer
B12151887 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of the Dutch Tribe)
B12151888 Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/writer (Kati)/politician
B12151888 Maxwell Anderson, US, dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)
B12151892 J Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil)
B121519-- Don Franklin, actor (Noah Dixon-The Young Riders)
B121519-- Felicity LaFortune, actress (Ryan's Hope)
B121519-- Marta Dubois, David Panama, actress (Tales of Gold Monkey)
B121519-- Sophy, PR, spanish singer (Comparame Balada y Salsa)
B121519-- Thaao Penghlis, actor (Days of our Life)
B121519-- Tim Gaines, rock bassist/vocalist (Stryper-Against the Law)
B12151904 Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
B12151906 Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
B12151907 Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilians architect (Brasilia)
B12151913 Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award)
B12151916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
B12151918 Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Broken Arrow, Away All Boats)
B12151919 Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
B12151922 Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
B12151928 Jimmy Nelson, Chic Ill, ventriloguist (Nestles, Farfel)
B12151931 Evald Schorm, Prague Czech, director (Courage for Every Day)
B12151932 Edna O'Brien, Ireland, writer (Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace)
B12151933 Jesse Belvin, Arkansas, vocalist (Mr Easy)
B12151933 Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
B12151937 John [Thomas] Sladek, US, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs)
B12151937 Karen Morrow, Chic, actress (Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour)
B12151939 Cindy Birdsong, singer (The Supremes)
B12151940 Nick Buoniconti, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)/sportscaster (NBC)
B12151942 Dave Clark, England, rock drummer (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
B12151943 Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1968)
B12151944 Stan Bahnsen, NY Yankee pitcher (1968 AL Rookie-of-year)
B12151946 Carmine Appice, musician (Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling)
B12151948 David Gwillim, Plymouth England, (RADA), actor
B12151949 Don Johnson, Flatt Creek Mo, actor (Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment)
B12151949 Ton [Teunis] Sÿbrands, Woman's World Champion
B12151949 Ton [Teunis] Sÿbrands, world champion checker player
B12151950 Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Dutch minister of Justice
B12151954 Mike Ratledge, author (2DAY & NEWDAY)/sysop East Bay X-Change
B12151955 Melanie Chartoff, West Haven Ct, actress (Fridays, Parker Lewis)
B12151959 Heidi Bohay, Somerset NJ, actress (Megan-Hotel)
B12151961 Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess (Roue de la Fortune)
B12151963 Helen Slater, NYC, actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People)
B12151985 Sheeba Reiter, Fla, illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason
B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
B12161685 Charles Cressent, France, cabinetmaker (Régence)
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy)
B12161775 Jane Austin, England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
B12161812 William Grose, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
B12161819 Robert Selden Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
B12161825 Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
B12161827 Jan AC Oudemans, geographer/astronomer
B12161828 John Beatty, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
B12161830 John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
B12161834 Léon Walras, French economist (border use theory)
B12161851 Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch premier (1905-08)
B12161857 Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
B12161862 Eugène Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe)
B12161863 George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
B12161863 Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
B12161865 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor
B12161869 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
B12161882 John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953)
B12161882 Walther Meissner, physicist (Meissner effect)
B12161882 Zoltán Kodály, Kecskemét Hungary, composer (Psalmus Hungaricus)
B12161883 Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max prend un bain)
B12161888 Alphonse Juin, French marshal
B12161892 A "Shon Nènè" Morales, Antillean/Neth very old lady
B12161893 Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat
B12161899 Noël Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award)
B121619-- Dori Brenner, NYC, actress (Rhoda Gold-7th Avenue)
B121619-- Patti Deutsch, Pitts Pa, comedienne (Ace Trucking Co, Laugh-in)
B121619-- Ross Kettle, actor (Santa Barbara)
B121619-- Terry Carter, Bkln NY, actor (McCloud, Battlestar Galactica)
B12161900 Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers)
B12161901 Margaret Mead, Phila, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
B12161904 Norbert E Fonteyne, Flemish writer (Guest house Vivès)
B12161907 Ray C Bliss, (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman
B12161917 Arthur C[harles] Clarke, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End)
B12161923 Tip [Silvio A] Marugg, Antillian writer (Weekend pilgrimage)
B12161926 James McCracken, Gary Ind, dramatic tenor (Rodolfo-La Bohéme)
B12161927 G Randall P D Garrett, US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!)
B12161927 Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease)
B12161927 [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, US, sci-fi author (Lord Darcy)
B12161928 Philip K[indred] Dick, US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner)
B12161932 Rodion Shchedrin, Moscow Russia, composer (Humpback Horse)
B12161937 Joyce Bulifant, Newport News Va, actress (Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
B12161938 Michael Greer, Durham NC, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
B12161939 Liv Ullman, Tokyo Japan, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
B12161940 Dimitri van Toren, singer/composer
B12161941 Lesley Stahl, Lynn Mass, White House correspondent (CBS-TV)
B12161943 Steven Bochco, producer (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere)
B12161943 Tony Hicks, rocker (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)
B12161946 Adrian van Dis, Dutch TV host/writer (Promised Country)
B12161946 Benny Andersson, Stockholm, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!)
B12161946 Fred Borgman, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
B12161947 Ben Cross, England, actor (Chariots of Fire, Far Pavillions)
B12161947 Vincent Matthews, US, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
B12161949 Billy Gibbons, jazz guitarist/vocalist (Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top)
B12161950 Caroline Munro, Windsor England, actress (Golden Voyage of Sinbad)
B12161950 Ieremia Tabai, pres of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) (1979- )
B12161952 Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court)
B12161953 Filip Bolluyt, actor (De Dagerad)
B12161954 Joslyn Y Hoyte-Smith, Barbados, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1980)
B12161958 Bart Oates, NFL center (NY Giants)
B12161959 Alison La Placa, actress (Duet)
B12161962 Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress (Devil in the Flesh)
B12161962 Melanie Smith, Scranton Pa, actress (Emily-As the World Turns)
B12161962 William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
B12161965 Cynthia Lynne White, Okla City Okla, Miss Okla-America (1991-top 10)
B12161965 Romallis Ellis, Wash DC, lightweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
B12161971 Michael S McCary, [Boss], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
B12171554 Ernst van Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbishop of Keulen
B12171619 Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician
B12171706 Châtelet, la belle Emilie, French writer
B12171706 Gabrielle Châtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire)
B12171749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il matrimonio segreto)
B12171778 Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
B12171797 Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
B12171801 Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
B12171819 Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
B12171820 Frederick Tracy Dent, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
B12171821 Frederick West Lander, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
B12171824 Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899
B12171824 Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
B12171830 Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie)
B12171833 James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
B12171835 Alexander E Agassiz, US, businessman/biologist/geology
B12171853 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
B12171859 Willem C Grünings, Curaçaos publisher (Friends of Pueblo)
B12171861 Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
B12171873 Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (Inheritors)
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
B12171876 Júlio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (O esfinge)
B12171881 John CB "John" Sluyters, painter
B12171889 Vaslav F Nÿinski, Ukraine/US ballet dancer (l'après-midi d'une faune)
B12171893 Erwin Piscator, German song director (Der Stellvertreter)
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops)
B12171894 Hans [Henry A] Kramers, theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
B121719-- Jaimee Foxworth, actor (Judy Winslow-Family Matters)
B121719-- William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
B12171900 Lucÿan M Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer/conductor
B12171903 Erskine P Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
B12171904 Dmitri B Kabalevski, Russian composer
B12171904 Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
B12171908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960))
B12171909 Ferdinand H Aus der Fünten, German war criminal (Breda 4)
B12171916 Toon Hermans, entertainer/poet
B12171922 Hubert HA Beckers, Curaçaos musician
B12171925 Rÿk de Gooyer, actor
B12171926 Patrice Wymore, actress (The Big Tree)
B12171927 Richard Long, Chic Ill, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor)
B12171929 William Safire, political columnis (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon)
B12171930 Bob Guccione, [Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
B12171930 Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
B12171930 Robert Guccione, magazine publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
B12171931 Yvonne Keuls, [Bamberg], writer (Jan Rap & his mat)
B12171933 Paul Snoek, [Edm Shootsekat], Belgian poet
B12171936 Frank Martinus Arion, [F Efraim M], Antilles, writer (Double Speak)
B12171936 Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)
B12171936 Tommy Steele, singer/actor (½ a Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow)
B12171937 Art Neville, singer (Neville Brothers)
B12171939 Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down)
B12171939 James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
B12171939 Novella Nelson, Bkln NY, actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
B12171942 Bernard Hill, actor
B12171942 Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days)
B12171944 Ference Bene, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964)
B12171944 Jack L[aurence] Chalker, US, sci-fi author (Saga of Well World)
B12171945 Christopher Cazenove, England, actor (Ben-Dynasty)
B12171945 Ernie Hudson, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds)
B12171946 Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV)
B12171947 Marilyn Hassett, actress
B12171947 Simon Bates, English DJ
B12171948 Jim Bonfanti, rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
B12171949 Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm)
B12171952 Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment & business (PvdA)
B12171953 Barry Livingston, LA Calif, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
B12171957 Bob Ojeda, pitcher (NY Mets)
B12171959 Albert King, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
B12171961 Sarah Dallin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
B12171961 Venice Kong, St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985)
B12171964 Eric Brown, NYC, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
B12171970 Benedictine, [St Bernard]; becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
B12171974 Giovonni Ribisi, actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, New Leave it To Beaver)
B12181610 Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist
B12181707 Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement)
B12181709 Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great & Catherine I)
B12181779 Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history")
B12181786 Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz)
B12181788 Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder
B12181803 William Allen, (Rep/Gov-Oh)
B12181811 Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868
B12181816 Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
B12181819 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenÿa)
B12181825 Charles Griffin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
B12181826 Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
B12181826 Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
B12181835 George Dashiell Bayard, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
B12181837 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP)
B12181844 Lujo [Ludwig J von) Brentano, German economist
B12181856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
B12181861 Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist
B12181861 Edward MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
B12181863 French Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (Sarajevo/WW I)
B12181867 Antoon van Welie, painter
B12181870 Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came)
B12181879 Paul Klee, Switzerland, abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
B12181884 Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister
B12181886 Ty Cobb, Colo, batted .367, stole 892 bases (Det Tigers)
B12181888 Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady)
B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
B12181890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM)
B12181897 Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist
B121819-- Gillian Spencer, actress (Daisy Cortlandt-All My Children)
B12181904 George Stevens, US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade)
B12181907 Christopher Fry, England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)
B12181908 Celia Johnson, Brits actress (Happy Breed, Brief encounter)
B12181909 Mona Barrie, England, actress (Dawn on Great Divide)
B12181910 Abe Burrows, Bkln NY, Broadway composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY)
B12181911 Jules Dassin, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday)
B12181913 Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight)
B12181913 Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound)
B12181913 Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971)
B12181915 Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52)
B12181916 Betty Grable, St Louis, actress (Gay Divorcee), great gams
B12181917 Ossie Davis, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam)
B12181919 Anita O'Day, Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton)
B12181920 Rita Streich, German singer
B12181922 Larry D Mann, Toronto Canada, actor (Marty-Accidental Family)
B12181923 Lotti [Charlotte] van der Gag, sculptor/painter
B12181926 Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
B12181927 Ramsey Clark, US attorney General (1967-69)
B12181927 Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey)
B12181930 Theodore C Freeman, Penns, astronaut
B12181932 Roger Smith, South Gate Calif, actor (77 Sunset Strip)
B12181934 Boris V Volynov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
B12181938 Chas Chandler, rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
B12181939 Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear)
B12181939 Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer (Olympic-Silver-1960)
B12181941 Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Company-Cheap Thrills)
B12181943 Keith Richards, England, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
B12181945 Birenda Bir Bikram, King of Nepal
B12181945 Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
B12181946 Hubie Green, Birmingham Ala, PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
B12181946 Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
B12181947 Eddie Antar, founder/CEO (Crazy Eddie Electronics Store)
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, Cincinatti, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
B12181949 Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy)
B12181950 Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight)
B12181951 Andrew S W Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut
B12181954 Ray Liotta, Newark NJ, actor (Sacha-Casablanca, Goodfellas)
B12181957 John Webster, rocker (Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel)
B12181961 Ken Foreman, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
B12181965 Brad Pitt, actor (Cutting Class)
B12181965 Fawna Maclaren, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1989)
B12181966 Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys)
B12181966 Steve Dullaghan, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
B12191--- Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaii
B12191036 Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/official
B12191498 Andreas Osiander, German theologist (justice)
B12191676 Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, French organist/composer
B12191683 Phillip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
B12191790 William Parry, England, Arctic explorer
B12191792 Andries H Potgieter, South African explorer
B12191814 Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secy War (Union), died in 1869
B12191817 James Jay Archer, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1864
B12191819 James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895
B12191821 Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader
B12191837 John Carpenter Carter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
B12191852 Albert A Michelson, established c as universal constant (Nobel 1907)
B12191861 Italo Svevo, Trieste, novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
B12191865 Minnie Maddern Fiske, US, stage actress (Hedy Gabler)
B12191875 Carter G Woodson, Virginia, African American
B12191880 Klaus Painter, reformed theologist (Christ & his suffering)
B12191883 Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer
B12191884 Antonín Zápotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia
B12191888 Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Pitts Symphony 1938-48)
B12191894 Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
B121919-- Jourdan Fremin, New Orleans La, actress (At Ease)
B121919-- Klaus Eichstadt, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
B121919-- Maria Martha Serralima, Buenos Aires Argentina, entertainer
B12191901 Oliver Lafarge, novelist (Laughing Boy)
B12191902 Ralph Richardson, British actor (Anna Karenina, Dr Zhivago)
B12191906 H Allen Smith, US, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)
B12191906 Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
B12191907 H Allen Smith, Ill, TV host (Armchair Detective)
B12191910 Jean Genêt, France, novelist/playwright (The Blacks)
B12191915 Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)
B12191916 Adriaan van der Veen, writer (Kom Mÿ Niet Te Na)
B12191916 Hal Hastings, NYC, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
B12191920 David Susskind, NYC, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
B12191920 Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
B12191924 Edmund Purdom, England, actor (Asissi Underground, Pieces)
B12191925 Jimmy Dickens, Bolt WV, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
B12191926 Bobby Layne, NFL QB (Detroit Lions)
B12191928 Galt MacDermot, Canada, composer (Letting Down My Hair)
B12191929 Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
B12191933 Cecily Tyson, Harlem NYC, actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman)
B12191934 Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers slugger (AL bat champ 1955)
B12191934 Rudi Carrell, [Rudolf W Kesselman], showmaster
B12191938 Barbara Steele, Trenton Wirrall England, actress (Came from Within)
B12191939 Cicely Tyson, NYC, actress (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
B12191940 Phil Ochs, El Paso Tx, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)
B12191941 Maurice White, drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire-Spirit)
B12191943 William De Vries, Bkln, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
B12191944 Tim Reid, Norfolk VA, comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place)
B12191944 Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist (Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic)
B12191945 Elaine Joyce, Cleveland Ohio, actress (City of Angels, Mr Merlin)
B12191946 Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, singer (Money, As Tears Go By)
B12191946 Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor (SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$)
B12191947 Janie Fricke, country singer (Country Music Best Female 1982, 83)
B12191949 Claudia A Kolb, US, 200m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-silver-1964)
B12191956 Alice Barrett, NYC, actress (Frankie Frame-Another World)
B12191957 Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
B12191957 Kevin McHale, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
B12191957 Liz Glazowski, Chicago Ill, playmate (April, 1980)
B12191958 Limahl, British rocker (Kajagoogoo-Too Shy)
B12191960 Mike Lookinland, Mt Pleasant Utah, actor (Bobby-Brady Bunch)
B12191962 Bettina Huebers, Hamburg GFR, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney
B12191963 Jennifer Beals, Chicago, actress (Flashdance, Bride)
B12191964 Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath)
B12191966 Robert MacNaughton, NYC, actor (ET)
B12191969 Kristy Swanson, actress (Knots Landing, Buffy Vampire Slayer)
B12191970 Zac Foley, rock bassist (EMF-Unbelievable)
B12191971 Amy Locane, Trenton NJ, actress (Andrea-Spencer, Sandy-Melrose Place)
B12191972 Alyssa Jane Milano, Bkln NY, actress (Samantha-Who's the Boss)
B12201579 John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
B12201805 Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
B12201807 Richard Lucian Page, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
B12201808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887
B12201813 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
B12201819 John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
B12201825 Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
B12201833 Dr Samuel A Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
B12201841 Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson, France, educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
B12201858 John [Jean] T Toorop, painter/graphic artist (3 Brides)
B12201859 Antonius J Derkinderen, painter
B12201868 Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road
B12201870 Pieter C Boutens, poet (Rekenschap voor Sir Herbert Grierson)
B12201872 Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
B12201875 T F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green)
B12201876 J Van Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences)
B12201881 Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
B12201886 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Calif, tennis player (US Open 1909-11)
B12201894 Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
B12201895 Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
B122019-- Charlie Callas, Bkln, comedian/actor (High Anxiety, Hysterical)
B122019-- Chris Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
B122019-- Luisa Maria Guell, Havana Cuba, singer (Tres Palabras)
B12201900 Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935)
B12201901 Irene Dunne, Louisville Ky, actress (Schlitz Playhouse)
B12201901 Louis I Kahn, US architect
B12201901 Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
B12201902 Max Lerner, US, columnist (NY Post)
B12201902 Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom)
B12201904 Albert Van Dekker, US actor (Dr Cyclops, Beau Gesture)
B12201904 Irene Dunne, Louisville, actress (I Remember Mama, My Favorite Wife)
B12201911 Hortense Calisher, novelist (Arts & Letters 1967)
B12201918 Audrey Totter, Joliet Ill, actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up)
B12201922 Charita Bauer, Newark NJ, actress (Guiding Light, Aldrich Family)
B12201922 George Roy Hill, dir (Slap Shot, Little Durmmer Girl, Little Romance)
B12201925 Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia (1981- )
B12201926 David Levine, US painter
B12201928 Jack Christiansen, Kansas, NFL hall of famer defensive back (Lions)
B12201929 Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
B12201931 Mala Powers, SF Calif, actress (Mona-Hazel, Man & the City)
B12201932 John Hillerman, Denison Tx, actor (Higgins-Magnum PI)
B12201933 Gordon Getty
B12201933 Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist (world champion)
B12201938 John Harbison, Orange NJ, composer
B12201941 Frank Creton, Suriname/Neth painter
B12201942 Robert L Hayes, Jacksonville Fla, 100m/4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
B12201943 Angel Tomblin, Albany Calif, actress (Gloria-Search)
B12201944 Robert Colomby, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
B12201946 John Spencer, actor (Tommy Mullanney-LA Law)
B12201946 Uri Geller, psychic (bends forks)
B12201947 Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
B12201947 Peter Criss, Brooklyn, singer (KISS-Beth)
B12201952 Jenny Agutter, Taunton England, actress (Logan's Run, Equus, Amy)
B12201955 Ed Kuepper, German/Australian, singer/songwriter (Saints)
B12201955 Pierre Bokma, actor
B12201956 Blanche Baker, NYC, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter (French Postcard)
B12201957 Mike Watt, US bassist (Rockband Firehose)
B12201958 Billy Bragg, British rocker (It Says Here, Ideology)
B12201960 Carolyn Seaward, Devonshire England, Miss UK (1979)
B12201961 Bonnie Marino, Cleveland Oh, playmate (Jun, 1990)
B12201963 Pam Casale, Camden NJ, tennis player (Marco Island finals 1985)
B12211117 Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury
B12211537 Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
B12211573 Mathurin Régnier, French poet (Macette)
B12211800 Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876
B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
B12211818 Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
B12211823 Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
B12211832 John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
B12211840 Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
B12211849 James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
B12211853 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
B12211859 Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
B12211860 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)
B12211872 Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
B12211874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36)
B12211879 Joseph Stalin, [Dzoegashvili], Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000
B12211886 Hermann AJ Kees, German Egyptologist (Problem of Egyptology)
B12211890 Fred M Vinson, US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53)
B12211891 John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of House (1962-70)
B12211892 Dame Rebecca West, journalist/novelist (Arnold Bennett Himself)
B12211892 Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19)
B12211896 Carl Romme, lawyer/KVP-min Socialist Business
B12211898 Eugène Dabit, French writer/painter (Hôtel du Nord)
B12211898 Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
B122119-- Danielle Von Zerneck, actress (General Hospital)
B122119-- Devon Ericson, Salt Lake City, actress (Studs Lonigan, Chisholms)
B122119-- Jane Kaczmarek, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Mary-Hometown)
B122119-- Ray Acevedo, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
B12211901 Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer
B12211905 Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of Spring)
B12211908 Pat Weaver, LA Calif, TV Executive, started Today show
B12211909 George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state
B12211911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)
B12211917 Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
B12211917 Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
B12211917 Heinrich Böll, Germany, writer (Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72)
B12211918 Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)
B12211918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81), Austrian pres/Nazi
B12211919 Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
B12211922 Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)
B12211924 Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
B12211924 Rita Reys, [Maria Reÿs], jazz singer
B12211926 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares Tx, actor (Rio Bravo)
B12211928 Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
B12211931 Caroline Kart, [Paterson Raitt], alto singer
B12211931 David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections)
B12211933 Huib Eversdÿk, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
B12211935 Phil Donahue, Cleve Ohio, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
B12211937 Harald, Crown Prince, son of King Olav V, heir apparent of Norway
B12211937 Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit
B12211938 Larry Bryggman, Concord Calif, actor (John-As the World Turns)
B12211940 Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)
B12211940 Paul, [Ray Hildebrand], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
B12211944 Jared Martin, NYC, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, LA Calif, conductor (NY Phil Young People)
B12211946 Carl Wilson, rocker (Beachboys-Barbie)
B12211946 Christopher Keene, Berkeley Calif, conductor (La Traviata)
B12211948 Barry Gordon, Brookline Mass, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
B12211948 Carol Potter, NYC, actress (Maggie Clinton-Today's FBI)
B12211948 Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
B12211948 Willem AFG Vermeend, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
B12211953 Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
B12211953 Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500)
B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
B12211957 Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease)
B12211957 Lisa Gerritsen, LA Calif, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
B12211959 Florence Griffith Joyner, LA Calif, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1988)
B12211960 Roger McDowall, pitcher (NY Mets)
B12211967 Kristi Cooke, Marion Ohio, Miss Ohio-America (1991)
B12211968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
B12221400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
B12221459 Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
B12221523 Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
B12221573 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesl/Groningen
B12221639 Jean-Baptiste Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
B12221696 James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)
B12221702 Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'epinay)
B12221727 William Ellery, signer of Declaration of Independence
B12221803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1862
B12221815 Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist
B12221815 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader
B12221819 Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor
B12221826 James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
B12221831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
B12221832 Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
B12221846 Oscar Carré, circus director
B12221847 Heihatjirô Tôjô, Japan, admiral (Russian-Japanese war)
B12221856 Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer (La Bohème, La Tosca)
B12221862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950)
B12221867 Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic
B12221869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
B12221876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ital writer (Futurism e Futurista)
B12221885 Edgar Varèse, Paris France, composer (Innisation)
B12221885 Joseph Deems Taylor, NYC, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
B12221887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician (π/Notebooks)
B12221888 Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate
B12221890 Mark Tobey, US abstract painter (Broadway standard)
B12221899 Gustaf Gründgens, German actor/director
B122219-- Elizabeth Hubbard, actress (Lucinda-As the World Turns)
B122219-- Franc Luz, Cambridge Mass, actor (Ben-Hometown)
B122219-- Lanna Saunders, actress (Young & Restless)
B122219-- Lynne Thigpen, Joliet Ill, actress (Nancy-Love Sidney)
B122219-- Raymond Singer, NYC, actor (Operation Petticoat, Mamam Malone)
B122219-- Wolfe Perry, New Orleans La, actor (Teddy-White Shadow)
B12221901 André Kostelanetz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Lincoln Portrari)
B12221903 Dr Barbara Moore, walked across US in 86 days in 1960
B12221903 H Keffer Hartline, US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
B12221905 Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush)
B12221907 Peggy Ashcroft, stage actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days)
B12221908 Giacomo Manzú, Italy, sculptor (St Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize)
B12221908 Marius F Duintjer, architect
B12221911 Alan Carney, Bkln NY, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me)
B12221911 Groot Reber, US, astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope)
B12221912 Claudia A "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, 1st lady (1963-1969)
B12221912 Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)
B12221917 Gene Rayburn, Ill, TV game show host (Match Game)
B12221921 Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington WV, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
B12221922 Barbara Billingsley, LA Calif, actress (June-Leave it to Beaver)
B12221922 James C Wright Jr, (Rep-D-Texas), Speaker of House (1987-89)
B12221926 Peggy Castle, Appalachia Va, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman)
B12221936 Hector Elizondo, NYC, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
B12221937 Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician
B12221944 Barry Jenkins, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
B12221944 Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82)
B12221945 Diane Sawyer, Glasgow Ky, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)
B12221945 Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
B12221945 Marianne van Wÿnkoop [Bosscher], actress (Les Misérables)
B12221947 Brian C Daley, US, sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)
B12221948 Noel Edmonds, British TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
B12221948 Steve Garvey, 1st baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
B12221949 Maurice Gibb, singer (BeeGees-I Started a Joke)
B12221949 Robin Gibb, singer (BeeGees-Holiday)
B12221950 Rick Nielsen, guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist (Cheap Trick-Surrender)
B12221951 Charles de Lint, Neth, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)
B12221951 Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer (LPGA Rookie of Year-1974)
B12221953 Bernnadette Stanis, Bkln NY, actress (Thelma-Good Times)
B12221960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter (Gray, SAMO)
B12221960 Tyrell Biggs, Phila, super HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
B12221961 Catherine Oxenberg, NYC, actress (Amanda-Dynasty)
B12221961 Yuri Ivanovich Matinchenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
B12221968 Lauralee Bell, actress (Cricket-Young & Restless)
B12221972 Vanessa Paradis, France, model (Channel)/actress (White Wedding)
B12231174 Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach
B12231597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
B12231732 Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame)
B12231750 Frederik Augustus I de Rechtvaardige, king of Saxon (1806-27)
B12231777 Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
B12231790 Jean-François Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
B12231804 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk)
B12231805 Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vt, found Mormon church
B12231808 Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
B12231812 Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
B12231815 Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat
B12231818 David Addison Weisiger, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
B12231827 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa)
B12231828 Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter)
B12231834 Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist (moral restraint)
B12231845 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr (found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal)
B12231860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I)
B12231862 Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium)
B12231867 Madame C J Walker, Louisiana, cosmetic mogul
B12231883 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45)
B12231888 Eric Blore, English/US actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad)
B12231893 Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father)
B12231896 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard)
B122319-- Alan North, NYC, actor (Capt Ed Hocken-Naked Gun)
B122319-- Allison Argo, Richmond Va, actress (Susan-Ladies' Man)
B122319-- John Callahan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Craig-Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest)
B122319-- John Marin, painter (1948 Fine Arts Medal)
B122319-- Michael Richardson, Riverside Calif, actor (Steve Baker-Chase)
B122319-- Mitch Brown, Bronx NY, actor (Hardy-The Cowboys)
B122319-- Patrick Ramsey, football player
B12231903 Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer (Cranes are Flying)
B12231906 Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered)
B12231907 Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)
B12231908 Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine)
B12231909 Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934)
B12231911 James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller)
B12231918 Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974- )
B12231918 José Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers)
B12231921 Gerald S O'Loughlin, NYC, actor (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels)
B12231922 Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
B12231923 Leonard Stern, TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart)
B12231923 Milt Okun, Bkln NY, orch leader (Starland Vocal Band Show)
B12231923 Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas)
B12231924 Floyd Kalber, Omaha Neb, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973)
B12231925 Harry Guardino, NYC, actor (Monty Nash, Perry Mason, Hill St Blues)
B12231926 Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds)
B12231929 Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
B12231931 Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World)
B12231933 Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989- )
B12231935 Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
B12231936 James Stacy, LA Calif, actor (Fred-Adv of Ozzie & Harriet)
B12231937 Karol J Bobko, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS-6, STS 51D, STS 51J)
B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled)
B12231941 Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire)
B12231942 Jerry Koosman, pitcher (NY Mets)
B12231943 Harry Shearer, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
B12231943 Silvia Sommerlath, German wife of King Charles XVI of Sweden
B12231944 DJD Dees, pharmacist/Dutch minister of WVC (VVD)
B12231944 Enneüs Heerma, Dutch politician (CDA)
B12231945 Richard C Wohlhuter, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
B12231945 Ronald Bushy, rocker (Iron Butterfly-Ina gada davida)
B12231947 Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY)
B12231948 Jack Ham, NFL linebacker (Steelers)
B12231948 Susan Lucci, Westchester NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess)
B12231955 Dave Murray, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast)
B12231956 Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari)
B12231958 Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979)
B12231958 Joan Severance, Houston Tx, actress (Hear No Evil, See No Evil)
B12231959 Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India
B1223196- Chantily Lace, XXX actress (Unlaced)
B12231960 Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
B12231970 Shannon Noelle DePuy, Lynchburg Va, Miss Virg-America (1991-top 10)
B12231971 Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive)
B1224 3 -BC- Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th Roman emperor (68-69)
B12241167 John Zonder Land, king of England (1199-1216)
B12241714 Rainieri De Calzabigi, Italian's literary (1st European Lottery)
B12241745 Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician-General (Continental Army)
B12241754 George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)
B12241761 Selîm III, screenwriter/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808)
B12241791 A Eugène Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton)
B12241798 Adam Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz)
B12241809 Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, western scout
B12241818 James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
B12241822 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent)
B12241822 Matthew Arnold, England, poet/critic (Dover Beach)
B12241837 Sissi, Emperor of Austria
B12241867 Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Napkin-i Fünun/Sis)
B12241868 Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
B12241869 Henriëtte GO Roland Holst-Van de Schalk, poetess (Women in Forest)
B12241871 Henri Stroethoff, actor (A Chique Knulletje)
B12241881 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956)
B122419-- Michael Billington, England, actor (Col Foster-UFO, Quest)
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor
B12241906 Franz Waxman, Königshütte, Germany, composer (Day at the Races)
B12241907 I[sidore] F[einstein] Stone, US journalist (IF Stone's Weekly)
B12241909 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime/premier (1897-1901)
B12241910 Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, US, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre)
B12241910 Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Hollywood Palace)
B12241920 Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
B12241921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
B12241922 Ava Gardner, Grabtown NC, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
B12241924 Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mines)
B12241924 Willem Drees, economist/Dutch politician (DS'70)
B12241927 Teresa Stich-Randall, US soprano (Vienna State Opera)
B12241929 Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)
B12241930 Robert Joffrey, [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], US, dancer
B12241931 Jill Bennett, Penang Malay, actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle)
B12241931 Mauricio Kagel, Argentina/German composer
B12241938 Ralp Inbar, Dutch TV host (Banana Split)
B12241940 Jorma Kaukonen, rock guitarist/vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
B12241940 Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner (1989- )
B12241944 Erhard Keller, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
B12241944 Mike Curb, Savannah Ga, singer (Mike Curb Congregation)
B12241945 Lemmy, [Ian Kilminster], rocker (Hawkwind, Motorhead-Built for Speed)
B12241946 John Akkerman, guitarist (Focus-Can't level noise)
B12241946 Sharon Farrell, Sioux City Iowa, (Lori-Hawaii 5-0, Young & Restless)
B12241950 Peter Van Forest, singer (Claw Boys Claw)
B12241951 Johnny Contardo, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon)
B12241955 Clarence Gilyard Jr, actor
B12241956 Stephanie Hodge, comedian
B12241957 Clarence Gilyard Jr, Moses Lake Wash, actor (Chips, Duck Factory)
B12241957 Ian Burden, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
B12241969 Kenny Kelly, r&b performer (Riff)
B12241985 Gregory Scott, director
B1225 4 -BC- Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader/philosopher (est date)
B12251642 Isaac Newton, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer
B12251698 Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator
B12251717 Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italy, Pope (1775-99)
B12251721 William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
B12251763 Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph)
B12251808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
B12251813 Milledge Luke Bonham, (Confederacy) died in 1890
B12251821 Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse/founder (American Red Cross)
B12251821 Clara Harlowe Barton, Nurse (Confederate Army), died in 1912
B12251823 Preston Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
B12251832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
B12251837 Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
B12251855 James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
B12251863 E Fernández Arbós, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer
B12251865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army General
B12251875 Theodor Innitzer, cardinal/archbishop Vienna
B12251876 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)
B12251878 W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
B12251881 Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees)
B12251883 Maurice Utrillo, France, painter (Port St Martin)
B12251887 Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels)
B12251892 Rebecca West, journalist/feminist/writer (Meaning of Treason)
B12251893 Fred Hillebrand, Bkln NY, actor (Martin Kane)
B12251893 Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa Calif, cartoonist (Believe It or Not)
B12251899 Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place)
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor, Here's looking at you, kid (Casablanca)
B12251899 Raphael Soyer, painter (Arts & Letters 1945)
B122519-- Kenny Everett, British TV personality (Kenny Everett Show)
B122519-- Mabel King, Charleston SC, actress (Mama-What's Happening?)
B12251900 Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie)
B12251900 Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
B12251903 J Edward Bromberg, Hungary, actor (Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags)
B12251904 Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
B12251906 Clark M Clifford, US Secretary of Defense (1968-69)
B12251906 Lord Grade, British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil)
B12251906 William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70)
B12251907 Cab Calloway, bandleader/actor (Blues Brothers, Jazzball)
B12251909 Louis Van Band, Belgian painter
B12251909 Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
B12251912 Herman W Filarski, bridge journalist
B12251912 Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love)
B12251915 Noelle de Mosa, Neth/British dancer/teachers (Brigadoon)
B12251918 Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81, Nobel 1978)
B12251918 Eddie Safranski, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Jonathan Winters Show)
B12251922 Kitty Kallen, Phila Pa, singer (Judge For Yourself)
B12251923 Louis Lane, Eagle Pass Texas, conductor (Oere Orch 1968-73)
B12251923 Nöel Vandernotte, France, cox (Olympic-bronze-1936)
B12251925 Ossi Reichert, German FR, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1956)
B12251927 Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959)
B12251928 Earl Brown, Salt Lake City Ut, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat)
B12251929 Billy Horton, rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
B12251929 Irish McCalla, Pawnee City Neb, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
B12251931 Carlos Castaneda, US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within)
B12251934 Bob Martinez, US politician(?)
B12251934 John Ashley, KC Mo, actor (Clipper-Straightaway)
B12251937 O'Kelly Isley, rock vocalist (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
B12251938 Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director (Avro)
B12251940 French Moor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
B12251942 Françoise Durr, France, tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles)
B12251943 Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress (Love is Colder than Death)
B12251944 Henry Vestine, rock guitarist (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
B12251945 Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor (Andy-WKRP in Cincinatti)
B12251945 Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
B12251945 Noel Redding, rocker (The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
B12251946 Jimmy Buffett, singer (Margaritaville)
B12251946 Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants)
B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, Houston Tx, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
B12251949 Dan Pastorini, NFL QB (Raiders)
B12251949 Sissy Spacek, Quitman Tx (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
B12251951 Ria Thielsch, singer (Luv)
B12251953 Arnella Flynn, Rome Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter
B12251954 Annie Lennox, Aberdeen Scotland, vocalist (Eurythmics, Why)
B12251954 Robin Campbell, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
B12251954 Steve Wariner, country singer (I Got Dreams)
B12251957 Jan Rot, composer/writer (Verkeerde nachten)
B12251957 Jillie Mack, Mrs Tom Selleck/actress
B12251957 John Rot, composer/writer (Wriggled Nights)
B12251957 Shane McGowan, rock vocalist (The Pogues-Red Roses For Me)
B12251958 Rickey Henderson, baseball player (stolen base king, A's, Yankees)
B12251959 Missy Cleveland, Jackson Miss, playmate (April, 1979)
B12251962 Dean Cameron, Morrison Ill, actor (Herbie-Spencer)
B12251964 Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor
B12251966 Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet (March, 1991)
B12251968 Helena Christensen, Coopenhagen Denamrk, model (Wicked Game)
B12251969 Bernhard Jr, Prince of Netherlands
B12261194 Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250)
B12261198 Frederick II, Jesi Germany, King of Sicily (1198)
B12261687 Johann G Pisendel, German violinist/composer
B12261716 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
B12261738 Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
B12261770 Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba)
B12261771 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus)
B12261778 Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
B12261792 Charles Babbage, inventor (calculating machine)
B12261809 William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883
B12261815 Israel Bush Richardson, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
B12261820 Gustavus Adolphus SMith, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
B12261824 Augustus Louis Chetlain, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
B12261826 Martinus Nÿhoff, founder Nÿhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale)
B12261837 Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
B12261859 Johan F van Bemmelen, zoologist
B12261867 Julien Benda, French philosopher/writer (Dialogues à Byzance)
B12261874 Norman Angell, [Lane], English cowboy/journalist (Nobel 1933)
B12261878 Isaiah Bowman, US, geography/co-founder (Geographical Review)
B12261883 Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master (1950)
B12261883 Frank Debenham, Australian geography/geology
B12261883 Maurice Utrillo, French painter (Montmartre)
B12261886 Gyula Gömbös von Jákfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35)
B12261891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus)
B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China PR (1949-76)
B12261897 Willie Corsari, [Wilhelmina A Schmidt], writer
B122619-- Gerald Hopkins, actor (A J Quartermaine-General Hospital)
B122619-- Lars Ulrich, rock drummer (Metallica-Helpless)
B122619-- Terri Garber, actress (Leslie Carrington-Dynasty)
B122619-- Victoria Racimo, NYC, actress (Corene-Falcon Crest)
B12261902 Elisha Cook Jr, SF Calif, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI)
B12261904 Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo)
B12261908 Ralph Hill, US, 5K runner (Olympic-1932)
B12261914 Richard Widmark, Sunrise Mich, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg)
B12261915 Hans [Henri A] Gomperts, literature (Duck on Attic)
B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
B12261921 Steve Allen, NYC, comedian/TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show)
B12261927 Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)
B12261927 Denis Quilley, London England, actor (Masada)
B12261930 Donald Moffat, Plymouth England, actor (Kent-Logan's Run)
B12261936 Kitty Dukakis, substance abuser/wife of Michael (Gov-Mass)
B12261936 Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln NY, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
B12261939 Lynn Martin, US politician(?)
B12261939 Phil Spector, record producer (Wall of Sound)
B12261940 Harmen Siezen, TV-journal host
B12261942 Earl Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
B12261942 Ernie Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
B12261942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, president of Guatemala (1986- )
B12261942 Rob de Nÿs, singer (Put a candle on your window)
B12261944 Jane Lapotaire, actress (Spirit of the Dead)
B12261946 Lisette Hordÿk, Dutch TV broadcaster
B12261947 Carlton Fisk, Vermont, all star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox)
B12261948 Chris Chambliss, 1st baseman (NY Yankee)
B12261949 Ira Newborn, NYC, orch leader (Manhattan Transfer)
B12261950 Michael Jones, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
B12261951 Richard Skinner, British DJ
B12261952 André-Michel Schub, Paris France, pianist (Van Cliburn-1981)
B12261953 Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov, Russia, cosmonaut
B12261954 Peter Woods, rocker (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble)
B12261954 Susan Butcher, dog sled driver (Idatarod)
B12261954 Ullrich Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
B12261954 Walter Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
B12261956 Gail Tatterson, WBL center (NY Stars)
B12261956 Karen Smith, WBL forward (NY Stars)
B12261961 Storm Davis, Dallas Texas, pitcher (KC Royals)
B12261961 Tahnee Welch, San Diego Calif, actress (Cocoon)
B12261974 Tiffany Brissette, actress (Vicki-Small Wonder)
B12271555 Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist
B12271571 Johann Kepler, Württemberg Germany, astronomer (elliptical orbits)
B12271761 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russ minister of War
B12271773 George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
B12271802 Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter
B12271814 James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
B12271816 Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
B12271822 Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist (pasturization)
B12271829 James Clay Rice, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
B12271831 Lucius Fairchild, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
B12271836 Henricus Oort, theologist (Leidse translation)
B12271852 Dom J G da Câmara, Portugese journalist/songwriter
B12271855 Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
B12271879 Sydney Greenstreet, Sandwich England, actor (Maltese Falcon)
B12271896 Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
B12271896 Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board)
B12271896 Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926)
B12271897 Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw
B12271899 Paul Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1920, 24, 28)
B122719-- Jerry Gaskill, rocker (King's X-Faith Hope Love)
B12271901 Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel)
B12271906 Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life)
B12271907 Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwÿk Holland, conductor (Melbourne 1967-71)
B12271908 Louis JHCA de Bourbon, writer/poet (Black Vanen)
B12271909 Johan[nes B] Schmitz, actor/reciter (Match, MacBeth)
B12271914 Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red)
B12271924 James A McClure, (Sen-R-Idaho)
B12271924 Mokta O Daddah, president Mauritania
B12271924 Wouter Eÿkelemboom, architect (Holy-hospital Flanders)
B12271926 Jerome Courtland, Knoxville Tn, actor (Tonka, Tharus)
B12271930 Jacqueline Fontyn, Flemish composer
B12271930 Meg Greenfield, US politician(?)
B12271930 Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer (Boys of Winter, Hack)
B12271931 Scotty Moore, guitarist (for Elvis)
B12271934 Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
B12271936 Lee Salk, doctor (CBS TV)
B12271939 John Amos, Newark NJ, actor (Good Times, Coming to America)
B12271940 Jerry Lambert, jockey (rode Native Diver)
B12271941 Leslie Maguire, rocker (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersey)
B12271941 Michael Pinder, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
B12271944 Mick Jones, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
B12271944 Tracy Nelson, Madison Wisc, singer/actress (Square Pegs)
B12271946 Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality (Youth)
B12271948 Gérard Depardieu, France, actor (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton)
B12271948 Larry Byrom, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World)
B12271950 Jack van Gelder, Dutch TV host
B12271950 Terry Bozzio, rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You)
B12271952 Karla Bonoff, rock singer (New World, Restless Nights)
B12271952 Tovah Feldshuh, NYC, actress (Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky)
B12271953 Arthur Kent, newscaster (NBC-Gulf War coverage)
B12271959 Andre Tippett, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
B12271960 Maryam d'Abo, British actress (James Bond)
B12271962 Barbara Crampton, Long Island NY, actr (Body Double, Young & Restless)
B12271967 Niels Meÿer, rocker (Bob Color)
B12271972 Thomas Wilson Brown, actor (Jason-Knots Landing)
B12271975 Heather O'Rourke, San Diego Calif, actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist)
B12281763 John Molson, founded Montréal brewery (Molsons)
B12281787 Hermanus J Abbring, officer/writer
B12281801 James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
B12281822 William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898
B12281823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Asst Secy War (Union), died in 1881
B12281827 Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brig General (Union), died in 1862
B12281828 Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
B12281833 Charles Miller Shelley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
B12281835 Archibald Geikie, British geologist
B12281849 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck
B12281855 Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguay's diplomat/songwriter (Tabaré)
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (D), 28th pres (1912-21, Nobel 1919)
B12281859 John W Fortescue, military historian
B12281865 Félix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna)
B12281868 Marie van Regteren Altena, painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)
B12281872 Pio Baroja Y Nessa, San Sebastion Spain, writer (Caminode Parfección)
B12281880 Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet
B12281882 Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
B12281884 Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier (1950-52)/communist hunter
B12281894 André de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot (Eagle of Flanders)
B12281894 Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
B12281896 Roger Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Maskers)
B122819-- Bob Perlow, Pawtucket RI, TV host (People Do the Craziest Things)
B122819-- Don Francisco, spanish TV host (Sabádo Gigante)
B12281902 Mortimer J Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
B12281903 John Von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)
B12281905 Cliff Arquette, Toledo Oh, comedian (Charlie Weaver)
B12281905 Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
B12281908 Lew Ayres, Minn, actor (All Quiet on Western Front, Dr Kildare)
B12281909 Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows)
B12281911 Sam Levenson, NYC, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)
B12281913 Lou Jacobi, Toronto Ontario, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba)
B12281914 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)
B12281914 Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)
B12281916 Noel Johnson, British(?) actor
B12281917 Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad & Tobago
B12281920 Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles)
B12281921 Eddy Doorenbos, singer/pianist/guitarist
B12281923 Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War)
B12281924 Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
B12281925 Bill [William) Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough
B12281925 Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique)
B12281927 Martin Milner, Detroit Mich, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)
B12281927 Simon Raven, writer/critic
B12281928 Bo Diddley, pop singer/guitarist
B12281929 Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
B12281929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
B12281929 Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
B12281931 John de Mol, singer/composer
B12281932 Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer
B12281932 Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
B12281932 Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (Blood of Requited Love)
B12281932 Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader
B12281933 Jack Perkins, Cleve Ohio, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine)
B12281934 Maggie Smith, Ilford Eng, actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
B12281936 Nichelle Nichols, Robbins Ill, actress (Uhura-Star Trek)
B12281938 Richard Sudhalter, British(?) writer/jazz musician
B12281941 Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricketer
B12281942 Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
B12281943 David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada (L) (1982- )
B12281945 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal (1972- )
B12281945 Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
B12281945 Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief (Daily Telegraph)
B12281946 Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)
B12281947 Richard Diamonde, rocker (Easybeats-Friday on My Mind)
B12281947 Robert Gilliot, father of Gerda Havertongs daughter Zulèma
B12281950 Alex Chilton, rocker (Box Tops-Let Me Get Close to You)
B12281952 Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
B12281953 Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
B12281954 Denzel Washington, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere)
B12281954 Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise)
B12281954 Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, SNL, Amanda's)
B12281956 Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator)
B12281956 Michael Gibbons, rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Dont be a Hero)
B12281956 Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
B12281958 Terry Butcher, British soccer
B12281959 Everson Walls, NFL corner back (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants)
B12281960 Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce)
B12281960 Ray Borque, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruin-3 Norris Trophys)
B12281963 Mel Stottlemyre Jr, pitcher (Toronto Blues Jays)
B12281964 Colleen Dion, Newburgh NY, actress (Felicia-Bold & Beautiful)
B12281965 Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd)
B12281968 Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot SD, Miss SD-America (1991)
B12281975 Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)
B12291586 Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona
B12291721 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
B12291776 Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
B12291809 Albert Pike, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
B12291831 Adam Badeau, Bvt Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
B12291833 John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks)
B12291859 Venustiano Carranza, pres of México (1915-20)
B12291876 Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
B12291879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I)
B12291890 Jozef Cantré, Flemish sculptor/wood carver
B12291896 David Alfaro Siqueiros, México, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)
B122919-- Jose Alberto, spanish entertainer
B122919-- Ronnie Younkins, rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
B122919-- Susie Garrett, Detroit Mich, actress (Punky Brewster)
B122919-- Wendell Niles, Twin Valley Mn, TV announcer (It Could be You)
B12291908 Gerben Sonderman, test pilot (Fokker)
B12291912 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
B12291915 Charles L[eonard] Harness, US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead)
B12291915 John PW Meefout, sculptor (Laying Woman)
B12291915 Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value)
B12291917 Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) (1973- )
B12291919 Pieter Terpstra, journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T)
B12291920 Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
B12291921 Mala Powers, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Death in Small Doses)
B12291925 Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
B12291927 Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
B12291928 Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show)
B12291931 Barbara Steele, England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows)
B12291932 Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson)
B12291934 Ed Flanders, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere)
B12291934 Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
B12291936 Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People)
B12291938 Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
B12291939 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives (1978- )
B12291940 Peter Koelewÿn, writer/singer (Come to the Roof)
B12291941 Ray Thomas, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
B12291943 JHR Maÿ-Wegge, minister of Vertime
B12291945 Adje Roland, Dutch disc-jockey
B12291946 Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Ky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale)
B12291946 Marianne Faithfull, British actress/singer
B12291946 Paul Trible, (Sen-R-Va)
B12291947 Ted Danson, SD Calif, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
B12291949 Angel Tompkins, actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law)
B12291951 Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator)
B12291951 Yvonne Elliman, US actress/singer (I Don't Know How to Love Him)
B12291952 Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker)
B12291952 Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
B12291955 Jan Pÿnenburg, drummer (Doe Maar)
B12291956 Dolf de Vries, musical/director/arranger (Josephine)
B12291958 Nancy Jane Sherlock, Wilmington Del, Capt Army/Astronaut (SK:STS 57)
B12291959 Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol)
B12291959 Paula Poundstone, comedian
B12291964 Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah-Head of the Class)
B12291968 Carlo H L Ponti Jr, son of Carlo Ponti & Sophia Loren
B12291985 Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
B1230 39 Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
B12301818 James Cantey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1874
B12301819 John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
B12301819 Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest)
B12301828 Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
B12301855 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Menschheit)
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907)
B12301867 Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard Titanic)
B12301869 Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
B12301869 Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
B12301879 Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Inst)
B12301880 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
B12301883 Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
B12301889 Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren)
B12301898 Vincent Lopez, Bkln NY, orch leader (Welcome Aboard)
B123019-- Bernard Barrow, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving)
B123019-- Jack Riley, Cleve Ohio, actor (Carlin-Bob Newhart, Ocassional Wife)
B123019-- Patricia Kalember, Schnectady NY, actress (Kay O'Brien)
B12301904 Dmitri Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire)
B12301906 Carol Reed, motion picture director (3rd Man)
B12301910 Herman van der Horst, cinematographer (Faja Lobbi)
B12301910 Paul Bowles, US composer/writer (Shelting Sky)
B12301911 Jeanette Nolan, LA Calif, actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian)
B12301914 Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America)
B12301918 W Eugene Smith, US photographer (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden)
B12301919 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at OK Corral, East of Eden)
B12301921 Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM of Lebanon
B12301928 Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
B12301928 Jack Lord, NYC, actor (Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre)
B12301929 Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
B12301929 Bob Bouma, TV host
B12301931 Charles A Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut
B12301931 Skeeter Davis, Dry Ridge Ky, singer (End of World)
B12301932 John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose)
B12301934 Nicolas Coster, London, actor (Our Private World, Lobo, Ryan's Four)
B12301934 Russ Tamblyn, LA Calif, actor (Win Place or Steal, Twin Peaks)
B12301935 Omar [Albert B] Bongo, president of Gabon (1984- )
B12301935 Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
B12301937 John Hartford, NYC, singer/songwriter (Smothers Brothers Hour)
B12301938 Joseph Bologna, actor (Citizen Cohn)
B12301939 Del Shannon, [Charlie Westover], rocker (Runaway)
B12301939 Doeke Eisma, sociologist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (D66)
B12301942 Michael Nesmith, Houston, rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
B12301945 Davy Jones, Manchester Eng, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
B12301946 Patti Smith, US singer
B12301947 Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
B12301947 Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor (Barnaby West-Wagon Train)
B12301952 Somtow Sucharitkul, [SP Somtow], Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters)
B12301953 Daniel T Barry, Norwalk Ct, Phd/astronaut
B12301956 "Chérie" Samba (Mbimba N'zinga), Zaïre painter (Pitie la prostituée)
B12301958 Brandon Clark, NYC, actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks)
B12301958 Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut
B12301959 Tracey Ullman, singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
B12301961 Ben Johnson, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988-disqualified)
B12301962 Paul Crowder, rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love)
B12301963 Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress (Ferragosto OK)
B12301963 Johnny van 't Schip, soccer star (Ajax)
B12301964 Kimberly Taylor, [Cindy], model/Penthouse Pet (1990)
B12301972 Maureen Flannigan, actress (Evie-Out of this World)
B12301983 Rachel & Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau
B12311378 Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58)
B12311514 Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica)
B12311550 Henri Guise [le Balafré], French duke/leader catholic League
B12311720 Charles E Stuart, pretender to English throne
B12311738 Charles Lord Cornwallis, solider/statesman "fire when ready Gridley"
B12311805 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)
B12311815 George Gordon Meade, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872
B12311825 Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
B12311830 Ismail Pasja, kedive of Egypt (1863-79)
B12311838 Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906)
B12311846 Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all)
B12311869 Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter (Odalisque)
B12311870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years
B12311880 George C Marshall, Uniontown Pa, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
B12311881 Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro chemistry)
B12311881 Jacob Israël de Han, poet/writer (Pipelines)
B12311881 Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist (That Brücke)
B12311882 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway)
B12311892 Jason Robards Sr, Hillsdale Mich, actor (Acapulco)
B12311894 Pola Negri, [Barbara A Chalupiec], Polish/US actress (Madame Dubarry)
B12311899 Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro, México, composer
B123119-- Buzz Adlam, Chelmsford England, composer (Stage Two Revue)
B123119-- Don Diamont, actor (Brad-Young & Restless)
B123119-- Sally Gracie, actress (One Life to Live)
B123119-- Scott Ian, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
B12311904 Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
B12311904 Nathan Milstein, Odessa Russia, concert violinist (Phila Orch 1942)
B12311905 Guy Mollet (Socialist), French premier (1956-57)
B12311905 Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer (1954 Acad Award, 1968 Tony)
B12311906 Erna Bogen, Hungary, foils (Olympic-bronze-1932)
B12311910 Dick Kollmar, Rigewood NJ, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What)
B12311914 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show)
B12311921 Rocky Graziano, NYC, boxer (Middlewgt champ)/actor (Miami Undercover)
B12311922 Joan McCracken, Phila Pa, actress (Claudie Story of a Marriage)
B12311922 Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor)
B12311924 Victoria Draves, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1948)
B12311928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit)
B12311928 Ross Barbour, Columbus Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
B12311929 Mies Bouman, TV hostess (Open the Village)
B12311930 Odetta, [Holmes] Birmingham Ala, folk singer (Sanctuary)
B12311931 Bob Shaw, UK, sci-fi author (Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo)
B12311932 George Schlatter, TV producer (Laugh-in)
B12311937 Anthony Hopkins, Wales, actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty)
B12311938 Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Holland, speed skater, world champion
B12311938 Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right)
B12311941 Sarah Miles, Essex, England, actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom)
B12311942 Andy Summers, pop musician (Police-Roxanne)
B12311943 Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice)
B12311943 John Denver, singer (Rocky Mt High), thank God he's a country boy
B12311945 Claude D Marks, Buenos Aires Argent, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
B12311946 Barbara Carrera, Managua Nicaragua, actress (Angelica-Dallas)
B12311946 Diane von Fürstenberg, Brussels Belgiums, fashion designer
B12311946 Patti Smith, Chicago, singer (Radio Ethiopia)
B12311947 Burton Cummings, rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes)
B12311947 Tim Matheson, Calif, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
B12311948 Donna Summer, Boston, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
B12311948 Joe Dallesandro, Pensicola Fla, actor (Heat, Trash, AW Frankenstein)
B12311948 Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasieyv, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11)
B12311949 Claude Daniel Marks, Buenos Aires, one of FBI's most wanted
B12311951 Fermin Goytisolo, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
B12311951 Michael Allen Bantom, Phila, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
B12311951 Tom Hamilton, rocker (Aerosmith-Dream On)
B12311953 James Remar, Boston, actor (48 Hours, Rent-a-Cop, Cotton Club)
B12311959 Val Kilmer, actor (Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow)
B12311961 Joanna Johnson, actress (Caroline-Bold & Beautiful)
B12311969 Martha Byrne, actress (Lily-As the World Turns)
B12311972 Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
D1201 660 Eligius/Eloy, French bishop of Doornik-Noyon/saint, dies
D12011135 Henry I Beauclerc, king of England (1st king that could read), dies
D12011374 Magnus Eriksson, king of Norway/Sweden, dies
D12011521 Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45
D12011580 Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies
D12011633 Isabella CE, land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 67
D12011842 Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
D12011916 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58
D12011934 Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
D12011935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
D12011942 John Crowley, US, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty)
D12011947 Aleister Crowley, dies at 74
D12011952 Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92
D12011971 Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93
D12011972 Antonio Segni, Italian lawyer/minister/premier/president, dies at 81
D12011973 David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel dies in Tel Aviv at 87
D12011974 Stephen Gill Spottswood, US bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77
D12011975 Nick Kenny, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80
D12011977 Paul Hardy, Belgian designer (Italian Country), dies
D12011986 Horace Heidt, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85
D12011986 Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
D12011987 Donn F Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies at 57 of a heart attack
D12011987 James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
D12011989 Alvin Ailey, US choreographer (Blues suite, Revelations), dies at 58
D12011990 Jan H de Great, founder (Vrÿ Nederland), dies
D1202 537 Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies
D12021774 Johann F Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies
D12021859 John Brown, abolitionist hanged at Charles Town WV
D12021888 Kemal Bey, Turkish poet dies at 47
D12021888 Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
D12021935 Albert Kessel, first to die in Calif gas chamber
D12021944 Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
D12021953 Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
D12021966 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, mathematician, dies
D12021967 Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78
D12021969 Kliment J Worosjilow, president USSR (1953-60), dies
D12021972 José Limón, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
D12021976 William Tannen, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 65
D12021982 Marty Feldman, comedic actor dies at 49 of a heart attack in México
D12021983 Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" dies of cancer at 79
D12021985 Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice)
D12021986 Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer
D12021986 Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, dies at 59
D12021990 Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
D12021990 Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies at 88
D12021992 Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43
D12021992 Loek Elfferich, journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), dies
D1203 450 Petrus Chrysologus, 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies
D12031137 Lotharius III, of Supplinburg, Roman-German emperor (1133-37), dies
D12031154 Anastasius IV, Pope (1153-54), dies
D12031463 Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
D12031491 Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
D12031789 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies
D12031807 Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies
D12031839 Frederik VI, king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies
D12031857 Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80
D12031892 William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien
D12031894 Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies
D12031910 Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies
D12031919 Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies
D12031937 Prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor, dies
D12031957 Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher dies at 81
D12031967 Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director, dies
D12031973 Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
D12031985 Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
D12031991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
D12041334 John XXII, [Jacques Duèze], Pope (316-34), dies
D12041371 Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
D12041576 Rheticus, mathematician dies
D12041732 John Gay, poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
D12041807 Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston
D12041909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies
D12041933 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies
D12041943 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies
D12041948 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
D12041952 Karen Horney, German/US neo freudians psycho analyist, dies at 67
D12041967 Bert Lahr, US comic/actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
D12041969 Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
D12041975 Hannah Arendt, German/US politician, dies
D12041976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
D12041979 Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
D12041983 Estelle Omens, actress, dies at 55
D12041984 John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
D12041986 Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
D12041987 Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
D12041990 Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies
D12051212 Dirk II van Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies
D12051244 Johanna van Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies
D12051355 Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies
D12051560 Francis II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
D12051594 Gerardus Mercator, geographer dies
D12051784 Philis Wheatley, poet, dies in Boston
D12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria, at 35
D12051859 Louis Poinsot, French instrument maker, dies at 82
D12051891 Jklsbfxvpsmgrg Pedro II of Alcantara, emperor of Brazil (1831-89), die
D12051922 Samuel Muller Fzn, historian, dies
D12051925 Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], feminist, dies
D12051935 French, [MJ François] Erens, literary (Pursuit Years), dies at 78
D12051951 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
D12051964 Remy Angenot, Flemish actor, dies
D12051966 Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies
D12051974 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US Open 1909-11) dies at 87
D12051983 Robert Aldrich, dir/producer dies at 65
D12051986 Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
D12051989 John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies
D12051991 Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
D12051991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
D12061185 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76
D12061352 Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies
D12061550 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies
D12061562 Jan van Scorel, painter/architect, dies
D12061799 Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies
D12061865 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies
D12061889 Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5), dies
D12061892 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officier, dies
D12061914 Eduard Jacobs, cabaret artist, dies at 47
D12061926 Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies
D12061941 Anthony G Kröller, entrepreneur/govt advisor, dies
D12061943 Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies
D12061959 Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
D12061963 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philological (Language Boundary), dies
D12061973 Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies
D12061984 Ruth Cummings, actress dies at 90
D12061985 Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
D12061985 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
D12061988 Roy Orbison, singer, dies of a massive heart attack at 52
D12061989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry) dies at 86
D12061989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77
D12061989 Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87
D12061991 Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
D12071254 Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies
D12071817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies in London
D12071826 John Flaxman, English sculptor (tomb at St Paul's Cathedral), dies
D12071881 Julius FA Bahnsen, German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies
D12071912 George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
D12071962 Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies
D12071975 Thornton Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey, dies
D12071979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
D12071979 Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
D12071982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be
D12071982Cexecuted by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
D12071983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
D12071984 Jeanne Cagney, actress, dies at 65
D12071985 Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
D12071988 Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
D12071990 Joan Bennett, US actress (House Across the Bay), dies
D12071992 Maurice [Bob] Coutinho, writer/interpreter (ocean combat), dies
D12071992 Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
D1208 899 Arnulf van Karinthië, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
D12081292 John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
D12081587 Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
D12081681 Gerard Terborch the younger, painter/etcher, dies
D12081709 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies
D12081831 James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies
D12081903 Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies
D12081907 Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
D12081923 Dom Joseph Pothier, French benediction/musicology, dies
D12081926 John Six, art historian/collector, dies
D12081954 Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
D12081972 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
D12081978 Golda Meir, served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80
D12081980 John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman
D12081982 André Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered
D12081982 Bertus de Harder, soccer star (Bordeaux), dies
D12081982 Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
D12081982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
D12081982 Frank Wÿngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered
D12081982 J Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered
D12081982 John Baboeram, Suriname advocate, murdered
D12081982 Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered
D12081982 Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered
D12081982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname military man, murdered
D12081983 Slim Pickins, western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery
D12081984 Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81
D12081989 Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies
D12081990 Martin Ritt, US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70
D12081991 Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
D12081992 William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies
D12091292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) dies
D12091392 Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], lawyer/Pope, dies
D12091437 Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70
D12091565 Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
D12091669 Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Ital Pope (1667-69), dies
D12091706 Pedro II, king of Portugal (1683-1706), dies at 58
D12091819 Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide
D12091898 Emmett Kelly, US circus clown (Weary Willie), dies
D12091916 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
D12091924 Bernard Zweers, composer (music rights of Aemstel), dies
D12091940 ... Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
D12091944 Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
D12091957 Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
D12091959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
D12091963 Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian (Order of St Benoît), dies
D12091971 Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in NYC
D12091975 William A Wellman, US director (Ox Bow Incident), dies
D12091979 Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster dies in NYC at 84
D12091982 Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at 53
D12091982 Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor dies at 77 in Texas
D12091982 Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80
D12091982 Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at 55
D12091983 David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53
D12091990 Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies
D12091992 Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pitts Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62
D1210 969 Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
D12101041 Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, emperor of Byzantine, dies
D12101198 Averroès, arabian philospher, dies
D12101603 William Gilbert, physician/physicist dies at 58
D12101638 Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Osman), dies at 49
D12101749 Gabrielle Châtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire), dies
D12101830 Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies
D12101896 Alfred Nobel, dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
D12101911 Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies
D12101936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies
D12101946 Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66
D12101946 Walter Johnson, Washington Senator great pitcher dies at 59
D12101964 Sam Cooke, US, soul singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel
D12101967 Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay) dies in plane crash at 26
D12101968 Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies
D12101968 Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
D12101974 Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50
D12101979 Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84
D12101981 John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89
D12101982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
D12101983 Dorothy Cummings, actress dies at 84
D12101983 Patrick O'Moore, actor dies at 74
D12101986 Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
D12101987 Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
D12101988 Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life) dies of aids
D12101990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
D12101991 Berenice Abbott, US photographer, dies
D12101992 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies
D12111282 Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
D12111524 Henry Van Zutphen, Roman catholic martyr, burned at stake
D12111686 Louis II Condé, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65
D12111718 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
D12111902 Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies
D12111911 Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies
D12111933 Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
D12111974 Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
D12111979 Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
D12111984 George Waggner, director/writer dies at 90
D12111990 Armand Hammer, US businessman/philanthropist/diplomat (USSR), dies
D12111990 Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies
D12111991 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
D12111991 Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
D12111992 Vilma Banky, silent film actress, dies at about 90
D12121112 Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
D12121263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
D12121600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer, dies
D12121777 Rev Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn, England for rape
D12121880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies
D12121889 Robert Browning, English poet, dies
D12121912 Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies
D12121914 Watkins Lewis, black man lynched in Shrevport La
D12121920 Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
D12121921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
D12121923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le ball du comte), dies
D12121926 Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies
D12121939 Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (Zorro/3 musketeers/Robin Hood, dies
D12121946 John [John L] Walch, literature (Abelard & Heloïse), dies
D12121947 Júlio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do mato, dies
D12121962 Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
D12121965 Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67
D12121968 Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies at 66
D12121971 David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
D12121971 Jack Barnhill, a Northern Ireland senator is assassinated
D12121976 Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49
D12121985 Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
D12121988 John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
D12121991 Lex Karsemeÿer, tenor (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
D12121992 Bernard CJ Lievegoed, anthroposophy (founder Free Hague court), dies
D1213 838 Pippÿn I, King of Aquitania, dies
D12131124 Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
D12131126 Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies
D12131204 Maimonides, Jewish philospher dies in Cairo at 69
D12131250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
D12131557 Niccoló Tartaglia, Italian mathematician dies
D12131565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist dies at 49
D12131574 Selîm II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies
D12131603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician dies in Paris at 63
D12131672 Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
D12131693 Dodoftei, Moldavian writer (Sanctity of Life), dies
D12131693 Willem Van de Velde, the Old, seascape painter, dies
D12131729 Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies
D12131881 August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43
D12131924 Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 44
D12131944 Vassily Kandisky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78
D12131945 Robert of Genechten, Dutch political leader (NSB), commits suicide
D12131958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
D12131958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
D12131958 Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
D12131958 Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70
D12131961 Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101
D12131963 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies
D12131969 Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83
D12131974 Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
D12131975 Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
D12131979 Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66
D12131981 Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75
D12131983 Leora Dana, actress dies at 60
D12131983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78
D12131990 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies
D12131991 André Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies
D12131992 Bernard Printer, organist/pianist/orch leader (duivelswiel), dies
D1214 872 Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72), dies
D12141077 Agnes van Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies
D12141136 Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
D12141417 John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English edelman, hanged
D12141591 Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies
D12141754 Mahmoed I, sultan of Turkey, dies
D12141760 Kacic Miosic, Croatish poet (Razgovar ugodni naroda slovinskoga), dies
D12141788 Charles III, King of Spain, dies
D12141799 George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66
D12141861 Albert, prince consort of England & husband of Queen Victoria, dies
D12141873 J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
D12141900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
D12141903 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
D12141906 Jan A C Oudemans, geographer/astronomer, dies
D12141918 Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
D12141926 Theo Van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillisme), dies
D12141935 Stanley G Weinbaum, US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies
D12141939 Helene ELJ Kröller-Müller, founder/head mistress (K-M Museum), dies
D12141945 Henry Van Goudoever, lawyer/judge, dies at 69
D12141945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
D12141947 Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies
D12141959 Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, house painter (Verstoten), dies at 84
D12141963 Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
D12141963 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies
D12141964 William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58
D12141966 Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
D12141974 Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85
D12141975 Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
D12141980 Elston Howard, catcher (NY Yankees), dies
D12141984 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del corazón), dies at 86
D12141985 Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies at 51 of cancer
D12141985 Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri) dies at 85
D12141989 Andrej Sacharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
D12151025 Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies
D12151230 Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies
D12151515 Alfonso de Albuquerque, under king of Portugese Indies, dies
D12151715 George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology), dies
D12151817 Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies
D12151826 William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC
D12151880 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76
D12151889 Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies
D12151890 Sitting Bull, leader Hunkpapa indians (Little Big Horn), killed by US
D12151934 Maggis Lena Wlaker, 1st black woman to head a bank, dies at 69
D12151943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, dies at 39, in KC Missouri
D12151951 Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies
D12151961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
D12151962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies
D12151966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
D12151968 Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
D12151972 Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies
D12151974 Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89
D12151978 Chill Wills, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
D12151979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
D12151984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
D12151984 Jan Peerce, operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke
D12151992 Fré [Frederik] Meis, Dutch 2nd-Chamber member (CPN), dies
D1216 714 Pippin II, of Héristal, Duke & prince of France, dies
D1216 882 John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies
D12161821 Claire E J, countess the Rémusat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies
D12161852 Andries H Potgieter, South African explorer, dies
D12161897 L-M Alphonse Daudet, Frans writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies
D12161916 Grigori Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk, murdered
D12161920 Ma de Welwillende, Chinese muslim rebel (saint war), dies
D12161921 Charles-Camille Saint-Saens, French composer/conductor, dies
D12161922 Eliëzer Ben-Jehuda, [Perelmann], Latvian/Palestinian writer, dies
D12161922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Polish Republic, assassinated
D12161931 Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge, dies
D12161940 M Eugène F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies
D12161944 Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies
D12161949 Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgaria communist/vice-premier, executed
D12161961 Cato Engelen-Sewing, soprano singer/primadonna, dies
D12161965 W Somerset Maugham, English author (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
D12161973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies
D12161976 George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months
D12161980 Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
D12161982 Anthony C B Chapman, England, formula 1 racer, dies at 54
D12161985 Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief shot dead by a NYC restaurant
D12161987 Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
D12161989 Lee Van Cleef, US actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies
D12161989 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies
D12161992 Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, writer (White Snow), dies
D12161992 Rinus Terlouw, soccer trainer (Sparta 34), dies
D12171187 Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
D12171195 Boudewÿn V, count of Henegouwen/Flanders (Boudewÿn VIII), dies
D12171213 Johannes de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
D12171471 Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Bourgundy, dies
D12171711 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
D12171751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
D12171830 Simon Bolivar, president of Columbia, dies at 47 in Colombia
D12171907 Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Brit physicist (Kelvin), dies
D12171909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
D12171957 Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
D12171961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
D12171962 Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies at 70
D12171965 Jeff Grayher, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)
D12171965 Tito [Raffaele AA] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies
D12171973 Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Constant Sun), dies
D12171975 Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
D12171982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
D12171986 Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
D12171987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Ultrecht Netherlands, dies at 87
D12171987 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
D12171990 Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies
D12171992 Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies at 82
D12181290 Magnus I Ladulås, [schuurgrendel], king of Sweden (1277-90), dies
D12181638 Le Père Joseph, French mystic, dies
D12181737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker dies in Cremona, Italy
D12181751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, master builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies
D12181892 Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88
D12181935 Juan V Gómez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies
D12181939 Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
D12181948 Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers
D12181971 Bobby Jones Jr, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930) dies at 69
D12181971 Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
D12181971 Robert T "Bobby" Jones, US golfer
D12181977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
D12181980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM suffers a fatal heart attack at 76
D12181981 Mehmet Shehu, premier Albania/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
D12181992 Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83
D12181992 Mark Goodson, game show creator (Family Feud), dies at 77 of cancer
D12181992 Mother Clare Hale, cared for NYC AIDS babies, dies at 87
D12181992 Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies
D1219 401 Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
D12191370 Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies
D12191554 Philips Willem, prince of Orange, dies
D12191741 Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator & explorer, dies
D12191851 J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies
D12191914 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies
D12191915 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, dies
D12191939 Karl Wagenfeld, Defeated German writer (Match, Death & devil), dies
D12191951 Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
D12191953 Robert A Millikan, US physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
D12191959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
D12191968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
D12191977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor dies at 101
D12191982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71
D12191983 Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildaire), dies at 87
D1220 910 Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturië, dies
D12201355 Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies
D12201590 Ambroise Paré, French surgeon dies at 80
D12201679 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
D12201798 Cornelis Ploos Van Amstel, engraver/art collector, dies
D12201812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
D12201875 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies
D12201876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
D12201936 Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
D12201937 Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72
D12201939 Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
D12201942 Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63
D12201948 C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
D12201961 Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
D12201968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1962), dies in NY at 66
D12201972 Günter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 75
D12201973 Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies at 36 of heart failure
D12201973 Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain is assassinated
D12201975 Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
D12201975 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
D12201976 Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74
D12201982 Arthur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95
D12201988 Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
D12201991 Andries Copier, glass enterpeneur (plexiglass), dies
D12201991 Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything that Lives & Grows), dies
D1221 918 Conrad I, Duke of France/German King, dies
D12211308 Henry I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308), dies
D12211375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies
D12211429 Jacquemart de Bléharies, Doorniks "heretic", burned to death
D12211579 Juan de Juanes, [Vicente J Maçip], Spanish relig painter, dies at 56
D12211890 Niels W Gade, Danish composer, dies
D12211907 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (Bath House), dies
D12211921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
D12211933 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies
D12211935 Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies
D12211937 Frank Kellog, US foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies
D12211940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
D12211942 Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blÿdorp), dies at 63
D12211945 George S Patton, US General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash
D12211948 Seisjiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
D12211955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
D12211956 Lewis M Terman, US, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies
D12211958 Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher/writer (Der falsche Nero), dies
D12211972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
D12211975 William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61
D12211980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
D12211983 Rod Cameron, actor dies at 73
D12211989 Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed
D12211992 Albert King, US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies
D12211992 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies
D12211992 Stella Adler, US actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90
D12211992 Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies
D12221419 John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
D12221440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed
D12221603 Mehmed III, sultan (Turkey), dies
D12221668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer dies
D12221721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
D12221767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies
D12221815 José Maria Morelos, Méxican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
D12221828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies
D12221867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (cinematic), dies
D12221880 George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], English author (Spanish Gypsy), dies
D12221899 Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
D12221901 André Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies
D12221902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies
D12221908 Marie Jungius, teacher/fairy tale writer, dies
D12221913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69
D12221917 Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
D12221944 Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies
D12221969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80
D12221969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai express), dies
D12221971 Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, writer (Walking by Rome), dies
D12221973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas dies at 72
D12221974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor), dies at 47
D12221979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies
D12221980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
D12221989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
D12221991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies
D12221992 Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
D1223 679 Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
D12231116 Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies
D12231236 Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies
D12231569 St Philip, of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
D12231588 Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered
D12231588 Henry de Guise, French leader of catholic Ligue, murdered at 37
D12231619 Johan Sigismund, ruler of Fireenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47
D12231652 John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher dies at 68
D12231789 Charles-Michel abbé de l'Epéé, (school for the deaf), dies at 77
D12231908 François A Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin), dies
D12231925 A S C Wallis, [Adèle von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies
D12231930 John H Leg, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
D12231938 Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies
D12231939 Anthony H G Fokker's, airplane builder (Spider), dies
D12231943 Theo[dorus J] Thÿssen, writer (Kees de jongen, dies
D12231948 Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) & 6 other Japs hung for war crimes
D12231951 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
D12231953 Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
D12231959 Lester Lonergan Jr, actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
D12231959 Lord Irwin, ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78
D12231970 Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
D12231972 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies
D12231972 Charles Atlas, body builder dies at 79
D12231975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
D12231982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies at 62 of a heart attack
D12231985 James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking
D12231985Ctheir families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
D12241069 Godfried II Mit de Baard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies
D12241380 John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies
D12241453 John Dunstable, English composer, dies
D12241524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator dies in Cochin, India
D12241909 Nicolaas G Pierson, economist/head-director (Suriname), dies
D12241930 Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
D12241942 Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists
D12241954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
D12241955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
D12241957 Norma Talmadge, US actress (sign on bay), dies at 60
D12241979 Rudi [Rudolf) Dutschke, German student leader, dies
D12241982 Louis Aragon, French poet/writer (Pour un réalisme socialiste), dies
D12241984 Ian Hendry, actor, dies at 53
D12241984 Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
D12241986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75
D12241991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46
D12241992 Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies
D12241992 Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies
D1225 795 Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies
D1225 820 Leo V de Armeniër, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
D12251683 Kara Moestafa, Turks grand vizer (1676-83), executed
D12251761 Empress Elizabeth, dies
D12251895 Raul d'avila Pompeia, Brazilians writer (Liederen without metre), dies
D12251899 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
D12251926 Joshihito, Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies
D12251943 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies
D12251951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
D12251957 Frederick Law Olmsted, US architect (Central Park), dies at 87
D12251961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope dies
D12251964 Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
D12251977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
D12251979 Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
D12251979 Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
D12251980 Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies
D12251983 Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
D12251985 George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
D12251989 Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies
D12251989 Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
D12251989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, & his wife, are executed
D12251989 Ton Regtien, student leader, dies
D12251991 Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et César), dies
D12251992 Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
D12251992 Helen BM Fennell Joseph, English/South African anti-apartheid, dies
D12251992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies
D12251992 Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies
D1226 267 Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies
D12261574 Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at 50
D12261624 Simon Marius, astronomer dies in Bavaria at 54
D12261658 Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies
D12261676 Domenicus van Tol, painter, dies
D12261740 Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies
D12261862 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato
D12261890 Heinrich Schliemann, archaeologist (Trojan War), dies
D12261917 Louise J Gautier, French poetess/daughter of Théophile G, dies
D12261950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies
D12261963 "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies
D12261965 Anthonie Donker, [Prof N Donkersloot], literary, dies at 63
D12261966 Ina Boudier-Baker, author (Poverty), dies
D12261969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies
D12261971 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57
D12261972 Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres (1945-53) dies at 88 in Kansas City, Mo
D12261973 Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74
D12261974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80
D12261976 Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64
D12261977 Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81
D12261986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstien), dies at 84
D12261990 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33
D12261992 Bert [Lambertus H] Feet, journalist/poet (Eye on Tomorrow), dies
D12261992 John G Kemeny, US computer pioneer (BASIC), dies
D12261992 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies
D1227 418 Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies
D12271065 Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castilië, dies
D12271805 Belle van Zuylen, [Isabelle AE de Charrière-of Tuyll, dies
D12271805 Serooskerken, Neth/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies
D12271836 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state Texas, dies
D12271900 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr faucet), dies at 90
D12271924 William Archer, Scottish critic/screenwriter (Green Goddess), dies
D12271925 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (At assault!), dies
D12271936 Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chang Kai Shek, dies
D12271938 Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP, dies
D12271950 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
D12271952 Henri G Winkelman, gen/supreme commander navy 1940, dies at 76
D12271959 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat, dies at 70
D12271972 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1956), dies
D12271974 Amy Vanderbilt, US author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66
D12271978 Bob de Lange, [Jacob Bernard], actor/director, dies
D12271981 Hoagy Carmichael, US actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82
D12271982 John L Swigert Jr, astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
D12271983 Houari Boumediene, Algerian President dies after 40 days in a coma
D12271985 Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
D12271986 Cliff Burton, bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24
D12271987 Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
D12271991 W Hudson, US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies
D12271992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies
D12271992 John Peeters, water colors painter/monument artist, dies
D12281446 Clemens VIII, [Aegyd Muñoz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29,) dies
D12281452 Albert Pigge [Pighius], astronomer/pontifical theologist, dies
D12281622 François de Sales, French bishop of Genèva/writer/saint, dies at 55
D12281694 Queen Mary II, of England dies after 5 years of rule
D12281706 Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
D12281884 Gerben Colmjon, Fries language/publisher, dies
D12281896 Roger Sessions, US composer (Black Masks)
D12281916 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
D12281918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
D12281923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel tower), dies
D12281937 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
D12281945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
D12281947 Victor Emmanual III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
D12281948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasja, premier of Egypt, assassinated
D12281949 Jack Lovelock, surgeon/athlete
D12281949 W Hervey Allen, US writer/songwriter (Anthony Adverse), dies
D12281961 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
D12281963 Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
D12281970 Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64)
D12281970 L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65
D12281978 Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82
D12281983 William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies at 92 in Palm Springs
D12281984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
D12281987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
D12281988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director dead of cancer at 59
D12281990 Ed Van der Elsken, photographer, dies
D12281990 Kiel Martin, US actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies
D12281990 Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan promoter, dies
D12281992 Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80
D12291170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
D12291619 Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
D12291703 Moestafa II, sultan (Turkey), dies
D12291731 J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies
D12291815 Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
D12291825 Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies
D12291877 Willem Sassen, "papachi S", procureur-gen on Curaçao (Affair-S), dies
D12291890 Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
D12291916 Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
D12291925 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss/Fr painter/writer (Kuise Suzanna), dies at 60
D12291926 Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Die weise Fürstin), dies
D12291933 Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
D12291943 William H Singer, US painter/collector (S Museum, Laren), dies at 75
D12291958 Doris Humphrey, US dancer/choreographer, dies
D12291964 Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63
D12291967 Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies
D12291970 John de Mol, accordianist/entertainer, dies
D12291980 Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
D12291980 Tim Hardin, US singer, dies
D12291981 Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies
D12291982 Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at 79
D12291984 Leo Robin, lyricist dies of heart failure at 84
D12291986 Harold Macmillan, former British PM dies in Sussex, England, at 92
D12291992 LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies
D12291992 Vivienne Segal, US actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies
D1230 273 Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274)
D12301572 Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
D12301591 Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
D12301635 Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist dies
D12301777 Maximilian III Jozef, ruler of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
D12301832 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
D12301894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist dies (Bloomers named for her)
D12301896 José Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent dies
D12301912 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies
D12301944 Romain Roland, French writer, dies
D12301947 Han [Henricus A) van Meegeren, painter/art forger, dies at 58
D12301951 Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (SDAP), dies
D12301966 Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
D1231 192 Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31
D1231 439 Melania de Jongere, Novel monastery founder/saint, dies
D12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies
D12311583 Thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies
D12311616 Jacques Le Maire, pirate, dies
D12311719 John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
D12311775 Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British
D12311907 Jules the Trooz, premier Belgium, dies
D12311920 Albert Roelofs, painter/etcher, dies
D12311936 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Spanish philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies
D12311938 Richard N Roland Holst, artist/painter, dies
D12311946 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, actor, dies at 89
D12311947 Franz X Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies
D12311950 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/pres (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80
D12311951 Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at 75
D12311951 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theory, dies at 76
D12311953 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64
D12311954 Peter Van Anrooy, conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75
D12311960 Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees of Illness), dies at 69
D12311963 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies
D12311966 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Tribe), dies
D12311968 Carl Oscar Ahues, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 84
D12311971 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31
D12311972 Roberto Clemente, Pitts Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash at 38
D12311977 Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov & JJ), dies
D12311983 Frank Link, actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46
D12311985 Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
D12311985 Sam Speigel, Academy Award winning producer dies at 84
D12311986 Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54
D12311987 [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60
D12311990 George Allen, US football coach (LA Rams, Wash Redskins), dies
H1201 [Azores, Portugal] Independence Day (1640)
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H1201 [Central African Republic] Proclamation of Republic Day (1958)
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H1201 [Liberia] Matilda Newport Day (1822)
H1201 [Portugese Guiana] Mocidale Day/Youth Day
H1201 [Spain] Memorial Herstel Independence (1640)
H1201 [World] AIDS day
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H1202 [Cuba] Landing of Granma Expeditionaries
H1202 [Laos] Proclamation of Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975)
H1202 [United Arab Emirates] Independence Day (1971)
H1203 [Illinois] Admission Day (1818)
H1203 [Philatelists] Sir Rowland Hill Day (1795/1840)
H1203 [World] Heart Transplant Day (1967)
H1204 [México] Day of Artisans
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H1205 [Beirut Lebanon] Arbor Day
H1205 [Haiti] Discovery Day (1492)
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H1205 [USSR] Constitution Day (1936)
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H1206 [Ecuador] Day of Quito (1534)
H1206 [Finland] Independence Day (1917)
H1207 [Cuba] Day of National Mourning
H1207 [Delaware] Ratification Day (1787)
H1207 [Ivory Coast] National Day (1960)
H1207 [US] Pearl Harbor Day (1941)
H1208 [Guam] Lady of Camarin Day
H1208 [Japan] Enlightenment of Buddha
H1208 [Spain, Panama, Canal Zone] Mother's Day
H1208 [Spain] School Reunion Day
H1208 [Uruguay] Beaches Day/Family Day
H1209 [Tanzania] Independence Day/Republic Day (1961)
H1210 [Cuba] Independence Day (1898)
H1210 [Khmer Republic] Rights of Man Day
H1210 [Mississippi] Admission Day (1817)
H1210 [Namibia] Settlers' Day
H1210 [Stockholm, Sweden] Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)
H1210 [Thailand] Constitution Day (1932)
H1210 [UN, Equatorial Guinea] Human Rights Day (1948)
H1210 [World] World Freedom Day
H1210 [Wyoming] Wyoming Day (women's sufferage) (1869)
H1211 [Geneva, Switzerland] Scaling Day/Escalade (1602, 1816)
H1211 [Indiana] Admission Day (1816)
H1211 [Upper Volta] Republic Day (1958)
H1212 [El Salvador/Mexico] St Guadelupe Day
H1212 [El Salvador] Day of Indians
H1212 [Kenya] Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (1963)
H1212 [Pennsylvania] Ratification Day (1787)
H1212 [World] National Ding-a-ling Day
H1213 [Malta] Republic Day
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H1214 [Alabama] Admission Day (1819)
H1214 [El Salvador] Revolution Day
H1214 [Iran] Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day
H12141217 [Turkey] Festival of Mevlana-Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes)
H12141228 [World] Halcyon Days
H1215 [Esperanto League] Zamenhof Day (1859)
H1215 [Malaysia] Hol Al-Marhom Sultan Ibrahim of Johore
H1215 [Netherlands Antilles] Kingdom Day/Statute Day (1954)
H1215 [Pakistan] Quaid-i-Azam's Birthday
H1215 [US] Bill of Rights Day (1791)
H1215 6[World] Underdog Day
H1216 [Bahrain] National Day
H1216 [Bangladesh] Victory Day (1971)
H1216 [México] Posadas Days/Lodgings
H1216 [Namibia, South Africa] Day of Covenant
H1216 [Nepál] Human Rights Day/Constitution Day (1962)
H1216 [Pretoria, South Africa] Foretrekkers' Day
H1216 [South Africa] Dingaan's Day (1838)
H1216 6[World] Underdog Day
H1217 [Bhutan] Ascension to throne of 1st King/National Day (1907)
H1217 [Columbia] Independence Day (1819)
H1217 [US] Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day (1903)
H1217 [Venezuela] Bolivar Day (1830)
H1217 6[World] Underdog Day
H1218 [New Jersey] Ratification Day (1787)
H1218 [Niger] Republic Day (1958)
H1218 6[World] Underdog Day
H1219 [Hawaii] Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's Birthday
H1219 [Zanzibar] Independence Day (1961)
H1219 6[World] Underdog Day
H1220 [Taiwan] Bank Holiday
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H1221 [Nepál] Independence Day/Unity Day (1923)
H1221 [Plymouth, Mass] Forefathers' Day (1620)
H1221 6[World] Underdog Day
H1222 [Arab] Ashura
H1222 [México] Day of National Mourning (Josè Maria Morelos) (1815)
H1222 [World] International Arbor Day
H1223 [Egypt] Victory Day
H1223 [Japan] Birthday of Emperor (1933)
H12230123 [Montego Bay Jamaica] John Canoe Day
H1224 [Laos] Sovereignty Day (1954)
H1224 [Libya] Independence Day (1951)
H1225 [England] New Year's Day observed before 1068
H1225 [Taiwan] Constitution Day (1946)
H1226 [Africa, US] Kwanzaa (Santa Claus=Nia Umoja) (1966)
H1226 [Bahamas] "Junkanoo" (carnaval)
H1226 [Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1226 [China PR] Mao Tse-Tung's Birthday
H1226 [Czechoslovakia] Day of Rest
H1226 [West Germany] 2nd Day of Christmas
H1226 2[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1226 3[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1226 4[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1226 5[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1226 6[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1226 7[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
H1227 [Australia, Channel Is, England, Nauru] Boxing Day
H1227 [Bhutan] Day of 9 Evils
H1227 [Indonesia] Independence Day (1949)
H1227 [Namibia, South Africa] Family Day
H1227 2[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day celebrated
H1228 [Iowa] Admission Day (1846)
H1228 [Mauritania] Independence Day (1960)
H1228 [Nepál] King Birendra's Birthday (1945)
H1229 [Gabon] President's Birthday
H1229 [Texas] Admission Day (1945)
H1229 [World] Anti-Pent-Ultimate Day
H1230 [Bolivia, Chile] Bank Holiday
H1230 [Iran] Birthday of Iman Reza
H1230 [Italy] New Year's Eve
H1230 [Philippiines] Rizal Day (anniversary of his death) (1896)
H12301231 [El Salvador] Bank Holiday
H1231 [Austria] Imperial Ball
H1231 [Bangladesh, Brunei, India, México, Phil, Sri Lanka] Bank Holiday
H1231 [Benin] Feed Yourself Day
H1231 [Congo] National Day
H1231 [Indians at Mitla, Oaxaca] Noche de Pedimento/Wishing Night
H1231 [Japan] Omisoka Day/Grand Purification
H1231 [Lebanon] Evacuation Day (1946)
H1231 [Mauritania] People's Party Day
H1231 [Scotland] Hogmanay Day
H1231 [World] New Year's Eve/Watch Night
I1201 1[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
I1201 660 [RC] Commemoration of St Eligius, bishop/goldsmith
I12011581 [RC] Commemoration of St Edmund Champion, English Jesuit, martyr
I12011637 [Ang] Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, deacon
I1202 [RC] Commemoration of St Bibiana, virgin & martyr
I1202 1[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
I12021910 [Ang] Mem of Channing Moore Williams, missionary bp in China & Japan
I1203 1[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
I1203 298 [RC] Commem of St Cassian of Tangier, patron of stenographers
I12031552 [Luth, RC] Memorial of St Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan
I1204 [Orth] Presentation in Temple of Mary (11/21 OS)
I1204 235 [RC] Commemoration of St Barbara, virgin/martyr
I1204 450 [RC] Comm of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna/doctor
I1204 760 [RC, Ang] Commemoration of John Damascene, priest/doctor
I120419997[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I1205 210 [Ang] Commemoration of Clement of Alexandria, priest
I1205 532 [RC] Commemoration of St Sabbas, abbot
I1206 342 [Ang, RC, Luth] Mem of Nicholas, Archbp of Myra patron of children
I120619966[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I1207 397 [RC, Ang, Luth] Memorial of St Ambrose, governor/bishop of Milan
I12071881 [RC] Commemoration of St Mary Josepha Rossello, foundress
I1208 [Buddhist-Japan] Enlightenment of Buddha
I1208 [RC] Solemnity of Conception of Virgin (Immaculate Conception)
I120819961[Moslem] Night of Ascent (Rajab 27, 1417 AH)
I1209 [Christian] Commemoration of Conception of Anne, mother of Mary
I12091640 [RC] Commemoration of St Peter Fourier, French priest
I120919935[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I120919995[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1420 AH)
I1210 314 [RC] Comemoration of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr
I1211 384 [RC] Memorial of St Damasus I, pope (366-384) (opt)
I12111910 [Luth] Commemoration of Lars Skrefsrud, missionary to India
I1212 [RC-US] Memorial of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of México
I12121641 [RC] Memorial of Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (opt)
I1213 [Moslem] New Year
I1213 304 [RC] Memorial of St Lucy, virgin & martyr (St Lucia Day in Sweden)
I1213 720 [RC] Commemoration of St Odilia, abbess, patroness of blind
I1214 [Luth] Commemoration of Teresa of Avila
I1214 [RC, Luth] Memorial of St Spyridon
I1214 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I12141591 [RC, Luth] Feast of John of Cross, priest/doctor
I121419982[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I1215 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1215 350 [Christian] Commemoration of St Nio, virgin
I1215 709 [Christian] Commemoration of St Offa of Essex, king
I1215 956 [Christian] Commemoration of St Paul of Latros, hermit
I12151855 [Christian] Commemoration of St Mary di Rosa
I1216 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1216 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1216 370 [Old RC] Feast of St Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr
I1217 [Christian] Fiesta of Virgin of Lonely
I1217 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1217 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1217 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1218 [Christian] Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely
I1218 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1218 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1218 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I121819952[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I1219 [Orth] Feast of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (12/6 OS)
I1219 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1219 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1219 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1220 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1220 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1220 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I122019921[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I122019954[Moslem] Night of Ascent (Rajab 27, 1416 AH)
I122019981[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1419 AH)
I1221 [RC, Luth, Ang] Commemoration of St Thomas apostle
I1221 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1221 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I12211597 [RC] Memorial of St Peter Canisius, priest & doctor (opt)
I1222 [Witch] Yule sabbat
I1222 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I1222 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I12221917 [RC] Commemoration of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin
I122220006[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I1223 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I12231193 [RC] Commemoration of St Thorlac, bishop, patron of Iceland
I12231473 [RC] Memorial of St John of Kanty, Polish priest, theologian (opt)
I1224 [Christian] Christmas Eve
I12241898 [RC] Commemoration of St Sharbel Makhlouf, Lebanese monk, hermit
I122419974[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
I1225 [Christian] Christmas Day Peace on Earth, good will towards men
I1225 [RC] New Years Day (until 12th century)
I1226 1[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I1226 33 [RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of St Stephen, deacon, 1st martyr
I12261896 [RC] Commemoration of St Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuna, foundress
I1227 [RC, Luth, Ang] Feast of St John, apostle/evangelist
I1227 1[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I1228 [RC, Luth, Ang] Feast of St John, apostle/evangelist
I1228 1[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I1229 1[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I12291170 [RC] Mem of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas à Beckett), bp/martyr
I1230 1[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I1230 6[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I123019946[Moslem] Night of Ascent (Rajab 27, 1415 AH)
I1231 1[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
I1231 335 [RC] Memorial of St Sylvester I, 33rd pope (314-35) (opt)
I123119975[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1418 AH)
R1200 Flowers-narcissus, poinsettia & holly Gems-turquoise & zircon
R1200 National Indigestion Season
R1201 [Ancient Rome] Calendae December
R1201 [World] World AIDS Day
R12011221 Astrological sign: Sagittarius
R1205 [Ancient Rome] Nonae December
R1205 [Sweden] Sven name day
R1206 Feast of St Nicholas
R1209 [Sweden] Anna name day
R12101216 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini (50-80 per hour)
R1211 [ancient Rome] Agonalia
R1213 [Ancient Rome] Idus December
R1213 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
R1215 [Ancient Rome] Consualia
R1217 [Ancient Rome] Opalia
R12171223 [ancient Rome] Saturnalia, festival honoring Saturn
R1219 [ancient Rome] Divalia
R1221 Winter Solstice in No Hemisphere, shortest day of year
R1221 [ancient Rome] Larentalia
R12211223 Ursid meteor shower
R12220120 Astrological sign: Capricorn
R1223 [México] Night of Radishes
R1224 [Sweden] Eva name day
R1226 National Whiner's Day
R1228 Considered unluckiest day of year
R1231 Make Up Your Mind Day
R1231 Fiscal Year Ends - Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Aruba, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Bahamas,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central Afr Rep,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - El Salvador, Fÿi, Finland, France,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - German DR, German FR, Ghana, Greece, Greenland,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Ivory Coast,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Jordan, Korea, North, Korea, South, Lebanon,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Mauritania, Mayotte, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - St Kitts & Nevis, St Pierre & Miquelon, Suriname,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Switzerland, Syria, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Tunisia, Turkey, Turks & Caicos Islands,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, USSR, Vanuatu,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Samoa,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Yemen Arab Republic, Yemen, Yugoslavia,
R1231 CFiscal Year Ends - Zaire, Zambia
S12-- 384 St Siricius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12-- 872 Adrian II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S12--1925 KFH-AM in Wichita KS begins radio transmissions
S12--1926 KUJ-AM in Walla Walla WA begins radio transmissions
S12--1947 WTMJ TV channel 4 in Milwaukee, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12--1950 Clandestine Radio Free Russia (anti-communist) begins transmitting
S12--1953 KENI (now KTUU) TV chan 2 in Anchorage, AK (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12--1953 WSIL TV channel 3 in Harrisburg, IL begins broadcasting
S12--1956 KLEW TV channel 3 in Lewiston, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12--1972 WJMR TV channel 20 in New Orleans, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
S12--1972 WSWB (now WOFL) TV channel 35 in Orlando, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
S12--1986 Richard & David Jacobs becomes CEO of Cleveland Indians
S12--1989 Niger adopts constitution
S1201 772 Pope Adrian I elected
S12011640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
S12011641 Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
S12011653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from
S12011653CSt Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
S12011742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
S12011742 Jews are expelled from Great Russia by Empress Elisabeth
S12011750 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
S12011783 Charles & M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in hydrogen balloon
S12011804 emperor Napoleon marries Joséphine of Martinique
S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
S12011822 Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
S12011824 House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams,
S12011824 Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
S12011831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
S12011864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
S12011868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
S12011875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #157 Dejanira
S12011878 1st White House telephone
S12011887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
S12011887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
S12011894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #396 Aeolia
S12011896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates, NY
S12011906 Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 yrs
S12011909 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
S12011913 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
S12011918 Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown
S12011918 Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
S12011918 Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
S12011919 Lady Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
S12011921 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
S12011921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
S12011922 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
S12011922 Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns
S12011924 Calles becomes president of México
S12011924 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1046 Edwin
S12011925 Treaty of Locarno signed
S12011928 Railroad museum opens in Utrect Neth
S12011929 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
S12011929 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1708 Polit
S12011929 O Oikawa & K Kubokawa discovers asteroid #1139 Atami
S12011930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
S12011930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
S12011933 Rudolf Hess & Earnest Röhm become a minister in Hitler govt
S12011936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
S12011936 EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
S12011937 Japan recognizes Franco govt
S12011938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
S12011939 SS-Führer Himmler begins deportation ofn Polish Jews
S12011941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
S12011942 Oil rationed in US
S12011943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to operation Overload
S12011948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine
S12011948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
S12011949 WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12011949 WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
S12011953 WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
S12011953 WAXA TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) begins broadcasting
S12011953 WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12011953 Walter Alston named Dodger manager
S12011954 Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
S12011954 Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka,
S12011954CKryhoski, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
S12011955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
S12011956 Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta, resigns
S12011958 Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Nat'l Day)
S12011958 Chicago: parochial school in fire: 93 die
S12011958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
S12011959 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
S12011959 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
S12011959 Billy Cannon (Louisiana halfback) wins Heisman trophy
S12011960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
S12011962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
S12011962 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12011963 NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
S12011963 Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
S12011965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
S12011966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
S12011966 radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo
S12011967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
S12011967 Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
S12011968 Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
S12011969 US govt holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
S12011970 NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
S12011970CDemocratic Republic of Yemen
S12011970CIndependent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People
S12011971 John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
S12011971 People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic
S12011971CRepublic of Yemen
S12011972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
S12011973 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
S12011973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
S12011974 LA Skid Row slasher kills first of 8
S12011975 C Torres discovers asteroid #2741 Valdivia
S12011975 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #2858 Carlosporter
S12011975 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3322
S12011978 Harvard College discovers asteroids #2153 Akiyama & #2493 Elmer
S12011978 Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size
S12011980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3168
S12011980 George Rogers (South Carolina running back) wins Heisman trophy
S12011980 Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
S12011980 US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
S12011981 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain
S12011982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as pres of México
S12011983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
S12011984 Doug Flutie (Boston College quarterback) wins 50th Heisman trophy
S12011984 George Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee to win WBA Boxing title
S12011985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
S12011986 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
S12011987 Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
S12011988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
S12011988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
S12011988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
S12011988 NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
S12011989 "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
S12011989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
S12011989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
S12011989 USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
S12011990 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
S12011990 Hissene Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
S12011990 Hissene Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
S12011990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
S12011990 Lithauania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
S12011990 NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
S12011990 Ty Detmer, Brigham Young quarterback, wins Heisman trophy
S12011991 AIDS awareness day
S12011991 Frances beats US, for their 1st Davis Cup (tennis) since 1932
S12011991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
S12011991 Ukrainian people vote for independence
S12011992 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
S12021620 English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
S12021763 Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
S12021777 British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
S12021802 English sell Suriname to Dutch
S12021804 Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
S12021805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
S12021812 James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
S12021816 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
S12021822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
S12021840 Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
S12021840 William H Harrison elected president of US
S12021848 Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
S12021852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
S12021859 John Brown is executed by hanging at Charles Town, (West) VA
S12021877 Opera "Samson et Dalila" is produced (Rouen)
S12021885 Opera "Regina di Saba" is produced (Vienna)
S12021887 Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
S12021891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
S12021895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
S12021899 US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
S12021901 Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
S12021902 A Charlois discovers asteroid #498 Tokio
S12021907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir to retain heavyweight boxing title
S12021913 Archdiocese of Managua created
S12021913 Cabinet -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
S12021914 Austria army conquerors Belgrade Serbia
S12021923 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1024 Hale
S12021924 British-German trade agreement signed
S12021927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
S12021929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
S12021931 G Reiss discovers asteroid #1237 Genevieve
S12021931 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1211 Bressole
S12021934 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
S12021939 British Imerial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
S12021939 NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago
S12021939Clands, 1 minute after midnight
S12021941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
S12021941 Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
S12021942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
S12021944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
S12021944 Leslie Hovrath, Ohio State quarterback wins Heisman Trophy
S12021947 Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame quarterback wins Heisman Trophy
S12021950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
S12021951 Phila sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
S12021952 1st human birth televised to public (Denver, Colo)
S12021954 Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
S12021954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that
S12021954Ctends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
S12021956 Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
S12021957 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Pa
S12021958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
S12021958 KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12021958 Pete Dawkins, Army back wins Heisman Trophy
S12021959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
S12021961 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
S12021961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
S12021964 Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
S12021966 Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
S12021970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
S12021971 United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
S12021971CAbu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form
S12021971CUnited Arab Emirates
S12021971CZayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes pres of UAE
S12021972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
S12021972 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #1934 Jeffers
S12021972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
S12021974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
S12021978 Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
S12021978 Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
S12021979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
S12021979 Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
S12021980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
S12021981 F Dossin discovers asteroid #3435 Boury
S12021981 Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
S12021981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3221
S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in
S12021982Cretired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
S12021984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
S12021986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
S12021987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
S12021988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
S12021988 5 gunmen who hÿacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
S12021988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
S12021988 UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
S12021989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
S12021989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
S12021990 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
S12021990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
S12021991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
S12021991 Muslim Shites release US hostage Joseph Cicippio
S12021992 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
S1203 741 St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
S12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
S12031621 Galileo perfects telescope
S12031678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
S12031685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
S12031775 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
S12031818 Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
S12031828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
S12031833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
S12031834 1st US dental society organized (NY)
S12031835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
S12031847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
S12031863 Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
S12031866 Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
S12031868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
S12031881 Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
S12031883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
S12031903 Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colÿn at Atjeh
S12031912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
S12031920 Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
S12031926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
S12031930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
S12031931 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1212 Francette
S12031932 Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
S12031933 Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
S12031934 Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
S12031934 KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn
S12031938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
S12031942 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1560 Strattonia
S12031943 Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
S12031944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
S12031944 NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
S12031946 US govt askes UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
S12031947 Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire," opens
S12031948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
S12031948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
S12031948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
S12031949 KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
S12031950 Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
S12031950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
S12031952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
S12031952 Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela
S12031953 Eisenhower criticize McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
S12031955 KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12031956 England & France pull troops out of Egypt
S12031956 KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
S12031956 Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
S12031959 Emergency crisis in Cyprus ends
S12031960 "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
S12031961 Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
S12031961 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
S12031962 Pravda criticizes western art
S12031964 KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12031964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley
S12031965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
S12031967 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, S Africa)
S12031967 Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
S12031969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
S12031972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
S12031972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2233 Kuznetsov
S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
S12031975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
S12031975 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2583
S12031976 Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
S12031979 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?]
S12031979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
S12031979 Iran accepts constitution
S12031980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
S12031981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #3089 & #3463
S12031982 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
S12031982 NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
S12031984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
S12031984 Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc
S12031985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
S12031988 Barry Sanders wins Heisman Trophy
S12031991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
S12031991 Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
S12031991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
S12031992 UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
S12041110 Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
S12041489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
S12041563 Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
S12041619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
S12041674 Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
S12041680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
S12041682 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
S12041783 Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
S12041812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
S12041816 James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
S12041833 American Anti-Slavery Society forms by Arthur Tappan in Phila
S12041833 American Anti-Slavery Society organizes
S12041836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
S12041843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
S12041844 James K Polk elected president of US
S12041851 Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
S12041864 Battle of Waynesborough, GA
S12041864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
S12041867 Grange organized to protect farm interests
S12041875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
S12041899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
S12041899 A Charlois discovers asteroid #451 Patientia
S12041899 Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
S12041906 Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
S12041908 Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from militairy coup
S12041909 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)
S12041915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
S12041918 Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st
S12041918Cchief executive to travel outside US while in office
S12041920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
S12041922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
S12041923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
S12041927 Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
S12041933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
S12041934 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1338 Duponta & #1339 Desagneauxa
S12041935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
S12041942 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
S12041942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
S12041942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
S12041942 Works Progress Administration liquidated
S12041942 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1883 Rimito
S12041943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign negroes
S12041943 Yugoslavian resistance forms under Dr Ribar
S12041945 Doc Blanchard becomes 1st junior to win Heisman Trophy
S12041945 Senate approves US participation in UN
S12041947 USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
S12041948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
S12041949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
S12041951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Phillipines), kills 500
S12041952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
S12041952 Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
S12041953 H Gessner discovers asteroid #3642 Frieden
S12041956 Paul Hornung wins Heisman Trophy
S12041957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
S12041957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
S12041958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
S12041958 Finnish govt of Fagerholm, resigns
S12041961 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley
S12041961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
S12041961 Smallest NY Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
S12041961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
S12041961 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12041963 Aldo Moro forms Italian govt
S12041963 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
S12041964 Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
S12041965 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
S12041965 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
S12041965 Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
S12041966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12041970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
S12041973 John Cappelletti wins Heisman trophy
S12041974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
S12041976 Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
S12041977 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
S12041977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinatti beats KC 27-7
S12041978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
S12041978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
S12041979 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
S12041979 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
S12041980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3086 Kalbaugh
S12041980 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
S12041981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
S12041981 Pres Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
S12041981CAccording to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not
S12041981Crecognized as an independent country outside South Africa
S12041982 China adopts its constitution
S12041982 Hershel Walker wins Heisman Trophy
S12041983 M Antal discovers asteroid #3730
S12041983 NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
S12041983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
S12041983 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3735
S12041984 Hÿackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
S12041985 Pres Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
S12041986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
S12041988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
S12041990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
S12041990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
S12041991 Judds final concert (Nashville)
S12041991 Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
S12051301 Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee)
S12051349 Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black death riots
S12051456 Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Española) (Haiti)
S12051496 Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded
S12051804 Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
S12051831 Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
S12051832 Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US
S12051846 C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
S12051848 Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms Calif gold discovery
S12051854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents a folding theater chair
S12051861 Gatling gun patented
S12051862 Battle of Coffeeville, MS
S12051868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
S12051876 Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
S12051876 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
S12051879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
S12051881 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
S12051905 Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England
S12051908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
S12051918 Oil refinery on Curaçao opens
S12051920 Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
S12051925 German govt of Luther falls
S12051928 MW Miklas elected president of Austria
S12051929 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
S12051931 G Reiss discovers asteroid #1213 Algeria
S12051932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
S12051933 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
S12051935 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello Calif)
S12051935 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
S12051936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaÿan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR
S12051936Cbecomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
S12051941 Football Writers Association of America organized
S12051941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
S12051941 Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
S12051942 West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
S12051943 NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
S12051944 German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
S12051945 "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
S12051946 Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
S12051947 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Joe Walcott
S12051948 NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
S12051949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
S12051950 Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
S12051951 "Dragnet" premiers
S12051952 -8) worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
S12051954 KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12051955 AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
S12051955 Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
S12051957 NYC becomes 1st city to legislate against racial or religious
S12051957Cdiscrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
S12051958 WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12051960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
S12051967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
S12051967 Benjamin Spock & Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
S12051968 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
S12051970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from
S12051970CNHL hall of fame
S12051971 KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
S12051972 P Wild discovers asteroid #1866 Sisyphus
S12051973 Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
S12051973 Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter
S12051974 1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
S12051974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
S12051974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
S12051974 Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
S12051974 Seattle Seahawks forms
S12051974 Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
S12051975 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
S12051977 Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
S12051978 Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
S12051978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
S12051978CIslanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins
S12051978CPenguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders
S12051981 Marcus Allen of USC wins Heisman Trophy
S12051982 Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy
S12051982 Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
S12051982 Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
S12051983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
S12051983 LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
S12051985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
S12051988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
S12051989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
S12051990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
S12051991 10m meteor 1991-VG passes 465,000 km from Earth
S12051991 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
S12051991 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
S12061491 King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
S12061492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Môle Saint Nicolas
S12061534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
S12061631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
S12061732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
S12061768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
S12061790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
S12061820 US president James Monroe re-elected
S12061825 Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
S12061846 Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
S12061849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
S12061862 Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
S12061864 Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
S12061865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
S12061866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
S12061870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
S12061873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
S12061875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
S12061876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
S12061876 US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
S12061877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition
S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
S12061884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
S12061893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #378 Holmia
S12061899 J E Keeler discovers asteroid #452 Hamiltonia
S12061904 Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
S12061907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
S12061912 China votes for universal human rights
S12061914 German troops over run Lódz
S12061917 1,600 die as 2 munitions ships collide at Halifax, Nova Scotia
S12061917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
S12061917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
S12061921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
S12061922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
S12061922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
S12061923 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
S12061925 Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
S12061925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1063 Aquilegia
S12061925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
S12061929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1187 Afra
S12061929 Turkey votes for female suffrage
S12061930 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
S12061933 James Joyce' "Ulysses" banned in US
S12061938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
S12061941 King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
S12061941 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
S12061942 Queen Wilhelmina proclaims Dutch Commonwealth
S12061942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
S12061952 Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona nun grata
S12061954 Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
S12061955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
S12061956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr
S12061956 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2789
S12061957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
S12061957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
S12061957 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
S12061958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
S12061960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
S12061962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
S12061963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
S12061964 KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12061965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
S12061968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
S12061968 WKID (now WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
S12061969 300,000 attend Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
S12061970 Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
S12061971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
S12061973 Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
S12061973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
S12061973 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
S12061974 George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
S12061975 Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry
S12061977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
S12061978 Spain adopts constitution
S12061980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
S12061980 NASA launches Intelsat V
S12061981 Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
S12061982 Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
S12061982C11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National
S12061982CLiberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
S12061983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
S12061984 Hÿackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
S12061986 Vinny Testaverde of Minn wins Heisman Trophy
S12061987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
S12061988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
S12061988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
S12061988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
S12061988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in Calif after secret mission
S12061988CAgnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million
S12061988CEli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
S12061989 Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at U of Montréal
S12061989 mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogotá, kills 52
S12061990 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
S12061990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
S12061991 "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Conuntry" premieres
S12061992 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
S12061992 SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
S12061992 SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
S12061992 US beats Switzerland for Davis Cup
S1207 36 -BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
S1207 43 -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head &
S1207 43C-BC- right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers
S1207 185 Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
S1207 283 St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S12071787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
S12071808 James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
S12071836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
S12071842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
S12071862 Battle of Hartsville, TN
S12071862 Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
S12071868 Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
S12071872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½-year world oceanographic cruise
S12071875 Natives Sons of the West organized
S12071876 NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
S12071885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
S12071891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
S12071896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #423 Diotima
S12071909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic
S12071912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
S12071912 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #737 Arequipa
S12071916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
S12071917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
S12071920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
S12071921 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
S12071924 German election (SPD wins)
S12071926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1078 Mentha
S12071929 Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
S12071932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
S12071934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
S12071935 Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
S12071937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
S12071937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
S12071938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
S12071941 German siege of Tobroek after 8 months ends
S12071941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
S12071941 Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
S12071941C1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
S12071944 General Radescu forms Romanian government
S12071946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
S12071949 Chang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
S12071952 KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
S12071953 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
S12071953 WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
S12071954 Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
S12071954 KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12071956 Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
S12071958 Rómulo Bétancourt elected pres of Venezuela
S12071960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
S12071964 George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
S12071965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift
S12071965Cmutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
S12071968 M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
S12071968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
S12071968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
S12071971 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched
S12071972 Phillipine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
S12071973 Wings release "Band on the Run"
S12071975 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
S12071975 P Wild discovers asteroid #2843
S12071976 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
S12071977 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
S12071978 Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
S12071980 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3494
S12071981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO
S12071982 T Seki discovers asteroid #2961 Katsurahama
S12071983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
S12071985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
S12071985 Bo Jackson of Auburn wins Heisman Trophy
S12071986 Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haïti
S12071987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in Calif (man shot pilots)
S12071987 Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
S12071988 25,000 killed by an earthquake in Armenian SSR (6.9)
S12071988 Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
S12071988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
S12071988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
S12071988 NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
S12071990 Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
S12071990 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
S12071992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
S12071995 Galileo spacecraft arrives on Jupiter
S12081776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
S12081777 Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
S12081792 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
S12081794 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
S12081845 Asteroid number 5, Astraea discovered (named for goddess of justice)
S12081845 German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
S12081845 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #5 Astraea
S12081854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free
S12081854Cof Original Sin
S12081857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
S12081863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
S12081863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
S12081863 Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
S12081863 Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
S12081864 Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
S12081869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
S12081874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
S12081881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
S12081886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
S12081886CSamuel Gompers elected AFL president
S12081896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
S12081898 A Charlois discovers asteroid #441 Bathilde
S12081902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
S12081909 Bird banding society found
S12081913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
S12081914 British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
S12081923 German-US friendship treaty signed
S12081923 Labour/Liberals win British parliament
S12081923 Salary & price freeze in Germany
S12081931 Coaxial cable patented
S12081936 Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
S12081936 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
S12081938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
S12081938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
S12081940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
S12081941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
S12081941 SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
S12081941 US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
S12081946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
S12081948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
S12081949 Chinese Nationalist govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
S12081952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
S12081952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
S12081952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
S12081954 WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12081956 16th Olympic games end in Melbourne
S12081956 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
S12081956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
S12081959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
S12081961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
S12081962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
S12081962 Failed coup in Brunei
S12081962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
S12081963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
S12081963Cnear Elkton, Maryland Only case of lightning caused crash
S12081964 R Burnham & N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3397
S12081964Cagainst liberalism, socialism & rationalism
S12081966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
S12081966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
S12081967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
S12081967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
S12081969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
S12081972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
S12081974 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
S12081974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
S12081976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
S12081980 "Bravo" network premiers on cable tv
S12081980 Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #2601 Bologna
S12081982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
S12081982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
S12081982CDemanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash
S12081982CMonument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
S12081983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
S12081984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
S12081985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
S12081986 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
S12081987 Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalee to actually score a goal
S12081987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
S12081987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
S12081987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
S12081987Ctreaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
S12081988 6.9 Earthquakes hit Armenia; about 60,000 die
S12081988 Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
S12081991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
S12081992 Asteroid 4179 Toutatis (φ 3,5 km) is 3.6 million km from Earth
S12081992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
S12081992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
S12091425 Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares
S12091640Chimself to be free of original sin
S12091738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
S12091824 Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
S12091851 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montréal)
S12091854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
S12091861 Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
S12091869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
S12091878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
S12091883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
S12091884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
S12091892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #349 Dembowska
S12091895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #409 Aspasia
S12091900 Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
S12091903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
S12091905 French Assembly National votes for seperation of church & state
S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
S12091909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
S12091910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
S12091912 H Vogt discovers asteroid #735 Marghanna
S12091913 Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
S12091913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
S12091917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
S12091918 French troops attack Mainz
S12091922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
S12091924 Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
S12091924 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
S12091925 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
S12091926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
S12091928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1104 Syringa
S12091931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
S12091931 Spain becomes a republic
S12091933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
S12091934 NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
S12091939 Russian air raid on Helsinki
S12091940 British assault on Banghazi Lybia
S12091940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
S12091940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
S12091941 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
S12091941 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
S12091941 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
S12091941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
S12091948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
S12091949 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
S12091949 NFL merges Cleve Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
S12091951 Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Württemberg, W Germ
S12091953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
S12091953 Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
S12091958 Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form
S12091958Canti-Communist John Birch Society
S12091961 SS Col Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel
S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
S12091961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
S12091962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
S12091962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
S12091963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
S12091963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
S12091965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
S12091967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
S12091967 Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House
S12091967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
S12091968 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12091971 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
S12091974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
S12091975 Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
S12091978C1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle
S12091978Cvs Milwaukee Does
S12091980 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
S12091981 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
S12091982 Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
S12091983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because
S12091983Cfood is free & that's easier than paying for it"
S12091984 6 day hÿack of Kuwaiti jet ends
S12091985 Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
S12091985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
S12091987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
S12091987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
S12091988 NY Yanks sell all TV rights to cable network in $500 M deal
S12091990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
S12091990 NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
S12091992 Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
S12091992 Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
S12101294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
S12101508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
S12101672 NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
S12101690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
S12101810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial
S12101810Cboxing championship (40 rounds)
S12101817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
S12101831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
S12101864 Sherman reaches Savannah & 12 day siege begins
S12101869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
S12101879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #211 Isolda
S12101896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
S12101898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
S12101901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy)
S12101903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
S12101904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
S12101906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
S12101911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
S12101914 French government returns to Paris
S12101915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
S12101915 Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
S12101918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
S12101919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
S12101922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
S12101922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
S12101923 Polish cabinet of Grabski, forms
S12101924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
S12101925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
S12101926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
S12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
S12101931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
S12101931 Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
S12101932 Thailand recieves its 1st constitution
S12101934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
S12101934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
S12101936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
S12101936CEngland replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
S12101939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
S12101939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
S12101940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
S12101941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
S12101941 Japanse troops overrun Guam
S12101942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
S12101947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
S12101948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
S12101950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
S12101952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12101952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
S12101953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12101953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
S12101954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
S12101954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
S12101958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
S12101961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
S12101961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
S12101961 USSR & Angolia breaks diplomatic relations
S12101962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
S12101963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
S12101963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
S12101964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
S12101966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
S12101966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
S12101970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
S12101971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
S12101973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
S12101974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
S12101975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
S12101977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S12101978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
S12101978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
S12101980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
S12101982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
S12101983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
S12101983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
S12101984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
S12101987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
S12101988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
S12101989 President Gustav Husák of Czechoslovakia, resigns
S12101990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
S12101990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
S12101992 NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
S12101992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
S12101992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
S1211 384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S12111419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
S12111620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
S12111710 Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
S12111719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
S12111792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
S12111812 1st newspaper on Curaçao (Curaçao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
S12111816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state
S12111844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
S12111866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
S12111872 1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
S12111882 Boston's Bÿou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by
S12111882Celectricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
S12111888 French Panama Canal company fails
S12111899 Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronjé vs Gen Methuen
S12111901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
S12111903 British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
S12111905 120° F (49° C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
S12111909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
S12111909 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #691 Lehigh
S12111914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
S12111917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
S12111917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
S12111919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
S12111928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
S12111930 Bank of the United States opens in NYC
S12111931 Japan leaves the Golden Standard
S12111931CBrit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence
S12111931Cto Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
S12111932 SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
S12111934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
S12111934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
S12111936 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1436 Salonta
S12111936 King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne
S12111936CDuke of York becomes King George VI
S12111937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
S12111938 NY Giants win NFL championship
S12111941 Germany & Italy declare war on US
S12111941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
S12111941 Japanese occupy Guam
S12111942 Timor (Austr/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated near Australia
S12111944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
S12111946 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
S12111946 Spain suspended from UN
S12111946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
S12111947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
S12111948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12111948 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12111949 Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
S12111949 Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
S12111949 WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
S12111951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement
S12111953 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
S12111954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
S12111956 Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
S12111957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
S12111958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
S12111959 Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm
S12111959CSeibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
S12111960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
S12111961 Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
S12111961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
S12111961 JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
S12111966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
S12111967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
S12111967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
S12111968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
S12111968 US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
S12111969 Libya adopts constitution
S12111970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
S12111972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
S12111972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
S12111973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
S12111973 NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
S12111973 Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
S12111975 1st class postage rises from 10¢ to 13¢
S12111975CGreat Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett
S12111975Cfrom Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
S12111978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy
S12111978CAirport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
S12111981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
S12111981 Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
S12111981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
S12111981 UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
S12111981 Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
S12111983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
S12111985 Edm Oilers (36) & Chic Black Hawks (26) score NHL record 62 points
S12111985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
S12111985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9
S12111985C& ties record of 21 goals
S12111986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
S12111989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
S12111990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
S12111990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
S12111991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
S12111992 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
S12111992 WNEW-AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
S12121098 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
S12121474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilië & Aragon
S12121479 Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
S12121769 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
S12121777 Rev Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
S12121791 Bank of US opens
S12121792 In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music
S12121792Ccomposition from Franz Joseph Haydn
S12121800 Washington DC established as capital of US
S12121862 Battle of Dumfries, VA
S12121862 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
S12121870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
S12121899 George F Grant of Boston patents golf tee
S12121900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
S12121901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
S12121906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish cabinet member, appointed Sec of Commerce
S12121913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
S12121915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
S12121915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
S12121917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
S12121917 Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
S12121925 Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
S12121925 last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
S12121931 Japanese Cabinet of Imukai forms
S12121932 USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
S12121937 1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
S12121937 Washington Redskins win NFL championship
S12121937CJapanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River
S12121937Cin China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
S12121939 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
S12121940 British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
S12121941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
S12121945 Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
S12121946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
S12121946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
S12121947 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2201 Oljato
S12121947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
S12121952 Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
S12121953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
S12121957 Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
S12121957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
S12121958 Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
S12121959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
S12121961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
S12121961 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
S12121963 Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
S12121963 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
S12121964 Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot, "The Cage" (Menagerie)
S12121965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
S12121967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
S12121968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
S12121968 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
S12121969 Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
S12121970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
S12121973 San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
S12121975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
S12121975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford
S12121976 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
S12121977 Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
S12121979 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
S12121979 Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
S12121980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
S12121981 Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
S12121981 Wayne Gretsky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
S12121982 $9,800,000 in cash stolen from cash machine in NYC
S12121983 A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
S12121985 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
S12121985 DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
S12121985 NASA launches space vehicle S-207
S12121986 James "Bone Crusher" Smith KO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG
S12121987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
S12121987 Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
S12121988 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
S12121988 NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
S12121988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
S12121990 US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
S12121990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
S12121991 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
S12121991 NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
S12121991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
S12121992 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
S12121992 NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
S12131294 Pope Coelestinus V ends term
S12131545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
S12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
S12131642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
S12131769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
S12131774 1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft William & Mary, NH
S12131816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
S12131861 Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
S12131862 Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
S12131864 Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
S12131879 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
S12131903 Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
S12131907 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
S12131913 Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
S12131916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
S12131916 French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
S12131918 US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
S12131918 Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
S12131919 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
S12131920 F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
S12131920 Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
S12131924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
S12131928 L Volta discovers asteroid #1115 Sabauda
S12131936 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
S12131936CGreen Bay Packers win NFL championship
S12131938 Los Angeles freezes at 28°
S12131939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
S12131941 German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
S12131941 Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
S12131942 Washington Redskins win NFL championship
S12131944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
S12131946 Léon Blum elected French premier
S12131947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
S12131949 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
S12131949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
S12131951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
S12131953 KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12131959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
S12131960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
S12131961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
S12131961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
S12131963 Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
S12131964 In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Méxican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an
S12131964Cexplosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border
S12131966 1st US bombing of Hanoi
S12131966 1st battle for Bÿlmer flats Amsterdam
S12131967 United Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
S12131967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
S12131968 Playland at Beach reopens
S12131969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
S12131971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marÿuana joints) is freed
S12131973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
S12131974 Malta becomes a republic
S12131976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
S12131976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
S12131977 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
S12131977 Entire U of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash
S12131978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
S12131981 Polish govt declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
S12131982 Devils' 1st hat trick-Steve Tambellini
S12131982 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
S12131983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
S12131983 Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
S12131983 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
S12131983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
S12131984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
S12131988 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
S12131988 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
S12131989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
S12131990 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
S12131990 Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
S12131991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
S12131991 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
S12131991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
S1214 867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S1214 872 John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12141124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II
S12141287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
S12141656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris
S12141656Cmade of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
S12141782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British
S12141793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
S12141798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
S12141819 Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
S12141825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
S12141849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
S12141863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
S12141889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
S12141892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #350 Ornamenta
S12141901 1st table tennis tournament is held, at London Royal Aquarium
S12141904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #552 Sigelinde
S12141911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
S12141913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete
S12141917 UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
S12141918 F Gonnessiat discovers asteroid #915 Cosette
S12141920 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in NYC
S12141924 Chang Kai Shek occupies Hankou
S12141926 Danish Madsen govt, forms
S12141927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
S12141929 Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
S12141930 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
S12141931 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
S12141932 French govt of Herriot falls
S12141934 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany, NY
S12141937 Japanese troops conquers Nanjing
S12141939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
S12141941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
S12141944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
S12141944 German occupier forbid use of electricity in NZ & Holland
S12141946 Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
S12141946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
S12141947 Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
S12141950 UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
S12141952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12141952 Uprising of captives in Pongam South-Korea, 82 die
S12141954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12141955 Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic
S12141956 Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO
S12141959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
S12141959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m
S12141960 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
S12141962 Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
S12141964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
S12141971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
S12141971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2122 Pyatiletka
S12141972 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
S12141974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
S12141974 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2655 Guangxi
S12141975 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
S12141975 WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
S12141977 Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
S12141979 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2246 Bowell, #2772 Dugan & #3478 Fanale
S12141979 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2778 & #3570
S12141980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
S12141980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
S12141980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
S12141981 Israel annexes Golan Heights
S12141982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3062 Wren
S12141982 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3757
S12141982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
S12141986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, took off from
S12141986CEdwards AFB, Calif on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
S12141988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
S12141988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
S12141988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
S12141988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
S12141990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube
S12141990Cremoved, she dies 12 days later
S12141991 Desmond Howard of Michigan wins Hiesman trophy
S1215 687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
S12151124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
S12151612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
S12151792 1st life insurance policy issued in US, Philadelphia
S12151794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
S12151810 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
S12151811 Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
S12151820 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
S12151836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
S12151852 Asteroid 23, Thalia discovered (named for a muse of comedy)
S12151852 J R Hind discovers asteroid #23 Thalia
S12151854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
S12151859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
S12151864 Battle of Nashville, TN
S12151864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
S12151874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
S12151877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
S12151891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
S12151909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
S12151914 Battle of Lódz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
S12151914 Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
S12151916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
S12151917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
S12151919 Fiume (Rÿeka) declares it's Independence
S12151922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
S12151925 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
S12151925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
S12151926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
S12151927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
S12151935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship
S12151935 Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin
S12151936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #3534 Sax
S12151936 KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
S12151938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
S12151938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1488 Aura & #1503 Kuopio
S12151939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
S12151939 Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta
S12151939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curaçao
S12151941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
S12151941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
S12151942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
S12151944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
S12151944 US troops lands on Mindoro
S12151945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
S12151946 Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
S12151946 Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
S12151948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
S12151950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
S12151950 NYC's Port Authority opens
S12151952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12151953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
S12151954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
S12151954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
S12151956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
S12151956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12151956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12151957 Goethe Link Obs discovers asteroids #1765 Wrubel & #1853 McElroy
S12151959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
S12151960 King Boudewÿn of Belgium marries doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragon
S12151961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
S12151961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
S12151961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
S12151962 Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
S12151964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
S12151964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
S12151965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
S12151965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
S12151965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
S12151965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
S12151966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
S12151966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
S12151967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
S12151967 Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
S12151967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
S12151969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
S12151970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
S12151970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
S12151973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
S12151973 Pirates of Caribbean opens
S12151973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
S12151973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
S12151973 US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
S12151974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
S12151976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m
S12151976Cgallons of crude when ship ran aground
S12151979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
S12151979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
S12151980 Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
S12151981 NASA launches Intelsat V
S12151982 Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
S12151982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
S12151982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
S12151982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
S12151983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
S12151985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
S12151986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
S12151986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
S12151988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
S12151990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
S12151992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
S12151992 WNEW-AM (1130) NYC goes off air, replaced by WBBR
S1216 882 Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
S12161431 King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
S12161492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (Haiti/Dom Rep)
S12161631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
S12161653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland & Ireland
S12161689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
S12161773 Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
S12161809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate
S12161811 Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region
S12161835 Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
S12161838 Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
S12161857 Earthquake in Naples, Italy
S12161862 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
S12161864 Battle of Nashville
S12161890 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
S12161892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #351 Yrsa
S12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
S12161897 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
S12161903 Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
S12161905 "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
S12161908 1st credit union in US formed, Manchester, NH
S12161909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres José Santos Zelaya from office
S12161912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20¢ parcel post, issued
S12161912 Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
S12161914 French offensive in Artois (Pétain)
S12161920 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000² miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die
S12161926 WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
S12161929 1st NHL game at Chicago Stadium (Black Hawks)
S12161931 German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism
S12161933 Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
S12161935 R Carrasco discovers asteroid #1644 Rafita
S12161940 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in Chicago
S12161941 Sarawak occupied by Japanese
S12161943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
S12161944 Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
S12161944 German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
S12161945 Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
S12161949 Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
S12161950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
S12161953 Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
S12161958 Bogotá warehouse fire kills 82
S12161959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
S12161960 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
S12161962 Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nepál adopts new constit
S12161962 NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with
S12161962C6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
S12161965 Gemini 6 returns to Earth
S12161965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
S12161965 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga
S12161966 Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
S12161967 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
S12161968 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
S12161969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko"
S12161969Cposters begin appearing
S12161970 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
S12161971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
S12161971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1900 Katyusha
S12161972 Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
S12161972 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
S12161973 O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
S12161976 Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
S12161976 Govt halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
S12161976 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #2341 Aoluta, #2480, #2551 Decabrina,
S12161976C#2669 Shostakovich, #2692 Chkalov, #2699 Kalinin, #3052 Herzen,
S12161976C#3147 Samantha, #3483 & #3719
S12161978 Ronald Reagan denounces Pres Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR
S12161979 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2264 Sabrina
S12161979 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2795 Lepage & #3175 Netto
S12161980 Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State
S12161980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3162 Nostalgia
S12161980 Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state
S12161981 Dutch Van Agt's 2nd cabinet falls
S12161983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
S12161983CRiverside, Cal judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato
S12161983Crequest to starve herself to death in a county hospital
S12161985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
S12161988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
S12161990 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
S12161991 Fla Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
S12161991 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
S1217 283 St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
S12171777 France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
S12171777 George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pa
S12171790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in México City
S12171791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
S12171792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Québec city
S12171798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
S12171819 Congress of Angostura establishes Columbia's independence from Spain
S12171821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
S12171852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
S12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
S12171862 Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
S12171864 Battle of Franklin, TN
S12171875 Violent bread riots in Montréal
S12171895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
S12171895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
S12171900 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with
S12171900Cextraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
S12171903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
S12171905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #580 Selene
S12171907 Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
S12171914 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
S12171914 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
S12171914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
S12171919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
S12171920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
S12171920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
S12171920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
S12171922 Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
S12171923 Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
S12171924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
S12171925 Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
S12171925 Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
S12171926 German Marx govt falls due to cooperation with red army
S12171926 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
S12171926 Lithuiana military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
S12171927 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
S12171930 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1270 Datura
S12171933 Spain's 2nd Cabinet of Lerroux forms
S12171933CNational Football League starts keeping official statistics
S12171933Cas Bears beat Giants 23-21 in championship game
S12171939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
S12171940 British troops occupies Sollum
S12171941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
S12171942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
S12171944 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
S12171944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
S12171944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
S12171944 US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
S12171946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
S12171947 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
S12171947 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12171949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
S12171951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
S12171954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
S12171954 WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12171957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
S12171959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
S12171961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
S12171961 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portugese colonies
S12171961 Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
S12171962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
S12171963 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms govt in South-Korea
S12171963 West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
S12171965 Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50¢)
S12171967 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12171969 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
S12171969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of
S12171969Cextraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
S12171970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
S12171971 "Diamonds are Forever" premiers in US
S12171971 Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
S12171971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
S12171972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
S12171972 WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
S12171975 1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
S12171975 John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court
S12171975 Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
S12171978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
S12171979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
S12171979 H Kosai & G Sasaki discovers asteroid #3392 Setouchi
S12171980 Mauritania provisional constitution published
S12171981 Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
S12171983 Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
S12171984 NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
S12171988 Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
S12171988 NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
S12171988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
S12171989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello pres
S12171990 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
S12171991 NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
S12171991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
S12181352 Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
S12181774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
S12181777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
S12181787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
S12181796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor
S12181799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
S12181813 British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
S12181839 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
S12181849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
S12181859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
S12181865 1st US cattle importation law passed
S12181897 A Charlois discovers asteroids #430 Hybris, #431 Nephele & #432 Pythia
S12181898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
S12181915 Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
S12181917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
S12181923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
S12181932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
S12181935 Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
S12181936 1st giant panda imported into US
S12181939 Finnish army recaptures Agläjärvi
S12181941 Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
S12181944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillipines)
S12181945 Uruguay joins UN
S12181946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
S12181948 Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
S12181948 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12181949 Phila Eagles beat LA Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
S12181953 KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12181953 KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12181956 Japan admitted to UN
S12181957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
S12181958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
S12181958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
S12181959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
S12181960 General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
S12181961 For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
S12181961 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
S12181961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
S12181962 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12181963 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
S12181965 Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
S12181965 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
S12181969 Britain abolishes death penalty
S12181971 1st Candlelight Processional
S12181971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
S12181971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
S12181972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
S12181973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
S12181974 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2077 Kiangsu
S12181974 SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
S12181977 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
S12181977 M Lovas discovers asteroid #3579
S12181979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
S12181980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
S12181980 Vietnam adopts constitution
S12181982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
S12181983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
S12181987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
S12181988 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
S12181988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
S12181989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
S12181990 NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
S12181991 DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
S12181991 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
S1219 401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S12191154 King Henry II of England crowned
S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
S12191732 Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S12191776 Thomas Paine publishes his 1st "American Crisis" essay
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
S12191795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
S12191823 Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
S12191828 South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
S12191842 US recognizes independence of Hawaii
S12191843 Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
S12191854 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
S12191859 Grading started for Market Street RR
S12191861 Battle of Black Water
S12191867 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
S12191871 Albert Jones, NYC, patents corrugated paper
S12191881 Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels)
S12191887 Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
S12191890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
S12191891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
S12191894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #397 Vienna
S12191903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
S12191904 Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle
S12191904Cto catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
S12191907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
S12191907 Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
S12191910 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
S12191910 Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
S12191913 A Massinger discovers asteroid #772 Tanete
S12191913 C Le Morvan discovers asteroid #774 Armor
S12191917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
S12191917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
S12191919 American Meteorological Society found
S12191920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
S12191922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
S12191928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
S12191930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
S12191931 Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
S12191932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
S12191933 Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
S12191934 Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
S12191939 Russian air raid on Finnish
S12191943 Military coup in Bolivia
S12191945 Austrian Republic re-establishes
S12191946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
S12191948 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
S12191948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
S12191948 Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
S12191948 Phila Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
S12191949 WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12191950 Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
S12191952 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
S12191953 KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
S12191957 "Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
S12191959 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
S12191960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
S12191960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
S12191961 British govt begins decimal coin system
S12191962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
S12191962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
S12191962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
S12191963 Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
S12191968 WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12191969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
S12191972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
S12191973 Grenada adopts constitution
S12191973 P Wild discovers asteroid #1937 Locarno
S12191974 "Man With Golden Gun" premiers in US
S12191974 Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
S12191974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
S12191974 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3051
S12191975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
S12191980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
S12191980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
S12191980 Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
S12191984 Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
S12191984 Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
S12191984 UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
S12191984 Wayne Gretzky becomes 18th NHLer to score 1,000 points
S12191985 STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
S12191987 Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
S12191988 NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
S12191988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
S12191988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
S12191989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
S12191989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
S12191991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
S12191991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
S12191991 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
S12201606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
S12201669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for
S12201669Cinsurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
S12201699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
S12201790 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
S12201850 Hawaiian post office established
S12201860 SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Seccession, 1st state to secede
S12201861 Battle of Dranesville, VA
S12201862 -Dec 20th) Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
S12201862 -Jan 3rd) Vicksburg campaign
S12201862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
S12201864 -Dec 27th) Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
S12201879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
S12201880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
S12201883 Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
S12201891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
S12201892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
S12201893 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
S12201900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
S12201906 Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
S12201907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
S12201915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
S12201917 Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
S12201919 Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
S12201919 US House of Representatives restricts immigration
S12201922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
S12201922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
S12201924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
S12201926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
S12201928 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montréal, Què
S12201929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
S12201933 Bolivia & Paraguay sign weapon ceasefire
S12201938 V K Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
S12201939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
S12201942 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
S12201943 "International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
S12201944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
S12201944 Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
S12201945 Rationg of auto tires ends in US
S12201952 KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12201953 KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
S12201953 KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12201956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
S12201960 Auschwitz-commandant Richard Bär arrested in German FR
S12201962 Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
S12201963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
S12201963 Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville
S12201963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
S12201965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2085 Henan & #2886
S12201966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
S12201967 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
S12201973 AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
S12201973 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
S12201974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
S12201976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
S12201976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2427 Kobzar & #2700 Baikonur
S12201977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
S12201978 H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
S12201980 USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
S12201981 "Dreamgirls" opens on Broadway
S12201981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3130, #3334 & #3550
S12201981 Dou Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
S12201981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2904 Millman & #3353 Jarvis
S12201981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3611 & #3704
S12201983 El Salvador adopts constitution
S12201983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
S12201983 NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
S12201983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
S12201984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
S12201985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
S12201986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
S12201987 T Kojima discovers asteroid #3774
S12201987 Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector
S12201987C1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000)
S12201988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
S12201988 NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
S12201989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
S12201989 US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
S12201990 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
S12201990 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
S12201990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
S12201991 NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
S12201992 Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
S12201999 Portugal returns Macau to China
S12211620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/11 OS)
S12211762 James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
S12211784 John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
S12211829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
S12211849 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
S12211864 Gen Sherman conquers Savannah
S12211866 Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
S12211890 Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
S12211891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
S12211898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
S12211909 U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
S12211910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
S12211912 Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
S12211913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
S12211914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
S12211914Creleased. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
S12211915 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
S12211921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
S12211923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
S12211925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premiers in Moscow
S12211929 1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas
S12211929 1st group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Tx
S12211933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
S12211933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
S12211937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White)
S12211938 A Patry discovers asteroid #1509 Esclangona
S12211939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Lecture IV B"
S12211941 Chicago bears win the NFL championship
S12211941CLast NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
S12211942 US Supreme court declares Nevada seperation legal
S12211946 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
S12211948 Ireland leaves Commonwealth
S12211948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
S12211948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
S12211952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
S12211952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12211953 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
S12211954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
S12211957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
S12211958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
S12211959 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
S12211959 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
S12211959 Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
S12211961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
S12211962 Angolin leaves Comecon
S12211966 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
S12211968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
S12211969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
S12211970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
S12211971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
S12211972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
S12211975 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
S12211975 Madagascar adopts constitution
S12211975CBuffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2
S12211975Cscoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
S12211976 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
S12211976 Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
S12211976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
S12211978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder
S12211979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
S12211979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
S12211980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
S12211981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
S12211981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3388
S12211983 Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
S12211983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
S12211984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
S12211984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
S12211985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
S12211985 Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
S12211987 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
S12211987 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
S12211987 Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
S12211988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
S12211988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
S12211988 Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
S12211989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
S12211991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
S12211991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
S12211991 US actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner
S12211992 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
S1222 401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12221596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
S12221772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
S12221775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
S12221783 Washington resigns his military commission [or 1223?]
S12221807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
S12221810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
S12221815 Spaniards execute Méxican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
S12221862 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
S12221870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
S12221877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
S12221885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
S12221886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
S12221886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #264 Libussa
S12221888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
S12221891 M Wolf discovers asteroid #323 Brucia
S12221894 United States Golf Association formed (NYC)
S12221894CFrench officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers
S12221894Cworldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
S12221910 M Wolf discovers asteroid #707 Steina
S12221910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
S12221913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #773 Irmintraud
S12221915 Federal Baseball League disolved
S12221917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
S12221919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
S12221919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
S12221922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
S12221924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
S12221934 1st flight from Netherland to Curaçao (Christmas flight 1934)
S12221934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
S12221936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
S12221937 Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic
S12221939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
S12221939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
S12221939C99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
S12221941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Phillipine
S12221941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
S12221943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
S12221944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
S12221944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
S12221946 Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
S12221947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
S12221948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12221950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
S12221952 French cabinet-Pinay, resigns
S12221952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
S12221956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
S12221957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
S12221958 L J M Beel becomes premier
S12221959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
S12221962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
S12221963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
S12221963 Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
S12221965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
S12221966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12221969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
S12221970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison
S12221971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12221971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General
S12221974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
S12221974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
S12221976 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
S12221977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
S12221978 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2836 Sobolev
S12221978 Thailand adopts constitution
S12221980 Pres-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) &
S12221980CJames Watt (Interior)
S12221983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
S12221984 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #3712
S12221984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train
S12221984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
S12221985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
S12221986 T Niÿima & T Urata discovers asteroid #3565 Ojima
S12221987 Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
S12221988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
S12221988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
S12221988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
S12221989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
S12221989 Chad adopts its Constitution
S12221989 Cold wave: -4°F in Oklahoma City, -6°F in Tulsa, -12°F in Pitts,
S12221989C-18°F in Denver, -23°F in KC Mo, -42°F in Scottsbluff Nebraska
S12221989C-47°F in Hardin Mont & -60°F in Black Hills South Dakota
S12221990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
S12221990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
S12221990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
S12221992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
S1223 619 Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12231482 Peace of Atrecht
S12231569 St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
S12231690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
S12231776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
S12231776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
S12231779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
S12231783 Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
S12231788 Maryland votes to cede a 10² mile area for Dist of Columbia
S12231793 Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
S12231823 "Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
S12231852 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
S12231862 Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw &
S12231862Ccommon enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
S12231867 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
S12231893 Opera "Hänsel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
S12231907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
S12231909 Albert becomes king of Belgium
S12231911 Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
S12231912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
S12231913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
S12231919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
S12231919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
S12231920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
S12231920 King George V signs Home Rule Act
S12231922 Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
S12231925 Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
S12231926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
S12231928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network
S12231930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
S12231933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
S12231933 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
S12231939 Finnish counter offensive at Summa
S12231941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
S12231941 British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
S12231941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
S12231942 Allies air attack on Den Helder
S12231943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
S12231944 Beginning of harsh winter
S12231945 Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premiers in London
S12231945 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
S12231946 U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black
S12231946Cplayer in their basketball game
S12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
S12231951 Last Belgian communities get electricity
S12231951C1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000)
S12231951CLA Rams beat Cleve Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
S12231958 Abdallah Ibrahim forms govt of Morocco
S12231960 De Quay govt falls
S12231960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
S12231961 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
S12231961 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
S12231962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
S12231962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
S12231963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
S12231966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
S12231968 1st US case of space motion sickness
S12231968 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea
S12231968 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
S12231970 NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
S12231972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
S12231972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
S12231972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
S12231972C"Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with
S12231972Ca last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
S12231973 "Young & Restless" premiers on TV
S12231973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
S12231975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
S12231978 Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against NY Rangers, Trottier
S12231978Cscores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
S12231979 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3724
S12231979 NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
S12231982 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3068 Khanina, #3345 & #3675
S12231983 Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
S12231984 Oak Ridge Observatory discovers asteroid #3773
S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
S12231987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted
S12231987Cassassination of Pres Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
S12231990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
S12231991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
S1224 640 John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12241046 Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent (end of War of 1812) signed
S12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
S12241832 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Ga
S12241851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
S12241851 US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
S12241864 Battle of Gordonsville, VA
S12241865 Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
S12241871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
S12241874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
S12241889 Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
S12241893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
S12241902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #499 Venusia
S12241904 German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
S12241905 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #581 Tauntonia
S12241906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
S12241910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
S12241920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
S12241924 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
S12241924 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
S12241924 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
S12241930 C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #2941 Alden
S12241932 Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
S12241933 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
S12241936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
S12241937 A Patry discovers asteroid #1756 Giacobini
S12241937 Dutch govt recognizes Italians king as emperor of Abyssinia
S12241942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemünde, Germany
S12241942 Red army conquerors German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
S12241943 FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
S12241946 4th French republic established
S12241946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty
S12241948 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied, Dover, Mass
S12241948 Greek govt disbands due to state of war, press censorship
S12241950 Cleveland Browns win NFL football championship
S12241951 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
S12241951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
S12241953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
S12241953 KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
S12241953 KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12241953 René Coty elected pres of France
S12241953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
S12241954 Laos gains its independence
S12241956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
S12241956 Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
S12241960 Dutch bishops question papacy values
S12241961 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
S12241963 Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
S12241964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
S12241966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
S12241966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
S12241967 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
S12241968 WAGT TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12241968 WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S12241970 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hÿacking a plane
S12241970 Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
S12241971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon,
S12241971Ckilling all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
S12241973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
S12241976 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2134 Dennispalm
S12241979 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3074 & #3566
S12241980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
S12241981 Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
S12241982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1
S12241982Cranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
S12241984 Palace coup in Mauritania
S12241986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
S12241989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
S12241990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
S12241991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
S1225 1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
S1225 336 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec 25 occurs in Rome
S1225 597 England adopts Julian calendar
S1225 795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S1225 800 Leo III crowns Charles the Great, Roman emperor
S1225 875 Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
S1225 969 Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
S12251066 William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
S12251100 Boudewÿn I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
S12251223 St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
S12251492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
S12251621 Gov William Bradford forbids game playing on this day
S12251640 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
S12251745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
S12251758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
S12251760 Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
S12251775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
S12251776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
S12251818 "Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
S12251818 1st US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston
S12251837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
S12251843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
S12251848 New Haven Railroad opens
S12251862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Pres A Johnson grants unconditional pardon
S12251868Cto all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
S12251875 Lambs Club in NY forms
S12251888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
S12251894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chicago
S12251922 (-Dec 26) Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
S12251926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
S12251930 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
S12251931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
S12251933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
S12251936 Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
S12251941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
S12251946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
S12251947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
S12251950 Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
S12251953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
S12251954 WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12251955 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
S12251955 Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
S12251957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
S12251959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
S12251963 Walt Disney's "Sword In Stone" is released
S12251964 "Goldfinger" premiers in US
S12251967 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
S12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
S12251969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
S12251971 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
S12251971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
S12251971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
S12251973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
S12251974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
S12251977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
S12251983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
S12251984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
S12251987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
S12251989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8°C, coldest temp ever recorded
S12251990 "Godfather III" premiers
S1226 268 St Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S1226 418 St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S1226 795 St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12261492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
S12261620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
S12261773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
S12261776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
S12261799 George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st
S12261799Cin peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen"
S12261805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
S12261825 Erie Canal opens
S12261831 Opera "Norma" is produced (Milan)
S12261848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
S12261848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
S12261854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
S12261860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
S12261860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his
S12261860Csmall force at Ft Sumter
S12261862 -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
S12261862 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
S12261865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
S12261872 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
S12261877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
S12261878 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
S12261892 Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
S12261902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
S12261908 Jack Johnson KOs Tommy Burns at Sydney, Aust for boxing title
S12261916 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
S12261917 Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
S12261919 Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
S12261925 1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
S12261925 NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
S12261925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
S12261926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
S12261931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
S12261932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
S12261933 US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
S12261939 Earthquake in East-Anatolia Turkey
S12261939 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
S12261941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting
S12261941Cof Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
S12261943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
S12261943 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
S12261944 Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
S12261944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
S12261944 Gen Patton's 4th armour division attacks Bastogne
S12261946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
S12261946 US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
S12261947 British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
S12261947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in
S12261947C16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84° F
S12261948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
S12261950 Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
S12261954 Cleveland Browns beat Detroit Lions 56-10 in NFL championship game
S12261955 Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 38-14 in NFL championship game
S12261960 Phila Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
S12261963 US furnishes cereal to USSR
S12261964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
S12261964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
S12261964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
S12261965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand closes on Broadway
S12261965 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
S12261965 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
S12261966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
S12261967 BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
S12261968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2
S12261968Cgame misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's MSG
S12261973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
S12261973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
S12261974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
S12261975 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
S12261978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
S12261986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
S12261988 "Legs Diamond" starring Peter Allen opens on Broadway
S12261990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
S12261990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
S12261991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
S12261991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
S12261991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
S12261991 NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
S12261992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
S1227 418 [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12271741 Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
S12271825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage on board HMS Beagle
S12271836 Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
S12271845 Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Dept established
S12271862 Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
S12271862 Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
S12271867 Ontario & Québec legislatures hold 1st meeting
S12271871 World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
S12271887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
S12271892 Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
S12271892 N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
S12271897 Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals 15-2 for Stanley Cup
S12271900 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
S12271904 Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
S12271904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #553 Kundry
S12271906 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
S12271923 Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan
S12271926 Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square
S12271926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
S12271927 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater (NYC)
S12271927 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
S12271934 1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)
S12271934 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1340 Yvette
S12271934 Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran
S12271937 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos
S12271937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
S12271937CZabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
S12271939 1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
S12271939 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
S12271939 Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die
S12271941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
S12271942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
S12271943 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese govt
S12271943 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
S12271946 US wins 1st Davis Cup since 1938
S12271947 1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
S12271949 Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
S12271949 United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
S12271953 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game
S12271956 Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
S12271959 Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
S12271961 Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
S12271964 Cleveland Browns beat Balt Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game
S12271968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
S12271970 "Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2,844 performances
S12271972 LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
S12271972 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
S12271973 LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
S12271974 Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
S12271974 FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
S12271975 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2102 Tantalus
S12271975 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
S12271976 Albania constitution goes into effect
S12271979 "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV
S12271979 Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG
S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afghánistán, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown
S12271980 Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
S12271981 Oiler Wayne Gretsky becomes fastest NHL to get 100 pts (38th game)
S12271983 Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
S12271983 Propane gas fire devastated 16² blocks of Buffalo
S12271985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna
S12271985Cairports President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
S12271987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches
S12271987Cwhen he catches his 752nd pass
S12271988 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
S12271989 Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
S12271991 Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
S12271991 Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
S1228 418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S12281065 Westminster Abbey opens in London
S12281816 American Colonization Society organizes
S12281832 John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with Pres Jackson)
S12281846 Iowa becomes 29th state
S12281849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp
S12281849Ccontaining turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
S12281850 Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
S12281864 Battle of Egypt Station, MS
S12281869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
S12281877 John Stevens, Wisc, applies for patent on flour rolling mill
S12281878 Pope Leo XIII encyclical on socialism
S12281879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
S12281887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
S12281894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #398 Admete
S12281896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #425 Cornelia
S12281902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (MSG, NYC)
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
S12281903 Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
S12281905 Intercollegiate Athletic Assn of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
S12281906 Ecuador adopts its constitution
S12281908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
S12281910 Opera "Königskinder" is produced (NYC)
S12281912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
S12281915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
S12281926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
S12281931 Lin-Sen follows Chang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
S12281935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
S12281937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
S12281940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1659 Punkaharju, #1678 Hveen & #2962
S12281942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2181 Fogelin
S12281942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
S12281942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
S12281945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
S12281947 Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
S12281948 IDF crosses Egyptian border
S12281950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
S12281952 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
S12281953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12281954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
S12281954 US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
S12281958 What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
S12281962 UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
S12281966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
S12281967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
S12281968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
S12281968 Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
S12281968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
S12281970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
S12281972 Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea
S12281973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
S12281974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake
S12281975 "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
S12281975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
S12281975 P Wild discovers asteroid #2087 Kochera
S12281975 Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at MSG
S12281978 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
S12281983 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3003
S12281983 US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
S12281984 TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
S12281985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
S12281987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 16
S12281988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
S12281989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
S12281989 Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
S12281990 2 die in a NYC subway accident
S12281991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
S12281991 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
S12281991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
S12291782 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
S12291813 British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
S12291837 Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
S12291837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
S12291845 Texas admitted as 28th state
S12291848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
S12291851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
S12291862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
S12291864 Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
S12291867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
S12291876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
S12291890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
S12291891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
S12291903 French Equatorial Africa seperates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
S12291903Cin Middle-Congo
S12291906 Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
S12291908 patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
S12291911 SF Symphony formed
S12291913 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
S12291921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
S12291922 Dutch Constitution proclaimed
S12291922 Revised Netherlands Law proclaims sufferage
S12291926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
S12291929 Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
S12291934 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (MSG)
S12291934 Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
S12291937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
S12291937 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1442 Corvina & #2712
S12291937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
S12291937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1443 Ruppina
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
S12291938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
S12291940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
S12291948 US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
S12291949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
S12291949 Hungary nationalized its industries
S12291951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
S12291952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
S12291954 Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles
S12291954Cas autonomous parts, comes into being
S12291955 Barbra Striesand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
S12291957 Detroit Lions beat Cleve Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
S12291957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
S12291958 Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
S12291958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
S12291965 "Thunderball" premiers in US
S12291965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
S12291965 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
S12291966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
S12291967 Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
S12291968 Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
S12291968 NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
S12291972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
S12291972 Life magazine ceases publication
S12291975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
S12291978 Shah of Iran, askes Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian govt
S12291978 Spain constitution goes into effect
S12291979 Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
S12291980 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
S12291983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
S12291984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
S12291984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
S12291988 Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
S12291988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
S12291989 Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
S12291989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
S12291990 Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
S12291991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
S1230 274 St Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S12301703 Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
S12301809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
S12301817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii
S12301835 After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
S12301836 Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100 die
S12301844 Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000² mi (120,000² km) by Gila River from México
S12301853Cfor $10 million Area is now southern Arizona & New México
S12301854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
S12301861 US, banks stops payments in gold
S12301869 Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
S12301875 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
S12301892 Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
S12301896 Montreal Victorias beat Winn Victorias 6-5 for Stanley Cup
S12301897 Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
S12301903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
S12301903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
S12301903 Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
S12301906 Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
S12301907 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
S12301908 Montreal Wanderers loses to Edmonton but retain Stanley Cup (4th of
S12301908C1908). Cup is won by total points in a 2 game series
S12301911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
S12301915 Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
S12301917 -32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
S12301917 -37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
S12301922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR,
S12301922CBelorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
S12301927 Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
S12301929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1140 Crimea
S12301929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
S12301933 -50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
S12301933 Govt disallows NSB-membership for civil service
S12301935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
S12301936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
S12301937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1461 Jean-Jacques
S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
S12301940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2750 Loviisa
S12301941 Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
S12301944 King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
S12301947 King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
S12301947 Romanian republic proclaimed
S12301947 US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
S12301949 India recognizes People's Republic of China
S12301950 Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
S12301952 Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
S12301956 NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
S12301957 Israeli govt of Ben Gurion, resigns
S12301957 New York Giants win NFL championship
S12301958 French franc devalued
S12301959 George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
S12301962 Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
S12301963 Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
S12301963 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
S12301965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2197 Shanghai
S12301967 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
S12301968 -48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
S12301971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
S12301972 Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
S12301972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3119 Dobronravin
S12301973 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
S12301973 Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
S12301973 Minn Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
S12301975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
S12301977 Carter holds 1st news conf by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
S12301978 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2240 Tsai
S12301978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
S12301979 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
S12301979 Togo adopts constitution
S12301980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2971
S12301980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2365 Interkosmos
S12301981 E Bowell disc asteroid #2984 Chaucer, #3247 Di Martino & #3549 Hapke
S12301981 F Dossin discovers asteroid #3198 Wallonia
S12301981 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
S12301982 US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
S12301984 Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
S12301985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
S12301985 Pakistan restores constitution
S12301988 Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
S12301988 Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
S12301988 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 govt fuel standard
S12301988 North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
S1231 335 St Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S12311492 Jews are expelled from Sicily
S12311600 British East India Company chartered
S12311744 James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation
S12311775 Battle of Québec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
S12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation:
S12311776CLimit is 70¢ a day for carpenters, 42¢ for tailors
S12311781 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
S12311805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
S12311841 Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
S12311852 Future president & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry
S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
S12311862 -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River, TN (Stone River, Monfreesboro)
S12311862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
S12311862 Pres Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union
S12311862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras, NC
S12311870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
S12311879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
S12311879 Opera "Pirates of Penzance" is produced (NYC)
S12311890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
S12311896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #424 Gratia
S12311897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
S12311905 J Palisa discovers asteroid #583 Klotilde
S12311907 For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
S12311921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired
S12311923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
S12311924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
S12311925 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry
S12311930 Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
S12311931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1208 Troilus
S12311934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
S12311935 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
S12311941 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
S12311942 Battle in Barents Sea
S12311942 Potatoes rationed in Holland
S12311943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
S12311944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
S12311944 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
S12311945 Ratification of UN Charter completed
S12311946 French troops leave Lebanon
S12311946 Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
S12311949 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
S12311950 Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
S12311951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
S12311953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
S12311953 WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
S12311953 Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
S12311957 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
S12311958 International Geophyscial Year ends
S12311958 US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
S12311958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
S12311961 1st performance of Beach Boys
S12311961 Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
S12311961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
S12311962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
S12311962 Dutch flag flies in Dutch, New-Guinea
S12311962 Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
S12311963 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
S12311963 Dear Abby show premiers on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
S12311964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
S12311966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
S12311966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
S12311967 Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
S12311967 Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13° F)
S12311968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
S12311968 NY Jets win AFL championship
S12311970 Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
S12311970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
S12311971 KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
S12311972 Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
S12311972 Miami Dolphins beat Pitts Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
S12311972 Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
S12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
S12311974 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
S12311976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
S12311977 Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
S12311977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
S12311977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
S12311977 WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
S12311978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
S12311979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
S12311980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
S12311980 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
S12311981 Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
S12311982 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
S12311982 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
S12311982 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
S12311983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
S12311983 Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
S12311984 NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
S12311984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
S12311984 US leaves UNESCO
S12311986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
S12311986 WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
S12311990 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
S12311990 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
S12311990 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
S12311991 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
S12311991 Daniel McCarthy becomes General partner of NY Yankees
S12311991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
S12311991 USSR, last day of existance
S12311992 Target date for Europe's single market
S12311992 WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry
S12311999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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