^B{^#!16!9 December^N! National Day of Tanzania. Feast day of The Seven Martyrs of Samosata, St Peter Fourier, St Budoc or Beuzec, St Gorgonia, and St Leocadia.
^B{1783^B} The first executions at Newgate Prison took place. ^B{1868^B} Gladstone was elected prime minister of Britain, beginning the first of his four terms. ^B{1917^B} The British captured Jerusalem from the Turks, during World War I. ^B{1955^B} Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Carl Olson, regaining his world middleweight boxing title. ^B{1960^B} The first episode of ^I{Coronation Street^I} was screened on ITV. ^B{1987^B} The first martyrs of the 'intifada' in the Gaza Strip were created when an Israeli patrol attacked the Jabaliya refugee camp. ^B{1990^B} Lech Walesa, leader of the once-outlawed Solidarity labor movement, was elected president of Poland.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}John Milton, English poet, ^B{1608^B}; Clarence Birdseye, US inventor of deep-freezing process, ^B{1886^B}; Douglas Fairbanks Jr, US film actor, ^B{1909^B}; Kirk Douglas, US film actor, ^B{1918^B}; Robert Hawke, Australian politician, ^B{1929^B}; Joan Armatrading, English singer and songwriter, ^B{1950^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter, ^B{1641^B}; Joseph Bramah, English inventor of the hydraulic press, ^B{1814^B}; Juan de la Cierva, Spanish engineer, ^B{1963^B}; Edith Sitwell, English poet and author, ^B{1964^B}; Karl Barth, Swiss theologian, ^B{1968^B}; Bernice Abbott, US photographer, ^B{1991^B}; Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer, ^B{1993^B}.
