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1538 Giovanni Battista Guarini Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1679 Willem Maurits Dutch count of Nassau/Governor of Zeeuws-Flanders
1691 Cornelis Pronk Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist
1741 Agatha "Aagje" Deken Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children)
1764 Louis-Sebastien Lebrun composer
1765 [Izaäk J] Alexander Gogel Dutch minister of Finance/patriot
1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Philadelphia PA, pioneer of educating the deaf
1794 James Wolfe Ripley Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1805 John E Feisser theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1813 Zachariah Chandler US, merchant/politician (founder of Republican Party)
1813 Errico Petrella composer
1815 Ada Byron (Lovelace) London England, considered the first computer programmer
1820 David Allen Russell Army Brevet Major General (Union), died in 1864
1821 Nikolai A Nekrasov Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny)
1822 César Franck Liège Belgium, composer (Rébecca)
1822 Thomas Casimer Devin Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1823 Wilhelm Kuhe composer
1824 George MacDonald Scotland, sci-fi author (Lilith, Princess & Curdie)
1830 Emily Dickinson Amherst MA, poet (Collected Poems)
1830 Kálmán Tisza premier of Hungary (1875-90)
1831 Alexander Conze German archaeologist
1851 Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1868 Louis Victor Saar composer
1870 Pierre Louis France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
1870 Adolf Loos Austria architect (building of houses)
1870 Rudolf W Canne Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)
1870 T R McKibbin cricketer (New South Wales & Australia off-spinner late 19th century)
1872 Johann Babtist Thaller composer
1872 Ludwig Klages German philosopher (study of graves)
1882 Otto Neurath Australian/British philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences)
1883 Andrej J Vysjinski Russian lawyer/foreign minister/UN-ambassador
1885 Janos Hammerschlag composer
1885 Mario Varvoglis composer
1886 Victor McLaglen England, actor (Informer, Academy Award-1935)
1886 William Booth cricketer (Yorks all-rounder, England before WWI)
1889 Ray Collins Sacramento CA, actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie)
1890 George Merritt London England, actor (I Monster, Q Planes)
1891 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966)
1893 Walter Rein composer
1894 Earnest Haenchen German new testament expert
1894 Gertrud Kolmar writer
1894 Paul Dessau composer
1897 Karl H Waggerl Austria writer (Power of Love)
1898 Anton Mauve Dutch painter
1898 Yuri N Libedinski Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero)
19-- Joel Brooks New York NY, actor (Lieutenant Dean-Private Benjamin, J.D.-My Sister Sam)
19-- Pepsi Demacque rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
19-- Tom DeFile rock bassist (Saigon Kick-New World)
1901 F Fischer German war criminal (Breda 4)
1903 George J Lewis Guadalajara México, actor (Don-Zorro)
1903 Una Merkel Covington KY, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
1903 William Plomer Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
1904 Antonin Novótny Czechoslovakia, President of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
1907 Rumer Godden England, author (Thursday's Children)
1907 Amedeo Nazzari Cagliari Sardinia Italy, actor (Lure of Sila)
1907 Michael Blankfort US, writer/producer/director
1908 Olivier Messiaen Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
1908 Arnold A van Ruler Dutch theologist
1910 Dennis Morgan Prentice WI, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
1910 John Hammond Sr New York NY, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
1910 Jill Summers actress (Agatha Coronation Street)
1911 Chet Huntley Cardwell MT, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
1912 Rien van Nunen Dutch actor (Spuit Elf)
1913 Morton Gould Richmond Hill NY, unbelievably prolific composer (Verdun)
1914 Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer] New Orleans LA, actress (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth)
1918 Anne Gwynne Waco TX, actress (Ride 'em Cowboy, House of Frankenstein)
1918 Professor Longhair king of New Orleans music
1919 Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson composer
1920 Ragnhild Hveger Denmark, 200 meter swimmer (Olympics-silver-1936)
1922 Allen Dwight Sapp composer
1923 Harold Gould Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
1923 Abelardo Quinteros composer
1923 Jorge Semprun French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
1925 Carolyn Ashley Kizer US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)
1926 Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe composer
1926 Eddie Jones "Guitar Slim" rocker
1928 John Colicos Toronto Ontario, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1929 Dan Blocker Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
1930 Clayton K Yeutter Nebraska, US trade representative/Republican National chairman
1933 Grenville Alabaster cricketer (New Zealand tourist to Australia 1973-74)
1937 Don Sebesky Perth Amboy NJ, orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
1937 Don Bies Cottonwood ID, PGA golfer (1975 Sammy Davis Jr)
1938 Yuri Temirkanov Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
1940 William Fred Dempster Berkeley CA, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1941 Fionnula Flanagan Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
1941 Tim Considine Louisville KY, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1941 Tommy Rettig Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
1941 Jeff Jones cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler in 60's)
1941 Peter Michael Goetz actor (Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives)
1941 Tommy Kirk actor (Old Yeller)
1942 Bear Bossu [Berend F Gertenbach] actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant)
1943 Theodore Wilson New York NY, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
1943 Chad Stuart rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1943 Jessica Cleaves rocker
1944 Tisha Sterling Hollywood CA, actress (Coogan's Bluff)
1945 Eric Boom Dutch guitarist/producer
1946 Gloria Loring New York NY, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
1946 Chris Kefford rocker
1946 Walter "Clyde" Orange Florida, rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot)
1947 Sinaida Woronin USSR, gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
1947 Wayne Northrop Sumner WA, actor (Roman-Days of our Lives)
1948 Brendan Harkin rocker
1948 Ralph Tavares rocker
1949 Linda Galloway LPGA golfer
1950 Simon Owen Wanganui New Zealand, Australasia golfer
1951 Frank Beard US country rock drummer (ZZ Topp)
1951 Johnny Rodriquez US, actor (Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party)
1952 Susan Hallock Dey Illinois, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
1953 Jack Scalia actor/director (Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force)
1956 Michael VerMeulen journalist
1958 John J York Chicago IL, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
1958 Paul Hardcastle keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
1959 Burke Moses New York NY, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
1959 Mark Aguirre NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1960 Kenneth Branagh Belfast, actor/director (High Season, Dead Again)
1960 Paul Assenmacher Detroit MI, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1961 Nia Peeples [Vernia] Hollywood, actress/dancer/singer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
1961 Mark McKoy Canadian track star (world record 50 meter indoor)
1962 John de Wolf soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 Robin White San Diego CA, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
1963 Doug Henry Sacramento CA, pitcher (New York Mets)
1963 Gerald Sandel soccer player (Sparta)
1963 Michael Lofton Montgomery AL, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1964 Luis Polonia Santiago City Dominican Republic, outfielder (New York Yankees, Orioles)
1965 Jennifer Wyatt Vancouver Canada, golfer (1992 Crestar-Farm Fresh)
1966 Eric Naposki WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1966 Norberto Martin Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1968 Rob Davis NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Darren Berry cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 Nadim Khan cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)
1969 Rob Blake Simcoe Ontario, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, Los Angeles Kings)
1969 Todd Furdyk CFL tackle (British Columbia Lions)
1970 Bryant Stith NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 Amanda Hardy Altona Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 Carla Sacramento Lisbon, 1.5k runner
1971 Manjula Munasinghe cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI pace bowler)
1973 Bernard Holsey defensive tackle (New York Giants)
1973 Marcus Wall CFL receiver (Montréal Alouettes)
1973 Rusty LaRue NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1985 Raven-Symoné Pearman actress (Cosby)


Deaths which occurred on December 10:

0969 Nicephorus II Phocas Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
1041 Michael IV Paphlagonicus, emperor of Byzantine, dies
1198 Averroës ibn-Rusjd Moorish philosopher, dies
1490 Antoine Haneron Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90
1524 Henry van Zutphen Dutch Augustine/Lutheran minister, burned to death
1572 Cornelis Musius Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72
1595 Reynier Cant mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59
1603 William Gilbert Queen Elizabeth's physician, dies at 59
1616 Diogo do Couto Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74
1638 Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49
1665 Tarquinio Mercula composer, dies
1749 Gabrielle Châtelet [La belle Emilie] writer (Voltaire), dies at 42
1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat German court organist/composer, dies at 80
1805 Friedrich Franz Hurka composer, dies at 43
1826 Benedikt Emanuel Schack composer, dies at 68
1833 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer, dies at 79
1875 Otogaki Rengetsu zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84
1877 Federico Ricci composer, dies at 68
1877 Jared Kirtland US physician/naturalist, dies
1888 Mariano Obiols composer, dies at 79
1889 Ludwig Anzengruber Austrian playwright, dies at 50
1890 Ludolf Sloet van de Beele Governor-General (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84
1896 Alfred Nobel Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1904 James Cranston cricketer (scored 16 & 15 in Test for England), dies
1909 Red Cloud Sioux Indian chief, dies
1910 Pablo Hernandez Salces composer, dies at 76
1911 Joseph D Hooker British botanist, dies at 94
1921 Viktor Jacobi composer, dies at 38
1931 Max Elskamp Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
1935 John H Aberson 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78
1936 Luigi Pirandello Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69
1936 Robert Abel cricketer (744 runs in 13 Tests for England 1888-1902), dies
1938 Mario Pilati composer, dies at 35
1939 Wilhelm Grosz composer, dies at 45
1946 Damon Runyon US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66
1946 Walter Johnson great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 59
1958 Juliane Gabriels Flemish physician, dies at 72
1959 Charles Jones cricket batsman (West Indies in 4 Tests 1930-35, 63 runs), dies
1959 Henri Vidal French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40
1965 Henry (Dixon) Cowell US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68
1966 Boris Koutzen composer, dies at 65
1967 Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere composer, dies at 71
1967 Carl Cunningham rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash
1967 Jimmy King rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1967 Otis Redding singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26
1967 Phalin Jones rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash
1967 Ron Caldwell rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1968 Karl Barth Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82
1968 Patsy Moran actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65
1968 Thomas Merton French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
1969 Franco Capuana composer, dies at 75
1969 Leigh Harline composer, dies at 62
1971 Jozef Cals Dutch Minister of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57
1972 Mark A Van Doren US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78
1973 Earle Foxe actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81
1974 Paul Richards actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50
1978 Edward D Wood Jr director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54
1978 Miura Isshu Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75
1979 Fulton J Sheen archbishop/religious broadcaster (Life is Worth Living), dies from a heart attack in New York NY at 84
1979 Ann Dvorak actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67
1981 John Kieran TV host (Information Please), dies at 89
1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
1982 Roy Webb composer, dies at 94
1983 Dorothy Cummings actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84
1983 Patrick O'Moore actor (Jungle Gents), dies at 74
1986 Kate Wolf folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
1986 Susan Cabot-Roman actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), dies
1987 Jascha Heifetz Russian born-US violinist, dies at 86
1988 Dick Clair comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS
1988 Richard Castellano aqctor (Honor thy Father), dies at 55
1990 Armand Hammer CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
1991 Berenice Abbott US photographer, dies at 93
1992 Carlomagno Andrade Equadorian general, dies
1993 Maroun Bagdadi director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42
1994 Garnett Silk vocalist, dies at 28
1994 George G F van Renesse concert pianist/music director, dies at 85
1994 Keith Joseph British MP (C), dies
1994 Ruth Evelyn Mansfield doctor, dies at 92
1995 Darren Robinson singer, dies at 28
1995 Gillian Rose philosopher/writer, dies at 48
1995 John Francis Boyd journalist, dies at 85
1995 Mary Madge Lascelles literary critic/poet, dies at 95
1995 Phillip Piratin communist, dies at 88
1996 Faron Young country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34
1996 John Duffey bluegrass musician, dies at 62
1997 Violet Carlson stage dancer/singer, dies at 97

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On this day...

0741 Zacharias becomes Pope
1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
1688 King James II flees London
1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
1799 Metric system established in France
1810 Tom Cribb (Great Britain) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
1816 Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1882 John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres
1887 Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1899 1st defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Stormberg South Africa - Boers vs British army; nearly 3000 British troops killed
1899 Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin
1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
1906 1st American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - President Theodore Roosevelt
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 French government returns to Paris
1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919 National League votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1919 New York, Boston, & Chicago, oppose American League resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms
1924 Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
1926 1st radio broadcast in the Springfield IL area (WCBS)
1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN
1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora President of Spain
1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of the season
1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1938 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 30-7
1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat New York Giants 27-0
1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"
1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Australian Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wickets
1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 1st black American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - Ralph J Bunche
1952 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel
1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling OH (CBS) begins
1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1958 1st domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad NM (underground)
1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show
1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters vs England at the Gabba
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 North American Soccer League awards New York & Toronto franchises
1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champion
1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadiens
1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1978 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 El Salvador army kills 900
1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in New York NY
1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7
1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1983 58th Australian Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 France performs nuclear test
1987 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time
1988 Massive Earthquake in Armenia kills 100,000 in cities of Leninakan & Spitak
1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Montréal Canadiens
1989 President Gustav Husák of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
1992 NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
1995 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1995 Michael Slater scores 219 vs Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982





Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Khmer Republic : Rights of Man Day
Mississippi : Admission Day (1817)
Stockholm, Sweden : Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)
Thailand : Constitution Day (1932)
UN, Equatorial Guinea : Human Rights Day (1948)
World : World Freedom Day
Wyoming : Wyoming Day (women's suffrage) (1869)

Religious Observances

Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr

Religious History

1520 German reformer Martin Luther publicly burned Pope Leo X's bull, "Exsurge Domine," which had demanded that Luther recant his "protestant" heresies, including that of justification by faith alone rather than through purchased indulgences or other papal favors.
1593 Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio first descended into the subterranean Christian burial chambers, located under the streets of Rome. Bosio was dubbed the "Columbus of the Catacombs," and his books long remained the standard work on the underground tombs of the early Roman Church.
1854 The second construction of the structure known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was consecrated. The church is one of four major basilicas in Rome. The original edifice was erected by Roman emperor Constantine in 324, and rebuilt as a larger basilica in the late fourth century by the Emperor Honorius (395).
1905 "The Gift of the Magi," a short story by William Sydney Porter, 43, was first published. Known by his pen name, O. Henry, Porter's writings were characterized by trick endings, making him a master of short story telling.
1956 English Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'In so far as the things unseen are manifested by the things seen, one might from one point of view call the whole material universe an allegory.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. "

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