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1400 Luca della Robbia Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
1428 Richard Neville Warwick 2nd earl of Salisbury
1452 Jakob Obrecht Brabant, composer
1459 Djem Sultan son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
1515 Mary of Lorraine France, pro-French Regent of Scotland
1523 Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon archbishop Rouen
1573 Ernst Casimir count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen
1624 Tomas Micieres composer
1639 Jean-Baptiste Racine French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
1643 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle France, French explorer (Louisiana)
1684 Johann J Dillenius [Dillen] German botanist (Historia Muscorum)
1696 James Oglethorpe England, general/author/colonizer (Georgia)
1700 Egbert de Vrij Temminck Amsterdam regent
1702 Jean E Liotard [Turk] Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay)
1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of J.S. Bach
1723 Carl Friedrich Abel German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer
1727 William Ellery signer of the Declaration of Independence
1728 Charles Frederick Baden, liberal ruler of Baden
1735 Ulrich Bräker writer
1744 Abigail Adams Weymouth MA, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)
1753 Dugald Stewart Edinburgh Scotland, philosopher (Scottish common sense)
1761 Dorothea Jordan Ireland, French comedic actress
1764 Barbara Juliane Krudener Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility
1767 Andreas Hofer South Tirol, military leader (fought Napoleon's France)
1768 John Crome [Old Crome] English landscape painter/etcher
1787 Rasmus Rask Denmark, language scholar
1795 Thomas Ainsworth English/Netherlands industrialist (Twentse textile)
1803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1808 Thomas Cook England, tour director (Thomas Cook & Son)
1809 Benedict Augustin Morel Vienna, French psychologist (dementia praecox)
1812 Johanne Luise Heiberg Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Romeo & Juliet)
1815 Johann J Bachofen Swiss judicial historian
1815 Lucien Petipa French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader
1819 Franz Wilhelm Abt German composer/choir conductor
1819 George Eliot England, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede)
1821 Giovanni Bottesini composer
1826 James Scott Negley (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
1830 Justin M'Carthy Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope)
1831 Mark Rutherford writer
1831 Robert Ogden Tyler Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
1832 Edward Hatch Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1842 Jose Maria de Heredia Cuba, French sonnet poet
1842 Nicola d' Arienzo composer
1844 Izydor Lotto composer
1846 Andreas Hallen composer
1846 Oscar Carré Dutch circus director
1847 Heihatjirô Tôjô Japan, admiral (Russian-Japanese war)
1849 Fritz Mauthner Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism)
1853 Maria Teresa Carreno composer
1856 Frank Kellogg Secretary of State (1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Nobel1929)
1857 George [Robert] Gissing England, novelist
1858 Giacomo Puccini Lucca Italy, opera composer (La Bohème, La Tosca)
1859 Cecil [James] Sharp London England, folk musician
1861 Erich Schaeder German theologist (Theocentric Theology)
1862 Connie Mack Hall of Fame baseball executive/manager (Philadelphia A's 1900-1950)
1863 Ch'i Pai-shih China, traditional Chinese painter
1863 Jean-Baptiste Marchand Thoissey France, soldier/explorer (Sudan)
1866 Mieczyslaw Surzynski composer
1867 [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener Germany, general
1867 Frantisek X Salda Czechoslovakian writer/critic
1867 Joseph [Maria] Olbrich Silesia, German architect (Wiener Sezession)
1868 John Nance Garner Texas, (Vice-President-D-1933-41)
1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson US, poet (Richard Corey)
1869 Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)
1873 L[eopold] S[tennett] Amery British politician
1873 Matteo Giulio Bartoli Austria-Hungary, linguist
1874 Franz Schmidt composer
1874 Herman Harrell Horne Clayton NC, philosopher (idealism)
1875 Antoine Mariotte composer
1875 John P "Jan" Musch Dutch actor (Dead Water)
1876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Italian writer (Futurism e Futurista)
1877 Endre Ady Hungary, lyric poet
1879 Ralph Hawtrey Buckinghamshire England, economist (multiplier)
1879 Stanislas Bizot French world checker champion (1925)
1881 Enver Pasa Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician
1882 Charles Vildrac Paris France, poet/playwright
1883 Arthur James Cook England, union leader (coal miners)
1883 Edgard Victor Achille C Varèse Paris France, composer (Innisation)
1885 Edgard Varèse Paris France, composer (Innisation)
1885 Joseph Deems Taylor New York NY, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan Indies mathematician ('pi'/Notebooks)
1888 Joseph Arthur Rank English film magnate/baron
1889 Mikha`il Na'imah Lebanon, playwright
1889 Minor Watson Marianna AR, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid)
1890 Charles de Gaulle Lille France, premier of France
1890 Mark Tobey US abstract painter (Broadway Norm)
1891 Edward L Bernays Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent
1896 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov St Petersburg Russia, poet
1898 Lionel Charles Robbins Middlesex England, economist
1899 Gustaf Gruendgens Duesseldorf Germany, actor/director (M)
1899 Hoagy Carmichael Bloomington IN, pianist/composer
1899 Wiley Post Texas, aviation pioneer
19-- Elizabeth Hubbard New York NY, actress (Lucinda-As the World Turns)
19-- Franc Luz Cambridge MA, actor (Ben-Hometown)
19-- Lanna Saunders actress (Days of Our Lives)
19-- Raymond Singer New York NY, actor (Operation Petticoat, Mama Malone)
19-- Wolfe Perry New Orleans LA, actor (Teddy-White Shadow)
1900 Alan Dudley Bush composer pianist/teacher
1901 André Kostelanetz St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Lincoln Portrait)
1901 Joaquin Rodrigo Spain, composer
1902 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc France, WWII hero (liberator of Paris)
1902 Joe Adonis Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York & New Jersey
1903 Dr Barbara Moore walked across US in 86 days in 1960
1903 H Keffer Hartline US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
1903 Marc Lavry composer
1904 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel Lyon France, physicist (Nobel 1970)
1905 Kenneth Rexroth US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush)
1905 Pierre Brasseur [Espinasse] French actor (Enfants du Paradis)
1907 Peggy Ashcroft Croydon England, stage actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days)
1907 Yoshio Hasegawa composer
1908 Giacomo Manzú Italy, sculptor (St Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize)
1908 Marius F Duintjer Dutch architect
1908 Max Bill Swiss painter/sculptor/politician (Ruban Sans Fin)
1909 Alan Carney [David Boughal] Brooklyn NY, actor (Zombies on Broadway)
1910 Richard Ainley Middlesex England, actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion)
1911 Grote Reber US, astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope)
1912 Henry Armstrong held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)
1912 Claudia A "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson 1st lady (1963-1969)
1912 Doris Duke New York NY, heiress (American Tobacco Company)
1913 Anthony Barber Doncaster bookseller
1913 Benjamin Britten Suffolk England, opera composer
1917 Andrew Fielding Huxley London England, physiologist (Nobel 1963)
1917 Gene Rayburn Christopher IL, TV game show host (Match Game)
1917 Piet De Somer Belgian rector (University of Leuven)
1918 Frankie Darro Chicago IL, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men)
1918 William Kennedy baseball player
1921 Hawkshaw Hawkins Huntington WV, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1921 Robert Frank Kurka composer
1922 Barbara Billingsley Los Angeles CA, actress (June-Leave it to Beaver)
1922 James C Wright Jr (Representative-D-TX), Speaker of the House (1987-89)
1922 Calder Willingham novelist/scriptwriter
1923 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein actor/director
1924 Frank Corsaro New York harbor, opera director
1924 Geraldine Page Kirksville MO, actress (Interiors, Beguiled)
1925 Gunther Schuller New York NY, jazz composer
1925 Thomas Christian David composer
1926 Peggy Castle Appalachia VA, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman)
1928 Piero Angelo Italian writer (Control)
1929 Jan Wiegel director/producer (Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada)
1929 Wazir Mohammad cricketer (eldest of Pakistan's 4 Mohammed brothers)
1930 Peter Hall Suffolk England, director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1932 Joe Clark Los Angeles CA, WLAF off coordinator coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1935 John L Finley USAF/astronaut
1935 Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov Russia, pairs skater (Olympics-gold-1964, 68)
1936 Hector Elizondo New York NY, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
1937 Marco J de Castro Dutch Antillian politician
1943 Billie Jean King Long Beach CA, tennis pro
1944 Barry Jenkins rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 Steve Carlton Phillies' pitcher (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82)
1945 Diane Sawyer Glasgow KY, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)
1945 Joris J C Voorhoeve Dutch Defense minister (1994-, VVD)
1945 Marianne van Wijnkoop [Bosscher] Dutch actress (Les Misérables)
1946 Rick Nielsen Rockford IL, rock vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick)
1946 Roberta Speer LPGA golfer
1947 Brian C Daley US, sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)
1947 Dilip Doshi cricketer (India's main slow lefty post-Bedi)
1948 Lynne Thigpen Joliet IL, actress (Nancy-Love Sidney)
1948 Noel Edmonds British TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
1948 Steve Garvey 1st baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
1948 Chris Old cricketer (England medium-pacer of 70's)
1949 Manfred Burgsmüller WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1949 Maurice Gibb Manchester England, rocker/twin of Robin (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever)
1949 Michael Osborne rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe)
1949 Robin Gibb Manchester England, rocker/twin of Maurice (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever)
1950 Rick Nielsen guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist (Cheap Trick-Surrender)
1951 Jan Stephenson Sydney Australia, golfer (LPGA Rookie of Year-1974)
1951 Charles de Lint Netherlands, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)
1951 Gerald Grosvenor English 6th duke of Westminster/billionaire
1953 Bernnadette Stanis Brooklyn NY, actress (Thelma-Good Times)
1953 David Leisner composer
1954 Derick Parry cricketer (West Indies off-spinner early 80's)
1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo South African worker's union leader
1955 Lynne Thigpen actress (Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?)
1956 Cojo Columbus OH, 1st gorilla born in captivity
1956 Marcy Hanson Galveston TX, playmate (October 1978)
1957 Lynne Thigpen Joliet IL, actress (Nancy-Love Sidney)
1957 Ricky Ross British rock vocalist (Deacon Blue-Raintown)
1957 Susan Powter diet guru/author/talk show host (Susan Powter Show)
1958 Lenny Von Dohlen Augusta GA, actor (Love Kills, Electric Dreams)
1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter (Gray, SAMO)
1960 Tyrell Biggs Philadelphia PA, super HW boxer (Olympics-gold-1984)
1961 Catherine Oxenberg New York NY, actress (Amanda-Dynasty)
1961 Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko Russian Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-19)
1962 Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes Suffolk England, actor (English Patient)
1963 Bryan McMillan cricketer (brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992)
1964 Mike Jackson Houston TX, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1967 Mike Sullivan NFL center (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1967 Roland Holder cricketer (West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993-)
1967 Sean Foster WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1968 Lauralee "Bug" Bell Chicago IL, actress (Cricket-Young & Restless)
1969 Andrew Scott Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1969 Marcie Aguilar Tucson AZ, female infielder (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1970 Brooks Findlay CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
1972 Andrew Moore WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Anthony Edwards Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Kirk Maltby Guelph, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 Mike Thompson NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Vanessa Paradis France, model (Channel)/actress (White Wedding)
1973 Annie Pelletier Montréal Québec, 3 meter diver (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 Jamel Williams safety (Washington Redskins)
1975 Stanislav Neckar Pisek CZ, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Olympics-gold-98)
1977 Joanna Hughes Victoria Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1986 Jeffery Wood actor (Austin Warren-In The House)


Deaths which occurred on December 22:

1337 Daito Kokushi leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
1419 John XXIII [Baldassare Cossa] Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
1440 Bluebeard pirate, executed
1603 Mehmed III sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37
1641 Maximilien de Béthune duke of Sully PM of France, dies at 81
1668 Stephen Day 1st British colonial printer, dies
1721 Nathaniel Hawes tortured & executed in England for robbery
1723 Jacques Basnage French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70
1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka composer, dies at 66
1767 John Newberry English publisher, dies
1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini composer, dies at 74
1815 José Maria Morelos Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1828 Rachel Jackson wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies
1832 Ishmail Spicer composer, dies at 72
1863 Michael Corcoran Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36
1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79
1870 Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educator, dies at 46
1874 Johann Peter Pixis composer, dies at 86
1875 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov composer, dies at 75
1880 George Eliot Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday
1890 Harry Pollitt chairman British communist (1956-60), dies
1893 Benedikt Randhartinger composer, dies at 91
1893 Johann Czerski German chaplain, dies at 80
1899 Dwight L Moody US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies
1902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing psychiatrist, dies at 62
1908 Marie Jungius Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
1913 Menelik II King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69
1917 Francesca Saveria Cabrini US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
1918 Albijn van de Abeele Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83
1923 Arthur H Bird composer, dies at 67
1937 Daito Kokushi Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55
1939 Ma Rainey "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53
1940 Nathanael West [Weinstein] US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
1941 Leopoldo Mugnone composer, dies at 83
1944 Antoine Mariotte composer, dies on 69th birthday
1944 Harry Langdon US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60
1945 Otto Neurath Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63
1950 Julius Weismann composer, dies at 70
1950 Walter Johannes Damrosch composer, dies at 88
1951 Powell Weaver composer, dies at 61
1955 Len Braund cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wickets), dies
1958 Fjodor W Gladkow Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
1958 Lion Feuchtwanger German/US philosopher (Jüdische Krieg), dies at 74
1959 Gilda Gray actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60
1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia composer, dies at 66
1965 Al Ritz actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62
1967 Lee Krieger actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48
1968 Louise Granville entertainer, dies of influenza at 73
1969 Donald Foster actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80
1969 Ilse Steppat actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52
1969 Josef von Sternberg Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75
1971 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58
1971 Renee Evans entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63
1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia composer, dies at 87
1973 Irna Phillips creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72
1974 Fosco Giachetti entertainer, dies at 70
1974 Lorraine Gauguin entertainer, dies at 50
1977 Johann Nepomuk David composer, dies at 82
1979 Darryl F Zanuck film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77
1980 Dick Kallman actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
1986 Celius Dougherty composer, dies at 84
1987 Alice Terry [Taaffe] actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
1987 Leonidas Zoras composer, dies at 82
1988 Tucker Smith singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies
1989 Samuel Beckett Irish/French writer (Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
1990 Cecil Effinger composer, dies at 76
1990 Helene Stanley actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies
1991 Ernst Krenek Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91
1992 Frederick W Franz CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
1993 Alexander Mackendrick director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81
1993 Don DeFore actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
1995 Butterfly McQueen actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84
1996 Hetta Empson artist, dies at 81
1997 Dawn Steel producer/president (Columbia TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51
1997 Douglas Ranger surgeon, dies at 81
1997 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour marquis of Hertford, dies at 67
1997 John Pinkerton compuer scientist, dies at 78
1997 Johnny Coles trumpeter, dies at 71
1997 Juzo Itami Japanese director, commits suicide at 64

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 1964    PARKS            JOE               CEDAR LANE            TX     12/30/66 DIC ON PRG LIST  
1965 ALCORN WENDELL R. KITTANNING PA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 1998
1965 CARTWRIGHT BILLIE J. SAN ANTONIO TX REMAINS IDENTIFIED 28 NOV 94
1965 DAIGLE GLENN H. LABADIEVILLE LA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1965 GOLD EDWARD F. OAKLAND CA REMAINS IDENTIFIED 01/95
1965 LUKENBACH MAX D. TUCSON AZ DEAD BURIED
1965 PRUDHOMME JOHN D. TIPP CITY OH
1967 COOK WILMER P. ANNAPOLIS MD REMAINS RETURNED 6/21/88 ID'D 9/28/89 BURIED AT SEA FROM SHIP NAMED FOR HIM
1967 FORS GARY H. PUYALLUP WA
1967 HICKERSON JAMES M. ATLANTA GA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1969 BURRIS DONALD D. JR. WAYNE PA
1969 KENNEDY JAMES E. PINE HILL NJ
1972 ALLEY GERALD W. POTACELLO ID REMAINS RETURNED 12/88 ID'D- 06/89
1972 BENNETT THOMAS W. JR. NATCHEZ MS
1972 BERNASCONI LOUIS H. NAPA CA 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 CAMEROTA PETER P. GIBBSTOWN NJ 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 CONLEE WILLIAM W. LEMON GROVE CA 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 COPACK JOSEPH H. JR. CHICAGO IL REMAINS RETURNED 06/89
1972 DRUMMOND DAVID I. WESTWOOD NJ 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 GIROUX PETER J. TRUMANSBURG NY 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV INJURED ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 LE BLANC LOUIS E. JR. PROVIDENCE RI 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED
1972 MAYALL WILLIAM T. LEVITTOWN NY 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 MORGAN GARY L. ABILENE TX 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 SPONEYBARGER ROBERT C. EMMAUS PA 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 WILSON WILLIAM W. CONRAD IA 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV
1972 YUILL JOHN H. BOSWELL IN 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 1998

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0401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1783 Washington resigns his military commission as US Army's commander-in-chief
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1862 Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown KY
1870 Jules Janssen flies in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" first published (Boston MA)
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (New York NY)
1888 Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1894 United States Golf Association is formed (New York NY)
1894 Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1907 Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg
1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 Federal Baseball League is dissolved
1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati OH
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Victoria
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in New York NY
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins
1934 1st flight from Netherlands to Curaçao (Christmas flight 1934)
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton PA
1937 Lincoln Tunnel (New York NY) opens to traffic
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
1941 Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs West Indies at Adelaide
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton WY (ABC) begins
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1959 New York Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 Radio Mil (Dominican Republic) transmitter blown up
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres
1965 Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, Alaska (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York NY
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God" opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 performances
1976 German Democratic Republic banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) & James Watt (Interior)
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1981 Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1982 William Mastrosimone's "Extremities" premieres in New York NY
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Capitals
1983 Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths (muggers) on a NYC subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs West Indies at the MCG
1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1986 India score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1987 Mötley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 miles of Western Australia & British Columbia coast
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
1989 Cold wave: -4ºF in Oklahoma City OK, -6ºF in Tulsa OK, -12ºF in Pittsburgh PA, -18ºF in Denver CO, -23ºF in Kansas City MO, -42ºF in Scottsbluff NE, -47ºF in Hardin MT & -60ºF in Black Hills SD
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5





Holidays

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

Arab : Ashura
México : Day of National Mourning (José Maria Morelos) (1815)
World : International Arbor Day

Religious Observances

Wicca : Yule sabbat
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin

Religious History

1216 Pope Honorius III officially approved the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), founded in 1216 by St. Dominic. During the Middle Ages, many leaders of European thought were Dominicans; and a good number followed Portuguese and Spanish explorers to the Americas as missionaries.
1770 Birth of Father Demetrius Gallitzin, a Dutch Catholic priest. Arriving in America in 1792, he spent his remaining years as a frontier missionary, building up the Catholic church in parts of PA, MD, VA and WV. Gallitzin became known as the "Apostle to the Alleghenies."
1804 Anglican missionary to Persia Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'I look forward to a day of prayer; for my soul hath great need of quickening and restoration, that it may act more in the view of eternity.'
1837 Mercer University was chartered in Penfield, Georgia under Baptist support. In 1871 the college moved its campus to Macon, Georgia.
1921 The first U.S. commercial radio license assigned to a religious broadcaster was awarded to the National Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C. Within five years, there were over 60 other licensed religious broadcasters, including KJS_Biola (L.A.), KFUO_Concordia Seminary (St. Louis), and WMBI_Moody Bible Institute (Chicago).

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 :

" There`s at least one fool in every married couple. "

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