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* Birthdays
B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
B12011913 Mary Martin in Weatherford Texas - Peter Pan, Larry Hagman's mom
B12011935 Lou Rawls, Singer
B12011935 Woody Allen, Comedian/Actor
B12011940 Richard Pryor
B12011958 Charlene Tilton in San Diego Calif
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B12021915 Adolph Green, Songwriter
B12021915 William Randolph Hearst, Publisher
B12021923 Maria Callas, soprano
B12021925 Julie Harris in Michigan
B12021949 Cathy Lee Crosby in Los Angeles
B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B12031857 Joseph Conrad in Poland, author
B12031930 Andy Williams, Singer
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaker
B12031930 Phyllis Curtin in West Virginia
B12031931 Jaye P. Morgan in Mancos Cal
B12041795 Thomas Carlyle in Scotland, author
B12041922 Deanna Durbin, Actress
B12041943 Patti Chandler in California
B12041949 Jeff Bridges, Actor
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President from 1837 - 1841.
B12051839 General George A. Custer, lost to Indians.
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
B12051902 Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator
B12051906 Otto Preminger, Film Producer
B12051951 Morgan Brittany
B12061822 John Eberhard, built first large scale pencil factory in US.
B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies.
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, poet, wrote about trees.
B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist
B12061906 Agnes Moorehead
B12061920 Dave Brubeck, Jazz great
B12061947 Chelsea Brown in Chicago Ill
B12071542 Mary, Queen of Scots
B12071888 Joyce Cary, writer
B12071923 Ted Knight, Actor/Comedian
B12071932 Ellen Burstyn, Actress, in Detroit Michigan
B12071956 Priscilla Barnes
B12081608 John Milton in England, author of "Paradise Lost."
B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr., Actor/singer
B12081933 Flip Wilson, Comedian
B12081953 Kim Basinger, Actress, in Athens Georgia
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, becomes the frozen vegatable king.
B12091911 Broderick Crawford, Actor
B12091911 Lee J. Cobb, Actor
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, Actor
B12091925 Dina Merrill in New York City
B12091957 Donny Osmond, Singer
B12101822 Cesar Franck in Belgium, composer
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet.
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries.
B12101914 Dorothy Lamour, Actress, in New Orleans La
B12101946 Gloria Loring in New York City
B12101952 Susan Dey, Actress, in Illinois
B12111931 Rita Moreno, Actress/Dancer, in Puerto Rico
B12111937 Anne Heywood
B12111944 Brenda Lee in Atlanta Georgia
B12111944 Donna Mills in Chicago Illinois
B12111945 Lynda Day-George in Tennessee
B12111947 Elizabeth Baur in California
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert in France, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, Singer
B12121938 Connie Francis, Singer, in Newark NJ
B12121941 Dionne Warwick in East Orange NJ
B12121962 Tracy Austin, Tennis player
B12131797 Heinrich Heine in Germany, poet
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, Actor
B12131930 Genevieve Page
B12131941 John Davidson, Singer/TV Game show host
B12131948 Kathy Garver in California
B12141503 Nostradamus, prophet
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
B12141896 James H. Doolittle, aviator
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, Actor/Comedian
B12141932 Abbe Lane, Singer, in Brooklyn NY
B12141935 Lee Remick, Actress, in Boston Mass
B12141946 Patty Duke Astin, Actress, in Brooklyn NY
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto in US.
B12151933 Tim Conway, Comedian/Actor
B12151965 Helen Slater, Actress
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven in Germany, composer
B12161775 Jane Austen in England, novelist
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ('2001')
B12161952 Elayne Boosler, Comedien
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements.
B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie, twice Canadian Prime Minister.
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops conductor
B12171926 Patrice Wymore
B12171930 Julia Meade
B12181786 Carl Maria von Weber, composer
B12181861 Edward MacDowell, composer
B12181886 Ty Cobb, Baseball great.
B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks and roads.)
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM.)
B12181916 Betty Grable in St Louis.
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, Film Director/Producer
B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman, in the Ukraine.
B12191933 Cicely Tyson, Actress, in New York City
B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry.
B12201819 John Geary, San Francisco's first Postmaster, and first Mayor.
B12201868 Harvey Firestone, where the rubber meets the road.
B12201904 Irene Dunne in Louisville Ky
B12201928 Dr. Joyce Brothers
B12201952 Jenny Agutter in London
B12211879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator
B12211935 Phil Donahue, TV Host
B12211937 Jane Fonda in New York City - Workout videos with Barbarella
B12211939 Diane Lennon in Los Angeles
B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd, Tennis great
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini in Italy, opera composer
B12221869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
B12221912 Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady
B12221951 Jan Stephenson in Australia, Golfer
B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics.
B12231805 Joesph Smith, founder of the Mormon church.
B12231918 Jose Greco
B12231924 Ruth Roman in Boston Mass
B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman in Youngstown Ohio
B12231949 Susan Lucci, soap star
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
B12241922 Ava Gardner, Actress
B12241959 Madonna, Rock Singer/Actress
B12250000 Jesus Christ, Savior, philosopher
B12251642 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist
B12251821 Clara Barton, philanthropist (founded the Red Cross)
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, Actor.  "Here's looking at you, kid."
B12251918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president
B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, Singer, in Houston Texas
B12251949 Sissy Spacek in Quitman Texas
B12261716 Thomas Gray in England, poet
B12261837 Admiral George Dewey, military leader
B12261914 Richard Widmark, Actor
B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes.
B12261921 Steve Allen, Comedian
B12261927 Alan King, Comedian
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
B12271822 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and bacteriologist.
B12271901 Marlene Dietrich, Actress, in Berlin Germany.
B12271952 Tovah Feldsuh in New York City
B12271957 Caroline Kennedy
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President from 1912 - 1921.
B12281925 Heldegarde Neff in Ulm Germany
B12281934 Maggie Smith, Actress, in Ilford England
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber.
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President from 1865 - 1869.
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, Actress/Comedienne,  in Brooklyn NY
B12291938 Barbara Steele
B12291938 Jon Voight, Actor
B12291946 Marianne Faithful, Singer
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novelist, in India.
B12301867 Senator Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist.
B12301919 Jo Van Fleet
B12301929 Barbara Nichols
B12301931 Skeeter Davis in Dry Ridge Kentucky
B12311869 Henri Matisse in France, artist
B12311941 Sarah Miles in England
B12311943 John Denver, Actor/Singer
B12311946 Diane Von Furstenberg in Brussels Belgium
B12311946 Patty Smith in Chicago Illinois
B12311948 Donna Summer, Singer, in Boston Mass

* Events
E12011887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet."
E12011913 First drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
E12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town.
E12011922 First skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt.Turner, RAF.
E12011929 Bingo invented by Edwin S. Lowe.
E12011959 First color photograph of Earth from outer space.
E12021816 First savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society.
E12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
E12021859 John Brown executed.
E12021887 Charles Dickens' first public reading in U.S., in New York City.
E12021942 First controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
E12021952 First human birth televised to public, Denver, Co.
E12021982 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
E12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia.
E12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
E12031818 Illinois becomes the 21st state.
E12031952 First television broadcast in Hawaii.
E12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned by Senate.
E12031967 First human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa.
E12031985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth.
E12041619 America's first Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in Virginia.
E12041674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago.
E12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC.
E12041912 Roald Amundsen reaches the South pole.
E12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
E12041965 Gemini VII is launched.
E12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded.
E12051933 Prohibition is ended in U.S. by ratification of 21st Amendment.
E12051935 First commercial hydroponics operation established, Montebello Ca.
E12051951 "Dragnet" premieres.
E12051955 AFL and CIO merge.
E12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album.
E12061768 First edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica is published in Scotland.
E12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time.
E12061907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kill 361 men.
E12061917 Finland gains its independence.
E12061973 Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected vice president.
E12071787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
E12071842 New York Philharmonic gives its first concert.
E12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked.  A day that will live in infamy.
E12071953 Prime Minister of Israel Ben-Gureon retires.
E12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
E12081886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions.
E12081931 Coaxial cable patented.
E12081952 First TV acknowledgement of pregnancy - "I Love Lucy."
E12081974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth.
E12081983 Ninth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth.
E12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony of Massachusetts
E12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper.
E12091907 First Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington, Del Post Office.
E12101817 Mississippi becomes the 20th state.
E12101901 First awarding and distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes.
E12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN.
E12101977 Soyuz 26 is launched.
E12101980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth.
E12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off.
E12111816 Indiana becomes the 19th state.
E12111954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va.
E12111970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with the word "fuck."
E12111975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
E12121787 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state.
E12121901 Marconi receives first trans-Atlantic radio signal from England to US.
E12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," opens one in San Luis Obispo.
E12121937 First mobile television unit, NY city.
E12121963 Kenya gains its independence.
E12121964 Russia launches Voshkod I, first multi-crew in space (3 men.)
E12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world.
E12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone ... in New Jersey.
E12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC.
E12131918 Wilson becomes first to make a foreign visit while President.
E12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres.
E12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman, issued.
E12141656 Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris.
E12141799 George Washington dies at Mt Vernon, Va.
E12141819 Alabama becomes the 22nd state.
E12141911 South Pole first reached by Roald Amundsen.
E12141985 Roger Maris dies at age 51.
E12151791 Bill of Rights is ratified when Virginia gives its approval.
E12151877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph.
E12151939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware.
E12151939 World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA.
E12151944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over the English Channel.
E12151964 American Radio Relay League founded.
E12151965 First rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
E12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor.  British unwelcome.
E12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres.
E12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, first published.
E12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise.
E12161944 Battle of the Bulge begins.
E12161965 Gemini VI returns to Earth.
E12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
E12171777 France recognizes the independence of the 13 colonies.
E12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way street.
E12171792 Opening of first legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec City.
E12171843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London.
E12171852 First Hawaiian cavalry organized.
E12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County.
E12171903 First sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers.
E12171933 First professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
E12171954 First fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In.
E12171959 First movie opening simultaneously in major cities "On The Beach."
E12181787 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state.
E12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished.
E12181899 George Grant wins patent for his golf tee.
E12181945 Uruguay joins the United Nations.
E12181965 Gemini VII returns to Earth,
E12181969 The British parliament votes for the abolition of death penalty.
E12181971 Diana Lynn dies at age 45.
E12181973 Soyuz 13 is launched.
E12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack."
E12191741 Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator and explorer dies.
E12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
E12191842 United States recognizes independence of Hawaii.
E12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
E12191933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized.
E12191946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
E12191972 Apollo 17 returns to Earth.
E12201699 Peter the Great orders Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1.
E12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred.
E12201850 Hawaiian post office established.
E12201880 New York's Broadway lighted by electricity
E12201883 International cantilever railway bridge opened at Niagara Falls.
E12201919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent).
E12201922 Fourteen republics of Russia form USSR.
E12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service.
E12201944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
E12201968 American novelist John Steinbeck dies.
E12201976 Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns.
E12211620 The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Mass
E12211909 University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he is first to North Pole.
E12211913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World.
E12211929 First group hospital insurance plan offered, Dallas Texas.
E12211933 Human blood serum first prepared.
E12211937 First feature-length cartoon with color and sound "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
E12211954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered.
E12211968 Apollo 8 is launched.
E12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR meet in Geneva.
E12221895 United States Golf Association is formed.
E12221937 New York's Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic.
E12231569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible.
E12231783 George Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief.
E12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs.
E12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs.
E12231973 Six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices.
E12231975 Metric Conversion Act.  Yeah, sure!
E12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812.
E12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Gruber, sung the next day.
E12241906 First known radio program in US is broadcast.
E12241910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain.
E12241936 First radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
E12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
E12251843 First theatre matinee given at Olympic Theatre, New York City.
E12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the ninth reindeer.
E12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting the moon.
E12261865 James Nason invents the first American coffee percolator.
E12261973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth.
E12271741 Prussian forces take Olmutz, Czechoslovakia.
E12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
E12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established.
E12271867 Ontario and Quebec legislatures hold first meeting.
E12271871 World's first Cat Show held at Crystal Palace in London.
E12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung.
E12271927 "Show Boat" opens in New York City.
E12271927 Joseph Stalin's faction wins at the All-Union Congress in the U.S.S.R.
E12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
E12271934 First youth hostel opened, Northfield, Mass.
E12271945 International Monetary Fund established.
E12271947 "Howdy Doody" premieres.
E12271968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth.
E12281669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
E12281846 Iowa becomes the 29th state.
E12281890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians.
E12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
E12291170 Archbishop Thomas A. Becket is murdered by supporters of King Henry II.
E12291845 Texas becomes the 28th state.
E12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants!
E12291911 San Francisco Symphony formed.
E12291916 Death of Rasputin, the monk.
E12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey.
E12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
E12291949 First UHF television station operating regular basis, Bridgeport Ct.
E12291949 Hungary nationalizes its industries.
E12291952 First transistorized hearing aid sold, Elmsford NY
E12301809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston.
E12301817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, in Kona.
E12301853 Gadsden Purchase signed; U.S. acquires Arizona and New Mexico.
E12301935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
E12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin.
E12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, dies.
E12311600 British East India Company chartered.
E12311719 John Flamsteed, father of modern astronomy, dies.
E12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation.
E12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the new capital of Canada.
E12311862 The Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks at Cape Hatteras, NC.
E12311879 Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US.)
E12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
E12311890 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration depot.
E12311921 Last San Francisco Fire Dept. horses retired.
E12311951 First battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced.
E12311958 Willie Shoemaker first jockey to win national riding championship 4 times.
E12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract.
* Celebrations
* Celebrations
C1201     National Indigestion Season
C1206     Independence Day, celebrated in Finland.
C1208     Feast of the Immaculate Conception
C1210     Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
C1212     Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
C1212     National Ding-a-ling Day (honest!)
C1215     Bill of Rights Day.
C1219     Underdog Day.  Awwwwww . . .
C1221     The Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year.
C1224     Christmas Eve.  No fair peeking 'till morning.
C1225     Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will toward all men.
C1225     Constitution Day, celebrated in Republic of China (Taiwan.)
C1226     National Whiner's Day
C1226-0   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1226-1   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1226-2   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1226-3   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1226-4   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1227-0   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1228-0   Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
C1231     Happy New Year!!! (tonight at midnight.)
C1231     Make Up Your Mind Day