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Robert Braunwart
B12011800 Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist
B12011835 Micah Jenkins, Brig Gen (Led Hoods Division at Chickamauga)
B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
B12011898 Cyril Ritchard, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan)
B12011899 Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
B120119-- Emily McLaughlin, actress (General Hospital)
B12011902 Morris (Red) Badgro, NFL end (Yankees, Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers)
B12011911 Walter Alston, baseball manager (Dodgers)
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
B12011917 Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)
B12011923 Stansfield Turner, CIA director
B12011926 Allyn Ann McLerie, actress
B12011934 Billy Paul, Phila, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
B12011935 Lou Rawls, singer (Dean Martin's Golddigers)
B12011935 Woody Allen, (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) Bkln (Zelig, Annie Hall)
B12011936 Lee Trevino, pro golfer (PGA Player of 1971)
B12011937 Gordon Crosse, Bury Lancashire England, composer
B12011938 Sandy Nelson, Santa Monica, 50s rocker
B12011939 Dianne Lennon, LA, singer (Lennon Sisters) (or 1221)
B12011940 Richard Pryor, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
B12011940 Ron Finn, Toronto, linesman
B12011945 Bette Midler, Patterson NJ, singer/actress (Do You Want to Dance?)
B12011946 Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ireland, (Alone Again Naturally)
B12011951 Treat Williams, actor (Flashpoint)
B12011958 Charlene Tilton, San Diego Calif, actress (Dallas)
B12011960 Carol Alt, Queens NY (Mrs Ron Greshner), model
B12021859 Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist
B12021866 Henry Thacker Burleigh, US, black composer
B12021885 George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
B12021885 Níkos Kazantazakís, Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
B12021897 Rewi Alley, NZ writer
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
B12021914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
B12021915 Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
B12021915 William Randolph Hearst, publisher
B12021917 Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer
B12021923 Maria Callas, NY, opera singer
B12021924 Alexander Haig, (R) sec of state/general
B12021925 Julie Harris, Michigan, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
B12021929 Harvey Phillips, Aurora, Missouri, tubist
B12021929 Lowell North, yachtsman
B12021931 Edwin Meese III, Attorney General
B12021940 Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
B12021949 Cathy Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
B12021962 Tracy Austin, tennis pro
B12021967 Sharry Konopsko, (Playmate - August, 1987)
B12031368 Charles VI, (the Well-Beloved), king of France (1380-1422)
B12031684 Ludvig, Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature
B12031729 Padre Antonio Soler Olot, Spain, composer
B12031755 Gilbert Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington)
B12031779 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp in 1840)
B12031838 Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist
B12031838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
B12031842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist
B12031857 Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
B12031879 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp
B12031883 Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
B12031895 Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter
B120319-- Nicolas Coster, actor (Santa Barbara)
B12031900 Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel '38)
B12031908 Halsey Stevens, Scott, NY, composer
B12031911 Nino Rota, Milan, Italy, composer
B12031914 Irving Fine, Boston, Mass, composer
B12031923 Maria Callas, NYC, soprano
B12031923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
B12031924 John Backus, invented FORTRAN computer language
B12031927 Ferlin Husky, country singer
B12031930 Andy Williams, singer (Moon River)
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
B12031930 Phyllis Curtin, WV, soprano
B12031931 Jaye P Morgan, Mancos Cal, comedian/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
B12031934 Viktor V Gorbatko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
B12031938 José Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor
B12031943 Jim Morrison, rocker (Doors) Is he really dead?
B12031948 Ozzy Osbourne, England, ate a bat, singer causing suicides
B12031959 Kathy Jordan, Penn, tennis player
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
B12041822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
B12041835 Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
B12041861 Lillian Russell, US, singer/actress (The Great Mogul)
B12041865 Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
B12041875 Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
B12041881 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist, historian
B12041892 Francisco Franco, general/dictator of Spain
B120419-- Patricia Wetting, actress (Nancy - 30 Something)
B12041908 AD Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
B12041910 Alex North, Chester, Penn, composer
B12041922 Deanna Durbin, actress (100 Men & a Girl)
B12041930 Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year - 1953)
B12041933 Horst Buccholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara)
B12041940 Freddy Cannon, rocker (Palisades Park)
B12041943 Patti Chandler, Cal
B12041944 Dennis Wilson, Calif, drummer (Beach Boys)
B12041949 Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds)
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, (D) 8th pres (1837-41)
B12051839 George Armstrong Custer, General, of Little Big Horn fame
B12051890 Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis) (or 12/12)
B120519-- Peter Hanser, actor (General Hospital)
B120519-- Pamela Blair, actress (Loving)
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse
B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, discovered uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
B12051902 J Strom Thurmond, (D/R-Sen-SC)
B12051903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
B12051905 Otto Preminger, movie director/producer (Laura, Exodus)
B12051932 Little Richard, (Penniman), rocker (Tutty Fruity)
B12051934 Joan Didion, US writer (Salvador)
B12051938 J.J. Cale, rocker
B12051947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
B12051947 Jim Plunkett, NFL QB
B12051947 Messina, rocker, (Loggins & Messina)
B12051951 Morgan Brittany, actress (Initiation of Sarah)
B12051963 Carrie Hamilton, actress, Carol Burnett's daughter (Fame)
B12061421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
B12061732 Warren Hastings, England, 1st gov-gen of India
B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st large US pencil factory
B12061833 John Singleton Mosby, US, lawyer/confederate
B12061870 William S Hart, star of silent Westerns
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees)
B12061887 Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
B12061893 Lou Little, footballer
B12061896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
B12061898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist
B12061898 Herman Shumlin
B120619-- Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (General Hospital)
B120619-- Wil Shriner, Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
B12061906 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endorra-Bewitched)
B12061920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist
B12061921 Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns)
B12061925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
B12061939 Tomás Svoboda, Paris, France, Czech composer
B12061940 Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker
B12061941 John Nelson, San José, Costa Rica, conductor
B12061942 Len Barry, Phila, rocker (Bristol Stomp)
B12061947 Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Dial Hot Line)
B12061948 Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
B12071542 Mary Queen of Scots
B12071598 Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
B12071847 James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876
B12071847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar, Jewish leader
B12071873 Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)
B12071878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet
B12071887 Ernst Toch, Vienna, Austria, composer
B12071888 Joyce Cary, writer
B12071888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of Amer Newspaper Guild
B12071905 Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer, discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune
B12071912 Louis Prima, New Orleans La, singer, (That Old Black Magic)
B12071912 Rod Cameron, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel)
B12071915 Eli Wallach, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
B12071923 Ted Knight, actor (Ted Baxter-anchorman, Too Close for Comfort)
B12071924 Mário Soares, (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983- )
B12071928 Noam Chomsky, linguist, founded transformational grammar
B12071932 Ellen Burstyn, Det, actress (Exorcist, Alice)
B12071942 Harry Chapin, rocker (Taxi, Cats Craddle)
B12071947 Gregg Allman, singer (Allman brothers)
B12071947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds)
B12071948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina
B12071949 Tom Waits, Calif, rocker
B12071950 Gary Morris, actor
B12071956 Larry Bird, hoop star (Boston Celtics)
B12071956 Priscilla Barnes, actress (3's Company, Delta Fox, Seniors)
B12071966 C Thomas Howell, actor
B1208 65 BC Horace, Rome, poet
B12081626 Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
B12081708 Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
B12081765 Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin)
B12081832 Bjφrnstjerne Bjφrnson, Norway, novelist (Nobel-1903)
B12081861 Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor
B12081861 Georges Méliès, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
B12081861 William Crapo Durant, founded GM
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
B12081881 Padraic Colum, poet
B12081882 Manuel María Ponce, Fresnillo, Mexico, composer
B12081886 Diego Rivera, Mexico, muralist
B12081890 Bohuslav Martinu, Policka, Czechoslovakia, composer
B12081894 James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus, Oh humorist, (Men, Women & Dogs)
B120819-- Billy Hulsey
B120819-- Michael Levin, actor (Ryan's Hope)
B12081903 Adele Simpson, fashion designer
B12081906 Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
B12081908 John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/cabinet officer
B12081913 Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic
B12081918 Gérard Souzay, Angers, France, baritone
B12081921 Johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout
B12081922 John B (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
B12081927 Vladimir A Shatalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
B12081930 Maximilian Schell, actor (Odessa File, Julia)
B12081933 Flip Wilson, comedian/actor (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh)
B12081936 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
B12081937 James MacArthur, actor, "Book 'Em Danno!"
B12081939 Jerry Butler, Miss, rocker
B12081939 James Galway, Belfast, Ireland, flutist
B12081946 John Rubinstein, actor (The Boys from Brazil)
B12081947 Gregg Allman, musician
B12081953 Kim Basinger, Athens Ga (9½ Weeks, Man Who Loved Women)
B12081953 Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor (Back to School)
B12091561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Va colony
B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
B12091608 John Milton, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
B12091837 Emil Waldteufel, Strasbourg, France, composed waltzes
B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, 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
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king
B12091894 Eddie Dowling, actor
B12091897 Hermione Gingold, London, actress (A Little Night Music)
B12091898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
B120919-- Connie Newton
B120919-- Frances Reid, actor (Days of our Life)
B120919-- Terri Vandenbosch, actress (As the World Turns)
B12091905 Dalton Trumbo, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor (Ghost Story)
B12091911 Broderick Crawford, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
B12091911 Lee J Cobb, actor (Virginian, Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
B12091912 Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (D-Mass-Rep)/Speaker of the House
B12091915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin, Germany, soprano
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
B12091922 Redd Foxx, actor/comedian (Sanford & Son)
B12091925 Dina Merrill, NYC, actress
B12091926 Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spain, matador
B12091928 Dick Van Patten, actor (Eight Is Enough)
B12091929 John Cassavetes, actor/director (Rosemary's Baby)
B12091929 Robert JL Hawke, (L), PM Australia (1983- )
B12091938 David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
B12091941 Beau Bridges, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
B12091942 Dick Butkus, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears), sportscaster
B12091946 Michael Nouri, actor
B12091950 Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer
B12091957 Donny Osmond, singer (Donny & Marie) (Go Away Little Girl)
B12091969 Allison Smith, actress (1969?) (Kate & Allie)
B12101787 Thomas H Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf
B12101813 Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician
B12101822 Cesar Franck, Liège, Belgium, composer
B12101824 George MacDonald, Scotland, novelist (Lilith)
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Mass, poet
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
B12101870 Pierre Louÿs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
B12101886 Victor McLaglen, England, actor (Informer) (Acad Award-1935)
B12101891 Nelly Sachs, Germany, poet (O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966)
B121019-- Wayne Northrup, actor (Days of our Life)
B12101903 Una Merkel, actress (Parent Trap, Abraham Lincoln)
B12101908 Olivier Messiaen, Avignon, France, composer
B12101910 John Hammond Sr, NYC, rock/jazz producer
B12101911 Chet Huntley, newscaster (Huntley-Brinkley Report)
B12101913 Morton Gould, NY, unbelievably prolific composer
B12101914 Dorothy Lamour, New Orleans (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth)
B12101920 Dennis Morgan, actor (Affectionately Yours, Always Together)
B12101920 Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, swimmer
B12101923 Harold Gould, actor (Rhoda, Big Bus)
B12101938 Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik, Russia, conductor
B12101946 Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
B12101952 Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
B12101961 Nia Peeples, actress/disco singer (Fame, Trouble)
B12101963 Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player
B12111781 Sir David Brewster, Scotland, physicist, invented kaleidoscope
B12111803 Hector Berlioz, Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France, composer
B12111840 Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author
B12111843 Robert Koch, Germany, bachteriologist (Nobel-1905)
B12111863 Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist/author
B12111882 Fiorello La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC) (1933-45)
B12111882 Max Born, Germany, physicist (Nobel 1954)
B12111892 Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug, Russia, composer
B12111905 Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa)
B12111908 Elliott Cook Carter, NYC, composer
B12111913 Carlo Ponti, director, married to Sophia Loren
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970)
B12111922 Grace Paley, writer
B12111931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, guru of the rich
B12111931 Rita Moreno, Puerto Rico, actress (King & I, West Side Story)
B12111937 Anne Heywood, England, actress (Brain, Dr at Large)
B12111942 Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1962)
B12111943 Donna Mills, Chicago Illinois, actress (Falcon Crest, Incident)
B12111944 Brenda Lee, Atlanta Georgia, singer
B12111945 Lynda Day-George, Tennessee, actress (Ants, Beyond Evil)
B12111947 Elizabeth Baur, Cal, actress (Lancer)
B12111950 Christine Onasis, (Andreadis), NYC, Aristotle's daughter
B12111951 Robert Cochran, skiier
B12111954 Jermaine Jackson, singer (Jackson 5)
B12111962 Kim Linehan, swimmer
B12121745 John Jay, diplomat (NY-Gov)
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
B12121848 William Vanderbilt, yachtsman
B12121852 Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
B12121859 Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners
B12121863 Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream)
B12121893 Edward G Robinson, Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
B121219-- Ernie Townsend, actor (Edge of Night)
B121219-- John Johnston, actor (Loving)
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of the board)
B12121918 Joe Williams, jazz singer
B12121923 Bob Barker, game show host (Price is Right, Truth or Consequences)
B12121924 Edward Koch, NYC, (D-Mayor-NYC)
B12121929 John Osborne, playwright
B12121932 Robert Pettit. basketball player (1959 NBA MVP)
B12121938 Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
B12121941 Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer
B12121950 Billy Smith, Ontario, goaltender (NY Islanders)
B12121956 Sondra Theodore, (Playmate - July, 1977)
B12121962 Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
B12131797 Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet
B12131810 Clark Mills, sculptor
B12131818 Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
B12131835 Phillips Brooks, clergyman/composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
B12131871 Russell Porter Marc Connelly, playwright
B12131903 Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist
B12131910 Lillian Roth, singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
B12131913 Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ
B12131915 Ross MacDonald, detective novelist
B12131915 Vorster Balthazar, Prime Minister
B12131920 George P Shultz, sec of state
B12131924 Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins)
B12131926 Carl Erskine, Bkln Dodger
B12131929 Christopher Plummer, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House, Hanover St)
B12131930 Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
B12131930 Robert Prosky, actor (Christine, Hill St Blue)
B12131941 John Davidson, TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
B12131943 Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player
B12131948 Kathy Garver, Calif, actress (Family Affair)
B12131948 Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist
B12141503 Nostradamus, France, astrologer/physician
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup, Denmark, astronomer
B12141829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US politcal office
B12141883 Morihei Ueshiba, founded Aikido
B12141895 George VI, king of England (1936-52)
B12141896 James H Doolittle, former Air Force general
B12141897 Margaret Chase Smith, (R-Sen-Maine)
B121419-- Cynthia Gibb, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
B121419-- Elaine Prince, actress (As the World Turns)
B121419-- Noelle Beck, actress (Loving)
B12141909 Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show)
B12141914 Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago, Illinois, pianist
B12141917 Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov & JJ, Its Always Fair Weather)
B12141919 Shirley Jackson, US, writer (Road Through the Wall)
B12141922 Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
B12141932 Abbe Lane, Bkln, singer
B12141932 Charlie Rich, Arkansas, singer
B12141935 Lee Remick, Boston Mass (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer)
B12141938 Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)
B12141939 Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy (1961)
B12141946 Joyce Wilson, Detroit Michigan, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
B12141946 Jane Birkin, actress (Mr Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
B12141946 Patty Duke, Bkln, actress (Miracle Worker, Patty Duke Show)
B12141946 Stan Smith, tennis pro, (Wimbeldon 1972)
B12141947 Christopher Parkening, LA Calif, guitarist
B12141953 Vijay Amritraj, India, tennis player
B1215 37 Nero, 5th Roman emperor (54-68); did not fiddle while Rome burned
B12151793 Henry Charles Carey, US, economist
B12151802 János Bolyai, Rumania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris
B12151848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
B12151852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
B12151859 Ludwik Zamenhof, created Esperanto
B12151860 Niels R Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, invented 1st auto built & operated in US
B12151862 Jack Dempsey, pugilist
B12151863 Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
B12151888 Maxwell Anderson, US, dramatist
B12151892 J Paul Getty, oil tycoon
B121519-- Felicity LaFortune, actress (Ryan's Hope)
B121519-- Thaao Penghlis, actor (Days of our Life)
B12151904 Kermit Bloomingdale, producer
B12151906 Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
B12151913 Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet
B12151916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
B12151922 Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
B12151933 Jesse Belvin, Ark, vocalist
B12151933 Tim Conway, comedian/actor (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
B12151940 Nick Buoniconti, football player/sportscaster
B12151942 Dave Clark, England, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad all over)
B12151944 Stan Bahnsen, NY Yankee pitcher (1968 AL Rookie-of-year)
B12151949 Don Johnson, actor (Boy & His Dog, Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment)
B12151954 Mike Ratledge, author of 2DAY & NEWDAY, sysop East Bay X-Change
B12151965 Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl, Ruthless People)
B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
B12161685 Charles Cressent, France, cabinetmaker
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer
B12161775 Jane Austen, England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher/poet/humanist
B12161863 Ralph Adams Cram, US, architect
B12161882 Sir John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953)
B12161882 Zoltán Kodály, Kecskemét Hungary, composer
B12161893 Vladimir Golschmann, Paris, France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat
B12161899 Sir Noël Coward, playwright
B12161900 VS Pritchett, literary critic
B12161901 Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
B12161907 Ray C Bliss
B12161917 Arthur C Clarke, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End)
B12161926 James McCracken, dramatic tenor
B12161932 Rodion Shchedrin, Moscow Russia, composer
B12161939 Liv Ullman, Tokyo Japan, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
B12161941 Leslie Stahl, TV newsperson
B12161946 Benny Andersson, Stockholm, singer (ABBA)
B12161952 Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court)
B12161962 William Perry, Chicago Bears (The Refrigerator)
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
B12171797 Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor
B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
B12171824 Thomas Starr King, Unitarian
B12171853 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, Boston Pops conductor
B121719-- William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
B12171903 Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
B12171904 Paul Cadmus, painter
B12171908 Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960)
B12171926 Patrice Wymore, actress (The Big Tree)
B12171929 William Safire, political columnist
B12171930 Julia Meade, actress/TV Host (Spotlight Playhouse)
B12171936 Roland Sheldon, NY Yankee pitcher
B12171936 Tommy Steele, singer
B12171939 Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker
B12171939 James Booker, New Orleans, R&B musician
B12171942 Paul Butterfield, rocker
B12171961 Venice Kong, (Playmate - September, 1985)
B12171970 Benedictine (St. Bernard); becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
B12181707 Charles Wesley, co-founded 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
B12181803 William Allen, (Rep/Gov-Oh)
B12181856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
B12181861 Edward MacDowell, composer
B12181879 Paul Klee, Switzerland, abstract painter
B12181886 Ty Cobb, played 3000 games, batted .367, stole 892 bases
B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM)
B121819-- Gillian Spencer, actress (All My Children)
B12181910 Abe Burrows, Broadway impresario
B12181911 Jules Dassin, director
B12181913 Willy Brandt, (SD), W German chancellor (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
B12181916 Betty Grable, St Louis, actress, (Gay Divorcee) great gams
B12181917 Lynn Bari, actress (Earthbound)
B12181917 Ossie Davis, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff)
B12181927 Ramsey Clark, Attorney General
B12181934 Boris V Volynov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
B12181943 Keith Richards, England, rocker (Rolling Stones)
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
B12181950 Leonard Maltin, movie reviewer (Entertainment Tonight)
B12191--- Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaii
B12191036 Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/official
B12191683 Philip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
B12191790 Sir William Parry, England, Arctic explorer
B12191821 Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer, women's suffrage leader
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
B12191852 Albert A Michelson, (Nobel-1907)
B12191865 Minnie Maddern Fiske, US, stage actress
B12191888 Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, conductor
B12191894 Ford Frick, baseball commissioner
B12191901 Oliver Lafarge, novelist (Laughing Boy)
B12191902 Sir Ralph Richardson, actor (David Copperfield, Dr Zhivago)
B12191906 H Allen Smith, author
B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukraine (Russia leader)
B12191910 Jean Genet, France, novelist/playwright (The Blacks)
B12191915 Edith Piaf, Paris France, chanteuse
B12191920 David Susskind, TV producer/host (David Susskind Show)
B12191926 Bobby Layne, pro QB (Detroit Lions)
B12191928 Galt MacDermot, Canada, composer
B12191933 Cicely Tyson, NYC, actress (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
B12191934 Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers slugger (AL bat champ 1955)
B12191941 Maurice White, singer
B12191944 Tim Reid, actor/comedian (WKRP, Frank's Place)
B12191945 Elaine Joyce, actress (Dating Game, City of Angels
B12191946 Robert Urich, actor (Tabitha, Starman, Vega$, Spencer for Hire)
B12191947 Janie Fricke, singer
B12191949 Claudia Kolb, swimmer
B12191957 Liz Glazowski, (Playmate - April, 1980)
B12191963 Jennifer Beals, Chicago, actress (Flashdance, The Bride)
B12191972 Alyassa Milano, actress (Who's the Boss)
B12201579 John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
B12201805 Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
B12201813 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa), sect of state
B12201819 John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
B12201833 Dr Samuel A Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
B12201841 Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson, France, educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
B12201868 Harvey S Firestone, where the rubber meets the road
B12201881 Branch Rickey, baseball executive
B12201886 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, donator of tennis' Wightman Cup
B12201894 Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
B12201895 Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
B122019-- Charita Bauer, actor (Guiding Light)
B12201900 Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935)
B12201901 Robert Van de Graaff, US, physicist
B12201902 Max Lerner, columnist
B12201902 Sidney Hook, philosopher
B12201904 Irene Dunne, Louisville Ky, actress (I Remember Mama)
B12201911 Hortense Calsiher, novelist
B12201922 George Roy Hill, movie director (Slap Shot, Little Durmmer Girl)
B12201928 Dr Joyce Brothers, psychiatrist, won $64,000
B12201928 Jack Christiansen, NFL defensive back (Det Lions)
B12201938 John Harbison, Orange NJ, composer
B12201942 Bob Hayes, Florida, Olympic sprinter
B12201947 Jeff Lynn, rocker (ELO)
B12201947 Peter Criss, Bkln, singer (KISS)
B12201952 Jenny Agutter, London, actress (Logan's Run, Amy)
B12201963 Pam Casale, Camden NJ, tennis player
B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
B12211823 Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist
B12211860 Henrietta Szold, founded Hadassah
B12211872 Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
B12211874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36)
B12211879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000
B12211891 John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of the House (1962-70)
B12211892 Dame Rebecca West, journalist/novelist/critic/feminist
B122119-- Danielle Von Zerneck, actress (General Hospital)
B122119-- Ed Nelson, actor (Capitol, Peyton Place)
B122119-- Larry Bryggman, actor (As the World Turns)
B12211909 George Ball, former undersecretary of state
B12211911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)
B12211917 Andre Eglevsky, choreographer
B12211917 Heinrich Böll, Germany, writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel '72)
B12211918 Donald Regan, White House staffer/secretary of treasury
B12211918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81), Austrian Pres/Nazi
B12211922 Paul Winchell, ventriloquist (invented artifical heart)
B12211931 David Baker, Indianapolis, Indiana, composer
B12211935 Phil Donahue, TV host (Phil Donahue Show)
B12211937 Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit
B12211940 Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention)
B12211940 Paul, aka Ray Hildebrand, Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, LA Calif, conductor
B12211946 Christopher Keene, Berkeley, Calif, conductor
B12211946 Carl Wilson, rocker (Beach Boys)
B12211948 Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
B12211953 Andras Schiff, Budapest, Hungary, pianist
B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
B12211968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Head of the Class)
B12221400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor
B12221639 Jean Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
B12221696 James Oglethorpe, England, general/author/colonizer of Georgia
B12221727 William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind
B12221856 Frank Kellogg, sec of state, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy, composer (La Bohème, Tosca)
B12221862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/Phila A's manager (1900-1950)
B12221869 Edward Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
B12221885 Edgar Varèse, Paris, France, composer
B12221885 Joseph Deems Taylor, NYC, composer
B122219-- Lanna Saunders, actress (Young & Restless)
B12221901 André Kostelanetz, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor
B12221903 Dr Barbara Moore, walked across US in 86 days in 1960
B12221903 H Keffer Hartline, US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
B12221912 Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady
B12221912 Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)
B12221917 Gene Rayburn, game show host (Match Game)
B12221922 James C Wright Jr, (D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987- )
B12221944 Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82)
B12221945 Diane Sawyer, TV news personality (60 Minutes) (or 02221948)
B12221949 Maurice Gibb, singer (BeeGees)
B12221949 Robin Gibb, singer (BeeGees)
B12221951 Jan Stephenson, Australia, golfer
B12231597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet
B12231732 Sir Richard Arkwright, invented spinning frame
B12231777 Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
B12231790 Jean-François Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
B12231805 Joseph Smith, found Mormon church
B12231812 Samuel Smiles, Scotland, writer (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
B12231860 Harriet Monroe, US, poet/editor of Poetry magazine
B122319-- Corey Haim, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas)
B12231906 Ross Lee Finney, Wells, Minnesota, composer
B12231918 José Greco, dancer
B12231924 Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Baby, Dallas)
B12231925 Harry Guardino, actor (Any Which Way You Can, Hill St Blues)
B12231929 Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
B12231935 Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled)
B12231941 Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter)
B12231942 Jerry Koosman, NY Met pitcher
B12231945 Richard C Wohlhuter, runner
B12231948 Jack Ham, NFL linebacker (Steelers)
B12231949 Susan Lucci, actress (All My Children)
B12231958 Denise McConnell, (Playmate - March, 1979)
B1224 3 BC - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th Roman emperor (68-69)
B12241745 Benjamin Rush, US, physician/patriot/humanitarian
B12241798 Adam Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz)
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout
B12241818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy
B12241822 Matthew Arnold, England, poet (Dover Beach)
B12241868 Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
B12241881 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956)
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire
B12241906 Franz Waxman, Königshütte, Germany, composes film music
B12241907 IF Stone, US, journalist, told it like it was
B12241920 Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist
B12241921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
B12241922 Ava Gardner, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana) (or 0124)
B12241930 Robert Joffrey, choreographer (Joffrey Ballet)
B12241944 Mike Curb, Georgia, singer, (Mike Curb Generation)
B1225 4 BC - Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader/philosopher (est date)
B12251642 Sir Isaac Newton, Grantham England, discovered gravitation & calculus
B12251752 Mithra
B12251821 Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse, founded American Red Cross
B12251855 James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
B12251865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
B12251876 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founded Pakistan
B12251878 W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
B12251881 Joseph McCarthy, Yankee manager
B12251883 Maurice Utrillo, France, painter
B12251887 Conrad Hilton, hotelman
B12251892 Dame Rebecca West, author/critic/feminist (or 12-21-81)
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, actor, Here's looking at you, kid (or 0123)
B12251899 Raphael Soyer, painter
B12251900 Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater, Missouri, mezzo-soprano
B12251904 Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel 1971)
B12251906 Clark M Clifford, Sec of Defense
B12251906 Lord Grade
B12251907 Cab Calloway, bandleader
B12251909 Mike Mazurki, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
B12251913 Tony Martin, singer
B12251914 William Martin, Federal Reserve Banker
B12251918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81) (Nobel 1978)
B12251923 Louis Lane, Eagle Pass, Texas, conductor
B12251924 Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
B12251927 Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959)
B12251935 Little Richard, rocker (Lucille)
B12251940 Phil Spector, rock producer
B12251942 Françoise Durr, France, tennis player
B12251945 Gary Sandy, actor
B12251945 Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
B12251946 Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants)
B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, Houston Tx, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
B12251949 Sissy Spacek, Quitman Tx (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
B12251954 Annie Lennox, singer (Eurithemics)
B12251958 Rickey Henderson, baseball player (stolen base king)
B12251959 Missy Cleveland, (Playmate - April, 1979)
B12261194 Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman emperor
B12261716 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
B12261738 Thomas Nelson, merchant/signed Decl of Ind
B12261778 Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
B12261792 Charles Babbage, invented calculating machine
B12261837 Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
B12261891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China P.R.
B122619-- Terri Garber, actress (Leslie Carrington - Dynasty)
B12261914 Richard Widmark, actor (Alamo, Judgement at Nuremberg)
B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
B12261921 Steve Allen, comedian/TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show)
B12261927 Alan King, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)
B12261942 Ernie Cate, Fayetteville, Ark, country singers
B12261942 Earl Cate, Fayetteville, Ark, country singers
B12261942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, president of Guatemala (1986- )
B12261947 Carlton Fisk, catcher, Red Sox, White Sox
B12261948 Chris Chambliss, NY Yankee 1st baseman
B12261952 André-Michel Schub, Paris France, pianist
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, Weil-der-Stadt Germany, astronomer
B12271773 George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
B12271822 Louis Pasteur, France, bacteriologist (pasturization)
B12271901 Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, actress (Blue Angel)
B12271906 Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, Penn, pianist/neurotic
B12271907 Willem van Otterloo, Winterwijk, Holland, conductor
B12271934 Larissa S Latynina, USSR, world gymnastics champion
B12271939 John Amos, actor (Good Times)
B12271940 Jerry Lambert, jockey (rode Native Diver)
B12271944 Tracy Nelson, Madison Wisc, singer
S12271946 US wins 1st Davis Cup since 1938
B12271952 Tovah Feldsuh, NYC, actress (Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky)
B12271957 Caroline Kennedy, JFK's daughter (or 1127)
B12281763 John Molson, founded Montreal brewery (Molsons)
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson (D), 27th president (1912-21) (Nobel 1919)
B12281882 Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
B12281894 Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
B12281896 Roger Sessions, Brooklyn, NY, composer
B122819-- Tannis Vallely, actress (Janice Lazorotto - Head of the Class)
B12281903 John Von Neumann
B12281905 Earl `Fatha' Hines, jazz pianist
B12281908 Lew Ayres, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr Kildare)
B12281911 Sam Levenson, comedian
B12281913 Lou Jacobi, actor (Diary of Anne Frank, Ivan the Terrible)
B12281914 Lee Bowman, actor (Buck Private, Tonight & Every Night)
B12281920 Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Eagles)
B12281923 Andy Duggan, actor
B12281925 Heldegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress (Lost Continent)
B12281929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
B12281929 Terry Sawchuk, hockey player
B12281931 Martin Milner, actor (Adam-12, 13 Ghosts, Hurricane)
B12281932 Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker
B12281934 Maggie Smith, Ilford Eng (Death on the Nile, Clash of Titans)
B12281946 Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker
B12291721 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
B12291776 Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
B12291833 John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks)
B12291859 Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20)
B12291876 Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
B12291879 Billy Mitchell, WW I aviation hero Gen
B12291896 David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist
B122919-- Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah - Head of the Class)
B12291912 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne, Australia, composer
B12291915 Robert Ruark, US writer
B12291917 Tom Bradley, (LA-Mayor)
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)
B12291934 Ed Flanders, actor (True Confessions, St Elsewhere)
B12291934 Inga Swenson, Omaha, Nebraska, entertainer
B12291936 Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People)
B12291938 Barbara Steele, actress (Silent Scream)
B12291938 Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
B12291946 Marianne Faithful, rocker
B12291947 Ted Danson, actor (Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
B12291949 Angel Tompkins, actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law)
B12291952 Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
B1230 39 Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel '07)
B12301867 Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic)
B12301869 Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist
B12301879 Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher, yogi
B12301883 Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM in WWII
B123019-- Bernard Barrow, actor (Ryan's Hope)
B12301904 Dmitri Kabalevsky, St Petersburg, Russia, composer
B12301906 Sir Carol Reed, motion picture director (3rd Man)
B12301911 Jeanette Nolan, actress (Real McCoys, Desperate Miles)
B12301914 Bert Parks, Miss America emcee/TV host (Masquerade Party)
B12301919 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral, East of Eden)
B12301928 Bo Diddley, rock `n' roll pioneer
B12301928 Jack Lord, actor, (Hawaii 5-0, Dr No, God's Little Acre)
B12301929 Barbara Nichols, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
B12301931 Skeeter Davis, Dry Ridge Ky, singer
B12301932 John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose)
B12301935 Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66) (Perfect-'65)
B12301937 John Hartford, NYC, singer/songwriter
B12301939 Del Shannon, aka Charlie Westover, rocker (Runaway)
B12301942 Mike Nesmith, singer (Monkees)
B12301945 Davey Jones, singer (Monkees)
B12301959 Tracy Ullman, singer/actress (Tracy Ullman Show)
B12311738 Lord Cornwallis
B12311869 Henri Matisse, France, Impressionist painter
B12311870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years
B12311880 George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
B12311882 Ben A Jones, trained 5 Kentucky Derby winners
B12311899 Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro, Mexico, composer
B123119-- Joanna Johnson, actress (Bold & Beautiful)
B123119-- Martha Byrne, actress (As the World Turns)
B123119-- Sally Gracie, actress (One Life to Live)
B12311904 Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
B12311904 Nathan Milstein, Odessa, Russia, concert violinist
B12311905 Guy Mollet, premier
B12311905 Jule Styne, England, songwriter
B12311928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit)
B12311930 Odetta, folk singer
B12311932 George Schlatter, TV producer (Laugh-in)
B12311937 Anthony Hopkins, Wales, actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty)
B12311938 Mrs Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Holland, speed skater, world champion
B12311941 Sarah Miles, Essex, England, actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom)
B12311943 Ben Kingsley, actor (Gandhi, Maurice)
B12311943 John Denver, singer (Thank God he's a country boy, Rocky Mt High)
B12311946 Diane von Fürstenberg, Brussels Belgiums, fashion designer
B12311946 Patti Smith, Chicago, singer
B12311947 Tim Matheson, actor (Animal House, To Be or Not to Be)
B12311948 Donna Summer, Boston, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
R1200 Flowers - poinsettia & holly Gems - turquoise & zircon
R1200 National Indigestion Season
R1201 Calendae December in the Roman calendar
R1201 Feast of Nicholas Ferrar, deacon, 1637 CE (Ang)
R1201 Independence Day (Azores, Portugal, Iceland)
R1201 Mocidale Day (Portugese Guiana) Youth Day
R1201 Matilda Newport Day (Liberia)
R1201 Mother Seton Day
R1201 Restoration Day (Cape Verde)
R1201 Republic Day (Central Africa Republic)
R1201 St Edmund Champion & Eligius
R1201 1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
R12011221 Astrological sign: Sagittarius
R1202 Channing Moore Williams, missionary bp in China & Japan, 1910 (Ang)
R1202 Feast of St Bibiana, virgin & martyr (RC)
R1202 Independence Day (UAE)
R1202 Landing of Granma Expeditionaries (Cuba)
R1202 Pan American Health Day
R1202 St Bibiana, virgin/martyr
R1202 1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
R120219912Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
R1203 Admission Day (Illinois)
R1203 Feast of St Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan (Luth, RC)
R1203 Heart Transplant Day
R1203 Sir Rowland Hill Day (Philatelists)
R1203 1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
R1204 Day of the Artisans (Mexico)
R1204 Feast of John Damascene, priest, doctor, c. 760 CE (RC, Ang)
R1204 Feast of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna (RC)
R1204 Proclamation Day (Tonga)
R1205 Arbor Day (Beirut Lebanon)
R1205 Constitution Day (USSR)
R1205 Discovery Day (Haiti)
R1205 Feast of St Sabbas, abbot (RC)
R1205 Feast of Clement of Alexandria, priest, c 210 CE (Ang)
R1205 King's Birthday (Thailand)
R1205 Sven name day (Sweden)
R1205 St Sabbas, abbot
R1205 St Nicholas' Eve (Netherlands)
R1206 Day of Quito (Ecuador)
R1206 Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c 342 CE (Ang, RC, Luth)
R1206 Independence Day (Finland)
R1206 Ruler's Ascension Day (Bahrain)
R1207 Admission Day (Delaware)
R1207 Day of National Mourning (Cuba)
R1207 Feast of St Ambrose, governor/bishop of Milan (RC, Ang, Luth)
R1207 National Day (Ivory Coast)
R1207 Pearl Harbor Day
R1208 Beaches Day/Family Day (Uruguay)
R1208 Enlightenment of the Buddha (Japan)
R1208 Feast of the Conception of the Virgin (Immaculate Conception) (RC)
R1208 Lady of Camarin Day (Guam)
R1208 Mother's Day (Spain, Panama, Canal Zone)
R1208 School Reunion Day (Spain)
R1209 Anna name day (Sweden)
R1209 Conception of Anne, mother of Mary
R1209 Independence Day/Republic Day (Tanzania)
R120919935Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
R1210 Admission Day (Mississippi)
R1210 Constitution Day (Thailand)
R12101213 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
R1210 Human Rights Day (UN, Equatorial Guinea)
R1210 Nobel Prize presentation Day (Stockholm, Sweden)
R1210 Rights of Man Day (Khmer Republic)
R1210 St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr
R1210 World Freedom Day
R1210 Wyoming Day (Wyoming) (women's sufferage)
R1210 314 Feast of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr (RC)
R1211 Agonalia in ancient Rome
R1211 Admission Day (Indiana)
R1211 Commemoration of Lars Skrefsrud, missionary to India, 1910 (Luth)
R1211 Feast of St Damasus I, pope (366-384) (RC)
R1211 Republic Day (Upper Volta)
R1211 Scaling Day/Escalade (Geneva, Switzerland)
R1212 Admission Day (Pennsylvania)
R1212 Day of the Indians (El Salvador)
R1212 Feast of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of Mexico
R1212 Feast of Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (RC)
R1212 Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (Kenya)
R1212 National Ding-a-ling Day
R121219904Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
R1213 Feast of St Lucy, virgin & martyr (St Lucia Day in Sweden) (RC)
R1213 National Day (Upper Volta)
R1213 New Year (Moslem)
R1213 Republic Day (Malta)
R1213 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
R1214 Admission Day (Alabama)
R1214 Commemoration of Teresa of Avila (Luth)
R1214 Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day (Iran)
R1214 Feast of John of the Cross, priest/doctor & Spyridon (RC, Luth)
R1214 Revolution Day (El Salvador)
R1214 4Ember Day (Ang)
R12141217 Festival of Mevlana (Turkey) - Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes)
R12141228 Halcyon Days
R1215 Bill of Rights Day (US)
R1215 Consualia (ancient Rome)
R1215 Feast of St Mary di Rosa (d 1855)
R1215 Feast of St Nio, virgin (d 4th century)
R1215 Feast of St Offa of Essex, king (d c709)
R1215 Feast of St Paul of Latros, hermit (d 956)
R1215 Hol Al-Marhom Sultan Ibrahim of Johore (Malaysia)
R1215 Kingdom Day/Statue Day (Netherlands Antilles)
R1215 Quaid-i-Azam's Birthday (Pakistan)
R1215 Zamenhof Day (Esperanto League)
R1215 4Ember Day (Ang)
R1215 6Underdog Day
R1216 Constitution Day (Nepal)
R1216 Day of the Covenant (Namibia, South Africa)
R1216 Dingaan's Day (South Africa)
R1216 Foretrekkers' Day (Pretoria, South Africa)
R1216 Feast of St Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr (RC)
R1216 National Day (Bahrain)
R1216 Posadas Days/Lodgings (Mexico)
R1216 Victory Day (Bangladesh)
R1216 4Ember Day (Ang)
R1216 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1216 6Underdog Day
R1217 Ascension to the throne of the 1st King (Bhutan)
R1217 Bolivar Day (Venezuela)
R1217 Fiesta of the Virgin of the Lonely
R1217 Opalia (ancient Rome)
R1217 Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day
R1217 4Ember Day (Ang)
R1217 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1217 6Underdog Day
R1217 7Ember Day (Ang)
R12171223 Saturnalia, festival honoring Saturn (ancient Rome)
R1218 Admission Day (New Jersey)
R1218 Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely
R1218 Republic Day (Niger)
R1218 4Ember Day (Ang)
R1218 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1218 6Underdog Day
R1218 7Ember Day (Ang)
R121819952Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
R1219 Divalia (ancient Rome)
R1219 Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's Birthday (Hawaii)
R1219 4Ember Day (Ang)
R1219 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1219 6Underdog Day
R1219 7Ember Day (Ang)
R1220 Bank Holiday (Taiwan)
R1220 4Ember Day (Ang)
R1220 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1220 6Underdog Day
R1220 7Ember Day (Ang)
R122019921Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
R1221 Commemoration of Peter Canisius, priest & doctor (RC)
R1221 Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, Mass)
R1221 Feast of St Thomas the apostle (RC, Luth, Ang)
R1221 Independence Day/Unity Day (Nepal)
R1221 Larentalia (ancient Rome)
R1221 Ursid meteor shower
R1221 Winter Solstice in No Hemisphere, shortest day of the year
R1221 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1221 6Underdog Day
R1221 7Ember Day (Ang)
R1222 Ashura (Arab)
R1222 Day of National Mourning (Mexico)
R1222 Feast of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin (RC)
R1222 International Arbor Day
R1222 Winter Begins
R1222 Yule, witches' sabbat
R1222 6Ember Day (Ang)
R1222 7Ember Day (Ang)
R12221231 Astrological sign: Capricorn
R1223 Commemoration of John of Kenty, priest (RC)
R1223 Victory Day (Egypt)
R1223 7Ember Day (Ang)
R122319896Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
R1224 Christmas Eve
R1224 Eva nameday (Sweden)
R1224 Independence Day (Libya)
R1224 Sovereignty Day (Laos)
R1225 Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will towards men
R1225 Constitution Day (Taiwan)
R1225 New Year's Day (England) observed before 1068
R1226 2nd Day of Christmas (West Germany)
R1226 Boxing Day (Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland))
R1226 Day of Rest (Czechoslovakia)
R1226 Feast of St Stephen, deacon, the 1st martyr (RC, Ang, Luth)
R1226 Mao Tse-Tung's Birthday (China PR)
R1226 National Whiner's Day
R1226 1Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
R1226 1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1226 2Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1226 3Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1226 4Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1226 5Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1226 6Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1227 Boxing Day (Australia, Channel Is, England, Nauru)
R1227 Day of Nine Evils (Bhutan)
R1227 Feast of St. John, apostle & evangelist (RC, Luth, Ang)
R1227 Family Day (Namibia, South Africa)
R1227 Independence Day (Indonesia)
R1227 1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1227 2Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1228 Admission Day (Iowa)
R1228 Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (Childermas) (RC, Ang, Luth)
R1228 King Birendra's Birthday (Nepal)
R1228 1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1228 2Boxing Day celebrated (Canada, UK (except Scotland))
R1229 Admission Day (Texas)
R1229 Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas à Beckett), bp/martyr
R1229 President's Birthday (Gabon)
R1229 1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1230 Bank Holiday (Bolivia, Chile)
R1230 Birthday of Iman Reza (Iran)
R1230 New Year's Eve (Italy)
R1230 Rizal Day (Philippiines)
R1230 1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1230 6Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R12301231 Bank Holiday (El Salvador)
R1231 Bank Holiday (Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Mexico, Phil, Sri Lanka)
R1231 Evacuation Day (Lebanon)
R1231 Fedd Yourself Day (Benin)
R1231 Hogmanay Day (Scotland)
R1231 Imperial Ball (Austria)
R1231 Make Up Your Mind Day
R1231 New Year's Eve/Watch Night
R1231 National Day (Congo)
R1231 Noche de Pedimento/Wishing Night (Indians at Mitla, Oaxaca)
R1231 Omisoka Day (Japan)
R1231 People's Party Day (Mauritania)
R1231 1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1231 335 Feast of St Sylvester I, pope (314-35) (RC)
R123117841Feast of the Consecration of Samuel Seabury, 1st US bishop
S12011637 Memoria of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon
S12011640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain
S12011783 Charles & M.N. Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon
S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
S12011878 1st White House telephone
S12011887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"
S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pitts
S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
S12011918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
S12011922 1st skywriting over US - "Hello USA" - by Capt Turner, RAF
S12011929 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
S12011930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
S12011930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the continent
S12011935 Bernard Schmidt, invented Schmidt camera, dies
S12011936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
S12011941 US Civil Air Patrol organized
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
S12011953 Walter Alston named Dodger manager
S12011954 Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for
S12011954CKryhoski, Blayzka, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio
S12011955 Rosa Parks (negro) arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus
S12011958 Central African Republic established (National Day)
S12011959 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
S12011959 International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington
S12011962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
S12011963 NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
S12011966 Radio time signal WWV moves to Boulder, Colo
S12011967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton telescope
S12011973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
S12021804 Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
S12021805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
S12021816 1st savings bank in US opens as Phila Savings Fund Society
S12021822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
S12021823 Monroe Doctrine announced
S12021852 French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
S12021859 Abolitionist John Brown hung at Charles Town, (West) Virginia
S12021887 Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
S12021888 Turkish poet Kemal Bey dies at 47
S12021899 US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
S12021910 Memoria of Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China
S12021927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
S12021942 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago
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, Co
S12021954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct
S12021957 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated, Pa
S12021961 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
S12021971 United Arab Emirates gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S12021972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
S12021974 Soyuz 16 launched
S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
S12021980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
S12021981 Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted
S12021984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
S12021988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
S12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
S12031621 Galileo perfects the telescope
S12031678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
S12031818 Illinois becomes 21st state
S12031828 Andrew Jackson elected pres
S12031833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
S12031866 Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
S12031920 Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
S12031933 Joe Lilliard QB, Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
S12031947 Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire,' opens
S12031948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light
S12031950 Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
S12031952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate (Yay!)
S12031964 Police arrests 800 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
S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
S12031975 Laos falls to communist forces
S12031979 11 die at Riverfront Coliseum, Cin at a Who concert
S12031980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
S12031984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
S12031985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
S1204 760 Memoria of John of Damascus, Priest
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 Gen Assembly in Penn (Chester)
S12041783 Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
S12041867 Grange organized to protect farm interests
S12041909 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)
S12041912 Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
S12041920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo beats Canton 7-3 at Polo Grounds
S12041943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign negroes
S12041947 USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
S12041949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
S12041957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
S12041961 Smallest NY Knick, 49th St MSG crowd - 1,300 (snowstorm)
S12041965 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers owner)
S12041965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
S12041973 John Cappelletti wins Heisman trophy
S12041978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
S12041979 11 trampled to death at Who concert in Cincinatti
S12041980 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
S12041980 South Africa grants Transkei independence
S12041981 Pres Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
S1205 210 Memoria of Clement of Alexandria, Priest
S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (Haiti)
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded
S12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies
S12051868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
S12051876 Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench
S12051908 Numbered football uniforms 1st used (U of Pittsburgh)
S12051920 Pro football playoff game Akron plays Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
S12051929 1st US nudist organization formed (NY)
S12051933 21st Amendment ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed
S12051935 1st coml hydroponics operation established, Montebello Ca
S12051936 Constitution accepted in the Soviet Union
S12051941 Football Writers Association of America organized
S12051947 Jersey Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
S12051951 "Dragnet" premiers
S12051951 Shoeless Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
S12051955 AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
S12051970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from
S12051970CNHL hall of fame
S12051973 Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st to veto his trade
S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
S12051974 Seattle Seahawks formed
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
S12051982 University Baptist Church, Seattle, declares sanctuary for refugees
S1206 342 Memoria of Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra
S12061534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
S12061631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
S12061768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
S12061790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
S12061825 Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
S12061873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
S12061884 Aluminum tip set atop the Washington Monument
S12061907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
S12061917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
S12061921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
S12061925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
S12061957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
S12061958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
S12061968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
S12061969 300,000 attend the Altamont, Calif rock concert
S12061973 Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP
S12061973 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
S12061977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
S12061987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
S1207 36 BC - Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
S1207 397 Memoria of St Ambrose, governor & bishop of Milan
S12071787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
S12071842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
S12071868 Pearshall Brothers open NYC school teaching art of bicycle riding
S12071872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½-year world oceanographic cruise
S12071875 Natives Sons of the West organized
S12071912 George Darwin, theorized moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
S12071917 US declares war on Austria in WW I
S12071935 Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
S12071941 Pearl Harbor attacked (a day that will live in infamy)
S12071941C1st Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward)
S12071953 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
S12071960 France grants Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
S12071968 M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
S12071968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into earth orbit
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo moon series, launched
S12071975 10th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
S12071977 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent - Black Hawks 4-0
S12071978 Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
S12071979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
S12071983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
S12071987 Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting
S12081831 James Hoban, White House designer, dies
S12081845 German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
S12081863 Fire in Santiago, Chile kills 2,000
S12081869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
S12081886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
S12081893 Enlightment of Buddha
S12081896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing Three Quarter" (BG)
S12081913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
S12081931 Coaxial cable patented
S12081940 1st NFL championship on natl radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
S12081941 SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
S12081941 US declares war on Japan, enters WW II
S12081952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
S12081961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
S12081966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
S12081967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
S12081974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
S12081980 John Lennon assassinated in NY by David Mark Chapman
S12081982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
S12081983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth
S12081985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
S12081987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
S12081987Ctreaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
S12091292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) dies
S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares
S12091640Chimself to be free of original sin
S12091792 1st cremation in US
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
S12091884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in Wilmington PO
S12091909 1st American monoplane flown
S12091917 British forces captured Jerusalem
S12091926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
S12091934 NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
S12091941 300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America HQ
S12091948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
S12091953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
S12091958 John Birch Society founded
S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
S12091967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
S12091981 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant
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 granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
S12101896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
S12101896 Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
S12101898 Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
S12101901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy)
S12101906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
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
S12101932 Thailand recieves its 1st constitution
S12101946 Washington Senator great pitcher Walter Johnson dies at 59
S12101948 UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
S12101950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
S12101958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
S12101962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
S12101963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
S12101966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
S12101967 Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26
S12101970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
S12101973 1st time tennis has 2 top males since 1885 (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
S12101977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S12101978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
S12101983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium, Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
S12101984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
S12111816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state
S12111888 French Panama Canal company fails
S12111914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
S12111917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
S12111932 Snow falls in SF
S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves
S12111941 Japanese occupy Guam
S12111946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
S12111947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
S12111951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement
S12111953 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
S12111954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
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
S12111961 JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
S12111966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
S12111968 US Soccer Football Assoc refused to let the NASL disband
S12111970 John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
S12111972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on the 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 Largest cash robbery in US history occured, $9 million
S12111985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9
S12111985C& ties record of 21 goals
S12121769 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
S12121777 Rev Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
S12121787 Penns becomes 2nd state
S12121800 Washington DC established as capital of US
S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
S12121899 George F Grant patents golf tee
S12121901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
S12121921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," opens one in San Luis Obispo
S12121937 1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
S12121953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
S12121959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
S12121961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
S12121963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S12121964 Russia launches Voshkod I, 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
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
S12121970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
S12121973 San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
S12121976 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
S12121977 Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
S12131545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
S12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
S12131862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North
S12131879 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmingon Delaware)
S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ)
S12131903 Wright brothers 1st airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC
S12131918 Wilson, 1st to make a foreign visit as Pres
S12131920 Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres
S12131936 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
S12131949 AL votes down proposal to revive the spitball
S12131960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
S12131967 United Soccer Ass & Natl Pro Soccer League merges into NASL
S12131968 Playland at the Beach reopens
S12131969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
S12131973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
S12131974 Malta becomes a republic
S12131976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
S12131978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
S12131981 Solidarity Day
S12131982 Devils' 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini
S12131983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
S12131983 Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
S12141656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris
S12141656Cmade of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
S12141782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British
S12141799 George Washington died at Mt Vernon, Va
S12141819 Alabama becomes 22nd state
S12141825 Decembrist uprishing in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
S12141901 1st table tennis tournament is held, at the London Royal Aquarium
S12141911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
S12141927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
S12141930 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
S12141962 Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
S12141963 Dinah Washington dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
S12141971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure
S12141974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent - Kings 3-0
S12141980 Anders Kailur scored in 6th Islander penalty shot
S12141980 Yankee catcher Elston Howard dies
S12141981 Israel annexes Golan Heights
S12141982 Marcel Dionne, LA, became 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
S12141985 Yankee HR hitter Roger Maris dies at 51 of cancer (rest in peace)
S12151612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Va gave its approval
S12151794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
S12151836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
S12151859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
S12151877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
S12151890 Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux killed by US Army
S12151914 Battle of Lódz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
S12151917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
S12151925 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Candiens 3, Americans 1
S12151939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
S12151939 World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA
S12151941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
S12151944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
S12151946 Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL failed to report bribe attempt
S12151946 NY Giants Frank Filchock & Merle Hapes suspended by NFL for
S12151946Cfailing to report a bribe attempt
S12151954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
S12151954 Natherland Antilles grant autonomy
S12151961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
S12151964 American Radio Relay League (organization of hams) founded
S12151964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
S12151964 William Bendix dies at 58
S12151965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
S12151965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
S12151966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
S12151966 Walt Disney dies at 65, put in suspended animation
S12151969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
S12151970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
S12151973 Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
S12151973 Pirates of Caribbean opens
S12151980 Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
S12151985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
S12161689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor - Indians welcome
S12161835 NYC fire consumes 600 buildings
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
S12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
S12161909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres José Santos Zelaya from office
S12161911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
S12161944 Battle of the Bulge began
S12161962 NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33
S12161965 Gemini VI returns to Earth as Pioneer 6 is launched into solar orbit
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
S12161983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
S12171777 France recognizes independence of the 13 colonies (US)
S12171790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
S12171791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st one-way street
S12171792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
S12171819 Columbia declares independence from Spain
S12171830 Simon Bolivar died
S12171843 Charles Dickens's classic, "A Christmas Carol" published
S12171852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
S12171860 Anaheim Township created in LA County
S12171875 Violent bread riots at Montreal
S12171903 At 10:35AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
S12171920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
S12171933 1st professional NFL football game: Chicago Bears-23, NY Giants-21
S12171944 M-OceanView streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
S12171954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In
S12171959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
S12171962 Thomas Mitchell, actor dies at 70
S12171975 1st time Islanders shut-out Rangers, 3-0 - Billy Smith's 5th
S12171979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
S12181737 Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, dies
S12181787 NJ becomes 3rd state
S12181799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
S12181813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
S12181849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
S12181898 Auto speed record set -- 63 kph
S12181899 George Grant patents golf tee
S12181915 Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
S12181932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
S12181939 Journalist, Matthew Brown dies at 51
S12181945 Uruguay joins UN
S12181956 Japan admitted to UN
S12181958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
S12181958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
S12181959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
S12181965 Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII
S12181969 Britain abolished death penalty
S12181971 1st Candlelight Processional
S12181971 Diana Lynn dies at 45
S12181972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
S12181973 Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
S12181974 SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
S12181979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
S12181980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
S12181980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76
S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns `acts of hostage-taking'
S12181988 5th meeting of Giants-Jets
S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S12191741 Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator & explorer died
S12191776 Thomas Paine publishes his 1st "American Crisis" essay
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for the winter
S12191828 South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws
S12191842 US recognized independence of Hawaii
S12191843 Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
S12191859 Grading started for Market Street RR
S12191861 Battle of Black Water
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
S12191890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Beryl Coronet" (BG)
S12191907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
S12191917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice in Toronto
S12191920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
S12191932 British Broadcasting Corp began transmitting overseas
S12191933 Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
S12191946 War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French
S12191950 Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
S12191957 "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
S12191959 1st Liberty Bowl game - Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
S12191962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
S12191962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
S12191972 Apollo 17 returns to Earth
S12191974 Nelson A Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP
S12191977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor dies at 101
S12191984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
S12191984 Wayne Gretzky becomes 18th NHLer to score 1,000 points
S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
S12201606 Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
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
S12201812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
S12201850 Hawaiian PO established
S12201860 169-0 vote, SC passes Ordinace of Seccession 1st state to secede
S12201864 Union Gen Sherman continued his `march to the sea' Savannah, Ga
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
S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
S12201892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented
S12201919 Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
S12201922 14 republics form USSR
S12201929 Mt Davidson dedicated as city park
S12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service
S12201944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
S12201963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
S12201966 NBA awards Seattle a franchise
S12201968 Author John Steinbeck dies in NY at 66
S12201973 AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
S12201973 Bobby Darin dies at 36 of heart failure
S12201976 Chicago Mayor Richard J Daley dies at 74
S12201976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
S12201977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
S12201982 Arthur Rubinstein, pianists dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at 95
S12201983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
S12201983 Islanders scored 11 goals against Penguins
S12201986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach
S12201987 Ferry, oil tanker collide in Philippines; 3,000 killed
S12211375 Boccaccio, author of the Decameron, dies (birth date unknown)
S12211620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
S12211790 Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US (Rhode Island)
S12211849 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
S12211909 U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
S12211913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
S12211921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
S12211923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
S12211929 1st group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Tx
S12211933 Human blood serum 1st prepared
S12211937 1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White)
S12211952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
S12211954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered
S12211966 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
S12211968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage
S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
S12211975 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yds rushing (John Riggins)
S12211975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2
S12211976 20th Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
S12211979 Gary Unger sets then NHL record of 914 consecutive NHL game
S12211984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win - Whalers 1-0
S12211984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
S12211987 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
S12221440 Pirate Bluebeard executed
S12221668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer dies
S12221721 Nathaniel Hawes tortured & executed in England for robbery
S12221767 John Newberry, English publisher dies
S12221772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
S12221783 Washington resigns his milt commission
S12221815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
S12221850 Hawaiian PO established
S12221877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
S12221894 United States Golf Association formed (NYC)
S12221915 Federal Baseball League disolved
S12221919 US deports 250 alien radicals
S12221934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
S12221937 Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
S12221959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
S12221965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
S12221974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
S12221979 Darryl F Zanuck dies
S12221983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
S12221984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a NYC subway train
S12231569 St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
S12231652 Mass Bay Puritan preacher John Cotton dies at 68
S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
S12231690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its undiscovered
S12231783 Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
S12231862 Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and
S12231862Ccommon enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
S12231913 US Federal Reserve system authorized
S12231920 Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
S12231933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
S12231943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
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
S12231948 PM Tojo, 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
S12231966 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, last program
S12231968 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit moon
S12231972 Body builder Charles Atlas dies at 79
S12231972 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua
S12231972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
S12231973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
S12231975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
S12231978 Islanders scored 7 goals in one period against the Rangers
S12231978CTrottier scores 8 pts vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL rec 6 pts in 1 pd
S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
S12241524 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin, India
S12241582 Vasco daGama Day
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (This news did not
S12241814Carrive until after Battle of New Orleans)
S12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Gruber, sung next day
S12241851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
S12241865 Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
S12241871 Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida" premiere 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
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 gave his last public performance
S12241936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
S12241942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemünde, Germany
S12241943 FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
S12241951 Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN
S12241954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
S12241954 Laos gains its independence
S12241966 Luna 13 lands on moon
S12241967 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off of New Zealand
S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts, read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages
S12241970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
S12241980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
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
S12251066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
S12251758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
S12251775 Pope Pius VI encyclical On the problems of the pontificate
S12251776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1400 Hessians
S12251818 Silent Night by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
S12251843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon
S12251868Cto all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
S12251875 The Lambs Club in NY founded
S12251888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
S12251894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chic
S12251926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan
S12251930 1st US bobsled run open to the public (Lake Placid, NY)
S12251931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
S12251941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
S12251946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
S12251963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
S12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
S12251971 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
S12251977 Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at 88
S12251977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
S12251983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
S12261492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
S12261773 Expulsion of tea ships from Phila
S12261776 Battle of Trenton
S12261825 Erie Canal opens
S12261848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
S12261860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
S12261865 James Mason patents 1st American coffee percolator
S12261902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
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
S12261933 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
S12261950 Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
S12261963 Wrestler "Gorgeous George" Wagner dies
S12261967 The BBC broadcasts "The Magical Mystery Tour"
S12261972 Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres dies at 88
S12261973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
S12261973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
S12271741 Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
S12271825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage on board the HMS Beagle
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Dept established
S12271867 Ontario & Quebec legislatures held 1st meeting
S12271871 World's 1st Cat Show (Crystal Palace, London)
S12271887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
S12271892 N.C. Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
S12271896 Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
S12271927 "Show Boat" opens in NYC
S12271927 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
S12271934 1st youth hostel opened, Northfield, Mass
S12271939 1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
S12271941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
S12271947 1st "Howdy Doody show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
S12271949 Indonesia independence day
S12271968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
S12271972 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1956)
S12271972 LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
S12271973 LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
S12271979 Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG
S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
S12271983 Propane gas fire devastated 16 square blocks of Buffalo
S12271985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna
S12271985Cairports. President Reagan blamed Libyaner Moammar Gadhafi
S12281669 William Semple patents chewing gum
S12281832 John Calhoun, became the 1st Vice-president to resign
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
S12281878 Pope Leo XIII encyclical on socialism
S12281887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st british race horse trainer knighted
S12281890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians
S12281902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 at MSG
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
S12281908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
S12281912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
S12281915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
S12281932 VP John Calhoun resigns to become SC senator
S12281950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
S12281958 What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
S12281968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
S12281975 Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at MSG
S12281978 30th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
S12281985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
S12291170 Archbishop Thomas à Becket murdered by King Henry II supporters
S12291845 Texas becomes 28th state
S12291848 Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
S12291851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened in Boston
S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
S12291864 Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
S12291890 Federal troops massacre 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
S12291911 SF Symphony formed
S12291916 Death of Rasputin
S12291921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
S12291937 Pan Am starts SF to Auckland, New Zealand service
S12291949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis, Bridgeport Ct
S12291949 Hungary nationalized its industries
S12291952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford NY
S12291975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
S12291979 Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Colliseum
S12291983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
S12291984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
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
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000² miles by Gila River from Mexico
S12301853Cfor $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
S12301896 José Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent dies
S12301903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
S12301907 Abraham Mills' commissions declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
S12301916 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk, advisor to tsarina, is assassinated
S12301922 USSR organized as a federation
S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
S12301935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
S12301959 The George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
S12301971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
S12301972 Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
S12301975 Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
S12301979 Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
S12301981 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
S12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, died
S12311600 British East India Company chartered
S12311719 John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
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
S12311805 end of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
S12311852 Future Pres & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry
S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
S12311862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
S12311862 Pres Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
S12311862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras, NC
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
S12311890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
S12311921 Last SF firehorses retired
S12311943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
S12311944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
S12311946 French troops leave Lebanon
S12311946 Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
S12311950 Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a yr
S12311951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
S12311953 Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
S12311958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
S12311961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
S12311962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
S12311964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 MPH)
S12311966 Pirate Radio 390 resumes transmitting on 773 KHz
S12311967 Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 for NFL championship in -13°
S12311967 Radio Canada closes down
S12311972 Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
S12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
S12311974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
S12311979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
S12311981 Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
S12311984 Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
S12311984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM
S12311986 Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 96 people
S12311999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama