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- !4mBy Bruce T Goldman & Robert Braunwart
- !December events - Version 9.06
- B12--1909 Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out)
- B12--1946 Sherry Alberoni, actress (Midge-Ed Wynn Show, Debbie-Tom Ewell Show)
- B12--1948 Christopher William Stearns, NYC, actor (Mary Kay & Johnny)
- B12011800 Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer")
- B12011835 Micah Jenkins, Brig Gen (Led Hoods Division at Chickamauga)
- B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer (Nero Wolf)
- B12011898 Cyril Ritchard, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan)
- B12011899 Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
- B120119-- Ryan Roxie, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
- B12011902 Morris "Red" Badgro, Wash, NFL hall of famer (Yanks, Giants, Dodgers)
- B12011904 W.A. "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president
- B12011905 Charles Finney, US, author (Circus of Dr Lao)
- 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 (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)
- B12011914 Johnny Johnston, St Louis Mo, singer (Make that Spare)
- B12011917 Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)
- B12011919 Anne Cox Chambers, Dayton Ohio, US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81)
- B12011921 Ralph Manza, SF Calif, actor (Banacek, Mama Malone, Newhart)
- B12011922 Geraldine McCulloug, Maywood Ill, painter/sculptor (Phoenix)
- B12011922 Paul Picerni, NYC, actor (Agent Lee Hobson-Untouchables)
- B12011923 Stansfield Turner, CIA director
- B12011925 David Doyle, Omaha Neb, actor (John Bosley-Charlie's Angels)
- B12011926 Allyn Ann McLerie, Quebec, actress (Tony Randall Show, Thorn Birds)
- B12011926 Keith Michell, Adelaide Australia, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
- B12011926 Robert Symonds, Bristow Okla, actor (Roebert E Lee-Blue & Gray)
- B12011929 David Doyle, actor (Charley's Angels, Pursuit of Happiness)
- B12011929 Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
- B12011929 Emily McLaughlin, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
- B12011934 Billy Paul, Phila, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
- B12011935 Roger Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
- B12011935 Woody Allen, [Allen Stuart Konigsberg] Bkln (Zelig, Annie Hall)
- B12011936 Lou Rawls, Chicago Ill, singer (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man)
- B12011937 Gordon Crosse, Bury Lancashire England, composer (Grace of Todd)
- B12011938 Sandy Nelson, Santa Monica, 50s rocker (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
- B12011939 Dianne Lennon, LA Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
- B12011939 Lee Trevino, Dallas Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1968,71)
- B12011940 Richard Pryor, Ill, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
- B12011940 Ron Finn, Toronto, NHL linesman
- B12011942 Peter Kalikow, Queens NYC, real estate developer/publisher (NY Post)
- B12011943 Orton Enderlein, German FR, luge (Olympic-gold-1964)
- B12011945 Bette Midler, Patterson NJ, singer/actress (Do You Want to Dance?)
- B12011945 John Densmore, LA, drummer (Doors-C'mon Light My Fire)
- B12011946 Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ireland, singer (Alone Again Naturally)
- B12011946 Ho-Jun Li, Korea PR, rifle (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B12011950 Richard Keith, Lafayette La, actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy)
- B12011951 Treat Williams, actor (Flashpoint)
- B12011954 Bob Goen, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
- B12011955 Uwe Benter, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B12011958 Charlene Tilton, San Diego Calif, actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas)
- B12011960 Carol Alt, [Altman], Queens NY (Mrs Ron Greshner), model
- B12011962 Stan Albers, Pleasant Beach NJ, actor (Curtis-Loving)
- B12011976 Konerak Sinthasomphone, Milwaukee Wisc, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim
- B12011988 Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
- B12021859 Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte)
- B12021866 Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
- B12021885 George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
- B12021885 Níkos Kazantazakís, Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
- B12021893 William Gaxton, SF Calif, actor (Destry, Convoy)
- B12021897 Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
- B120219-- Bill Erwin, Honey Grove Texas, acor (Glenn-Struck by Lightning)
- B120219-- Robert F Simon, Mansfield Oh, actor (Custer, M*A*S*H, Nancy)
- B12021902 Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
- B12021904 Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
- B12021906 John Bentley, England, actor (Hammer the Tuff)
- B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
- B12021910 Robert Paige, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
- B12021914 Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
- B12021914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
- B12021915 Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
- B12021915 Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
- B12021917 Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
- B12021918 Milton Delugg, LA Calif, orch leader (Tonight Show)
- B12021922 Leo V Gordon, NYC, actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
- B12021923 Maria Callas, NYC, soprano (Mademoiselle Award, 1953)
- B12021923 Meshulam Riklis
- B12021924 Alexander Haig Jr, (R) US Sec of State (1981-82)/general
- B12021925 Julie Harris, Grosse Pt Mich, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
- B12021929 Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
- B12021929 Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
- B12021931 Edwin Meese III, prude, US attorney general (1985-88)
- B12021937 Brian Lumley, England, author (Beneath the Moors)
- B12021940 Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
- B12021941 Paul C W Chu, China, physicists, superconductivity researcher
- B12021944 Cathy Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
- B12021950 Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
- B12021953 Meg Griffin, DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
- B12021953 Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters)
- B12021956 Steven Bauer, Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
- B12021958 Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B12021960 Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
- B12021962 Tracy Austin, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
- B12021965 Karrie Mitchell, Arvada Colorado, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
- B12021966 Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
- B12021967 Sharry Konopski, Longview Wash, playmate (August, 1987)
- B12021968 Rena Sofer, actress (Rocky-Loving)
- B12021968 Reneé Tenison, Caldwell Id, playmate of the year (Nov, 1989)
- B12021973 Monica Seles, tennis star (French Open-1990)
- 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 (Fandango)
- B12031755 Gilbert Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington)
- B12031795 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
- B12031826 George B McClellan, army general (Union)
- B12031838 Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of the Weather Bureau)
- B12031838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
- B12031842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres)
- B12031857 Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
- B12031883 Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
- B12031895 Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter
- B120319-- Brian Lando, actor (Benjamin Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
- B120319-- Mary Alice, actress (Lettie-Different World)
- B120319-- Mickey Thomas, vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
- B120319-- Moe Keale, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Truck-Hawaii 5-0)
- B12031900 Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
- B12031900 Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel '38)
- B12031907 Connee Boswell, New Orleans La, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
- B12031908 Halsey Stevens, Scott NY, composer (Triskelion)
- B12031911 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
- B12031911 Nino Rota, Milan Italy, composer (Torquemada)
- B12031914 Irving Fine, Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)
- B12031923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
- B12031924 John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
- B12031927 Ferlin Husky, country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
- B12031930 Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
- B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker (Alphaville, Hail Mary)
- B12031930 Phyllis Curtin, West Virginia, soprano (NYC Opera)
- B12031931 Jaye P Morgan, Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
- B12031934 Nicolas Coster, London, (Lionel-Santa Barbara, Electric Horseman)
- B12031934 Viktor V Gorbatko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
- B12031938 José Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon)
- B12031945 Laura Dean, Staten Island NYC, composer/choreographer (Drumming)
- B12031948 Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal musician; ate a bat (Suicide)
- B12031949 Heather Menzies, Toronto Canada, actress (Jessica-Logan's Run)
- B12031951 Mike Stock, rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
- B12031951 Rick Mears, Indy-car racer (over 25 wins)
- B12031952 Mel Smith, author (Morons From Outer Space)
- B12031953 Franz Klammer, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B12031955 Melody Anderson, Edmonton Alb, actress (Flash Gordon, Brooke-Manimal)
- B12031959 Kathy Jordan, Penn, tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981)
- B12031960 Mike Ramsey, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B12031965 Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
- B12031980 Anna Chlumsky, Chicago Ill, actress (His Girl)
- B12031981 Brian Bonsall, actor (Family Ties)
- 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 (French Revolution)
- B12041803 Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
- 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 (Great Mogul)
- B12041865 Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
- B12041866 Vassily Kandisky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration)
- B12041875 Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
- B12041892 Francisco Franco, general/dictator of Spain (1936-85)
- B120419-- Dena Dietrich, Pitts Pa, actress (Dena-Karen, Ethel-The Ropers)
- B120419-- Donnelly Rhodes, Winnipeg Manitoba, actor (Dutch-Soap, Double Trouble)
- B12041903 Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Nego)
- B12041908 AD Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
- B12041910 Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Viva Zapata)
- B12041915 Allan Jackson, Hot Springs Ark, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand)
- B12041922 Deanna Durbin, actress/singer (100 Men & a Girl)
- B12041923 Charles Keating, district attorney (LA Calif)
- B12041924 John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)
- B12041930 Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953)
- B12041930 Ronnie Corbett, England, comedian (2 Ronnies)
- B12041932 Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988- )
- B12041933 Horst Buchholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara)
- B12041934 Victor French, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Highway to Heaven)
- B12041934 Wink Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
- B12041937 Max Baer Jr, Oakland Calif, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies)
- B12041938 Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992)
- B12041940 Freddy Cannon, rocker (Palisades Park)
- B12041942 Chris Hillman, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man)
- B12041943 Patti Chandler, Cal
- B12041944 Dennis Wilson, Calif, drummer/singer (Beach Boys-My Room)
- B12041948 Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home)
- B12041949 Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds)
- B12041950 Pamela Stephenson, Auckland NZ, actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
- B12041951 Patricia Wettig, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something)
- B12041956 Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets)
- B12041956 Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifer (Olympics-silver-1976)
- B12041957 Raul Boesel, Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART)
- B12051782 Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, NY, (D) 8th pres (1837-41)
- B12051830 Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away)
- B12051839 George Armstrong Custer, General, of Little Big Horn fame
- B12051863 Paul Painlevé, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician
- B12051890 Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis)
- B120519-- Jack Russell, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
- B120519-- Johnny Douglas, rocker (Kik Tracee-Hot Wire)
- B120519-- Pamela Blair, actress (Loving)
- B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, Chicago, animator (Mickey Mouse)
- B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, discovered uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
- B12051902 J Strom Thurmond, (Sen-D/R-SC)
- B12051903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
- B12051905 Otto Preminger, movie director/producer (Laura, Exodus)
- B12051915 Margaret Hayes, Balt Md, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
- B12051921 Peter Hansen, Oakland Calif, actor (Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, Gen Hospital)
- B12051926 George Savalas, Bronx NY, actor (Kojak)
- B12051927 King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX of Thailand (1950- )
- B12051932 Little Richard, [Penniman], rocker (Tutty Fruity, Lucille)
- B12051934 Joan Didion, US writer (Salvador)
- B12051935 Calvin Trillin, author (New Yorker)
- B12051938 J.J. Cale, Oklahoma City, rocker (After Midnight)
- B12051942 Randy Kirby, Chicago Ill, actor (Randy-Girl From UNCLE)
- B12051946 José Carreras, actor (I Lombardi)
- B12051947 Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins & Messina-Your Mamma Don't Dance)
- B12051947 Jim Plunkett, San Jose, CA, NFL quarterback (New England, Oakland)
- B12051947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
- B12051949 Bruce E Melnick, NYC, Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, sked: STS 49)
- B12051951 Morgan Brittany, Hollywood Calif, actress (Katherine-Dallas)
- B12051953 Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
- B12051957 Phil Collen, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
- B12051962 Connie Needham Newton, Anaheim Calif, actress (Elizabeth-8 is Enough)
- B12051963 Carrie Hamilton, actress, Carol Burnett's daughter (Fame)
- B12061421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
- B12061732 Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84)
- B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
- B12061833 John Singleton Mosby, US, lawyer (confederate)
- B12061870 William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
- B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, US, (male) poet (Trees)
- B12061887 Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
- B12061892 Osbert Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
- B12061893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
- B12061896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
- B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
- B12061898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
- B12061898 Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
- B120619-- Gina Hecht, Houston Tx, actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy)
- B120619-- Lindsey Alicy
- B12061906 Agnes Moorehead, Clinton Mass, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
- B12061913 Eleanor Holm, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
- B12061920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist (Take 5)
- B12061921 Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns)
- B12061924 Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares)
- B12061925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
- B12061932 Don King, boxing promoter (Mike Tyson)
- B12061938 David Ossman, comedian (Firesign Theater)
- B12061939 Tomás Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
- B12061940 Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
- B12061941 Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
- B12061941 John Nelson, San José Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
- B12061941 Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966)
- B12061942 Len Barry, Phila, rocker (Bristol Stomp)
- B12061943 Mike Smith, London Engld, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
- B12061945 James Naughton, Middletown Ct, actor (Trauma Center, Making the Grade)
- B12061945 Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies)
- B12061948 Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla)
- B12061948 Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
- B12061952 Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere)
- B12061953 Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals)
- B12061953 Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
- B12061953 Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
- B12061954 Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
- B12061955 Steven Wright, droll comedian (Steven Wright Live)
- B12061962 Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
- B12061963 Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure)
- B12061967 Spanky Marcus, Hollywood Calif, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman)
- B12071542 Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587)
- B12071598 Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
- B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
- B12071847 James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
- B12071847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
- B12071873 Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)
- B12071878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
- B12071887 Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
- B12071888 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
- B12071888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of Amer Newspaper Guild
- B12071891 Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
- B120719-- Mike Minor, SF Cal, actor (Steve-Petticoat Junction, All My Children)
- B120719-- Reed St Mark, rock drummer (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
- B12071905 Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune)
- B12071910 Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
- B12071912 Louis Prima, New Orleans La, singer (That Old Black Magic)
- B12071912 Rod Cameron, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede)
- B12071915 Eli Wallach, Bkln NY, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
- B12071923 Ted Knight, Terryville Ct, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
- B12071924 Mário Soares, (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983- )
- B12071926 Victor Kiam, CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots)
- B12071928 Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
- B12071932 Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here)
- B12071936 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
- B12071937 Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
- B12071942 Harry Chapin, rocker (Taxi, Cats Craddle)
- B12071947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds)
- B12071947 Vincent Baggetta, Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
- B12071948 Gary Morris, actor (The Colbys)
- B12071948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
- B12071949 Tom Waits, Calif, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
- B12071955 Priscilla Barnes, Fort Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, 3s Company)
- B12071956 Larry Bird, hoop star (Boston Celtics)
- B12071963 Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
- B12071964 Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
- B12071964 Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
- B12071966 C Thomas Howell, LA Calif, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man)
- B1208 65 -BC- Horace, Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
- 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 (Seated Woman)
- B12081861 Georges Méliès, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
- B12081861 William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
- B12081865 Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
- B12081881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
- B12081882 Manuel María Ponce, Fresnillo México, composer (Estrellita)
- B12081886 Diego Rivera, México, muralist (in SF Stock Exchange)
- B12081888 Vesey D'Davoren, character actor
- B12081890 Bohuslav Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
- B12081894 James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs)
- B12081899 John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers)
- B120819-- Dan Hartman, Harrisburg Pa, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
- B120819-- Michael Levin, Minneapolis, actor (Ryan's Hope)
- B12081903 Adele Simpson, NYC, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
- B12081905 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
- B12081906 Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
- B12081907 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Dobie Gillis)
- B12081908 John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
- B12081911 Lee J Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
- B12081913 Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah)
- B12081918 Gérard Souzay, Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- B12081921 Johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
- B12081921 Terence Morgan, London England, actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
- B12081922 John B (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
- B12081922 Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat)
- B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
- B12081927 Vladimir A Shatalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
- B12081930 Maximilian Schell, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
- B12081933 Flip Wilson, Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
- B12081936 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
- B12081937 James MacArthur, LA Calif, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0)
- B12081939 James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
- B12081939 Jerry Butler, Miss, rocker (Never Give You Up)
- B12081940 Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
- B12081943 Jim Morrison, Melbourne Fla, singer (Doors) is he really dead?
- B12081943 Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision)
- B12081944 Neil Innes, musician (The Rutles)
- B12081946 John Rubinstein, LA Calif, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil)
- B12081947 Gregg Allman, singer (Allman Brothers-Eat a Peach)
- B12081952 Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
- B12081952 Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover)
- B12081953 Kim Basinger, Athens Ga, actress (9½ Weeks, Batman)
- B12081953 Roy Firestone, sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments)
- B12081958 Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
- B12081959 Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
- B12081966 Matthew Laborteaux, LA Calif, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
- B12081966 Siñead O'Connor, Dublin Ireland, singer (Nothing Compares 2 U)
- B12081967 Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate (Mar, 1987)
- B12081969 Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
- B12091561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
- B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
- B12091608 John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
- B12091837 Émile Waldteufel, Strasbourg France, waltz composer (The Skaters)
- B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (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 (Rima)
- B12091884 Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
- B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye)
- B12091894 Eddie Dowling, actor (Anywhere USA)
- B12091897 Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
- B12091898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
- B12091899 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author
- B120919-- Anne Sward Hanson, actress (Lyla-As the World Turns)
- B120919-- Frances Reid, actor (Alice-Days of our Life)
- B120919-- Leonard Simon, Norristown Pa, actor (Jim-Just Our Luck)
- B120919-- Terri Vandenbosch, actress (As the World Turns)
- B12091902 Margaret Hamilton, Cleve Ohio, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
- B12091905 Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
- B12091906 Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orch leader (started Merv Griffin)
- B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story)
- B12091911 Broderick Crawford, Phila, 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, (Rep-D-Mass)/Speaker of the House
- B12091915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
- B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
- B12091922 Redd Foxx, St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show)
- B12091925 Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
- B12091926 Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spain, matador
- B12091928 Dick Van Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
- B12091929 John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
- B12091929 Robert JL Hawke, (L), PM Australia (1983- )
- B12091934 Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
- B12091938 David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
- B12091941 Beau Bridges, LA Calif, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
- B12091942 Dick Butkus, Chicago, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster
- B12091942 Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of the President 1968)
- B12091943 Rick Danko, Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
- B12091945 Michael Nouri, Wash DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
- B12091949 Tom Kite, McKinney Tx, PGA golfer (Bing Crosby 1983)
- B12091950 Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
- B12091953 John Malkovich, Christopher Ill, actor/director (Killing Field)
- B12091953 World B Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
- B12091957 Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
- B12091963 Bárbara Palacios, Carcas Venz, Miss Universe (1986)
- B12091965 Brad Savage, Livdnia Mich, actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
- B12091968 Michael Foster, Richmond Va, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
- B12091969 Allison Smith, Bronx NY, actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
- B12091975 Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & the Hendersons)
- B12101787 Thomas H Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
- B12101805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator)
- B12101813 Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
- B12101822 César Franck, Liège Belgium, composer (Rébecca)
- B12101824 George MacDonald, Scotland, novelist (Lilith)
- B12101830 Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems)
- 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-- Jason Coppola, rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
- B121019-- Joel Brooks, NYC, actor (Lt Dean-Pvt Benjamin, J.D.-My Sister Sam)
- B121019-- Pepsi Demarque, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
- B121019-- Tom DeFile, rock bassist (Saigon Kick-New World)
- B121019-- Wayne Northrup, actor (Roman-Days of our Life)
- B12101903 George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro)
- B12101903 Una Merkel, Covington Ky, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
- B12101903 William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
- B12101904 Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakia, Pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
- B12101907 Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)
- B12101908 Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
- B12101910 Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
- B12101910 John Hammond Sr, NYC, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
- B12101911 Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
- B12101913 Morton Gould, NY, unbelievably prolific composer (Verdun)
- B12101914 Dorothy Lamour, New Orleans (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth)
- B12101920 Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
- B12101923 Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
- B12101928 John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
- B12101929 Dan Blocker, Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
- B12101930 Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep
- B12101937 Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orch leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
- B12101938 Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
- B12101941 Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
- B12101941 Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
- B12101941 Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
- B12101943 Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
- B12101946 Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
- B12101947 Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
- B12101952 Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
- B12101958 John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
- B12101958 Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
- B12101959 Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
- B12101959 Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
- B12101960 Kenneth Branagh, actor (High Season)
- B12101961 Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
- B12101963 Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
- B12101985 Raven-Symoné Pearman, actress (Cosby)
- B12111781 Sir David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
- B12111803 Hector Berlioz, Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France, composer (Manqué)
- B12111810 Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
- B12111840 Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
- B12111843 Robert Koch, Germany, discovered TB bacillis (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 (Bio in Sonata Form)
- B12111894 Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA)
- B121119-- Patrick Tovatt, actor (Cal-As the World Turns)
- B121119-- Tom Fuccello, Newark NJ, actor (Dave-Dallas)
- B12111905 Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa)
- B12111908 Elliott Cook Carter Jr, NYC, composer (Tom & Lily)
- B12111913 Carlo Ponti, producer, married to Sophia Loren (2 Women)
- B12111913 Jean Marais, Cherbourgh France, actress (Donkey Skin, Orpheus)
- B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
- B12111920 Eddy Firestone, SF Calif, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
- B12111922 Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award)
- B12111922 Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
- B12111923 Betsy Blair, actress (Marty)
- B12111924 Marie Windsor, [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, actress (Double Deal)
- B12111926 Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
- B12111927 Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952)
- B12111930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z)
- B12111931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, guru of the rich
- B12111931 Rita Moreno, [Rosa Dolores Alverio], Humacao PR, (West Side Story)
- B12111932 Aldár Kovácsi, Hungary, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
- B12111932 Wynn Irwin, NYC, actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time)
- B12111934 Ron Carey, Newark NJ, actor (Barney Miller, Montefuscos, High Anxiety)
- B12111937 Anne Heywood, England, actress (Brain, Dr at Large)
- B12111939 Tom Hayden, 60's activist, Mr Jane Fonda, Calif state Assemblyman
- B12111940 David Gates, rocker (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You)
- B12111941 Max Baucus, (Sen-D-Mont)
- B12111942 Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1962)
- B12111943 Donna Mills, Chicago Illinois, actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
- B12111944 Brenda Lee, Atlanta Georgia, singer (I'm Sorry)
- B12111944 Lynda Day George, San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
- B12111946 Teri Garr, Lakewood Ohio, actress (Mr Mom, Young Frankenstein)
- B12111948 Elizabeth Baur, LA Calif, actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer)
- B1211195- Isabella Hoffmann, actress (Kate-Dear John)
- B12111950 Christine Onassis, [Andreadis], NYC, Aristotle's daughter
- B12111951 Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
- B12111952 Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
- B12111953 Bess Armstrong, Balt Md, actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws)
- B12111953 Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
- B12111953 Peter Isacksen, Dover NH, actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie)
- B12111954 Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC)
- B12111955 Stu Jackson, Reading Pa, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90)
- B12111958 Nicki Sixx, San Jose Calif, rock guitarist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls)
- B12111959 Tina Gayle, Frankfurt GFR, Cowboy cheerleader/actress (Kathy-Chips)
- B12111962 Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record)
- B12111963 Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force)
- B12111965 Laurie Carr, Dallas Tx, playmate (Dec, 1986)
- B12111966 Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
- B12121745 John Jay, diplomat (NY-Gov)
- B12121805 Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
- B12121805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
- B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
- B12121848 William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
- B12121859 Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
- B12121859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
- B12121863 Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream)
- B12121893 Edward G Robinson, Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
- B121219-- Al Harrington, American Samoa, actor (Ben Kokua-Hawaii 5-0)
- B121219-- Brandon Maggart, Carthage Tn, actor (George-Jennifer Slept Here)
- B121219-- Bruce Kulick, rocker (Kiss-Beth)
- B121219-- Dave Meniketti, rocker (Y&T-Contagious)
- B121219-- Ernie Townsend, actor (Edge of Night)
- B121219-- John Johnston, actor (Loving)
- B121219-- Rick Ruhl, rock vocalist (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
- B12121906 William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, NYC)
- B12121913 Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
- B12121913 Jesse Owens, US, track star (4 golds 1936), spoiled Hitler's olympics
- B12121915 Frank Sinatra, Hoboken, singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of board)
- B12121918 Joe Williams, jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues)
- B12121923 Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right)
- B12121924 Edward I Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89)
- B12121928 Helen Frankenthaler, NY, abstract expressionist artist (Arden)
- B12121929 John Osborne, Engld, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
- B12121931 Lionel Blair, Montreal, choreographer (Spotlight)
- B12121932 Robert Pettit, NBA star (St Louis Bombers/1959 MVP)
- B12121938 Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
- B12121940 Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
- B12121941 Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
- B12121943 Dicky Betts, rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man)
- B12121943 Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
- B12121946 Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
- B12121946 George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
- B12121950 Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
- B12121951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties)
- B12121951 Steven A Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, STS 61-C, STS-31)
- B12121952 Cathy Rigby-Mason, Calif, US olympic gymnast (Olympics-1968, 72)
- B12121952 Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest)
- B12121956 Ana Alicia, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest)
- B12121956 Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977)
- B12121957 Cy Curnin, rocker (The Fixx-Sign of Fire)
- B12121957 Sheila E[scovedo], disco singer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock)
- B12121958 Sheree J Wilson, actress (Our Family Honor, April-Dallas)
- B12121959 Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People)
- B12121962 Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
- B12121964 Rockin' Jeff, rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
- B12121968 Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy)
- B12121970 Jennifer Connelly, Bkln Heights NY, actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer)
- B12121970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains, Teen Wolf II)
- B12121972 Missy Francis, LA Calif, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
- B12121975 Mayim Winkelman Bialik, SD, actress (Blossom, Beaches)
- B12131797 Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
- B12131810 Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
- B12131818 Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
- B12131835 Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
- B12131871 Russell W Porter, Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
- B12131890 Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please)
- B12131897 Drew Pearson, Evanston Ill, newscaster (Drew Pearson)
- B12131899 Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
- B121319-- Bill Morey, Framingham Mass, actor (Thorn Birds, Tucker's Witch)
- B121319-- Lenny Schultz, Bronx NY, comedian (Ball Four, Laugh-in Revival)
- B12131903 Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
- B12131910 Lillian Roth, singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
- B12131910 Van Heflin, Walters Okla, actor (Great Adventure)
- B12131911 Kenneth Patchen, US, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest)
- B12131913 Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
- B12131913 Jimmy Carroll, NYC, pianist (Most Important People)
- B12131915 Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77)
- B12131915 Mark Stevens, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
- B12131915 Ross MacDonald, detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
- B12131917 Dave Street, LA Calif, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
- B12131920 Don Taylor, Freeport Pa, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
- B12131920 George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89)
- B12131922 Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy actor (I Dream of Jeannie)
- B12131924 Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleve Indians)
- B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
- B12131926 Carl Erskine, baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)
- B12131929 Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
- B12131929 Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
- B12131930 Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
- B12131930 Robert Prosky, Phila, actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
- B12131940 Steve Harmon, Bkln NY, actor (Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts)
- B12131941 John Davidson, Pitts, TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
- B12131943 Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player (Red Sox)
- B12131948 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist (Steely Dan-Deacon Blues)
- B12131948 Kathy Garver, Long Beach Calif, actress (Cissy-Family Affair)
- B12131948 Lillian Board, England, 400m (Olympic-silver-1968)
- B12131948 Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees)
- B12131949 Nana Alexandria, USSR, International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976)
- B12131949 Randy Owen, country singer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
- B12131949 Tom Verlaine, musician (Television)
- B12131950 Heather North, Pasadena Calif, actress (The Barefoot Executive)
- B12131953 Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
- B12131954 John Anderson, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
- B12131958 Dana Strum, Wash DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
- B12131958 Lynn-Holly Johnson, actress (Ice Castles)
- B12131959 John Whitaker, Van Nuys Calif, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Expr)
- B12131962 Karen Witter, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)
- B12131967 Deborah Driggs, Oakland Ca, playmate (Mar, 1990)
- B12131967 Jenn Thompson, NYC, actor (Dee-Harper Valley PTA)
- B12131973 Christie Clark, LA, actress (Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life)
- B12131981 Chelsea Hertford, actress (Major Dad)
- B12141503 Nostradamus, France, astrologer/physician
- B12141546 Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)
- B12141829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
- B12141883 Morihei Ueshiba, founder (Aikido)
- B12141895 George VI, king of England (1936-52)
- B12141896 James H Doolittle, general (US Air Force)
- B12141897 Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine)
- B121419-- Celia Weston, Spartanburg SC, actress (Jolene-Alice)
- B121419-- Elaine Princi, actress (As the World Turns, Dorian-One Life to Live)
- B121419-- Robert Lusseir, West Warwick RI, actor (Brent-Man From Atlantis)
- B121419-- Sallie Brophy, Phoenix Az, actress (Annie O'Connell-Buckskin)
- B12141908 Laurence Naismith, Surrey England, actor (Judge Fulton-Persuaders)
- B12141909 Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
- B12141911 Spike Jones, Long Beach Calif, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous)
- B12141912 Morey Amsterdam, Chicago Ill, comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show)
- B12141914 Dan Dailey, NYC, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)
- B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show)
- B12141914 Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock)
- B12141915 Clay Warnick, Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
- B12141917 Elyse Knox, Hartford Ct, actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
- B12141919 Shirley Jackson, US, writer (Road Through the Wall)
- B12141922 Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
- B12141922 Don Hewitt, NYC, TV creator (60 Minutes)
- B12141924 Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
- B12141924 Siiri Rantanen, Finland, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B12141932 Abbe Lane, Bkln, aka Mrs Xavier Cugat, singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
- B12141932 Charlie Rich, Colt Arkansas, singer (Behind Closed Doors)
- B12141932 George Furth, Chicago Ill, actor/dir (Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings)
- B12141935 Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bath England, actress (Search for the Nile)
- B12141935 Lee Remick, Quincy Mass (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer)
- B12141936 Robert Allan Ridley Parker, NYC, PhD/astronaut (STS-9, STS-35)
- B12141938 Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)
- B12141938 Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian
- B12141939 Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy (1961)
- B12141939 Hal Williams, Columbus Ohio, actor (Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford & Son)
- B12141942 Rex Thompson, NYC, actor (Young Bess, King & I, Her 12 Men)
- B12141943 Frank Allen, rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
- B12141946 Jane Birkin, actress (Mr Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
- B12141946 Joyce Vincent Wilson, Detroit Mich, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
- B12141946 Patty Duke, [Anna Marie], Elmhurst NY, actress (Miracle Worker)
- B12141946 Stan Smith, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1972)
- B12141947 Christopher Parkening, LA Calif, guitarist (transcribed sacred music)
- B12141949 Bill Buckner, Calif, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series
- B12141949 Cliff Williams, bass (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
- B12141949 Dee Wallace Stone, KC Mo, actress (Critters, Secret Admirer, 10)
- B12141950 Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
- B12141953 Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
- B12141953 Vijay Amritraj, India, tennis player/actor (Octopussy)
- B12141954 James Horean, actor (Loving)
- B12141956 Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein, Slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
- B12141956 T.K. Carter, LA Calif, actor (Mike-Punky Brewster, Just our Luck)
- B12141958 Mike Scott, rocker (Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior)
- B12141958 Steven Rock-Savage, Mellville Louisiana, (LSU), actor
- B12141959 Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer
- B12141960 Catherine G Coleman, Charleston SC, USAF Capt/astronaut
- B12141963 Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood)
- B12141964 C(arl) J(eff) Snare, Wash DC, vocalist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
- B12141964 Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains)
- B12141967 Noelle Beck, Baltimore, actress (Trisha-Loving, Fletch Lives)
- B12141977 Tisha Dabber, Shelbyville Indiana, actress (New Mickey Mouse Club)
- B1215 37 Nero, 5th Roman emperor (54-68); did not fiddle while Rome burned
- B12151787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
- B12151793 Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
- B12151802 János Bolyai, Romania, 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)
- B12151852 Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
- B12151859 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, created Esperanto
- B12151860 Niels R Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
- B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
- B12151863 Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
- B12151888 Maxwell Anderson, US, dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)
- B12151892 J Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil)
- B121519-- Don Franklin, actor (Noah Dixon-The Young Riders)
- B121519-- Felicity LaFortune, actress (Ryan's Hope)
- B121519-- Marta Dubois, David Panama, actress (Tales of the Gold Monkey)
- B121519-- Sophy, PR, spanish singer (Comparame Balada y Salsa)
- B121519-- Thaao Penghlis, actor (Days of our Life)
- B121519-- Tim Gaines, rock bassist/vocalist (Stryper-Against the Law)
- B12151904 Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
- B12151906 Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
- B12151913 Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award)
- B12151916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
- B12151918 Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Broken Arrow, Away All Boats)
- B12151919 Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B12151922 Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
- B12151928 Jimmy Nelson, Chic Ill, ventriloguist (Nestles, Farfel)
- B12151931 Evald Schorm, Prague Czech, director (Courage for Every Day)
- B12151932 Edna O'Brien, Ireland, writer (Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace)
- B12151933 Jesse Belvin, Arkansas, vocalist (Mr Easy)
- B12151933 Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
- B12151937 Karen Morrow, Chic, actress (Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour)
- B12151939 Cindy Birdsong, singer (The Supremes)
- B12151940 Nick Buoniconti, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)/sportscaster (NBC)
- B12151942 Dave Clark, England, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
- B12151943 Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1968)
- B12151944 Stan Bahnsen, NY Yankee pitcher (1968 AL Rookie-of-year)
- B12151946 Carmine Appice, musician (Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling)
- B12151948 David Gwillim, Plymouth England, (RADA), actor
- B12151949 Don Johnson, Flatt Creek Mo, actor (Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment)
- B1215195- Melanie Chartoff, New Haven Ct, actress (Fridays, Parker Lewis)
- B12151954 Mike Ratledge, author of 2DAY & NEWDAY, sysop East Bay X-Change
- B12151959 Heidi Bohay, Somerset NJ, actress (Megan-Hotel)
- B12151963 Helen Slater, NYC, actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People)
- B12151985 Sheeba Reiter, Fla, illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason
- B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
- B12161685 Charles Cressent, France, cabinetmaker (Régence)
- B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy)
- B12161775 Jane Austin, England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
- B12161857 Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
- B12161863 George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
- B12161863 Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
- B12161882 Sir John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953)
- B12161882 Zoltán Kodály, Kecskemét Hungary, composer (Psalmus Hungaricus)
- B12161893 Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat
- B12161899 Sir Noël Coward, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award)
- B121619-- Dori Brenner, NYC, actress (Rhoda Gold-7th Avenue)
- B121619-- Patti Deutsch, Pitts Pa, comedienne (Ace Trucking Co, Laugh-in)
- B121619-- Ross Kettle, actor (Santa Barbara)
- B121619-- Terry Carter, Bkln NY, actor (McCloud, Battlestar Galactica)
- B12161900 Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers)
- B12161901 Margaret Mead, Phila, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
- B12161907 Ray C Bliss, (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman
- B12161917 Arthur C Clarke, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End)
- B12161926 James McCracken, Gary Ind, dramatic tenor (Rodolfo-La Bohéme)
- B12161928 Philip K Dick, US, writer (Blade Runner)
- B12161932 Rodion Shchedrin, Moscow Russia, composer (Humpback Horse)
- B12161937 Joyce Bulifant, Newport News Va, actress (Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
- B12161938 Michael Greer, Durham NC, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
- B12161939 Liv Ullman, Tokyo Japan, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
- B12161941 Lesley Stahl, Lynn Mass, White House correspondent (CBS-TV)
- B12161943 Steven Bochco, producer (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere)
- B12161943 Tony Hicks, rocker (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)
- B12161946 Benny Andersson, Stockholm, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!)
- B12161947 Ben Cross, actor (Chariots of Fire)
- B12161947 Vincent Matthews, US, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B12161949 Billy Gibbons, jazz guitarist/vocalist (Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top)
- B12161952 Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court)
- B12161958 Bart Oates, NFL center (NY Giants)
- B12161959 Alison La Placa, actress (Duet)
- B12161962 Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress (Devil in the Flesh)
- B12161962 Melanie Smith, Scranton Pa, actress (Emily-As the World Turns)
- B12161962 William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
- B12161965 Cynthia Lynne White, Okla City Okla, Miss Okla-America (1991-top 10)
- B12161971 Michael S McCary, [Boss], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
- B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
- B12171797 Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
- B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
- B12171824 Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
- B12171830 Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie)
- B12171853 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
- B12171873 Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (The Inheritors)
- B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
- B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops)
- B121719-- Jaimee Foxworth, actor (Judy Winslow-Family Matters)
- B121719-- William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
- B12171903 Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
- B12171904 Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
- B12171908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960))
- B12171926 Patrice Wymore, actress (The Big Tree)
- B12171927 Richard Long, Chic Ill, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor)
- B12171929 William Safire, political columnis (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon)
- B12171930 Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
- B12171930 Robert Guccione, magazine publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
- B12171936 Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)
- B12171936 Tommy Steele, singer/actor (½ a Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow)
- B12171937 Art Neville, singer (Neville Brothers)
- B12171939 Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Boogie Down)
- B12171939 James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
- B12171939 Novella Nelson, Bkln NY, actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
- B12171942 Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days)
- B12171944 Ference Bene, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964)
- B12171944 Jack Chalker, US, writer (Charon: A Dragon at the Gate)
- B12171945 Christopher Cazenove, England, actor (Ben-Dynasty)
- B12171945 Ernie Hudson, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds)
- B12171946 Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV)
- B12171947 Simon Bates, English DJ
- B12171948 Jim Bonfanti, rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
- B12171949 Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm)
- B12171953 Barry Livingston, LA Calif, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
- B12171957 Bob Ojeda, pitcher (NY Mets)
- B12171959 Albert King, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
- B12171961 Sarah Dallin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
- B12171961 Venice Kong, St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985)
- B12171964 Eric Brown, NYC, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
- B12171970 Benedictine, [St Bernard]; becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
- B12171974 Giovonni Ribisi, actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, New Leave it To Beaver)
- B12181610 Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist
- B12181707 Charles Wesley, co-founder (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 (Der Freischutz)
- B12181803 William Allen, (Rep/Gov-Oh)
- B12181856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
- B12181861 Edward MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
- B12181870 Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came)
- B12181879 Paul Klee, Switzerland, abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
- B12181886 Ty Cobb, Colo, batted .367, stole 892 bases (Det Tigers)
- B12181888 Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady)
- B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
- B12181890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM)
- B121819-- Gillian Spencer, actress (All My Children)
- B121819-- Ray Liotta, Newark NJ, actor (Sacha-Casablanca)
- B12181907 Christopher Fry, England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)
- B12181909 Mona Barrie, actress (Dawn on the Great Divide)
- B12181910 Abe Burrows, Bkln NY, Broadway composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY)
- B12181911 Jules Dassin, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday)
- B12181913 Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight)
- B12181913 Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound)
- B12181913 Willy Brandt, (SD), West German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel '71)
- B12181915 Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52)
- B12181916 Betty Grable, St Louis, actress (Gay Divorcee), great gams
- B12181917 Ossie Davis, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, A Man Called Adam)
- B12181919 Anita O'Day, Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton)
- B12181922 Larry D Mann, Toronto Canada, actor (Marty-Accidental Family)
- B12181926 Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
- B12181927 Ramsey Clark, US attorney general (1967-69)
- B12181927 Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey)
- B12181930 Theodore C Freeman, Penns, astronaut
- B12181932 Roger Smith, South Gate Calif, actor (77 Sunset Strip)
- B12181934 Boris V Volynov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
- B12181938 Chas Chandler, rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
- B12181939 Michael Moorcock, England, author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear)
- B12181939 Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer (Olympic-Silver-1960)
- B12181941 Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother & the Holding Company-Cheap Thrills)
- B12181943 Keith Richards, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
- B12181945 Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
- B12181946 Hubie Green, Birmingham Ala, PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
- B12181947 Steven Spielberg, Cincinatti, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
- B12181949 Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy)
- B12181950 Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight)
- B12181951 Andrew S W Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut
- B12181957 John Webster, rocker (Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel)
- B12181961 Ken Foreman, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
- B12181965 Brad Pitt, actor (Cutting Class)
- B12181965 Fawna Maclaren, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1989)
- B12181966 Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys)
- B12181966 Steve Dullaghan, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
- B12191--- Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaii
- B12191036 Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/official
- B12191683 Phillip 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, established c as universal constant (Nobel '07)
- B12191861 Italo Svevo, Trieste, novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
- B12191865 Minnie Maddern Fiske, US, stage actress (Hedy Gabler)
- B12191875 Carter G Woodson, Virginia, African American
- B12191888 Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Pitts Symphony 1938-48)
- B12191894 Ford Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
- B121919-- Jourdan Fremin, New Orleans La, actress (At Ease)
- B121919-- Klaus Eichstadt, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
- B121919-- Maria Martha Serralima, Buenos Aires Argentina, entertainer
- B12191901 Oliver Lafarge, novelist (Laughing Boy)
- B12191902 Sir Ralph Richardson, actor (David Copperfield, Dr Zhivago)
- B12191906 H Allen Smith, US, humorist/author (Low Man on the Totem Pole)
- B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
- B12191907 H Allen Smith, Ill, TV host (Armchair Detective)
- B12191910 Jean Genet, France, novelist/playwright (The Blacks)
- B12191915 Edith Piaf, Paris France, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)
- B12191916 Hal Hastings, NYC, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
- B12191920 David Susskind, NYC, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
- B12191924 Edmund Purdom, England, actor (Asissi Underground, Pieces)
- B12191925 Jimmy Dickens, Bolt WV, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
- B12191926 Bobby Layne, NFL QB (Detroit Lions)
- B12191928 Galt MacDermot, Canada, composer (Letting Down My Hair)
- B12191933 Cecily Tyson, Harlem NYC, actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman)
- B12191934 Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers slugger (AL bat champ 1955)
- B12191938 Barbara Steele, Trenton Wirrall England, actress (Came from Within)
- B12191939 Cicely Tyson, NYC, actress (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
- B12191940 Phil Ochs, El Paso Tx, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)
- B12191941 Maurice White, drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire-Spirit)
- B12191941 Maurice White, singer (I Don't Speak the Language)
- B12191943 William De Vries, Bkln, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
- B12191944 Tim Reid, Norfolk VA, comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place)
- B12191944 Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist (Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic)
- B12191945 Elaine Joyce, Cleveland Ohio, actress (City of Angels, Mr Merlin)
- B12191946 Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, singer (Money, As Tears Go By)
- B12191946 Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor (SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$)
- B12191947 Janie Fricke, country singer (Country Music Best Female 1982, 83)
- B12191949 Claudia A Kolb, US, 200m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-silver-1964)
- B12191956 Alice Barrett, NYC, actress (Frankie Frame-Another World)
- B12191957 Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
- B12191957 Kevin McHale, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
- B12191957 Liz Glazowski, Chicago Ill, playmate (April, 1980)
- B12191958 Limahl, British rocker (Kajagoogoo-Too Shy)
- B12191962 Bettina Huebers, Hamburg GFR, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney
- B12191963 Jennifer Beals, Chicago, actress (Flashdance, The Bride)
- B12191964 Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath)
- B12191966 Robert MacNaughton, NYC, actor (ET)
- B12191969 Kristy Swanson, actress (Knots Landing)
- B12191970 Zac Foley, rock bassist (EMF-Unbelievable)
- B12191971 Amy Locane, Trenton NJ, actress (Andrea-Spencer)
- B12191972 Alyssa Jane Milano, Bkln NY, actress (Samantha-Who's the Boss)
- B12201579 John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
- B12201805 Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
- B12201813 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
- 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, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road
- B12201875 T.F. Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green)
- B12201881 Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
- B12201886 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Calif, tennis player (US Open 1909-11)
- B12201894 Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
- B12201895 Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
- B122019-- Charlie Callas, Bkln, comedian/actor (High Anxiety, Hysterical)
- B122019-- Chris Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
- B122019-- Luisa Maria Guell, Havana Cuba, singer (Tres Palabras)
- B12201900 Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935)
- B12201901 Irene Dunne, Louisville Ky, actress (Schlitz Playhouse)
- B12201901 Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
- B12201902 Max Lerner, US, columnist (NY Post)
- B12201902 Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom)
- B12201904 Irene Dunne, Louisville, actress (I Remember Mama, My Favorite Wife)
- B12201911 Hortense Calisher, novelist (Arts & Letters 1967)
- B12201918 Audrey Totter, Joliet Ill, actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up)
- B12201922 Charita Bauer, Newark NJ, actress (Guiding Light, Aldrich Family)
- B12201922 George Roy Hill, dir (Slap Shot, Little Durmmer Girl, Little Romance)
- B12201928 Jack Christiansen, Kansas, NFL hall of famer defensive back (Lions)
- B12201931 Mala Powers, SF Calif, actress (Mona-Hazel, Man & the City)
- B12201932 John Hillerman, Denison Tx, actor (Higgins-Magnum PI)
- B12201933 Gordon Getty
- B12201938 John Harbison, Orange NJ, composer
- B12201942 Robert Hayes, Florida, US, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1964)
- B12201943 Angel Tomblin, Albany Calif, actress (Gloria-Search)
- B12201944 Robert Colomby, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
- B12201946 Uri Geller, psychic (bends forks)
- B12201947 Peter Criss, Brooklyn, singer (KISS-Beth)
- B12201952 Jenny Agutter, Taunton England, actress (Logan's Run, Equus, Amy)
- B12201956 Blanche Baker, NYC, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter (French Postcard)
- B12201958 Billy Bragg, British rocker (It Says Here, Ideology)
- B12201961 Bonnie Marino, Cleveland Oh, playmate (Jun, 1990)
- B12201963 Pam Casale, Camden NJ, tennis player (Marco Island finals 1985)
- B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
- B12211823 Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
- B12211859 Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
- B12211860 Henrietta Szold, founder (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 (or 12/25)
- B12211892 Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914,19)
- B122119-- Danielle Von Zerneck, actress (General Hospital)
- B122119-- Devon Ericson, Salt Lake City, actress (Studs Lonigan, Chisholms)
- B122119-- Jane Kaczmarek, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Mary-Hometown)
- B122119-- Ray Acevedo, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
- B12211905 Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of the Spring)
- B12211908 Pat Weaver, LA Calif, TV Executive, started Today show
- B12211909 George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state
- B12211911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)
- B12211917 Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
- B12211917 Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
- B12211917 Heinrich Böll, Germany, writer (Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72)
- B12211918 Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)
- B12211918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81), Austrian pres/Nazi
- B12211919 Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
- B12211922 Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)
- B12211924 Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
- B12211926 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares Tx, actor (Rio Bravo)
- B12211928 Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
- B12211931 David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections)
- B12211935 Phil Donahue, Cleve Ohio, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
- B12211937 Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit
- B12211938 Larry Bryggman, Concord Calif, actor (John-As the World Turns)
- B12211940 Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)
- B12211940 Paul, [Ray Hildebrand], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
- B12211944 Jared Martin, NYC, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
- B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, LA Calif, conductor (NY Phil Young People)
- B12211946 Carl Wilson, rocker (Beachboys-Barbie)
- B12211946 Christopher Keene, Berkeley Calif, conductor (La Traviata)
- B12211948 Barry Gordon, Brookline Mass, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
- B12211948 Carol Potter, NYC, actress (Maggie Clinton-Today's FBI)
- B12211948 Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
- B12211953 Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
- B12211953 Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500)
- B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
- B12211957 Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease)
- B12211957 Lisa Gerritsen, LA Calif, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
- B12211959 Florence Griffith Joyner, LA Calif, runner (3 Olympic Gold-1988)
- B12211960 Roger McDowall, pitcher (NY Mets)
- B12211967 Kristi Cooke, Marion Ohio, Miss Ohio-America (1991)
- B12211968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
- B12221400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
- B12221639 Jean-Baptiste Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
- B12221696 James Oglethorpe, England, general/author/colonizer of Georgia
- B12221727 William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- B12221856 Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Nobel1929)
- B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy, composer (La Bohème, Tosca)
- B12221862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/Phila A's manager (1900-1950)
- B12221869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
- B12221885 Edgar Varèse, Paris France, composer (Innisation)
- B12221885 Joseph Deems Taylor, NYC, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
- B122219-- Elizabeth Hubbard, actress (Lucinda-As the World Turns)
- B122219-- Franc Luz, Cambridge Mass, actor (Ben-Hometown)
- B122219-- Lanna Saunders, actress (Young & Restless)
- B122219-- Lynne Thigpen, Joliet Ill, actress (Nancy-Love Sidney)
- B122219-- Raymond Singer, NYC, actor (Operation Petticoat, Mamam Malone)
- B122219-- Wolfe Perry, New Orleans La, actor (Teddy-White Shadow)
- B12221901 André Kostelanetz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Lincoln Portrari)
- B12221903 Dr Barbara Moore, walked across US in 86 days in 1960
- B12221903 H Keffer Hartline, US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
- B12221905 Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush)
- B12221907 Peggy Ashcroft, stage actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days)
- B12221911 Alan Carney, Bkln NY, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me)
- B12221912 Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, 1st lady
- B12221912 Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)
- B12221917 Gene Rayburn, Ill, TV game show host (Match Game)
- B12221921 Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington WV, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
- B12221922 Barbara Billingsley, LA Calif, actress (June-Leave it to Beaver)
- B12221922 James C Wright Jr, (Rep-D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987-89)
- B12221926 Peggy Castle, Appalachia Va, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman)
- B12221936 Hector Elizondo, NYC, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
- B12221944 Barry Jenkins, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
- B12221944 Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82)
- B12221945 Diane Sawyer, Glasgow Ky, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)
- B12221948 Noel Edmonds, British TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
- B12221948 Steve Garvey, 1st baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
- B12221949 Maurice Gibb, singer (BeeGees-I Started a Joke)
- B12221949 Robin Gibb, singer (BeeGees-Holiday)
- B12221950 Rick Nielsen, guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist (Cheap Trick-Surrender)
- B12221951 Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer (LPGA Rookie of Year-1974)
- B12221953 Bernnadette Stanis, Bkln NY, actress (Thelma-Good Times)
- B12221961 Catherine Oxenberg, NYC, actress (Amanda-Dynasty)
- B12221968 Lauralee Bell, actress (Cricket-Young & Restless)
- B12231597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
- B12231732 Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame)
- B12231777 Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
- B12231790 Jean-François Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
- B12231804 Charles-Augustin de Sainte-Beuve, France, writer (deax violes esgales)
- B12231805 Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vt, found Mormon church
- B12231812 Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
- B12231815 Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat
- B12231845 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr (found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal)
- B12231860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I)
- B12231867 Madame C J Walker, famous African
- B12231893 Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father)
- B12231896 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard)
- B122319-- Alan North, NYC, actor (Capt Ed Hocken-Naked Gun)
- B122319-- Allison Argo, Richmond Va, actress (Susan-Ladies' Man)
- B122319-- John Callahan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Craig-Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest)
- B122319-- John Marin, painter (1948 Fine Arts Medal)
- B122319-- Michael Richardson, Riverside Calif, actor (Steve Baker-Chase)
- B122319-- Mitch Brown, Bronx NY, actor (Hardy-The Cowboys)
- B122319-- Patrick Ramsey, football player
- B12231906 Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered)
- B12231907 Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)
- B12231908 Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine)
- B12231909 Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934)
- B12231911 James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller)
- B12231918 Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (1974- )
- B12231918 José Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers)
- B12231921 Gerald S O'Loughlin, NYC, actor (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels)
- B12231922 Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
- B12231923 Leonard Stern, TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart)
- B12231923 Milt Okun, Bkln NY, orch leader (Starland Vocal Band Show)
- B12231923 Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas)
- B12231924 Floyd Kalber, Omaha Neb, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973)
- B12231925 Harry Guardino, NYC, actor (Monty Nash, Perry Mason, Hill St Blues)
- B12231926 Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds)
- B12231929 Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
- B12231931 Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World)
- B12231935 Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
- B12231936 James Stacy, LA Calif, actor (Fred-Adv of Ozzie & Harriet)
- B12231937 Karol J Bobko, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS-6, STS 51D, STS 51J)
- B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled)
- B12231941 Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire)
- B12231942 Jerry Koosman, pitcher (NY Mets)
- B12231943 Harry Shearer, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- B12231945 Richard C Wohlhuter, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
- B12231945 Ronald Bushy, rocker (Iron Butterfly-Ina gada davida)
- B12231947 Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY)
- B12231948 Jack Ham, NFL linebacker (Steelers)
- B12231948 Susan Lucci, Westchester NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess)
- B12231955 Dave Murray, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast)
- B12231956 Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari)
- B12231958 Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979)
- B12231958 Joan Severance, Houston Tx, actress (Hear No Evil, See No Evil)
- B12231970 Shannon Noelle DePuy, Lynchburg Va, Miss Virg-America (1991-top 10)
- B12231971 Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive)
- B1224 3 -BC- Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th Roman emperor (68-69)
- B12241745 Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician-general (Continental Army)
- B12241754 George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)
- B12241798 Adam Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz)
- B12241809 Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, western scout
- B12241818 James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
- B12241822 Matthew Arnold, England, poet/critic (Dover Beach)
- B12241868 Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
- B12241881 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956)
- B122419-- Michael Billington, England, actor (Col Foster-UFO, The Quest)
- B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor
- B12241906 Franz Waxman, Königshütte, Germany, composer (Day at the Races)
- B12241907 IF Stone, US, journalist, told it like it was (Columbia Award 1971)
- B12241910 Fritz Leiber, US, writer (Bazaar of the Bizarre)
- B12241910 Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Hollywood Palace)
- B12241918 Anwar El Sadat, Egypt, president of Egypt (1970-81)
- B12241920 Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
- B12241921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
- B12241922 Ava Gardner, Grabtown NC, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
- B12241924 Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mines)
- B12241929 Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (A Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)
- B12241930 Robert Joffrey, choreographer (Joffrey Ballet)
- B12241931 Jill Bennett, Penang Malay, actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle)
- B12241940 Jorma Kaukonen, rock guitarist/vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
- B12241940 Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner (1989- )
- B12241944 Erhard Keller, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
- B12241944 Mike Curb, Savannah Ga, singer (Mike Curb Congregation)
- B12241945 Lemmy, [Ian Kilminster], rocker (Hawkwind, Motorhead-Built for Speed)
- B12241946 Sharon Farrell, Sioux City Iowa, (Lori-Hawaii 5-0, Young & Restless)
- B12241951 Johnny Contardo, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon)
- B12241957 Clarence Gilyard Jr, Moses Lake Wash, actor (Chips, Duck Factory)
- B12241957 Ian Burden, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
- B12241969 Kenny Kelly, r&b performer (Riff)
- B12241985 Gregory Scott, director
- B1225 4 -BC- Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader/philosopher (est date)
- B12251721 William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
- 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, Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)
- B12251878 W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
- B12251881 Joseph McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees)
- B12251883 Maurice Utrillo, France, painter (Port St Martin)
- B12251887 Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels)
- B12251893 Fred Hillebrand, Bkln NY, actor (Martin Kane)
- B12251893 Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa Calif, cartoonist (Believe It or Not)
- B12251899 Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place)
- B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor, Here's looking at you, kid (Casablanca)
- B12251899 Raphael Soyer, painter (Arts & Letters 1945)
- B122519-- Kenny Everett, British TV personality (Kenny Everett Show)
- B122519-- Mabel King, Charleston SC, actress (Mama-What's Happening?)
- B12251900 Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie)
- B12251900 Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
- B12251904 Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
- B12251906 Clark M Clifford, US Secretary of Defense (1968-69)
- B12251906 Lord Grade, British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil)
- B12251906 William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70)
- B12251907 Cab Calloway, bandleader/actor (Blues Brothers, Jazzball)
- B12251909 Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
- B12251912 Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love)
- B12251918 Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81, Nobel 1978)
- B12251918 Eddie Safranski, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Jonathan Winters Show)
- B12251922 Kitty Kallen, Phila Pa, singer (Judge For Yourself)
- B12251923 Louis Lane, Eagle Pass Texas, conductor (Oere Orch 1968-73)
- B12251923 Nöel Vandernotte, France, cox (Olympic-bronze-1936)
- B12251925 Ossi Reichert, German FR, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B12251927 Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959)
- B12251928 Earl Brown, Salt Lake City Ut, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat)
- B12251929 Billy Horton, rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
- B12251929 Irish McCalla, Pawnee City Neb, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
- B12251931 Carlos Castaneda, US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within)
- B12251934 John Ashley, KC Mo, actor (Clipper-Straightaway)
- B12251937 O'Kelly Isley, rock vocalist (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
- B12251942 Françoise Durr, France, tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles)
- B12251944 Henry Vestine, rock guitarist (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
- B12251945 Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor (Andy-WKRP in Cincinatti)
- B12251945 Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
- B12251945 Noel Redding, rocker (The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
- B12251946 Jimmy Buffett, singer (Margaritaville)
- B12251946 Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants)
- B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, Houston Tx, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
- B12251949 Dan Pastorini, NFL QB (Raiders)
- B12251949 Sissy Spacek, Quitman Tx (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
- B12251953 Arnella Flynn, Rome Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter
- B12251954 Annie Lennox, singer (Eurythmics-Here Comes the Rain)
- B12251954 Robin Campbell, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
- B12251954 Steve Wariner, country singer (I Got Dreams)
- B12251957 Jillie Mack, Mrs Tom Selleck/actress
- B12251957 Shane McGowan, rock vocalist (The Pogues-Red Roses For Me)
- B12251958 Rickey Henderson, baseball player (stolen base king, A's, Yankees)
- B12251959 Missy Cleveland, Jackson Miss, playmate (April, 1979)
- B12251962 Dean Cameron, Morrison Ill, actor (Herbie-Spencer)
- B12251966 Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet (March, 1991)
- B12261194 Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250)
- B12261716 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
- B12261738 Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- B12261778 Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
- B12261792 Charles Babbage, inventor (calculating machine)
- B12261837 Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
- B12261883 Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master (1950)
- B12261891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
- B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China P.R. (1949-76)
- B122619-- Lars Ulrich, rock drummer (Metallica-Helpless)
- B122619-- Terri Garber, actress (Leslie Carrington-Dynasty)
- B122619-- Victoria Racimo, NYC, actress (Corene-Falcon Crest)
- B12261902 Elisha Cook Jr, SF Calif, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum P.I.)
- B12261908 Ralph Hill, US, 5K runner (Olympic-1932)
- B12261914 Richard Widmark, Sunrise Mich, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg)
- B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
- B12261921 Steve Allen, NYC, comedian/TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show)
- B12261927 Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)
- B12261927 Denis Quilley, London England, actor (Masada)
- B12261930 Donald Moffat, Plymouth England, actor (Kent-Logan's Run)
- B12261936 Kitty Dukakis, substance abuser/wife of Michael (Gov-Mass)
- B12261936 Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln NY, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
- B12261939 Phil Spector, record producer (Wall of Sound)
- B12261942 Earl Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
- B12261942 Ernie Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
- B12261942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, president of Guatemala (1986- )
- B12261944 Jane Lapotaire, actress (Spirit of the Dead)
- B12261947 Carlton Fisk, Vermont, all star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox)
- B12261948 Chris Chambliss, 1st baseman (NY Yankee)
- B12261949 Ira Newborn, NYC, orch leader (Manhattan Transfer)
- B12261950 Michael Jones, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
- B12261951 Richard Skinner, British DJ
- B12261952 André-Michel Schub, Paris France, pianist (Van Cliburn-1981)
- B12261954 Peter Woods, rocker (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble)
- B12261954 Susan Butcher, dog sled driver (Idatarod)
- B12261954 Ullrich Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B12261954 Walter Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B12261956 Gail Tatterson, WBL center (NY Stars)
- B12261956 Karen Smith, WBL forward (NY Stars)
- B12261961 Storm Davis, Dallas Texas, pitcher (KC Royals)
- B12261961 Tahnee Welch, San Diego Calif, actress (Cocoon)
- B12261974 Tiffany Brissette, actress (Vicki-Small Wonder)
- B12271571 Johann Kepler, Württemberg Germany, astronomer (elliptical orbits)
- B12271773 George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
- B12271822 Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist (pasturization)
- B12271879 Sydney Greenstreet, Sandwich England, actor (Maltese Falcon)
- B12271896 Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
- B12271896 Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board)
- B12271896 Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926)
- B12271899 Paul Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1920, 24, 28)
- B122719-- Jerry Gaskill, rocker (King's X-Faith Hope Love)
- B12271901 Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel)
- B12271906 Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life)
- B12271907 Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwijk Holland, conductor (Melbourne 1967-71)
- B12271924 James A McClure, (Sen-R-Idaho)
- B12271926 Jerome Courtland, Knoxville Tn, actor (Tonka, Tharus)
- B12271930 Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer (Boys of Winter, The Hack)
- B12271931 Scotty Moore, guitarist (for Elvis)
- B12271934 Larisssa Latynina, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
- B12271936 Lee Salk, doctor (CBS TV)
- B12271939 John Amos, Newark NJ, actor (Good Times, Coming to America)
- B12271940 Jerry Lambert, jockey (rode Native Diver)
- B12271941 Leslie Maguire, rocker (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersey)
- B12271941 Michael Pinder, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
- B12271944 Mick Jones, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
- B12271944 Tracy Nelson, Madison Wisc, singer/actress (Square Pegs)
- B12271946 Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality (Youth)
- B12271948 Gérard Depardieu, France, actor (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton)
- B12271948 Larry Byrom, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World)
- B12271950 Terry Bozzio, rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You)
- B12271952 Karla Bonoff, rock singer (New World, Restless Nights)
- B12271952 Tovah Feldshuh, NYC, actress (Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky)
- B12271953 Arthur Kent, newscaster (NBC-Gulf War coverage)
- B12271959 Andre Tippett, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
- B12271962 Barbara Crampton, Long Island NY, actr (Body Double, Young & Restless)
- B12271972 Thomas Wilson Brown, actor (Jason-Knots Landing)
- B12271975 Heather O'Rourke, San Diego Calif, actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist)
- B12281763 John Molson, founded Montréal brewery (Molsons)
- B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (D), 28th pres (1912-21, Nobel 1919)
- B12281872 Pio Baroja Y Nessa, San Sebastion Spain, writer (Caminode Parfección)
- B12281882 Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
- B12281894 Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
- B12281896 Roger Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Maskers)
- B122819-- Bob Perlow, Pawtucket RI, TV host (People Do the Craziest Things)
- B12281902 Mortimer J Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
- B12281903 John Von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)
- B12281905 Cliff Arquette, Toledo Oh, comedian (Charlie Weaver)
- B12281905 Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
- B12281908 Lew Ayres, Minn, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr Kildare)
- B12281909 Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows)
- B12281911 Sam Levenson, NYC, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)
- B12281913 Lou Jacobi, Toronto Ontario, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba)
- B12281914 Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)
- B12281920 Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles)
- B12281923 Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War)
- B12281924 Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
- B12281925 Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique)
- B12281927 Martin Milner, Detroit Mich, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)
- B12281929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
- B12281929 Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
- B12281932 Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
- B12281932 Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (La Traición de Rita Hayworth)
- B12281933 Jack Perkins, Cleve Ohio, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine)
- B12281934 Maggie Smith, Ilford Eng, actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
- B12281936 Nichelle Nichols, Robbins Ill, actress (Uhura-Star Trek)
- B12281942 Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
- B12281943 David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada (L) (1982- )
- B12281945 Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
- B12281946 Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)
- B12281947 Richard Diamonde, rocker (Easybeats-Friday on My Mind)
- B12281950 Alex Chilton, rocker (The Box Tops-Let Me Get Close to You)
- B12281952 Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
- B12281953 Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
- B12281954 Denzel Washington, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere)
- B12281954 Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise)
- B12281954 Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, SNL, Amanda's)
- B12281956 Ken Grant, rocker (Midnight Star-Hot Spot, Victory, Operator)
- B12281956 Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
- B12281956 Michael Gibbons, rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Dont be a Hero)
- B12281959 Everson Walls, NFL corner back (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants)
- B12281960 Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce)
- B12281960 Ray Borque, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruin-3 Norris Trophys)
- B12281963 Mel Stottlemyre Jr, pitcher (Toronto Blues Jays)
- B12281964 Colleen Dion, Newburgh NY, actress (Felicia-Bold & Beautiful)
- B12281965 Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd)
- B12281968 Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot SD, Miss SD-America (1991)
- B12281975 Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)
- B12291721 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
- B12291776 Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
- B12291800 Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
- B12291808 Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (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 México (1915-20)
- B12291876 Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
- B12291879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I)
- B12291896 David Alfaro Siqueiros, México, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)
- B122919-- Ronnie Younkins, rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
- B122919-- Susie Garrett, Detroit Mich, actress (Punky Brewster)
- B122919-- Wendell Niles, Twin Valley Mn, TV announcer (It Could be You)
- B12291912 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
- B12291915 Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value)
- B12291917 Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) (1973- )
- 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)
- B12291927 Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
- B12291928 Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show)
- B12291931 Barbara Steele, England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows)
- B12291932 Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson)
- B12291934 Ed Flanders, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere)
- B12291934 Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
- B12291936 Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
- B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People)
- B12291938 Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
- B12291941 Ray Thomas, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
- B12291946 Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Ky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale)
- B12291946 Paul Trible, (Sen-R-Va)
- B12291947 Ted Danson, SD Calif, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
- B12291949 Angel Tompkins, actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law)
- B12291951 Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator)
- B12291952 Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker)
- B12291952 Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
- B12291959 Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol)
- B12291964 Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah-Head of the Class)
- B12291985 Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
- B1230 39 Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
- B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
- B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Gunga Din-Nobel '07)
- B12301867 Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic)
- B12301869 Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
- B12301879 Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Inst)
- B12301883 Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
- B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
- B12301898 Vincent Lopez, Bkln NY, orch leader (Welcome Aboard)
- B123019-- Bernard Barrow, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie-Loving)
- B123019-- Jack Riley, Cleve Ohio, actor (Carlin-Bob Newhart, Ocassional Wife)
- B123019-- Patricia Kalember, Schnectady NY, actress (Kay O'Brien)
- B12301904 Dmitri Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire)
- B12301906 Sir Carol Reed, motion picture director (3rd Man)
- B12301911 Jeanette Nolan, LA Calif, actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian)
- B12301914 Bert Parks, Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America, Masquerade Party)
- B12301919 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral, East of Eden)
- B12301921 Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM of Lebanon
- B12301928 Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
- B12301928 Jack Lord, NYC, actor (Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre)
- B12301929 Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
- B12301931 Charles A Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut
- B12301931 Skeeter Davis, Dry Ridge Ky, singer (End of the World)
- B12301932 John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose)
- B12301934 Nicolas Coster, London, actor (Our Private World, Lobo, Ryan's Four)
- B12301934 Russ Tamblyn, LA Calif, actor (Tom Thumb, Win Place or Steal)
- B12301935 Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
- B12301937 John Hartford, NYC, singer/songwriter (Smothers Brothers Hour)
- B12301939 Del Shannon, aka Charlie Westover, rocker (Runaway)
- B12301942 Michael Nesmith, Houston, rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
- B12301945 Davy Jones, Manchester Eng, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
- B12301947 Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
- B12301947 Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor (Barnaby West-Wagon Train)
- B12301953 Daniel T Barry, Norwalk Ct, Phd/astronaut
- B12301958 Brandon Clark, NYC, actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks)
- B12301958 Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut
- B12301959 Tracey Ullman, singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
- B12301961 Ben Johnson, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988-disqualified)
- B12301962 Paul Crowder, rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love)
- B12301963 Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress (Ferragosto OK)
- B12301964 Kimberly Taylor, [Cindy] model/Penthouse Pet (1990)
- B12301972 Maureen Flannigan, actress (Evie-Out of this World)
- B12301983 Rachel & Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau
- B12311514 Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica)
- B12311738 Charles Lord Cornwallis, solider/statesman "fire when ready Gridley"
- B12311869 Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter (Odalisque)
- B12311870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years
- B12311880 George C Marshall, Uniontown Pa, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
- B12311882 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway)
- B12311892 Jason Robards Sr, Hillsdale Mich, actor (Acapulco)
- B12311899 Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro, México, composer
- B123119-- Buzz Adlam, Chelmsford England, composer (Stage Two Revue)
- B123119-- Don Diamont, actor (Brad-Young & Restless)
- B123119-- Sally Gracie, actress (One Life to Live)
- B123119-- Scott Ian, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
- B12311904 Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
- B12311904 Nathan Milstein, Odessa Russia, concert violinist (Phila Orch 1942)
- B12311905 Guy Mollet (Socialist), French premier (1956-57)
- B12311905 Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer (1954 Acad Award, 1968 Tony)
- B12311906 Erna Bogen, Hungary, foils (Olympic-bronze-1932)
- B12311910 Dick Kollmar, Rigewood NJ, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What)
- B12311914 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show)
- B12311921 Rocky Graziano, NYC, boxer (Middlewgt champ)/actor (Miami Undercover)
- B12311922 Joan McCracken, Phila Pa, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage)
- B12311922 Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor)
- B12311924 Victoria Draves, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B12311928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit)
- B12311928 Ross Barbour, Columbus Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
- B12311930 Odetta, [Holmes] Birmingham Ala, folk singer (Sanctuary)
- 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
- B12311938 Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right)
- B12311941 Sarah Miles, Essex, England, actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom)
- B12311942 Andy Summers, rocker (Police-Roxanne)
- B12311943 Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice)
- B12311943 John Denver, singer (Rocky Mt High), thank God he's a country boy
- B12311945 Claude D Marks, Buenos Aires Argent, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
- B12311946 Barbara Carrera, Managua Nicaragua, actress (Angelica-Dallas)
- B12311946 Diane von Fürstenberg, Brussels Belgiums, fashion designer
- B12311946 Patti Smith, Chicago, singer (Radio Ethiopia)
- B12311947 Burton Cummings, rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes)
- B12311947 Tim Matheson, Calif, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
- B12311948 Donna Summer, Boston, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
- B12311948 Joe Dallesandro, Pensicola Fla, actor (Heat, Trash, AW Frankenstein)
- B12311949 Claude Daniel Marks, Buenos Aires, one of FBI's most wanted
- B12311951 Fermin Goytisolo, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
- B12311951 Tom Hamilton, rocker (Aerosmith-Dream On)
- B12311953 James Remar, Boston, actor (48 Hours, Rent-a-Cop, Cotton Club)
- B12311959 Val Kilmer, actor (Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow)
- B12311961 Joanna Johnson, actress (Caroline-Bold & Beautiful)
- B12311969 Martha Byrne, actress (Lily-As the World Turns)
- B12311972 Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, rocker (New Kids-Lovin You Forever)
- D12011842 Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
- D12011934 Sergei Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
- D12011935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
- D12011947 Aleister Crowley, dies at 74
- D12011973 David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel dies in Tel Aviv at 87
- D12011975 Nick Kenny, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80
- D12011986 Horace Heidt, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85
- D12011987 Donn F Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies at 57 of a heart attack
- D12011987 James A Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
- D12021859 John Brown, abolitionist hanged at Charles Town, (West) Virginia
- D12021888 Kemal Bey, Turkish poet dies at 47
- D12021935 Albert Kessel, first to die in Cal gas chamber
- D12021967 Cardinal Francis Spellman, dies in NY at 78
- D12021976 William Tannen, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 65
- D12021982 Marty Feldman, comedic actor dies at 49 of a heart attack in México
- D12021983 Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" dies of cancer at 79
- D12021985 Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice)
- D12021986 Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69
- D12021990 Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for the Common Man), dies at 90
- D12021990 Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies at 88
- D12031957 Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher dies at 81
- D12031973 Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
- D12031985 Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
- D12041576 Rheticus, mathematician dies
- D12041732 John Gay, poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
- D12041807 Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston
- D12041976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
- D12041979 Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
- D12041983 Estelle Omens, actress, dies at 55
- D12041987 Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
- D12051560 Francis II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
- D12051594 Gerardus Mercator, geographer dies
- D12051784 Philis Wheatley, poet, dies in Boston
- D12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35
- D12051951 Shoeless Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
- D12051974 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US Open 1909-11) dies at 87
- D12051983 Robert Aldrich, dir/producer dies at 65
- D12051991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
- D12061889 Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5), dies
- D12061959 Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
- D12061984 Ruth Cummings, actress dies at 90
- D12061985 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
- D12061988 Roy Orbison, singer, dies of a massive heart attack at 52
- D12061989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry) dies at 86
- D12061989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77
- D12061989 Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87
- D12071817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame dies in London
- D12071912 George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
- D12071979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
- D12071979 Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
- D12071982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be
- D12071982Cexecuted by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
- D12071983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
- D12071984 Jeanne Cagney, actress duies at 65
- D12071985 Potter Stewart, retired Supreme Court Justice dies in NH, at 70
- D12081587 Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
- D12081831 James Hoban, architect who designed the White House, dies
- D12081954 Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
- D12081972 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
- D12081978 Golda Meir, served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80
- D12081980 John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman
- D12081983 Slim Pickins, western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery
- D12081984 Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81
- D12091292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) dies
- D12091944 Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
- D12091957 Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
- D12091959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
- D12091971 Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in NYC
- D12091979 Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster dies in NYC at 84
- D12091982 Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at 53
- D12091982 Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor dies at 77 in Texas
- D12091983 David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53
- D12101198 Averroès, arabian philospher, dies
- D12101603 William Gilbert, physician/physicist dies at 58
- D12101896 Alfred Nobel, dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
- D12101946 Walter Johnson, Washington Senator great pitcher dies at 59
- D12101964 Sam Cooke, rocker, slain at a motel
- D12101967 Otis Redding, singer dies in plane crash at 26
- D12101974 Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50
- D12101979 Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84
- D12101981 John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89
- D12101982 Freeman Gosden, radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
- D12101983 Dorothy Cummings, actress dies at 84
- D12101983 Patrick O'Moore, actor dies at 74
- D12101986 Kate Wolf, singer (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
- D12101987 Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
- D12101988 Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life) dies of aids
- D12101990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
- D12111974 Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
- D12111979 Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
- D12111984 George Waggner, director/writer dies at 90
- D12111991 Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
- D12121777 Rev Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn, England for rape
- D12121889 Robert Browning, English poet, dies
- D12121914 Watkins Lewis, black man lynched in Shrevport La
- D12121921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
- D12121962 Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
- D12121965 Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67
- D12121968 Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies at 66
- D12121971 Jack Barnhill, a Northern Ireland senator is assassinated
- D12121976 Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49
- D12121985 Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
- D12121988 John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
- D12131204 Maimonides, Jewish philospher dies in Cairo at 69
- D12131250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
- D12131557 Niccoló Tartaglia, Italian mathematician dies
- D12131565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist dies at 49
- D12131603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician dies in Paris at 63
- D12131924 Samuel Gompers, organized American Federation of Labor, dies at 44
- D12131944 Vassily Kandisky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78
- D12131958 Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70
- D12131974 Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
- D12131975 Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
- D12131979 Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66
- D12131981 Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75
- D12131983 Leora Dana, actress dies at 60
- D12141799 George Washington, dies at Mt Vernon Va, at 67
- D12141861 Albert, prince consort of England & husband of Queen Victoria, dies
- D12141903 William Ennis, first cop to die in the electric chair
- D12141945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others hung for
- D12141945Ccrimes committed at the Belsen and Oswiecim Nazi concentration camps
- D12141963 Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
- D12141964 William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58
- D12141966 Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
- D12141975 Arthur Treacher, announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
- D12141980 Elston Howard, Yankee catcher, dies
- D12141985 Roger Maris, Yankee HR hitter, dies at 51 of cancer (rest in peace)
- D12141989 Andrei D Sakharov, 1975 nobel peace prize winner, dies at 68 in Moscow
- D12151890 Chief Sitting Bull, of the Sioux killed by US Army
- D12151934 Maggis Lena Wlaker, 1st black woman to head a bank, dies at 69
- D12151943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, dies at 39, in KC Missouri
- D12151961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
- D12151964 William Bendix dies, at 58
- D12151966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
- D12151974 Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89
- D12151978 Chill Wills, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
- D12151979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
- D12151984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
- D12151984 Jan Peerce, operatic tenor dies at 80 following a stroke
- D12161916 Grigori Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk is murdered
- D12161922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Polish Republic assassinated
- D12161965 W Somerset Maugham, English author ("Of Human Bondage"), dies at 91
- D12161976 George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months
- D12161985 Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief shot dead by a NYC restaurant
- D12161987 Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
- D12171830 Simon Bolivar, president of Columbia, dies at 47 in Colombia
- D12171909 Leopold II, king of Belgium dies
- D12171961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
- D12171962 Thomas Mitchell, actor dies at 70
- D12171975 Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
- D12171987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Ultrecht Netherlands, dies at 87
- D12171987 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
- D12181737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker dies in Cremona, Italy
- D12181939 Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
- D12181948 Janet Fay, hammered to death by the Honeymoon Killers
- D12181971 Bobby Jones Jr, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930) dies at 69
- D12181971 Diana Lynn, actress, dies at 45
- D12181977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
- D12181980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM suffers a fatal heart attack at 76
- D12191741 Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator & explorer, dies
- D12191915 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, dies
- D12191951 Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
- D12191959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
- D12191968 Norman Thomas, a founder of the ACLU, dies at 84
- D12191977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor dies at 101
- D12191983 Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildaire), dies at 87
- D12201590 Ambroise Paré, French surgeon dies at 80
- D12201812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
- D12201876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hung in US
- D12201937 Erich Ludendorff, German General, dies at 72
- D12201948 C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
- D12201961 Moss Hart, playwright, dies at 57
- D12201968 John Steinbeck, author dies in NY at 66
- D12201973 Bobby Darin, dies at 36 of heart failure
- D12201973 Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain is assassinated
- D12201975 Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
- D12201975 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
- D12201976 Richard J Daley, Chicago mayor dies at 74
- D12201982 Arthur Rubinstein, pianists dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at 95
- D12201988 Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
- D12211375 Boccaccio, author of the Decameron, dies (birth date unknown)
- D12211921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
- D12211940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author, dies of a heart attack in Hollywood at 44
- D12211945 George S Patton, General, dies in a car accident in Heidelberg
- D12211955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
- D12211972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
- D12211980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
- D12211983 Rod Cameron, actor dies at 73
- D12221440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed
- D12221668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer dies
- D12221721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
- D12221767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies
- D12221815 José Maria Morelos, Méxican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
- D12221913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69
- D12221969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80
- D12221973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas dies at 72
- D12221974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 47
- D12221979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer, dies
- D12221980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
- D12231569 St Philip, of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
- D12231652 John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher dies at 68
- D12231909 King Leopald II, of Belgium
- D12231948 Hideki Tojo, Japan PM & 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
- D12231953 Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
- D12231959 Lester Lonergan Jr, actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
- D12231970 Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
- D12231972 Charles Atlas, Body builder dies at 79
- D12231975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
- D12231982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies at 62 of a heart attack
- D12231985 James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking
- D12231985Ctheir families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
- D12231990 Roald Dahl, British short story writer, dies
- D12241524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator dies in Cochin, India
- D12241942 Adm Jean Darlan, French naval officer is murdered
- D12241954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
- D12241955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
- D12241984 Ian Hendry, actor dies at 53
- D12241984 Peter Lawford, actor (The Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
- D12241991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46
- D12251761 Empress Elizabeth dies
- D12251899 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
- D12251951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
- D12251961 Dr Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of the electron microscope dies
- D12251964 Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
- D12251977 Charlie Chaplin, dies in Switzerland at 88
- D12251979 Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
- D12251979 Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
- D12251983 Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist dies at his home in Majorca at 90
- D12251985 George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
- D12251989 Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
- D12251989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, and his wife, are executed
- D12261624 Simon Marius, astronomer dies in Bavaria at 54
- D12261963 "Gorgeous George" Wagner, Wrestler dies
- D12261971 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57
- D12261972 Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres dies at 88 in Kansas City, Mo
- D12261974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80
- D12261986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstien), dies at 84
- D12261990 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33
- D12271972 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1956), dies
- D12271982 John L Swigert Jr, astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
- D12271983 Houari Boumediene, Algerian President dies after 40 days in a coma
- D12271987 Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
- D12281694 Queen Mary II, of England dies after 5 years of rule
- D12281918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
- D12281937 Maurice Ravel, composer dies in Paris
- D12281945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
- D12281947 Victor Emmanual III, king of Italy/Ethiopia, dies at 78
- D12281948 Nokrashy Pasha, Egypt's PM is assassinated
- D12281961 Edith Bolling Wilson, 1st lady dies at 89
- D12281983 William Demarest, (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy) dies at 92 in Palm Springs
- D12281984 Sam Peckinpah, director dies of cardiac arrest at 59
- D12281987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to the UN, dies at 81
- D12281988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director dead of cancer at 59
- D12291170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
- D12291815 Saartjie Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
- D12291980 Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
- D12291984 Leo Robin, lyricist dies of heart failure at 84
- D12291986 Harold Macmillan, former British PM dies in Sussex, England, at 92
- D12301635 Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist dies
- D12301832 Col Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
- D12301894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist dies (Bloomers named for her)
- D12301896 José Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent dies
- D12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, bible translator, dies
- D12311719 John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
- D12311775 Gen Richard Montgomery, dies fighting the British
- D12311968 Carl Oscar Ahues, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 84
- D12311971 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31
- D12311972 Roberto Clemente, Pitts Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash
- D12311977 Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov & JJ), dies
- D12311983 Frank Link, actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46
- D12311985 Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
- D12311985 Sam Speigel, Academy Award winning producer dies at 84
- D12311986 Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54
- H1201 [Azores, Portugal] Independence Day (1640)
- H1201 [Cape Verde] Restoration Day (1968)
- H1201 [Central African Republic] Republic Day (1958)
- H1201 [Iceland] Independence Day (1918)
- H1201 [Liberia] Matilda Newport Day (1822)
- H1201 [Portugese Guiana] Mocidale Day/Youth Day
- H1202 [America] Pan American Health Day
- H1202 [Cuba] Landing of Granma Expeditionaries
- H1202 [UAE] Independence Day (1971)
- H1203 [Illinois] Admission Day (1818)
- H1203 [Philatelists] Sir Rowland Hill Day (1795/1840)
- H1203 [World] Heart Transplant Day (1967)
- H1204 [México] Day of the Artisans
- H1204 [Tonga] Proclamation Day
- H1205 [Beirut Lebanon] Arbor Day
- H1205 [Haiti] Discovery Day (1492)
- H1205 [Netherlands] St Nicholas' Eve
- H1205 [Thailand] King's Birthday
- H1205 [USSR] Constitution Day (1936)
- H1206 [Bahrain] Ruler's Ascension Day
- H1206 [Ecuador] Day of Quito (1534)
- H1206 [Finland] Independence Day (1917)
- H1207 [Cuba] Day of National Mourning
- H1207 [Delaware] Ratification Day (1787)
- H1207 [Ivory Coast] National Day (1960)
- H1207 [US] Pearl Harbor Day (1941)
- H1208 [Guam] Lady of Camarin Day
- H1208 [Japan] Enlightenment of the Buddha
- H1208 [Spain, Panama, Canal Zone] Mother's Day
- H1208 [Spain] School Reunion Day
- H1208 [Uruguay] Beaches Day/Family Day
- H1209 [Tanzania] Independence Day/Republic Day (1961)
- H1210 [Khmer Republic] Rights of Man Day
- H1210 [Mississippi] Admission Day (1817)
- H1210 [Stockholm, Sweden] Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)
- H1210 [Thailand] Constitution Day (1932)
- H1210 [UN, Equatorial Guinea] Human Rights Day (1948)
- H1210 [World] World Freedom Day
- H1210 [Wyoming] Wyoming Day (women's sufferage) (1869)
- H1211 [Geneva, Switzerland] Scaling Day/Escalade (1602, 1816)
- H1211 [Indiana] Admission Day (1816)
- H1211 [Upper Volta] Republic Day (1958)
- H1212 [El Salvador] Day of the Indians
- H1212 [Kenya] Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (1963)
- H1212 [Pennsylvania] Ratification Day (1787)
- H1212 [World] National Ding-a-ling Day
- H1213 [Malta] Republic Day
- H1213 [Upper Volta] National Day
- H1214 [Alabama] Admission Day (1819)
- H1214 [El Salvador] Revolution Day
- H1214 [Iran] Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day
- H12141217 [Turkey] Festival of Mevlana-Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes)
- H12141228 [World] Halcyon Days
- H1215 [Esperanto League] Zamenhof Day (1859)
- H1215 [Malaysia] Hol Al-Marhom Sultan Ibrahim of Johore
- H1215 [Netherlands Antilles] Kingdom Day/Statute Day (1954)
- H1215 [Pakistan] Quaid-i-Azam's Birthday
- H1215 [US] Bill of Rights Day (1791)
- H1215 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1216 [Bahrain] National Day
- H1216 [Bangladesh] Victory Day (1971)
- H1216 [México] Posadas Days/Lodgings
- H1216 [Namibia, South Africa] Day of the Covenant
- H1216 [Nepál] Constitution Day (1962)
- H1216 [Pretoria, South Africa] Foretrekkers' Day
- H1216 [South Africa] Dingaan's Day (1838)
- H1216 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1217 [Bhutan] Ascension to the throne of the 1st King/National Day
- H1217 [Columbia] Independence Day (1819)
- H1217 [US] Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day (1903)
- H1217 [Venezuela] Bolivar Day (1830)
- H1217 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1218 [New Jersey] Ratification Day (1787)
- H1218 [Niger] Republic Day (1958)
- H1218 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1219 [Hawaii] Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's Birthday
- H1219 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1220 [Taiwan] Bank Holiday
- H1220 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1221 [Nepál] Independence Day/Unity Day (1923)
- H1221 [Plymouth, Mass] Forefathers' Day (1620)
- H1221 6[World] Underdog Day
- H1222 [Arab] Ashura
- H1222 [México] Day of National Mourning (Josè Maria Morelos) (1815)
- H1222 [World] International Arbor Day
- H1223 [Egypt] Victory Day
- H12230123 [Montego Bay Jamaica] John Canoe Day
- H1224 [Laos] Sovereignty Day (1954)
- H1224 [Libya] Independence Day (1951)
- H1225 [England] New Year's Day observed before 1068
- H1225 [Taiwan] Constitution Day (1946)
- H1226 [Africa, US] Kwanzaa (1966)
- H1226 [Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1226 [China PR] Mao Tse-Tung's Birthday
- H1226 [Czechoslovakia] Day of Rest
- H1226 [West Germany] 2nd Day of Christmas
- H1226 2[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1226 3[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1226 4[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1226 5[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1226 6[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1226 7[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- H1227 [Australia, Channel Is, England, Nauru] Boxing Day
- H1227 [Bhutan] Day of 9 Evils
- H1227 [Indonesia] Independence Day (1949)
- H1227 [Namibia, South Africa] Family Day
- H1227 2[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day celebrated
- H1228 [Iowa] Admission Day (1846)
- H1228 [Nepál] King Birendra's Birthday
- H1229 [Gabon] President's Birthday
- H1229 [Texas] Admission Day (1945)
- H1229 [World] Anti-Pent-Ultimate Day
- H1230 [Bolivia, Chile] Bank Holiday
- H1230 [Iran] Birthday of Iman Reza
- H1230 [Italy] New Year's Eve
- H1230 [Philippiines] Rizal Day (anniversary of his death) (1896)
- H12301231 [El Salvador] Bank Holiday
- H1231 [Austria] Imperial Ball
- H1231 [Bangladesh, Brunei, India, México, Phil, Sri Lanka] Bank Holiday
- H1231 [Benin] Feed Yourself Day
- H1231 [Congo] National Day
- H1231 [Indians at Mitla, Oaxaca] Noche de Pedimento/Wishing Night
- H1231 [Japan] Omisoka Day/Grand Purification
- H1231 [Lebanon] Evacuation Day (1946)
- H1231 [Mauritania] People's Party Day
- H1231 [Scotland] Hogmanay Day
- H1231 [World] New Year's Eve/Watch Night
- I1201 1[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
- I1201 660 [RC] Commemoration of St Eligius, bishop/goldsmith
- I12011581 [RC] Commemoration of St Edmund Champion, English Jesuit, martyr
- I12011637 [Ang] Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, deacon
- I1202 [RC] Commemoration of St Bibiana, virgin & martyr
- I1202 1[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
- I12021910 [Ang] Mem of Channing Moore Williams, missionary bp in China & Japan
- I1203 1[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
- I1203 298 [RC] Commem of St Cassian of Tangier, patron of stenographers
- I12031552 [Luth, RC] Memorial of St Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan
- I1204 [Orth] Presentation in the Temple of Mary (11/21 OS)
- I1204 235 [RC] Commemoration of St Barbara, virgin/martyr
- I1204 450 [RC] Comm of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna/doctor
- I1204 760 [RC, Ang] Commemoration of John Damascene, priest/doctor
- I120419997[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I1205 210 [Ang] Commemoration of Clement of Alexandria, priest
- I1205 532 [RC] Commemoration of St Sabbas, abbot
- I1206 342 [Ang, RC, Luth] Mem of Nicholas, Archbp of Myra patron of children
- I120619966[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I1207 397 [RC, Ang, Luth] Memorial of St Ambrose, governor/bishop of Milan
- I12071881 [RC] Commemoration of St Mary Josepha Rossello, foundress
- I1208 [Buddhist-Japan] Enlightenment of the Buddha
- I1208 [RC] Solemnity of the Conception of the Virgin (Immaculate Conception)
- I120819961[Moslem] Night of the Ascent (Rajab 27, 1417 AH)
- I1209 [Christian] Commemoration of the Conception of Anne, mother of Mary
- I12091640 [RC] Commemoration of St Peter Fourier, French priest
- I120919935[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I120919995[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1420 AH)
- I1210 314 [RC] Comemoration of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr
- I1211 384 [RC] Memorial of St Damasus I, pope (366-384) (opt)
- I12111910 [Luth] Commemoration of Lars Skrefsrud, missionary to India
- I1212 [RC-US] Memorial of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of México
- I12121641 [RC] Memorial of Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (opt)
- I1213 [Moslem] New Year
- I1213 304 [RC] Memorial of St Lucy, virgin & martyr (St Lucia Day in Sweden)
- I1213 720 [RC] Commemoration of St Odilia, abbess, patroness of the blind
- I1214 [Luth] Commemoration of Teresa of Avila
- I1214 [RC, Luth] Memorial of St Spyridon
- I1214 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I12141591 [RC, Luth] Feast of John of the Cross, priest/doctor
- I121419982[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I1215 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1215 350 [Christian] Commemoration of St Nio, virgin
- I1215 709 [Christian] Commemoration of St Offa of Essex, king
- I1215 956 [Christian] Commemoration of St Paul of Latros, hermit
- I12151855 [Christian] Commemoration of St Mary di Rosa
- I1216 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1216 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1216 370 [Old RC] Feast of St Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr
- I1217 [Christian] Fiesta of the Virgin of the Lonely
- I1217 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1217 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1217 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1218 [Christian] Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely
- I1218 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1218 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1218 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I121819952[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I1219 [Orth] Feast of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (12/6 OS)
- I1219 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1219 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1219 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1220 4[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1220 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1220 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I122019921[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I122019954[Moslem] Night of the Ascent (Rajab 27, 1416 AH)
- I122019981[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1419 AH)
- I1221 [RC, Luth, Ang] Commemoration of St Thomas the apostle
- I1221 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1221 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I12211597 [RC] Memorial of St Peter Canisius, priest & doctor (opt)
- I1222 [Witch] Yule sabbat
- I1222 6[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I1222 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I12221917 [RC] Commemoration of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin
- I122220006[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I1223 7[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I12231193 [RC] Commemoration of St Thorlac, bishop, patron of Iceland
- I12231473 [RC] Memorial of St John of Kanty, Polish priest, theologian (opt)
- I1224 [Christian] Christmas Eve
- I12241898 [RC] Commemoration of St Sharbel Makhlouf, Lebanese monk, hermit
- I122419974[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
- I1225 [Christian] Christmas Day Peace on Earth, good will towards men
- I1225 [RC] New Years Day (until 12th century)
- I1226 1[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I1226 33 [RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of St Stephen, deacon, the 1st martyr
- I12261896 [RC] Commemoration of St Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuna, foundress
- I1227 [RC, Luth, Ang] Feast of St John, apostle/evangelist
- I1227 1[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I1228 [RC, Luth, Ang] Feast of St John, apostle/evangelist
- I1228 1[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I1229 1[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I12291170 [RC] Mem of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas à Beckett), bp/martyr
- I1230 1[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I1230 6[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I123019946[Moslem] Night of the Ascent (Rajab 27, 1415 AH)
- I1231 1[RC] Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
- I1231 335 [RC] Memorial of St Sylvester I, 33rd pope (314-35) (opt)
- I123119975[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1418 AH)
- R1200 Flowers-narcissus, poinsettia & holly Gems-turquoise & zircon
- R1200 National Indigestion Season
- R1201 [Ancient Rome] Calendae December
- R1201 [World] World AIDS Day
- R12011221 Astrological sign: Sagittarius
- R1205 [Ancient Rome] Nonae December
- R1205 [Sweden] Sven name day
- R1206 Feast of St Nicholas
- R1209 [Sweden] Anna name day
- R12101216 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
- R1211 [ancient Rome] Agonalia
- R1213 [Ancient Rome] Idus December
- R1213 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
- R1215 [Ancient Rome] Consualia
- R1217 [Ancient Rome] Opalia
- R12171223 [ancient Rome] Saturnalia, festival honoring Saturn
- R1219 [ancient Rome] Divalia
- R1221 Winter Solstice in No Hemisphere, shortest day of the year
- R1221 [ancient Rome] Larentalia
- R12211223 Ursid meteor shower
- R12220120 Astrological sign: Capricorn
- R1223 [México] Night of the Radishes
- R1224 [Sweden] Eva name day
- R1226 National Whiner's Day
- R1228 Considered the unluckiest day of the year
- R1231 Make Up Your Mind Day
- S11231967 LBJ meets Pope Paul VI at the Vatican
- S12-- 384 St Siricius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12-- 872 Adrian II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12--1925 KFH-AM in Wichita KS begins radio transmissions
- S12--1926 KUJ-AM in Walla Walla WA begins radio transmissions
- S12--1950 Clandestine Radio Free Russia (anti-communist) begins transmitting
- S12011640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
- S12011641 Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
- S12011653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from
- S12011653CSt Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
- S12011742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
- S12011742 Jews are expelled from Great Russia by Empress Elisabeth
- S12011750 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
- S12011783 Charles & M.N. Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon
- S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
- S12011822 Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
- S12011824 House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams,
- S12011824 Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
- S12011831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
- S12011875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #157 Dejanira
- S12011878 1st White House telephone
- S12011887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"
- S12011887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
- S12011894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #396 Aeolia
- S12011896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates, NY
- S12011909 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
- S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
- S12011913 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
- S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
- S12011918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
- S12011919 Lady Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- S12011921 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
- S12011921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
- S12011922 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
- S12011924 Calles becomes president of México
- S12011924 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1046 Edwin
- S12011929 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
- S12011929 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1708 Polit
- S12011929 O Oikawa & K Kubokawa discovers asteroid #1139 Atami
- S12011930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
- S12011930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the continent
- S12011936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
- S12011936 EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
- S12011938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
- S12011941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
- 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 Blayzka,
- S12011954CKryhoski, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
- S12011955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus
- S12011958 Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Nat'l Day)
- S12011958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
- S12011959 12 nations sign a treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
- S12011959 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
- S12011959 Billy Cannon (Louisiana halfback) wins the Heisman trophy
- S12011962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
- S12011963 Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian union
- S12011963 NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
- S12011965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
- S12011966 radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo
- S12011967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
- S12011967 Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
- S12011968 Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
- S12011969 US govt holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
- S12011970 NHL takes control of the Pittsburgh Penguins
- S12011970CIndependent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes the
- S12011970CPeople Democratic Republic of Yemen
- S12011971 John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
- S12011971 People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic
- S12011971CRepublic of Yemen
- S12011972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
- S12011973 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
- S12011973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
- S12011974 LA Skid Row slasher kills first of 8
- S12011975 C Torres discovers asteroid #2741 Valdivia
- S12011975 H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #2858 Carlosporter
- S12011975 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3322
- S12011978 Harvard College discovers asteroids #2153 Akiyama & #2493 Elmer
- S12011978 Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size
- S12011980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3168
- S12011980 George Rogers (South Carolina running back) wins the Heisman trophy
- S12011980 Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
- S12011980 US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
- S12011981 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain
- S12011982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as pres of México
- S12011983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
- S12011984 Doug Flutie (Boston College quarterback) wins the 50th Heisman trophy
- S12011984 George Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee to win WBA Boxing title
- S12011985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
- S12011986 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
- S12011987 Digging begins to link England & France under the English Channel
- S12011988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
- S12011988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
- S12011988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
- S12011988 NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
- S12011989 "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
- S12011989 East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution
- S12011989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
- S12011989 USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
- S12011990 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
- S12011990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
- S12011990 Lithauania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
- S12011990 NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
- S12011990 Ty Detmer, Brigham Young quarterback, wins the Heisman trophy
- S12011991 AIDS awareness day
- S12011991 Frances beats US, for their 1st Davis Cup (tennis) since 1932
- S12011991 Ukranian people vote for independence
- S12011991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
- S12021763 Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
- S12021777 British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
- 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 (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
- S12021822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
- S12021823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
- S12021840 The opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
- S12021848 Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
- S12021852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
- S12021877 The opera "Samson et Dalila" is produced (Rouen)
- S12021885 The opera "Regina di Saba" is produced (Vienna)
- S12021887 Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
- S12021891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
- S12021895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
- S12021899 US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
- S12021901 Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
- S12021902 A Charlois discovers asteroid #498 Tokio
- S12021907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir to retain the heavyweight boxing title
- S12021913 Archdiocese of Managua created
- S12021923 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1024 Hale
- S12021927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
- S12021931 G Reiss discovers asteroid #1237 Genevieve
- S12021931 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1211 Bressole
- S12021934 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
- S12021939 British Imerial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
- S12021939 NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago
- S12021939Clands, 1 minute after midnight
- S12021941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
- S12021942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (University of Chicago)
- S12021942 Man splits the atom for 1st time
- S12021944 Leslie Hovrath, Ohio State quarterback wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12021947 Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame quarterback wins the Heisman Trophy
- 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, Colo)
- S12021954 Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
- S12021954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that
- S12021954Ctends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute"
- S12021957 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Pa
- S12021958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
- S12021958 Pete Dawkins, Army back wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12021959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
- S12021961 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
- S12021961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
- S12021964 Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
- S12021966 Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
- S12021970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
- S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
- S12021971CAbu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form
- S12021971Cthe United Arab Emirates
- S12021972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
- S12021972 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #1934 Jeffers
- S12021972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
- S12021974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
- S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
- S12021978 Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
- S12021978 Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
- S12021979 Foots Walker becomes the 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
- S12021980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
- S12021981 F Dossin discovers asteroid #3435 Boury
- S12021981 Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
- S12021981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3221
- S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in
- S12021982Cretired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart
- S12021984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
- S12021987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
- S12021988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
- S12021988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
- S12021988 Launch of US space shuttle STS-27
- S12021988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
- S12021988 UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
- S12021989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
- S12021990 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
- S12021990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
- S12021991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with the NY Mets
- S12021991 Muslim Shites release US hostage Joseph Cicippio
- S1203 741 St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 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
- S12031685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
- S12031775 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
- S12031818 Illinois admitted as 21st US state
- S12031828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
- S12031833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
- S12031834 1st US dental society organized (NY)
- S12031835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
- S12031847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
- S12031866 Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
- S12031868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
- S12031883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
- S12031920 Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
- S12031930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
- S12031931 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1212 Francette
- S12031933 Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
- S12031934 KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Philadelphia Penn
- S12031938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
- S12031942 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1560 Strattonia
- S12031944 NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
- S12031947 Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire," opens
- S12031948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
- S12031948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
- S12031948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
- S12031950 Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
- S12031952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
- S12031956 Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
- S12031960 "Camelot" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway
- S12031961 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
- S12031964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students 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
- S12031969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
- S12031972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
- S12031972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2233 Kuznetsov
- S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
- S12031975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
- S12031975 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2583
- S12031979 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?]
- S12031979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
- S12031980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
- S12031981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #3089 & #3463
- S12031982 NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
- S12031984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
- S12031985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
- S12031988 Barry Sanders wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12031991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
- S12031991 Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
- S12031991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
- S12041489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from the Moors
- 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 General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
- S12041783 Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
- S12041812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
- S12041816 James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
- S12041833 American Anti-Slavery Society organizes
- S12041836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
- S12041843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
- S12041864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
- S12041867 Grange organized to protect farm interests
- S12041875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
- S12041899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
- S12041899 A Charlois discovers asteroid #451 Patientia
- S12041899 Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
- S12041909 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)
- S12041915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
- S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
- S12041918 Kingdom of Servs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed
- S12041918 Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st
- S12041918Cchief executive to travel outside US while in office
- S12041920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
- S12041922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
- S12041927 Duke Ellington openes at the Cotton Club in Harlem
- S12041933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
- S12041934 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1338 Duponta & #1339 Desagneauxa
- S12041935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
- S12041942 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
- S12041942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
- S12041942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
- S12041942 Works Progress Administration liquidated
- S12041942 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1883 Rimito
- S12041943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign negroes
- S12041945 Doc Blanchard becomes 1st junior to win Heisman Trophy
- S12041945 Senate approves US participation in UN
- S12041947 USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
- S12041949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
- S12041951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Phillipines), kills 500
- S12041952 Killer fogs begin in London England. "Smog" becomes a word
- S12041953 H Gessner discovers asteroid #3642 Frieden
- S12041956 Paul Hornung wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12041957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
- S12041957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
- S12041958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
- S12041961 Museum of Modern Art hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
- S12041961 Smallest NY Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
- S12041961 Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN
- S12041964 Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
- 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
- S12041974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
- S12041976 Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
- S12041977 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
- S12041977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinatti beats KC 27-7
- S12041978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
- S12041978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
- S12041979 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
- S12041979 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
- S12041980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3086 Kalbaugh
- S12041980 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
- S12041981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
- S12041981 Pres Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
- S12041981CAccording to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence. Not
- S12041981Crecognized as an independent country outside South Africa
- S12041982 Hershel Walker wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12041983 M Antal discovers asteroid #3730
- S12041983 NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
- S12041983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
- S12041983 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3735
- S12041984 Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
- S12041985 Pres Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
- S12041986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
- S12041988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
- S12041990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
- S12041990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
- S12041991 Judds final concert (Nashville)
- S12041991 Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
- S12051349 Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black death riots
- S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Española) (Haiti)
- S12051496 Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
- S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded
- S12051831 Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
- S12051846 C.F. Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
- S12051848 Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms Calif gold discovery
- S12051854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents a folding theater chair
- S12051868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
- S12051876 Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
- S12051876 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
- S12051879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
- S12051881 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
- S12051905 Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England
- S12051908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
- S12051920 Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
- S12051929 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
- S12051931 G Reiss discovers asteroid #1213 Algeria
- S12051932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
- S12051933 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
- S12051935 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello Calif)
- S12051935 National Council of Negro Women forms (NYC)
- S12051936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR
- S12051936Cbecomes constituent republics of the Soviet Union
- S12051941 Football Writers Association of America organized
- S12051941 Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
- S12051943 NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
- S12051946 Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
- S12051947 Jersey Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
- S12051948 NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
- S12051949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
- S12051950 Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
- S12051951 "Dragnet" premiers
- S12051955 AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
- S12051955 Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama
- S12051957 NYC becomes 1st city to legislate against racial or religious
- S12051957Cdiscrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
- S12051967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
- S12051968 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
- S12051970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from
- S12051970CNHL hall of fame
- S12051972 P Wild discovers asteroid #1866 Sisyphus
- S12051973 Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
- S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
- S12051974 1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
- S12051974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
- S12051974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
- S12051974 Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
- S12051974 Seattle Seahawks forms
- S12051974 Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
- S12051975 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
- S12051977 Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
- S12051978 Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
- 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
- S12051981 Marcus Allen of USC wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12051982 Herschel Walker of Georgia wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12051982 Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
- S12051983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
- S12051983 LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
- S12051985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above the 1,500 level for 1st time
- S12051988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
- S12051990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
- S12051991 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
- S12051991 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
- S12061492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Môle Saint Nicolas
- S12061534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
- S12061631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
- S12061732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
- 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
- S12061846 The opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
- S12061849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
- S12061866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
- S12061870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in the House of Reps (SC)
- S12061873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
- S12061875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
- S12061876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
- S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
- S12061877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition
- S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
- S12061884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
- S12061893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #378 Holmia
- S12061899 J E Keeler discovers asteroid #452 Hamiltonia
- S12061907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
- S12061907 Mine explosion kills 362 at Monongah WV
- S12061917 1,600 die as 2 munitions ships collide at Halifax, Nova Scotia
- S12061917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
- S12061917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
- S12061921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
- S12061922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
- S12061922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
- S12061923 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
- S12061925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1063 Aquilegia
- S12061925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
- S12061929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1187 Afra
- S12061941 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
- S12061955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
- S12061956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr
- S12061956 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2789
- S12061957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
- S12061957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
- S12061958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
- S12061960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
- S12061962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
- S12061963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
- S12061965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
- S12061968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
- S12061969 300,000 attend the Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
- S12061970 Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
- S12061971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- S12061973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
- S12061973 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
- S12061974 George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
- S12061975 Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry
- S12061977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
- S12061980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
- S12061980 NASA launches Intelsat V
- S12061981 Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
- S12061982 Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
- S12061982C11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National
- S12061982CLiberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
- S12061983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
- S12061984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
- S12061986 Vinny Testaverde of Minn wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12061987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
- S12061988 Agnes Neil Williams purchases the Baltimore Orioles for $70 million
- S12061988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
- S12061988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
- S12061988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
- S12061988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in Calif after secret mission
- S12061989 Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at U of Montréal
- S12061990 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
- S12061990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
- S12061991 "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Conuntry" premieres
- S1207 36 -BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
- S1207 43 -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head &
- S1207 43C-BC- right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers
- S1207 283 St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12071787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
- S12071836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
- S12071842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
- S12071872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½-year world oceanographic cruise
- S12071875 Natives Sons of the West organized
- S12071876 NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
- S12071885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
- S12071891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
- S12071896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #423 Diotima
- S12071909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic
- S12071912 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #737 Arequipa
- S12071916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H.H. Asquith as British PM
- S12071917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
- S12071921 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
- S12071926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1078 Mentha
- S12071932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in NY
- S12071934 Wiley Post discovers the jet stream
- S12071935 Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
- S12071938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of the St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
- S12071941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
- S12071941C1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
- S12071946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119
- S12071953 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
- S12071956 Helen O'Connell joins the Today Show panel
- S12071964 George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
- S12071965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift
- S12071965Cmutual excommunications that led to split of the 2 churches in 1054
- S12071968 M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
- S12071968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
- S12071968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
- S12071971 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
- S12071972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched
- S12071972 Phillipine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
- S12071973 Wings release "Band on the Run"
- S12071975 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
- S12071975 P Wild discovers asteroid #2843
- S12071976 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
- S12071977 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
- S12071978 Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
- S12071980 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3494
- S12071982 T Seki discovers asteroid #2961 Katsurahama
- S12071983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
- S12071985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
- S12071985 Bo Jackson of Auburn wins the Heisman Trophy
- S12071987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in Calif (man shot pilots)
- S12071987 Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting
- S12071988 25,000 killed by an earthquake in Armenian SSR (6.9)
- S12071988 Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
- S12071988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
- S12071988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
- S12071988 NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
- S12071990 Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
- S12071990 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
- S12071995 Galileo arrives on Jupiter
- S12081776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
- S12081792 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
- S12081794 1st issue of the Herald of Rutland, VT published
- S12081845 Asteroid number 5, Astraea discovered (named for goddess of justice)
- S12081845 German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
- S12081845 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #5 Astraea
- S12081854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free
- S12081854Cof Original Sin
- S12081863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
- S12081863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
- S12081869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
- S12081881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
- S12081886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
- S12081886CSamuel Gompers elected AFL president
- S12081896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
- S12081898 A Charlois discovers asteroid #441 Bathilde
- S12081902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
- S12081909 Bird banding society found
- S12081913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
- S12081931 Coaxial cable patented
- S12081936 NAACP files suit to equalize the salaries of black & white teachers
- S12081938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
- S12081940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
- S12081941 SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
- S12081941 US & Britain declares war on Japan, enters WW I
- S12081946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
- S12081949 Chinese Nationalist govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
- S12081952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
- S12081956 16th Olympic games end in Melbourne
- S12081956 1st test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
- S12081956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
- S12081961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
- S12081962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
- S12081963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
- S12081963Cnear Elkton, Maryland. Only case of lightning caused crash
- S12081964 R Burnham & N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3397
- S12081966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
- S12081966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
- S12081967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
- S12081967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
- S12081972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
- S12081974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
- S12081976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-general
- S12081980 "Bravo" network premiers on cable tv
- S12081980 Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #2601 Bologna
- S12081982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
- S12081982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held the Wash
- S12081982CMonument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
- S12081983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
- S12081984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
- S12081985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
- S12081986 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
- S12081987 Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalee to actually score a goal
- S12081987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
- S12081987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
- S12081987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
- S12081987Ctreaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
- S12081988 Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
- S12081991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
- S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares
- S12091640Chimself to be free of original sin
- S12091738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
- S12091793 Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
- S12091824 Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
- S12091851 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montréal)
- S12091854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
- S12091869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
- S12091883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
- S12091884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
- S12091892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #349 Dembowska
- S12091895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #409 Aspasia
- S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
- S12091909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
- S12091912 H Vogt discovers asteroid #735 Marghanna
- S12091913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
- S12091917 British forces capture Jerusalem
- S12091925 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
- S12091926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
- S12091928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1104 Syringa
- S12091931 Spain becomes a republic
- S12091934 NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
- S12091940 British troops 1st major offensive in North Africa during WW II
- S12091940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
- S12091941 1st US WW II bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines
- S12091941 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
- S12091941 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
- S12091941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
- S12091948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
- S12091949 NFL merges Cleve Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
- S12091951 Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Württemberg, W Germ
- S12091953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
- S12091953 Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
- S12091958 Robert H.W. Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form
- S12091958Cthe anti-Communist John Birch Society
- S12091961 SS Col Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel
- S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
- S12091961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
- S12091962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
- S12091962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
- S12091963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
- S12091963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
- S12091965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
- S12091967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
- S12091967 Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House
- S12091967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
- S12091971 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to the Supreme Court
- S12091974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
- S12091975 Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
- S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
- S12091978C1st game of the Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle
- S12091978Cvs Milwaukee Does
- S12091980 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
- S12091981 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
- S12091982 Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
- S12091983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because the
- S12091983Cfood is free and that's easier than paying for it"
- S12091984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
- S12091985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
- S12091987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
- S12091987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
- S12091988 NY Yanks sell all TV rights to cable network in $500 M deal
- S12091990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
- S12091990 NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
- S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
- S12101672 NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
- S12101690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
- 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 suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
- S12101879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #211 Isolda
- S12101896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
- S12101898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
- S12101901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy)
- S12101906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
- S12101915 Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
- S12101918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
- S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
- 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
- S12101934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of the season
- S12101936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
- S12101948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- S12101950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
- S12101954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
- S12101958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
- S12101961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
- S12101962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
- S12101963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on the Andy Williams Show
- S12101963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
- S12101966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
- S12101970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
- S12101971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- S12101973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (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
- S12101976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
- S12101977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- S12101978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
- S12101980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
- S12101982 Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03
- S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
- S12101983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
- S12101983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
- S12101984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
- S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101987 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time
- S12101988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
- S12101990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
- S1211 384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12111620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
- S12111719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
- S12111792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
- S12111816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
- S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state
- S12111844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
- S12111866 1st yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean
- S12111872 1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
- S12111882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by
- S12111882Celectricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
- S12111888 French Panama Canal company fails
- S12111901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
- S12111905 120° F (49° C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
- S12111909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- S12111909 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #691 Lehigh
- S12111914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
- S12111917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
- S12111917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
- S12111919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
- S12111928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
- S12111931 Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence
- S12111931Cto Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
- S12111932 San Francisco's coldest day (27°F).
- S12111932 Snow falls in SF
- S12111934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
- S12111934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
- S12111936 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1436 Salonta
- S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves
- S12111937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
- S12111941 Germany & Italy declare war on US
- S12111941 Japanese occupy Guam
- S12111946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
- S12111947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
- S12111949 Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
- S12111949 Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
- S12111951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement
- S12111953 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
- S12111954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
- S12111957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
- 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 Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
- S12111961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
- S12111961 JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
- S12111966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
- S12111967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
- S12111967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
- S12111968 US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
- S12111970 John Lennon releases 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¢
- S12111975Cfrom Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
- S12111975CGreat Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett
- S12111978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy
- S12111978CAirport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
- S12111981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
- S12111981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
- S12111981 UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
- S12111981 Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
- S12111983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
- S12111985 Edm Oilers (36) & Chic Black Hawks (26) score NHL record 62 points
- S12111985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
- S12111985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9
- S12111985C& ties record of 21 goals
- S12111986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
- S12111989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
- S12111990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn, due to fog
- S12111990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
- S12111991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
- S12121479 Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
- S12121769 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
- S12121777 Rev Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
- S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
- S12121791 Bank of the US opens
- S12121792 In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music
- S12121792Ccomposition from Franz Joseph Haydn
- S12121800 Washington DC established as capital of US
- S12121870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
- S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
- S12121899 George F Grant of Boston patents golf tee
- S12121901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
- S12121906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish cabinet member, appointed Sec of Commerce
- S12121913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
- S12121915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown at Dessau Germany
- S12121917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
- S12121917 Rev Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
- S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
- S12121925 last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
- S12121937 1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
- S12121937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in
- S12121937CChina. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2 M in reparations)
- S12121941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
- S12121946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
- S12121946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
- S12121947 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2201 Oljato
- S12121947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
- S12121952 Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
- S12121953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
- S12121957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
- S12121959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
- S12121961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
- S12121961 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
- S12121963 Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
- S12121963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 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
- S12121968 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
- S12121970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
- S12121973 San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
- S12121975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
- S12121975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford
- S12121976 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
- S12121977 Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
- S12121979 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
- S12121979 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe
- S12121980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
- S12121981 Wayne Gretsky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
- S12121983 A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait
- S12121985 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
- S12121985 NASA launches space vehicle S-207
- S12121986 Bone Crusher Smith KO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG
- S12121987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
- S12121987 Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
- S12121988 NYC Subway system adds new stations (the Z line)
- S12121988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
- S12121990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
- S12121991 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
- S12121991 NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
- S12121991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
- S12131545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
- S12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
- S12131642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
- S12131769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
- S12131774 1st incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William & Mary, NH
- S12131816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
- S12131862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North
- S12131879 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
- S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ)
- S12131916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
- S12131918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany
- S12131918 Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
- S12131919 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
- S12131920 F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
- S12131924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
- S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
- S12131928 L Volta discovers asteroid #1115 Sabauda
- S12131936 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
- S12131938 Los Angeles freezes at 28°
- S12131944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
- S12131947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
- S12131949 AL votes down proposal to revive the spitball
- S12131949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
- S12131951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
- S12131959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
- S12131960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
- S12131963 Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with the Beatles
- S12131964 In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Méxican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an
- S12131964Cexplosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border
- S12131967 United Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
- S12131968 Playland at the Beach reopens
- S12131969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
- S12131971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
- S12131973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
- S12131974 Malta becomes a republic
- S12131976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
- S12131976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
- S12131977 Entire U of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash
- S12131978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
- S12131981 Polish govt declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
- 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
- S12131983 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
- S12131983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
- S12131984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
- S12131988 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
- S12131988 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
- S12131989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
- S12131990 Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
- S12131991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
- S12131991 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
- S12131991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
- S1214 867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S1214 872 John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12141287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
- S12141656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris
- S12141656Cmade of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
- S12141782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British
- S12141793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
- S12141798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
- S12141819 Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state
- S12141825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
- S12141849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
- S12141863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
- S12141889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
- S12141892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #350 Ornamenta
- S12141901 1st table tennis tournament is held, at the London Royal Aquarium
- S12141904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #552 Sigelinde
- S12141911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
- S12141913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete
- S12141918 F Gonnessiat discovers asteroid #915 Cosette
- S12141927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
- S12141930 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
- S12141934 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany, NY
- S12141939 League of Nations drops the Soviet Union
- S12141941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
- S12141944 Congress establshes rank of General of the Army (5-star general)
- S12141946 Togo made a trusteeship territory of the UN
- S12141946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
- S12141947 Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
- S12141950 UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
- S12141959 J.B. Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m
- S12141962 Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
- S12141964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
- S12141971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
- S12141971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2122 Pyatiletka
- S12141974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
- S12141974 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2655 Guangxi
- S12141975 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
- S12141975 WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
- S12141977 Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
- S12141979 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2246 Bowell, #2772 Dugan & #3478 Fanale
- S12141979 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2778 & #3570
- S12141980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
- S12141980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
- S12141980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
- S12141981 Israel annexes Golan Heights
- S12141982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3062 Wren
- S12141982 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3757
- S12141982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
- S12141986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from
- S12141986CEdwards AFB, Calif on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
- S12141988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
- S12141988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
- S12141988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures
- S12141988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
- S12141990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube
- S12141990Cremoved, she dies 12 days later
- S12141991 Desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Hiesman trophy
- S1215 687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12151612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
- S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
- S12151792 1st life insurance policy issued in US, Philadelphia
- S12151794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
- S12151810 1st Irish magazine in US, the Shamrock, is published
- S12151820 1st general pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
- S12151836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
- S12151852 Asteroid 23, Thalia discovered (named for a muse of comedy)
- S12151852 J R Hind discovers asteroid #23 Thalia
- S12151854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
- S12151859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
- S12151874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
- S12151891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
- S12151909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
- S12151914 Battle of Lódz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
- S12151916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
- S12151917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
- S12151925 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
- S12151925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opened to traffic
- S12151927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
- S12151936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #3534 Sax
- S12151936 KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
- S12151938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
- S12151938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1488 Aura & #1503 Kuopio
- 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
- S12151942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
- S12151944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
- S12151945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
- S12151946 Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
- S12151946 Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
- S12151948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
- S12151950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
- S12151950 NYC's Port Authority opens
- S12151954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
- S12151954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
- S12151957 Goethe Link Obs discovers asteroids #1765 Wrubel & #1853 McElroy
- S12151959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
- S12151961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
- S12151962 Vaughn Meader's "The 1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
- S12151964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
- S12151964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
- S12151965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
- S12151965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
- S12151965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
- S12151965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
- S12151966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
- S12151966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of the New Orlean Saints
- S12151967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
- S12151967 Joe Garagiola joins the Today Show panel
- S12151967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
- S12151969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
- S12151970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
- 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
- S12151973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
- S12151973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
- S12151974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
- S12151976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m
- S12151976Cgallons of crude when the ship ran aground
- S12151979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
- S12151979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
- S12151980 Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
- S12151981 NASA launches Intelsat V
- S12151982 Bill Parcells becomes the 12th head coach of the NY Giants
- S12151982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
- S12151982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
- S12151983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
- S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
- S12151985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
- S12151986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
- S12151986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
- S12151988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
- S12151990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
- S1216 882 John VIII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S1216 882 Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12161631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
- S12161653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland & Ireland
- S12161689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
- S12161773 Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome
- S12161809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by the French Senate
- S12161811 Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region
- S12161835 Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
- 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
- S12161892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #351 Yrsa
- S12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
- S12161897 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
- S12161903 Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
- S12161905 "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
- S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
- S12161908 1st credit union in US formed, Manchester, NH
- S12161909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres José Santos Zelaya from office
- S12161912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20¢ parcel post, issued
- S12161920 Over 180,000 die when earthquake destroys 15,000² miles (Kansu China)
- S12161926 WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
- S12161929 1st NHL game at Chicago Stadium (Black Hawks)
- S12161935 R Carrasco discovers asteroid #1644 Rafita
- S12161941 Sarawak occupied by the Japanese
- S12161943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
- S12161944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium
- S12161950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
- S12161959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
- S12161960 134 dies as United DC-8 & TWA Super Constellation collide over NYC
- S12161960 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
- S12161962 Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nepál adopts new constit
- S12161962 NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with
- S12161962C6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
- S12161965 Gemini 6 returns to Earth
- S12161965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
- S12161966 Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in the UK
- S12161967 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
- S12161969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko"
- S12161969Cposters begin appearing
- S12161970 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
- S12161971 Pakistan army surrenders to Indian army in Bangladesh
- S12161971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1900 Katyusha
- 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
- S12161976 Govt halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
- S12161976 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #2341 Aoluta, #2480, #2551 Decabrina,
- S12161976C#2669 Shostakovich, #2692 Chkalov, #2699 Kalinin, #3052 Herzen,
- S12161976C#3147 Samantha, #3483 & #3719
- S12161978 Ronald Reagan denounces Pres Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR
- S12161979 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2264 Sabrina
- S12161979 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2795 Lepage & #3175 Netto
- S12161980 Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State
- S12161980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3162 Nostalgia
- S12161980 Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state
- S12161983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
- S12161983Crequest to starve herself to death in a county hospital
- S12161983CRiverside, Cal judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato
- S12161985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
- S12161988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
- S12161990 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
- S12161991 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
- S1217 283 St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
- S12171777 France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
- S12171790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in México City
- S12171791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
- S12171792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Québec city
- S12171798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
- S12171819 Congress of Angostura establishes Columbia's independence from Spain
- S12171821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
- S12171852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
- S12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
- S12171862 Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
- S12171875 Violent bread riots in Montréal
- S12171895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
- S12171895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
- S12171900 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with
- S12171900Cextraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
- S12171903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
- S12171905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #580 Selene
- S12171914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
- S12171920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
- S12171920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
- S12171920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
- S12171924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
- S12171925 Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
- S12171926 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
- S12171927 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
- S12171930 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1270 Datura
- S12171933 National Football League starts keeping official statistics
- S12171933Cas Bears beat Giants 23-21 in championship game
- S12171939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
- S12171941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
- S12171944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
- S12171944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
- S12171944 US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
- S12171946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
- S12171947 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
- S12171954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
- S12171957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
- S12171959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
- S12171961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
- S12171961 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portugese colonies
- S12171962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
- S12171965 Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50¢)
- S12171969 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
- S12171969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of
- S12171969Cextraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
- S12171971 Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
- S12171971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
- S12171972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
- S12171975 1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
- S12171975 John Paul Stevens appointed to the Supreme Court
- S12171975 Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
- S12171978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
- S12171979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
- S12171979 H Kosai & G Sasaki discovers asteroid #3392 Setouchi
- S12171981 Members of the Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
- S12171984 NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
- S12171988 Bryan Murray becomes the 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
- S12171988 NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
- S12171988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
- S12171990 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
- S12171991 NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
- S12171991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
- S12181774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
- S12181777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
- S12181787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
- S12181796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor
- S12181799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
- S12181813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
- S12181839 1st celestial photograph (of the moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
- S12181849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
- S12181859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
- S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
- S12181865 1st US cattle importation law passed
- S12181897 A Charlois discovers asteroids #430 Hybris, #431 Nephele & #432 Pythia
- S12181898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
- S12181915 Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
- S12181923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
- S12181932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
- S12181936 1st giant panda imported into US
- S12181944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillipines)
- S12181945 Uruguay joins the United Nations
- S12181946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
- S12181949 Phila Eagles beat LA Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
- S12181956 Japan admitted to UN
- S12181957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
- S12181958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
- S12181958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
- S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
- S12181959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
- S12181961 For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
- S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
- S12181961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
- S12181963 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
- S12181965 Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
- S12181965 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
- S12181969 Britain abolishes death penalty
- S12181971 1st Candlelight Processional
- S12181971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
- S12181972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
- S12181973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
- S12181974 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2077 Kiangsu
- S12181974 SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
- S12181977 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
- S12181977 M Lovas discovers asteroid #3579
- S12181979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
- S12181980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
- S12181982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
- S12181983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
- S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
- S12181987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
- S12181988 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
- S12181988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
- S12181989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
- S12181991 DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in hollywood
- S12181991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants
- S1219 401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
- S12191732 Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- S12191776 Thomas Paine publishes his 1st "American Crisis" essay
- S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for the winter
- S12191795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
- S12191823 Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
- S12191828 South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws
- S12191842 US recognizes independence of Hawaii
- S12191843 Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
- S12191854 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
- S12191859 Grading started for Market Street RR
- S12191861 Battle of Black Water
- S12191867 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
- S12191871 Albert Jones, NYC, patents corrugated paper
- S12191881 The opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels)
- S12191887 Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
- S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
- S12191890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Beryl Coronet" (BG)
- S12191891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
- S12191894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #397 Vienna
- S12191903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
- S12191904 The Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle
- S12191904Cto catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
- S12191907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
- S12191907 Explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
- S12191910 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
- S12191910 Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
- S12191913 A Massinger discovers asteroid #772 Tanete
- S12191913 C Le Morvan discovers asteroid #774 Armor
- S12191917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
- S12191917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
- S12191919 American Meteorological Society found
- S12191920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
- S12191922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
- S12191928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
- S12191930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
- S12191932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
- S12191933 Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
- S12191945 Austrian Republic re-establishes
- S12191946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
- S12191948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
- S12191948 Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
- S12191948 Phila Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
- 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
- S12191960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
- S12191960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
- S12191962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
- S12191962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
- S12191962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
- S12191969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
- S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
- S12191972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
- S12191973 P Wild discovers asteroid #1937 Locarno
- S12191974 Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
- S12191974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st VP
- S12191974 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3051
- S12191975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- S12191980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
- S12191980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
- S12191984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
- S12191984 Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
- S12191984 Wayne Gretzky becomes 18th NHLer to score 1,000 points
- S12191985 STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
- S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
- S12191987 Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
- S12191988 NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
- S12191988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
- S12191988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
- S12191989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
- S12191989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
- S12191991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
- S12191991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
- S12191991 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
- S12201606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
- S12201669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for
- S12201669Cinsurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
- 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
- S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
- S12201850 Hawaiian post office established
- S12201860 SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Seccession, 1st state to secede
- 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
- S12201891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands the pull of 4 horses
- S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
- S12201892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
- S12201893 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
- S12201900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
- S12201907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
- S12201919 Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
- S12201922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
- S12201928 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montréal, Què
- S12201929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
- S12201938 V.K. Zworykin receives patent on the Iconoscope TV system
- S12201939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
- S12201944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
- S12201962 The Osmond brothers debut on the Andy Williams Show
- S12201963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
- S12201965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2085 Henan & #2886
- S12201966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
- S12201973 AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
- S12201973 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
- S12201974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
- S12201976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
- S12201976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2427 Kobzar & #2700 Baikonur
- S12201977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
- S12201978 H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
- S12201980 USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
- S12201981 "Dreamgirls" opens on Broadway
- S12201981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3130, #3334 & #3550
- S12201981 Dou Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
- S12201981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2904 Millman & #3353 Jarvis
- S12201981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3611 & #3704
- S12201983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
- S12201983 NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
- S12201983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
- S12201984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in the Yale library
- S12201985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
- S12201986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
- S12201987 T Kojima discovers asteroid #3774
- S12201987 Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector
- S12201987C1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000)
- S12201988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
- S12201988 NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
- S12201989 US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
- S12201990 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
- S12201990 Robert F.X. Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
- S12201990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
- S12201991 NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
- S12211620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/11 OS)
- S12211784 John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
- S12211829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
- S12211849 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
- S12211891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
- S12211898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
- 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
- S12211914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
- S12211914Creleased. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
- S12211915 25.83 cm (10.17") of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
- 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
- S12211929 1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas
- S12211933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
- S12211933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
- S12211937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White)
- S12211938 A Patry discovers asteroid #1509 Esclangona
- S12211941 Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
- S12211948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
- S12211948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
- S12211952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
- S12211954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
- S12211958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
- S12211959 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
- S12211959 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
- S12211961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
- S12211966 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
- S12211968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
- S12211969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
- S12211971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general
- S12211972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
- S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
- S12211975 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
- S12211975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2
- S12211975Cscoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
- S12211976 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
- S12211976 Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
- S12211976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
- S12211978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder
- S12211979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
- S12211981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
- S12211981 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3388
- S12211983 Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
- S12211983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
- S12211984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
- S12211984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
- S12211985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
- S12211985 Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
- S12211987 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
- S12211987 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
- S12211987 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched
- S12211988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
- S12211988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
- S12211988 Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
- S12211989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
- S12211991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
- S12211991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
- S12211991 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda wed
- S1222 401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12221772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
- S12221775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
- S12221783 Washington resigns his military commission [or 1223?]
- S12221807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
- S12221815 Spaniards execute Méxican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
- S12221870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
- S12221877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
- S12221885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
- S12221886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
- S12221886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #264 Libussa
- S12221888 Heavyweight Boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
- S12221891 M Wolf discovers asteroid #323 Brucia
- S12221894 United States Golf Association formed (NYC)
- S12221894CFrench officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers
- S12221894Cworldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
- S12221910 M Wolf discovers asteroid #707 Steina
- S12221910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
- S12221913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #773 Irmintraud
- S12221915 Federal Baseball League disolved
- S12221919 US deports 250 alien radicals
- S12221924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
- S12221934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
- S12221936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
- S12221937 Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic
- S12221939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
- S12221939C99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
- S12221941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
- S12221943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
- S12221944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
- S12221946 Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
- S12221947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
- S12221950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
- S12221959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
- S12221962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
- S12221963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
- S12221963 Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
- S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
- S12221965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
- S12221969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
- S12221970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison
- S12221971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general
- S12221974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
- S12221974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
- S12221976 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
- S12221977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
- S12221978 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2836 Sobolev
- S12221980 Pres-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) &
- S12221980CJames Watt (Interior)
- S12221983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
- S12221984 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #3712
- S12221984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train
- S12221984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
- S12221985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
- S12221986 T Niijima & T Urata discovers asteroid #3565 Ojima
- S12221987 Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
- S12221988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
- S12221988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
- S12221988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
- S12221989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
- S12221989 Cold wave: -4°F in Oklahoma City, -6°F in Tulsa, -12°F in Pitts,
- S12221989C-18°F in Denver, -23°F in KC Mo, -42°F in Scottsbluff Nebraska
- S12221989C-47°F in Hardin Mont & -60°F in Black Hills South Dakota
- S12221990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
- S12221990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
- S12221990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
- S1223 619 Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12231569 St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
- S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
- S12231690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
- S12231776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
- S12231776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
- S12231779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
- S12231783 Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
- S12231788 Maryland votes to cede a 10² mile area for Dist of Columbia
- S12231823 "Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
- S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
- S12231852 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
- S12231862 Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw &
- S12231862Ccommon enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
- S12231867 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
- S12231893 The opera "Hänsel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
- S12231907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
- S12231909 Albert becomes king of Belgium
- S12231911 The opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
- S12231913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
- S12231919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
- S12231920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
- S12231926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
- S12231928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network
- S12231930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
- S12231933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
- S12231941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
- 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
- S12231951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000)
- S12231951CLA Rams beat Cleve Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
- S12231962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion
- S12231962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
- S12231966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
- S12231968 1st US case of space motion sickness
- S12231968 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea
- S12231968 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
- S12231972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
- S12231972 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua
- S12231972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
- S12231972C"Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with
- S12231972Ca last second touchdown reception against the Raiders to win 13-7
- S12231973 "The Young and the Restless" premiers on TV
- S12231973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
- S12231975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
- S12231978 Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against the Rangers, Trottier
- S12231978Cscores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
- S12231979 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3724
- S12231979 NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
- S12231982 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3068 Khanina, #3345 & #3675
- S12231983 Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
- S12231984 Oak Ridge Observatory discovers asteroid #3773
- S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
- S12231987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted
- S12231987Cassassination of Pres Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
- S12231990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
- S12231991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
- S1224 640 John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12241814 Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed
- S12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
- S12241832 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Ga
- 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 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
- S12241874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
- S12241889 Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented
- S12241889 Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
- S12241902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #499 Venusia
- S12241905 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #581 Tauntonia
- 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 gives his last public performance (NYC)
- S12241924 Albania becomes a republic
- S12241930 C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #2941 Alden
- S12241933 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
- S12241936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
- S12241937 A Patry discovers asteroid #1756 Giacobini
- S12241942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemünde, Germany
- S12241943 FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
- S12241946 4th French republic established
- S12241948 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied, Dover, Mass
- S12241951 1st televised opera (Amahl & the Night Visitor)
- S12241951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN
- S12241953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
- S12241953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
- S12241954 Laos gains its independence
- S12241956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
- S12241961 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
- S12241964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
- S12241966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
- S12241966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
- S12241967 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
- S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
- S12241970 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hijacking a plane
- S12241970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
- S12241971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon,
- S12241971Ckilling all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
- S12241973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
- S12241976 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2134 Dennispalm
- S12241979 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3074 & #3566
- S12241980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
- S12241982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1
- S12241982Cranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
- S12241986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
- S12241989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy
- S12241990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
- S12241991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union
- 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
- S1225 795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12251066 William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
- S12251223 St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
- S12251621 Gov William Bradford forbids game playing on this day
- S12251745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
- S12251758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
- S12251760 Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
- S12251775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
- S12251776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
- S12251818 "Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
- S12251818 1st US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston
- S12251837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
- S12251843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
- S12251848 New Haven Railroad opens
- S12251862 40,000 watch the Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
- S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Pres A 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 Chicago
- S12251926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
- 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
- S12251950 Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
- S12251953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
- S12251957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
- S12251959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
- S12251963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
- S12251967 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
- S12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
- S12251971 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
- S12251971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
- S12251973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
- S12251974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
- S12251977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
- S12251983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
- S12251984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
- S12251987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
- S12251989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8°C, coldest temp ever recorded
- S12251990 "Godfather III" premiers
- S1226 268 St Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S1226 418 St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S1226 795 St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12261492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
- S12261620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
- S12261773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
- S12261776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
- S12261799 George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st
- S12261799Cin peace & 1st in the hearts of his countrymen"
- S12261805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
- S12261825 Erie Canal opens
- S12261831 The opera "Norma" is produced (Milan)
- S12261848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
- S12261848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
- S12261854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
- S12261860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
- S12261862 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
- S12261865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
- S12261872 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
- S12261877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st nat'l convention
- S12261878 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
- S12261892 The opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
- S12261902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
- S12261908 Jackson Johnson defeats Tommy Burns at Sydney, Aust for boxing title
- 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
- S12261931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
- S12261932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
- S12261933 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
- S12261941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting
- S12261941Cof Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing"
- S12261943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
- S12261944 Battle of Bastogne-US troops repulse the Germans
- S12261946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
- S12261947 British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
- S12261947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in
- S12261947C16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84° F
- S12261950 Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
- S12261954 Cleveland Browns beat Detroit Lions 56-10 in NFL championship game
- S12261955 Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 38-14 in NFL championship game
- S12261960 Phila Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
- S12261964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
- S12261964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
- S12261964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
- S12261965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand closes on Broadway
- S12261965 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
- S12261965 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
- S12261966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
- S12261967 The BBC broadcasts "The Magical Mystery Tour"
- S12261968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2
- S12261968Cgame misconducts in a game against the NY Rangers in NY's MSG
- S12261973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
- S12261973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
- S12261974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
- S12261975 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
- S12261978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
- S12261986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
- S12261988 "Legs Diamond" starring Peter Allen opens on Broadway
- S12261990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
- S12261990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
- S12261991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
- S12261991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
- S12261991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
- S12261991 NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
- S1227 418 [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 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
- S12271836 Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
- S12271845 Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
- S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Dept established
- S12271867 Ontario & Québec legislatures hold 1st meeting
- S12271871 World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
- S12271887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
- S12271892 Foundation Stone of the Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
- S12271892 N.C. Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
- S12271897 Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals 15-2 for the Stanley Cup
- S12271900 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
- S12271903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
- S12271904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #553 Kundry
- S12271906 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
- S12271926 Depot Square in the Bronx renamed Botanical Square
- S12271926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
- S12271927 "Show Boat" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater (NYC)
- S12271927 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
- S12271932 Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
- S12271934 1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)
- S12271934 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1340 Yvette
- S12271937 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos
- S12271937CZabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
- S12271939 1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
- S12271939 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
- S12271941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
- S12271943 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese govt
- S12271945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
- S12271946 US wins 1st Davis Cup since 1938
- S12271947 1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
- S12271949 Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
- S12271949 United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
- S12271953 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game
- S12271956 Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
- S12271959 Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
- S12271964 Cleveland Browns beat Balt Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game
- S12271968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
- S12271970 "Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2,844 performances
- S12271972 LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
- S12271972 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
- S12271973 LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
- S12271974 FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
- S12271975 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2102 Tantalus
- S12271975 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
- S12271979 "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV
- S12271979 Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG
- S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afghánistán, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown
- S12271980 Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
- S12271981 Oiler Wayne Gretsky becomes fastest NHL to get 100 pts (38th game)
- S12271983 Propane gas fire devastated 16² blocks of Buffalo
- S12271985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna
- S12271985Cairports. President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
- S12271987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches
- S12271987Cwhen he catches his 752nd pass
- S12271988 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
- S12271989 Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
- S12271991 Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
- S12271991 Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
- S1228 418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12281816 American Colonization Society organizes
- S12281832 John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with Pres Jackson)
- 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
- S12281869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
- S12281877 John Stevens, Wisc, applies for patent on flour rolling mill
- S12281878 Pope Leo XIII encyclical on socialism
- S12281879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
- S12281887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
- S12281894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #398 Admete
- S12281896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #425 Cornelia
- S12281902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (MSG, NYC)
- S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
- S12281905 Intercollegiate Athletic Assn of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
- S12281906 Ecuador adopts its constitution
- S12281908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
- S12281910 The opera "Königskinder" is produced (NYC)
- S12281912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
- S12281915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
- S12281926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
- S12281935 W.P.A. Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
- S12281940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1659 Punkaharju, #1678 Hveen & #2962
- S12281942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2181 Fogelin
- S12281942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times
- S12281945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
- S12281947 Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
- S12281948 The IDF crosses the Egyptian border
- S12281950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
- S12281952 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
- S12281958 What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
- S12281966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
- S12281968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
- S12281968 Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
- S12281973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
- S12281974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake
- S12281975 "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
- S12281975 P Wild discovers asteroid #2087 Kochera
- S12281975 Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at MSG
- S12281978 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
- S12281983 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3003
- S12281984 TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
- S12281985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
- S12281987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 16
- S12281988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
- S12281990 2 die in a NYC subway accident
- S12281991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
- S12281991 Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
- S12281991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year
- S12291782 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
- S12291813 British burn Buffalo, NY during the War of 1812
- S12291837 Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
- S12291837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
- S12291845 Texas admitted as the 28th state
- S12291848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
- S12291851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
- S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
- S12291864 Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
- S12291867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
- S12291876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio
- S12291890 Federal troops massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
- S12291890CIndian "war" in the west
- S12291891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
- S12291906 Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
- S12291908 patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
- S12291911 SF Symphony formed
- S12291913 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
- S12291921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
- S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
- S12291934 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (MSG)
- S12291934 Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
- S12291937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
- S12291937 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1442 Corvina & #2712
- S12291937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1443 Ruppina
- S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
- S12291938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
- S12291940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
- S12291948 US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
- 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)
- S12291954 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles
- S12291954Cas autonomous parts, comes into being
- S12291955 Barbra Striesand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
- S12291957 Detroit Lions beat Cleve Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
- S12291957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
- S12291958 Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
- S12291958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
- S12291965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
- S12291965 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
- S12291966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
- S12291967 Star Trek's "The Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
- S12291968 Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
- S12291968 NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
- S12291972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
- S12291975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
- S12291978 Shah of Iran, askes Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian govt
- S12291979 Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
- S12291980 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
- S12291983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
- S12291984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
- S12291984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
- S12291988 Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
- S12291988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
- S12291989 Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
- S12291989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the
- S12291989Cdecade by the Associated Press
- S12291990 Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
- S1230 274 St Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 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
- S12301844 The opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
- S12301853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000² mi (120,000² km) by Gila River from México
- S12301853Cfor $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New México
- S12301854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
- S12301875 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
- S12301896 Montreal Victorias beat Winn Victorias 6-5 for the Stanley Cup
- S12301897 Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
- S12301903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
- S12301903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
- S12301903 Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
- S12301906 Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
- S12301907 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
- S12301908 Montreal Wanderers loses to Edmonton but retain Stanley Cup (4th of
- S12301908C1908). Cup is won by total points in a 2 game series
- S12301911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
- S12301917 Lowest temperature recorded at a mountain city (-32°F-Tennessee)
- S12301922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR,
- S12301922CBelorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
- S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
- S12301927 Japan dedicates 1st subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long)
- S12301929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1140 Crimea
- S12301929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
- S12301935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
- S12301936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
- S12301937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1461 Jean-Jacques
- S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
- S12301940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2750 Loviisa
- S12301944 King George II of Greece, renounces his throne
- S12301947 King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
- S12301952 Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
- S12301956 NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
- S12301959 The George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
- S12301962 Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
- S12301963 Congress authorizes the Kennedy half dollar
- S12301965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2197 Shanghai
- S12301967 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
- S12301968 -48° F (-44° C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
- S12301971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
- S12301972 Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
- S12301972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3119 Dobronravin
- S12301973 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
- S12301973 Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
- S12301973 Minn Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
- S12301975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
- S12301977 Carter holds 1st news conf by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
- S12301978 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2240 Tsai
- S12301978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
- S12301979 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
- S12301980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2971
- S12301980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2365 Interkosmos
- S12301981 E Bowell disc asteroid #2984 Chaucer, #3247 Di Martino & #3549 Hapke
- S12301981 F Dossin discovers asteroid #3198 Wallonia
- S12301981 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
- S12301982 US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
- S12301984 Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
- S12301985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
- S12301988 Canadian Senate OK`s free trade pact; with US
- S12301988 Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
- S12301988 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 govt fuel standard
- S12301988 North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
- S1231 335 St Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S12311492 Jews are expelled from Sicily
- S12311600 British East India Company chartered
- 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
- S12311781 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
- S12311805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
- S12311841 Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
- S12311852 Future president & 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
- S12311870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
- S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
- S12311879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
- S12311879 The opera "The Pirates of Penzance" is produced (NYC)
- S12311890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
- S12311896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #424 Gratia
- S12311897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
- S12311905 J Palisa discovers asteroid #583 Klotilde
- S12311907 For the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year
- S12311921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired
- S12311923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
- S12311924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies.
- S12311931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1208 Troilus
- S12311934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
- S12311941 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
- S12311943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
- S12311944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
- S12311945 Ratification of UN Charter completed
- 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 year
- S12311951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
- S12311953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
- S12311953 Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
- S12311957 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
- S12311958 International Geophyscial Year ends
- S12311958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
- S12311961 1st performance of the Beach Boys
- S12311961 Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
- S12311961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
- S12311962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
- S12311962 Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- S12311964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
- S12311966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
- S12311966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
- S12311967 Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
- S12311967 Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13° F)
- S12311968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
- S12311970 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin
- S12311970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve the Beatles
- S12311972 Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
- S12311972 Miami Dolphins beat Pitts Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
- S12311972 Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
- S12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
- S12311974 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
- S12311976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
- S12311977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
- S12311977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
- S12311977 WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
- S12311978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US
- S12311979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
- S12311980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
- S12311980 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
- S12311981 Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
- S12311982 TV soap "The Doctors" ends 19 year run
- S12311983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
- S12311984 NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
- S12311984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
- S12311986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
- S12311986 WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
- S12311990 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
- S12311990 The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
- S12311991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
- S12311992 Target date for Europe's single market
- S12311999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama