home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- !December events - Version 9.06\=
- B120119-- Emily McLaughlin, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)\-
- B12011923 Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, comedian (Producers)\-
- B12011929 Emily McLaughlin, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
- B12011976 Konerak Sinthasomphone, Milwaukee Wisc, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim
- B12021915 Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
- B12021923 Meshulam Riklis
- B12041938 Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992)
- B120519-- Peter Hanser, actor (General Hospital)\-
- B12051921 Peter Hansen, Oakland Calif, actor (Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, Gen Hospital)\=
- B12081898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy)\-
- B120819-- Phil Collen, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria)\-
- B121319-- Karen Witter, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)\-
- B12131920 Mark Stevens, Cleveland, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)\-
- B12131962 Karen Witter, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)
- B12141914 Dan Dailey, NYC, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)\=
- B12141917 Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov & JJ, It's Always Fair Weather)\-
- B12141950 Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
- B12141964 Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains)
- B12141977 Tisha Dabber, Shelbyville Indiana, actress (New Mickey Mouse Club)
- B121619-- Patti Deutsch, Pitts Pa, comedienne (Ace Trucking Co, Laugh-in)\=
- B12191875 Carter G Woodson, Virginia, African American\=
- B12201933 Gordon Getty
- B12201946 Uri Geller, psychic (bends forks)
- B12211940 Paul, [Ray Hildebrand], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)\=
- B12231815 Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat\=
- B12231923 Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas)\=
- B12231924 Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Baby, Dallas)\-
- B12251924 Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)\-
- B122819-- Tannis Vallely, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)\-
- B12281931 Martin Milner, Detroit, actor (Route 66, Adam-12, 13 Ghosts)\-
- B12281975 Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)\=
- B12291917 Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) (1973- )\=
- D12041807 Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston
- D12041985 Anne Baxter, actress dies at 62 from a massive stroke in NYC\-
- D12051784 Philis Wheatley, poet, dies in Boston
- D12081972 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
- D12091971 Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in NYC
- D12111964 Sam Cooke, R&B star, killed in LA\-
- 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
- D12171975 Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
- D12211921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
- D12211972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
- D12251951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
- D12281918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
- H1212 [Kenya] Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (1963)\=
- S12011641 Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
- S12011938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
- S12011958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
- S12011990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
- S12021891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
- S12021895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
- S12021959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
- S12021972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
- S12031847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
- S12031883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
- S12031930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
- S12031948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
- S12031972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
- S12041833 American Anti-Slavery Society organizes
- S12041899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
- S12041915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
- S12041927 Duke Ellington openes at the Cotton Club in Harlem
- S12041951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Phillipines), kills 500
- S12041952 Killer fogs begin in London England. "Smog" becomes a word
- S12041957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
- S12041974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
- S12041990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
- S12051876 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
- S12051881 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
- S12051935 National Council of Negro Women forms (NYC)
- S12051946 Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
- 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)
- S12051974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
- S12051990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
- S12061849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
- S12061870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in the House of Reps (SC)
- S12061875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
- S12061907 Mine explosion kills 362 at Monongah WV
- S12061917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
- S12061965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
- S12061971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- S12061990 Iraqi Parliament approses release of all foreigners being held\-
- S12061990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
- S12071885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
- S12071990 Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
- S12081863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile\=
- S12081881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
- S12081936 NAACP files suit to equalize the salaries of black & white teachers
- S12081963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
- S12081963Cnear Elkton, Maryland. Only case of lightning caused crash
- S12081972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
- S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania\=
- S12101971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- S12111917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
- S12121917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
- S12121946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
- S12121961 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
- S12121975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
- S12131916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
- S12141287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
- S12151965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
- S12151967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
- S12151970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
- S12161631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
- S12161811 Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region
- S12161920 Over 180,000 die when earthquake destroys 15,000² miles (Kansu China)
- S12161943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
- S12161959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
- S12161960 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
- S12171927 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
- S12171961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
- S12181859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
- S12181944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillipines)
- S12181971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
- S12191867 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
- S12191907 Explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
- S12191910 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
- S12191930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
- S12191960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
- S12201907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
- S12201990 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
- S12211959 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
- S12211976 Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
- S12221939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
- S12221939C99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
- S12221943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters\=
- S12221950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
- S12221990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
- S12241933 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
- S12241953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
- S12241953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
- S12241966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
- 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
- S12241989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy\=
- S12241990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
- S12251760 Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
- S12251837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
- S12251953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
- S12251971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
- S12251974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
- S12251989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy\-
- S12261848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
- S12261908 Jackson Johnson defeats Tommy Burns at Sydney, Aust for boxing title
- S12261926 1st East-West football game is held at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans\-
- S12261932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
- S12271836 Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
- S12271939 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
- S12271975 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
- S12271979 "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV\=
- S12281816 American Colonization Society organizes
- S12281879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
- S12281974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake
- S12291876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio
- S12301903 Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
- S12301929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
- S12311953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
-
- B12141960 Catherine G Coleman, Charleston SC, USAF Capt/astronaut
- B12181951 Andrew S W Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut
- B12301953 Daniel T Barry, Norwalk Ct, Phd/astronaut
- B12301958 Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut