On this day...October 31st 1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation 1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred 1793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror 1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp 1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state 1908 4th Olympic games ends in London 1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy 1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto 1943 Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10) 1950 Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC 1952 Firsst thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands 1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins 1956 First American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm. GJ Dufek 1956 Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal 1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US 1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles & their fans at London Airport 1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana) 1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st pres of S Vietnam 2nd Rep 1968 Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently 1968 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game) 1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam 1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK 1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida 1974 Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah 1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) 1982 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain 1983 Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album 1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia 1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco, explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship caught fire 1987 First jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont) 1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes 1988 First Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23 1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia Halloween - is an ancient celebration combining Christian customs with ancient Druid autumn festival. All Hallow's Eve is the beginning of Hallowtide, a season embracing the Feast of All Saints (11/1) and the Feast of All Souls (11/2). This observance, dating from the sixth century, has long been associated with thoughts of spirits, the dead, ghosts, devils, and witches. Birthdates which occurred on October 31st: 1620 John Evelyn British, diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin) 1632 Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer) 1795 John Keats, London, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn) 1815 Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician (theory of functions) 1860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder 1887 Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province, China, president of Nationalist China 1893 Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase) 1896 Ethel Waters, Chester PA, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather) 1897 Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville) 1902 Eduard Franz, Milwaukee, actor (Zorro) 1902 Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40) 1906 Louise Talma, Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds) 1912 Dale Evans, Uvalde TX, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show) 1920 Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/novelist (Whip Hand, High Stakes) 1923 Hicks B. Waldron, Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon) 1926 Shirley Dinsdale, SF California, ventriloquist (Judy Splinters) 1927 Lee Grant [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal], NYC, actress (Shampoo, Landlord) 1928 Andrew Sarris, movie critic (Village Voice) 1931 Dan Rather, Wharton TX, news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes) 1937 Michael Landon, Forest Hills NY, actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven) 1937 Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn) 1942 David Ogden Stiers, Peoria Ill, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc) 1944 Kinky Friedman, Palestine TX, country rocker (Ride 'em Jewboy) 1944 Sally Kirkland, NYC, actress (Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama) 1947 Deidre Hall, Milwaukee, actress (Days of our Life, Our House) 1947 Frank Shorter, US, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1972) 1949 Terrence W. Wilcutt, Russellville Ky, Major USMC/astronaut 1950 Jane Pauley, Indianapolis Indiana, newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend) 1950 John Candy, Ontario Canada, comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck) 1953 John Lucas, NBA guard (Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks) 1960 Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran 1961 Larry Mullen Jr., drummer (U2) 1963 Johnny Marr, rocker (The Smiths-Ask, Girl Afraid) 1964 Amanda Sandrelli, Rome Italy, actress (The Key) 1966 Ad-Rock [Adam Horowitz], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight) 1968 Vanilla Ice [Robert Van Winkle], rapper (Ice Ice Baby) Deaths which occurred on October 31: 1865 William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes 1918 Count Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM, assassinated by soldiers 1926 Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit 1963 Henry Daniell, actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69 1964 Theodore C. Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash 1965 Rita Johnson, actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53 1975 Joseph Calleia, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78 1983 George Halas, NFL Hall of Fame, dies at 88 1984 Indira Gandhi, PM of India ,assassinated by 2 of her Sikh bodyguards 1987 Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83 1991 Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70

Oh, my sister, who was born on April Fool's Day, has a son born on Hallowe'en. And a daughter born on Friday the thirteenth! No kiddding!

+--------------- Bizarre National Holidays ----------------+ NOVEMBER IS November is... International Drum Month November is... Peanut Butter Lover's Month November is... Slaughter Month November 1 is ... Plan Your Epitaph Day November 4 is... Waiting For The Barbarians Day November 5 is... Gunpowder Day November 8 is... Dunce Day November 9 is... Chaos Never Dies Day November 13 is... National Indian Pudding Day November 18 is... Occult Day November 20 is... Absurdity Day November 22 is... Start Your Own Country Day November 28 is... Make Your Own Head Day November 30 is... Stay At Home Because You're Well Day

November 8th is Dunce Day for sure if Bush wins.

Not sure it will not be no matter who "we" elect! Wishing I could vote for Vice President instead of president in this election. Next question...How much difference does it really make? It the president controlled by powers behind the throne? Congress? Other less honorable (yes, there are less honorable places...) groups of money-based power? We may never know...

It's really a toss up, what a cliffhanger down to the wire election!

November 7, 2000 ELECTION DAY in the USA On this day... National day of Russia. Feast day of St Herculanus of Perugia, St Engelbert, St Willibrord, and St Florentius of Strasbourg. 1783 The last public hanging in England took place when John Austin, a forger, was executed at Tyburn. 1872 The Marie Celeste, the ill-fated brigantine, sailed from New York to be found mysteriously abandoned near the Azores some time later. 1916 Jeanette Rankin, of the state of Montana, became the first woman member of US Congress. 1917 The Bolshevik Revolution, led by Lenin, overthrew Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky's government. 1972 Richard Nixon was reelected US president. 1988 In Las Vegas, "Sugar" Ray Lewis knocked out Canadian Donny Londe, completing his collection of world titles at five different weights. 1990 Mary Robinson became the Irish Republic's first woman president. Birthdates which occurred on November 7th: 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm historian/jurist/writer of Islamic Spain 1096 Herbert R O'Connor Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicated) 1598 Francisco de Zurbar n Spain, Baroque painter (baptized) 1832 Andrew Dickson White educator/1st president of Cornell 1856 Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878) 1867 Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911) 1876 Culbert Olson Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal) 1879 Leon Trotsky Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik 1883 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux Newport New Va, TV preacher 1888 Sir Chandrasekhara Raman India, physicist (Nobel 1930) 1900 Efrem Kurtz St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) 1903 Dean Jagger Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry) 1903 Konrad Lorenz zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973) 1913 Albert Camus Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957) 1916 Joe Bushkin NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes) 1918 Billy Graham Charlotte NC, evangelist (Crusades) 1922 Al Hirt New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) 1926 Joan Sutherland Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera) 1930 Rudy Boschwitz (Sen-R-Minn) 1936 Barry Newman Boston Mass, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli) 1936 Gwyneth Jones Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano (Die Walk?re) 1938 Dee Clark Arkansas, singer (Hambone, Nobody But You) 1938 James Katt pitcher/sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minn Twins) 1942 Johnny Rivers singer (Secret Agent Man) 1943 Joni Mitchell Alberta Canada, singer (Clouds) 1943 Judith Frost British Columbia 1944 Jim Watkins Phila, actor (Jerry-Magician) 1944 Joe Niekro baseball knuckler (NY Yankees) 1949 Judy Tenuda comedienne (Spotlight Cafe) 1951 Nick Guilder singer (Hot Child in the City) 1957 Dr Jonathan Palmer formula-1 racer 1957 Kathy McMillan long jumper (1976 Olympics silver) 1961 Mintcho Pachov Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer (Olympic-bronze-1980) 1963 Todd McKee actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful) 1964 Dana Plato Maywood Calif, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) 1964 Liam O'Maonlai rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go) 1972 Christopher Daniel Barnes actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns) 1972 Clive B. Barnes Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman) Deaths which occurred on November 7th: 1573 Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo) 1837 Elijah P Lovejoy publisher, murdered by proslavery mob 1962 Eleanor Roosevelt Former 1st Lady, dies at 78 in NYC 1978 Gene Tunney former heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 80 1980 Steve McQueen actor, dies at 50 1984 George Matthews actor, dies at 73 of heart disease

If YOU don't vote you have no right to complain for the next four years!!!

"I don't want to set the world on fire," goes the song. "I just want to start a flame in your heart." Or perhaps just induce heartburn, depending on how the romance goes. But no matter what course love takes, we often resort to fire for metaphors to describe it. This particular expression derives from another of life's passionate activities: politics. In 19th century America, people cared enough about their party's candidates to march in parades for them. These campaign parades were great spectacles. Bands joined in the fun, and partisans carried torches to show how strongly they felt about their favorite. Eventually, "carrying a torch" as an expression of passion also became synonymous with strong romantic feelings for someone. Of course, in love as in politics, you don't always win. You may even get burned. (Source: WHY YOU SAY IT by Webb Garrison) --------------- FAST FACTS: Politicians say the darndest things: "No man is an Ireland." --Chicago Mayor Richard Daley "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." --Vice President Dan Quayle "Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that." --Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton "The Internet is a great way to get on the Net." --Presidential candidate Bob Dole (Source: THE 267 STUPIDEST THINGS DEMOCRATS / REPUBLICANS EVER SAID)

On this day... 1793 The Louvre was opened to the public by the Revolutionary government, although only part of the collection could be viewed. 1895 William R�ntgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at the University of Wurzburg. 1923 Hitler led his unsuccessful rising in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch. 1942 Under Eisenhower's command, US and British forces invaded North Africa, in "Operation Torch." 1958 Melody Maker published the first British album charts. 1987 An IRA bomb went off in Eniskillen, Co Fermanagh, shortly before a Remembrance Day service, killing 11 people. 1991 EC foreign ministers, meeting in Rome, imposed an economic embargo on Yugoslavia in an effort to halt the civil war there. 1994 In the US mid-term elections, the Democrats and President Clinton suffer a devastating setback: the Republicans gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1986. Birthdates which occurred on November 08: 1656 Sir Edmond Halley 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet) 1848 Gottlob Frege Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift) 1876 Frank L Gillespie Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company 1878 Marshall Walter "Mayor" Taylor famous African 1883 Sir Arnold Bax London, England, composer (Farewell My Youth) 1896 Bucky Harris baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees) 1897 Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors) 1900 Margaret Mitchell writer (Gone With the Wind) 1913 Robert Strauss NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey) 1914 Norman Lloyd Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere) 1916 June Havoc Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater) 1916 Peter Weiss Germany, Swedish writer/dramatist/novelist(Marat/Sade) 1921 Gene Saks actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave) 1921 Jerome Hines Hollywood Calif, basso (I am The Way) 1922 Christiaan Barnard S Africa, surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant) 1922 Esther Rolle Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude) 1924 Joe Flynn Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy) 1927 Patti Page Claremont Oklahoma, singer (Tennessee Waltz) 1930 Bob Harris Long Beach Calif, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters) 1931 Morley Safer Toronto Calif, TV newscaster (60 Minutes) 1935 Alain Delon France, actor (Honor Among Thieves) 1936 Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4) 1942 Angel Cordero Jr jockey (won over 6,000 races) 1947 Minnie Ripperton Chicago, singer (Loving You) 1948 Dale A Gardner Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A) 1949 Bonnie Raitt LA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow) 1951 Mary Hart Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight) 1952 Christie Hefner daughter of Hugh Hefner, Playboy CEO 1954 Rickie Lee Jones Chicago, singer (Chuck E's in Love) 1956 Randi Brooks NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope) 1961 Leif Garrett Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road) 1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School) 1967 Kim Dugger Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991) 1968 Parker Posey Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns) Deaths which occurred on November 8th: 1308 Duns Scotus who coined the word "dunce" 1933 King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig 1965 Dorothy Kilgallen columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52 1968 Wendell Corey actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 1969 Kam Tong actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62 1978 Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Mass, at 84 1983 Robert Agnew director, died at 84 of kidney failure 1986 Beatrice Kay singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78

Wow, glad this feature is back!

My source has been somewhat unreliable of late... On this day...November 10 Feast day of St Leo the Great, St Justus of Canterbury, St Aedh MacBrice, St Theoctista, and St Andrew Avellino. 1775 The Continental Congress authorised the creation of the "Continental Marines", now known as the US Marines. 1862 The first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Forza del Destino was held in St Petersburg. 1871 Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to track down missing explorer David Livingstone, met him at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika. 1938 Kristallnacht, or "night of (broken) glass", took place when Nazis burned 267 synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses in Germany. 1928 Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan, at the age of 27. 1989 Bulldozers began demolishing the 28-year- old Berlin Wall, following the government's announcement it would allow free travel between East and West Germany. Birthdates which occurred on November 10th: 1483 Martin Luther Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism 1683 George II king of England (1727-60) 1697 William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress) 1730 Oliver Goldsmith Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) 1759 Frederich von Schiller Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) 1793 Jared Kirtland US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries 1819 Cyrus West Field financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable 1844 Sir John SD Thompson (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94) 1851 Waldemar Br�gger Norway, geologist/mineralogist (Metamict State) 1861 Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri) 1873 Henri Rabaud Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire) 1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven) 1879 Vachel Lindsay Springfield Ill, poet (Johnny Appleseed) 1880 Sir Jacob Epstein sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel) 1882 Frances Perkins 1st woman Cabinet member (Sec of Labor 1933-45) 1889 Claude Rains London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca) 1895 John Knudsen Northrop aircraft designer (Northrop Air) 1907 Jane Froman St Louis Mo, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) 1911 Harry Andrews Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha) 1916 Billy May Pitts Pa, orch leader (Milton Berle Show) 1916 Guido Turchi Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva) 1918 Jack McCoy Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire) 1919 Clyde (Bulldog) Turner NFL center (Chicago Bears) 1919 George Fenneman TV announcer (You Bet You're Life) 1919 Moise Tshombe pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Za�re) 1925 Richard Burton South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) 1930 Clarence M Pendleton Jr chairman of US comm on Civil Rights 1934 Norm Cash Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers) 1935 Pippa Scott LA Calif, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky) 1935 Ronald E Evans St Francis Ks, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17) 1935 Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws) 1937 Albert Hall Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4) 1944 Dave Loggins singer (Please come to Boston) 1944 Tim Rice lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok) 1945 Donna Fargo NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA) 1946 Alaina Reed Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227) 1946 David Stockman Reagan's ex-budget director 1948 Greg Lake rock guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Tarkus) 1949 Ann Reinking Seattle, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude) 1950 Jack Scalia Bkln NY, actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat) 1955 Jack Clark all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres) 1956 Sinbad comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo) 1959 MacKenzie Phillips Alexandria Va, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time) 1961 Junior [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say) 1973 Khiry Abdulsamad LA Calif, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm) Deaths which occurred on November 10th: 1865 Henry Wirzm Confederate prison supt. executed for excessive cruelty 1938 Kemal Atark 1st pres of Turkey 1968 Gerald Mohr actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 1978 Linda Scott dies at 28 1981 Abel Gance french movie director, dies at 92 1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 75 1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment 1985 Pelle Lindbergh Phila Flyer's Goalee, dies in drunk driving accident

On this day...November 11, 2000 Feast day of St Martin of Tours, St Bartholomew of Grottaferata, St Mannas of Egypt, and St Theodore the Studite. 1918 The armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany in Compeigne, France, effectively ending World War I. 1921 The British Legion held its first Poppy Day to raise money for wounded World War I veterans. 1940 The Willys-Overland Company launched a four-wheel drive vehicle for the US Army, named "Jeep" after GP (general purpose). 1952 The first video recorder was demonstrated in Beverly Hills, California, by its inventors John Mullin and Wayne Johnson. 1965 Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, unilaterally declared his country's independence from Britain. 1975 Angola gained independence from Portugal. Birthdates which occurred on November 11th: 1050 Henry IV Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106) 1636 Yen Jo-ch? Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty 1744 Abigail Smith Adams 2nd 1st lady 1748 Charles IV king of Spain (1788-1808) 1771 Ephraim McDowell surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery) 1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment) 1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy) 1864 Alfred Hermann Fried Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911) 1869 Victor Emmanual III king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia 1872 Frederick A Stock J?lich, Germany, conductor (Theodore Thomas Orch) 1883 Ernest Ansermet Vevey Switzerland, conductor (Ruilles de Printemps) 1885 George S Patton general "Old Blood & Guts" 1896 Charles "Lucky" Luciano Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster 1898 Rene Clair director (I Married a Witch) 1899 Harold "Pie" Traynor baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates) 1899 Pat O'Brien Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces) 1900 Helena Konopacka Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928) 1900 Hugh Scott (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip 1900 John Longden West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol) 1901 Sam Spiegel producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai) 1904 Alger Hiss State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin 1909 Robert Ryan Chicago, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day) 1910 Franz Kemser Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952) 1911 King Hussein of Jordan. 1911 Patric Knowles England, actor (Big Steal, Chisum) 1914 Howard Fast screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus) 1915 William Proxmire (Sen-D-WI) (Golden Fleece Awards) 1918 Stubby Kaye NYC, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou) 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan) 1925 Jonathan Winters Dayton Oh, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy) 1927 Mose Allison Mississippi, jazz artist (Black Country Suite) 1929 LaVern Baker Chicago, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear) 1934 Bibi Andersson Sweden, actress (Scenes From a Marriage) 1934 Paula Myers-Pope US, platform diver, 2 silver, 1 bronze (Oly 1952-60) 1936 Susan Kohner actress (Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story) 1937 Warner Wolf Wash DC, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV) 1938 John Reilly Chicago, actor (Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons) 1938 Josef Odozil Czech, 1500m (Olympic-silver-1964) 1939 Claudia Boyarskikh USSR, 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964) 1943 Jan Adamski Poland, International Chess Master (1976) 1944 Jesse Colin Young NY, rocker (The Youngbloods-Soul of a City Boy) 1945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra president of Nicaragua (1984- ) 1945 Denise Alexander NYC, actress (General Hospital, Another World) 1951 Fuzzy Zoeller New Albany Ind, PGA golfer (Masters 1981) 1953 Andy Partridge guitars/vocal (XTC-Oranges & Lemons) 1954 Gail Marquis WBL forward (NY Stars, Olympic-silver-1976) 1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk king of Bhutan (1972- ) 1956 Ian Craig Marsh rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams) 1959 Vincent Irizarry Queens NY, actor (Guiding Light, Santa Barbara) 1960 Lisa Welch Semler Aberdeen Md, playmate (Sep, 1980) 1962 Demi Moore [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (7th Sign, Blame it on Rio) 1963 Vinnie Testaverde NFL quarterback 1964 Philip McKeon Westbury NY, actor (Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High) 1965 Brian Wilson NYC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 1968 Jo Kittsee Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue) 1968 Wyatt Pauley Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies) 1970 Derry Brownson rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable) 1970 Lee Parkin Starsky daughter of Ringo 1974 Leonardo DiCaprio LA, actor (Luke-Growing Pains, Titanic) Deaths which occurred on November 11th: 1831 Nat Turner former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA 1956 Victor Young orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56 1962 Ren� Coty pres of France, dies at 80 1973 Stringbean [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58 1974 Jane Ace comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74 1975 Marty May (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79 1984 Rev Martin Luther King Sr dies in Atlanta at 84 1986 Roger C Carmel actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54 1987 L T Coggeshall medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86

November 13 On this day... 1002 The Massacre of the Danes in the southern counties of England took place by order of Ethelred II. 1851 The telegraph service between London and Paris began operating. 1907 The first helicopter rose 2 m/6.5 ft above ground in Normandy. 1914 US heiress Mary Phelps Jacob patented a new female undergarment, known as the "backless brassiere". 1916 In World War I, the Battle of the Somme ended, having caused the deaths of some 60,000 Allied soldiers. 1970 A tornado and tidal waves struck East Pakistan, killing over 500,000 people. 1985 The Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz, dormant since 1845, erupted, killing over 20,000 people. 1987 With a view to encouraging "safe sex", or AIDS prevention, the BBC screened its first condom commercial. Birthdates which occurred on November 13: 354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher 1312 Edward III, king of England (1327-77) 1792 Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son) 1831 James Maxwell Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity) 1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet) 1838 Joseph F. Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author (Treasure Island) 1854 George Whitefield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke) 1856 Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39) 1882 John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall) 1898 Earl Sande, jockey (Hall of Famer) 1906 Conrad Thibault, Northbridge Massachusettes, singer (Jacques Fray Music Room) 1906 Hermione Baddeley, England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life) 1915 Howard Cooke, Jamaica, (1991 Mico Gold Medal Award) 1916 Jack Elam, Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo) 1917 Robert Sterling, Newcastle PA, actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper) 1922 Jack Narz, Louisville KY, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village) 1922 Madeleine Sherwood, Montreal, actress (Mother Superior-Flying Nun) 1922 Oskar Werner, film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel) 1923 Linda Christian, Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone) 1930 Fred Harris (Sen-D-Okla) 1932 Olga Fikotova, Czechoslovakia, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1956) 1932 Richard Mulligan, Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus) 1933 Adrienne Corri, Glasgow Scotland, actress (River, Dr Zhivago) 1938 Jean Seberg, Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon) 1941 Dack Rambo, Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) 1941 Mel Stottlemyre, Washington, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach 1942 Beth Brickell, Camden Arkansas, actress (Gentle Ben) 1943 John Paul Hammond, NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads) 1947 Joe Mantegna, Chicago, actor (House of Games, Weeds) 1948 Sheila Frazier, NYC, actress (Gloria-Lazarus Syndrome) 1949 Terry Reid, guitarist (River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid) 1949 Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], NYC, actress (Color Purple, Burglar) 1953 Tracy Scoggins, Galveston TX, actress (Colbys, Gumshoe Kid) 1971 John Francis Zingg, Boston, musician (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys) Deaths which occurred on November 13th: 867 St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67) 1460 Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, dies at 66 1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls 1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini, composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76 1961 Wally Brown, actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57 1974 Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances 1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56 1984 Dorothy Arnold, actress, dies at 66

Happy Birthday, Neil... On this day... November 14 1770 Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile in NE Ethiopia, then considered the main stream of the Nile. 1896 The speed limit for motor vehicles in Britain was raised from 4 mph to 14 mph. 1925 An exhibition of Surrealist art opened in Paris, including works by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Mir�, and Pablo Picasso. 1940 Enemy bombing destroyed Coventry's medieval cathedral. 1952 Britain's first pop singles chart was published by New Musical Express. 1963 The island of Surtsey off Iceland was "born" by the eruption of an underwater volcano. 1973 Bobby Moore made his 108th (and final) international appearance for England, against Italy at Wembley. 1991 Prince Sihanouk, Cambodia's former head of state, returned to Phnom Penh after nearly 13 years in exile to head the country's interim government. Birthdays on November 14th: 1765 Robert Fulton built first commerciall steamboat 1776 Henri Dutrochet discovered & named process of osmosis 1797 Sir Charles Lyell, Scotland, geologist (Princibles of Geology) 1840 Claude Monet France, impressionist (Water Lilies) 1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959) 1861 Frederick Jackson Turner Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U) 1863 Leo Baekeland, Belgian chemist (Bakelite) 1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64) 1892 James Meredith, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912) 1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady 1900 Aaron Copland Brooklyn, composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) 1901 Morton Downey Wallingford, singer (Star of the Family) 1904 Dick Powell Ark, actor (42nd Street, Christmas in July) 1904 Marya Mannes, writer (The Reporter) 1906 Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box) 1908 Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/writer (50th Anniversary of Soviet Union) 1909 Joseph R McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist lunatic 1910 Rosemary DeCamp Prescott, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl) 1912 Barbara Hutton, heiress (Woolworth) 1914 Ken Carson, Coalgate Okla, singer (Garry Moore Show) 1919 Veronica Lake, actress (Duffy's Tavern, I Married a Witch) 1920 Johnny Desmond, Detroit Mich, singer (Your Hit Parade) 1921 Brian Keith, Bayonne NJ, actor (Bill-Family Affair, Loneliest Runner) 1921 Johnny Desmond, composer (Face the Music, Glenn Miller Time) 1924 Phyllis Avery, NYC, actress (Alice-George Gobel Show, Ruth-Mr Novak) 1926 Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano (Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54) 1927 Narciso Yepes, Lorca Spain, guitarist (Orquesta Nacionale 1947) 1928 Kathleen Hughes, Hollywood California, actress (It Came From Outer Space) 1929 McLean Stevenson, Normal Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry) 1930 Edward H White II, San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4) 1933 Fred W Haise Jr, Biloxi Miss, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5) 1935 Don Stewart, actor (Guiding Light) 1935 Hussein ibn Talal I, king of Jordan 1939 Wendy (Walter) Carlos, Pawtucket RI, composer (Switched on Bach) 1940 Freddie Garrity, musician (Freddie & the Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now) 1948 Prince Charles, Britain, Prince of Wales 1948 Robert Ginty, actor (Paper Chase, White Fire) 1949 Terry Lee, Johnson Alabama, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 1953 Alexander O'Neal, British personality (James Hearsky Harris III) 1955 Jack Sikma, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks) 1967 Letitia Dean, actress (Sharon Watts-EastEnders) 1974 David Moscow, actor (Big) Deaths on November 14th: 565 Justinian, Roman emperor, dies at 82 1915 Booker T. Washington, educator/organizer, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala 1929 Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58 1955 Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59 1984 George Matthews, Brooklyn NY, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 1990 Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87 1991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDS at 63

November 16, 2000 On this day... 1532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca 1676 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket, Mass 1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan 1798 Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress 1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver 1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to the sea during Civil War 1894 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan 1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds 1907 Oklahoma becomes 46th state 1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera 1914 Federal Reserve System formally opens 1918 Hungarian People's Republic declared 1920 Postage meter 1st used in US in lieu of postage stamps 1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record) 1925 American Association for the Advancement of Atheism formed in NY 1926 NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR 1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College 1950 UN gets US govt approval to issue postage stamps 1955 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D.M. Campbell) 1957 Ed Gein butchers last victim 1959 "Sound of Music" opens on Broadway 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY 1963 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began 1964 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission 1965 1st public announcement about Walt Disney World 1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) 1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury 1973 John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album 1973 Pres Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline 1973 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit 1974 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away 1974 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2076 Levin 1974 John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" 1974 Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record) 1976 Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft 1979 Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas" 1981 Luke marries Laura on General Hospital 1982 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB 1982 Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike 1984 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center 1984 Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record 1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" 1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz 1987 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago" 1988 Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years 1988 Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs 1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel 1989 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops 1990 Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial Birthdates which occurred on November 16th: 42 -BC- Tiberius C'sar 2nd Roman emperor (14-37 AD) 1873 W(illiam) C(hristopher) Handy Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) 1888 Burnet Corwin Tuthill NYC, composer (Laurentia) 1888 Clinton Golden Penn, founder (United Steelworkers of America) 1889 George S Kaufman Pittsburgh Pa, playwright (This is Show Business) 1895 Michael Arlen Armenia, English writer (An American Verdict) 1895 Paul Hindemith Hanau Germany, composer (Tutti F�ntchen) 1896 Lawrence Tibbett Bakersfield Calif, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50) 1899 Mary Margaret McBride Paris Mo, radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC) 1904 Eddie Condon Goodland Ind, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show) 1908 Burgess Meredith Cleve Ohio, actor (Mr Novak, Penguin-Batman, Rocky) 1916 Daws Butler Toledo Ohio, cartoon voice (Elroy Jetson) 1922 Royal Dano NYC, actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II) 1928 Clu Gulager Holdenville Okla, actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man) 1930 Chinua Achebe Nigerian writer (Christmas in Biafra) 1933 Guy Stockwell NYC, actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise) 1935 Elizabeth Drew journalist (Politics & Money: The Road to Corruption) 1941 Ann Dore McLaughlin US Secretary of Labor (1987- ) 1942 Donna McKechnie Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer (Company) 1944 Joanna Pettit London, actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent) 1945 Martine van Hamel Belgium, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co) 1948 Steve Railsback actor (Blue Monkey, Green Monkey, Escape 2000) 1950 Carl J Meade Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 38, sk:STS-50) 1950 David Leisure actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest) 1953 Griff Rhys Jones British humorist/actor (Morons From Outer Space) 1963 Zina Garrison Houston, tennis player (1988 Olympics Gold, Bronze) 1964 Dwight Gooden pitcher (NY Mets) 1966 Tammy Lauren SD Calif, actress (Angie, Out of the Blue) 1966 Tricia Cast Medford NY, actr (Amanda-Bad News Bear, Young & Restless) 1967 Lisa Bonet SF, actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart) 1969 Bryan Abrams vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up) 1970 Martha Plimpton actress (Goonies, Mosquito Coast) 1971 Donald Wolf computer game creator 1979 Michael Faustino actor (brother of David) Deaths which occurred on November 16th: 1885 Louis Riel French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 1960 Clark Gable dies at 59 1961 Sam Rayburn Speaker of the House for 17 years 1965 Alexander King writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66 1981 Enid Markey actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy), dies at 85

November 17, On this day... 1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins 1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary 1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted 1796 Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy 1800 Congress held 1st session in Washington DC 1842 Fugitive slave, George Latimer, captured in Boston 1842 The opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London) 1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections 1858 Origin of Modified Julian Period 1862 Confederate Sec. of War George B Randolph resigns 1866 The opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris) 1868 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #107 Camilla 1869 Suez Canal opens (Egypt) 1875 Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott 1884 Police arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel" 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & SF 1894 Daily Racing Form founded 1913 1st US dental hygienists course established, Bridgeport, Ct 1913 Panama Canal opens 1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1 1927 Tornado hits Washington DC 1934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor 1937 Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement 1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws 1940 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane 1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF 1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry 1956 Fullback Jim Brown, Syracuse, scores 43 pts (NCAA rec) vs Colgate 1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond 1962 President Kennedy dedicates Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC 1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour) 1967 Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names 1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off the Moon 1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon 1972 Richard Nixon (R) re-elected over George McGovern (D) for president 1973 Teri Garr plays the role of a stripper on "The Nurse" 1973 Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 1977 Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel 1977 Miss World Contest - Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini 1979 NY Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in NYC 1980 John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK 1981 NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws 1984 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers 1985 NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28 1988 Benzir Bhutto wins election in Parkistan 1989 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract 1991 Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams 1993 US Congress votes for NAFTA Birthdates which occurred on November 17th: 1503 Il Bronzino, Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son) 1587 Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha) 1717 Jean d'Alembert, France, mathematician/philosopher (Trait� de Dynamique) 1755 Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24) 1790 August Ferdinand M"bius, mathematician, inventor (M"bius strip) 1799 Titian Ramsey Peale, US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology) 1878 Grace Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau) 1887 Bernard L Montgomery, British general (WW II-African campaign) 1887 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, of Alamein, Moville, Ireland 1890 Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs) 1897 Sara Haden, Galveston Tx, actress (A Family Affair) 1900 Marcel Dalio, Paris, actor (Casablanca) 1901 Lee Strasberg, director/instructs actors (Somewhere in the Night) 1904 Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal) 1905 Mischa Auer, St Petersburg Russia, actor (My Man Godfrey) 1914 Archie Campbell, Bullsgap Tenn, comedian (Hee Haw) 1917 Jack Lescoulie, Sacramento Calif, TV host (Jackie Gleason Show) 1919 Hershy Kay, Philadelphia Penn, composer/arranger (Olympic Hymn) 1925 Rock Hudson, Winnetka, Ill, actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms) 1925 Sir Charles Mackerras, Schenectady NY, Australian conductor 1929 Edgar White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952) 1929 Sumner White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952) 1930 Bob Mathias, Tulare Calif, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) 1930 David Amram, Philadelphia Penn, composer (Splendor in the Grass) 1935 Anton Sailer, Austria, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1956) 1937 Peter Cook, Turquay England, actor/comedian (Bedazzled) 1938 Gordon Lightfoot, Ontario Canada, folksinger (Sundown) 1938 Peter Snell, NZ, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64) 1942 Martin Scorsese, Queens, dir (Mean Streets, Last Temptation of Christ) 1943 Lauren Hutton, Charleston SC, model (American Gigolo, Lassiter) 1944 Danny De Vito, Neptune NJ, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins) 1944 Tom Seaver, pitcher (NY Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young '69 '73 '75) 1945 Elvin Hayes, NBA star (San Diego, Houston, Baltimore) 1948 Jaime Huelamo, Spain, cyclist (Olympic-bronze-1972) drug disqualifcation 1950 Roland Matthes, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Oly-gold-1968, 72) 1951 Dean Paul Martin, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science) 1952 Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler (Olympic-1980) 1955 Bill McCreary, Ontario, NHL referee 1958 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Oak Park Ill, actress (Color of Money) 1959 William R Moses, LA Calif, actor (Cole-Falcon Crest) 1960 Jonathan Ross, British talk show host 1961 Merete Van Kemp, Denmark, actress (Grace-Dallas, Princess Daisy) 1962 Eric Olson, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Apple's Way) 1962 Traci Lords, fictious birth date to do porn movies (actual 5/7/68) 1963 Pedro Luis Estrada, Bkln NY, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 1964 Daisy Fuentes, Havana Cuba, VJ (MTV International) 1964 Marina Tcherkasova, US, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980) 1966 Sophie Marceau, Paris France, actress (La Boum, L'Amour Braque) 1974 Brandon Call actor (Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step) Deaths which occurred on November 17th: 1917 August Rodin, sculptor, dies in Meudon, France 1962 Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 92 in Miami 1971 Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83 1978 Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct), dies at 75 1979 John Grascock ,of Jethro Tull, dies at 27 following heart surgery 1981 Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65 1982 Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 69 1982 Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer was legally declared dead 1982 Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at 86 in NYC 1985 Jimmy Ritz, of Ritz brothers, dies of heart failure at 81 1986 Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71 1987 Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81 1988 Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84 1991 Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter) suicides at 33

November 18, On this day... 1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head 1421 Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands 1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope 1755 Worst earthquake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report 1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ 1787 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston 1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French 1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America 1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer discovers Antarctica 1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland 1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii 1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World) 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway 1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya 1911 Britain's 1st seaplane flies 1911 The opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) 1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia 1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the persecution of the Church in Mexico 1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie" 1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places 1932 "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon 1936 Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco 1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined 1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb 1943 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated 1949 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP 1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV 1954 Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal 1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight 1958 1st true reservoir in Jurusalem opens 1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration 1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed 1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar" 1966 US RC bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays 1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak 58 games 1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship 1976 Yankees sign free agent Don Gullett 1980 "Heaven's Gate" premiers 1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution 1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us" 1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station 1990 NFL NY Giants beat Detroit Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0 1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait 1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti 1991 Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland Birthdates which occurred on November 18th: 1789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography 1810 Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America) 1832 Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskj"ld, Sweden, Artic explorer 1836 William Schwenck Gilbert, London, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan) 1869 James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union) 1874 Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, writer (Life with Father) 1881 Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove) 1882 Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philospher (exponent of St Thomas) 1882 Wyndham Lewis, English writer/painter (Tarr, Apes of God) 1889 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds) 1897 Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show) 1898 Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain) 1899 Eugene Ormandy (Blau), Budapest, Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch) 1900 Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters) 1900 Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger) 1901 George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll) 1908 Imogene Coca, Phila, comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl) 1909 Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic) 1912 Arthur Peterson, Mandan ND, actor (Major-Soap, Crisis) 1919 Jocelyn Brando, San Francisco, actress (Ugly American) 1921 Peter Pocklington, NHL team owner (Edmonton Oiler) 1922 Marjorie Gestring, US, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1936) 1923 Alan B Shepard, Jr., East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Apollo 14) 1923 Ted Stevens, (Sen-R-Alaska) 1926 Dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade) 1928 Mickey Mouse, cartoon strip 1929 William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot 1936 Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker (The Twist (pre Chubby Checker)) 1938 Karl Schranz, Austria, slalom (Olympic-1968) 1939 Brenda Vaccaro, Bkln NY, actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls) 1941 David Hemmings, England, actor (Blow-up, Barbarella) 1942 Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph) 1942 Linda Evans, Hartford, actr (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo) 1943 Susan Sullivan, NYC, actress (Having Babies, Falcon Crest) 1945 Glen Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Leave it to Larry) 1947 Jameson Parker, Balt Md, actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon) 1948 Andrea Marcovicci, NYC, actress (Gloria-Berrengers, Fran-Trapper John) 1948 Jack Tatum, Cherryville NC, NFL defensive back (Raiders) 1949 Ted Sator, Utica NY, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres) 1950 Elizabeth Perkins, actress (About Last Night, Big) 1950 Graham Parker, musician (Live Sparks, Mercury Poisoning) 1951 Mark N Brown, Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, STS 48) 1956 Tony Franklin, NFL kicker (Phila Eagles, New England Patriots) 1957 Jenny Burton, NYC, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do) 1960 Kim Wilde, England, rocker (You Keep Me Hanging On) 1961 Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, St Paul Minn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up) 1966 Gwendolyn Hajek, Shreveport La, playmate (September, 1987) 1969 Cheryl Bachman, Jacksonville Fla, playmate (October, 1991) 1973 Steve Christopher Petree, Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See) Deaths which occurred on November 18th: 1886 Chester A Arthur, (21st pres), dies in NY at 56 1946 Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach) 1962 Niels Bohr, physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1922, dies at 77 1969 Joseph P Kennedy, dies in Hyannis Port, Mass, at 81 1970 Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56 1978 Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 912 member 1982 Donald Dillaway actor, dies at 78

November 19, 2000 On this day... 461 St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope 498 Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage 1644 1st protestant ministry society in New England 1794 Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain 1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..." 1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6 million, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment 1879 Natl Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter 1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate 1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics 1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations 1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game 1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship 1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front 1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar 1949 Prince Rainier III coronation in Monaco 1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday 1959 Ford cancels the Edsel 1961 Houston's George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13) 1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal 1968 Army coup seizes power in Mali 1969 Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark 1971 Fort Wilderness opens 1977 Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel 1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion 1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Kleins jean ad featuring Brooke Shields 1985 Pres Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time 1988 LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays 1989 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for the 1990 world soccer cup finals. It was US' 1st qualification since 1950 1990 Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly 1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1994 First National Lottery draw in England Birthdates which occurred on November 19th: 1600 Charles I, king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament 1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War 1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion) 1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal) 1831 James A Garfield, 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881) 1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody) 1888 Jos� Ra�l Capablanca, Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27) 1899 Allen Tate, US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems) 1904 Nancy Carroll, NYC, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family) 1905 Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orch leader (Stage Show, Mahogany) 1917 Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84) 1919 Alan Young, England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed) 1919 George Fenneman, Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life) 1921 Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55) 1926 Jeane J Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN (R) 1933 Larry King, radio talk show host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry King Show) 1935 John F Welch, Jr., Salem Mass, CEO (GE) 1936 Dick Cavett, Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show) 1938 Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America's Cup 1939 Garrick Utley, Chic Ill, newscaster (1st Tuesday, NBC Weekend) 1941 Dan Haggerty, Hollywood Calif, actor (Grizzly Adams) 1942 Calvin Klein, fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans) 1947 Bob Boone, San Diego, catcher (Phillies, Angels) 1949 Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), NFL receiver (Minn Vikings)/sportscaster 1949 Mickey Lee Davis, Jr., Tenn, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 1954 Kathleen Quinlan, Mill Valley Cal, actr (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone) 1956 Glynis O'Connor, NYC, actress (Calif Dreaming, Ode to Billy Joe) 1956 Scott Jacoby, Chicago Ill, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High) 1957 Kathy Sanborn, WBL guard (NY Stars) 1957 Otis J Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl MVP) 1957 Sharon Farrah, WBL guard (NY Stars) 1960 "Lovely" Elizabeth, Frankfurt Ky, WWF's 1st lady of wrestling 1961 Meg Ryan, Bethel Ct, actr (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns) 1962 Jodie Foster, Bronx NYC, actress (Taxi Driver, Accused) 1963 Justine Greiner, Boston Mass, playmate (February, 1984) 1963 Terry Farrell, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actress (Laurie-Paper Dolls) 1969 Srka Lukesov, 1st playmate in Czechoslovkian Playboy (May, 1991) Deaths which occurred on November 19th: 1828 Franz Schubert, Austrian composer, died 1887 Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38 1915 Joe Hill, Labor leader, executed for murder 1971 Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64 1988 Christine Onassis heiress, dies of heart failure at 37

November 20 On this day... 1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England 1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden 1780 Britain declares war on Holland 1789 New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights 1805 The opera "Fidelio" is produced (Vienna) 1829 Jews are expelled from Russia's Nikolayev & Sevastopol 1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg 1866 1st natl convention of Grand Army of the Republic (veterans' org) 1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC) 1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle 1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock 1890 Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in the missions 1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua 1901 The opera "Gris�lidis" is produced (Paris) 1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game 1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero 1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports 1917 Ukrainian Republic declared 1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az 1928 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions 1931 Commercial teletype service begins 1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin) 1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over 1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island 1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC 1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (The New Jersey) 1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten 1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps 1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH) 1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights 1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba 1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times 1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million 1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal 1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live 1977 Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset 1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards 1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's) 1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight 1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting 1981 Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship 1981 Ringo releases "Stop & Smell the Roses" album 1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war 1983 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0 1983 NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing 1985 Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP 1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS 1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership 1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space Birthdates which occurred on November 20th: 1602 Otto von Guericke, inventor (air pump) 1620 Peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower 1726 Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence 1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel) 1761 Pius VIII, 253rd Roman Catholic pope (1829-30) 1841 Sir Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911) 1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball 1869 Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees) 1873 Daniel Gregory Mason, Brookline Mass, composer (Chanticker) 1884 Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist (Pres Candidate 1928-48) 1886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist/bee expert (Nobel 1973) 1889 Edwin Hubble, astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) 1891 Leon Cadore, pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game) 1900 Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job) 1907 Fran Allison, LaPorte City Iowa, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) 1908 Alistair Cooke, Manchester England, actor (Masterpiece Theatre) 1909 Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74) 1910 Pauli Murray, famous African 1911 Jean Shiley, US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932) 1914 Emilio Pucci, Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954) 1915 Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks) 1916 Judy Canova, Jacksonville Fla, comedienne/actress (Cannonball) 1916 Robert A Bruce, MD, pioneer (exercise cardiology) 1917 Robert Byrd, (D-Sen-WV) majority leader 1918 Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936) 1919 Evelyn Keyes, actress (Adventure of Martin Eden) 1920 Douglas Dick, Charlestown WV, actor (Carl-Waterfront) 1920 Gene Tierney, Bkln, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir) 1921 Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Fort Worth) 1923 Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers) 1923 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, actress/writer (Lying Days) 1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law) 1925 Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet) 1925 Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated 1926 Kaye Ballard, Cleve Ohio, actress/comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law) 1927 Estelle Parsons, Lynn Mass, actress (Rachel Rachel, Bonnie & Clyde) 1928 Franklin Cover, Cleve, actor (Tom-The Jeffersons) 1928 Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor (Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s) 1929 Dick Clark, Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand) 1929 Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, Schenectady NY, conductor (American Ballet) 1932 Richard Dawson, Hampshire Engld, actor (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud) 1934 Valentine J Peter, Omaha Neb, priest (Boy's Town 1985- ) 1937 Eero M�ntyranta, Finland, nordic ski relay (Olympic-gold-1960) 1937 Jack Linkletter, SF Calif, TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny) 1937 Ruth Laredo (n�e Meckler), Detroit, Mich, concert pianist 1939 Dick Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brothers' Show) 1940 Bob Einstein, LA Calif, comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne) 1941 Gary Karr, LA Calif, double-bassist (Oslo Philharmonic) 1942 Joseph R Biden, Jr., (D-Sen-Del) 1942 Norman Greenbaum, Mass, folk singer (Spirit in the Sky) 1943 Veronica Hamel, Phila, actress (Joyce-Hill St Blues, 79 Park Ave) 1944 Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwe, field hockey coach/player (Olympic-1980) 1946 Duane Allman, rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man) 1946 Judy Woodruff, newscaster (McNeil Lehrer Report) 1947 Joe Walsh, Wichita Ks, guitarist/rocker (Eagles) 1948 Samuel E Wright, Camden SC, actor (Enos, Ball Four) 1949 Juha Mieto, Finland, 15KM skier (Olympic-silver-1980) 1949 Ray Vitte, NYC, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest) 1954 Steve Dahl, Calif, Chicago's anti-disco DJ (WLS-FM) 1956 Bo Derek, Long Beach Cal, actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man) 1956 Mark Gastineau, NFL end (NY Jets, Pro Bowl 1981-85) 1959 Sean Young, Louisville Ky, actress (Dune, Young Doctor in Love) 1962 Steve Alexander, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) 1964 Ned Vaughn, actor (The Rescuer) 1965 Mike D [Diamond], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight) 1967 Jeff Cotler, Long Beach Calif, actor (Brian-Struck by Lightning) 1974 Marisa Ryan, actress (Major Dad) Deaths which occurred on November 20th: 1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 1962 Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct, dies 1968 Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies at 50 1973 Allan Sherman, songwriter ("Camp Granada"), dies 1975 Gen Francisco Franco, Spain's dictator, dies in Madrid at 82 1983 Marcel Dalio, actor (Casablanca), dies at 83 1983 Richard Loo, actor, dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest 1985 Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65 1995 Sergei Grinkov, Soviet ice skater (Olympic Gold 1988.1994) dies (heart attack) at 28

On this day...November 21 235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope 496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia 1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar 1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state 1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered 1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC 1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times 1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter 1877 Thomas A. Edison announces his "talking machine" invention 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" 1902 1st night football game, Phila Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0 1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears 1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1934 Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals 1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) 1945 General Motors workers go on strike 1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub 1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced 1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax 1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet 1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC) 1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet 1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" 1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage 1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavaliers, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG 1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period 1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped 1977 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York) 1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating 1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84 1980 Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager 1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum 1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks 1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations 1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris Birthdates which occurred on November 21: 1495 John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) 1694 Voltaire, France, thinker 1785 William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion) 1787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line) 1817 Richard B Garnett, Brig Gen, killed during Pickett's charge 1854 Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22) 1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor (Oxford Book of English Verse) 1898 Ren� Magritte, painter (This is Not a Pipe) 1904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz 1907 Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot) 1912 Eleanor Powell, Springfield Mass, actress/tap dancer 1916 Sid Luckman, NFL QB (Chicago Bears) 1920 Ralph Meeker, actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker) 1920 Stan Musial, outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ) 1921 Vivian Blaine, Newark NJ, actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy) 1927 Joseph Campanella, NYC, actor (Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix) 1932 Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia) 1933 Jean Shepard, Pauls Valley Okla, country singer (Ozark Jubilee) 1934 Laurence Luckinbill, Fort Smith Ark, actor (Delphi Bureau, Ike) 1936 James De Preist, Philadelphia Penn, conductor (Mitropolos 1964) 1937 Marlo Thomas, Detroit Mich (That Girl!, Jenny) 1938 Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World) 1939 Richard Lenz, Springfield Ill, actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John) 1940 Natalia Maskarova, Lenningrad, ballerina (Kirov) defected 1970 1941 Juliet Mills, London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII) 1943 Larry Mahan, Oregon, rodeo champ (1967-70) 1944 Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Phila Pa, NGA Guard (NY Knicks, Balt Bullets) 1945 Goldie Hawn, Takoma Park Md, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin) 1950 Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976) 1950 Livingston Taylor, Boston, rocker (I Will be in Love With You) 1952 Deborah Shelton, Wash DC, actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double) 1952 Lorna Luft, Scarsdale NY, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are-1980) 1953 Tina Brown, journalist publisher (Tatler) 1956 Mariana Simionescu, Tirgu Neamt Romania, 1st wife of Bjorn Borg 1956 Terri Welles, Santa Monica Ca, playmate of the year (Dec, 1980) 1957 Jim Brown, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine) 1959 Tim Wilkison, Shelby NC, tennis player (WCT Atlanta finals-1986) 1963 Nicollette Sheridan, Worthing England, actress (Paige-Knots Landing) 1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent, Oak Park Ill, Miss America (1991) 1975 Cherie Johnson, Pitts Pa, actress (Cherie-Punky Brewster) Deaths which occurred on November 21st: 1555 Georgius Agricola, mineralogist, dies in Germany at 61 1817 Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen 1899 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th VP 1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California 1958 Mel Ott, NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49 1959 Max Baer, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49 1973 Allan Sherman, singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah) 1981 Harry Von Zell, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 75 1982 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75 1987 James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79 1991 David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81

November 22, On this day... 498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen 1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts 1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper 1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia 1906 Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help 1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs 1917 National Hockey Association disbands 1922 Library Ave in the Bronx named 1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan 1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college 1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly, in Paris 1930 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0) 1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered 1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, Calif, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1943 FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record) 1950 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18 1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY 1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne 1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games 1957 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP 1959 Boston Patriots enter the AFL 1959 NY Titans (AFL) 1st draft choice (George Izo, QB, Notre Dame) 1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK 1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles 1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York 1967 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land 1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album 1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak 1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2m7s) 1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens 1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain 1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins 1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak 1981 SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21) 1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas 1985 Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C 1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title 1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals 1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0 1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon 1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract 1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit 1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired 1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving 1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister Birthdates which occurred on November 22nd: 1511 Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table) 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach 1819 George Eliot, England, novelist (Silas Marner) 1835 Frank C Armstrong, Brig Gen (Cavalry Commander under Forrest) 1856 Heber J Grant,Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church 1857 George Gissing, English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life) 1868 John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41) 1888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 1890 Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69) 1898 Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska) 1899 Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Ind, actor/songwriter (Stardust) 1904 Roland Winters, Boston Mass, actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers) 1905 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism) 1906 Lee Patrick, NYC, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon) 1912 Doris Duke, NYC, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress) 1913 Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera) 1918 Claiborne Pell, (Sen-D-RI) 1921 Rodney Dangerfield, Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School) 1922 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur) 1924 Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful) 1925 Gunther Schuller, NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation) 1928 Juno Stover-Irwin, US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956) 1928 Pat Smythe, England, equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956) 1930 Owen K Garriott, Enid, Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9) 1932 Robert Vaughn, NYC, actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy) 1935 Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68) 1935 Michael Callan, Phila, actor (Peter-Occasional Wife) 1939 Allen Garfield, Newark NJ, actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II) 1940 Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy writer-animator (Monty Python) 1941 Tom Conti, Scotland, actor (Reuben, Reuben) 1942 Guion S Bluford, Jr. Phila, Col USAF/astr (STS 8, STS 61A, STS 39) 1943 Billie Jean King, Cal, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1968, 72, 73, 75) 1950 Greg Luzinski, baseball player (Phillies, White Sox) 1950 Little Steven, rocker (Springsteen) 1950 Tina Weymouth, rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was) 1957 Sharon Bailey, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable) 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis, LA Calif, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween) 1960 Eg White, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) 1961 Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress (Manhattan, Personal Best) 1964 Stephen Geoffreys, Cincinatti Oh, actor (Faternity Vacation) 1966 Brian Robbins, Bkln NY, actor (Eric-Head of the Class) 1966 Nicholas Rowe, London England, actor (Young Sherlock Holmes) 1967 Boris Becker, West Germany, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1985,86,89) Deaths which occurred on November 22nd: 1718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, dies off Virginia coast 1825 Ann Bailey, pioneer 1871 Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned 1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel) 1943 Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY 1963 Aldous Huxley, English novelist. ("Brave New World" ) 1963 C.S.Lewis, English novelist. ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.") 1963 John F Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas (by Lee Harvey Oswald ) 1980 Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77 1980 Mae West, dies at her Hollywood residence at 87 1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80 1983 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58

November 23 On this day... 1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax 1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium 1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY 1848 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston 1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m) 1863 Battle of Chattanooga begins 1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs 1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process 1876 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn 1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan 1889 Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco) 1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis 1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti 1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital 1930 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage 1936 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce 1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized 1942 Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed 1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese 1947 Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21) 1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back 1959 "Fiorello!" premiers on Broadway 1963 Horatio Alger Society founded 1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House 1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson 1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council 1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal 1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral 1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy 1982 NY Islanders & Minn North Stars play to an 8-8 tie 1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta 1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China 1988 South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six 1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal 1988 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract 1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines Birthdates which occurred on November 23rd: 912 Otto I (the Great), German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) 1221 Alfonso X (the Wise), King of Castile & Leon (1252) 1553 Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum) 1749 Edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC) signed Declaration of Independence 1804 Franklin Pierce, 14th Pres (1853-1857) 1837 J van der Waals, Hol, physicist (Cont of Liquid & Gaseous States) 1859 Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], criminal 1860 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921) 1862 Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo) 1876 Manuel de Falla, C diz Spain, composer (El Amor Brujo) 1883 Jos� Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New World) 1887 Boris Karloff [William H Pratt], Dulwich Engld, actor (Frankenstein) 1888 Harpo Marx [Adolph] NYC, actor/comedian (Marx brothers) 1894 Ture Persson, Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912) 1903 Victor Jory, actor (Gone with the Wind, Papillon, Dodge City) 1915 Ellen Drew [Terry Ray], Kansas City Mo, actress (Isle of Dead) 1915 John Dehner, Staten Is NY, actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence) 1917 George O'Hanlon, Bkln NY, actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson) 1917 Michael Gough, Malaya, actor (Search for the Nile) 1920 Paul Celan, Romanian poet (Collected Prose) 1926 Don Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Prentiss-Lucan) 1928 Jerry Bock, US, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof) 1930 Robert Easton, Milwaukee, actor (Someone Up There Likes Me) 1930 William E Brock (Sen-D- )/US Secretary of Labor (1985-87) 1931 Yevgeni Grischin, USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60) 1933 Hayes Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956) 1933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Debica Poland, composer (Hiroshima Threnody) 1935 Vladislav N Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11) 1938 Oscar Robertson, NBA guard (Cin, Milwaukee, Olympic-gold-1960) 1939 Susan Anspach, NYC, actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Blume in Love) 1940 Gwen Gallagher, All-American Teacher 1943 Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1945 Steve Landesberg, Bronx NY, comedian/actor (Barney Miller) 1951 Bernd Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976) 1951 David Rappaport, London England, 3'11" actor (Wizard, Time Bandits) 1952 Francie Larrieu Smith, US, track runner (AAU 1 mile-1979) 1956 Michael Brainard, LA, actor (Joey Martin-All My Children) 1956 Shane Gould, Australia, 200m/400m freestyle swimmer (Oly-gold-1972) 1958 David Wallace, Miami, actor (General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus) 1959 Maxwell Caulfield, Derbyshire England, actor (Miles-The Colbys) 1964 Boyd Kestner, actor (Outsiders) Deaths which occurred on November 23rd: 1914 Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70 1962 Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81 1972 Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56 1973 Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad) 1976 Andre Malraux, France, novelist/art historian/puplic office. ("The Voices of Silence"), dies at 75 1979 Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68 1982 Rev. Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47 1990 Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish, at 37 1990 Roald Dahl, british short story writer, dies at 74 1991 Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, dies of AIDS at 46

November 24, On this day... 496 Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 642 Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1639 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event) 1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1703 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Phila 1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius 1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification 1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1863 Civil War battle for Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee 1871 National Rifle Association organized (NYC) 1874 Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire 1880 Southern University established 1896 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont 1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter 1926 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions 1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 1938 National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball 1947 John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" published 1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists 1949 Britain nationalizes it's steel & iron industry 1952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London 1954 1st US Presidental airplane christened 1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community 1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) 1963 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald 1966 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Za�re) 1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog 1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth 1970 Stanford's QB Jim Plunkett wins Heisman Trophy 1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Airlines 727 with $200,000 1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ 1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak 1977 Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St Louis (55-14) 1979 Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders 1980 Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri 1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese 1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia 1991 After going 12-0 Washington loses to Dallas 24-21 1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched 1992 Chinese air crash kills 141 Birthdates which occurred on November 24th: 1632 Benedict de "Baruch" Spinoza, Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher 1713 Father Junipero Serra, had a mission in California 1713 Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy) 1784 Zachary Taylor (Whig) 12th Pres (Mar 5,1849-July 9,1850) 1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book (My Secret Garden) 1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, France, painter (At the Moulin Rouge) 1868 Scott Joplin, US, entertainer/composer (The Entertainer) 1876 Walter Griffin, US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Aust 1877 Alben W Barkley, Graves County Ky, (35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53) 1888 Cathleen Nesbitt, Belfast Ireland, actress (Agatha-Farmer's Daughter) 1888 Dale Carnegie author (How to Win Friends & Influence People) 1889 Albert J Sylvester, England, ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977) 1905 Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady) 1908 Libertad Lamaraque, Agentina, actress (Madreselva, Puerta Cerrada) 1908 Ray Carter, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Arthur Murray Dance Party) 1911 Kirby Grant, Butte Mont, actor (Sky King) 1912 Garson Kanin, American playwright/producer (Double Life) 1912 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Dublin Ire, actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money) 1917 Howard Duff, Bremerton Wash, actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing) 1918 Tom "Stubby" Fouts, Carroll County Ind, actor (Polka-go-round) 1921 John V Lindsay, (Mayor-R/D-NY, 1965-73) 1927 Alfred Kraus, Las Palmas Canary Islands, tenor (La Scala) 1929 Eileen Barton, Bkln, singer (Broadway Open House) 1930 Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end (Cleveland Browns) 1932 Katalin Juh sz-Nagy, Hungary, foils (Olympic-gold-1964) 1934 Alfred Schnittke, Russia, composer (St Florian) 1934 Martin Charnin, Broadway lyricist (Annie, West Side Story) 1935 Ron Dellums, Oakland Calif, (Rep-D-Calif) 1939 Yoshinobu Miyake, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964, 68) 1942 Billy Connolly, Scotland, comedian/actor (Blue Money) 1942 Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary (George Bush) 1946 Ted Bundy, Burlington VT, serial murderer 1947 Dwight Schultz, Balt Md, actor (A-Team) 1948 Steve Yeager, catcher (LA Dodger) 1950 Damon Evans, Balt Md, actor (Lionel-The Jeffersons) 1951 Gaby Landhage, Goteborg Sweden, model (Model of the Rear) 1956 Doug Davidson, actor (Young & Restless) 1957 Denise Crosby, Hollywood Calif, actress (Tasha-Star Trek: Next Gen) 1958 Carmel (McCourt) England, rocker (Storm, More More More) 196- Dana Tyler, newscaster (WCBS-TV NYC) 1962 Lesa Ann Pedriana, Milwaukee Wisc, playmate (April, 1984) 1963 Lisa Howard, actress (Days of Our Life, Rolling Vengeance) Deaths which occurred on November 24th: 1572 John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies 1959 Dr Lyman Bryson, educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71 1962 James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassinator shot dead by Jack Ruby 1974 Charles Quinlivan, actor (Frank-Mr Garland), dies at 50 1980 George Raft, dies at 85

On this day...November 25 1357 Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace 1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn 1758 Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) 1766 Pope Clement XIII warns of the dangers of anti-Christian writings 1783 Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US 1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa 1847 The opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna) 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee 1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails 1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk 1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis 1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy 1908 Dorando Pietri (Italy) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in MSG marathon by 60 yds 1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill 1913 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House 1920 WTAW broadcasts first football play-by-play of Texas A&M home game 1930 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan) 1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m) 1940 Patria steamer sinks killing 200, outside of Haifa 1940 U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98 1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed 1948 KING-TV, Seattle, goes on the air with 1st Pacific NW telecast 1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala 1951 Cleve Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears 1957 Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech 1958 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community 1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa 1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points 1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, 1966 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31) 1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time 1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos 1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day) 1976 OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit 1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity 1977 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins 1978 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight 1978 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship 1983 Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli 1984 William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart 1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, Pres Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1988 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges 1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed 1988 US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed 1988 Widespread earthquake hits NE US, Canada; no damage reported 1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election Birthdates which occurred on November 25th: 1562 Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia) 1835 Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist/library builder 1846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers & drinkers 1856 Sergei Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia) 1877 Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic 1881 John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63) 1886 Rex Maupin, St Joseph Mo, orch leader (Tin Pan Alley TV) 1893 Robert Ripley, illustrator (Believe it or Not) 1895 Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet 1895 Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern) 1896 Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts) 1900 Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent 1901 Tibor Serly, Losonc Hungary, violinist/composer (American Elegy) 1902 Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins (#2), hall of famer 1914 Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak) 1919 Steve Brodie, Eldorado Ks, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp) 1920 Ricardo Montalban, actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun) 1925 Jeffrey Hunter, Orleans La, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage) 1926 Murray Schisgal, playwright (Luv) 1933 Kathryn Grant Crosby, Houston Texas, actress (Mr Cory, Big Circus) 1933 Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts) 1933 Rene Enriquez, SF Calif, actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues) 1935 Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, femnist/writer (Ms) 1939 Martin Feldstein, economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal) 1940 Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22) 1947 John Larroquette, New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court) 1947 Jonathan Kaplan, Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel) 1952 Ernest Harden, Jr., Detroit Mich, actor (Marcus-Jeffersons) 1956 Liana Vicens, Puerto Rico, 100m breaststroke (Olympics 1968) 1959 Steve Rothery, rocker (Marillion-Real to Reel) 1960 Amy Grant, gospel singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby) 1960 John F Kennedy, Jr., son of JFK 1960 Kasey Smith, Queens NY, heavy metal artist (Danger Danger-Screw It) 1961 Amy Gibson, actress (General Hospital) 1966 Stacy Lattislaw, disco singer (Million Dollar Baby) 1967 Curtis Baldwin, LA Calif, actor (Calvin-227) 1968 Jory Husain, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Jawaharial-Head of the Class) 1971 Christine Applegate, Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children) Deaths which occurred on November 25th: 1885 Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office 1944 Kenesaw Landis, baseball commisioner 1949 Luther "Bill" Robinson, famed tap dancer, dies at 71 1958 Charles F. Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82 1964 Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90 1968 Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89 1974 U Thant, UN Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65 1977 Richard Carlson, actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65 1980 George Raft, NYC, actor, dies at 85 1981 Jack Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74 1982 Robert Coote, actor, dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73 1987 Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65 1990 Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27 1991 Bill Graham, rock promoter

November 27, On this day... 399 St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1095 Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade 1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic 1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War 1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston 1843 The opera "The Bohemian Girl" is produced (London) 1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game" 1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis Brady) 1890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die 1901 Army War College established in Washington DC 1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich) 1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal 1912 Albanian National Flag adopted 1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established 1924 57,000 watch a High School football game in LA 1926 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie 1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions 1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins 1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU 1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat 1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them 1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China 1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote 1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM 1957 Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration 1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany 1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38 1965 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space 1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41 1967 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price 1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest 1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1972 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses 1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP 1975 Fred Lynn became 1st rookie to win the MVP 1978 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183 1983 Colombian jetliner crashes in Madrid killing 185 1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland 1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107 1990 Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher 1991 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ Birthdates which occurred on November 27th: 1701 Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist, inventor (centigrade temp scale) 1746 Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington 1804 Sir Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi) 1867 Charles Koechlin, Paris France, composer (Jacob Chez Luban) 1874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President) 1874 Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) 1900 Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58) 1901 Ted Husing, NYC, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights) 1903 Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback (Green Bay) 1903 Mona Washbourne, actress (Stevie, Billie Liar, Driver's Seat) 1909 James Agee, American writer (The African Queen) 1912 David Merrick, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly) 1917 "Buffalo" Bob Smith, Buffalo NY, TV host (Howdy Doody) 1921 Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69) 1925 Ernie Wise, England, comedian (Morecambe & Wise) 1925 Marshall Thompson, Peoria Ill, actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari) 1925 Michael Tolan, Detroit Mich, actor (Nurses, Senator) 1932 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader 1937 Gail Sheehy, writer (Hustling) 1940 Bruce Lee, SF Calif, karate star/actor (Green Hornet) 1942 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze) 1944 Eddie Rabbitt, Brooklyn, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night) 1945 Barbara Anderson, Bkln, actress (Eve-Ironside, Mission Impossible) 1951 Jayne Kennedy, Wash DC, sportscaster (CBS)/actress (Body & Soul) 1952 James D Wetherbee, Flushing NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-32, sk:46) 1954 Curtis Armstrong, actor (Moonlighting) 1954 Patricia McPherson, Oak Harbor Wash, actress (Bonnie-Knight Rider) 1957 Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK's daughter 1959 Charlie Burchill, rocker (Simple Minds-Breakfast Club) 1960 Ken O'Brien, QB (NY Jets) 1961 Princess, rocker (Desirez Heslop, All For Love) 1962 Calvin Hayes, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock) 1962 Charlie Benante, Bronx NY, rock drummer (Anthrax-Protest & Survive) 1963 Fisher Stevens, Chicago, actor (My Science Project, Short Circuit) 1964 Rebecca Michelle Ferratti, Helena Mt, playmate (Jun, 1986) 1964 Robin Simone Givens, NYC, (Darlene-Head of the Class) 1965 Fiachna O'Broanain, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go) 1976 Jaleel White, LA Calif, actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters) Deaths which occurred on November 27th: 8 -BC- Horace Latin poet & satirist 1934 Baby Face Nelson shot by FBI agents 1953 Eugene O'Neill playwright, dies in Boston at 65 1965 Harry Harvey Sr actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64 1975 Ross McWhirter Guinness Book of Records keeper, is murdered 1978 George Moscone (SF Mayor) & City Sup Harvey Milk shot by Dan White 1981 Lotte Lenya singer/actress, dies in NY at 83 1984 Percy Norris deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead 1986 Steve Tracy actor (Percival-Little House on the Praire), dies at 61 1988 John Carradine actor, dies at 82 of kidney failure

December 4 On this day... 1489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from the Moors 1563 Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years 1619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va) 1674 Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago 1682 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester) 1783 Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC 1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower 1816 James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King 1833 American Anti-Slavery Society organizes 1836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa 1864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law 1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests 1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail 1899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes 1899 Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives Medal of Honor 1909 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6) 1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens 1918 Kingdom of Servs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed 1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, first chief executive to travel outside US while in office 1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds 1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration 1935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anti-communism class 1942 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) 1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration 1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II 1942 Works Progress Administration liquidated 1943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes 1945 Doc Blanchard becomes 1st junior to win Heisman Trophy 1945 Senate approves US participation in UN 1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union 1949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run 1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Phillipines), kills 500 1952 Killer fogs begin in London England. "Smog" becomes a word 1956 Paul Hornung wins the Heisman Trophy 1957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published 1957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England) 1961 Museum of Modern Art hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days 1961 Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN 1965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts 1973 John Cappelletti wins Heisman trophy 1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims 1976 Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner) 1977 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself 1977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinatti beats KC 27-7 1978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor 1979 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero) 1981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV 1983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon 1985 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser 1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC 1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages 1991 Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6+ years) 1992 US Troops land in Somalia Birthdates which occurred on December 04: 1443 Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael 1584 John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony 1795 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) 1803 Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane) 1822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society 1835 Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh) 1861 Lillian Russell, US, singer/actress (Great Mogul) 1865 Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I) 1866 Vassily Kandisky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration) 1875 Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany, poet (Duino Elegies) 1892 Francisco Franco, general/dictator of Spain (1936-85) 1903 Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Nego) 1908 AD Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969) 1910 Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Viva Zapata) 1915 Allan Jackson, Hot Springs Ark, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand) 1922 Deanna Durbin, actress/singer (100 Men & a Girl) 1923 Charles Keating, district attorney (LA Calif) 1924 John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964) 1930 Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953) 1930 Ronnie Corbett, England, comedian (2 Ronnies) 1932 Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea 1933 Horst Buchholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara) 1934 Victor French, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Highway to Heaven) 1934 Wink Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This) 1937 Max Baer, Jr., Oakland Calif, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies) 1938 Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992) 1940 Freddy Cannon, rocker (Palisades Park) 1942 Chris Hillman, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man) 1943 Patti Chandler, Cal 1944 Dennis Wilson, Calif, drummer/singer (Beach Boys-My Room) 1949 Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds) 1950 Pamela Stephenson, Auckland NZ, actress (Superman 3, Saturday Night Live) 1951 Patricia Wettig, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something) 1956 Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets) 1956 Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifer (Olympics-silver-1976) 1957 Raul Boesel, Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART) Deaths which occurred on December 04: 1576 Rheticus, mathematician 1732 John Gay, poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 1807 Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston 1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63 1979 Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62 1983 Estelle Omens, actress, dies at 55 1987 Rouben Mamoulian, director (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90

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Ouch!!! =) December 6 On this day... 1534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish 1631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC 1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) 1790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital 1825 Pres. John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland 1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed 1870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in the House of Reps (SC) 1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1 1875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes 1876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn 1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time 1877 Washington Post publishes first edition 1884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC 1907 Mine explosion kills 362 at Monongah WV 1917 1,600 die as 2 munitions ships collide at Halifax, Nova Scotia 1917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) 1921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain 1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation 1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY 1923 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge) 1925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7 1941 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens 1955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing 1956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa 1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up 1957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) 1960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels 1962 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program 1968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years 1969 300,000 attend the Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones 1971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew 1973 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen) 1975 Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry 1977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence 1981 Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18 1982 Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce 1985 UK joins US Star Wars project 1986 Vinny Testaverde of Miami wins the Heisman Trophy 1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" 1988 Agnes Neil Williams purchases the Baltimore Orioles for $70 million 1988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden 1988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest) 1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown 1990 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning 1992 Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque in India Birthdates which occurred on December 6th: 1421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71) 1732 Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84) 1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US 1833 John Singleton Mosby, US, lawyer (confederate) 1870 William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds) 1886 Joyce Kilmer, US, (male) poet (Trees) 1887 Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man) 1892 Osbert Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame) 1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960) 1896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears) 1896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm) 1898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974) 1898 Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine) 1906 Agnes Moorehead, Clinton Mass, actress (Endora-Bewitched) 1913 Eleanor Holm, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932) 1920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist (Take 5) 1924 Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares) 1925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants) 1938 David Ossman, comedian (Firesign Theater) 1939 Tom s Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude) 1940 Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes) 1941 Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road) 1941 Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966) 1943 Mike Smith, London England, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over) 1945 James Naughton, Middletown Ct, actor (Trauma Center, Making the Grade) 1945 Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies) 1948 Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla) 1948 Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon) 1952 Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere) 1953 Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals) 1953 Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park) 1953 Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show) 1954 Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse) 1955 Steven Wright, comedian 1963 Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure) 1966 Joe Little, Austin TX, attorney 1967 Spanky Marcus, Hollywood Calif, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman) 1971 Ryan Wayne White, born with hemophilia, later to contract Aids from blood-clotting products. Deaths which occurred on December 6th: 1889 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America (1861-5) 1959 Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66 1984 Ruth Cummings, actress dies at 90 1985 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68 1988 Roy Orbison, US Rock singer, dies of a massive heart attack at 52 1989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry) dies at 86 1989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77 1989 Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87

December 7 On this day... 43 -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head & right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers 283 St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution 1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 1842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert 1875 Natives Sons of the West organized 1876 NY Mutuals & Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing schedule 1885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes 1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session 1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic 1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H.H. Asquith as British PM 1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I 1921 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions 1932 First gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in NY 1934 Wiley Post discovers the jet stream 1935 Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup 1938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of the St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio 1941 Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) 1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward) 1946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119 1953 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires 1956 Helen O'Connell joins the Today Show panel 1965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of the 2 churches in 1054 1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit 1972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched 1972 Philippine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant 1976 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 year term 1983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB 1985 Bo Jackson of Auburn wins the Heisman Trophy 1987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot the pilots) 1987 Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting 1988 Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die) 1988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN 1988 Yasser Arafat recognizes existence of Israel 1990 Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages 1990 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement 1993 South African transitional executive council set up 1995 Galileo arrives on Jupiter Birthdates which occurred on December 7th: 1542 Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587) 1598 Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy) 1761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum 1847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader 1873 Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia) 1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair) 1887 Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre) 1888 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children) 1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of American Newspaper Guild 1891 Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) 1905 Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune) 1910 Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper) 1912 Louis Prima, New Orleans La, singer (That Old Black Magic) 1912 Rod Cameron, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede) 1915 Eli Wallach, Bkln NY, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door) 1923 Ted Knight, Terryville Ct, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort) 1924 M rio Soares, (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983- ) 1926 Victor Kiam, CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots) 1928 Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar) 1932 Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here) 1936 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky) 1937 Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss) 1947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds) 1947 Vincent Baggetta, Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story) 1948 Gary Morris, actor (The Colbys) 1949 Tom Waits, Calif, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine) 1955 Priscilla Barnes, Fort Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, 3's Company) 1956 Larry Bird, hoop star (Boston Celtics) 1958 Edd Hall, Tonight Show Announcer 1963 Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover) 1964 Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous) 1964 Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies) 1966 C. Thomas Howell, LA Calif, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man) Deaths which occurred on December 7th: 1817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame dies in London 1912 George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies 1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full professor at Harvard University 1979 Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris 1982 Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas 1983 Edgar Graham, member of N. Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA 1984 Jeanne Cagney, actress dies at 65 1985 Potter Stewart, retired Supreme Court Justice dies in NH, at 70

On this day...December 8 1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ 1794 1st issue of the Herald of Rutland, VT published 1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile 1863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South 1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome 1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions 1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court 1909 Bird banding society founded 1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1931 Coaxial cable patented 1936 NAACP files suit to equalize the salaries of black & white teachers 1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa, Calif 1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 1941 SF first blackout, at 6:15 PM 1941 US declares war on Japan, enters WW I 1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight 1949 Chinese Nationalist gov't. moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa 1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) 1956 16th Olympic games end in Melbourne 1956 1st test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0 1956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks 1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive points without a miss (NBA rec) 1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC 1963 3 fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland. Only case of lightning caused crash 1966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space 1967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals 1972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 1974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth 1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-general 1980 "Bravo" network premiers on cable television 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB 1986 U.S. House Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel 1987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Independent States Birthdates which occurred on December 8th: 65 -BC- Horace, Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes) 1626 Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic 1708 Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765) 1765 Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin) 1832 Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson, Norway, novelist (Nobel-1903) 1861 Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman) 1861 Georges M�li�s, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story 1861 William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine 1865 Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia) 1881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems) 1890 Bohuslav Martinu Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti) 1894 James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs) 1899 John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers) 1905 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis) 1906 Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley) 1907 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Dobie Gillis) 1908 John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73) 1911 Lee J Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront) 1913 Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah) 1918 G�rard Souzay, Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro) 1921 Johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up) 1921 Terence Morgan, London England, actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake) 1922 Lucian Freud, Berlin artist (Boy With a Rat) 1925 Sammy Davis, Jr. NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man) 1927 Vladimir A Shatalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10) 1930 Maximilian Schell, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia) 1933 Flip Wilson, Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show) 1936 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets) 1937 James MacArthur, LA Calif, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0) 1939 James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil) 1940 Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40) 1943 Jim Morrison, Melbourne Fla, singer (Doors) is he really dead? 1943 Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision) 1944 Neil Innes, musician (The Rutles) 1946 John Rubinstein, LA Calif, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil) 1947 Gregg Allman, singer (Allman Brothers-Eat a Peach) 1952 Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance) 1952 Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover) 1953 Kim Basinger, Athens Ga, actress (9 1/2 Weeks, Batman) 1953 Roy Firestone, sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments) 1958 Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life) 1959 Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) 1966 Matthew Laborteaux, LA Calif, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie) 1966 Sinead O'Connor, Dublin Ireland, singer (Nothing Compares 2 U) 1967 Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate (Mar, 1987) 1969 Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991) Deaths which occurred on December 8th: 1831 James Hoban, architect who designed the White House 1954 Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50 1972 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash 1978 Golda Meir, served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80 1980 John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman 1983 Slim Pickins, western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery 1984 Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81

December 10, On this day... 1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant 1672 NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston 1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money 1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state 1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) 1864 Sherman reaches Savannah & 12 day siege begins 1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) 1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3) 1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam 1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days) 1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt 1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize 1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards 1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN 1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1932 Thailand recieves its 1st constitution 1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of the season 1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI 1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize 1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium 1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans 1962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years 1963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on the Andy Williams Show 1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature 1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises 1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors) 1974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun 1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize 1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians 1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth 1982 Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off 1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize 1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7 1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president 1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize 1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize 1987 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time 1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens 1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands Birthdates which occurred on December 10th: 1787 Thomas H Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf 1805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator) 1813 Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (founded Republican Party) 1824 George MacDonald, Scotland, novelist (Lilith) 1830 Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems) 1851 Melvil Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries 1904 Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakia, Pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68) 1907 Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children) 1910 Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street) 1910 John Hammond, Sr., NYC, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads) 1911 Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report) 1913 Morton Gould, NY, composer (Verdun) 1914 Dorothy Lamour, New Orleans (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth) 1920 Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936) 1923 Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus) 1928 John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica) 1929 Dan Blocker, Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza) 1930 Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep 1937 Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orch leader (Jimmy Dean Show) 1938 Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov) 1941 Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man) 1941 Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons) 1941 Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie) 1943 Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms) 1946 Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life) 1947 Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968) 1952 Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law) 1958 John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital) 1958 Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money) 1959 Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns) 1959 Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks) Deaths which occurred on December 10th: 1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date 1946 Walter Johnson, Washington Senator great pitcher dies at 59 1967 Otis Redding, singer dies in plane crash at 26 1974 Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50 1979 Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84 1981 John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89 1982 Freeman Gosden, radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83 1983 Dorothy Cummings, actress dies at 84 1983 Patrick O'Moore, actor dies at 74 1986 Kate Wolf, singer (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44 1987 Jascha Heifetz, Russia born, US violinist, dies at 86 1988 Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life) dies of AIDS 1990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92

December 11 On this day... 1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England) 1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason 1816 Indiana becomes 19th state 1866 1st yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean 1872 1st black US governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La) 1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland 1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC 1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia 1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala 1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on U.S. President-elect Herbert Hoover 1931 Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland 1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League 1936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves 1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations 1941 Germany & Italy declare war on US 1941 Japanese occupy Guam 1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected 1949 Chicago Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chicago Cardinals (52-29) 1949 Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game 1951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement 1953 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station 1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France 1961 Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel 1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 weeks 1961 JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam 1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal 100 yards 1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France) 1972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on the Moon 1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) 1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman 1973 Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club veteran 1975 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents 1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick 1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center 1981 UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec. General 1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) 1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC 1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League 1990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn, due to fog 1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape Birthdates which occurred on December 11th: 1781 Sir David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope) 1843 Robert Koch, Germany, discovered TB bacillis (Nobel-1905) 1863 Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist/author 1882 Fiorello La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45) 1882 Max Born, Germany, physicist (Nobel 1954) 1892 Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form) 1894 Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA) 1905 Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa) 1908 Elliott Cook Carter, Jr., NYC, composer (Tom & Lily) 1913 Carlo Ponti, producer, married to Sophia Loren (2 Women) 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970) 1920 Eddy Firestone, SF Calif, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles) 1922 Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award) 1922 Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) 1923 Betsy Blair, actress (Marty) 1924 Marie Windsor, [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, actress (Double Deal) 1926 Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt) 1927 Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952) 1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z) 1931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, guru of the rich 1931 Rita Moreno, [Rosa Dolores Alverio], Humacao PR, (West Side Story) 1932 Ald r Kov csi, Hungary, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952) 1932 Wynn Irwin, NYC, actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time) 1934 Ron Carey, Newark NJ, actor (Barney Miller, Montefuscos, High Anxiety) 1937 Anne Heywood, England, actress (Brain, Dr at Large) 1939 Tom Hayden, 60's activist, Mr Jane Fonda, Calif state Assemblyman 1940 David Gates, rocker (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You) 1941 Max Baucus, (Sen-D-Mont) 1942 Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1962) 1943 Donna Mills, Chicago Illinois, actress (Knots Landing, Incident) 1944 Brenda Lee, Atlanta Georgia, singer (I'm Sorry) 1944 Lynda Day George, San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible) 1946 Teri Garr, Lakewood Ohio, actress (Mr Mom, Young Frankenstein) 1948 Elizabeth Baur, LA Calif, actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer) 195- Isabella Hoffmann, actress (Kate-Dear John) 1950 Christine Onassis, [Andreadis], NYC, Aristotle's daughter 1951 Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier (Olympics-1972) 1952 Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan) 1953 Bess Armstrong, Balt Md, actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws) 1953 Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys) 1953 Peter Isacksen, Dover NH, actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie) 1954 Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC) 1955 Stu Jackson, Reading Pa, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90) 1958 Nicki Sixx, San Jose Calif, rock guitarist (Motley Crue) 1959 Tina Gayle, Frankfurt GFR, Cowboy cheerleader/actress (Kathy-Chips) 1962 Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record) 1963 Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force) 1966 Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets) Deaths which occurred on December 11th: 1974 Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63 1979 Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66 1984 George Waggner, director/writer dies at 90 1991 Headman Tshabala musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44

December 12, On this day... 1777 Reverand Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape 1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution 1791 Bank of the US opens 1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn 1800 Washington DC established as capital of US 1899 George F. Grant of Boston patents golf tee 1901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US 1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish cabinet member, appointed Sec of Commerce 1913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered 1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown at Dessau Germany 1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 1917 Rev Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb 1925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo 1925 last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over 1937 1st mobile TV unit (NYC) 1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2 M in reparations) 1941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews 1946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38 1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr 1947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL 1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane 1957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) 1959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established 1961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 1961 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped 1963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1964 Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot, "The Cage" (Menagerie) 1965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record 1967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit 1968 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired 1973 San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) 1975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) 1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford 1976 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet 1979 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce 1979 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe 1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs 1981 Wayne Gretsky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39) 1983 A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait 1985 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash 1986 Bone Crusher Smith KO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG 1986 Microlite aircraft circles world non-stop 1987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game 1988 NYC Subway system adds new stations (the Z line) 1988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment 1990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait 1991 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford 1991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection Birthdates which occurred on December 12th: 1745 John Jay, diplomat (NY-Gov) 1805 Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co) 1805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator) 1821 Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary) 1848 William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup) 1859 Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners) 1859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers) 1863 Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream) 1893 Edward G. Robinson, Romania, actor (10 Commandments) 1913 Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires) 1913 Jesse Owens, US, track star (4 golds 1936), spoiled Hitler's olympics 1915 Frank Sinatra, Hoboken, singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of board) 1918 Joe Williams, jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues) 1923 Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right) 1924 Edward I. Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89) 1928 Helen Frankenthaler, NY, abstract expressionist artist (Arden) 1929 John Osborne, Engld, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964) 1931 Lionel Blair, Montreal, choreographer (Spotlight) 1932 Robert Pettit, NBA star (St Louis Bombers/1959 MVP) 1938 Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are) 1940 Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose) 1941 Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction) 1943 Dicky Betts, rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man) 1943 Grover Washington, Jr., jazz artist (Mr Magic) 1946 Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins) 1946 George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White 1950 Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders) 1951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties) 1951 Steven A. Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, STS 61-C, STS-31) 1952 Cathy Rigby-Mason, Calif, US olympic gymnast (Olympics-1968, 72) 1952 Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest) 1956 Ana Alicia, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest) 1956 Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977) 1957 Cy Curnin, rocker (The Fixx-Sign of Fire) 1958 Sheree J. Wilson, actress (Our Family Honor, April-Dallas) 1959 Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People) 1962 Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live) 1964 Rockin' Jeff, rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train) 1968 Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy) 1970 Jennifer Connelly, Bkln Heights NY, actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer) 1970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains, Teen Wolf II) 1972 Missy Francis, LA Calif, actress (Little House on the Prairie) 1975 Mayim Winkelman Bialik, SD, actress (Blossom, Beaches) Deaths which occurred on December 12th: 1777 Rev. Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn, England for rape 1889 Robert Browning, English poet, dies 1962 Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67 1965 Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67 1968 Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies at 66 1971 Jack Barnhill, a Northern Ireland senator is assassinated 1976 Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49 1985 Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62 1988 John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56

December 14, On this day... 1287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives 1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati 1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine 1819 Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state 1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston) 1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee 1889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Philadelphia 1901 1st table tennis tournament is held, at the London Royal Aquarium 1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete 1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1930 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game 1939 League of Nations drops the Soviet Union 1941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14 1944 Congress establshes rank of General of the Army (5-star general) 1946 Togo made a trusteeship territory of the UN 1946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC 1950 UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954) 1959 J.B. Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m 1962 Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus) 1977 Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference 1980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20 1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights 1982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHL'er to score 500 goals 1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights 1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 losses 1988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures 1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs) 1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later 1991 Desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Hiesman trophy Birthdates which occurred on December 14th: 1503 Nostradamus, France, astrologer/physician 1546 Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer 1829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office 1883 Morihei Ueshiba, founder (Aikido) 1895 George VI, king of England (1936-52) 1896 James H. Doolittle, general (US Air Force) 1897 Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine) 1908 Laurence Naismith, Surrey England, actor (Judge Fulton-Persuaders) 1908 Morey Amsterdam, Chicago Ill, comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show) 1909 Edward L. Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958) 1911 Spike Jones, Long Beach Calif, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous) 1914 Dan Dailey, NYC, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ) 1914 Morey Amsterdam, actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show) 1914 Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock) 1915 Clay Warnick, Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show) 1917 Elyse Knox, Hartford Ct, actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold) 1919 Shirley Jackson, US, writer (Road Through the Wall) 1922 Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals) 1922 Don Hewitt, NYC, TV creator (60 Minutes) 1924 Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music) 1924 Siiri Rantanen, Finland, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1956) 1932 Charlie Rich, Colt Arkansas, singer (Behind Closed Doors) 1932 George Furth, Chicago Ill, actor/dir (Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings) 1935 Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bath England, actress (Search for the Nile) 1935 Lee Remick, Quincy Mass (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer) 1938 Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids) 1938 Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian 1939 Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy (1961) 1939 Hal Williams, Columbus Ohio, actor (Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford & Son) 1942 Rex Thompson, NYC, actor (Young Bess, King & I, Her 12 Men) 1943 Frank Allen, rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins) 1946 Jane Birkin, actress (Mr Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust) 1946 Joyce Vincent Wilson, Detroit Mich, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn) 1946 Patty Duke [Anna Marie], Elmhurst NY, actress (Miracle Worker) 1946 Stan Smith, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1972) 1947 Christopher Parkening, LA Calif, guitarist (transcribed sacred music) 1949 Bill Buckner, Calif, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series 1949 Cliff Williams, bass (AC/DC-Highway to Hell) 1949 Dee Wallace Stone, KC Mo, actress (Critters, Secret Admirer, 10) 1950 Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo) 1953 Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman) 1953 Vijay Amritraj, India, tennis player/actor (Octopussy) 1954 James Horean, actor (Loving) 1956 Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein, Slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980) 1956 T.K. Carter, LA Calif, actor (Mike-Punky Brewster, Just our Luck) 1959 Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer 1960 Catherine G. Coleman, Charleston SC, USAF Capt/astronaut 1963 Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood) 1964 Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains) 1967 Noelle Beck, Baltimore, actress (Trisha-Loving, Fletch Lives) 1977 Tisha Dabber, Shelbyville Indiana, actress (New Mickey Mouse Club) Deaths which occurred on December 14th: 1799 George Washington, dies at Mt Vernon Va, at 67 1861 Albert, prince consort of England & husband of Queen Victoria, dies 1903 William Ennis, first cop to die in the electric chair 1945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others hung for crimes committed at the Belsen and Oswiecim Nazi concentration camps 1963 Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39 1964 William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58 1966 Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76 1975 Arthur Treacher, announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81 1980 Elston Howard, Yankee catcher, dies 1985 Roger Maris, Yankee HR hitter, dies at 51 of cancer 1989 Andrei D. Sakharov, Soviet Physicsit, Dissident & 1975 Nobel peace prize winner, dies at 68 in Moscow

December 15 On this day... 687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1612 Simon Marius, is first to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope 1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval 1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US, Philadelphia 1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France 1810 First Irish magazine in US, the Shamrock, is published 1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC 1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia 1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun 1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by President Grant 1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) 1909 Thomas J, Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League 1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun 1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia 1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opened to traffic 1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads 1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC 1939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware 1939 World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship 1942 Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license plate tabs 1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel 1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest 1948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury 1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title 1950 NYC's Port Authority opens 1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons 1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" 1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel 1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded 1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag 1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) 1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball 1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus 1966 John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of the New Orleans Saints 1967 Joe Garagiola joins the Today Show panel 1967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die 1969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones 1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) 1973 Sandy Hawley becomes first jockey to win 500 races in 1 year 1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game 1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) 1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 million gallons of crude when the ship ran aground 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages 1980 Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V 1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, & 4 others convicted of bribery 1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar 1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB 1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet 1985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed 1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift 1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure 1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks 1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter 1993 GATT Uruguay Round completed 1993 Downing Street Declaration on Northern Ireland issued Birthdates which occurred on December 15th: 37 Nero, 5th Roman emperor (54-68) 1787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic 1793 Henry Charles Carey, Philadelphia, economist 1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a small tower in Paris 1848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress 1852 Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903) 1859 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, created Esperanto 1860 Niels R Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903) 1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (first auto built & operated in US) 1863 Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon) 1892 J. Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil) 1904 Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man) 1906 Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) 1913 Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award) 1916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962) 1918 Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel], actor (Broken Arrow, Away All Boats) 1919 Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948) 1922 Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll" 1933 Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show) 1937 Karen Morrow, Chic, actress (Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour) 1939 Cindy Birdsong, singer (The Supremes) 1940 Nick Buoniconti, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)/sportscaster (NBC) 1942 Dave Clark, England, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over) 1943 Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1968) 1946 Carmine Appice, musician (Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling) 1948 David Gwillim, Plymouth England, (RADA), actor 1949 Don Johnson, Flatt Creek Mo, actor (Miami Vice) 1954 Mike Ratledge, author of 2DAY & NEWDAY, sysop East Bay X-Change 1959 Heidi Bohay, Somerset NJ, actress (Megan-Hotel) 1963 Helen Slater, NYC, actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People) Deaths which occurred on December 15th: 1890 Chief Sitting Bull, of the Sioux killed by US Army 1934 Maggis Lena Wlaker, 1st black woman to head a bank, dies at 69 1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, dies at 39, in KC Missouri 1961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation 1974 Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89 1978 Chill Wills, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 1984 Jan Peerce, operatic tenor dies at 80 following a stroke

December 16 On this day... 1631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000 1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland & Ireland 1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution 1773 Big tea party in Boston Harbor 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by the French Senate 1811 Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region 1835 Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC 1838 Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa 1857 Earthquake in Naples, Italy 1862 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution 1864 Battle of Nashville 1893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres 1897 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated 1903 Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers 1905 "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published 1907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise 1908 1st credit union in US formed, Manchester, NH 1929 1st NHL game at Chicago Stadium (Black Hawks) 1941 Sarawak occupied by the Japanese 1943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium 1950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism" 1959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48 1960 134 dies as United DC-8 & TWA Super Constellation collide over NYC 1960 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134 1965 Gemini 6 returns to Earth 1965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit 1967 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs. Chicago 1970 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR) 1971 Pakistan army surrenders to Indian army in Bangladesh 1972 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0) 1973 O.J. Simpson becomes 1st NFL'er to rush 2,000 yard in a season 1976 Governmentt halts swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis 1978 Ronald Reagan denounces Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR 1980 Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State 1980 Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state 1983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time 1987 Roh Tae Woo wins Presidential Election in South Korea 1988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud 1991 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote 1992 Israel orders deportation of 415 Palestinians after escalating terrorist activity Birthdates which occurred on December 16th: 1485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII 1770 Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy) 1775 Jane Austin, England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice) 1857 Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite) 1863 George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan) 1863 Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC) 1882 Sir John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953) 1900 Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers) 1901 Margaret Mead, Philadelphia, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa) 1917 Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End) 1928 Philip K. Dick, US, writer (Blade Runner) 1932 Rodion Shchedrin, Moscow Russia, composer (Humpback Horse) 1937 Joyce Bulifant, Newport News Va, actress (Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show) 1938 Michael Greer, Durham NC, actor (Bobby Gentry Show) 1939 Liv Ullman, Tokyo Japan, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats) 1941 Lesley Stahl, Lynn Mass, White House correspondent (CBS-TV) 1943 Steven Bochco, producer (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere) 1943 Tony Hicks, rocker (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe) 1946 Benny Andersson, Stockholm, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!) 1947 Ben Cross, actor (Chariots of Fire) 1947 Vincent Matthews, US, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1972) 1949 Billy Gibbons, guitarist/vocalist (ZZ Top) 1952 Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court) 1958 Bart Oates, NFL center (NY Giants) 1959 Alison La Placa, actress (Duet) 1962 Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress (Devil in the Flesh) 1962 Melanie Smith, Scranton Pa, actress (Emily-As the World Turns) 1962 William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL, (Chicago Bears) Deaths which occurred on December 16th: 1916 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk, is murdered 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz, first president of Polish Republic assassinated 1965 W. Somerset Maugham, English author ("Of Human Bondage"), dies at 91 1976 George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months 1985 Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead in a NYC restaurant 1987 Albert P. Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79

December 17 On this day... 1538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII 1777 France recognizes independence of English colonies in America 1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City 1791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street 1792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city 1798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins 1819 Congress of Angostura establishes Columbia's independence from Spain 1821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons 1852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized 1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County 1862 General US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee 1875 Violent bread riots in Montreal 1895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC 1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass) 1900 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy 1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright) 1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities 1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru 1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands 1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa 1924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY 1927 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard 1933 National Football League starts keeping official statistics as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in championship game 1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa 1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps 1946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM 1947 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow 1954 First fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana) 1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile 1959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach) 1961 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portugese colonies 1969 50 million TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show 1971 Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir 1971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting 1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan 1975 John Paul Stevens appointed to the Supreme Court 1975 Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life 1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda 1981 Members of the Red Brigades kidnap Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier 1988 Bryan Murray becomes the 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash. Caps) 1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned 1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode Birthdates which occurred on December 17th: 1797 Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism 1807 John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound) 1824 Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity) 1830 Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie) 1853 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby) 1874 William Lyon Mackenzie King (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48) 1894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops) 1903 Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre) 1904 Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies) 1908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960)) 1926 Patrice Wymore, actress (The Big Tree) 1927 Richard Long, Chicago Ill, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor) 1929 William Safire, political columnis (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon) 1930 Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse) 1930 Robert Guccione, magazine publisher (Penthouse, Omni) 1936 Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees) 1936 Tommy Steele, singer/actor (Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow) 1937 Art Neville, singer (Neville Brothers) 1939 Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Boogie Down) 1939 James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo) 1939 Novella Nelson, Bkln NY, actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs) 1942 Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days) 1944 Ference Bene, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964) 1944 Jack Chalker, US, writer (Charon: A Dragon at the Gate) 1945 Christopher Cazenove, England, actor (Ben-Dynasty) 1945 Ernie Hudson, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds) 1946 Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV) 1947 Simon Bates, English DJ 1948 Jim Bonfanti, rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way) 1949 Paul Rodgers, England, rocker (Bad Company) 1953 Barry Livingston, LA Calif, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons) 1957 Bob Ojeda, pitcher (NY Mets) 1959 Albert King, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive) 1961 Sarah Dallin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus) 1961 Venice Kong, St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985) 1964 Eric Brown, NYC, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family) 1966 Duane Propes, bassist (Little Texas-God Blessed Texas) Deaths which occurred on December 17th: 1830 Simon Bolivar, president of Columbia, dies at 47 in Colombia 1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium dies 1961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 1962 Thomas Mitchell, actor dies at 70 1975 Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86 1987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Ultrecht Netherlands, dies at 87 1987 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84

December 18 1777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender 1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution 1796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor 1799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon 1813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812 1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth" 1865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished 1865 1st US cattle importation law passed 1898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph) 1915 Pres. Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt 1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco 1932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game 1936 1st giant panda imported into US 1944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillipines) 1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations 1946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run 1956 Japan admitted to UN 1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stationn, 1st nuclear plant to generate electricity 1958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower 1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) 1959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL) 1961 For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year 1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu 1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs LA 1969 Britain abolishes death penalty 1971 1st Candlelight Processional 1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chicago 1972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam 1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH) 1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak 1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking" 1988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record 1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years 1991 DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in hollywood 1991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants Birthdates which occurred on December 18th: 1707 Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement) 1709 Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great & Catherine I) 1779 Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history") 1786 Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz) 1856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906) 1879 Paul Klee, Switzerland, abstract painter (Twittering Machine) 1886 Ty Cobb, batted .367, stole 892 bases (Det Tigers) 1888 Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady) 1888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads) 1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM) 1907 Christopher Fry, England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon) 1909 Mona Barrie, actress (Dawn on the Great Divide) 1910 Abe Burrows, Bkln NY, Broadway composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY) 1911 Jules Dassin, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday) 1913 Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight) 1913 Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound) 1913 Willy Brandt (SD), West German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel '71) 1915 Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52) 1916 Betty Grable, St Louis, actress (Gay Divorcee), great gams 1917 Ossie Davis, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, A Man Called Adam) 1919 Anita O'Day, Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton) 1922 Larry D. Mann, Toronto Canada, actor (Marty-Accidental Family) 1926 Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon) 1927 Ramsey Clark, US attorney general (1967-69) 1927 Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey) 1932 Roger Smith, South Gate Calif, actor (77 Sunset Strip) 1934 Boris V. Volynov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21) 1938 Chas Chandler, rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun) 1939 Michael Moorcock, England, author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear) 1939 Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer (Olympic-Silver-1960) 1941 Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother & the Holding Company-Cheap Thrills) 1943 Keith Richards, England, rocker (Rolling Stones) 1945 Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960) 1946 Hubie Green, Birmingham Ala, PGA golfer (US Open 1977) 1947 Steven Spielberg, Cincinatti, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws) 1949 Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy) 1950 Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight) 1965 Brad Pitt, actor 1966 Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys) Deaths which occurred on December 18th: 1737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker dies in Cremona, Italy 1939 Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51 1948 Janet Fay, hammered to death by the Honeymoon Killers 1971 Bobby Jones, Jr., PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930) dies at 69 1971 Diana Lynn, actress, dies at 45 1977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 1980 Alexei N. Kosygin, Soviet PM suffers a fatal heart attack at 76

Is Betty Grable still alive?

Sorry Sprin5.... http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/409.html Betty Grable (Ruth Elizabeth) b. December 18, 1916. d. August 2, 1973. Musical Comedy Star.. Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, USA

Wow, findagrave.com.

Yeah, there seeems to be a .com for everything out there!!! December 21 On this day... 1784 John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs) 1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore 1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) 1898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium 1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World 1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released 1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional 1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation 1929 1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas 1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania 1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony 1937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White) 1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF 1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) 1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France 1959 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing 1968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) first manned Moon voyage 1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing 1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva 1976 Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD 1976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child 1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrested John W. Gacy, Jr. for murder 1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game 1983 Loretta Switt weds Dennis Holahan 1983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak 1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA 1985 Heart's "Heart," album goes #1 1987 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man 1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine 1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland, all 258 aboard die 1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25) 1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery 1991 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda wed Birthdates which occurred on December 21st: 1804 Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80) 1872 Albert P. Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog) 1874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36) 1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered millions 1891 John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of the House (1962-70) 1892 Dame Rebecca West, journalist/novelist/critic/feminist (or 12/25) 1892 Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914,19) 1905 Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of the Spring) 1908 Pat Weaver, LA Calif, TV Executive, started Today show 1909 George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state 1911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs) 1917 Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre) 1917 Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight) 1918 Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85) 1918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81), Austrian Pres./Nazi 1919 Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56) 1922 Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith) 1924 Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986) 1926 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares Tx, actor (Rio Bravo) 1928 Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider) 1931 David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections) 1935 Phil Donahue, Cleve Ohio, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show) 1937 Jane Fonda, NYC, actress and pacifist (Hanoi Jane) 1938 Larry Bryggman, Concord Calif, actor (John-As the World Turns) 1940 Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls) 1944 Jared Martin, NYC, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas) 1944 Michael Tilson Thomas, LA Calif, conductor (NY Phil Young People) 1946 Carl Wilson, rocker (Beachboys) 1946 Christopher Keene, Berkeley Calif, conductor (La Traviata) 1948 Barry Gordon, Brookline Mass, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place) 1948 Carol Potter, NYC, actress (Maggie Clinton-Today's FBI) 1948 Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants) 1953 Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974) 1953 Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500) 1954 Chris Evert-Lloyd-Mills, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 1957 Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease) 1957 Lisa Gerritsen, LA Calif, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show) 1959 Florence Griffith Joyner, LA Calif, runner (3 Olympic Gold-1988) 1960 Roger McDowall, major league baseball pitcher 1968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Simone-Head of the Class) Deaths which occurred on December 21st: 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, dies of a heart attack in Hollywood at 44 1945 George S. Patton, General, dies in a car accident in Heidelberg 1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65 1972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 1983 Rod Cameron, actor dies at 73

December 22, On this day... 1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships 1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France 1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass) 1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee 1886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC) 1894 United States Golf Association formed (NYC) 1910 US postal savings stamps first issued 1915 Federal Baseball League dissolved 1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa 1937 Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic 1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference 1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium 1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask 1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) 1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends 1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots 1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison 1976 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC 1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes 1980 President-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) & James Watt (Interior) 1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train 1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks 1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ 1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa 1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast 1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu 1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait 1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen 1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president 1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns Birthdates which occurred on December 22nd: 1400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) 1696 James Oglethorpe, England, general/author/colonizer of Georgia 1727 William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence 1862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/Phila A's manager (1900-1950) 1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey) 1903 Dr. Barbara Moore, walked across US in 86 days in 1960 1903 H. Keffer Hartline, US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967) 1905 Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush) 1907 Peggy Ashcroft, stage actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days) 1911 Alan Carney, Bkln NY, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me) 1912 Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, former first lady 1912 Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938) 1917 Gene Rayburn, Ill, TV game show host (Match Game) 1921 Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington WV, country singer (Ozark Jubilee) 1922 Barbara Billingsley, LA Calif, actress (June-Leave it to Beaver) 1922 James C Wright, Jr., (Rep-D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987-89) 1926 Peggy Castle, Appalachia Va, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman) 1936 Hector Elizondo, NYC, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love) 1944 Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82) 1945 Diane Sawyer, Glasgow Ky, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time) 1948 Noel Edmonds, British TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders) 1948 Steve Garvey, 1st baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres) 1949 Maurice Gibb, singer (BeeGees) 1949 Robin Gibb, singer (BeeGees) 1950 Rick Nielsen, guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist (Cheap Trick) 1951 Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer (LPGA Rookie of Year-1974) 1953 Bernnadette Stanis, Bkln NY, actress (Thelma-Good Times) 1961 Catherine Oxenberg, NYC, actress (Amanda-Dynasty) 1968 Lauralee Bell, actress (Cricket-Young & Restless) Deaths which occurred on December 22nd: 1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed 1668 Stephen Day, first British colonial printer 1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery 1767 John Newberry, English publisher 1913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 1969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80 1973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas dies at 72 1974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 47 1979 Darryl F. Zanuck, film producer 1980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn)

On this day...December 23 1569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn 1690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered 1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France 1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" 1779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct 1783 Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief 1788 Maryland votes to cede a 10 sqare mile area for District of Columbia 1823 "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C. Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel 1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs 1907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa 1909 Albert becomes king of Belgium 1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law 1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched 1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament 1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network 1930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC 1933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251 1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese 1943 First telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY 1946 U. of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U., because they may use a black player in their basketball game 1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs 1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion 1962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game 1968 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea 1968 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon 1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70 days, survived by cannabalism 1972 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua 1973 "The Young and the Restless" premiers on TV 1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices 1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act 1983 Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter 1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia 1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns Birthdates which occurred on December 23rd: 1597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" 1732 Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame) 1777 Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1801-25) 1790 Jean-Fran�ois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics 1805 Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, found Mormon church 1812 Samuel Smiles. Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty) 1815 Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat 1860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I) 1906 Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered) 1907 Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club) 1908 Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine) 1909 Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934) 1911 James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller) 1918 Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (1974- ) 1921 Gerald S. O'Loughlin, NYC, actor (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels) 1922 Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1948) 1923 Leonard Stern, TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart) 1923 Milt Okun, Bkln NY, orch leader (Starland Vocal Band Show) 1923 Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas) 1924 Floyd Kalber, Omaha Neb, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973) 1925 Harry Guardino, NYC, actor (Monty Nash, Perry Mason, Hill St Blues) 1926 Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds) 1929 Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games) 1931 Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World) 1935 Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy) 1936 James Stacy, LA Calif, actor (Fred-Adv of Ozzie & Harriet) 1941 Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled) 1941 Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire) 1942 Jerry Koosman, pitcher (NY Mets) 1943 Harry Shearer, comedian (Saturday Night Live) 1943 Queen Silvia, of Sweden (born in Heidelberg, Germany), wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf 1945 Richard C. Wohlhuter, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976) 1947 Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY) 1948 Jack Ham, NFL linebacker (Steelers) 1948 Susan Lucci, Westchester NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess) 1955 Dave Murray, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden) 1956 Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari) 1958 Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979) 1958 Joan Severance, Houston Tx, actress (Hear No Evil, See No Evil) 1971 Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive) Deaths which occurred on December 23rd: 1569 St Philip, of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible 1652 John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher dies at 68 1909 King Leopald II of Belgium 1948 Hideki Tojo, Japan PM & 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US 1953 Lavrenti P. Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed 1970 Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84 1972 Charles Atlas, Body builder dies at 79 1975 Richard S. Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead 1982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies at 62 of a heart attack 1985 James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18) commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages

On this day...December 24 1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed 1818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day 1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress, destroys 35,000 volumes 1865 Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, TN 1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening 1874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875 1889 Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake 1906 Reginald A. Fessenden became first to broadcast music over radio (Mass) 1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain 1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC) 1924 Albania becomes a republic 1933 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca 1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Germany 1943 FDR appoints Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1946 4th French republic established 1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN 1953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia) 1953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166 1954 Laos gains its independence 1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication 1961 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game 1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek 1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon 1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 1970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released 1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds 1982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic 1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released 1989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy 1990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union Birthdates which occurred on December 24th: 3 -BC- Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th Roman emperor (68-69) 1745 Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician-general (Continental Army) 1754 George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy) 1798 Adam Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz) 1809 Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, western scout 1818 James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy) 1822 Matthew Arnold, England, poet/critic (Dover Beach) 1868 Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21) 1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor 1910 Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Hollywood Palace) 1918 Anwar El Sadat, Egypt, president of Egypt (1970-81) 1920 Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill) 1921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington) 1922 Ava Gardner, Grabtown NC, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana) 1924 Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mines) 1929 Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (A Cry in the Night, Stillwatch) 1930 Robert Joffrey, choreographer (Joffrey Ballet) 1931 Jill Bennett, Penang Malay, actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle) 1940 Jorma Kaukonen, rock guitarist/vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) 1940 Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner 1944 Erhard Keller, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72) 1944 Mike Curb, Savannah Ga, singer (Mike Curb Congregation) 1946 Sharon Farrell, Sioux City Iowa, (Lori-Hawaii 5-0, Young & Restless) 1951 Johnny Contardo, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon) 1957 Clarence Gilyard, Jr. Moses Lake Wash, actor (Chips, Duck Factory) 1957 Ian Burden, rocker (Human League-Only Human) 1969 Kenny Kelly, R&B performer (Riff) Deaths which occurred on December 24th: 1524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator dies in Cochin, India 1942 Admiral Jean Darlan, French naval officer is murdered 1954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer dies at 25, of Russian Roulette 1955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67 1984 Ian Hendry, actor dies at 53 1984 Peter Lawford, actor (The Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 1991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46

On this day...December 25 MELE KALIKIMAKA 1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus 336 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec 25 occurs in Rome 597 England adopts Julian calendar 795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1066 William the Conqueror crowned king of England 1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy) 1621 Gov. William Bradford forbids game playing on this day 1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians 1758 Haley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return 1760 Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught" 1776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians 1818 "Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for first time 1818 1st US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston 1837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians 1843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC) 1848 New Haven Railroad opens 1868 Despite bitter opposition, President Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern Rebellion (the Civil War) 1888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia 1926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989) 1930 1st US bobsled run open to the public (Lake Placid, NY) 1931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio 1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer 1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong 1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan 1950 Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game 1953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand) 1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder 1963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released 1968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon 1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles) 1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia 1977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian Pres. Sadat 1983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade 1984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points 1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8�C, coldest temp ever recorded 1990 "Godfather III" premiers Birthdates which occurred on December 25th: 4 -BC- Jesus of Nazareth, (est date) 1821 Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse, founded American Red Cross 1855 James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884 1878 W. Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise) 1881 Joseph McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees) 1883 Maurice Utrillo, France, painter (Port St Martin) 1887 Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels) 1893 Fred Hillebrand, Bkln NY, actor (Martin Kane) 1893 Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa Calif, cartoonist (Believe It or Not) 1899 Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place) 1899 Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor 1899 Raphael Soyer, painter (Arts & Letters 1945) 1900 Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie) 1904 Gerhard Herzberg, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971) 1906 Clark M. Clifford, US Secretary of Defense (1968-69) 1906 Lord Grade, British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil) 1906 William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70) 1907 Cab Calloway, bandleader/actor (Blues Brothers, Jazzball) 1912 Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love) 1918 Eddie Safranski, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Jonathan Winters Show) 1922 Kitty Kallen, Phila Pa, singer (Judge For Yourself) 1927 Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959) 1928 Earl Brown, Salt Lake City Ut, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat) 1937 O'Kelly Isley, rock vocalist (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout) 1944 Henry Vestine, rock guitarist (Canned Heat-On the Road Again) 1945 Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor (Andy-WKRP in Cincinatti) 1945 Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders) 1945 Noel Redding, rocker (The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze) 1946 Jimmy Buffett, singer (Margaritaville) 1946 Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants) 1948 Barbara Mandrell, Houston Tx, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters) 1949 Dan Pastorini, NFL QB (Raiders) 1949 Sissy Spacek, Quitman Tx (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter) 1953 Arnella Flynn, Rome Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter 1954 Annie Lennox, singer (Eurythmics-Here Comes the Rain) 1954 Robin Campbell, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine) 1954 Steve Wariner, country singer (I Got Dreams) 1958 Rickey Henderson, baseball player (stolen base king, A's, Yankees) 1962 Dean Cameron, Morrison Ill, actor (Herbie-Spencer) Deaths which occurred on December 25th: 1899 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC) 1951 Harry T. Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb 1961 Dr. Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of the electron microscope dies 1964 Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74 1977 Charlie Chaplin, dies in Switzerland at 88 1979 Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70 1979 Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64 1983 Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist dies at his home in Majorca at 90 1985 George Rhodes, orchestra leader (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies at 66 1989 Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61 1989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, and his wife, are executed

No deaths on this date in the 90s that were notable apparently.

Curious! Taking the Holiday off? On this day...December 26 1492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus 1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA 1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia 1776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat 1799 George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "First in war, first in peace & first in the hearts of his countrymen." 1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1825 Erie Canal opens 1848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia 1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo 1862 1st US navy hospital ship enters service 1865 James H. Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator 1872 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18") 1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention 1878 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia 1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42) 1908 Jackson Johnson defeats Tommy Burns at Sydney, Australia for boxing title 1917 Fed government took over operation of American railroads for duration of WW I 1919 Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth 1925 1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans 1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar 1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu, China 1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning the Axis would "stop at nothing" 1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1944 Battle of Bastogne-US troops repulse the Germans 1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens 1964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks 1964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game 1965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand closes on Broadway 1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run 1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship 1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years 1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction 1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India Birthdates which occurred on December 26th: 1194 Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250) 1792 Charles Babbage, inventor (calculating machine) 1837 Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila 1883 Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master (1950) 1891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer) 1893 Mao Tse-tung, dictator of China P.R. (1949-76) 1908 Ralph Hill, US, 5K runner (Olympic-1932) 1914 Richard Widmark, Sunrise Michigan, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg) 1917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes 1921 Steve Allen, NYC, comedian/TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show) 1927 Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me) 1927 Denis Quilley, London England, actor (Masada) 1930 Donald Moffat, Plymouth England, actor (Kent-Logan's Run) 1939 Phil Spector, record producer (Wall of Sound) 1944 Jane Lapotaire, actress (Spirit of the Dead) 1947 Carlton Fisk, Vermont, all star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox) 1948 Chris Chambliss, 1st baseman (NY Yankee) 1954 Peter Woods, rocker (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble) 1954 Susan Butcher, dog sled driver (Idatarod) 1961 Storm Davis, Dallas Texas, pitcher (KC Royals) 1961 Tahnee Welch, San Diego Calif, actress (Cocoon) Deaths which occurred on December 26th: 1624 Simon Marius, astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54 1963 "Gorgeous George" Wagner, Wrestler, dies 1971 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57 1972 Harry Truman, 33rd US President, dies at 88 in Kansas City, Mo 1974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80 1986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstien), dies at 84 1989 Samael Beckett, Irish playright dies in Paris 1990 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33

December 29 On this day... 1782 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston 1813 British burn Buffalo, NY during the War of 1812 1837 Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo 1837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine 1845 Texas admitted as the 28th state 1848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration) 1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston) 1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants 1867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY 1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio 1890 Federal troops massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD 1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) 1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc 1911 SF Symphony formed 1913 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago 1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM 1934 Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930 1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) 1948 US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit 1949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct) 1949 Hungary nationalized its industries 1952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY) 1955 Barbra Striesand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13 1957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas 1958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts 1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year 1965 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You" 1967 Star Trek's "The Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC 1980 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A 1983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO 1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parliamentary elections 1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes 1989 Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the AP 1990 Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley Birthdates which occurred on December 29th: 1721 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th 1776 Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric 1800 Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber) 1808 Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69) 1809 William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94) 1833 John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks) 1859 Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20) 1879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I) 1912 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad) 1915 Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value) 1917 Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) 1920 Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were, Welcome to LA) 1921 Mala Powers, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Death in Small Doses) 1925 Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8) 1927 Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball) 1928 Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show) 1931 Barbara Steele, England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows) 1932 Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson) 1934 Ed Flanders, Minneapolis MN, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere) 1934 Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20) 1936 Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers) 1938 Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy) 1941 Ray Thomas, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 1946 Laffit Pincay, Jr. jockey 1946 Paul Trible (Sen-R-Va) 1947 Ted Danson, SD Calif, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby) 1949 Angel Tompkins, actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law) 1951 Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer) 1952 Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker) 1952 Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80) 1959 Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol) 1964 Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah-Head of the Class) Deaths which occurred on December 29th: 1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1815 Saartjie Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris 1980 Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 1984 Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84 1986 Harold Macmillan, former British PM dies in Sussex, England, at 92

December 30 On this day... 1816 American Colonization Society organizes 1832 John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson) 1846 Iowa becomes 29th state 1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning 1850 Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire 1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum 1877 John Stevens, Wisc, applies for patent on flour rolling mill 1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (MSG, NYC) 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US 1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Assn. of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910) 1906 Ecuador adopts its constitution 1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die 1915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service 1935 W.P.A. Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times 1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance" 1948 The IDF crosses the Egyptian border 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea 1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival 1974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake 1975 "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass 1985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement 1987 In Arkansas, R. Gene Simmons kills 16 1988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism 1991 Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen 1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year Birthdates which occurred on December 28th: 1763 John Molson, founded Montreal brewery (Molsons) 1856 Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (D), 28th President 1894 Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears) 1902 Mortimer J. Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica) 1903 John Von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938) 1905 Cliff Arquette, Toledo Oh, comedian (Charlie Weaver) 1905 Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest) 1908 Lew Ayres, Minn, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr Kildare) 1909 Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows) 1911 Sam Levenson, NYC, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party) 1913 Lou Jacobi, Toronto Ontario, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba) 1914 Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover) 1920 Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles) 1923 Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War) 1924 Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery) 1925 Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique) 1927 Martin Milner, Detroit Mich, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley) 1929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president 1933 Jack Perkins, Cleve Ohio, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine) 1933 Nichelle Nichols, Robbins Ill, actress (Uhura-Star Trek) 1934 Maggie Smith, Ilford Eng, actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans) 1942 Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3) 1945 Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl) 1946 Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night) 1947 Richard Diamonde, rocker (Easybeats-Friday on My Mind) 1950 Alex Chilton, rocker (The Box Tops-Let Me Get Close to You) 1952 Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles) 1953 Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America) 1954 Denzel Washington, Mount Vernon NY, actor 1954 Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise) 1954 Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, SNL, Amanda's) 1959 Everson Walls, NFL corner back (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants) 1960 Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce) 1960 Ray Borque, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruin-3 Norris Trophys) 1964 Colleen Dion, Newburgh NY, actress (Felicia-Bold & Beautiful) 1965 Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd) 1975 Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class) Deaths which occurred on December 28th: 1694 Queen Mary II, of England dies after 5 years of rule 1918 George H. White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn) 1937 Maurice Ravel, composer dies in Paris 1945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 1947 Victor Emmanual, III, king of Italy/Ethiopia, dies at 78 1948 Nokrashy Pasha, Egypt's PM is assassinated 1961 Edith Bolling Wilson, 1st lady dies at 89 1983 William Demarest, ("Uncle Charlie" on My Three Sons) dies at 92 in Palm Springs 1984 Sam Peckinpah, director dies of cardiac arrest at 59 1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to the UN, dies at 81 1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director dead of cancer at 59

On this day... December 31 The end of the Millennium 1600 British East India Company chartered 1744 James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation 1775 Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold 1781 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens 1805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism 1841 Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons 1852 Future president & Mrs Rutherford B. Hayes marry 1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee 1862 Pres. Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras, NC 1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US) 1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot 1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898) 1907 For the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year 1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired 1923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester 1934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport 1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah 1945 Ratification of UN Charter completed 1946 French troops leave Lebanon 1946 President Truman officially proclaims end of WW-II 1950 Jockeys Willie Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year 1951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced 1953 Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year 1958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X 1961 1st performance of the Beach Boys 1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion 1962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation 1962 Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph) 1966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks 1967 Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13� F) 1968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) 1970 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin 1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles 1974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract 1974 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin 1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run 1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado 1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US 1979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts 1982 TV soap "The Doctors" ends 19 year run 1983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain 1984 NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH 1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM - succeeds his mother, Indira 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97 1990 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds 1990 The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting 1991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83 1992 Target date for Europe's single market 1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama Birthdates which occurred on December 31st: 1514 Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica) 1738 Charles Lord Cornwallis, solider/statesman "fire when ready Gridley" 1869 Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter (Odalisque) 1870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years 1880 George C Marshall, Uniontown Pa, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953) 1882 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway) 1892 Jason Robards, Sr. Hillsdale Mich, actor (Acapulco) 1899 Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro, M�xico, composer 1904 Nathan Milstein, Odessa Russia, concert violinist (Phila Orch 1942) 1905 Guy Mollet, (Socialist) French premier (1956-57) 1905 Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer (1954 Academy Award, 1968 Tony) 1910 Dick Kollmar, Rigewood NJ, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What) 1914 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show) 1921 Rocky Graziano, NYC, boxer (Middlewgt champ)/actor (Miami Undercover) 1922 Joan McCracken, Phila Pa, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage) 1922 Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor) 1924 Victoria Draves, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1948) 1928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit) 1928 Ross Barbour, Columbus Ind, singer (4 Freshmen) 1932 George Schlatter, TV producer (Laugh-in) 1937 Anthony Hopkins, Wales, actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty) 1938 Mrs Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Holland, speed skater, world champion 1938 Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right) 1941 Sarah Miles, Essex, England, actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom) 1942 Andy Summers, rocker (Police) 1943 Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice) 1943 John Denver, singer and actor 1946 Barbara Carrera, Managua Nicaragua, actress (Angelica-Dallas) 1947 Burton Cummings, rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes) 1947 Tim Matheson, Calif, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek) 1948 Donna Summer, Boston, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio) 1948 Joe Dallesandro, Pensicola Fla, actor (Heat, Trash, AW Frankenstein) 1949 Claude Daniel Marks, Buenos Aires, one of FBI's most wanted 1951 Fermin Goytisolo, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band) 1951 Tom Hamilton, rocker (Aerosmith) 1953 James Remar, Boston, actor (48 Hours, Rent-a-Cop, Cotton Club) 1959 Val Kilmer, actor (Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow) 1961 Joanna Johnson, actress (Caroline-Bold & Beautiful) 1969 Martha Byrne, actress (Lily-As the World Turns) 1972 Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, rocker (New Kids-Lovin You Forever) Deaths which occurred on December 31st: 1384 John Wycliffe English religious reformer, bible translator 1719 John Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 1968 Carl Oscar Ahues International Chess Master (1950), dies at 84 1971 Peter Deuel actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 1972 Roberto Clemente Pitts Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash 1977 Nora Marlowe actress (Sara-Gov & JJ) 1983 Frank Link actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46 1985 Rick Nelson singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45 1985 Sam Speigel Academy Award winning producer dies at 84 1986 Lloyd Haynes actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54

On this day...January 1 1 -BC- Origin of Era of Pisa 1 Origin of Christian Era 30 -BC- Origin of Actian Era 38 -BC- Origin of Era of Spain (Cesars) 45 -BC- Origin of Julian Era; Julian calendar begins 313 Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction 990 Russia adopts Julian calendar 1515 Francis, Duke of Angouleme succeeds Louis XII as Francis I of France 1583 First day of the Gregorian calendar in Belgium 1622 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25) 1660 First entry in Samuel Pepys' diary 1673 Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston 1739 J.B.C. Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica 1772 First traveler's checks issued (London) 1785 "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes first issue 1788 London's Daily Universal Register becomes the Times 1788 Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves 1801 Ireland & Great Britain (England & Scotland) form United Kingdom 1804 Haiti gains independence from France (National Day) 1808 Congress prohibits importation of slaves 1831 William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal 1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide 1840 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, New York NY 1842 1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, New York, NY 1846 Yucatan declares independence from Mexico 1848 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua 1851 City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line 1852 1st US public bath opens in NYC 1853 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service 1854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford PA) 1863 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice NE 1863 Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln 1873 Origin of Japanese Era 1874 New York City annexes the Bronx 1877 England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India 1879 Brahms' violin concerto in D major premiers 1886 1st Tournament of Roses, Pasadena CA 1892 Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY 1892 Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants 1893 1st US college extension courses for credit, University of Chicago 1893 Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar 1894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic 1896 Wilhelm Rontgen announces his discovery of x-rays 1897 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta University 10, Tuskegee 0 1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay 1899 Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day) 1900 1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel) 1900 British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established 1901 Commonwealth of Australia established 1902 1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena CA) (University of Michigan-49, Stanford-0) 1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Pennsylvania 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day 1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square 1911 South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government 1912 1st running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race 1913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries 1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus, pilot) 1914 Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria 1916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published 1918 Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland 1919 Belorussian SSR established 1922 Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road 1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1925 Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo 1928 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio 1929 Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery 1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison 1934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective 1934 International Telecommunication Union established 1935 1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl 1935 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto 1935 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM 1936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune 1937 US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio 1942 Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16 1944 First feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, NY, NY 1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa 1945 France joins the UN 1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god 1946 National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic 1947 Britain nationalizes its coal industry 1948 1st newsreel in color filmed, Pasadena CA 1948 Britain nationalizes its railways 1948 General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective 1948 Orissa province accedes to India 1949 Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand 1954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are first sport colorcasts 1955 Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps 1956 Sudan gains independence from Britain & Egypt (National Day) 1957 France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Republic 1957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year) 1958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation 1958 Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Loray White 1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Batista flees to Dominican Republic 1959 Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community 1960 Bank of France issues a franc, worth $0.20 1960 Cameroon gains independence from France 1961 Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game 1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion) 1961 Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11 1962 Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium 1962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand 1964 Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved 1967 Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game 1967 Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game 1968 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Cesar's Palace Fountain 1970 Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League 1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect 1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV 1972 International Book Year begins 1973 Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market 1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crimes 1976 NBC replaces the peacock logo 1977 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) 1978 Air India 747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909 1979 International Year of the Child begins 1979 Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established 1979 US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations 1980 Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship 1981 Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title 1981 Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing 1981 Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors 1982 Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship 1982 Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland 1983 Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title 1983 PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour 1984 AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies 1985 Actress Judith Licht (Who's the Boss?) gets married 1986 Aruba becomes independent part of Kingdom of the Netherlands 1986 Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship 1986 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market 1987 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico 1988 Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship 1989 Actress Kelly McGillis gets married 1990 David Dinkins sworn in as first black mayor of NYC 1990 Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV 1991 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR 1991 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak 1992 Boutros Boutros-Ghali becomes UN Secretary General Birthdates which occurred on January 1st: 1449 Lorenzo de'Medici "The Magnificent" of Florence 1481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer 1714 Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet (The Seas) 1729 Edmund Burke, famous Whig (Reflections on the Revolution) 1735 Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot (British are coming) 1745 "Mad" Anthony Wayne, general 1752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker 1819 Arthur Hugh Clough poet, friend of Matthew Arnold 1823 Sandor Petofi Kikkoros, Hungary, poet, revolutionary (Jaos Vitez) 1854 Sir James Frazer Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) 1861 Isaac Murphy, thoroughbred jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%) 1863 Baron Pierre de Coubertin, France, revived Olympic games 1864 Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography 1867 Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields) 1873 Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses) 1879 E.M. Forster, England, novelist (Howard's End, Passage to India) 1889 Alexander Smallens, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor 1889 Charles Bickford, Cambridge MA, actor (John-The Virginian) 1892 Artur Rodzinski Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor 1892 Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, spook 1906 Frank Stack, Canada, speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1932) 1909 Barry Goldwater (Senator-R-AZ) 1909 Dana Andrews, Collins MS, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura) 1911 Hank Greenberg, Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman (Detroit Tiger) 1912 Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole 1912 Victor Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader 1913 Eliot Janeway, financial writer 1916 Earl Wrightson, Baltimore MD, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue) 1919 Carole Landis, actress (One Million BC, Topper Returns) 1919 J.F. "Jerome David" Salinger, author (Catcher in the Rye) 1921 Alain Mimoun-o-Kacha, France, world cross-country champion 1922 Ernest Hollings (Senator-D-SC) 1925 George Conner, NFL tackle, linebacker (Chicago Bears) 1925 Valentina Cortesa, Milan Italy, actress (Kidnap Syndicate) 1927 Maurice Bejart, France, ballet choreographer (Rite of Spring) 1927 Yuri Grigorovich, Russia, choreographer 1928 Ernest R. Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection) 1930 Ty Hardin, New York NY, actor (Riptide, Bronco) 1933 Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears) 1936 Eve Queler, New York NY, conductor 1936 Willy White, long jumper 1940 Frank Langella, actor (Dracula, Diary of a Mad Housewife, 12 Chairs) 1942 Country Joe McDonald, California, rock guitarist/vocalist 1942 Don Novello [Father Guido Sarducci], Ashtabula OH, comedian (SNL) 1945 Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race (6-time winner) 1946 Manfred Stengl, Austria, 2 man lugist (Olympic-gold-1960) Deaths which occurred on January 1st: 1515 Louis XII, King of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 1953 Hank Williams, singer 1958 David Broekman, musician (Think Fast), dies at 55 1969 Barton Maclane, actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68 1972 Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs. Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91 1982 Victor Buono, actor (Mr. Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43

January 2, On this day... 69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor 1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) 1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale 1776 First revolutionary flag displayed 1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution 1800 Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slavery 1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" 1832 First Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens 1842 First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends 1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, IL 1882 Because of antimonopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust 1890 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer 1893 First US commemoratives and first US stamp to picture a woman issued 1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine 1910 First junior high schools in US open in Berkeley, CA 1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank 1918 Montreal Wanderers' Westmount hockey arena burns down 1920 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) 1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, Pittsburgh 1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens 1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) 1934 First state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania 1935 Bruno R. Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby 1936 First electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis MO 1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace 1942 Japanese occupy Manila 1944 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) 1945 George Bush (President 1989) & Barbara Pierce wed 1945 Kentucky begins 130 game home baseketball win streak, ends in 1955 1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak 1955 First "Bob Cummings Show" premiers on NBC (later on CBS) 1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for first lunar fly-by, first solar orbit 1960 Senator John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for president 1961 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers 24-16 1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premiers on CBS 1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game 1970 US population is 293,200,000 1972 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars 1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon 1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres 1978 Rhino Records releases their first album "Wildmania" 1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins 1983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes 1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship 1985 Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score 1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions 1986 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange (then record) 1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ 1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Pennsylvania 1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement 1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship 1989 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game Birthdates which occurred on January 2nd: 1647 Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676) 1713 Mlle Dumesnil, Paris, tragic actress (Racine's Phadre, Hermione) 1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) 1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) 1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) 1837 Mily Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer 1857 Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) 1860 William C. Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) 1861 Helen Herron Taft, First Lady (1908-12) 1901 Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society) 1904 James Melton, Moultrie GA, opera tenor (Ford Festival) 1904 Sally Rand, stripper (fan dance) 1908 Ben Grauer, New York NY, newscaster (Big Story) 1912 Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital) 1912 Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer 1912 Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (The Flight from Etna, Crucifixion) 1913 Gardner Read, Evanston, Illinois, composer 1920 Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer 1922 Jason Evers, New York NY, actor (Wrangler, Channing) 1922 Renata Tebaldi, lyric soprano 1925 William J. Crowe, Jr., Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff 1927 Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts) 1928 Dan Rostenkowski (Rep-D-IL), House Ways & Means Committee chair 1928 Vaughn Beals, Cambridge MA, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle) 1930 Julius LaRosa, Brooklyn NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air) 1932 Dabney Coleman, Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill) 1936 Roger Miller, Ft Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me) 1939 Jim Bakker, televangelist (PTL Club) 1947 Aleksandr Tikhonova, USSR, biathalon relay (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80) 1947 Lanny Bassham, US, rifle-3 position (Olympic-gold-1976) 1949 Chick Churchill, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home) 1949 Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary) 1952 Wendy Phillips, Brooklyn NY, actress (Stacey-Executive Suite) 1954 Ludmila Borozna USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972) 1964 David Cone, baseball pitcher Deaths which occurred on January 2nd: 1904 James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82 1955 Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama, assassinated 1963 Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52 1974 Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67 1983 Harriet Parsons, actress/producer, dies at 76 of cancer

January 3 On this day... 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ 1831 First US building & loan association organized, Frankford PA 1852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii 1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy 1861 US' Ft. Pulaski & Ft. Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia 1865 Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match 1870 Brooklyn Bridge begun; completed May 24, 1883 1871 Oleo margarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY 1872 First patent list issued by US Patent Office 1876 First free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA 1888 First drinking straw patented, by M.C. Stone in Washington, DC 1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood 1890 First US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin 1911 US postal savings bank inaugurated 1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free 1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor 1920 NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000 1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia 1929 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president 1931 Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record) 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio 1939 Gene Cox becomes first girl page in US House of Representatives 1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease) 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa 1947 First opening session of Congress to be telecast 1947 William Dawson becomes first black to head congressional committee 1949 "Colgate Theatre" dramatic anthology series premiers on NBC TV 1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950) 1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premiers on NBC TV 1957 First electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland 1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state 1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor 1961 US breaks relations with Cuba 1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion 1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo 1971 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game 1971 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game 1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million 1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London 1977 Apple Computer incorporated 1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce 1981 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr 1983 Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota 1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson 1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century 1989 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV Birthdates which occurred on January 3rd: 106 B.C.-Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rome, statesman/author (Academica) 1793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 1810 Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness 1835 Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor 1840 Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii 1870 Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney) 1879 Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, First lady (1924-28) 1883 Clement Richard Attlee, (L) British PM (1945-51) 1886 Josephine Hull, Academy award character actress (Harvey) 1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of the Rings) 1893 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles) 1898 Johannes Hin Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920) 1898 ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress (Life With Father, Dames) 1901 Ngo Dinh Diem, dictator of South Vietnam (1954-63) 1905 Ray Milland, Neath Wales, actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945) 1907 Anna May Wong, Los Angeles CA, actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet) 1912 Robert Flemyng, Liverpool England, actor (Windom's Way, Young Winston) 1916 Betty Furness, New York NY, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1) 1917 Vernon Walters, New York NY, US permanent representative to the UN 1918 Maxene Andrews, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy) 1919 Jesse White, Buffalo NY, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Million Dollar Mermaid) 1921 John Russell, Los Angeles CA, actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo) 1922 Bill Travers, England, actor (Born Free, Gorgo) 1926 George Martin, record producer (The Beatles) 1928 Frank Ross Anderson, Canada, International Chess Master (1954) 1930 Eddie Egan, Bronx New York NY, actor (Joe Forrester) 1930 Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor 1932 Mara Corday, Santa Monica CA, actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion) 1934 Carla Hills, politician (US Presidential Commission on Housing-1982) 1939 Bobby Hull, NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72) 1941 Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour) 1944 Christina von Saltza, US, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1960) 1945 Stephen Stills, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash) 1945 Victoria Principal, Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas) 1946 John Paul Jones, rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven) 1948 Larry McNeeley, Lafayette IN, banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour) 1953 Angelo Parisi, France, heavyweight judo (Olympic-gold-1980) 1955 Cynthia Sykes, Coffeyville KY, actress (Flamingo Road, St. Elsewhere) 1956 Mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) 1967 Helena Bonham Carter, London England, actress (Getting it Right) 1975 Danica McKellar, actress (Winnie-Wonder Years) Deaths which occurred on January 3rd: 1543 Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Central America, discoverer of California 1641 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22 1875 George Bizet, composer 1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain for treason 1967 Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald 1975 Milton J. Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87 1988 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at 82 1992 Dame Judith Anderson, actress (Laura, Rebecca), dies at 93

January 4, 1493 Columbus left New World on return from first voyage 1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York NY) 1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ 1781 Andre Mechain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpius) 1790 President Washington delivers first "State of the Union" 1861 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama 1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed 1885 Dr W. W. Grant of Iowa, performs first appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22) 1896 AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York NY 1896 Utah admitted as 45th state 1898 First installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears 1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US 1915 First elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho 1932 Gandhi arrested in India 1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established 1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected first woman dean of a US graduate school 1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers" 1948 Britain grants independence to Burma 1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul 1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville 1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premiers 1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premiers on NBC TV (later on CBS) 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up 1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes first craft to leave Earth's gravity 1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants 1962 First automated (unmanned) subway train (New York NY) 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon 1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address 1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million 1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios 1970 NYC transit fare rises from $0.20 to $0.30, new larger tokens used 1971 Dr. Melvin H. Evans inaugurated as first elected governor of Virgin Islands 1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims 1971 Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated 1975 Montreal Canadians shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 1980 President Carter announced the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics 1981 "Frankenstein" opens & closes on Broadway 1982 Bryant Gumbel becomes co-host of the Today Show 1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show 1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm 1983 US Football League (USFL) holds its first player draft 1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premiers on NBC TV 1984 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 in highest-scoring modern NHL game 1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots 1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase, MD 1987 Thomas Stevens became first man to bicycle around the world 1989 US planes shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean Birthdates which occurred on January 4th: 1581 Bishop James Ussher, calculated Earth's beginning (Nov 23, 4004 BC) 1643 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist 1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector) 1789 Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist 1797 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed first Moon ap) m1809 Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind) 1813 Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor (shorthand) 1838 Charles Stratton [General Tom Thumb] 1878 Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories) 1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) 1888 Arthur Berry, England, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1908, 12) 1896 Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist (Labyrinth) 1905 Sterling Holloway, Cedartown GA, actor (Waldo-Life of Riley) 1914 Jane Wyman, St Joseph MO, the first Mrs. Ronald Reagan 1919 Al "Jazbo" Collins, New York NY, DJ (Tonight! America After Dark) 1920 William Colby, CIA director (Nixon Administration) 1922 Frank Wess, flutist/saxophonist/composer 1925 Veikko Hakulinen, Finland, 30K/50K cross country skier (Olympic Gold-1956) 1927 Barbara Rush, Denver CO, actress (Marsha-Peyton Place, Flamingo Road) 1930 Don Shula, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins) 1932 Richard Stahl, Detroit MI, actor (Howard-It's a Living) 1935 Floyd Patterson, heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Oly-gold-1952) 1937 Dyan Cannon, Tacoma WA, Mrs. Cary Grant, actress (Heaven Can Wait) 1937 Grace Bumbry, St. Louis, opera singer 1940 Anthony Skooter, Teague Texas, actor (How to Succeed in Business) 1941 John Bennett Perry, Williamstown MA, singer/actor (Falcon Crest) 1941 Maureen Reagan, (Ronald Reagan's daughter) 1942 John McLaughlin, rock guitarist (Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy) 1943 Tom Wilkinson, CFL QB (Edmonton Eskimos) 1947 J. Danforth Quayle (Senator-R-IN, 44th VP) 1951 Barbara Ann Cochran, USA, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1972) 1958 Matt Frewer, actor (Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor) 1959 Vanity [Denise Marquardt], Ontario Canada, actress (52 Pick Up) 1960 Michael Stipe, rocker (R.E.M.-Stand) 1969 Lindsay Kennedy, Atlanta GA, actor (Jeb-Little House on the Prairie) 1971 Jeremy Licht, Los Angeles CA, actor (Mark-Valerie/Hogan Family) Deaths which occurred on January 4th: 41 Caligula murdered 1804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote) 1821 Elizabeth Ann Seton, first native-born American saint, dies in Maryland 1946 Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67 1960 Albert Camus, French author, dies in an automobile accident at 46 1961 Barry Fitzgerald, actor, dies at 72 1964 Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64 1965 T.S. Eliot, poet, dies in London at 76 1967 Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water 1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91

January 5, 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond VA 1804 Ohio legislature passes first laws restricting free blacks movement 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France 1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire 1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell 1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is first to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf 1850 California Exchange opens 1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die 1859 First steamboat sails, Red River 1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay 1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, MS 1887 First US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University 1892 First successful auroral photograph made 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1903 San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use 1904 -34 degrees F (-37degrees C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record) 1904 -42 degrees F (-41 degrees C), Smethport PA (state record) 1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara 1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates 1911 San Francisco has it's first air meet 1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms in Germany 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, first woman governor in USA 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side 1934 Fenway Park catches fire 1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens first session (Nebraska) 1949 President Harry S. Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" 1957 Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from baseball 1959 "Bozo the Clown," live children's show, premiers on TV 1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" 1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel 1968 Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law 1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for first successful planet landing (Venus) 1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premiers on ABC 1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak 1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days 1981 Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, arrested in England 1984 Adrian Dantley, Utah, ties NBA record, making 28 free throws 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ 1988 Austrian President Ealdheim's war record investigated Birthdates which occurred on January 5th: 1548 Francisco Suarez, Granada Spain, philosopher/theologian 1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal 1620 Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget) 1779 Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812) 1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak) 1846 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908) 1848 Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) 1859 DeWitt B. Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) 1863 Konstantin Stanislavsky, Russian actor/director/methodist 1871 Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton MA, composer 1876 Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (1949) 1895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest 1910 Erica Morini, violinist 1911 Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) 1912 Frank Pace, Jr. US Sec. of Army (1950-53) 1918 Jean Dixon, psychic 1920 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist 1921 Friedrich Durrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright, novelist (The Visit) 1923 Sam Phillips, musician/record company founder (Sun) 1926 Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts) 1926 Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl) 1928 Walter Mondale (Senator-D-MN) 42nd VP (1977-81) 1930 Edward G. Givens, Jr. Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut 1930 Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune) 1931 Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg, Moravia, Austrian pianist 1931 Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater) 1931 Robert Duvall, San Diego CA, actor 1931 Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952) 1932 Chuck Noll, Cleveland OH, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1938 Juan Carlos I, King of Spain 1942 Charlie Rose, Henderson NC, newscaster (CBS Night Watch) 1942 Cliff Potts, Glendale CA, actor (Ted-Lou Grant) 1942 Maurizio Pollini, Milan Italy, pianist 1944 Tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) 1945 Sam Wyche, former NFL coach (Cincinatti Bengels) 1946 Diane Keaton, Louisiana, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl) 1947 Ted Lange, Oakland CA, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr. T) 1949 George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang) 1953 Pamela Sue Martin, Westport CT, actress (Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty) 1954 Bryan Hitt, rocker (REO Speedwagon) 1957 Vincent Calloway, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking) 1964 Ted Harris Poley, Englewood NJ, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It) 1967 Ricky Paull Goldin, San Francisco CA, actor (Doug-Hail to the Chief, Another World) 1968 Carl Evans, Actor (Guilding Light) Deaths which occurred on January 5th: 1066 King Edward, the Confessor of England, dies 1589 Catherine de Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 1860 St. John Nepomucene Neumann first male US saint, dies 1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, dies aboard his ship 1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President, died in Northampton MA, at 60 1942 Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered 1943 George Washington Carver, famous black American, dies at 81 1970 Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered 1974 Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79 1975 Don Wilson, Astros pitcher, dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning 1977 Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr. Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74 1982 Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64 1982 Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56

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Yup!!! January 6 1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christians 1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves 1639 Virginia is first colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed 1663 Great earthquake in New England 1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs. his butcher) 1759 George Washington & Martha Dandridge Custis are married 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in the UK) 1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) 1838 Samuel Morse made first public demonstration of telegraph 1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind" 1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania 1861 NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with East Coast 1896 First US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden 1898 First telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded 1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m 1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua 1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia 1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's first woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx 1942 First around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper") 1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, NY 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes 1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar 1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC 1964 Charles Finley announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville 1964 Rolling Stones' first tour as headline act (with Ronettes) 1968 Dr. N..E.. Shumway performs first US adult cardiac transplant operation 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon 1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" 1975 AM America premiers on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host 1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million 1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols 1978 First postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp) 1980 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns 1987 100th US Congress convenes 1991 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premiers on NBC-TV Birthdates which occurred on January 6th: 1367 Richard I, Bordeaux, France, king of England (1377-99) 1412 Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr 1587 Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Spanish minister 1745 Jacques Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (first pioneer balloonist) 1799 Jedediah Smith, fur trader/explorer 1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator 1832 Gustave Dore, Strasbourg Fr, illustrator (Inferno, Ancient Mariner) 1838 Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer 1864 Ban Johnson, Norwalk CT, baseball founder (American League) 1872 Alexander Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus) 1878 Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes) 1880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin) 1882 Samuel Rayburn, Tennessee, (Rep-D-TX), Speaker of the House (1940-57) 1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings) 1896 Abram N. Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine) 1897 Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family) 1903 Maurice Abravanel, Saloniki Greece, conductor 1906 Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, Zulu poet/novelist/educator 1911 Joey Adams, Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor/columnist (ABC's Back That Fact) 1913 Loretta Young, Salt Lake City UT, actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger) 1913 Tom Brown, New York NY, actor (Ed-Gunsmoke, Lt Rovacs-Mr. Lucky) 1914 Danny Thomas, Deerfield MI, comedian (Danny Thomas Show) 1914 David Bruce, Kankakee IL, actor (Harry-Beulah) 1915 Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo) 1920 Early Wynn, Hartford AL, baseball Hall of Fame (pitcher) 1920 Rev. Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies) 1921 Cary Middlecoff, golfer (1956 Vardon Trophy, 1955 Byron Nelson Award) 1921 Lou Harris, pollster (Lou Harris Poll) 1924 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician 1925 John Z. DeLorean, former automaker (DeLorean) 1929 Wilbert Harrison, R & B singer (Kansas City) 1933 Sylvia Syms, singer (You Go To My Head, Them There Eyes) 1934 Bobby Lord, Sanford FL, country singer (Ozark Jubilee) 1935 Capucine [Germaine Lefebvre], France, actress (Pink Panther) 1935 Nino Tempo, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple) 1941 Sandy Denny, rock vocalist (Fairport Convention-If You Gotta Go) 1944 Bonnie Franklin, Santa Monica CA, TV actress (Ann-One Day at a Time) 1944 Henry Kravis, author (The Money Machine) 1946 Harold Jackson, Hattiesburg, MS, NFL wide receiver (Los Angeles, New England) 1946 Syd Barrett, England, rocker (Pink Floyd) 1949 Robert Englund, Glendale CA, actor (V, Nightmare on Elm Street) 1952 Armelia McQueen, NC (Brooklyn Conservatory), actress 1952 Grant Goodeve, New Haven CT, actor (David-8 is Enough, Dynasty) 1953 Malcolm Young, Glasgow Scotland, guitarist (AC/DC) 1956 Rowan Atkinson, England, comedian/actor (Never Say Never Again) 1957 Nancy Lopez Knight, Torrance CA, LPGA Hall of Fame 1959 Kathy Sledge, Philadelphia PA, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We Are Family) 1964 Mark O'Toole, bassist/drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) 1976 Danny Pintauro, Milltown NJ, actor (Jonathan-Who's the Boss?) Deaths which occurred on January 6th: 1884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk & heredity pioneer 1960 Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 1988 Brent Collins, actor, dies at 46 of a heart attack 1989 Hirohito, Japan`s emperor, dies at 87 after 62-year reign

January 8 794 Church at Lindisfarne, England destroyed by Northmen 1675 First American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co) 1705 "Almira," Handel's first opera, premiers, Hamburg 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France 1833 Boston Academy of Music, first US music school, established 1838 First telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, NJ 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia 1853 First US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington 1856 Dr. John A. Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs CA 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto 1870 US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz 1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives first US patent for a tabulating machine 1897 Michael Eagan wins first US national amateur handball championship 1902 First National Bowling Championship held (Chicago IL) 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager 1918 Mississippi becomes first state to ratify 18th amendment (Prohibition) 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I 1925 First all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, A.C. Hardy 1940 Britain's first WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar) 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 91 die 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty" 1965 Senator Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass) 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History 1968 Jacques Cousteau's first undersea special on US network TV 1971 Voyageurs National Park (MN) established 1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris 1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York 1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W. Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet 1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US. 1987 First time, Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed 2,000, closing at 2,002.25 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons Birthdates which occurred on January 8th: 1587 Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots) 1786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US first effective central bank 1821 James Longstreet, military commander (first Corps, ANV) 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer (evolution) 1824 Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Woman in White) 1830 Hans von Bulow, Dresden, pianist/virtuoso conductor/musical writer 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) 1864 William Wilkie Collins, England, novelist (The Moonstone) 1867 Emily Balch, US, sociologist/feminist (Nobel 1946) 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity 1885 John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45) 1891 Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer 1891 Storm Jameson, English novelist (The Green Man, Cousin Honore) 1891 Walther Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) 1896 Jaromir Weinberger, Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer 1900 Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia 1902 Alexander Gray, Wrightsville PA, actor (This is Music) 1902 Carl R. Rogers, US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy) 1902 Georgy M. Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM (1953-55) 1904 Peter Arn,o New York NY, cartoonist (New Yorker) 1905 Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher 1917 Stanley Prager, New York NY, comedian (College Bowl) 1922 Abbey Simon, New York NY, pianist 1923 Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago IL, basso 1923 Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer 1923 Larry Storch, New York NY, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show) 1924 Ron Moody, London England, actor (12 Chairs, Wrong is Right) 1926 Evelyn Lear, Brooklyn NY, soprano 1926 Soupy Sales [Milton Hines], NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show) 1928 Sander Vanocur, Cleveland OH, news anchor (NBC Weekend News) 1930 Doreen Wilber, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972) 1931 May Wynn, actress (Liz-Noah's Ark) 1933 Charles Osgood, New York NY, news anchor (CBS Weekend News) 1933 May Wynn [Donna Lee Hickey], New York NY, actress (Caine Mutiny) 1934 Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner) 1934 Roy Kinnear, English actor (TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers) 1935 Elvis Presley, Tupelo MS, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog) 1935 Nolan Miller, Burkburnett TX, fashion designer (Dynasty, Love Boat) 1937 Shirley Bassey, Wales, singer (Goldfinger) 1939 Yvette Mimieux, Hollywood CA, actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are) 1940 Anthony Gaurdine, (Little Anthony & Imperials-Goin Out of My Head) 1946 Kathleen Noone, actress (All My Children, Knots Landing) 1946 Robbie Kreiger, rocker (Doors) 1947 David Bowie, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust) 1947 Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe) 1953 Bruce Sutter, pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves) 1955 Mike Reno, rock vocalist (Loverboy) 1968 Ami Dolenz, actress (General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love) 1975 Jenny Lewis, Las Vegas NV, actress (Becky-Life With Lucy) Deaths which occurred on January 8th: 1336 Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter 1642 Galileo Galilei, dies at 78 in Arceti, Italy 1922 Colonel Charles R. Young dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria 1941 Lord Robert Baden-Powell. founder of the Boy Scout movement 1952 Antonia Maury, discoverer of supergiant, giant & dwarf stars, dies 1976 Chou En-lai, China's premier, dies of cancer in Peking at 78 1978 Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75 1981 Woody Chamblis, actor (Mr. Lathrop-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 1982 Gregoire Aslan, character actor, dies at 73 of a heart attack 1982 Reta Shaw, actress (Ghost & Mrs. Muir), dies at 69 1983 Gale Page, actress, dies of cancer at 72 1983 Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 1988 Frank Pace, Jr., US Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76 1991 Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard), dies at 30

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Yeah... had large problem (fight) yesterday with house troll. Won the round. Won the battle but he is still clueless... January 10 On this day... 49 -BC- Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy 1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrender to the British 1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes 1840 Penny Post mail system started 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede 1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France 1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas 1910 First international air meet in US held, in LA 1911 First photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego 1912 World's first flying boat's maiden flight, (NY) 1920 League of Nations' first meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas governor, nation's 2nd woman governor 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C.D. Russell debuts 1942 Japan invades Dutch East Indies 1943 First US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1944 First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia 1946 UN General Assembly convenes for first time (London) 1946 US Army establishes first radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ 1949 First Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premiers on CBS 1951 First jet passenger trip made 1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel" 1957 Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3.500 1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premiers 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network 1972 Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104 1979 First brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks 1981 John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 hours 21 minutes 1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua 1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players Birthdates which occurred on January 10th: 1644 Louis Boufflers, Marshall of France 1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (led Green Mountain Boys) 1814 Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer) 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator) 1892 Dumas Malone, Mississippi, historian (Jefferson & His Time) 1894 Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed) 1904 Ray Bolger, Dorchester MA, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz) 1908 Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) 1910 Galina Ulanova, Russia, ballerina 1914 Polly Rowles, Philadelphia PA, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie) 1926 June Haver, Mrs. Fred MacMurray/actress (Dolly Sisters) 1927 Gisele MacKenzie, Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade) 1927 Johnnie Ray, pop singer (Cry) 1927 Lee Philips, Brooklyn NY, actor (Ellery Queen) 1928 Donald Brooks, fashion designer (Emmy 1983) 1935 Ronnie Hawkins, Ark, rocker (The Band-Who Do You Love?) 1938 Willie McCovey, Hall of Fame first baseman (San Francisco) 1939 Bill Toomey, decathlon champ (Olympic-gold-1968) 1939 Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause) 1942 Jim Croce, singer (Time in a Bottle) 1945 Rod Stewart, singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy) 1948 Donald Fagan, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg) 1948 George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74) 1949 Teresa Graves, Houston TX, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love) 1949 Walter S. Browne, US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84) 1952 Scott Thorston, keyboards/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely) 1953 Bobby Rahal, Indy-car racer 1953 Pat Benatar, Brooklyn NY, pop singer 1959 Don Letts, rocker (Bad) 1961 Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome Italy, concert violinist 1964 Krista Tesreau, actress (Guiding Light) Deaths which occurred on January 10th: 1645 William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded 1778 Carolus Lineus, "Carl von Linne" Swedish botanist/explorer 1968 Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74 1972 Al Goodman, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 1981 Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63 1982 Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55

January 11 On this day... 1569 First recorded lottery in England, at St Paul's Cathedral 1672 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society 1693 Mt. Etna erupts, Sicily 1759 First American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia 1785 Continental Congress convenes in NYC 1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel 1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy all of Louisiana 1805 Michigan Territory organized 1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die 1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede 1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of the Reform 1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas 1873 First livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago 1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded 1897 M.H. Cannon becomes first woman state senator in US (Utah) 1913 First sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York NY) 1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed 1923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations 1938 Frances Moulton elected first woman president of a US national bank 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya 1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China 1946 Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Philadelphia 1946 People's Republic of Albania established 1953 J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become the President of the International Boxing Club 1960 Chad declares independence from France 1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts 1964 First government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health 1966 "Daktari" African adventure series premiers on CBS TV 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain 1970 Super Bowl IV-Kansas City Chiefs-23, Minnesota Vikings-7 1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule 1973 Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington DC 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship 1980 Debut of the Pretenders 1983 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time 1984 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game 1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family 1988 USSR announces it will participate in the Seoul Summer Olympics 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons 1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229) 1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq Birthdates which occurred on January 11: 1503 Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist (Madonna with the Long Neck) 1757 Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, first US Sec of treasury ($10 bill face) 1807 Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University) 1815 Sir John A. MacDonald, (C) first PM of Canada (1867-73) 1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party) 1887 Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) 1896 Paddy Driscoll, NFL QB/coach (Chicago Cardinals, Bears) 1903 Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country) 1906 Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD) 1908 Lionel Stander, New York NY, actor (Max-Hart to Hart, Unfaithfully Yours) 1912 Donald Barry, Houston TX, actor (Mr. Gallo-Mr. Novak) 1912 Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, Waco Texas, pitcher (Detroit Tigers) 1928 David L. Wolper, producer (Devil's Brigade) 1928 Mitchell Ryan, Cincinnati OH, actor (Chase, Executive Suite) 1931 Ed Hall, Roxbury MA, actor (Dr Bicker-Medical Center) 1933 Goldie Hill, Karnes County TX, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) 1936 Linda Lawson, Ann Arbor MI, actress (Don't Call Me Charlie) 1939 Anne Heggtveigt, Canada, slalom (Olympic-gold-1960) 1942 Clarence Clemmons, saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E St. Band) 1945 Christine Kaufmann, Austria, actress (Town Without Pity, Red Lips) 1946 Naomi Judd, country singer (The Judds) 1948 Madeline Manning, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1968) 1949 Dennis Greene, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon) 1949 Tom Netherton, Munich Germany, singer (Lawrence Welk Show) 1952 Ben Crenshaw, Austin TX, PGA golfer 1952 Lee Ritenour, jazz musician 1957 Darryl Dawkins, NBA center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets) 1965 Loredana Romito, Benevento Italy, actress (Fatal Temptation) 1965 Olivia Barash, Miami FL, actress (Laura-Out of the Blue) 1967 Jeff Bankett, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Tyler-One Life to Live) 1968 Sharon Brown, New York NY, actress (Chantal-Generations) 1974 Rosenkowitz sextuplets, Cape Town (First known to survive infancy) Deaths which occurred on January 11th: 1843 Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63 1893 Benjamin F. Butler, US general/Presidential candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74 1928 Thomas Hardy, novelist, dies at his home near Dorchester at 87 1979 Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller), dies at 63 1984 Jack La Rue, TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 84 1988 Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer 1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89

January 13, On this day... 1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued 1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland 1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC 1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times 1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes 1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co 1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion 1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC) 1906 First radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile 1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000 1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA 1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast 1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies 1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban 1966 First black in Presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C. Weaver-HUD) 1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton is fatally injured 1974 Super Bowl VIII-Miami Dolphins-24, Minnesota Vikings-7 1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song 1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame 1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into the 14th St. Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 1983 AMA urges ban on boxing, sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition 1984 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV 1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course 1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428 1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen 1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams 1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain 1989 Jerry Parks, University of Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate 1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode 1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence Birthdates which occurred on January 13th: 1628 Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose) 1802 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright 1808 Salmon P. Chase, (Senator-R) cabinet member, 6th Chief Justice (1864-73) 1834 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere MA, author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win) 1885 Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man) 1913 Jeff Morrow, New York NY, actor (Bart-Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising) 1918 Ted Willis, screenwriter (It's Great to be Young) 1919 Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game) 1919 Robert Stack, Los Angeles CA, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane) 1923 Jack Watling, London, actor (Nanny, Adventure for 2, Naked Heart) 1925 Gwen Verdon, Louisiana, actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity) 1925 Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner) 1928 David Sheiner, New York NY, actor (Paul-Mr Novak, Norman-Diana) 1930 Frances Sternhagen, Washington DC, actress (Outland, Starting Over) 1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, New York NY, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs.Muir) 1933 Ron Goulart, American writer (Cheap Thrills) 1934 Rip Taylor, comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show) 1938 Billy Gray, Los Angeles CA, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best) 1943 Richard Moll, California, actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor) 1952 Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute) 1955 Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover) 1961 Graham "Suggs" McPherson, rocker (Madness-Our House) 1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New York NY, comedienne (Seinfeld) 1963 Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Gwen-Popcorn Kids) 1963 Tim Patrick Kelly, Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter) 1970 Keith Coogan, actor (Adventures in Babysitting, Hiding Out) 1972 Nicole Eggert, California, actress (Charles in Charge, Chrissie-TJ Hooker, Summer-Baywatch) Deaths which occurred on January 13th: 1599 Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46 1691 George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66 1864 Stephen Foster, (My Old Kentucky Home), dies in a NY hospital 1939 Jacob Ruppert, NY Yankee owner 1941 James Joyce, novelist, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 58 1962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West Los Angeles, at 42 1968 Bill Masterson, (Minnesota North Stars) checked into the boards & killed 1978 Hubert Humphrey, (Senator-D-MN, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly MN 1978 Joe McCarthy, NY Yankee manager dies at 90 1979 Donnie Hathaway, singer 1983 Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74 1983 John McHugh, actor, dies of a heart attack at 69 1988 Ching-Kao Chiang, President of Taiwan, dies at 81

January 14 1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome 1639 First Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford 1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nuremberg, Germany 1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches" 1794 First successful Cesarean section in US, Edom, Virginia 1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets 1799 King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies 1813 Gideon Hawley becomes first state school superintendent in US (NY) 1814 King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel 1868 SC constitutional convention, meets with a black majority 1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark 1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars 1918 Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1932 First totalisator (i.e., "tote board," to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah 1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY) 1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II 1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed 1950 US recalls all consular officials from China 1951 First NFL pro bowl since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27 1952 "Today Show," premiers with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV 1953 Yugoslavia elects it's first president (Marshal Tito) 1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio 1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti" 1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes first NFLer to join the AFL 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's first public appearance (TV) since assassination 1966 David Bowie releases his first record (Can't Help Thinking About Me) 1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco 1967 NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments 1967 Sonny & Cher release "The Beat Goes On" 1968 Super Bowl II-Green Bay Packers-33, Oakland Raiders-14 1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers 1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premiers on NBC TV 1973 Super Bowl VII-Miami Dolphins-14, Washington Redskins-7 1974 World Football League founded 1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) 1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, San Francisco) 1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday Birthdates which occurred on January 14th: 1615 John Biddle, English minister (Unitarian) 1730 William Whipple, Declaration of Independence signer 1741 Benedict Arnold, US general turned traitor (Revolutionary War) 1791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2") 1806 Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander (Confederacy) 1818 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories) 1861 Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-1922) 1874 Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit) 1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian (Nobel 1952) 1886 Hugh Lofting, English/American writer & illustrator (Dr. Dolittle) 1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer (1 Million BC) 1904 Sir Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer 1906 William Bendix, New York NY, actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley) 1909 Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident) 1913 Tillie Olsen, American writer (Tell Me a Riddle) 1920 Andy Rooney, Albany NY, commentator (60 Minutes) 1924 Guy Williams, New York NY, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space) 1925 Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist (Temple of Golden Pavilion) 1926 Thomas Tryon, actor/novelist (I Married a Monster from Outer Space) 1929 Billy Walker, Ralls TX, country singer (Ozark Jubilee) 1938 Allen Toussaint, musician (Wild Sign of New Orleans) 1938 Jack Jones, Los Angeles CA, singer (Love Boat Theme) 1941 Faye Dunaway, Florida, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde) 1941 Marjoe Gortner, Long Beach Ca, actor (Speak Up America, Falcon Crest) 1943 Ronald Hunter, Boston MA, actor (Lazarus Syndrome) 1948 Carl Weathers, New Orleans LA, actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky) 1962 Patrica Morrison, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet) 1965 Vanity [Dee Dee Williams], singer/actress (Action Jackson) 1966 Daniel J Schneider, Memphis TN, actor (Dennis-Head of the Class) 1969 Jason Kent Bateman, Rye NY, actor (David-Valerie, Hogan Family) Deaths which occurred on January 14th: 1742 Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86 1847 Governor Bent, 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico 1957 Humphrey Bogart, actor, dies at 57 1984 Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 82 1985 Jetta Goudal, French actress, dies at 86 1986 Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64 1988 Georgi M. Malenkov, PM of USSR (1953-55), dies at 86

On this day...January 15 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic 1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Ft Cravecoeur 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis 1863 First US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal 1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops 1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens 1882 First US ski club formed, Berlin, NH 1886 Weekly Herald, first Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes first issue 1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiers, St Petersburg (1/27 NS) 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee de Forest 1907 Gold dental inlays first described by Williamm Taggart (inventor) 1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal Wave" Boston MA, drowning 21 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes first premier of Poland 1922 Irish Free State forms 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes the country of Memel 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 5,000 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station 1964 Teamsters negotiated the first national labor contract 1965 Rock group Who releases first album "I Can't Explain" 1967 Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS) 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court 1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel 1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam 1974 "Happy Days" premiers on ABC 1974 Expert panel reports 18 minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit 1978 Super Bowl XII-Dallas Cowboys-27, Denver Broncos-10 1978 Ted Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premiers on NBC-TV 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes first elected president of Brazil in 21 years 1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World 1990 42 year old George Foreman KO's George Cooney in 2 rounds 1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence Birthdates which occurred on January 15th: 1791 Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) 1798 Thomas Croker, Irish antiquary, collector of songs & legends 1813 James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation) 1845 Ella Flagg Young, first woman president of the National Educational Association 1866 Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop (Nobel '30) 1877 Lewis Terman, Indiana, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test) 1891 Osip Mandelstam, Warsaw, Russian poet (Noise of Time) 1899 Goodman Ace, radio/TV writer/actor/columnist/humorist 1906 Aristotle Onassis, Greece, shipping magnate 1908 Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project) 1909 Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, drummer (Sing Sing Sing) 1911 Cy Feuer, New York NY, Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line) 1913 Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro CA, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane) 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971?) 1920 John J. "Cardinal" O'Connor, Philadelphia PA, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York 1926 Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999) 1929 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, (Nobel 1964) 1931 Thomas Hoving, New York NY, news correspondent (20/20) 1932 Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952) 1935 Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist 1937 Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St. Louis) 1941 Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vilet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast) 1947 Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block) 1948 Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV) 1948 Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin) 1951 Charo, Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat) 1951 Martha Davis, rock vocalist (Motels-Shame) 1953 Randy White, NFL Hall of Fame (Dallas Cowboys) 1967 Lisa Lisa (Velez), rock vocalist (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam) 1968 Chad Lowe, Dayton OH, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder) Deaths which occurred on January 15th: 69 Galba, Roman emperor, killed by Praetorian guard in the Forum, Rome 1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ten Bundy 1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Fight Talk), dies at 76 1983 Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach FL, at 81 1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor, dies of cancer at 75 1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58 1987 Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 82 1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83

January 16 1547 Ivan IV (the Terrible) crowned first Tsar of Russia 1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks 1777 Vermont declares independence from NY 1865 Aftermath of Fort Fisher, Fort Caswell is abandoned & blown up 1865 General William Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks) 1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman 1877 Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system 1905 Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months 1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established 1909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole 1911 Pandora becomes first 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east 1915 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific International Expo gold coin 1919 Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933 1941 War Department forms first Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets 1942 William Knudsen becomes first civilian appointed a general in US army 1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville TX, to 134th St., New York NY) 1956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine 1957 3 B-52s leave California for first non-stop round the world flights 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1964 "Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing, opens on Broadway 1966 Harold R. Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US 1967 First black government installed in Bahamas 1967 Lucius Amerson, becomes first southern (Alabama) black sheriff in 20th century 1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4) 1972 Super Bowl VI-Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 1973 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon 1976 "Donny & Marie" musical variety show premiers on ABC TV 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt 1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession 1981 Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth 1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of marijuana 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks 1988 NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix 1989 USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars (didn't happen) 1991 Operation Desert Storm begins. US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait Birthdates which occurred on January 16th: 1757 Samuel McIntire woodcarver/architect (architect of Salem) 1853 Andre Michelin France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin) 1901 Fulgencio Batista president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59) 1907 Alexander Knox Canada, actor (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind) 1908 Ethel Merman stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam) 1911 Eduardo Frei (Christian Democrat), president of Chile (1964-70) 1911 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals) 1917 Buddy Lester Chicago IL, actor (Nick-Phil Silvers Show) 1919 Bob Boucher Kent OH, orchestra leader (Music on Ice) 1920 Elliot Reid New York NY, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 1924 Katy Jurado Mexico, actress (High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo) 1929 Allard Lowenstein radical (Students for Democratic Action) 1930 Norman Podhoretz author/editor (New York Post) 1935 A.J. Foyt Houston, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77) 1938 Michael Pataki Youngstown OH, actor (Get Christie Love) 1944 Jim Stafford Eloise FL, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My Girl Bill) 1944 Ronnie Milsap country singer (Nobody Likes Sad Songs) 1948 Cliff Thorburn Victoria, BC, champion snooker player 1948 John Carpenter director (Halloween, The Thing) 1950 Caroline Munro Windsor England, actress (Spy Who Loves Me) 1950 Debbie Allen Houston TX, dancer/actress (3 Girls 3, Lydia-Fame) 1951 Richard Thompson rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express) Deaths which occurred on January 16th: 1794 Edward Gibbon historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London 1939 Albert Fish mass murderer, executed 1971 Kermit Maynard cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup), dies at 68 1972 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian] (Alvin & Chipmunks), dies at 52 1973 Ray Barrett sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65 1979 Ted Cassidy Pittsburgh, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46 1987 Earl Wilson Broadway columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79 1987 Joyce Jameson comedienne (Spike Jones Show), dies at 54

January 17 1501 Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from the Romagna 1562 Edict of St. Germain recognizes the Huguenots in France 1584 Bohemia adopts the Gregorian calendar 1601 France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain 1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53 1746 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Edward I defeats & massacres Scots 1773 Captain James Cook becomes first to cross Antarctic Circle 1775 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland 1821 Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas 1852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) 1861 Flush toilet patented by Thomas Crapper 1871 First cable car patented, by Andrew S. Hallidie (begins service in 1873) 1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction 1885 British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan 1893 Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic 1899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific 1905 Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C.G. Scannell, Chicago 1916 Professional Golfer Association (PGA) formed in New York NY 1917 US pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands 1928 First fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented 1929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre" 1943 Tin Can Drive Day 1945 "Liberation" of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation) 1946 United Nations Security Council holds its first meeting 1950 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities 1954 Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS) 1955 Submarine Nautilus begins first nuclear-powered test voyage 1962 ANASA civilian pilot Neil A. Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m 1963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km 1966 USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast 1970 John M. Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Massachusetts) 1971 Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 1973 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life 1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws 1986 Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs to regain WBA heavyweight title 1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran 1989 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach 1989 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded 1990 Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract Birthdates which occurred on January 17th: 1463 Frederick III, the Wise, elector of Saxony, protector of Luther 1501 Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants) 1600 Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish poet/dramatist 1612 Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general 1706 Benjamin Franklin, Boston, statesman/inventor 1732 Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland (1764-95) 1771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel (Wieland) 1806 James Madison Randolph, (Jefferson's grandson) first born in White House 1818 Sir Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64) 1820 Anne Bronte, English novelist (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) 1880 Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops) 1886 Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933) 1886 Ronald Firbank, London, novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot) 1891 Marjorie Gateson, Brooklyn NY, actress (One Man's Family) 1896 Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show) 1899 Al Capone, gangster (Chicago bootlegging) 1899 Nevil Shute (Norway), London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice) 1899 Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian 1903 Warren Hull, Gasport NY, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World) 1905 Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931) 1916 Joel Herron, Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Jaye P Morgan Show) 1922 Betty White, Oak Park, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls) 1925 Rock Hudson, Winnetka IL, actor (McMillian & Wife) 1926 Moira Shearer, Scotland, ballerina (Red Shoes) 1928 Vidal Sassoon, London, hair stylist/CEO (Vidal Sasson) 1930 Thomas P. Stafford, Oklahoma, astronaut (Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10) 1931 James Earl Jones, Mississippi, actor 1933 Sheree North, Louisiana, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Breakout, Madigan) 1934 Shari Lewis, Bronx NY, ventriloquist/puppeteer (Lamb Chop) 1938 Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders) 1939 Maury Povich, news personality (Current Affair, Maury) 1942 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay], heavyweight champ boxer (1964-67, 74-78) 1942 Randy Boone, Fayetteville NC, actor (Cimarron Strip, Virginian) 1947 Todd Susman, St Louis MO, actor (Goodnight Beantown) 1948 Mick Taylor, rocker (Rolling Stones) 1949 Andy Kaufman, New York NY, comedian/actor (Latka-Taxi) 1949 Debbie Watson, La Mirada CA, actress (Karen, Tammy) 1956 Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away) 1960 John Crawford, Palo Alto Ca, bass (Berlin-Take My Breath Away) 1961 Maia Chiburdanidze, Kutaisi, USSR, women's world chess champ 1962 Jim Carrey, Ontario Canada, actor (Living Color, Dumb and Dumber) 1962 Susanna Hoffs, actress/rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian) Deaths which occurred on January 17th: 1874 Chang & Eng Bunker, Siamese twins 1893 Rutherford B. Hayes, (US President) dies in Fremont OH, at 70 1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet) 1977 Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah (firing squad), first US execution since 1967 1980 Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North), dies at 59 1983 Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian, commits suicide at 71 1991 King Olav, of Norway 1992 Charlie Ventura, jazz tenor, dies at 75 of cancer

January 18, 1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde 1644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston 1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama 1733 First polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) 1777 San Jose, CA, founded 1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 1788 English settlers arrive in Australia's Botany Bay to establish penal colony 1850 British blockade Pireus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed 1871 German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I 1896 First demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York NY 1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) 1919 WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France 1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy the Rotunda in Dublin 1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Hall of Fame 1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis 1943 Pre-sliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts 1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad 1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass 1951 NFL takes control of the failing Baltimore Colts 1958 First black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) 1966 Robert C Weaver, becomes first black cabinet member (HUD) 1967 Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada 1974 "The $6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premiers on ABC TV 1975 "The Jeffersons," spin-off from "All in the Family," premiers on CBS 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers defeat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in Super Bowl X 1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America", Florence, Or 1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an oz 1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1 1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets 1981 Wendy O. Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity 1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years 1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise 1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board 1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC) 1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey 1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years 1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel 1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career Birthdates which occurred on January 18th: 1641 Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois) 1779 Peter Roget, thesaurus fame, inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard) 1782 Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer 1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (first commercial useable barbed wire) 1849 Sir Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (1900-03) 1854 Thomas A. Watson, Bell inventor assistant (Telephone) 1882 Alan Alexander Milne, author (Winnie-the-Pooh) 1892 Oliver Hardy, Harlem GA, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy) 1904 Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest) 1905 Chick Chandler, Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family) 1912 William Sansom, English writer (The Loving Eye) 1913 Danny Kaye, Brooklyn NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show) 1922 Constance Moore, Sioux City IA, actress (Window on Main Street) 1933 John Boorman, producer/director (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz) 1941 Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna FL, singer (Honey) 1941 David Ruffin, Mississippi, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone) 1941 Tom Bailey, rock vocalist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor) 1950 John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science) 1953 Brett Hudson, Portland Ore, comedians (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show) 1955 Kevin Costner, actor (Silverado, Bull Durham) Deaths which occurred on January 18th: 1862 John Tyler, 10th US President, dies in Richmond VA at 71 1936 Rudyard Kipling, author, dies in Burwash, England 1967 Barney Ross, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57 1968 Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69 1970 David McKay, Mormon president, dies at 96 1978 Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67

January 19 On this day... 1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona 1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim) 1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiers, in Rome 1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede 1871 First Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey 1884 The opera "Manon" is produced (Paris) 1886 Aurora Ski Club, first in US, founded in Minnesota 1898 Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in first intercollegiate hockey game 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms 1903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England 1915 Electric neon sign patented 1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec 1942 Japanese forces invade Burma 1952 PGA approves allowing black participants 1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary 1955 "The Millionaire" TV program premiers on CBS 1955 First Presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) 1961 First episode for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1970 Nixon nominates G. Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame 1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak 1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) 1977 World's largest crowd: 12.7 million-for Indian religious festival 1979 John N. Mitchell (former attorney general) released on parole from federal prison 1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Oklahoma, kills 6 kids & teacher 1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's first Republican governor since 1874 1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon 1991 Sgt. Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt Birthdates which occurred on January 19th: 570 Mohammed, Islamic prophet (Koran) 1544 Francis II, King of France (1559-60) 1736 James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) 1749 Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian 1807 Robert Edward Lee, Stratford VA, Confederate General 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) 1813 Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) 1859 Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of California) 1903 Erwin Nyiregyhazi, Budapest Hungary, pianist 1906 Ish Kabbible [Merwyn Bogue], Pennsylvania, comedian (Kay Kyser's Kollege) 1906 Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show) 1912 Leonid V. Kantorovich, St Petersburg Russia, economist (Nobel) 1915 Alvy West, Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show) 1917 John Raitt, singer/actor (Pajama Game) 1920 Javier Perez de Cuellar, Lima Peru, 5th Secretary-General of UN 1922 Guy Madison, Bakersfield CA, actor (Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok) 1923 Jean Stapleton, New York NY, actress (All in the Family) 1924 Nicholas Colasanto, Providence RI, actor (Coach Ernie-Cheers) 1926 Fritz Weaver, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Josef-Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin) 1931 Robert MacNeil, Montreal, news anchor (NBC Weekend News 1965-67) 1935 Tippi Hedren, Minnesota, actress (The Birds, Marnie, Bold & Beautiful) 1938 Phil Everly, Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers) 1942 Michael Crawford, England, Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera) 1942 Shelly Fabares, Santa Monica CA, actress (Donna Reed Show, Coach) 1943 Janis Joplin, Port Arthur TX, blues singer (Down on Me) 1945 Rod Evans, rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band) 1946 Dolly Parton, Sevierville TN, country singer/actress (Dolly, 9 to 5) 1946 Julian Barnes, England, writer (Before She Met Me) 1947 Ann Compton, news reporter (ABC TV) 1949 Robert Palmer, rocker (Addicted to Love) 1951 Dewey Bunnell, rock vocalist (America-Daisy Jane, Sister Golden Hair) 1951 Martha Davis, vocals/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely) 1952 Dewey Bunell, Yorkshire England, rock guitarist (America-Daisy Jane) 1953 Desi Arnaz, Jr., Los Angeles CA, actor (Craig-Here's Lucy, Fakeout, Joyride) 1954 Steve DeBerg, NFL quarterback (too many teams to list!) 1966 Stefan Edberg, Sweden, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1988) Deaths which occurred on January 19th: 1629 Abbas I, Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57 1954 Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Maltese Falcon), dies at 74 1976 Kevin Coughlin, actor (T.R. Ryan-Mama), dies at 30 1977 Geraldine Brooks, actress (Faraday & Co, Dumplings), dies at 51 1990 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, dies at 58

January 20 1265 First English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester 1613 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia 1778 First American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge MA 1783 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War 1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, GA 1801 John Marshall appointed US chief justice 1809 First US geology book published by William Maclure 1840 Dumont D'Urville discovers Adelie Land, Antarctica 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British 1850 Investigator, first ship to effect the Northwest Passage, leaves England 1866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends 1868 Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes first woman to testify before Congress 1870 "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard 1887 US Senate approves the naval base lease of Pearl Harbor 1892 First basketball game played (Massachusetts) 1921 Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire 1929 First feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" 1936 England replaces King George V stamp series with King Edward VIII 1945 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President 1953 First live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower) 1961 Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration 1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" 1974 Essex Community College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball 1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" 1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1980 Super Bowl XIV-Pittsburgh Steelers-31, Los Angeles Rams-19 1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed 1982 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor KY 1985 Super Bowl XIX-San Francisco 49'ers-38, Miami Dolphins-16 1986 First federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1988 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham 1989 Reagan becomes first President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1991 Iraq pardes captured Allied airmen on TV Birthdates which occurred on January 20th: 1760 Charles III, King of Spain (1759-88) 1820 Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women 1866 Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg) 1873 Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet/essayist (Nobel 1944) 1888 Leadbelly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line) 1894 Harold L. Gray, writer, (Little Orphan Annie) 1894 Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis) 1896 George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum], New York NY, actor/comedian (Oh God!) 1896 Rolfe Sedan, New York NY, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show) 1903 Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor (Mr. Ed, Father of the Bride) 1904 Alexandra Danilova, ballerina (Turning Point) 1910 Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater) 1910 Joy Adamson, naturalist/author (Born Free) 1919 Alex Nicol, Ossining NY, actor (Man From Laramie, Air Cadet) 1920 DeForest Kelly, actor (Dr. McCoy-Star Trek) 1920 Federico Fellini, Italian director (Satyricon, La Dolce Vita) 1922 Ray Anthony, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme) 1926 Patricia Neal, Packard KY, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses) 1928 Martin Landau, Brooklyn NY, actor (Mission Impossible, Tucker, Space 1999) 1928 Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, (Flamingo Road, Different Story) 1928 William Berger, Austria, actress (Adventure of Hercules) 1929 Arte Johnson, Chicago IL, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie) 1930 Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. Montclair NJ, USAF/astronaut (Gem 12, Apollo 11) 1931 Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife) 1933 Nelson Doubleday, baseball team owner (New York Mets) 1933 Ron Townson, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Up Up & Away) 1937 Dorothy Provine, Deadwood SD, actress (Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat) 1944 Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo (Olympic-gold-1964) 1946 David Lynch, Montana, director (Blue Velvet, Dune, Eraserhead) 1947 George Grantham, rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes) 1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist/emigre 1952 Ian Hill, bass guitarist (Judas Priest-Livin' After Midnight) 1952 Paul Stanley, rock guitarist (KISS-Rock and Roll All Night) 1955 Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist (jailed in US) 1955 Michael Anthony, bass guitar player (Van Halen) 1966 Tia Carrere, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Wayne's World, General Hospital) Deaths which occurred on January 20th: 1900 John Ruskin, English writer, critic, dies of influenza at 81 1900 R.D. Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74 1962 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright dies at 75 1965 Alan Freed, DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42 1984 Johnny Weismuller, actor (Tarzan, Jungle Jim), dies in Acapulco at 79 1990 Barbara Stanwyck, actress (Big Valley), dies at 82 1993 Audrey Hepburn, actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's), dies at 63 of colon cancer

January 24, 1568 In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw 1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Wallenstein a traitor 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed first US divinity professor (Harvard) 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA 1861 Arsenal at Augusta, GA seized by Confederacy 1899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan 1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, formed in England 1901 First games played in baseball's American League 1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K. Nelson of Iowa 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established 1925 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island 1935 Beer first sold in cans, Richmond, VA 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile 1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs 1952 First NFL team in Texas, the Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks 1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England 1982 49'ers win their first Super Bowl (XVI) beating Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 1986 Voyager 2 makes first fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons 1989 First reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex Birthdates which occurred on January 24th: 1705 Farinelli "Carlo Broschi," Andria Italy, castrato 1712 Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86) 1732 Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville) 1746 Gustav III, King during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92) 1798 Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician) 1883 Estelle Winwood [Goodwin], England, actress (Miracle on 34th Street) 1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, inventor (first rocket-powered aircraft) 1902 Walter Keirnan, New Haven CT, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret) 1913 Mark Goodson, TV game-show producer (Goodson-Toddman) 1915 Ernest Borgnine, Hamden CT, actor 1918 John McLiam, Alberta, actor (Parker-Men From Shiloh) 1918 Oral Roberts, Televangelist 1924 Marvin Kaplan, New York NY, actor (Top Cat, Henry-Alice) 1925 Maria Tallchief, Fairfax Ok, ballerina 1925 William Hudson, California, actor (I Led 3 Lives) 1939 Ray Stevens, Clarksdale GA, singer (The Streak) 1941 Michael Chapman, Leeds England, rocker (Looking for 11) 1941 Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer) 1943 Sharon Tate, Dallas TX, actress (Valley of the Dolls) 1946 Michael Ontkean, Vancouver BC, actor (Rookies, Slap Shot) 1947 Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, New York Cosmos) 1947 Warren Zevon, Chicago, rocker 1949 John Belushi, Chicago IL, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers) 1951 Yakov Smirnoff, Russia, comedian (What a Country) 1952 William F. Readdy, Quonset Point Rhode Island, astronaut (STS 42) 1953 Brian Matthews, Philadelphia PA, actor (The Burning) 1960 Nastassja Kinski, Berlin Germany, actress (Tess/Cat People) 1968 Mary Lou Retton, US, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1984) 1971 Tonya Crowe, Long Beach CA, actress (Olivia-Knots Landing) 1979 Tatyana Ali, New York NY, actress (Sesame St, Fresh Prince of Bel Air) Deaths which occurred on January 24th: 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason 1639 George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, is assassinated 1885 Martin R. Delany, politician & black nationalist, dies at 72 1962 Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62 1964 Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents), dies at 68 1965 Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 88 1972 Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie), dies at 74 1973 J. Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adventures of Charlie Chan), dies at 66 1979 Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51 1983 George Cukor, director, dies of stroke & heart attack at 83 1986 Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64 1988 Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91 1989 Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida 1991 George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71

January 25, 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary 1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic 1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) 1799 First US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont 1802 Napoleon elected president of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians 1890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago 1890 Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) 1890 United Mine Workers of America forms 1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, PA 1905 Largest diamond, the Cullinan (3106 carats), found in South Africa 1907 Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters 1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to San Francisco) 1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets 1919 Founding of League of Nations, first meeting 1 year later 1924 First Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France 1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 1937 Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premiers on radio 1940 Nazi decrees the establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes first US city to fluoridate its water 1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor 1949 First Emmy Awards presented; best TV film, NBC's "The Necklace" 1949 First Israeli election 1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany 1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR 1959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (Los Angeles to NY for $301) 1961 First live, nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK) 1961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released 1964 Beatles first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" 1971 Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders 1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state 1971 Philadelphia mint's first trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar 1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan 1979 Pope John Paul II's first overseas trip as supreme pontiff 1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft 1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US 1981 Super Bowl XV-Oakland Raiders-27, Philadelphia Eagles-10 1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life 1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia 1985 "We are the World" is recorded 1987 NY Giants defeat Denver Broncos, 39-20, to win Super Bowl XXI 1989 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season Birthdates which occurred on January 25th: 749 Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine emperor (775-80) 1627 Robert Boyle, Ireland, physicist/chemist/author 1759 Robert Burns, Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne, Winds Blah Free) 1882 Virginia Woolf, author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse) 1886 Wilhelm Furtwangler, Berlin Germany, conductor 1899 Ace Goodman, Kansas City MO, comedian (Easy Aces) 1918 Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol) 1919 Edwin Newman, New York NY, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment) 1927 Gregg Palmer, San Francisco CA, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back) 1931 Dean Jones, Decatur AL, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug) 1933 Corazon Aquino, President of Philippines 1934 Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World) 1941 Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver 1950 Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes) 1954 Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & The Sunshine Band) 1955 Joe Strummer, rock vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Rock the Casbah) 1958 Dinah Manoff, New York, NY, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol-Empty Nest) 1961 Michele Tobin, Chicago IL, actress (Fitzpatricks) Deaths which occurred on January 25th: 1906 Joseph Wheeler, Confederate General, dies at 70 1947 Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis 1963 Wilson Kettle, Newfoundland, dies at 102, leaving 582 known living descendants 1975 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78 1978 Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse 1990 Ava Gardner, actress, dies in London at 67 from pneumonia

January 26 1787 Daniel Shays & followers attack arsenal at Springfield MA 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip lands in Sydney, Australiatralia to start a penal colony 1789 John Odell signs contract for �336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx) 1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library 1837 Michigan admitted as 26th US state 1838 Tennessee becomes first state to prohibit alcohol 1841 Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain 1850 Frst German-language daily newspaper in US published, New York NY 1861 Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede 1863 War Department authorizes Massachusetts governor to recruit black troops 1870 Virginia rejoins the US 1871 US income tax repealed 1907 Frst federal corrupt election practices law passed 1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots first successful hydroplane, San Diego 1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established 1918 President Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort 1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence 1939 Federal Hall National Monument established 1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind" 1942 First US forcesin Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland 1950 India becomes a republic, ceasing to be a British dominion 1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland 1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR 1958 Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It" 1960 High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points in one game 1960 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on the 23rd ballot 1962 US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km) 1971 Charles Manson convicted of murder 1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute 1976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon 1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premiers on CBS 1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro 1980 Mary Decker became first woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes 1984 US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ 1986 Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX 1988 Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor 1989 AT&T reports first loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988 1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic 1992 Superbowl XXVI, Washington beats Buffalo 37:24 (Minneapolis) Birthdates which occurred on January 26th: 1715 Claude Helvetius, France, philosopher 1763 Charles XIV, French Marshall, King of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) 1826 Julia Dent Grant, first lady (1862-76) 1831 Mary Mapes Dodge, New York NY, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) 1880 Douglas MacArthur, US General 1884 Roy Chapman Andrews, US, scientist/explorer 1893 Bessie Coleman, first black airplane pilot 1905 Charles Lane, San Francisco CA, actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show) 1907 Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948) 1912 Cora Baird, New York NY, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) 1913 Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Love & Marriage) 1913 William Prince, Nichols NY, actor (City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac) 1915 William Hopper, New York NY, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason) 1918 Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania, dictator 1920 Derek Bond, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Nicholas Nickelby) 1923 Anne Jeffreys, NC, actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital) 1925 Joan Leslie, actress (Sgt. York, High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy) 1925 Paul Newman, Cleveland OH, racer/popcorn mogul/actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler) 1928 Eartha Kitt, SC, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman) 1928 Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld) 1931 Mary Murphy, Washington DC, actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators) 1935 Bob Uecker, Milwaukee WI, catcher/actor (Major League) 1942 Scott Glenn, Pittsburgh, actor (Right Stuff, Personal Best, Backdraft) 1946 Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert) 1955 Lucia Mendez, Mexico, Spanish singer 1957 Edward Van Halen, rock guitarist (Van Halen) 1958 Anita Baker, Toledo OH, singer (Giving You the Best That I Got) 1963 Andrew Ridgeley, rocker (Wham) Deaths which occurred on January 26th 1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM assassinated by the iron guard 1949 Victor Fleming, director, dies at 65 1962 Charles "Lucky" Luciano, NYC Mafia gangster, dies at 65 1963 John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70 1973 Edward G. Robinson, dies at 82 1977 Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61 1979 Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & 4 time governor of NY, dies at 70 1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach, dies in Alabama at 69

January 27 1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1662 First American lime kiln begins operation, Providence, RI 1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland 1785 First US state university chartered, Athens, Georgia 1823 President Monroe appoints first US ambassadors to South America 1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, VA 1870 First sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle, IN) 1870 Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated 1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, PA 1894 First college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti 1916 Communist party "Spartacus" formed in Berlin 1926 First public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their first game 1948 First locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operates 1948 First tape recorder sold 1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-Maine) tries for Republican Presidential bid 1965 First ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee 1967 New Orleans Saints sign their first player (Paige Cothren-kicker) 1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed 1973 Janet Lynn wins her 5th consecutive national figure skating championship 1973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire 1976 "Laverne & Shirley," spin-off from "Happy Days," premiers on ABC TV 1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) 1984 Los Angeles Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1990 Dissolution of Polish communist party. 1990 Steffi Graf beats Mary Jo Fernandez to win the Australian Open 1991 Super Bowl XXV-NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty) Birthdates which occurred on January 27th: 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer 1832 Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author (Alice in Wonderland) 1850 Samuel Gompers, first president (American Federation of Labor) 1859 Kaiser Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918) 1885 Jerome Kern, New York NY, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta) 1900 Hyman G. Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) 1901 Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1908 William Randolph Hearst, Jr., newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing) 1911 Benay Venuta, actress (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister) 1918 Elmore James, musician (Dust My Broom) 1918 Skitch Henderson, Birmingham England, orchestra leader (Tonight Show) 1919 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno CA, (Alvin & Chipmunks) 1921 Donna Reed, Denison IA, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life) 1927 Joe Perry, AAFC/NFL fullback (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts) 1927 Michael Craig, India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror) 1929 Ingrid Thulin, Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned) 1930 Bobby "Blue" Bland, blues singer (Call on the Drummer) 1931 Mordecai Richler, author, Montreal (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) 1936 Troy Donahue, New York NY, actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye) 1937 John Ogdon, Manchester England, pianist 1945 Nick Mason, rock drummer (Pink Floyd) 1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That's Dancing) 1951 Brian Downey, rock drummer (Thin Lizzy-Boys are Back in Town) 1951 Scott Lane, New York NY, actor (Gary-McKeever & the Colonel) 1951 Seth Justman, rock vocalist/keyboardist (J. Geils Band-Centerfold) 1952 Brian Gottfried, Baltimore MD, tennis star (Wimbeldon Doubles 1976) 1955 Mimi Rogers, Coral Gables FL, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters) 1957 Frank Miller, US, comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns) 1958 Charles Waltz, rocker (Shooting Star) 1959 Patti Cohoon, Whittier CA, actress (Molly-Here Come the Brides) 1964 Cathy Podewell, actress (Dallas) Deaths which occurred on January 27th: 1851 John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65 1901 Giuseppe Verdi, opera composer, dies in Milano at 87 1967 Edward H. White, II, astronaut, dies in Apollo I fire 1967 Roger B. Chaffee, astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire 1967 Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, astronaut, dies at 41 in Apollo I fire 1969 Charles Winninger, actor (Charlie Farrell Show), dies at 82 1970 Ed Ford, comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 72 1972 Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, dies at 60 1982 Iris Korn, actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies at 60 1983 Louis De Funes, actor, dies at 68 of a heart attack 1983 Robert Christian, actor, dies of cancer at 42

January 28 1547 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England 1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended 1581 James VI signs the 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland 1807 London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore 1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica 1824 William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) 1846 Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) 1848 King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution 1851 Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered 1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua 1871 Paris surrenders to Prussians 1878 First telephone exchange (New Haven CT) 1878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator 1878 Yale Daily News published, first college daily newspaper 1899 American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress 1915 First US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK) 1915 US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services 1916 First Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, nominated 1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League" 1922 J.E. Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL 1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101 1932 First US state unemployment insurance act enacted-Wisconsin 1932 Japan occupies Shanghai 1945 General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China 1947 "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000 1950 Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud 1953 J. Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show" 1958 Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor 1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for first international basketball loss by US 1960 NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises 1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed 1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives 1973 "Barnaby Jones" premiers on CBS TV 1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premiers on ABC TV 1981 William J. Casey becomes director of the CIA 1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision 1984 Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretsky 51 game scoring streak 1984 Mr. Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas 1984 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, W Germany 1986 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff 1990 Defending champion Ivan Lendl beats Stefan Edberg for Australian Open 1990 East German agreement to form all-party government Birthdates which occurred on January 28th: 1457 Henry VII, King of England (1485-1509) 1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist, Latin poet (Argenis) 1611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger) 1693 Anna "Ivanovna," tsarina of Russia (1730-40) (2/7 NS) 1706 John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor) 1768 Frederick VI, Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814) 1841 Henry Stanley, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) 1853 Jose Marti, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician 1855 William Seward Burroughs, inventor (recording adding machine) 1865 Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, first president of Finland (1919-25) 1869 Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart) 1873 "Sidonie Gabrielle" Colette, Burgundy France, novelist (Cheri, Gigi) 1906 Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show) 1910 Arnold Moss, New York NY, actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata) 1910 John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor (Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes) 1912 Jackson Pollack, abstract artist (Lavender Mist) 1918 Vito Scotti, San Francisco CA, actor (Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park) 1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker 1922 Robert W. Holley, US, biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel '68) 1936 Alan Alda, New York NY, actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H) 1943 John Beck, Chicago, actor (Mark-Dallas, Flamingo Road, Santa Barbara) 1943 Susan Howard, Marshall TX, actress (Donna-Dallas, Petrocelli) 1944 Brian Keenan, rock drummer (Chamber Bros-Time Has Come Today) 1960 John Caliri, Providence RI, actor (Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble) 1963 Danny Spitz, heavy metal guitarist (Anthrax) Deaths which occurred on January 28th: 814 Charlemagne, German emperor, dies at 71 1256 William of Holland, Holy Roman emperor 1547 Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55 1595 Sir Francis Drake, English navigator 1810 Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, is shot 1829 William Burke, murderer, body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh 1918 John McCrae, Canadian poet & physician 1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dies in France at 73 1957 Fred Stein, TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88 1959 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israel Knesset (1949-59), dies at 73 1963 Jean Felix Picard, Swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday 1973 John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday 1977 Burt Mustin, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show), dies at 92 1984 John Macvane, newscaster (United or Not), dies at 71 1986 Christa McAuliffe, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1986 Dr. Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron OH, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1986 Ellison S. Onizuka, Hawaii, Major USAF/ast, dies in Challenger disaster 1986 Francis R. Scobee, Washington, USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1986 Michael J. Smith, Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1986 Ronald E. McNair, Lake City SC, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1991 Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66

January 29 1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress 1834 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute 1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published (New York NY) 1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery 1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1861 Kansas becomes 34th state 1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established 1886 First successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe 1904 First athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team) 1908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates 1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA 1913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates 1916 First zeppelin raid (on Paris) 1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition) 1920 Walt Disney starts first job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co 1921 Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon 1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved 1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland 1929 Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms 1936 First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson 1951 Liz Taylor's first divorce (Conrad Hilton, Jr.) 1955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium 1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released 1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame 1964 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria 1964 Most lopsided high-school basketball score-211-29 (Louisiana) 1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million 1964 Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit 1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars 1979 Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together 1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years 1982 Old Dominion ends Los Angeles Tech's women's basketball record 54-game win streak 1984 Actresss Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman 1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term 1988 Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 1988 Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938) 1989 Episcopal church appoints first female bishop 1989 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit Birthdates which occurred on January 29th: 1688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom) 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switzerland, mathematician (10 time French award) 1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason) 1756 Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman 1843 William McKinley, (R) 25th President (1897-1901) 1850 Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite) 1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russia, writer (Cherry Orchard) 1862 Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer 1866 Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) 1874 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Cleveland OH, philanthropist 1878 Barney Oldfield, Ohio, daredevil 1880 W.C. Fields [Claude William Dukenfield], actor 1892 Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928) 1901 Allen B. DuMont, inventor (perfected commercial practical cathode ray tube) 1912 Professor Irwin Corey, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc) 1916 Victor Mature, actor (1 Million BC, Robe, Samson & Delilah) 1917 John Raitt, Santa Ana CA, actor/singer (Chevy Show) 1918 John Forsythe, NJ, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty) 1918 William Rigney, baseball manager (San Francisco Giants) 1925 Anthony George, Endicott NY, actor (Untouchables, Checkmate) 1939 Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich) 1942 Arnaldo Mendez, Cuba, first Cuban in space (Soyuz 38) 1942 Katharine Ross, Hollywood CA, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys) 1945 Tom Selleck, Detroit MI, actor (Magnum PI) 1947 David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep) 1950 Ann Jillian, Cambridge MA, actress (Mr. Mom, Jennifer Slept Here) 1952 Tommy Ramone, drummer (Ramones) 1953 Dalila di Lazzaro, Udine Italy, covergirl/model (Vogue) 1953 Oprah Winfrey, Mississippi, actress/TV host 1954 Handsome Dick Manitoba, vocalist (Dictators) 1957 Irlene Mandrell, Corpus Christi TX, country singer (Mandrell Sisters) 1958 Judy Norton-Taylor, Santa Monica CA, actress (Mary Ellen-Waltons) 1960 Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia first prize) 1960 Gregory Louganis, champion diver (Olympic-gold-1984, 88) 1960 Steve Sax, 2nd baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, NY Yankees) Deaths which occurred on January 29th: 1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, dramatist, killed in a duel 1956 H.L. Mencken, satirist, critic, dies in Baltimore at 75 1960 Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54 1963 Robert Frost, poet, dies at 87 1964 Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs CA 1965 John Larkin, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52 1973 Ludwig Stossel, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 1977 Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22 1980 Jimmy Durante, New York NY, singer/comedian, dies at 86 1984 Frances Goodrich, writer, dies at 93 of lung cancer 1986 Leif Erickson, actor (John-High Chaparral), dies at 74

January 30, (oops, out of order!) 1487 Bell chimes invented 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland 1790 Lifeboat first tested at sea 1800 US population: 5,308,483. 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6,500 volumes 1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" 1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim) 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco 1854 First election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast 1862 US Navy's first ironclad warship (Monitor) launched 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit 1911 First rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba 1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill 1917 First jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1933 "The Lone Ranger" premiers on ABC radio 1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor 1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of the "Cantos" 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland 1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premiers on NBC TV 1956 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, home bombed 1958 First 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in 1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all count 1976 George Bush becomes director of the CIA 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever 1983 Super Bowl XVII-Washington Redskins-27, Miami Dolphins-17 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of first degree manslaughter of daughter 1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident Birthdates which occurred on January 30th: 1616 William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury) 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945) 1885 John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero 1894 Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43) 1898 Alfred Schlappi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1924) 1902 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, England, art historian (The Buildings of England) 1911 Hugh Marlowe, Philadelphia PA, actor (Ellery Queen) 1911 Roy Eldridge, Pittsburgh PA, jazz trumpeter (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw) 1912 Barbara Tuchman, US, historian/author (Guns of August) 1914 David Wayne, Traverse City MI, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib) 1914 John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral) 1918 David Opatoshu, New York NY, actor (Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada) 1921 Bernie Leighton, West Haven CT, orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime) 1922 Dick Martin, Detroit MI, actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy) 1926 Ruth Brown, Portsmouth VA, actress (Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In) 1931 Gene Hackman, California, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman) 1934 Tammy Grimes, Lynn MA, actress (Can't Stop the Music) 1937 Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72) 1937 Vanessa Redgrave, London, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express) 1941 Dick Cheney, Bush's Secretary of Defense 1942 Marty Balin, Cincinnati, singer (Jefferson Starship-Miracles) 1943 Davy Johnson, baseball All Star and manager 1955 Curtis Strange, golfer 1959 Jody Watley, dancer (Solid Gold)/singer (Looking For a New Love) 1960 Tony O'Dell, Pasadena CA, actor (Alan Pinkard-Head of the Class) 1966 Daphne Ashbrook, Long Beach CA, actress (Liz-Our Family Honor) 1967 Bill Leverty, Richmond VA, guitarist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime) 1974 Christian Bale, actor (Empire of the Sun) Deaths which occurred on January 30th: 1644 William Chillingworth, England theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies 1649 Charles I, King of Great Britain, executed by Parliament 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, India spiritual and political leader, assassinated in New Delhi, at age 78 1956 Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56 1970 Malcolm Keen, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82 1982 Stanley Holloway, actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins), dies at 91 1985 Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67 1986 Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74 1987 Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32

February 1 1788 First US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet 1790 Supreme Court convenes for the first time (NYC) 1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen 1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication 1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first in US, incorporated 1860 First rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC 1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic" 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days 1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds first movie studio (West Orange NJ) 1898 First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co 1906 First federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas 1914 NY Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt 1920 First commercial armored car introduced, St Paul, Minn 1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch 1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss desolves all political parties but his 1935 James T. Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy 1937 Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port 1951 First telecast of atomic explosion 1951 First X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 1953 "General Electric Theater" premiers on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts 1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premiers on CBS television 1954 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" premiers 1957 First black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline 1958 First US satellite (Explorer I) launched 1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic 1960 4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at a Greensboro, NC, Woolworth store 1961 First full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful 1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr., & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama 1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers 1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die 1972 First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395) 1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premiers on CBS TV 1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premiers on ABC TV 1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce 1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives 1977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile 1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery 1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run 1984 Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner 1987 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze 1991 President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws 1991 US Air & commuter jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 1992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 million) Birthdates which occurred on February 1st: 1552 Sir Edward Coke, England, jurist/politician (defended common law) 1763 Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America) 1801 Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School) 1844 Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist 1859 Victor Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland) 1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist 1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We) 1889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist 1895 John Ford, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) 1901 Clark Gable, actor 1902 Langston Hughes, poet/translator (The Weary Blues) 1904 S.J. Perelman, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days) 1915 Sir Stanley Matthews, first British soccer player to be knighted 1918 Muriel Spark, Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) 1926 Stuart Whitman, SF Calif, actor (Cimarron Strip) 1927 Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares) 1929 Stuart Whitman, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Revenge) 1931 Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR 1931 Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956) 1932 John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News) 1934 Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons) 1937 Don Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie) 1937 Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, comedian (Saturday Night Live) 1937 Ray Sawyer [Dr. Hook], Ala, vocalist (Dr. Hook-When You're in Love) 1938 Sherman Hemsley, Philadelphia, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen) 1942 Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, The Beast Within) 1943 Terry Jones, Wales, comedian (Monty Python) 1943 Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow) 1952 Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak) 1954 Billy Mumy, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte) 1954 Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown) 1965 Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo) 1965 Princess Stephanie, Marie Elisabeth of Monaco, rocker (Stephanie) 1965 Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks) 1968 Lisa Marie Presley Keough, (Elvis' daughter) Deaths which occurred on February 1st: 1851 Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein," dies at 53 1908 King Carlos I, of Portugal & son, killed by mob 1968 Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US & Brit Opens 1934,35) 1974 Lynda Ann Healy, first Ted Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle 1975 Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & the Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62 1979 Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60 1980 Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72 1988 Heather O'Rourke, "Poltergeist" star dies at 12 of intestinal ailment

February 3 1690 First paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts) 1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants 1781 Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatia taken by the British 1783 Spain recognizes US independence 1809 Territory of Illinois organized 1815 World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1836 Whig Party holds its first national convention, Albany NY 1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional 1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as first US superintendent of agriculture 1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse 1894 First US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me 1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act 1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified 1916 Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burn down 1917 US broke diplomatic relations with Germany 1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service 1930 William Howard Taft resigns as chief justice for health reasons 1945 Walt Disney's "The 3 Caballeros" released 1947 -81 degrees F (-63 degrees C), Snag Yukon (North American record) 1947 First black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) 1948 Dick Button becomes first world figure skating champion from US 1956 Toni Sailor becomes first Olympic skier to sweep the 3 alpine events 1959 American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65 1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs 1964 Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools 1966 First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US) 1966 First soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9) 1972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (first in Asia) 1979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players 1982 John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours 1982 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder 1984 First baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach, Calif 1986 President Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident 1989 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay 1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse races Birthdates which occurred on February 3rd: 1809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg, Germany, composer 1811 Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") 1820 Elisha Kent Kane, US arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland) 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, first woman physician 1826 Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist 1879 Charles Follis, first black US football player (Shelby, Ohio) 1883 Clarence Mulford, Illinois, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy) 1889 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish movie director (Leaves from Satan's Body) 1890 Charles Correll, Peoria Illinois, actor (Calvin & the Colonel) 1894 Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers) 1899 Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of fame (elected 1961) 1904 Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal 1904 Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer 1907 James A. Mitchner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii) 1909 Simone Weil, Paris, mystic/social philosopher/Resistance fighter 1910 Nelson Case, Long Beach Calif, TV host (Trash or Treasure) 1918 Helen Stephens, US, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1936) 1918 Joey Bishop, Bronx, comedian/talk show host (Joey Bishop Show) 1920 Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie) 1920 Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor (Heimlich maneuver) 1925 John Fiedler, Platville Wisconsin, actor (Mr. Peterson-Newhart) 1926 Shelley Berman, Chicago, actor (Son of the Blob, Love American Style) 1928 Mr. "Fred" Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, TV host (Mr. Rogers' Neighorhood) 1929 Russell Arms, Berkeley California, singer (Your Hit Parade) 1932 Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon) 1934 Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War) 1940 Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations) 1941 Angelo D'Aleo, tenor vocalist (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love) 1941 Carol Mann, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame, 1965 US open) 1943 Blythe Danner, Philadelphia, actress (Butterflies are Free) 1943 Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-My Girl) 1943 Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother) 1945 Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year) 1947 Dave Davies, singer/guitarist (Kinks-You Really Got Me) 1950 Morgan Fairchild, Dallas TX, actress (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road) 1952 Fred Lynn, Chicago, baseball outfielder (Boston, California, Baltimore) 1957 Tony Butler, rocker (Big Country-Wonderland) 1958 Lee Crystal, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts) 1959 Loi Tolhurst, rocker (Cure-Hell's Kitchen) 1960 B.J. Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World) 1961 Keith Gordon, NYC, actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean) 1962 Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law) Deaths which occurred on February 3rd: 1924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President, dies at his home in Washington at 68 1959 Buddy Holly, dies in a plane crash 1959 Ritchie Valens, dies in a plane crash 1959 The Big Bopper, dies in a plane crash 1961 Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54 1961 Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia, dies at 67 1971 Jay C. Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72 1975 John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55 1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England 1991 Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69

February 4 1508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned 1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills 50,000 in Calabria, Italy 1787 First Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London 1787 Shays' Rebellion fails 1789 First electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President & VP 1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000 1824 J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public 1847 First US telegraph company established in Maryland 1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students 1854 Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc 1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for first time and elects Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy 1865 Hawaiian Board of Education formed 1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads 1895 First rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago 1899 Revolt against US occupation of Philippines 1913 National Institute of Arts & Letters founded 1930 First tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY 1936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) 1937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games 1938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts 1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort 1941 United Service Organization (USO) founded 1942 Clinton Pierce becomes first US general wounded in action in WW II 1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta 1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1952 First black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC, NY) 1957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY) 1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City 1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 1968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball 1969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's Oakland Raiders 1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks 1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil 1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington, NC 1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled 1974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army 1976 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria 1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras 1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago street (11 die, 200 hurt) 1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma Wash 1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168 meters) Las Vegas 1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture 1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points in the first quarter against the Lakers 1987 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup 1988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges 1991 US postage rate raised from 25 cents to 29 cents Birthdates which occurred on February 4th: 1802 Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College) 1875 Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics) 1885 Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, first female Canadian senator 1893 Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion) 1897 Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany 1902 Charles A. Lindbergh, Detroit, pilot (first to fly solo across Atlantic) 1903 Frank Howley, Hampton NY, Brigadier General (Answers for Americans) 1904 MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist (Andersonville) 1905 Eddie Foy, Jr., New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange) 1906 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (discovered Pluto) 1908 Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News) 1909 Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe) 1910 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert) 1912 Byron Nelson, Fort Worth TX, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945) 1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist 1913 Woody Hayes, college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of year) 1914 Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 1915 William Talman, Detroit Mich, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason) 1918 Norman Wisdom, London England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall) 1921 Betty Friedan, Peoria IL, feminist writer (Feminine Mystique) 1923 Conrad Bain, Alberta Canada, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes) 1931 Isabel Peron, Argentine President 1932 Ivan Davis, Electra TX, pianist 1935 Martti Talvela, Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso 1936 Gary Conway, Boston Mass, actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants) 1937 Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird) 1937 John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960) 1939 John Schuck, Boston Mass, comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo) 1941 John Steel, rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun) 1943 Cheryl Miller, Sherman Oaks Calif, actress (Paula-Daktari, Born Free) 1945 David Brenner, Philadelphia, comedian/TV talk show host 1946 Mary Meyer, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-silver-1968) 1947 Dan Quayle, 44th US VP 1948 Alice Cooper [Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker (School's Out) 1948 Robert Coover, novelist (Pricksongs & Descants) 1950 Pamela Franklin, Tokyo Japan, actress (Satan's School for Girls) 1952 Lisa Eichhorn, Reading, PA, actress (Cutter's Way, Yanks) 1958 Mary Ann Pascal, actress (Samantha-Brothers) 1959 Lawrence Taylor, NFL line backer (NY Giants) and dope smoker 1962 Clint Black, country singer 1963 Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988) 1967 Sergei Grinkov, Soviet ice skater. (Olympic-Gold 1988, 1994) Deaths which occurred on February 4th: 1503 Queen Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII of England, dies 1957 Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66 1957 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator 1965 U. C. Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33 1978 Dr. Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73 1982 Sue Carol, actress, dies at 73 of a heart attack 1983 Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68 1983 Karen Carpenter, drummer/singer (Carpenters), dies at 32 1987 Liberace, pianist, dies at 67

Frebruary 5 1644 First US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut 1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia 1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from the English 1783 Sweden recognizes US independence 1816 The opera "Barber of Seville" is presented (Rome) 1817 First US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates first detachable collar 1846 First US newspaper published on the Pacific Coast, Oregon Spectator 1850 Push key adding machine patented 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia 1861 Peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati 1870 First motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1881 Phoenix, AZ incorporates 1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal railroad (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot 1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration 1918 Separation of church & state begins in USSR 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium 1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in the SF 1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed 1940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction" 1948 "The Nature of Things" science show premiers on NBC prime time 1948 Dick Button becomes first US figure skating Olympic champion 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes first US woman Olympic slalom champion 1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released 1958 Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as first US black foreign minister (Romania) 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first president of United Arab Republic 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure 1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premiers on CBS 1969 US population reaches 200 million 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro 1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage 1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win 1974 US Mariner 10 returns first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure 1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his first pro fight 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" 1987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for first time 1988 First prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre the Giant beats Hulk Hogan 1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points Birthdates which occurred on February 5th: 1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence 1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist 1770 Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, minerologist/geologist (Tertiary) 1778 Sir Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46), founded Tories 1837 Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist 1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, developer (pneumatic rubber tire) 1848 Belle Starr, Western outlaw 1848 Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain) 1900 Adlai E Stevenson (Gov-D-Ill), Presidential Candidate (1952, 1956) 1903 Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist 1906 John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling) 1907 Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster) 1912 Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman) 1914 William S. Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch) 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space) 1919 Melina Mercuri, actress (Never on a Sunday) 1919 Red Buttons, Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure) 1921 Sir John Pritchard, London England, conductor 1927 Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Comes The Brides, Primus) 1933 Nick Georgiade, NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run) 1934 Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame baseball player 1937 Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion 1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer 1941 Barrett Strong, Detroit, singer (Money, That's What I Want) 1941 David Selby, Morgantown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road) 1941 Stephen J. Cannell, producer (Rockford Files) 1942 Cory Wells, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) 1942 Roger Staubach, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback (Dallas Cowboys) 1943 Charles Winfield, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel) 1943 Craig Morton, Flint Michigan, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver) 1943 Larry Tamblyn, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water) 1944 Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die) 1946 Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict) 1948 Barbara Hershey, Atlanta Ga, actress (Stuntman, Shy People) 1948 Christopher Guest, actor (SNL, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride) 1951 Elizabeth Swados, US, composer/playwright (1972 TONY) 1955 Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles, playmate of year (September, 1977) 1969 Bobby Brown, rapper (Mr. Whitney Houston) 1971 Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser) Deaths which occurred on February 5th: 45 -BC- Cato, Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide 1881 Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 1897 Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42 1961 Anthony G. de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73 1968 Nick Adams, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel), dies at 36 1969 Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63 1981 Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75 1982 Dolores Maran, actress, dies at 56

February 9 1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente - Nevis, W.I. 1822 American Indian Society organizes 1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President 1849 Roman Republic declared 1861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected President & VP of CSA 1861 Tennessee votes against secession 1870 US Army establishes US National Weather Service 1885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii 1886 President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence 1895 Volleyball invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts 1909 First federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) 1916 Britains miltary service act enforced (conscription) 1918 Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe, Va 1920 International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard 1922 Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii 1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines established 1934 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania) 1940 Joe Louis defends heavyweight boxing title beating Arturo Godov 1941 Nazis provoke first anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam 1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US 1942 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils" 1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with communists 1953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premiers in syndication 1963 First flight of Boeing 727 jet 1964 First appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) 1964 G.I. Joe character created 1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes first commercial flight 1971 Apollo 14 returns to Earth 1971 Earthquake in Los Angeles, 64 die 1971 Satchel Paige becomes first negro-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1985 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) 1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1990 "The Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV 1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence Birthdates which occurred on February 9th: 1773 William Henry Harrison, 9th US President 1814 Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library 1846 Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of first Mercedes 1853 Sir Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony 1866 George Ade, US, journalist, playwright, humorist (Fables in Slang) 1871 Howard T. Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever) 1874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical producer/director/actor 1876 Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920) 1891 Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities) 1892 Peggy Wood, Brooklyn NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama) 1897 Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator 1899 Brian Donlevy, Portadown Ireland, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment) 1907 Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL Hall of Famer (Boston Bruins) 1908 Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924) 1909 Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69) 1909 Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans) 1914 Bill Veeck, baseball club owner 1914 Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy) 1914 Ernest Tubb, TX, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You) 1923 Brendan Behan, Ireland, author (Hostage) 1923 Kathryn Grayson, US, singer/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate) 1923 Norman E Shumway, Michigan, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon 1928 Roger Mudd, Washington DC, news ancher (CBS and NBC News) 1942 Carole King [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry) 1942 Peder Lunde, Jr., Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960) 1943 Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Good Fellas) 1943 Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964) 1943 Squire Fridell, Oakland California, actor (Rosetti & Ryan) 1944 Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple) 1945 Mia (Maria) Farrow, LA, actress (Rosemary's Baby) 1949 Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss) 1951 Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & the Gang) 1951 Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man) Deaths which occurred on February 9th: 1811 Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England 1906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio 1961 Grigory Levenfish, International chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70 1964 Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55 1978 Kimberly Leach, 12, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City, Fla 1981 Billy Haley, rocker, dies at 55 1984 Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras 1984 Yuri Andropov, Soviet President, dies at 69

February 12, 1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at Savannah 1793 First US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 1818 Chile gains independence from Spain 1821 Mercantile Library of the City of New York opens 1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 1865 Henry Highland Garnet, is first black to speak in US House of Representatives 1877 First news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, MA 1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask 1879 First artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden) 1908 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female 1908 Around the World Autombile Race begins in NYC 1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded 1912 China adopts the Gregorian calendar 1912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates 1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC 1925 First federal arbitration law approved by Congress 1934 France hit by a general strike 1937 Cleveland Rams granted an NFL franchise 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1953 USSR breaks relations with Israel 1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks 1955 President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to Vietnam 1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia 1973 First US POW's in North Vietnam released 1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1,575 steps of Empire State Building, 10 minutes 1984 Cale Yarborough becomes first Daytona 500 qualifier above 200 MPH 1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel 1991 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition Birthdates which occurred on February 12th: 1663 Dr. Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority 1775 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams 1791 Peter Cooper, industrialist (Cooper Union) 1809 Abraham Lincoln (R) 16th President (1861-65) 1809 Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury England, discovered evolution 1828 George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat) 1831 John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track 1867 Joe Howard, NYC, singer (Gay Nineties Revue) 1880 John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers) 1883 Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera) 1893 Omar Bradley, Last US Five Star General, WW II "The GI General" 1898 Leroy "Roy" Harris, OK, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home) 1898 Wallace Ford, Batton England, actor (The Deputy) 1904 Ted Mack, Denver, TV host (Original Amateur Hour) 1905 Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt. Arcaro-Naked City) 1909 Barry Wood, New Haven CT, singer (Your Hit Parade) 1910 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist, founder of Samsung Business 1912 Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House) 1915 Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) 1918 Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox) 1919 Forrest Tucker, Plainfield IN, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail) 1926 Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, baseball player/sportscaster 1934 Bill Russell, US, NBA star (Olympic Gold-1956) 1935 Ray Manzarek, keyboardist (The Doors-Light My Fire) 1936 Joe Don Baker, Groesback TX, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch) 1936 Paul Shenar, Milwaukee, actor (Carrington-Roots) 1938 Judy Blume, author (Wifey) 1941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, first Japanese to scale Everest 1945 Cliff DeYoung, LA, actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment) 1951 Gil Moore, rocker (Triumph) 1953 Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie Seaver-Growing Pains) 1953 Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge England, actor (Falcon Crest) 1956 Arsenio Hall, comedian (Arsenio, Coming to America) 1958 Andie MacDowell, [Rosalie Anderson], Gaffney SC, actress 1959 Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise) 1967 Stephen Baldwin, actor (William Cody-The Young Riders) 1968 Chynna Phillips, LA, singer (Wilson Philips-Hold On) Deaths which occurred on February 12th: 1804 Immanuel Kant, philosopher, dies at 79 in Prussia 1955 Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71 1965 Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53 1971 George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86 1976 Clifton Williams, band master (Sinfonians), dies at 52 1985 Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61 1986 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82 1987 Lang Jeffries, actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55

February 13 1601 John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London 1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School, founded 1678 Tycho Brahe first sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system 1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1741 Andrew Bedford publishes first American magazine (The American Magazine) 1795 First state university in US opens, University of North Carolina 1799 First US law regulating insurance, passed by Massachusetts 1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege 1832 First appearance of cholera (London) 1837 Riot in NY over high price of flour 1861 First military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona: Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians 1866 Jesse James holds up his first bank, Liberty, Missouri 1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class 1895 Moving picture projector patented 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) forms in NYC 1920 National Negro Baseball League organized 1935 First US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail 1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship 1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington 1945 Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; 50,000 die 1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany 1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans 1959 Barbie doll goes on sale 1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns 1960 France explodes its first atomic bomb, in Algerian desert 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria 1977 Eric Heiden is first American to win world speed skating championship 1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm 1981 Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words 1983 World Boxing Council becomes first to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader 1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients 1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games 1990 US, England, and France give Germany the OK to reunify Birthdates which occurred on February 13th: 1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller) 1764 Talleyrand, France, Napoleon's foreign minister 1805 Peter Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist 1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father 1852 Johan Dreyer, Danish astronomer 1861 Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian) 1870 Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer 1883 Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager 1885 Bess Truman, First Lady (1945-52) 1887 Alvin York, famed US WWI soldier (Sergeant York) 1892 Grant Wood, artist (American Gothic) 1892 Robert Houghwout Jackson, Supreme Court justice (1941-54) 1902 Blair Moody, New Haven CT, (Sen-Mich) 1903 Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black) 1910 William B. Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956) 1912 Jose de Capriles, US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52) 1914 George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino, CA, composed "Tubby the Tuba" 1915 Lyle Betther, Philly, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger) 1916 James Griffith, LA Calif., actor (Sheriff of Cochise) 1917 Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill) 1918 Patty Berg, Minn, golfer (1943, 1955 AP Sports Woman of the Year) 1919 Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling) 1919 Joan Edwards, NYC, singer (Joan Edwards Show) 1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol TN, country singer/actor 1923 Chuck Yeagar, first man to break the sound barrier 1930 Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, singer (McGuire Sisters) 1934 George Segal, actor (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane) 1937 Susan Oliver, NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place) 1938 Oliver Reed, England, actor (Big Sleep) 1941 Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall) 1942 Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal) 1944 Peter Tork, Washington DC, singer/actor (Monkees) 1944 Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease) 1950 Peter Gabriel, British rocker (Genesis and solo career) 1951 David Naughton, Hartford CT, actor (My Sister Sam, Seperate Vacations) 1952 Ed Gagliardi, bassist (Foreigner) 1953 Sharon Wyatt, Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital) 1955 Scott Smith, rocker (Loverboy) 1958 Mark Fox, congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool) 1960 Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me) 1961 Les Warner, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman) 1966 Freedom Williams, rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now) Deaths which occurred on February 13th: 1542 Katherine Howard, Fifth wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded 1602 Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's 1882 Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies at 66 in Monrovia, Liberia 1883 Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69 in Venice 1960 Delmar G. Roos, designer of the Jeep, dies at 79 1963 Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer 1965 Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show) 1976 General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup 1980 David Janssen, actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49 1982 Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman) dies at 17 1983 Marian Nixon, actress, dies of cancer at 78

February 15, 1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor 1764 St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue 1799 First US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania 1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave 1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped 1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, MN 1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before the Supreme Court 1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die 1903 First Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom 1905 First race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark) 1918 First WW I US army troopship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1918 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar 1919 American Legion organizes in Paris 1926 Contract air mail service begins in US 1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes 1932 US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) 1933 Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt 1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese 1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released 1957 Andrei A. Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet Foreign Minister 1961 Entire US figure skating team dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash 1965 Canada replaces the Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf Birthdates which occurred on February 15th: 1483 Babur, founded Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30) 1497 Philipp Melanchthon, Germany, Protestant reformer 1564 Galileo Galilei, Pisa, Italy, astronomer/physicist 1571 Michael Praetorius, German music theorist/composer (Syntagma music) 1710 Louis XV, King of France (1710-74) 1726 Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence 1748 Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarian philosopher/economist 1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker 1809 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper) 1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly CT, jeweler 1820 Susan Brownell Anthony, woman's suffragette 1834 Sir William Preece, English electrical engineer, wireless pioneer 1845 Elihu Root, US Sec. of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912) 1861 Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician/philosopher 1874 Earnest Shackleton, Ireland, explorer (Antarctica) 1886 Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu) 1894 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (first President of UN) 1897 Earl H Blaik, Detroit, college football hall of fame coach 1899 Gale Sondergard, Litchfield MN, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio) 1899 Georges Auric, Lod�ve France, composer (It Always Rains on Sunday) 1905 Harold Arlen, composer (Over the Rainbow) 1907 Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman) 1911 Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW) 1912 George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien) 1914 Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Howling) 1918 Alan Arbus, NYC, actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H) 1922 Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable) 1923 Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's) 1923 Yelena Bonner, Moscow, Soviet dissident/wife of Andre Sakharov 1927 Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles) 1929 Graham Hill, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ) 1929 James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75) 1934 Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL) 1935 John R. Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86) 1935 Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills) 1944 Mick Avory, rock drummer (Kinks) 1947 Marisa Berenson, NY, actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna) 1947 Rusty Hamer, Tenafly NJ, actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy) 1948 Ron Cey, Tacoma Washington, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers) 1949 Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals) 1951 Jane Seymour, Middlesex England, actress (Somewhere in Time, Dr. Quinn) 1951 Melissa Manchester, Bronx, NY, singer (Don't Cry Out Loud) 1954 Matt Groening, cartoonist (Simpsons) 1968 Kurt Robin McKinney, Louisville KY, actor (Ned-General Hospital) Deaths which occurred on February 15th: 1933 Anton J. Cermak, (Chicago mayor), assassinated in Miami 1955 S.Z. Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71 1965 Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 65 1973 Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48 1981 Mike Bloomfield, rocker (Electric Flag), dies at 37 1982 Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 85 1984 Avon Long, dancer/actor, dies of cancer at 73 1984 Ethel Merman, singer/actress, dies in her sleep at 76

February 16 374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1659 first known check (on display at Westminster Abbey) 1741 Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine begins publication 1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur attacks Tripoli pirates who burned USS Philadelphia 1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1868 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks founded in NY 1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, NYC 1883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication 1900 First Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes first issue, SF 1909 First subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC) 1918 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day) 1923 Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen (King Tut) 1932 First patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree 1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H. Carothers 1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized 1945 US forces land on Corregidor, completes conquest on March 3 1946 First commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport, CT 1950 Game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS 1951 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing 1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty 1959 Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba 1961 First all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, VA 1963 First round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US) 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown 1972 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first in NBA to score 30,000 points 1978 First Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago) 1982 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce 1988 First documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador 1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market 1989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage 1989 Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher, signs record $7.5M-3 year contract 1992 LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform Birthdates which occurred on February 16th: 1519 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral 1620 Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia 1740 Giambattista Bodoni, Italian printer/typeface designer 1821 Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer of Africa 1834 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Germany, naturalist (Causes of Evolution) 1838 Henry Adams, US historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams) 1850 Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid) 1852 Charles Taze Russell, founded Jehovah's Witnesses 1852 William Scarborough, Macon Georgia, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes) 1866 William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, Hall of Fame baseball player 1876 George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi) 1898 Katharine Cornell, actress (Barretts of Wimpole St.) 1901 Chester Morris, NYC, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown) 1901 Wayne King, Savannah Ill, saxophonist/bandleader (the Waltz King) 1903 Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) 1906 Vera Menchik, Moscow, first official women's world chess champ (1927) 1909 Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence KS, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver) 1909 Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn MA, actor (My Son Jeep, The Roaring Twenties) 1911 Hal Porter, Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase) 1912 Del Sharbutt, Cleburne TX, TV announcer (Your Hit Parade) 1914 Jimmy Wakely, Mineola AR, country singer (5 Star Jubilee) 1920 Lee Russell, Cleveland OH, singer (Vincent Lopez) 1920 Patty Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters) 1925 John Schlesinger, London England, director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling) 1930 Peggy King, Greensburg PA, singer/actress (George Gobel Show) 1931 Ken Takakura, Japanese film star (A Story of the Antarctic) 1932 Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville OK, actress (Silk Stockings) 1934 Marlene Bauer Hagge, LPGA golfer (1950 Woman Athlete of the Year) 1935 Brian Bedford, England, actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue) 1935 Sonny Bono, Detroit, singer and politician (Sonny & Cher) 1938 Barry Primus, NYC, actor (Sgt. McKenna-Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha) 1943 Anthony Dowell, London, dancer (Royal Ballet) 1950 William Katt, LA, actor (Great American Hero) 1955 George Martin, NFL defensive back (NY Giants) 1956 James Ingram, singer (On the Wings of Love) 1957 LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation) 1958 Lisa Loring, actress (As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family) 1959 John McEnroe, NY, tennis player 1962 Andy Taylor, rock guitarist (Duran Duran) Deaths which occurred on February 16th: 1600 Giordano Bruno, burned at stake 1857 Elisha Kane, Arctic explorer, dies at 37 1967 Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55 1979 Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 1979 William Gargan, actor (New Adventures of Martin Kane), dies at 73 1984 Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 1985 Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69 1986 Howard Da Silva, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76

February 17, 1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1772 First partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria 1776 First volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published 1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson as President over Burr 1854 British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) 1864 CSS "HL Hunley" becomes first submarine to sink an enemy ship 1865 Columbia SC burns down during the Civil War 1867 First ship passes through Suez Canal 1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War 1876 Sardines first canned (Eastport, Maine) 1897 National Congress of Parents & Teachers organizes (Wash DC) 1899 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #443 Photographica 1905 Frances Willard becomes first woman honored in National Statuary Hall 1906 Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House 1911 First hydroplane flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego 1913 First minimum wage law in US takes effect, in Oregon 1915 Edward Stone, first US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded 1926 75 buried in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah avalanche, 40 die 1931 First telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball) 1934 First high school auto driving course offered, State College, Pennsylvania 1941 Joe Louis retains heavyweight boxing crown, KO'ing Gus Dorazio 1947 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR 1949 Chaim Weitzman elected first president of Israel 1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY 1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea 1955 Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 1958 Comic strip "B.C." first appears 1959 First weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg 1964 US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote 1972 President Nixon leaves the USA for China 1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt 1979 China invades Vietnam 1980 Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 1981 Chrysler reports largest corporate losses in US history 1985 First class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents 1987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year Birthdates which occurred on February 17th: 1774 Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823) 1817 Frederick Douglas, famous African 1820 Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons) 1844 A Montgomery Ward, founded mail-order business 1857 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher 1867 William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer 1874 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. founded IBM 1889 H.L. Hunt, Texas oil multimillionaire 1908 Walter L "Red" Barber, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks) 1914 Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place) 1916 Raf Vallone, Italy, actor (El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon) 1919 Jock Mahoney, Chicago, actor (Yancy Derringer) 1919 Kathleen Freeman, Chicago, actress (Beverly Hillbillies) 1925 Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain) 1926 Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters) 1929 Chaim Potok, novelist (The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev) 1933 Bobby Lewis, rocker (Tossin' & Turnin') 1934 Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman) 1936 Jim Brown, Georgia, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns), actor (Dirty Dozen) 1942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader 1945 Brenda Fricker, actress (My Left Foot) 1945 Patricia Morrow, actress (Rita-Peyton Place) 1946 Zina Bethune, NYC, actress (Gail-The Nurses) 1950 Rick Medlocke, rocker (Blackfoot) 1952 Guillermo Vilas, tennis player (1977 US Open) 1958 Heidi Hagman, actress (Linda-Archie Bunker's Place) 1962 Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver) 1963 Michael Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls) Deaths which occurred on February 17th: 1688 Rev. James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian 1856 Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris 1908 Geronimo, Apache hero, dies at about 79 1959 Tim Mara, co-founder of NFL's NY Giants 1962 Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55 1977 Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76 1982 Thelonius Monk, jazz great dies at 64 1984 Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies), dies at 69 1989 Lefty Gomez, NY Yankee pitching great, dies at 80

February 18, 1678 John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published 1735 First opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC 1804 First US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, chartered 1815 Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed 1834 First US labor newspaper, The Man, published, NYC 1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo 1861 President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (CSA) 1861 Victor Emmanuel II becomes first king of Italy 1865 Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn the city 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, NC 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published 1908 First US postage stamps in coils issued 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England 1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to become baseball commissioner 1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh 1936 NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24) 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin, PA 1951 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes 1951 Nepal becomes a constitutional monarchy 1953 Premier of first 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC) 1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance 1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war 1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC 1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting 1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers 1968 British adopt year-round daylight savings time 1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd 1970 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot 1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meters across captured in Hood Canal, Washington 1973 Belgian Emile Puttemans runs 3000m in record 7:39.2 1978 First Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii 1979 Miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara 1983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak 1988 Anthony M. Kennedy becomes a Supreme Court Justice Birthdates which occurred on February 18th: 1559 Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian 1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery) 1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist, watercolorist 1795 George Peabody, US, merchant/philanthropist 1836 Ramakrishna, Hindu saint; preached unity of all religions 1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker 1853 August Belmont, Jr., breeder of Man 'O War/founded NY Jockey Club 1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on Roof) 1884 Burt Mustin, Pittsburgh PA, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show) 1888 Gladys Cooper, England, actress (Margaret-The Rogues) 1890 Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born) 1890 Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) 1892 Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate 1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp, Notre Dame football star 1907 Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World) 1909 Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose) 1914 Pee Wee King, Milwaukee, country singer 1917 Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey) 1920 Bill Cullen, Pittsburgh PA, TV game show host 1920 Jack Palance, Lattimer PA, actor 1925 George Kennedy, NYC, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport) 1931 Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon) 1932 Milos Forman, Italy, director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) 1933 Kim Novak, Chicago, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage) 1933 Mary Ure, England, model/actress (Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way) 1933 Yoko Ono, Tokyo Japan 1938 Manny Mota, baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers) 1945 Judy Rankin, St Louis Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1976-77) 1947 Dennis De Young, rock vocalist (Styx) 1949 Cybill Shepherd, Memphis TN, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show) 1949 Jess Walton, actress (Jill Abbott-Young & Restless) 1950 John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller) 1952 Juice Newton [Judy Cohen], Virginia, singer (Angel of the Morning) 1953 Derek Pellicci, rocker (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way) 1953 Robin Bachman, guitarist (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1954 John Travolta, Englewood NJ, actor (Primary Colors, Grease) 1957 Vanna White, Conway SC, TV game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune) 1960 Andy Moog, NHL Goalie (Stars, Oilers, Bruins,) 1964 Matt Dillon, actor (Flamingo Kid, Something About Mary) 1968 Molly Ringwald, Roseville Calif, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink) Deaths which occurred on February 18th: 1478 Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel 1546 Martin Luther, biblical scholar, religious reformer, dies at 62 1564 Michelangelo, Italian painter/sculptor/architect/poet 1917 Charles E. Barber, US Chief Engraver (1879-1917) 1967 Robert Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb 1977 Andy Devine [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71 1978 Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84 1982 Tina Carver, actress, dies at 58

February 19, 1700 Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark 1797 One-third of papal domain ceded to France 1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified until 1953 1807 VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1831 First practical US coal-burning locomotive makes first trial run, Pennsylvania 1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin 1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio 1864 Knights of Pythias form first lodge in Washington, DC 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph) 1881 Kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry 1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months 1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans 1942 NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free at each of their upcoming home games 1945 US Marines land on Iwo Jima 1959 Gabon adopts its constitution 1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM 1963 USSR informs JFK they are withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1965 NFL adds 6th official 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking 1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes first test flight atop a 747 jetliner 1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 1984 First brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at the Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom) 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain 1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit Birthdates which occurred on February 19th: 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland, astronomer 1683 King Philip V France, King of Spain (1700-46) 1717 David Garrick actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko) 1817 William III, King of the Netherlands (1849-90) 1865 Sven Hedin Sweden, explored Tibet, scientist 1893 Cedric Hardwicke Stourbridge England, actor (Richard III) 1894 Herb Pennock Hall of Fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins) 1895 Louis Calhern NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle) 1902 John Bubbles Louisville KY, rhythm tap dancer 1902 Nydia Westman NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr. Bobbins) 1903 Kay Boyle St. Paul MN, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales) 1911 Merle Oberon Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion) 1912 Stan Kenton Wichita Kansas, orchestra leader (Music 55) 1916 Eddie Arcaro jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns) 1917 Carson McCullers novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) 1920 George Rose Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust) 1924 Lee Marvin NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Dirty Dozen) 1940 William "Smokey" Robinson, Detroit, Motown singer 1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot, singer/actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday) 1948 Tony Iommi rock guitarist (Black Sabbath) 1953 Stephen Nichols Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Days of our Lives) 1955 Margaux Hemingway Portland OR, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce) 1957 Dave Stewart Oakland CA, baseball pitcher (Oakland, Texas, LA) 1957 Falco [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus) 1960 Prince Andrew, England 1962 Hana Mandlikova Czechoslovakia, tennis player 1963 Jessica Tuck NYC, actress (Megan-One Life to Live) 1966 Justine Bateman Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties) Deaths which occurred on February 19th: 1401 William Sawtree first English religious martyr, burned, London 1553 Erasmus Reinhold German mathematician, dies at 41 1965 Forrest Taylor actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81 1968 Ralph Dunn actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 1970 Ralph Edward Flanders (Sen-VT), dies at 89 1984 Ina Ray Hutton orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66 1985 Elizabeth Julesberg author of "Dick & Jane" books 1985 George Holmes actor, dies at 66 1986 Paul Stewart actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77

February 23 303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians 1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (estimated date) 1574 5th War of Religion breaks out in France 1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge 1813 First US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusettes 1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; first US pharmacy college 1822 Boston is incorporated as a city 1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed 1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated 1847 Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans 1852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops 1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US 1870 Mississippi is readmitted to US 1883 Alabama becomes first US state to enact an antitrust law 1927 US Radio Commission created (FCC predecessor) 1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers 1936 First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY 1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California 1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima 1954 First mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh) 1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels 1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field 1967 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA to score 25,000 points 1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day) 1973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London 1979 Frank Peterson, Jr., named first black general in Marine Corps 1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics 1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37 million gallon spill 1981 Attempted military coup in Spain 1983 USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 million) 1985 US Senated confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general 1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC first seen; first naked-eye supernova since 1604 1988 15th Winter Olympic games opens in Calgary, Alberta 1992 16th Olympic Winter games closes in Albertville, France Birthdates which occurred on February 23rd: 1685 George Frideric Handel, Halle England, baroque composer 1744 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founded House of Rothschild 1818 Major General Jeremy F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept. 1865 Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates) 1883 Karl Jaspers, Germany, existentialist philosopher 1883 Victor Fleming, Pasadena CA, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind) 1904 William L. Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of the Third Reich) 1913 Charles Leonard, US, pentathelete (Olympic-1936) 1917 Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) 1929 Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (first black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP) 1930 Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss) 1933 Lee Calhoun, 110m hurdler (Olympic Gold 1956, 1960) 1938 Diane Varsi, San Mateo CA, actress (Peyton Place) 1938 Sylvia Chase, St. Paul MN, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20) 1939 Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek) 1940 Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider) 1943 Jada Rowland, NYC, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm) 1944 Johnny Winter [John Dawson], Leland MS, guitarist (Silver Train) 1946 Rusty Young, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night) 1947 Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who Would be King) 1951 Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys) 1952 Brad Whitford, Massachusettes, rock guitarist (Aerosmith) 1955 Howard Jones, rock vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better) 1956 Maren Jensen, Glendale CA, actress (Battlestar Galactica) 1965 Helena Sukova, Czech, tennis player 1966 Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties) Deaths which occurred on February 23rd: 1554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, is executed 1821 John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome 1848 John Quincy Adams, 6th US president, dies of a stroke at 80 1915 Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC 1922 Henri Landru, executed for having 11 wives, in France 1934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard 1965 Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies in California

February 24, 1530 First imperial coronation by a Pope-Charles V crowned by Clement V 1581 Pope Gregory approves the results of his calendar reform commission 1803 Supreme Court first rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v. Madison) 1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain 1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, battle lasts 13 days 1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia 1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared 1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government 1863 Arizona Territory created 1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee 1868 First US parade with floats, Mobile, Alabama 1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1881 De Lesseps' Co. begins work on Panama Canal 1888 Louisville, Kentucky becomes first government in US to adopt Australian ballot 1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras 1895 Cuban war of independence begins 1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) 1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia 1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence 1921 First transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida 1925 Thermit explosive first used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY 1937 First US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington, DC 1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles 1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) 1946 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia 1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal, first rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 1964 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for heavyweight championship 1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana 1968 Discovery of first pulsar announced, discovered by Jocelyn Bell 1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games 1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1974 Pakistan offically recognizes Bangladesh 1978 Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game 1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas 1979 War between North & South Yemen begins 1980 USA Olympic hockey team beats Finland (4-2) & wins gold medal 1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower 1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92 1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds 1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack 1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife 1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops (Desert Storm) Birthdates which occurred on February 24th: 1500 Emperor Charles V, King of Spain (1516-56) 1619 Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer 1766 Samuel Wesley, Bristol, England, composer, organist (Exultate Deo) 1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) 1836 Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream) 1852 George Moore, Ireland, novelist (Esther Waters) 1860 Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types) 1872 John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles) 1874 Honus Wagner, Hall of Fame baseball shortstop 1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, Fredericksburg TX commanded Pacific fleet in WWII 1885 Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family) 1885 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59) 1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings) 1890 Marjorie Main, Action Indiana, actress (Another Thin Man) 1898 Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer 1909 August William Derleth, Sauk City WI, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) 1914 Zachary Scott, Austin TX, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce) 1917 William Fairbank, Minneapolis, superconductivity physicist 1921 Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish) 1922 Steven Hill, Seattle, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl) 1924 Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Another World) 1928 Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century) 1929 Richard B. Shull, Evanston IL, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo) 1930 Barbara Lawrence, actress (Joe Dakota) 1932 John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry) 1934 Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal) 1938 James Farentino, Brooklyn, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown) 1940 Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70) 1944 Barry Bostwick, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show) 1944 Sheila Larkin, Brooklyn, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer) 1945 Alain Prost, Formula One racer 1945 Barry Bostwick, San Mateo CA, actor (Scruples, Foul Play) 1947 Edward James Olmos, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph) 1947 Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band) 1947 Rupert Holmes, Tenafly NJ, singer 1948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange) 1951 Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women) 1955 Steven Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer 1956 Eddie Murray, baseball fst baseman/designated hitter 1956 Paula Zahn, Napperville IL, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning) 1958 Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty) 1971 Julie Gallagher Cummings, Tyler TX, healthcare administrator, #1 sister 1977 Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) Deaths which occurred on February 24th: 1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's Prime Minister, assassinated in parliament 1970 Conrad Nagel actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73 1976 H. Allen Smith TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 68 1982 Virginia Bruce actress, dies at 72 1990 Johnnie Ray singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61 1990 Malcolm Forbes CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies at 70 from heart attack 1990 Tony Conigliaro Red Sox baseball player, dies in Salem, Massachusettes, at 45 of kidney failure

February 25 1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegience 1793 First cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home) 1799 Fst federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land 1799 Congress passes first federal quarantine legislation 1804 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus 1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House 1836 Samuel Colt patents first revolving barrel multishot firearm 1837 First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours 1847 State University of Iowa is approved 1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence 1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act 1870 Hiram Revels, MS, is sworn in as first black member of Congress (Senate) 1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J.P. Morgan 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic 1908 First tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax 1919 Oregon becomes first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) 1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed 1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3) 1930 Check photographing device patented 1933 First aircraft carrier, "USS Ranger," launched 1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases the Boston Red Sox 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia 1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premiers on NBC 1951 First Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day" 1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon 1964 Cassius Clay stops champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight title 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea 1977 New Orleans' "Pistol" Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 points 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons 1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs North Stars, 84 penalites (392 mins) 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines 1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action 1989 First independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary formed 1989 Dallas Cowboys' new owner Jerry Jones fires coach Tom Landry 1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas Birthdates which occurred on February 25th: 1707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, dramatist (Love of the Three Oranges) 1725 Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris, composer/organist (Notre Dame) 1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, France, Impressionist painter 1847 John Watson, Canada, philospher (Objective Idealism) 1866 Beneditto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher 1871 Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US singles 1890) 1876 Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery 1881 William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist Presidential candidate (1924,28,32) 1888 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59) 1900 Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball) 1901 Zeppo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) 1904 Adelle Davis, author/nutritionist 1906 Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter 1906 Howard Zahniser, Father of the Wilderness Act 1908 Frank G. Slaughter, author (Sangaree) 1913 Jim Backus, Cleveland, actor (Mr. Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is) 1916 Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records) 1917 Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange) 1918 Bobby Riggs, tennis star (1939 US Open) 1925 Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living) 1927 Jane Nigh, Hollywood, actress (Lorelei-Big Town) 1929 Christopher George, Royal Oak MN, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal) 1929 Tommy Newsom, VA, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show) 1937 Basia Johnson, maid who inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune 1937 Bob Schieffer, Austin TX, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) 1938 Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank) 1938 Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960) 1939 Marisa Mell, Vienna Austria, actress (Masuerade, Casanova) 1940 Ron Santo, Chicago Cubs (first baseball player to veto his trade) 1941 Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman) 1943 George Harrison, musician, (Beatles) 1943 Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally) 1944 Karen Grassle, Berkeley CA, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie) 1944 Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father) 1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Fireflies) 1947 Lee Evans, US, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1968) 1953 Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondant (Entertainment Tonight) 1955 Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty) 1957 Stuart "Woody" Wood, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night) Deaths which occurred on February 25th: 1601 Earl of Essex, executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabeth 1634 Albrecht von Wallenstein, German generalissimo, murdered at 50 1723 Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect 1914 John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 1967 John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57 1970 Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist, dies at 66 1975 Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, dies at 77 in Chicago 1978 Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., retired Air Force general, dies at 58 1983 Tennessee Williams, writer, chokes to death on a bottle cap at 71 1987 James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58

Happy birthday George Harrison, 58?

Scary, Isn't it!!! February 26 1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000 1616 Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo 1732 First mass celebrated in first American Catholic church, Philadelphia 1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France 1834 First US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified 1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" 1852 British troop ship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa, 458 die 1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states 1870 First NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered) 1881 S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool 1885 Conference of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England 1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine 1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604 1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona 1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field 1935 Germany begins Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall Herman Goering 1935 NY Yankees release Babe Ruth 1938 First passenger ship equipped with radar 1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY 1944 First female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed 1946 Two killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn 1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb Birthdates which occurred on February 26th: 1361 Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor (1378-1400) 1802 Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame) 1846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa 1861 Ferdinand I, Vienna, first Tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18) 1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry 1876 Pauline Musters, shortest known adult (1' 11.2") 1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs) 1893 William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons) 1906 Madeleine Carroll, English actress (The 39 Steps, Secret Agent) 1913 Jon Hall, Fresno California, actor (Ramor of the Jungle) 1914 Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand) 1916 Jackie Gleason, actor (Honeymooners, Smokey & the Bandit) 1918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers) 1918 Otis R. Bowen, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985-89) 1918 Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer (Starshine, A Way Home) 1919 Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season) 1920 Tony Randall, Tulsa Oklahoma, actor (Felix-Odd Couple) 1921 Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Michigan, actress (Greatest Show on Earth) 1922 Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart) 1926 Cynthia Stone, Peoria Illinois, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers) 1927 Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, game show host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune) 1928 Antione "Fats" Domino, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill) 1931 Robert Novak, Joliet Illinois, news reporter (Evans & Novak) 1932 Johnny Cash, Kingsland Arkansas, country singer 1933 Sir James Goldsmith, Paris France, financier/corporate raider 1938 Jack Knight, Somerville Mississippi, actor (Mr. Shamley-James at 15) 1943 Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country) 1948 Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien) 1950 Jonathan Cain, rock keyboardist (Journey) 1957 Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972) 1970 Katie O'Neill, Los Angeles, actress (Together We Stand) Deaths which occurred on February 26th: 1870 Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched 1961 Mohammed V, King of Morocco 1962 Harold Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist 1966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn), dies at 71 1967 Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70 1969 Levi Eshkol, Israeli premier 1973 Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68

February 27, 837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered 1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction 1803 Great fire in Bombay, India 1813 First federal vaccination legislation enacted 1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail 1814 Beethoven's 8th symphony premiers 1827 First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans 1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) 1861 US Congress authorizes first stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing 1869 John Menard is first black to make a speech in Congress 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission 1874 Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine 1890 D. Needham & P. Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours, 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is a draw 1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party 1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides 1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed, New York 1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th Amendment, women's right to vote 1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists 1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes 1942 Battle of Java Sea begins, 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese 1942 J.S. Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli president 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms 1967 Pink Floyd release their first single "Arnold Layne" 1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox 1973 Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 1982 Earl Anthony becomes first pro bowler to win more than $1 million 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta 1983 Eamonn Coghlan set mile record of 3:49.78 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief 1987 Donald Regan resigns as White House Chief of Staff 1987 NCAA gives SMU's football program the "Death Penalty" 1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speedskating in record 39.1 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison 1991 US led allied six week war with Iraq ends Birthdates which occurred on February 27th: 289 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37), adopted Christianity 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet 1861 Rudolf Steiner, Austria, founder of anthroposophy movement 1881 Sveinn Bjornsson, first president of Republic of Iceland (1944-52) 1886 Hugo L. Black, Alabama US Supreme Court justice (1937-71) 1888 Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello) 1892 William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My Three Sons) 1899 Charles Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes treatment 1902 Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32) 1902 John Steinbeck, Salinas California, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962) 1903 Reginald Gardiner, Wimbeldon England, actor (Great Dictator) 1904 James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy) 1905 Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr. Freeland-Ben Casey) 1910 Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli) 1910 Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon) 1912 Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling, India, writer (Alexandria Quartet) 1913 Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man, Poor Man) 1920 Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program) 1925 Guy Mitchell, Detroit Michigan, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show) 1930 Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Georgia, actress (Three Faces of Eve, Rachel) 1932 Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) 1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic 1933 Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL Hall of Fame (Baltimore Colts) 1934 Ralph Nader, consumer advocate 1934 Van Williams, Fort Worth TX, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon) 1939 Kenzo Takada, fashion designer 1939 Peter Revson, auto racer 1940 Howard Hesseman, Salem OR, actor (Dr. Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class) 1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer) 1943 Mary Frann, St. Louis, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live) 1944 Alan Fudge, Wichita Kansas, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls) 1947 Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970) 1948 Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells) 1951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman 1954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey) 1957 Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High) 1960 Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders) 1961 Grant Shaud, actor (Murphy Brown) 1962 Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard) 1966 Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-The Young Riders) 1975 Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World) Deaths which occurred on February 27th: 1955 Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66 1956 Frank Dailey, orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 1962 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45 1974 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59 1980 George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78 1985 Pat J. O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83

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Want to join this *free* mailing list? Just send a message to signuponthisday@gagler.com (mailto:signuponthisday@gagler.com) --------------- March 8, On this day... 1702 Queen Anne ascends to the English throne 1782 Gnadenhutten massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Indians 1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt 1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) 1855 First train crosses first US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal 1862 Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched 1887 Everett Horton patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes 1894 New York passes first state dog license law 1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers 1910 Baronne Raymonde de Laroche, France, becomes first licensed female pilot 1915 First US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned 1917 US invades Cuba for third time 1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah 1930 Babe Ruth signs $80,000 contract with the Yankees 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1941 First baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) 1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon, Burma 1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico 1946 First helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City) 1950 First woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel-B.R. Walters 1950 USSR announces they have developed the atomic bomb 1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) 1959 Groucho, Chico, and Harpo's final television appearance together 1965 First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam 1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold first day) 1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland) 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden 1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" 1972 First flight of the Goodyear blimp 1976 1774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China 1979 Volcanoes on Jupiter's mmon Io discovered by Voyager I 1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 1983 President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" 1986 Martina Navratilova is first tennis player to earn $10 million 1987 FBI apprehends Most Wanted Claude L. Dallas, Jr., in California Birthdates which occurred on March 8th: 1783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren first lady 1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe help create modern plastic surgery 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes Massachusetts, Supreme Court justice (1902-32) 1859 Kenneth Grahame author (The Wind, Willows) 1865 Frederick William Goudy US, printer/type designer 1879 Otto Hahn co-discoverer of nuclear fission 1888 Stuart Chase NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste) 1891 Sam Jaffe actor (Gunga Din, Dr. Zorba-Ben Casey) 1898 Louise Beavers Cincinnati, actress (Beulah-Beulah) 1899 Eric Linklater Scotland, novelist/poet/historical writer 1909 Claire Trevor actress (Murder My Sweet, Marjorie Morningstar) 1918 Alan Hale Jr Los Angeles, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island) 1921 Cyd Charisse Amarillo TX, dancer/actress (East Side, West Side) 1922 Carl Furillo Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953) 1924 Sean McClory Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur) 1928 Judy Johnson Norfolk VA singer (Your Show of Shows) 1934 Ron Taylor Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals) 1936 Sue Ane Langdon Paterson NJ, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie) 1938 Lew DeWitt Va, country singer (Statler Brothers) 1939 George Reed astronomy writer/cartoonist 1939 Jim Bouton Newark NJ, pitcher (NY Yankees)/author (Ball Four) 1939 Lydia Skoblikova USSR, speed skater (Olympics-Six Gold Medals-1960/4) 1940 Susan Clark Sarnia Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster) 1942 Dick Allen baseball player (AL MVP 1972) 1942 Ralph Ellis England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good) 1943 Lynn Redgrave London, actress (Georgie Girl) 1944 Carole Bayer Sager NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer 1945 Mickey Dolenz Los Angeles, singer (Monkees) 1946 Randy Meisner rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles) 1953 Jim Rice Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978) 1954 Cheryl Baker rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies) 1959 Aidan Quinn Chicago, actor (All My Sons, Reckless, Stakeout) 1964 Peter "Ged" Gill drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) Deaths which occurred on March 8th: 1702 William III King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 1930 William Howard Taft 27th US President 1985 Edward Andrews actor, dies at 70 of a heart attack