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Historical Events 352 - 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th 1066 - William the Conqueror is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, completing the Norman conquest of England 1862 - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina 1957 - Richard Starkey (later better known as Ringo Starr) receives his first drum set 1969 - India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91 1973 - "The Sting" directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and music inspired by Scott Joplin premieres in Los Angeles and New York (Best Picture 1974) More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1757 - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d. 1839) 1908 - Helen Twelvetrees, American actress (State's Attorney, Painted Desert), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1958) 1942 - Barry Goldberg, American blues musician (The Rides), born in Chicago, Illinois 1949 - Sissy Spacek, American Actress (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter), born in Quitman, Texas 1961 - Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator 1964 - Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor (Darling How Could You) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1513 - Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 1953 - Lee Shubert, American theatre producer (theatres in NY and LA named after him), dies at about 80 1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (Real McCoys), dies of leukemia at 73 1985 - George Rhodes, American pianist, composer, arranger, and music director (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies of a heart attack at 66 1992 - Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies 2009 - Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter, dies of an overdose of muscle relaxants at 46 More Famous Deaths »

1798 - Russia and Britain sign Second anti-French Coalition 1898 - Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto" premieres in Amsterdam 1910 - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain, San Francisco 1930 - Sukarno sentenced to four years in prison by Indonesian authorities in Bandung, Dutch East Indies 1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms 1948 - First US completely solar heated house is occupied (Dover, Mass) 1953 - KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting 1968 - Ballon d'Or: Manchester United's winger George Best wins award for best European football player ahead of teammate Bobby Charlton and Red Star Belgrade winger Dragan Džajić; first Northern Irish national to win the award 1990 - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon and Barry Jones 2000 - The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1715 - Swedish troops occupy Norway 1851 - Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes 1951 - 1st opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater 1996 - Ballon d'Or: Borussia Dortmund's German sweeper Matthias Sammer is named best football player in Europe ahead of PSV/Barcelona striker Ronaldo and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer 2000 - The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery 2001 - "Time Magazine" names New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani 'Person of the Year', for leadership after 9/11 attacks More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1945 - Lemmy [Ian Fraser Kilmister], British heavy metal musician (Motörhead), born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (d. 2015) 1950 - Peter te Bos, Dutch singer (Claw Boys Claw), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands 1958 - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer, born in Nara Prefecture, Japan 1959 - Lee Daniels, American director ("Precious", "Empire"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 - Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer, born in Herne, Germany 1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor, born in Chiba, Japan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1907 - Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies 1979 - Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch politician, diplomat (Ambassador to Great Britain, 1952-58; Secretary General of NATO, 1961-64), and CEO (Heineken), dies at 82 1993 - Alexander Mackendrick, American-born Scottish director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 1994 - John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Look Back in Anger, Luther, dies at 65 1999 - Zeke Carey, American RandB singer (The Flamingos - "Goodnight Sweetheart"; "I Only Have Eyes For You"), dies of a heart attack at 66 2011 - Cheetah [Cheeta, Cheta, Chita], chimpanzee actor (1930s Tarzan franchise), dies of kidney failure at 80 More Famous Deaths »

1926 - KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions 1939 - South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland 1953 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year 1970 - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia 1970 - 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" (record) in London's West End 1972 - "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 1972 - New York Islanders end 15 games winless streak 1977 - British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens formally converts to Islam, taking the name Yusuf Islam 1997 - "As Good as It Gets" film released written and directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt 2012 - The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1862 - Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis 1939 - South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland 1941 - British troops overrun Benghazi, Libya 1948 - "Cinderella" the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Sergei Prokofiev is first presented by Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden, London 1953 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year 1990 - Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1699 - Joseph Gibbs, English composer and organist, born in Colchester (d. 1788) 1869 - Hugh Allen, British organist, conductor (Bach Choir; Leeds Festival), and educator (Oxford, 1918-46-; Royal College of Music, 1918-37), born in Reading, Berkshire, England (d. 1946) 1903 - Fredericka "Fredi" Washington, American actress (Black and Tan), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1994) 1918 - Kumar Pallana, Indian character actor and vaudevillian (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore), born in Indore, India (d. 2013) 1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano, born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 2021) 1970 - Shannon Bream [DePuy], American Journalist (Fox News) Miss Virginia (1991), born in Lynchburg, Virginia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531) 1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French', dies at 77 1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) 1925 - A S C Wallis [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer (Vorstengunst), dies at 69 1967 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), dies at 75 1973 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt is named, dies at 68 More Famous Deaths »

1939 - Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo 1941 - Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia 1943 - Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core 1965 - Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour 1966 - WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 - Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment 1980 - MLB St. Louis Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds 1989 - Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution 1990 - Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games 1990 - Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king 1688 - Earl of Danby occupies York for King William III, Prince of Orange 1935 - Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura 1967 - "The Graduate", American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres (Best Director, 1968) 1971 - UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General 1977 - 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō, born in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan (d. 1604) 1929 - Leonard "Red" Balaban, American jazz tuba and sousaphone player, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2013) 1945 - Joris J. C. Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister (1994-, VVD), born in the Hague, Netherlands 1948 - Steve Garvey, American baseball player (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres), born in Tampa, Florida 1963 - Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer, born in Milan, Italy 1972 - Mike Thompson, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Portage, Wisconsin More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) 1809 - William Cooper, American judge and developer (founded Cooperstown, New York), dies at 55 1986 - Celius Dougherty, American pianist and composer, dies at 84 1987 - Leonidas Zoras, Greek conductor and composer, dies at 82 2002 - Kenneth Tobey, American actor (The Thing from Another World, Innerspace, Whirlybirds), dies of natural causes at 85 2006 - Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer, dies at 87 More Famous Deaths »

1900 - Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Michael Kramer" premieres in Berlin 1929 - 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) 1944 - Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP 1949 - "Samson and Delilah", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York 1959 - Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing 1975 - Davis Cup Men's Tennis, Stockholm, Sweden: Home town hero Björn Borg beats Czech Jan Kodeš 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give Sweden unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2 1975 - "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances 1978 - Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' musical "A Broadway Musical" opens and closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 1 performance 2005 - Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with singer Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union 2020 - Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1933 - Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 - Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions 1983 - NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule 1988 - Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; kills all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground 1997 - Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1928 - Thomas Rajna, British-Hungarian pianist, and composer (Amarantha; Stop All The Clocks), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2021) 1935 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician (Premier of Manitoba), born in Beausejour, Canada 1937 - Jane Fonda, American stage and screen Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress (Barbarella; Klute, 9 to 5), exercist (Jane Fonda's Workout), and political activist, born in NYC, New York 1940 - Paul [Ray Hildebrand], American singer (Paul and Paula), born in Joshua, Texas 1944 - Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor, born in Aomori, Japan 1969 - Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer, born in Riga, Latvia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1824 - James Parkinson, English physician (First description of Parkinson's disease) and political activist, dies at 69 1979 - Mac Anderson, New Zealand cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five and one), dies at 60 1997 - Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64 2006 - Sydney Wooderson, English athlete dubbed "The Mighty Atom" (world record 1937), dies at 92 2017 - Roswell Rudd ,American free-jazz trombonist (Archie Shepp), and avant-garde composer (New York Art Quartet), dies of prostate cancer at 82 2020 - K. T. Oslin, American country singer (80's Ladies), dies at 78 More Famous Deaths »

1823 - Play "Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus" by Helmina von Chézy with incidental music by Franz Schubert premieres in Vienna 1862 - Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi 1921 - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9; Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 1926 - St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to NY Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring; concerns over Hornsby's gambling 1937 - Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O'Reilly takes career best 9-41 for NSW in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval 1966 - Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels 1970 - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's communist party leader 1991 - NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators 2001 - 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2) 2017 - Lady Gaga signs Las Vegas residency deal for $75m at MGM Park Theatre More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft) 1939 - Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service 1985 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC 1992 - Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability" 1995 - Revival of Phillip Hayes Dean's drama "Paul Robeson" opens at Longacre Theater, NYC; runs for 14 performances 2019 - United States Space Force founded, an armed forces branch dedicated to space warfare More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1906 - Irving Krick, American meteorologist and inventor, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996) 1922 - Charita Bauer, American actress (The Guiding Light, Aldrich Family), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1985) 1944 - Jean Fergusson, English actress, born in Wakefield, United Kingdom 1961 - Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor, born in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt 1972 - Jonathan Wyatt, New Zealand 5000m runner (Olympics 1996), born in Wellington, New Zealand 1998 - Dylan Wang [Wang Hedi], Chinese actor and singer (Meteor Garden), born in Chengdu, Sichuan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet 1749 - Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies 1876 - Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US 1986 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959) 2012 - Eagle Keys, American Canadian Football Hall of Fame linebacker and coach (Grey Cup champion 1949, 54-56, 66; Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan R'riders), dies at 89 2015 - Patricia Elliott, American actress (Renee-Empire, One Life to Live), dies at 77 More Famous Deaths »

1154 - King Henry II of England crowned King of England 1562 - Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Condé captured 1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR in San Francisco 1862 - Skirmish at Jackson, Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties) 1917 - Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game 1919 - American Meteorological Society found 1969 - Beatle's 7th Christmas fan-club single is released 1980 - Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater 2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits. 2018 - First use of a drone to deliver vaccines - to island of Erromango, Vanuatu, by Unicef More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1835 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard arrives in New Zealand 1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice in Toronto 1926 - National Football League Championship: Frankford Yellow Jackets (14-1-2) win first past the post title 1976 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin 1980 - Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts 2016 - At least 48 people die after drinking bath lotion in Irkutsk, Siberia, thinking it contained alcohol More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1819 - James Clifford Veatch, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Elizabeth, Indiana (d. 1895) 1837 - John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864) 1861 - Italo Svevo, Italian writer (La Coscienza di Zeno), born in Trieste Austria (d. 1928) 1916 - Hal Hastings, American orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), born in NYC, New York (d. 1973) 1925 - Robert Sherman, songwriter (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), born in NYC, New York (d. 2012) 1957 - Doug Johnson, Canadian rock keyboardist (Loverboy - "Working For The Weekend"), born in Surrey, British Columbia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1815 - Robert Hudson, British tenor, organist, and composer, dies at 83 1933 - George Jackson Churchward, British mechanical engineer (Chief of Great Western Railway Chief, 1902-22), truck and killed by a Paddington to Fishguard express train at 76 1951 - Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51 1998 - Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932) 2002 - Will Hoy, English auto racer (British Touring Car C'ship 1991), dies from a brain tumour at 50 2017 - Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, American professional baseball player at 1st female pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues, dies from heart complications at 82 More Famous Deaths »

1774 - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia 1902 - British parliament passes the Education Act, which will come to be regarded as the most important legislation of Arthur Balfour's government 1932 - National Football League Championship; Playoff, Chicago Stadium: Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans, 9-0 1935 - Edvard Beneš becomes President of Czechoslovakia after Tomáš Masaryk retires 1962 - Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 1963 - "The Pink Panther" film premieres, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers and David Niven, with theme by Henry Mancini 1963 - Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow 1970 - Polish uprising fails 1976 - Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan 1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1869 - Canada's Hamilton Football Club plays its 1st game 1962 - Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 1969 - House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973) 1989 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years 1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect. 2020 - US Vice President Mike Pence receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1837 - Adolf Daens, Flemish priest, politician and founder of the Daensist movement, born in Aalst, Belgium (d. 1907) 1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984) 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws), born in Cincinnati, Ohio 1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator) 1983 - Ady Barkan, American lawyer and activist (Medicare for all) 1995 - Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player (French Open singles 2021; French Open doubles 2018, 21; Wimbledon 2018, 22; US Open and Australian Open 2022; 3 x Australian Open mixed doubles), born in Brno, Czech Republic More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1577 - Anna, Duchess of Saxony, German born 2nd wife of Prince William of Orange (divorced and imprisoned for adultery), dies at 32 1894 - Erastus Flaval Beadle, American publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels), dies at 73 1911 - Alberto Randegger, Italian composer, dies at 79 1980 - Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76 1994 - Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64 2020 - Tim Severin, British author and explorer who replicated historic voyages, dies at 80 More Famous Deaths »

1819 - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain 1885 - France declares Madagascar a protectorate 1946 - US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico 1970 - Workers returning to shipyard in Gdynia, Poland are met by soldiers who shoot at the crowd, killing at least 18, wounding hundreds 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1971 - Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting 1977 - Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st US TV appearance on "Saturday Night Live" 1983 - In his 352nd NHL game, Wayne Gretzky scores a goal and 5 assists in 8-1 rout of Quebec Nordiques to record his 800th point and 500th assist; averages 2.27 points, 1.42 assists, 0.85 goals per game to start career 1992 - "A Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances 2019 - Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in absentia for high treason More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1819 - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain 1961 - India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies 1963 - West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules 1971 - Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir 2012 - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan 2013 - Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician, born in Aynho, United Kingdom (d. 1998) 1933 - Stefan Florenski, Polish soccer defender (11 caps; Górnik Zabrze), born in Gleiwitz, Poland (d. 2020) 1944 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker, American sci-fi author (Saga of Well World) 1969 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player 1974 - Jeffrey "Duff" Goldman, American cake designer, TV personality (Ace of Cakes) and chef, born in Detroit, Michigan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1891 - Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition 1990 - Don Draper, American actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 1996 - Irving Caesar, American lyricist and theater composer (Tea for Two; Just A Gigilo; Sometimes I'm Happy; Animal Crackers In My Soup), dies at 101 2010 - Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vliet], American rock musician, complications from multiple sclerosis at 69 2013 - Leland Smith, American composer, bassoonist and computer coder who led music publishing into the digital age (SCORE), dies at 88 2020 - Stanley Cowell American jazz pianist (Heath Brothers), record label co-founder (Strata-East), and educator, dies from hypovolemic shock at 79 More Famous Deaths »

1900 - A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes 1912 - 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued 1960 - "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances 1965 - Gemini 6 returns to Earth 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 - Bill Veeck buys 80% of MLB Chicago White Sox from John Allyn 1979 - Dallas QB Roger Staubach throws 3 TDs and 336 yards in his last NFL regular season game with the Cowboys, a 35-34 win over Washington Redskins at Texas Stadium 1990 - Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti 1997 - US President Bill Clinton names his Labrador retriever "Buddy" 2020 - Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1826 - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. 1938 - State of California executes Ed Davis (38), leader of Folsom Prison escape attempt resulting in murder of warden and guard (San Quentin State Prison, Marin County) 1944 - US 2nd Infantry division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid 1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances 1991 - UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote 2016 - US State Department increases reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to $25 million More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1742 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819) 1907 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress (Lonesome, Flesh and the Devil), born in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada (d. 2011) 1916 - Udom Patpongsiri, Thai property developer (Father of the Thai sex industry), (d. 1996) 1945 - Bobby George, English darts player (BDO World C'ship 1980, 84 runner-up), born in Manor Park, Essex, England 1965 - Chris Jones, outfielder (NY Mets), born in Utica, New York 1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 714 - Pepin/Pippin II, of Herstal/Héristal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Duke and Prince of the Franks, dies 1670 - Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies 1993 - Charizma [Charles Hicks], American rapper, killed in a mugging at 20 1996 - Joe Coral [Joseph Kagarlitski], British bookmaker (Gala Coral Group), dies at 92 1997 - Richard Warwick, English actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If), dies of AIDS complications at 52 2018 - John Ford Noonan, American playwright (A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking), dies at 77 More Famous Deaths »

1569 - Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in "The Rising of the North", Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland. 1840 - Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death 1863 - Romania's mountain railway, from Anina to Oravita, opens 1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms 1965 - D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" premieres in London 1980 - Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena 1986 - CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure 2011 - ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24, giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports; deal worth $500m 2017 - Anita Hill is appointed to lead a Hollywood commission on sexual harassment, spearheaded by Kathleen Kennedy 2020 - MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1918 - American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting 1953 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel 1973 - American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by oil tycoon grandfather John Paul Getty 1983 - 3 Kansas City Royals (Willie Wilson, Willie Aikens, and Jerry Martin) suspended due to cocaine usage 2017 - Pakistani teenager Ahed Tamimi filmed slapping Israeli officers during protest, arrested 4 days later More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish-Farosese physician and phototherapist (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1903 for treatment for Lupus), born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (d. 1904) 1888 - Artturi Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer (Kati), born in Ylihärmä, Finland (d. 1963) 1892 - J. Paul Getty, American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1976) 1899 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), born in Bedford, England (d. 1978) 1930 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer (Girl with Green Eyes, Casualties of Peace), born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland 1960 - Doug Phelps, American singer (Ky Headhunters - Davy Crockett), born in Leachville, Arkansas More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1816 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, Bohemian aristocrat and composer, dies at 44 1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803) 1896 - John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologian and church historian, dies at 67 1952 - Potti Sreeramulu, Indian revolutionary known as the Father of Andhra for conducting a 56 day hunger strike in support of a separate Telugu-speaking state, fasts to death at 51, sparking rioting and 3 days later Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to declare an intention to form Andhra Pradesh state 1953 - Ed Barrow, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1918 Boston Red Sox) and executive (10 x World Series NY Yankees), dies at 85 2009 - Carolyn DeZurik, American country and polka singer and yodeler (The Cackle Sisters; Prairie Ramblers; The Polka Chips), dies at 90 More Famous Deaths »

1575 - Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland 1914 - US President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, to regulate and tax production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products 1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC 1954 - WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - 16 countries join the United Nations, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Spain 1959 - The album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and becomes the first jazz album to sell a million copies. 1960 - Washington Senators joins American League 1980 - Massacre at Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles with 3 people killed and 6 injured 1991 - Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, 476 killed 2019 - Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women. More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1793 - 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Cincinnati 1849 - 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert in Boston 1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC 1977 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years 1978 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1978 - "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (Stranger Than Fiction, The Infidel), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1956) 1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004) 1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist and feminist, born in NYC, New York (d. 2006) 1968 - Jamie Crysdale, CFL corner (Calgary Stampeders), born in Calgary, Alberta 1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer, born in Belfast 1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese gravure idol and actress, born in Saitama prefecture, Japan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1077 - Agnes of Poitou, German Empress and wife of Emperor Henry III, dies at 52 1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 79 1760 - Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies at 56 1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 1914 - Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 73 1989 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (Nobel 1975), dies of a heart attack at 68 More Famous Deaths »

1572 - Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet (confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under admiral Lumey 1920 - Francis G. Pease's interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory is the first to measure the diameter of a star - the Betelgeuse 1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions 1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres at Carnegie Hall, NYC, performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Walter Damrosch 1936 - National Football League Championship, Polo Grounds, NYC: Green Bay Packers beat Boston Redskins, 21-6; Packers 4th title; Redskins move to Washington, D.C. for 1937 season 1961 - "The Young Ones" directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley and Carole Gray premieres in London 1964 - In El Paso, Texas, LBJ and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border 1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats, Amsterdam 2014 - Two US soldiers killed in a Taliban bombing of a NATO convoy in Kabul 2017 - Scientists begin checking interstellar asteroid Oumuamua for signs of alien technology through radio signals (later studies conclude it a piece of sliced off planet) More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 and 78 1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games 2012 - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute 2012 - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12 2015 - 81st Heisman Trophy Award: Derrick Henry, Alabama (RB) 2018 - US Senate passes non-binding "war powers resolution" against long-term ally Saudi Arabia More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1770 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, English organist and composer, born in Gloucester, England (d. 1836) 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1856) 1835 - Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal bishop and composer (Little Town of Bethlehem), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1893) 1897 - Drew Pearson, American newscaster (Drew Pearson), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 1969) 1977 - Sascha Kindred, British Paralympic swimmer, born in Münster, Germany 1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist (All That Remains), born in Peterborough, New Hampshire More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1126 - Henry IX, the Black, Duke of Bavaria (1120-26), dies 1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756) 1919 - Amintore Galli, Italian composer, dies at 74 1958 - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed 1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921) 1993 - Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 More Famous Deaths »