!12       December dates in history, version 90 M
!12       Copyright 1990, Robert Braunwart
B12011960 Carol Alt [Mrs. Ron Greshner],  Queens, NY, model
B12011958 Charlene Tilton, San Diego, actress (Dallas)
B12011955 Uwe Benter, West Germany, coxswain (Olympic gold 1972)
B12011951 Treat Williams, actor (Flashpoint)
B12011946 Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ireland, singer (Alone Again Naturally)
B12011946 Ho-Jun Li, North Korea, rifle marksman (Olympic gold 1972)
B12011945 John Densmore, LA, drummer (Doors - Light My Fire)
B12011945 Bette Midler, NJ, singer, actress (Do You Want to Dance?, The Rose)
B12011943 Orton Enderlein, German Federal Republic, luger (Olympic gold 1964)
B12011942 Peter Kalikow, Queens, NYC, real estate developer, publisher (NY Post)
B12011940 Richard Pryor, comedian, actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
B12011939 Dianne Lennon, Los Angeles, singer (Lennon Sisters)
B12011939 Lee Trevino,  Horizon City, Texas, pro golfer (US Open 1968, 1971)
B12011938 Sandy Nelson,  Santa Monica, rock drummer (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
B12011937 Gordon Crosse,  Bury, Lancashire, England, composer (Grace of Todd)
B12011935 Woody Allen, Brooklyn, actor, director (Play It Again Sam, Zelig)
B12011935 Roger Christian, US ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1960)
B12011935 Lou Rawls, singer (Natural Man, Dean Martin's Golddiggers)
B12011934 Billy Paul, Philadelphia, singer (Me & Mrs. Jones)
B12011929 Dick Shawn, Buffalo, NY, actor (The Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
B12011929 David Doyle, actor (Charlie's Angels, Pursuit of Happiness)
B12011926 Allyn Ann McLerie, actress (Death Scream, Jeremiah Johnson)
B12011926 Keith Michell, Australia, actor (Prudence & the Pill)
B12011923 Stansfield Turner,  Chicago, CIA director (1977-81)
B12011917 Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)
B12011914 Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)
B12011913 Mary Martin, Texas, singer, actress (Peter Pan); Larry Hagman's mom
B12011912 Harry (Cookie) Lavagetto,  Cal., Bkln Dodger hero of 1945 world series
B12011912 Minoru Yamasaki, US architect (World Trade Center, NYC)
B12011911 Franz (Bimbo) Binder, who scored 1,006 soccer goals, Austria & Germany
B12011911 Walter Alston, baseball manager (Dodgers)
B12011904 Tony Boyle, United Mine Workers president (1963-72), embezzler
B12011902 Morris (Red) Badgro, Wash., NFL HOF end (Yankees, Giants, Dodgers)
B12011899 Robert Welch, candy manufacturer, founder of the John Birch Society
B12011898 Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan - Capt. Hook)
B12011893 Ernst Toller,  German revolutionary, dramatist
B12011886 Rex Stout, Ind., mystery writer, creator of Nero Wolfe
B12011884 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter, printmaker, Die Brcke member
B12011875 Samuel E.K. Mqhayi, South Africa, writer, the Xhosa Poet Laureate
B12011835 Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins, who led Hood's Division at Chickamauga
B12021962 Tracy Austin, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 1981)
B12021960 Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard - Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
B12021956 Steven Bauer, Havana, Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
B12021953 Meg Griffin, DJ, VJ (WNEW, WPLJ, WKRK, V-1)
B12021953 Randy Rhino, CFL defensive back (Montr‚al Alouettes)
B12021952 1st human birth televised to public, Denver, Colo.
B12021951 Dieter Brock, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
B12021944 Cathy Lee Crosby, Los Angeles, actress (That's Incredible)
B12021941 Paul C.W. Chu, China, physicist, superconductivity researcher
B12021940 Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
B12021931 Nigel Calder,  London, science writer (Time-Scale)                   <
B12021931 Edwin Meese III, Reagan's attorney general (1985-88), prude
B12021929 Harvey Phillips,  Aurora, Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet)
B12021929 Lowell North,  Springfield, Mass., yachtsman (Olympic gold 1968)
B12021926 Jean Troisgros, French nouvelle cuisine chef, restaurateur
B12021925 Julie Harris, Michigan, actress (Reflections in a Golden Eye)
B12021924 Gen. Alexander Haig, Jr. (R), Reagan's secretary of state (1981-82)
B12021923 Maria Callas, NYC, soprano (Mademoiselle Award 1953)
B12021917 Ezra Stone, US actor, producer (Henry Aldrich)
B12021915 Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
B12021914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, Sting, My Favorite Martian)
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developer of color TV, LP records
B12021906 John Bentley, England, actor (Hammer the Tuff)
B12021903 James Sullivan,  Cardiff, Wales, who kicked 2,995 rugby goals
B12021899 Brian Timmis,  Winnipeg, Canadian football star (Regina, Hamilton)
B12021897 Rewi Alley, NZ writer (Americans in China)
B12021891 Otto Dix,  German Expressionist painter, engraver
B12021885 N¡kos Kazantazak¡s,  Crete, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
B12021885 George R. Minot,  Boston, physician - worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
B12021882 David Masson,  Aberdeen, Scotland, critic, historian, biographer
B12021866 Henry Thacker Burleigh,  Erie, Penn., black composer
B12021859 Georges Seurat, French Pointillist painter (Island of La Grande Jatte)
B12021846 Ren‚ Waldeck-Rousseau, premier of France (1899-1902)
B12021840 Namik Kemal, Turkish poet, playwright (Fatherland; or, Silistria)
B12031981 Brian Bonsall, actor (All in the Family)
B12031965 Katarina Witt,  Staaken, GDR, figure skater (Olympic gold 1984, 1988)
B12031960 Mike Ramsey, US ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1980)
B12031959 Kathy Jordan, Penn., tennis player (US Open doubles 1981)
B12031953 Franz Klammer, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic gold 1976)
B12031951 Mike Stock, rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman)
B12031948 Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal musician (Suicide); ate a bat
B12031945 Laura Dean,  Staten Island, composer, choreographer (Drumming)
B12031940 John Cale, rock musician (Velvet Underground)
B12031938 Jos‚ Serebrier,  Montevideo, Uru., conductor, composter (Star Wagon)
B12031934 Viktor V. Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
B12031934 Nicolas Coster, London, actor (Santa Barbara, Electric Horseman)
B12031931 Jaye P. Morgan, actress, game show panelist (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker (Alphaville, Hail Mary)
B12031930 Phyllis Curtin, West Virginia, soprano (NYC Opera)
B12031928 Andy Williams, singer (Moon River)
B12031927 Ferlin Husky, country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
B12031925 James E. Olson, chairman & CEO of AT & T (1986-88)
B12031924 John Backus, Philadelphia, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
B12031923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
B12031914 Irving Fine,  Boston, composer (Toccata)
B12031911 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to Be in Pictures)
B12031911 Nino Rota,  Milano, Italy, composer (Torquemada)
B12031908 Halsey Stevens,  Scott, NY, composer (Triskelion)
B12031900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist; worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938)
B12031897 William Gropper, editorial cartoonist (NY Trib, Daily Worker), painter
B12031895 Anna Freud,  Sigmund's daughter
B12031883 Anton [Friedrich Wilhelm] von Webern,  Vienna, 12-tone composer
B12031857 Carl Koller,  Bohemia, eye surgeon, 1st to use cocaine anesthesia
B12031857 Joseph Conrad, Poland, English novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
B12031842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, US chemist, 1st pres. of American Home Ass'n
B12031838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
B12031838 Cleveland Abbe, US meteorologist, father of the Weather Bureau
B12031812 Hendrik Conscience,  Antwerp, Romantic Flemish novelist
B12031795 Sir Rowland Hill, who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp in 1840
B12031755 Gilbert Stuart, US portrait painter - painted Washington
B12031741 Ren‚e-P‚lagie de Montreuil, Mme. de Sade
B12031729 Padre Antonio Soler,  Olot, Spain, composer (Fandango)
B12031684 Ludvig, Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature
B12031368 Charles VI (the Well-Beloved), king of France (1380-1422)
B12041956 Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets)
B12041950 Pamela Stephenson,  England, comedienne (SNL 1984-85)
B12041949 Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds)
B12041948 Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want to Go Home)
B12041944 Dennis Wilson, Calif., drummer, singer (Beach Boys - My Room)
B12041944 Gerry Organ, CFL place kicker, punter (Ottawa Rough Riders)
B12041942 Chris Hillman,  rock bass player (The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn)
B12041940 Freddy Cannon, rocker (Palisades Park)
B12041938 Stewart Brand,  Rockford, Ill., founder of "Whole Earth Catalog"
B12041937 Max Baer, Jr., actor, producer (Beverly Hillbillies)
B12041934 Victor French, actor (Highway to Heaven)
B12041934 Wink Martindale, TV game show host (Tic-Tac-Dough)
B12041933 Horst Buchholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara)
B12041932 Roh Tae Woo, 1st democratically elected pres. of South Korea (1988-  )
B12041930 Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL rookie of the year 1953)
B12041930 Ronnie Corbett, English comedian (Two Ronnies)
B12041924 John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award 1964)
B12041922 Deanna Durbin, actress, singer (100 Men & a Girl)
B12041912 Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, US WW II air ace (28 Japanese kills)
B12041910 Alex North,  Chester, Penn., composer (Viva Zapata)
B12041908 A.D. Hershey, US biologist - worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
B12041892 Francisco Franco, general, dictator of Spain (1936-85)
B12041888 Alexander I,  Montenegro, 2nd king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
B12041875 Rainer Maria Rilke,  Prague, German poet (Duino Elegies)
B12041865 Edith Louisa Cavell,  English nurse (WW I)
B12041861 Lillian Russell, US singer, actress (The Great Mogul)
B12041842 Crazy Horse,  Oglala Sioux Indian chief, warrior (approximate date)
B12041835 Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh)
B12041822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist, founder of Anti-Vivisection Society
B12041803 Augustus Zerega diZerega,  Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Line)
B12041795 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist, historian
B12041585 John Cotton,  England, Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts Bay Colony
B12051963 Carrie Hamilton, actress, Carol Burnett's daughter (Fame)
B12051959 Nikki Gianulias, Calif., LPBT bowler (bowler of the year 1984)
B12051957 Phil Collen, rocker (Def Leppard - Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
B12051953 Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star - Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B12051951 Morgan Brittany, actress (Initiation of Sarah)
B12051949 Bruce E. Melnick, NYC, cmdr., USCG, astronaut
B12051947 Jim Plunkett, San Jose, Calif., NFL quarterback (New England, Oakland)
B12051947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
B12051947 Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins & Messina - Your Mamma Don't Dance)
B12051938 John J. Cale, Okla., rock singer, guitarist, composer (After Midnight)
B12051935 Calvin Trillin, author (New Yorker)
B12051934 Joan Didion, Sacramento, Calif., writer (Salvador)
B12051932 Little Richard [Penniman], rocker (Tooty Fruity, Lucille)
B12051927 Bhumibol Adulyadej, king of Thailand (National Day)
B12051914 Hans H. Kirst, East Prussia, novelist (The Night of the Generals)
B12051911 William George Devlin,  Scotland, stage actor
B12051905 Otto Preminger, movie director, producer (Laura, Exodus)
B12051903 Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, discoverer of pion (Nobel 1950)
B12051902 Emeric Pressburger,  Hungary, English screenwriter (The Red Shoes)
B12051902 Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (D/R-South Carolina)
B12051901 Milton H. Erickson,  US psychiatrist, hypnotherapist
B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, physicist, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney,  Chicago, father of Mickey Mouse
B12051897 Nunnally Johnson, Ga., screenwriter (Grapes of Wrath, 3 Faces of Eve)
B12051890 Fritz Lang, German movie director (Metropolis, M)
B12051868 Robert Tressell, novelist (Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) (bapt.)
B12051863 Paul Painlev‚,  French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician
B12051844 Heinrich Fritsch,  Germany, a founder of modern gynecology
B12051839 Gen. George Armstrong Custer, of Little Big Horn fame
B12051830 Christina Rossetti,  London, poet
B12051804 Cesare Cant—,  Italian popular historian, writer (Margheria Pisterla)
B12051782 Martin Van Buren (D), Kinderhook, NY, 8th US president (1837-41)
B12051443 Julius II, pope (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
B12061962 Ben Watt, rocker (Everything But the Girls - Sir Idlewood)
B12061956 Peter Buck, musician (R.E.M.)
B12061954 Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
B12061953 Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (General Hospital, Rituals)
B12061953 Wil Shriner, Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
B12061953 Thomas Hulce, Plymouth, Mich., actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
B12061948 Sen. Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma)
B12061945 James Naughton, actor (Trauma Center, Making the Grade)
B12061943 Mike Smith,  London, rocker, pianist (Dave Clark 5)
B12061942 Len Barry, Philadelphia, rocker (Bristol Stomp)
B12061941 John Nelson,  San Jos‚, Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
B12061940 Steve Alaimo,  Rochester, NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
B12061939 Tom s Svoboda,  Paris, Czech composer
B12061925 Andy Robustelli,  Conn., NFL HOF defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
B12061923 Andrew Wilson, English journalist, writer (Solar System Log)         <
B12061921 Otto Graham, AAFC, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
B12061920 Dave Brubeck,  Concord, Calif., jazz pianist (Take 5)
B12061918 Sir Denis Hamilton, editor of The Times, head of Reuters news service
B12061913 Eleanor Holm, NYC, 100-m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1932)
B12061908 Baby Face Nelson, bank robber
B12061906 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Dark Passage, Showboat, Bewitched - Endorra)
B12061903 Will Paynter, head of British National Union of Mineworkers (1959-68)
B12061900 Germ n Arciniegas,  Bogot , Colombia, historian, essayist, politician
B12061900 George E. Uhlenbeck,  Batavia, Java, codiscoverer of electron spin
B12061898 Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, economist (Nobel 1974)
B12061898 Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
B12061896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
B12061893 Lou Little,  Boston, football coach (Columbia)
B12061887 Lynn Fontanne,  London, Broadway actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, NJ, poet (Trees)
B12061883 Kahlil Gibran,  Lebanon, poet (The Prophet)
B12061870 William S. Hart, silent western actor (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweed)
B12061842 Felice Cavallotti, Italy's "Poet of Democracy," journalist, politician
B12061833 John Singleton Mosby, lawyer, Confederate cavalry officer
B12061822 John Eberhard, who built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
B12061732 Warren Hastings, Ireland, 1st British governor-general of India
B12061731 Sophie von La Roche, Ger., 1st woman novelist (Lady Sophia Sternheim)
B12061478 Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat, writer (Il cortegiano)
B12061421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
B12071963 Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star - Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B12071956 Larry Bird, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
B12071955 Priscilla Barnes, NJ, actress (3's Company, License to Kill, Seniors)
B12071949 Tom Waits,  Calif., rock musician, songwriter (Blue Valentine)
B12071948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
B12071948 Gary Morris, actor, singer (The Colbys)
B12071947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Cincinnati Reds)
B12071942 Harry Chapin,  NYC, rock vocalist, guitarist (Taxi, Cat's Cradle)
B12071937 Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi)
B12071932 Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice)
B12071928 Noam Chomsky, linguist, founder of transformational grammar
B12071924 M rio Soares (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983-  )
B12071923 Ted Knight, actor (Ted Baxter, anchorman, Too Close for Comfort)
B12071920 John Hawkesworth,  London, ITV, BBC producer (Upstairs Downstairs)
B12071915 Eli Wallach, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
B12071912 Rod Cameron, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede)
B12071912 Louis Prima, New Orleans, singer (That Old Black Magic)
B12071905 Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer, discoverer of moons of Uranus & Neptune
B12071888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres. of American Newspaper Guild
B12071888 Joyce Cary, writer (House of Children)
B12071887 Ernst Toch,  Vienna, composer (Melodie Lehre)
B12071879 Rudolf Friml, Prague, US operetta composer (Rose Marie, Vagabond King)
B12071878 Yosano Akiko, Japanese poet (Tangled Hair, Dream Flowers)
B12071873 Willa Cather, Va., author (One of Ours, My Antonia)
B12071847 James Deacon White, baseball player who jumped teams in 1876
B12071847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar, Jewish leader
B12071823 Leopold Kronecker,  Prussia, mathematician (theory of functions)
B12071810 Theodor Schwann,  German botanist
B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, creator of the wax museum
B12071709 Elizabeth, empress of Russia, to Peter the Great & Catherine I (OS)
B12071598 Gian Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor (St. Teresa in Ecstasy)
B12081961 Lloyd Dahling, Anchorage, "Galaxian" video game record holder, 186,770
B12081958 Billy Hufsey, actor (Fame - Christopher, Days of Our Lives)
B12081953 Kim Basinger,  Athens, GA, actress (9« Weeks, The Man Who Loved Women)
B12081953 Roy Firestone, sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments)
B12081952 Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance)
B12081949 Mary Gordon, Long Island, NY, novelist (Final Payments)
B12081947 Thomas R. Cech,  Chicago, biochemist (Nobel 1989)
B12081947 Gregg Allman, singer (Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach)
B12081946 John Rubinstein, actor (The Boys from Brazil)
B12081946 Aleksandr Gorshkov, USSR, world ice-dance champion
B12081946 Mary Woronov, Brooklyn, actress (Death Race 2000, Night of the Comet)
B12081943 Jim Morrison,  Melbourne, Florida, singer (Doors) - is he really dead?
B12081939 James Galway,  Belfast, Northern Ireland, flutist
B12081939 Jerry Butler, Miss., rocker (Never Give You Up)
B12081937 James MacArthur, actor (Hawaii 5-O) - "Book 'em Danno!"
B12081936 David Carradine,  Hollywood, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
B12081933 Flip Wilson, comedian, actor (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh)
B12081930 Maximilian Schell, actor, director (Odessa File, Julia)
B12081927 Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
B12081925 Jimmy Smith,  Penn., jazz/R & B organist, vocalist (Midnight Special)
B12081925 Sammy Davis, Jr.,  NY, singer, actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
B12081922 Lucian Freud,  Berlin, artist (Boy with a Rat)
B12081922 John B. (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
B12081921 Johnny Otis,  Calif., R & B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
B12081918 G‚rard Souzay,  Angers, France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro)
B12081914 Floyd Tillman, honky-tonk musician, songwriter
B12081906 Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
B12081900 Ralph Ingersoll, US journalist, publisher, "Life" magazine cofounder
B12081894 James Thurber,  Columbus, Ohio, writer, cartoonist (Men, Women & Dogs)
B12081894 Elzie C. Segar,  Chester, Ill., cartoonist, creator of "Popeye"
B12081886 Diego Rivera,  Mexican muralist
B12081865 Jean Sibelius,  Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
B12081861 Georges M‚liŠs, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
B12081861 William Crapo Durant, founder of General Motors Corp., speculator
B12081832 Bjírnstjerne Bjírnson,  Norwegian writer (Nobel 1903)
B12081765 Eli Whitney,  Westboro, Mass., inventor of the cotton gin
B12081730 Jan Ingenhousz,  Dutch physician, discoverer of photosynthesis
B12081626 Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
B12081542 Mary Queen of Scots
B1208 -65 Horace, Roman poet (Ars Poetica) (approximate date)
B12091969 Allison Smith, actress (Kate & Allie)
B12091957 Donny Osmond,  Utah, singer (Donny & Marie - Go Away Little Girl)
B12091957 Sylvia, country singer
B12091953 John Malkovich,  Christopher, Ill., actor, director (Killing Fields)
B12091953 World B. Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
B12091950 Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
B12091946 Michael Nouri, actor (Bay City Blues, Beacon Hill)
B12091943 Rick Danko,  Canada, rock bassist, singer (The Band - Stage Fright)
B12091942 Dick Butkus, NFL HOF linebacker (Chicago Bears), sportscaster
B12091942 Joe McGinniss,  Rye, NY, author (The Selling of the President 1968)
B12091941 Beau Bridges, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
B12091938 David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
B12091933 Ashleigh Brilliant,  London, epigrammatist (Pot Shots)
B12091929 Robert J.L. Hawke (Labor), South Australia, PM of Australia (1983-  )
B12091929 John Cassavetes, NYC, actor, director (Rosemary's Baby, Husbands)
B12091928 Dick Van Patten, actor (8 Is Enough)
B12091926 Luis Miguel Domingu¡n, Spanish matador
B12091925 Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
B12091922 Redd Foxx, actor, comedian (Sanford & Son)
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
B12091917 James Rainwater, Idaho, nuclear physicist (Nobel 1975)
B12091915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,  Jarotschin, Germany, soprano
B12091912 Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill (D-Mass.), speaker of the House
B12091911 Lee J. Cobb, actor (The Virginian, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
B12091911 Broderick Crawford, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., actor (Ghost Story)
B12091906 Grace Murray Hopper, NYC, inventor of the computer compiler
B12091905 Dalton Trumbo, writer, blacklisted director (Johnny Got His Gun)
B12091905 Innokenty Gerasimov,  Kostroma, Russia, geographer, pedologist (OS)
B12091902 Margaret Hamilton, Ohio, actress (Oz - Wicked Witch of the West)
B12091898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
B12091897 Hermione Gingold, London, actress, comedienne (A Little Night Music)
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegetable king
B12091879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000 (12/21 NS)
B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris,  Ga., creator of the Uncle Remus stories
B12091842 Pyotr A. Kropotkin,  Moscow, revolutionary anarchist, geographer (OS)
B12091717 Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist
B12091608 John Milton,  London, poet, Puritan (Paradise Lost)
B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
B12091561 Edwin Sandys, one of the founders of Virginia colony
B12101963 Robin White, San Diego, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
B12101961 Nia Peeples, actress, disco singer (Fame, Trouble)
B12101958 Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
B12101952 Susan Dey, Illinois, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
B12101952 Johnny Rodriguez, country guitarist, singer
B12101947 Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnast (Olympic gold, silver, 2 bronze 1968)
B12101946 Gloria Loring, NYC, actress, singer (Days of Our Lives)
B12101941 Tommy Rettig,  Jackson Heights, NY, actor (Jeff's Collie)
B12101938 Yuri Temirkanov,  Nalchik, Russia, conductor (Kirov)
B12101935 Shuji Terayama, Japanese playwright (La Marie Vision, Knock)
B12101923 Harold Gould, actor (Rhoda, Big Bus)
B12101920 Dennis Morgan, actor (Affectionately Yours, Always Together)
B12101914 Dorothy Lamour, New Orleans (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth)
B12101913 Morton Gould, NY, unbelievably prolific composer (Verdun)
B12101911 Chet Huntley, NBC TV newscaster (Huntley-Brinkley Report)
B12101910 John Hammond, Sr., NYC, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
B12101910 Sy Oliver, Mich., jazz composer, arranger, trumpeter
B12101908 Olivier Messiaen,  Avignon, France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
B12101907 Rumer Godden, English novelist (Black Narcissus, House of Brede)
B12101904 Anton¡n Novotny, Stalinist president of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
B12101903 William Plomer, South African poet, novelist, librettist
B12101903 Una Merkel, actress (The Parent Trap, Abraham Lincoln)
B12101901 Karandash [Michail Rumyantsev], Soviet circus clown
B12101892 Eleanor Murdock Johnson, founder of "The Weekly Reader"
B12101891 Nelly Sachs, German poet (O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966)
B12101886 Victor McLaglen, England, actor (The Informer) (Academy Award 1935)
B12101870 Pierre Lou˜s, French novelist, poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, creator of Dewey Decimal System for libraries
B12101830 Emily Dickinson,  Amherst, Mass., poet
B12101824 George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith)
B12101822 C‚sar Franck,  LiŠge, Belgium, composer (R‚becca)
B12101813 Zachariah Chandler, US merchant, politician, a founder of GOP
B12101804 Karl CJ Jacobi,  Potsdam, mathematician (theory of elliptic functions)
B12101787 Thomas H. Gallaudet, Phila., educator of the deaf, philanthropist
B12101745 Thomas Holcroft, English novelist, dramatist
B12101538 Battista Guarini, Italian court poet, playwright (Il pastor fido)
B121119964Salman Rushdie's Birthday (Islamic calendar); Rajab 30, 1417 AH
B12111962 Kim Linehan, swimmer (1,500-m world record 1979)
B12111958 Nikki Sixx, rock bass player (M”tley Cre - Girls Girls Girls)
B12111955 Stu Jackson,  Reading, Penn., NY Knicks coach (1989-  )
B12111954 Jermaine Jackson, singer (Jackson 5)
B12111953 Bess Armstrong, actress (Jaws, High Road to China)
B12111952 Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
B12111950 Christine Onassis [Andreadis], NYC, Aristotle's daughter
B12111949 Teri Garr, actress, Letterman's foil (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein)
B12111948 Tony Gabriel, CFL tight end (Ottawa Rough Riders)
B12111947 Elizabeth Baur, California, actress (Lancer)
B12111946 Peter Dalla Riva, CFL tight end (Montr‚al Alouettes)
B12111945 Lynda Day-George, Tennessee, actress (Ants, Beyond Evil)
B12111944 Brenda Lee,  Atlanta, singer (I'm Sorry)
B12111943 Donna Mills, Chicago, actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
B12111942 Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1962)
B12111941 Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana)
B12111940 David Gates, rock musician (Bread - Baby I'm A-Want You)
B12111939 Tom Hayden, 60's activist, Mr. Jane Fonda, Calif. state assemblyman
B12111937 Anne Heywood,  England, actress (Brain, Doctor at Large)
B12111934 Ron Carey, actor (Barney Miller, Montefuscos, High Anxiety)
B12111932 Ald r Kov csi, Hungary, team pentathlete (Olympic gold 1952)
B12111931 Rita Moreno, Puerto Rico, actress (The King & I, West Side Story)
B12111931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, guru of the rich, reincarnation of Buddha
B12111930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fr. actor, director (And God Created Woman, Z)
B12111927 Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom skier (Olympic gold 1952)
B12111926 Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton,  Alabama, blues singer (Hound Dog)
B12111924 Marie Windsor [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, actress (Double Deal)
B12111923 Betsy Blair, actress (Marty)
B12111918 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970)
B12111916 Damaso Perez Prado,  Cuban musician, popularizer of mambo
B12111913 Carlo Ponti, producer (2 Women), husband of Sophia Loren
B12111911 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, novelist, playwright (Cairo Trilogy) (Nobel 88)
B12111905 Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa)
B12111882 Max Born,  Breslau, Germany, physicist (wave functions) (Nobel 1954)
B12111882 Fiorello La Guardia (R), mayor of NYC (1933-45)
B12111843 Robert Koch,  Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel 1905)
B12111803 Louis-Hector Berlioz,  La C“te-Saint-Andr‚, IsŠre, France, composer
B12111781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of the kaleidoscope
B12111475 Leo X (Giovanni de'Medici), pope during the Reformation (1513-21)
B12121970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Growing Pains - Mike, Teen Wolf II)
B12121964 Rockin' Jeff, rocker (The Pasadenas - Riding on a Train)
B12121962 Dave Ander, Anchorage, "Zaxxon" video game record holder - 367,550
B12121959 Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley - Some People)
B12121959 Sheila E[scovedo], disco singer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock)
B12121952 Cathy Rigby [McCoy], Calif., gymnast (Olympics 1968, 1972)
B12121951 Steven A. Hawley, Ph.D., Ottawa, Kans., astronaut (STS-41D, STS-61C)
B12121950 Billy Smith,  Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
B12121949 Paul Rodgers,  rock guitarist, singer (Free, Bad Company)
B12121947 Jeff Lynne,  rock singer, guitarist (Electric Light Orchestra)
B12121946 Emerson Fittipaldi, Sao Paolo, Brazil, champion race-car driver
B12121942 Mike Pinder,  rock singer, keyboardist (Moody Blues)
B12121940 Dionne Warwick, East Orange, NJ, singer, TV host (Solid Gold)
B12121938 Connie Francis,  Newark, NJ, singer, actress (Where the Boys Are)
B12121936 Iolanda Balas,  Romania, high jumper (Olympic goal 1960, 1964)
B12121932 Robert Pettit, basketball player (1959 NBA MVP)
B12121929 John Osborne, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther - Tony 1964)
B12121927 Robert Noyce, Iowa, inventor of the integrated circuit
B12121924 Edward Koch (D), NYC, mayor of NYC
B12121923 Bob Barker, game show host (The Price Is Right, Truth or Consequences)
B12121918 Joe Williams, jazz singer (Everyday I Have the Blues)
B12121917 Alan Schneider, Russia, US stage director (Waiting for Godot)
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, NJ, singer, actor (old blue eyes/chairman of the board)
B12121912 Henry Armstrong, who held 3 world boxing titles simultaneously (1938)
B12121903 Alexander B. Klots, US lepidopterist (Butterflies of North America)
B12121897 Lillian Smith,  Jasper, Fla., writer (Strange Fruit)
B12121893 Edward G. Robinson, Romania, actor (The 10 Commandments)
B12121883 Sir Edward Maufe,  British architect (St. Saviour's, St. Bede's)
B12121866 Alfred Werner,  Mulhouse, France, chemist (Nobel 1913)
B12121863 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter, printmaker (The Scream, Puberty)
B12121859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
B12121859 Edward Bradley, horse owner; 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners
B12121853 Wm. F. Hillebrand, Honolulu, geochemist, discoverer of helium on earth
B12121848 William Vanderbilt, yachtsman, donor of Vanderbilt Cup
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert,  Rouen, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
B12121805 Henry Wells, founder of American Express Co. & Wells Fargo & Co.
B12121777 Alexander I, St. Petersburg, tsar of Russia (1801-25) (12/23 NS)
B12121745 John Jay, US diplomat, governor of New York
B12121731 Erasmus Darwin, English scientist, poet
B12121724 Samuel, Viscount Hood, English admiral
B12131959 John Whitaker,  Van Nuys, CA, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Express)
B12131954 John Anderson, country guitarist, singer
B12131953 Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side-horse gymnast (Olympic gold 1976, 1980)
B12131950 Heather Norris,  Pasadena, Calif., actress
B12131948 Jeff (Skunk) Baxter, guitarist (Doobies, Steely Dan - Deacon Blues)
B12131948 Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever)
B12131948 Kathy Garver, Calif., actress (Family Affair)
B12131943 Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player (Red Sox)
B12131941 John Davidson, TV host, singer (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
B12131932 Tatsuya Nakadai, Tokyo, actor (Conflagration, Kagemusha)
B12131930 Genevieve Page, actress (The Day & the Hour)
B12131930 Robert Prosky, actor (Christine, Hill St. Blues)
B12131929 Christopher Plummer, actor (Doll's House, Sound of Music, Hanover St.)
B12131926 Carl Erskine, Brooklyn Dodger
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins)
B12131924 Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleveland Indians)
B12131922 Rex Allen,  Wilcox, Ariz., cowboy actor (I Dream of Jeannie)
B12131920 George P. Schultz, Reagan's secretary of state (1982-89)
B12131920 Mark Stevens,  Cleveland, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
B12131920 Don Taylor,  Freeport, Penn., actor (Father's Little Dividend)
B12131915 John Vorster, right-wing Nationalist PM of South Africa (1966-78)
B12131915 Ross Macdonald, US detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
B12131913 Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
B12131911 Trygve Haavelmo,  Norwegian economist (Nobel 1989)
B12131910 Lillian Roth, singer, actress (Animal Crackers)
B12131904 Glen Byam Shaw,  London, stage director (Macbeth, Hamlet, Faust)
B12131903 Carlos Montoya,  Madrid, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
B12131899 Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of the Literary Guild
B12131890 Marc Connelly, Penn., playwright, journalist (Green Pastures)
B12131871 Russell W. Porter, Vermont, Alaskan explorer
B12131867 Olaf K. Birkeland,  Oslo, physicist, discoverer of the solar wind
B12131835 Phillips Brooks, Epis. bishop, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
B12131818 Mary Todd Lincoln, first lady
B12131810 Clark Mills, US sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
B12131797 Heinrich Heine,  Dsseldorf, Germany, poet, lyricist (Book of Songs)
B12131780 Johann Wolfgang D”bereiner, German chemist, friend of Goethe
B12131553 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon king of France (1589-1610)
B12131533 Erik XIV, Stockholm, king of Sweden (1560-68)
B12131520 Sixtus V, Roman Catholic pope (1585-90)
B12141963 Sergey Bubka,  Ukraine, world champion pole vaulter
B12141958 Mike Scott, rocker (Blues Inc., Waterboys - Rainbow Warrior)
B12141956 Hanni Wenzel,  of Liechtenstein, slalom skier (2 Olympic gold 1980)
B12141953 Vijay Amritraj, India, tennis player, actor (Octopussy)
B12141953 Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
B12141949 Cliff Williams, bass player (AC/DC - Highway to Hell)
B12141949 Bill Buckner,  Andover, Mass., 1st baseman (Boston, Kansas City)
B12141947 Christopher Parkening, LA, guitarist, transcriber of sacred music
B12141946 Joyce Wilson, Detroit, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
B12141946 Jane Birkin, actress (Mr. Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
B12141946 Patty Duke [Astin], Bkln., actress (Miracle Worker, Patty Duke Show)
B12141946 Stan Smith, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1972)
B12141942 Rex Thompson, NYC, actor (Young Bess, The King & I, Her 12 Men)
B12141939 Ernest Davis, 1st black to win football's Heisman Trophy (1961)
B12141938 Leonardo Boff,  Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian
B12141938 Janette Scott, actress (The Day of the Triffids)
B12141936 Robert Allan Ridley Parker, Ph.D., NYC, astronaut (STS-9)
B12141935 Lee Remick, Boston, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Long Hot Summer)
B12141932 Abbe Lane, Bkln., a.k.a. Mrs. Xavier Cugat, singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
B12141932 Charlie Rich,  Colt, Arkansas, singer (Behind Closed Doors)
B12141932 George Furth, actor, director (Good Guys, Tammy)
B12141924 Siiri Rantanen, Finland, cross-country skier (Olympic gold 1956)
B12141922 Charlie Trippi,  Pittston, Penn., NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
B12141919 Shirley Jackson, US writer (The Road Through the Wall)
B12141918 Jack Cole, New Castle, Penn., cartoonist (Plastic Man)
B12141917 Elyse Knox,  Hartford, Conn., actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
B12141917 Dan Dailey, dancer, actor (The Gov. & JJ, It's Always Fair Weather)
B12141914 Rosalyn Tureck,  Chicago, pianist (Bach & Rock)
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, actor, comedian (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
B12141911 Spike Jones, Long Beach, Calif., bandleader
B12141909 Edward L. Tatum, US molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
B12141901 Paul I, king of the Hellenes (1947-64)
B12141897 Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine)
B12141896 James H. Doolittle, air force general
B12141895 George VI, king of England (1936-52)
B12141883 Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido
B12141829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
B12141640 Aphra Behn, 1st professional Englishwoman writer (baptized)
B12141546 Tycho Brahe,  Knudstrup, Denmark, astronomer with a silver nose
B12141503 Nostradamus,  Saint-R‚my, France, astrologer, seer, physician
B12151974 Christie Clark, actress (Days of Our Lives)
B12151965 Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl, Ruthless People)
B12151959 Heidi Bohay, actress (Hotel - Megan)
B12151954 Mike Ratledge, author of 2DAY & NEWDAY/PC, sysop of East Bay X-Change
B12151949 Don Johnson, actor (Harrad Experiment, A Boy & His Dog, Miami Vice)
B12151948 David Gwillim,  Plymouth, England, actor
B12151946 Carmine Appice, rock musician (Vanilla Fudge, BBA)
B12151944 Stan Bahnsen, NY Yankee pitcher (1968 AL rookie of the year)
B12151943 Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayaker (Olympic gold 1968)
B12151942 Dave Clark,  UK, rock drummer, singer (Dave Clark 5 - Glad All Over)
B12151940 Nick Buoniconti, football player, sportscaster
B12151933 Tim Conway, comedian, actor (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
B12151933 Jesse Belvin, Arkansas, vocalist (Mr. Easy)
B12151931 Evald Schorm, Prague, Czechoslovakia, director (Courage for Every Day)
B12151928 Hundertwasser [Friedrich Stowasser], Wien, Austria, painter
B12151923 Freeman Dyson,  England, physicist, writer (Disturbing the Universe)
B12151922 Alan Freed,  Pa., DJ; accepted payola, introduced term "rock 'n' roll"
B12151919 Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic gold 1948)
B12151918 Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel], actor (Broken Arrow, Away All Boats)
B12151916 Maurice Wilkins, British biophysicist who worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
B12151913 Muriel Rukeyser, NYC, poet
B12151906 Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
B12151904 Sergey Yutkevich, St. Petersburg, Russia, director (Light over Russia)
B12151904 Kermit Bloomgarden, Bkln., producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
B12151902 Mary Skeaping,  Essex, England, ballet dancer, producer
B12151896 Carl F. Cori,  Praha, Czechoslovakia, US biochemist (Nobel 1947)
B12151892 J. Paul Getty,  Minneapolis, oil man, business tycoon
B12151888 Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)
B12151863 Arthur D. Little, US chemist who patented rayon
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, coinventor of 1st auto built & operated in US
B12151860 Niels R. Finsen,  Faeroe Is., physician, phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
B12151859 Ludwik L. Zamenhof, Russian Poland, inventor of Esperanto
B12151852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
B12151848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorator of the dome of Library of Congress
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, builder of a tower in Paris
B12151802 J nos Bolyai,  Hungary, a founder of non-Euclidean geometry
B12151793 Henry Charles Carey,  US economist
B12151787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor, Shakespearean critic
B12151634 Thomas Kingo, Danish clergyman, Baroque poet (Spiritual Chorus)
B1215  37 Nero, 5th Roman emperor (54-68); did not fiddle while Rome burned
B12161962 Maruschka Detmers,  Schoonebeek, Neth., actress (Devil in the Flesh)
B12161962 William Perry (The Refrigerator), Chicago Bear
B12161959 Orlando Woolridge, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers)
B12161952 Elayne Boosler, actress (Night Court)
B12161949 Billy Gibbons, rock musician (Z.Z. Top)
B12161947 Vincent Matthews, US 400-m dasher (Olympic gold 1972)
B12161947 Ben Cross, actor (Chariots of Fire)
B12161946 Benny Andersson,  Stockholm, singer (Abba - Money! Money! Money!)
B12161945 Tony Hicks,  rock guitarist, singer (The Hollies)
B12161943 Steven Bochco, producer (Hill St. Blues, LA Law)
B12161941 Leslie Stahl, CBS News correspondent
B12161939 Liv Ullman,  Tokyo, Norwegian actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
B12161932 Rodion Shchedrin,  Moscow, composer (Humpback Horse)
B12161928 Philip K. Dick, sci-fi writer (The Variable Man, Deus Irae)
B12161926 James McCracken,  Gary, Ind., dramatic tenor (La Boh‚me - Rodolfo)
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi author (Childhood's End, 2001, 2010, 2061)
B12161908 Remedios Varo, Spanish painter
B12161907 Jacques BollardiŠre, French resistance leader, army officer
B12161901 Margaret Mead,  Philadelphia, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
B12161900 V[ictor] S. Pritchett, English literary critic, author (Myth Makers)
B12161899 Sir No‰l Coward, English playwright (In Which We Serve - Oscar 1942)
B12161893 Vladimir Golschmann, Paris, conductor with immortal downbeat
B12161882 Zolt n Kod ly,  Kecskem‚t, Hungary, composer (Psalmus Hungaricus)
B12161882 Sir John Berry Hobbs,  England, 1st cricket player knighted (1953)
B12161863 George Santayana,  Madrid, philosopher, poet, humanist (Last Puritan)
B12161863 Ralph Adams Cram, US Gothic architect (Cathedral of St. Joan, NYC)
B12161857 Edward E. Barnard, Tenn., astronomer, discoverer of Jupiter's 5th moon
B12161826 Giovanni Battista Donati,  Pisa, Italy, astronomer
B12161776 Johann Wilhelm Ritter,  Silesia, physicist who discovered UV spectrum
B12161775 Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
B12161742 Prince Gebhard Blcher von Wahlstatt, Prussian general
B12161685 Charles Cressent, French R‚gence cabinetmaker
B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
B12171974 Vonni Ribisi, actor (My 2 Dads - Cory)
B12171970 Benedictine,  a St. Bernard; became heaviest known dog (137 kg)
B12171958 Mike Mills, musician (R.E.M.)
B12171944 Ference Bene, Hung., scorer of Olympic-rec. 12 soccer goals (gold '64)
B12171942 Paul Butterfield,  Chic., blues singer, harmonica player (Better Days)
B12171939 Eddie Kendricks,  Alabama, rock singer (Temptations - My Girl)
B12171939 James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
B12171938 Peter Snell, NZ, 800-m/1,500-m runner (Olympic gold 1960, 1964)
B12171936 Tommy Steele, singer, actor (Half a Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow)
B12171936 Roland Sheldon, NY Yankee pitcher
B12171930 Robert Guccione, magazine publisher (Penthouse)
B12171930 Julia Meade, actress, TV host (Spotlight Playhouse)
B12171929 William Safire, political columnist, Nixon's speech writer
B12171926 Allan V. Cox,  Calif., geophysicist (A Geologic Time Scale)          <
B12171926 Patrice Wymore, actress (The Big Tree)
B12171919 Ezekiel Mphahlele, South African novelist, essayist, teacher
B12171917 Kenneth Onwuka Dike, Nigerian historian, educator
B12171908 Willard F. Libby, inventor of carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960)
B12171908 Sylvia Ashton-Warner, NZ teacher, novelist (Spinster)
B12171904 Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher, painter (Sailors & Floozies)
B12171904 Rev. Bernard Lonergan,  Qu‚bec, Jesuit theologian, Thomist philosopher
B12171903 Erskine Caldwell, Georgia, novelist (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston, Boston Pops conductor
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie King (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
B12171873 Ford Madox Ford,  Surrey, England, novelist, editor (The Good Soldier)
B12171853 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor, theater manager
B12171830 Jules Goncourt, French novelist (Germinie)
B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier,  Haverhill, Mass., poet (Snow-bound)
B12171797 Joseph Henry,  NY, physicist, inventor, pioneer of electromagnetism
B12171787 Jan Purkinje,  Bohemia, pioneer experimental physiologist
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discoverer of several chemical elements
B12171770 Ludwig van Beethoven,  Bonn, Germany, composer (Ode to Joy)
B12171632 Anthony … Wood,  Oxford, antiquarian, writer
B12181966 Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Lost Boys, Stand by Me, Young Guns)
B12181951 Joe Barnes, CFL quarterback (Montr‚al Alouettes, Saskatchewan)
B12181950 Leonard Maltin, movie reviewer (Entertainment Tonight)
B12181949 Joni Flynn,  Assam, India, actress (Octopussy)
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, Cincinnati, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
B12181946 Hubie Green, Birmingham, Ala., PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
B12181945 Carolyn Wood, US 4 x 100-m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1960)
B12181943 Keith Richard,  Rolling Stone guitarist, singer
B12181939 Harold E. Varmus,  Oceanside, NY, medical researcher (Nobel 1989)
B12181934 Boris V. Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
B12181932 Roger Smith, Calif., actor (Never Steal Anything Small)
B12181930 Theodore C. Freeman, Penn., astronaut
B12181927 Ramsey Clark, US attorney general (1967-69)
B12181926 Peggy Cummins,  North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
B12181919 Anita O'Day,  Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton)
B12181917 Ossie Davis, actor, playwright (Hot Stuff, A Man Called Adam)
B12181917 Lynn Bari, actress (Earthbound)
B12181916 Betty Grable, St. Louis, actress (Gay Divorcee) with great gams
B12181915 Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencer (Olympic gold, silver 1948, 1952)
B12181913 Ray Meyer, basketball coach (DePaul University)
B12181913 Willy Brandt (SD), chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel 1971)
B12181911 Jules Dassin, director (Circle of 2, Never on Sunday)
B12181910 Abe Burrows, NYC, Broadway impresario (Guys & Dolls, Can-Can)
B12181909 Mona Barrie, actress (Dawn on the Great Divide)
B12181890 Edwin H. Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer, inventor of FM
B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
B12181886 Ty Cobb, who played in 3,000 games, batted .367, stole 892 bases
B12181879 Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
B12181870 Saki [H.H. Munro],  Burma, English short-story writer, humorist
B12181860 Edward A. MacDowell, NYC, composer (Indian Suite)
B12181856 Sir Joseph J. Thomson, Engl., discoverer of the electron (Nobel 1906)
B12181803 Gov. William Allen (Ohio)
B12181779 Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist, "the greatest clown in history"
B12181707 Charles Wesley, cofounder of the Methodist movement
B12181610 Charles Du Fresne, sieur Du Cange, French scholar, philologist
B12191972 Alyssa Jane Milano, actress (Who's the Boss? - Samantha)
B12191966 Robert MacNaughton, NYC, actor (ET)
B12191963 Jennifer Beals, Chicago, actress, dancer (Flashdance, The Bride)
B12191957 Kevin McHale, NBA forward, center (Boston Celtics)
B12191955 Lonnie Shelton, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavs)
B12191947 Janie Fricke, country-western singer
B12191946 Robert Urich, actor (Tabitha, Starman, Vega$, Spencer for Hire)
B12191945 Elaine Joyce, actress (The Dating Game, City of Angels, Mr. Merlin)
B12191944 Tim Reid, actor, comedian (WKRP - Venus, Frank's Place)
B12191944 Alvin Lee,  rock guitarist, singer (Ten Years After)
B12191941 Maurice White, singer, drummer, sax player (Earth Wind & Fire)
B12191940 Phil Ochs, El Paso, TX, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War Is Over)
B12191939 Cicely Tyson, NYC, actress (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
B12191934 Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger slugger (AL batting champ 1955)
B12191928 Galt MacDermot, Canadian composer (Letting Down My Hair)
B12191926 Bobby Layne, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback (Detroit Lions)
B12191924 Douglas Harvey,  Montr‚al, NHL Canadien defenseman, HOF member
B12191924 Edmund Purdom,  England, actor (Assisi Underground, Pieces)
B12191920 Our Lady of the Flowers [Adrien Baillon], Paris, in Genet's novel
B12191920 David Susskind, TV producer, host (The David Susskind Show)
B12191915 Edith Piaf, Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)
B12191910 Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright (The Blacks)
B12191906 Leonid I. Brezhnev, Ukraine, Soviet leader (1964-82)
B12191906 H. Allen Smith, author (Low Man on the Totem Pole)
B12191902 Sir Ralph Richardson, actor (David Copperfield, Dr. Zhivago)
B12191901 Oliver Lafarge, novelist (Laughing Boy)
B12191899 Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., Georgia, clergyman, civil rights leader
B12191896 Enrico Rastelli,  Samara, Russia, world champion juggler
B12191894 Ford Frick, baseball commissioner
B12191888 Fritz Reiner,  Budapest, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony 1938-48)
B12191865 Minnie Maddern Fiske, US stage actress (Hedda Gabler)
B12191852 Albert Michelson, who established c as universal constant (Nobel 1907)
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, US industrialist who worked for Carnegie
B12191821 Mary Ashton Livermore, US reformer, women's suffrage leader
B12191790 Sir William Parry, British arctic explorer
B12191742 Karl Wilhelm Scheele,  German chemist
B12191714 John Winthrop,  Boston, 1st American astronomer
B12191683 Philip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
B12191036 Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet, essayist, painter, official
B12201963 Pam Casale,  Camden, NJ, tennis player (Marco Island finals 1985)
B12201956 Blanche Baker, NY, actress; Carroll B.'s daughter (French Postcard)
B12201952 Jenny Agutter, London, actress (Logan's Run, Amy)
B12201950 Tom Ferguson, world rodeo champion
B12201947 Peter Criss,  Brooklyn, rock drummer (Kiss - Beth)
B12201946 Uri Geller,  Tel Aviv, key-bending magician
B12201944 Bobby Colomby, rock drummer, singer (Blood Sweat & Tears)
B12201942 Bob Hayes, Florida, Olympic sprinter (gold 1964)
B12201938 John Harbison,  Orange, NJ, composer (Full Moon in March)
B12201928 Jack Christiansen,  Kansas, NFL HOF defensive back (Detroit Lions)
B12201926 Sir Geoffrey Howe (C), Glamorgan, Wales, chancellor of the Exchequer
B12201925 Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohammad, PM of Malaysia (1981-  )
B12201924 Errol John,  Trinidad, actor, playwright (Moon on a Rainbow Shawl)
B12201922 George Roy Hill, director (A Little Romance, Little Drummer Girl)
B12201922 Charita Bauer, actress (The Aldrich Family, The Guiding Light)
B12201918 W. Eugene Smith, Kansas, photojournalist (The Walk to Paradise Garden)
B12201918 Audrey Totter,  Joliet, Ill., actress (The Carpetbaggers, Set-Up)
B12201911 Hortense Calisher, NYC, novelist (Extreme Magic, The New Yorkers)
B12201904 Irene Dunne, Louisville, actress (I Remember Mama, My Favorite Wife)
B12201902 Max Lerner, columnist (NY Post)
B12201901 Robert Van de Graaff,  Alabama, physicist
B12201900 Gabby Harnett, baseball player (NL MVP 1935)
B12201895 Susanne Langer, US philosopher, educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
B12201894 Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
B12201886 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman,  Calif., tennis player (US Open 1909-11)
B12201881 Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
B12201875 Theodore Francis Powys, English novelist (Black Bryony)
B12201868 Harvey S. Firestone, US industrialist, businessman
B12201867 William (Pudge) Heffelfinger,  Minneapolis, 1st pro football player
B12201841 Ferdinand-douard Buisson, French educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
B12201833 Dr. Samuel A. Mudd,  convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
B12201819 John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
B12201813 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, governor of Iowa, cabinet member
B12201805 Thomas Graham,  Glasgow, Scotland, father of colloid chemistry
B12201798 Bridie Murphy, Ireland, reincarnee
B12201738 Clodion,  Nancy, France, Rococo sculptor (Female Satyr)
B12201680 Nicolas Couperin, French Baroque composer
B12201579 John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
B12211968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, CA, actress (Head of the Class - Simone)
B12211960 Roger McDowall, NY Met pitcher
B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Ft. Lauderdale, tennis pro; "Miss Pokerface"
B12211953 Andras Schiff, Budapest, Hungary, pianist
B12211948 Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
B12211946 Christopher Keene,  Berkeley, Calif., conductor
B12211946 Carl Wilson,  rock singer, guitarist (Beach Boys - Barbie)
B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, Los Angeles, conductor
B12211940 Frank Zappa, rock musician (Mothers of Invention - Catholic Girls)
B12211940 Paul, a.k.a. Ray Hildebrand, Texas, singer (Hey Paula)
B12211938 Larry Bryggman,  Concord, Calif., actor (As the World Turns)
B12211937 Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute, China Syndrome, Workout)
B12211937 Claire Ren‚e Eliane Motte, French ballerina (Paris Op‚ra Ballet)
B12211935 Phil Donahue, TV host (The Phil Donahue Show)
B12211931 David Baker,  Indianapolis, composer (Reflections)
B12211928 Ed Nelson, actor (Capitol, Peyton Place, Along Came a Spider)
B12211926 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez,  Aguilares, Texas, actor (Rio Bravo)
B12211922 Paul Winchell, ventriloquist (invented artificial heart)
B12211921 Jean Gascon, Montr‚al, theater actor, director
B12211918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec.-gen. (1972-81), Austrian pres, Nazi officer
B12211918 Donald Regan, Reagan's treasury sec. (1981-85), White House staffer
B12211917 Heinrich B”ll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel 1972)
B12211917 Andr‚ Eglevsky,  Moscow, ballet dancer, choreographer (Limelight)
B12211911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, the "Negro Babe Ruth"; hit 800+ HRs
B12211909 George Ball,  Iowa, lawyer, undersecretary of state
B12211892 Dame Rebecca West, London, journalist, novelist, critic, feminist
B12211892 Walter Hagen,  Rochester, NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 1919)
B12211891 John W. McCormack (D), speaker of the House (1962-70)
B12211889 Sewall Wright, Mass., cofounder of population genetics
B12211874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
B12211872 Albert P. Terhune, US novelist (Lad a Dog)
B12211860 Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
B12211859 Gustave Kahn, France, poet; claimed to have invented vers libre
B12211836 Mily A. Balakirev,  Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (1/2/1837 NS)
B12211823 Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist
B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British PM (1868, 1874-80)
B12211795 Leopold von Ranke, German historian, father of modern historiography
B12211773 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist, discoverer of Brownian motion
B12221951 Jan Stephenson, NSW, golfer (1974 LPGA rookie of the year)
B12221949 Maurice & Robin Gibb, twin Bee Gees (I Started a Joke, Holiday)
B12221948 Steve Garvey, 1st baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
B12221948 Noel Edmonds, British TV personality (Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
B12221945 Diane Sawyer,  Glasgow, Ky., CBS news personality (60 Minutes)
B12221944 Steve Carlton,  Phillie pitcher (Cy Young 1972, 1977, 1980, 1982)
B12221936 Hector Elizondo, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
B12221922 James C. Wright, Jr. (D-Texas), speaker of the House (1987-89)
B12221918 Frank Hampson,  Manchester, England, cartoonist (Dan Dane, Eagle)
B12221917 Gene Rayburn, India, game show host (The Match Game)
B12221912 Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, first lady
B12221908 Giacomo Manz—,  Bergamo, Italy, sculptor (Francesca)
B12221903 H. Keffer Hartline,  US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
B12221903 Dr. Barbara Moore, who walked across US in 86 days in 1960
B12221901 Andr‚ Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor
B12221900 Arie Jan Haagen-Smit,  Neth., US biochemist, air pollution expert
B12221887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian number theorist
B12221885 Joseph Deems Taylor, NYC, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
B12221883 Edgard VarŠse, Paris, composer (Hyperprism, D‚serts)
B12221869 Edwin Arlington Robinson,  Maine, poet (Richard Corey)
B12221862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager (Phila. A's 1900-50), executive
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini,  Lucca, Italy, composer (La BohŠme, Tosca)
B12221856 Frank Kellogg, US secretary of state; tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
B12221815 Lucien Petipa,  Marseille, France, ballet choreographer
B12221807 Johan S.C. Welhaven, Bergen, Norway, poet, critic (The Dawn of Norway)
B12221765 Johann Friedrich Pfaff,  German mathematician (differential equations)
B12221727 William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B12221696 James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
B12221639 Jean Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
B12221400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of the Rose Garden)
B122319957Salman Rushdie's Birthday (Islamic calendar); Rajab 30, 1416 AH
B12231971 Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive)
B12231956 Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari)
B12231955 Dave Murray, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast)
B12231955 Trevor Kennerd, CFL place kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
B12231948 Jack Ham, NFL linebacker (Steelers)
B12231947 Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY)
B12231942 Jerry Koosman, NY Met pitcher
B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown, Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguiled)
B12231941 Tim Hardin,  Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire)
B12231940 Jorma Kaukonen, rock guitarist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
B12231937 Karol J. Bobko, NYC, colonel, USAF, astronaut (STS-6, 51D, 51J)
B12231936 Willie Wood, Washington, DC, NFL safety (Green Bay Packers)
B12231935 Paul Hornung (the Golden Boy), Green Bay Packer triple threat
B12231933 Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989-  )
B12231929 Dick Weber, pro bowler (16 300 games)
B12231926 Robert Bly,  Madison, Minn., poet
B12231925 Harry Guardino, actor (Any Which Way You Can, Hill St. Blues)
B12231924 Ruth Roman, Boston, actress (Baby, Dallas)
B12231923 Calder Willingham,  Atlanta, novelist (End as a Man)
B12231922 Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put, discus (Olympic gold 1948)
B12231921 Gerald S. O'Loughlin, actor (DA:  Murder 1, Desperate Characters)
B12231918 Jos‚ Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers)
B12231911 Niels Kai Jerne,  London, Danish immunologist (Nobel 1984)
B12231911 James Gregory, actor (My Favorite Martian, Al Capone)
B12231909 Barney Ross, NYC, welterweight boxing champ (1934, 1935-38)
B12231908 Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-Canadian portrait photographer (Life magazine)
B12231906 Ross Lee Finney,  Wells, Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered)
B12231896 Prince Giuseppe di Lampedusa,  Sicily, novelist (The Leopard)
B12231871 Frank Hinkey,  Tonawanda, NY, Yale All-America end
B12231871 Tokuda Shusei, Japanese novelist (Ashiato, Kabi)
B12231867 Madame C.J. Walker, La., 1st US black woman millionaire (hair care)
B12231860 Harriet Monroe,  Chicago, poet, editor of "Poetry" magazine (You & I)
B12231854 Victoriano Huerta, treacherous soldier, president of M‚xico (1913-14)
B12231812 Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
B12231810 Karl Lepsius, German Egyptologist, archaeologist
B12231805 Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon, Vt., founder of Mormonism
B12231804 Charles Sainte-Beuve,  Boulogne, critic, poet
B12231790 Jean-Fran‡ois Champollion, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics
B12231732 Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame
B12241957 Ian Burden, rocker (Human League - Only Human)
B12241946 Jan Akkerman, musician (Focus)
B12241945 Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], rocker (Motorhead - Built for Speed)
B12241944 Mike Curb, Georgia, singer (Mike Curb Generation - Burning Bridges)
B12241944 Erhard Keller, W Germany, 500-m speed skater (Olympic gold 1968, 1972)
B12241931 Jill Bennett,  Penang, Malaya, actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle)
B12241931 The Hatbox Baby [Sharon Eliot] found abandoned in Arizona desert
B12241930 Robert Joffrey, Seattle, choreographer (Joffrey Ballet)
B12241924 Lee Dorsey,  pop musician (Everythin' I Do Gonna Be Funky)
B12241922 Ava Gardner, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
B12241921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
B12241920 Dave Bartholomew, La., jazz artist, songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
B12241913 Ad Reinhardt, Buffalo, NY, painter of monochrome canvases
B12241907 I.F. Stone, US journalist; told it like it was (Columbia Award 1971)
B12241906 James Hadley Chase, English thriller writer (No Orchids)
B12241906 Franz Waxman,  K”nigshtte, Germany, composer of film music
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, aviation tycoon
B12241895 Noel Streatfield, English novelist (Ballet Shoes, Thursday's Child)
B12241894 Georges-Marie Guynemer,  Paris, WW I fighter pilot, 1st French ace
B12241881 Juan Ram¢n Jim‚nez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956)
B12241868 Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-1921)
B12241867 Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (The Broken Lute, Haluk's Notebook, Mist)
B12241822 Matthew Arnold,  Middlesex, England, poet (Dover Beach)
B12241818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discoverer of conservation of energy
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout
B12241798 Adam Mickiewicz, Polish national poet (Pan Tadeusz)
B12241754 George Crabbe, English poet, clergyman
B12241745 Benjamin Rush, American physician, patriot, humanitarian
B12241167 John, king of England (1199-1216)
B1224  -3 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th Roman emperor (68-69)
B12251958 Rickey Henderson,  Chicago, stolen base king (A's, Yankees)
B12251954 Robin Campbell, rocker (UB40 - Red Red Wine)
B12251954 Steve Wariner, country guitarist
B12251954 Annie Lennox, singer (Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain)
B12251949 Sissy Spacek,  Quitman, TX (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, Houston, singer, TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
B12251946 Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants)
B12251946 Jimmy Buffett, singer (Margaritaville)
B12251945 Kenny Stabler,  Foley, Ala., NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
B12251945 Gary Sandy, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati - Andy Travis)
B12251942 Fran‡oise Durr, France, tennis player (1976 US indoor doubles)
B12251931 Carlos Castaneda,  Sao Paulo, Brazil, writer
B12251927 Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959)
B12251924 Rod Serling, writer, TV host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
B12251923 Louis Lane,  Eagle Pass, Texas, conductor (Oere Orchestra 1968-73)
B12251918 Anwar as-Sadat, president of Egypt (1970-81) (Nobel 1978)
B12251918 Ahmed Ben Bella,  Algerian rebel leader, 1st PM (1962-63), 1st pres.
B12251914 William Martin, Federal Reserve banker
B12251913 Tony Martin, SF, singer (Tonight We Love)
B12251910 David Lichine,  Rostov-on-Don, Russia, ballet choreographer
B12251909 Mike Mazurki, actor, wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
B12251907 Cab Calloway,  Rochester, NY, bandleader
B12251906 Ernst A.F. Ruska, Germany, inventor of electron microscope (Nobel '86)
B12251906 Lord Grade, British TV mogul (ATV), movie producer (Boys from Brazil)
B12251906 Clark M. Clifford, US secretary of defense (1968-69)
B12251904 Gerhard Herzberg, Canadian physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel '71)
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor - here's looking at you, Kid
B12251889 Lila Bell Wallace, cofounder of "Reader's Digest"
B12251887 Conrad Hilton, hotel man
B12251886 Edward (Kid) Ory, La., jazz trombonist, composer (Muskrat Ramble)
B12251883 Maurice Utrillo,  Paris, painter (Port St. Martin)
B12251881 Joseph McCarthy, Yankee manager
B12251876 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
B12251871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus) (OS)
B12251865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
B12251855 James (Pud) Galvin, Mo., pitcher; shut out every opposing team in 1884
B12251850 Isabella Valancy Crawford,  Dublin, 1st important Canadian woman poet
B12251821 Clara Barton,  Oxford, Mass., nurse, founder of American Red Cross
B12251642 Sir Isaac Newton, Grantham, Engl.; discoverer of gravitation, calculus
B1225  -4 Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader (estimated date)
B12261954 Ullrich Diessner, East German rower (Olympic silver 1976)
B12261954 Ozzie Smith,  Mobile, Ala., baseball player (San Diego, St. Louis)
B12261952 Andr‚-Michel Schub,  Paris, pianist (Van Cliburn - 1981)
B12261948 Chris Chambliss, NY Yankee 1st baseman
B12261947 Carlton Fisk, Vermont, all-star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox)
B12261946 Bill (Spaceman) Lee,  Burbank, Calif., baseball pitcher (Montr‚al)
B12261944 Jane Lapotaire, actress (Spirit of the Dead)
B12261942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Ar‚valo, president of Guatemala (1986-  )
B12261942 Ernie & Earl Cate, Fayetteville, Ark., country singers
B12261940 Phil Spector, record producer (Wall of Sound)
B12261927 Alan King, comedian, actor (The Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)
B12261921 Steve Allen, comedian, TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show)
B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary; keep her away from your tapes
B12261914 Richard Widmark, actor (The Alamo, Judgment at Nuremberg)
B12261902 Elisha Cook, Jr., actor (The Maltese Falcon, Shane)
B12261894 Jean Toomer, Washington, DC, poet, novelist (Cane)
B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame; Chinese PM (1949-76)
B12261891 Henry Miller, NYC, novelist (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
B12261853 Wilhelm D”rpfeld, German archaeologist, excavator of palace at Tiryns
B12261837 Adm. George Dewey, US naval hero of Manila
B12261825 Ernst Hoppe-Seyler,  German physiological chemist (isolated heparin)
B12261792 Charles Babbage, inventor of the calculating machine
B12261778 Juan Lovera, Venezuelan artist
B12261751 Lord George Gordon,  English agitator
B12261738 Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B12261734 George Romney, English artist
B12261716 Thomas Gray,  London, poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
B12261716 Jean Fran‡ois de Saint-Lambert, French poet
B12261666 Gobind Singh, 10th & last guru of the Sikhs
B12261194 Frederick II Hohenstaufen,  Iesi, Italy, Holy Roman emperor (1215-50)
B12271952 Tovah Feldshuh, NYC, actress (Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky)
B12271948 G‚rard Depardieu, French actor (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton)
B12271947 Mick Jones,  rock guitarist (Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is)
B12271946 Janet Street-Porter,  British TV personality (Youth)
B12271944 Tracy Nelson,  Madison, Wisc., singer, actress (Square Pegs)
B12271944 Mick Jones, rock musician (Foreigner)
B12271943 Pete Quaife,  rock bass player (Kinks)
B12271941 Leslie McGuire,  rock musician (Pacemakers)
B12271941 Michael Pinder,  rock singer, guitarist (Moody Blues)
B12271940 Jerry Lambert, jockey (rode Native Diver)
B12271939 John Amos, actor (Good Times, Coming to America, Beastmaster)
B12271934 Larissa S. Latynina,  Ukraine, winner of 18 Olympic gymnastics medals
B12271930 Wilfred Sheed,  London, editor, critic, novelist (Max Jamison)
B12271926 Jerome Courtland,  Knoxville, Tenn., actor (Tonka, Tharus)
B12271924 Sen. James A. McClure (R-Idaho)
B12271907 Willem van Otterloo,  Winterwijk, Neth., conductor (Melbourne 1967-71)
B12271906 Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, pianist, neurotic
B12271901 Irene Handl,  London, actress (The Belles of St. Trinian's)
B12271901 Marlene Dietrich,  Berlin, singer, actress (The Blue Angel)
B12271899 Paul Costello, US rower (Olympic gold 1920, 1924, 1928)
B12271896 Arch Ward, sportswriter who proposed baseball's all-star game
B12271896 Ewan Calague, economist, statistician (Social Security Board)
B12271896 Carl Zuckmayer, Germany, playwright (The Captain of K”penick)
B12271869 Nicholas Legat, Moscow, ballet choreographer
B12271822 Louis Pasteur,  Dole, France, chemist, inventor of pasteurization
B12271802 Gerard J. Mulder,  Utrecht, chemist, discoverer of chlorophyll
B12271793 Alexander Gordon Laing,  Edinburgh, 1st European to reach Timbuktu
B12271773 Sir George Cayley, English scientist, father of aerodynamics
B12271654 Jacques Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, who discovered planets travel in elliptical orbits
B12281956 Kenneth Grant, bassist, vocalist (Midnight Star - No Parking)
B12281954 Denzel Washington, actor (St. Elsewhere, A Soldier's Story)
B12281953 Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
B12281952 Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Baltimore Orioles)
B12281946 Edgar Winter,  Beaumont, Texas, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)
B12281942 Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-73)
B12281934 Maggie Smith, English actress (Death on the Nile, Clash of the Titans)
B12281932 Manuel Puig, Arg., writer (Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages)
B12281932 Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
B12281931 Martin Milner,  Detroit, actor (Adam 12, 13 Ghosts, Hurricane)
B12281929 Owen Bieber, president of United Auto Workers
B12281929 Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leafs, Rangers)
B12281925 Hildegarde Neff,  Ulm, Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique)
B12281923 Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg)
B12281920 Steve Van Buren, NFL Hall of Fame halfback (Philadelphia Eagles)
B12281916 Douglas A. Fraser, Glasgow, Scotland, head of United Auto Workers
B12281914 Lee Bowman, actor (Buck Private, Tonight & Every Night)
B12281913 Lou Jacobi, actor (Diary of Anne Frank, Ivan the Terrible)
B12281911 Sam Levenson, comedian (The Sam Levenson Show)
B12281908 Lew Ayres, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr. Kildare)
B12281905 Earl (Fatha) Hines,  Duquesne, Penn., jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
B12281903 John von Neumann,  Budapest, mathematician, astronomer
B12281902 Shen Congwen, Chinese poet, novelist, playwright (The Long River)
B12281896 Roger Sessions, Brooklyn, NY, composer (Montezuma)
B12281894 Ed Healey, NFL HOF tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
B12281894 Burnita Shelton Matthews, 1st woman US district court judge
B12281882 Sir Arthur Eddington,  English astronomer, physicist, mathematician
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson (D), Va., 27th/28th US president (1912-21) (Nobel 1919)
B12281855 Juan Zorrilla de San Mart¡n, Uruguayan poet (Tabar‚)
B12281818 Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist, textbook author
B12281763 John Molson, founder of a Montr‚al brewery
B12281719 Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French foreign minister (1772-87)
B12291964 Kimberly Russell, actress (Head of the Class - Sarah)
B12291952 Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina, druggie (Nutcracker)
B12291952 Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnast (Olympic gold 1972, 1976, 1980)
B12291949 Phil Boggs, US, world champion diver
B12291949 Angel Tompkins, actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law)
B12291947 Ted Danson, actor (Cheers - Sam Malone, 3 Men & a Baby)
B12291946 Laffit Pincay, Jr., jockey (Kentucky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84)
B12291946 Sen. Paul Trible (R-Virginia)
B12291946 Marianne Faithful, rocker (As Tears Go By)
B12291939 Ed Bruce, country songwriter (When I Die Just Let Me Go to Texas)
B12291938 Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
B12291938 Barbara Steele, actress (Silent Scream, Horrible Dr. Hitchcock)
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, Brooklyn (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People)
B12291936 Ray Nitschke, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
B12291934 Ed Flanders, actor (True Confessions, St. Elsewhere)
B12291934 Tom Jarrel, ABC newscaster
B12291922 Rose Lee Maphis, country singer, Grand Ole Opry star
B12291921 Mala Powers, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Death in Small Doses)
B12291920 Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
B12291917 Tom Bradley (D), mayor of Los Angeles, gubernatorial candidate
B12291915 Robert Ruark, NC, writer (Something of Value, Uhuru)
B12291912 Peggy Glanville-Hicks,  Melbourne, Victoria, composer
B12291911 Klaus Fuchs, Germany, British physicist, spy for USSR
B12291896 David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter, muralist
B12291894 Sen. Lister Hill (D-Alabama 1938-68)
B12291893 Vera Brittain,  Cheshire, feminist, pacifist writer (approximate date)
B12291882 Aleksey N. Tolstoy, novelist (Nikita's Childhood, Aelita)
B12291879 Gen. Billy Mitchell, WW I aviation hero
B12291876 Pablo Casals,  Catalonia, Spain, violinist, conductor, composer
B12291863 Wilhelm His, Jr.,  Swiss pioneer cardiologist (bundle of His)
B12291859 Venustiano Carranza, president of M‚xico (1915-20)
B12291833 Rep. John James Ingalls (Kansas)
B12291816 Carl Ludwig, Germany, founder of physicochemical school of physiology
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone (Lib), British PM (1868-74, 1880-86, 1892-94)
B12291808 Andrew Johnson (Unionist), Raleigh, NC, 17th US president (1865-69)
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanization process for rubber
B12291766 Charles Macintosh,  Scottish chemist who patented waterproof fabric
B12291735 Thomas Banks, English sculptor
B12291721 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis XV
B12301961 Ben Johnson,  Jamaica, Canadian world champion sprinter
B12301959 Tracey Ullman, singer, actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
B12301948 Junior Ah You, CFL defensive end (Montr‚al Alouettes)
B12301947 Jeff Lynn, rocker (ELO, Travelling Wilberries, Telephone Line)
B12301945 Davy Jones, singer (Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville)
B12301942 Mike Nesmith, singer (Monkees - Hey Hey We Are the Monkees)
B12301939 Del Shannon, a.k.a. Charlie Westover,  Mich., rock singer (Runaway)
B12301937 John Hartford, NYC, singer, songwriter (Smothers Brothers Hour)
B12301935 Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young 1963, 1965, 1966; perfect 1965)
B12301934 Russ Tamblyn, Los Angeles, actor (Tom Thumb, Win Place or Steal)
B12301932 John Hillerman, actor (Blazing Saddles, Magnum PI, Audrey Rose)
B12301931 Skeeter Davis, Dry Ridge, Kentucky, singer (End of the World)
B12301931 Charles A. Bassett II,  Dayton, Ohio, captain, USAF, astronaut
B12301929 Barbara Nichols, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
B12301928 Bo Diddley [Ellas Bates], Mississippi, rock 'n' roll pioneer
B12301928 Jack Lord, actor (Dr. No, God's Little Acre, Hawaii 5-O)
B12301921 Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami, PM of Lebanon 10 times (1955-87)
B12301919 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral, East of Eden)
B12301914 Bert Parks, Miss America emcee, TV host (Masquerade Party)
B12301911 Jeanette Nolan, actress (The Real McCoys, Desperate Miles)
B12301910 Paul Bowles, NYC, composer, author
B12301906 Sir Carol Reed, motion picture director (The Third Man)
B12301904 Dmitri Kabalevsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, composer (Nikita Vershinin)
B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during World War II
B12301883 Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
B12301879 Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher, yogi
B12301869 Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, humorist, professor
B12301867 Simon Guggenheim, capitalist, philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic)
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel 1907)
B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developer of Coca-Cola
B12301642 Vincenzo da Filicaia, Florence, lyric poet
B1230  39 Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
B12311972 Joe McIntyre, rocker (New Kids - Lovin' You Forever)
B12311953 James Remar, Boston, actor (48 Hours, Rent-a-Cop, Cotton Club)
B12311951 Tom Hamilton, rocker (Aerosmith - Dream On)
B12311948 Joe Dallesandro, Florida, actor (Heat, Trash, AW Frankenstein)
B12311948 Donna Summer, Boston, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
B12311947 Tim Matheson, Calif., actor (Animal House, To Be or Not to Be, Fletch)
B12311946 Barbara Carrera,  Managua, Nicaragua, actress (Never Say Never Again)
B12311946 Ludmilla Pakhomova, USSR, world ice-dance champion
B12311946 Diane von Frstenberg, Brussels, Belgium, fashion designer
B12311946 Patti Smith, Chicago, singer (Radio Ethiopia)
B12311945 Claude D. Marks, Buenos Aires, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
B12311943 John Denver, singer (Rocky Mtn. High); thank God he's a country boy
B12311943 Ben Kingsley,  Scarborough, England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice)
B12311942 Andy Summers, rock guitarist (Police - Roxanne)
B12311941 Sarah Miles,  Essex, England, actress (Blow Up, Ryan's Hope, Venom)
B12311938 Mrs. Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch world champion speed skater
B12311938 Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City, NJ, actress (Omega Man, Wrong Is Right)
B12311937 Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor (A Bridge Too Far, Elephant Man, QB VII)
B12311932 George Schlatter, TV producer (Laugh-In)
B12311930 Odetta [Holmes],  Birmingham, Ala., folk/blues singer (Sanctuary)
B12311929 Jeremy Bernstein, NY, physicist, mountaineer, writer (Out of My Mind)
B12311928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL HOF halfback (SF, Minnesota, NY Giants, Detroit)
B12311924 Victoria Draves, US platform/springboard diver (Olympic gold 1948)
B12311922 Rex Allen,  Wilcox, Ariz., actor (Trial of Robin Hood)
B12311905 Guy Mollet (Socialist), French premier (1956-57)
B12311905 Jule Styne,  London, songwriter, composer (Oscar 1954, Tony 1968)
B12311904 Nathan Milstein,  Odessa, Ukraine, concert violinist
B12311904 C.R. (Chuck) Gardiner,  Scotland, NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
B12311901 Karl-August Fagerholm, PM of Finland (3 times during 1948-58)
B12311899 Silvestre Revueltas,  Santiago Papasquiaro, M‚xico, composer
B12311894 Pola Negri,  Poland, US silent-film actress (Passion) (year approx.)
B12311882 Ben Jones, who trained 5 Kentucky Derby winners (Citation, Whirlaway)
B12311880 Gen. George C. Marshall, Pa., author of the Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
B12311878 Caradoc Evans, Anglo-Welsh author (Capel Sion, Nothing to Pay, Wasps)
B12311878 Elizabeth Arden, Ont., cosmetics business owner (approximate date)
B12311874 Holbrook Jackson, editor, poet, journalist (The Fear of Books)
B12311870 Thomas Connolly, a major-league baseball umpire for 50 years
B12311869 Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter (Odalisque)
B12311817 James T. Fields, NH, publisher, editor (Atlantic Monthly)
B12311738 Charles, Lord Cornwallis, British soldier, statesman
D12011934 Sergey Kirov assassinated in Leningrad - excuse for Stalin's purges
D12011900 Last Guadalupe Island caracara, a large brown hawk, is killed
D12011842 Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, is hanged
D12021859 John Brown, abolitionist, hanged at Charles Town, (West) Virginia
D12031919 Pierre August Renoir,  French Impressionist painter, dies at 78
D12041980 Stella Walsh, Olympic track champ, killed; autopsy proves she is a man
D12041969 Fred Hampton & Mark Clark,  Black Panthers, murdered by Chicago police
D12041920 George Gibb (The Gipper), Notre Dame QB, dies of pneumonia at 25
D12051926 Claude Oscar Monet,  French Impressionist painter, dies at 66
D12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna at 35
D12061889 Jefferson Davis, 1st & only Confederate president, dies
D12061718 Nicholas Rowe, English poet, dramatist, dies at about 44
D12061670 Henry Jenkins, said to be 169 years old, dies in Yorkshire
D12061352 Clement VI, France, pope who offered Jews sanctuary at Avignon, dies
D12071983 Edgar Graham, member of Northern Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
D12071982 Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer, becomes 1st US prisoner to be
D12071982Cexecuted by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
D12071855 Peu-peu-mox-mox, Walla Walla chief held as hostage, killed escaping
D12071683 Algernon Sidney, charged with attempting to kill Charles II, executed
D1207 -43 Cicero, Roman orator, executed by agents of Antony
D12081980 John Lennon, Beattle, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman
D12081643 John Pym, English Parliamentary statesman, dies at about 59
D12081596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish writer in America, burned in an auto-da-
D12081596Cf‚, Mexico City
D12091989 Marco Montenegro, Guatemalan student leader, found tortured to death
D12091292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (The Orchard, The Rose Garden) dies at c. 79
D12101989 John Norman, 53, dies while running in Costa de Clavia marathon, Spain
D12101909 Red Cloud,  Oglala Indian chief, passes into the Spirit World at c. 87
D12101475 Paolo Uccello, Florentine painter, dies at about 78
D12111978 Iolani Luahine, last exponent of sacred hula ceremony, dies at 63, HI
D12111964 Sam Cooke, R & B star, killed in Los Angeles
D12111718 Charles XII, king of Sweden, killed in siege of Frederickshall
D12111282 Michael VIII Palaeologus, restorer of the Byzantine Empire, dies
D12111241 Ogodai, Great Khan of the Mongols, dies
D1211 861 al-Mutawakkil, caliph (847-61), murdered by his Turkish guard
D12121932 Hillel Zlatopolsky,  Zionist leader, is murdered in Paris
D12121872 Last labrador duck is shot, Long Island
D12121777 Rev. Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
D12121198 Abu'l-Walid ibn-Rushd [Averro‰s] of C¢rdoba, philosopher, dies at c 72
D1212 884 Carloman, king of France, dies, is succeeded by Charles the Fat
D1212 884C(-888), who thus reunites the empire of Charlemagne
D12131603 Fran‡ois ViŠte, mathematician (algebraic notation), dies at 63
D12131557 Niccol• Tartaglia,  Italian mathematician (cubics, ballistics), dies
D12131466 Donatello, Italian Renaissance sculptor, dies at about 80
D12131204 Maimonides,  Spanish Jewish philosopher, dies in Cairo at about 69
D12141989 Andrei Sakharov,  Soviet physicist, politician, dies at 68
D12141945 Josef Kramer, known as the "beast of Belsen," & 10 others hung for
D12141945Ccrimes committed at the Belsen & Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps
D12141799 George Washington, 1st US president, dies at Mount Vernon, Va. at 67
D12151966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, is put in suspended animation
D12151944 Maj. Glenn Miller, bandleader, lost over English Channel
D12151890 Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, killed by US army
D12151846 1st death in the Donner party trapped in Sierra Nevada mountains
D12161976 George,  oldest known goose, dies at 49 y 8 mo, Lancashire, England
D12171967 Harold Holt, PM of Australia, disappears in heavy surf, Victoria
D12171916 Grigori Rasputin, monk, advisor to tsarina, assassinated (12/30 NS)
D12171830 Sim¢n Bol¡var, liberator of South America, dies in Colombia at 47
D12181737 Antonio Stradivari, violin-maker, dies at about 93, Cremona, Italy
D12181541 Culpeper & Dereham, alleged paramours of Katherine Howard, executed
D12191968 Norman Thomas, Socialist presidential candidate, dies at 84
D12191959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last Civil War survivor, dies at 117
D12201812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
D12201590 Ambro‹se Par‚,  French surgeon, father of modern surgery, dies at 80
D12211954 Marilyn, Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife, is murdered (crime he is accused of)
D12211940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, dies in Hollywood at 44, leaving "The
D12211940CLast Tycoon" unfinished
D12211375 Giovanni Boccaccio, author of "The Decameron," dies at about 62
D12221988 Chico Mendes, rubber tapper leader, politician, murdered, Brazil
D12221815 Jos‚ Maria Morelos, Mexican rebel priest, executed by the Spanish
D12221767 John Newberry, English merchant, children's publisher, dies at c. 54
D12221721 Nathaniel Hawes, robber, tortured & executed in England
D12221440 Bluebeard, pirate, is executed
D12231975 Richard S. Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
D12231948 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM, & 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
D12231631 Michael Drayton, English poet, dies at about 68
D12231569 St. Philip of Moscow, martyr, killed by Ivan the Terrible
D12241985 Dian Fossey, mountain gorilla expert, found murdered in Za‹re
D12241954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer, dies at 25 of Russian roulette
D12241684 Robert Baillie, Presbyterian, executed for treason against Charles II
D12241524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator, dies in Cochin, India
D12251989 Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator, executed by rebels
D12251977 Charlie Chaplin, silent film star, dies in Switzerland at 88
D12251951 Harry Moore, Florida secretary of NAACP, killed in his home by a bomb
D12261913 Ambrose Bierce, traveling with Pancho Villa's army, disappears
D12261860 Ralph Farnum, last survivor of battle of Bunker Hill, dies at 104
D12281734 Rob Roy, Scottish highlands outlaw, dies at about 64
D12291926 Rainer Maria Rilke,  German poet, dies at 51
D12291815 Saartjie Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
D12291170 Thomas … Becket, archbishop, murdered by agents of King Henry II
D12301896 Jos‚ Mercado Rizal, Philippine opponent of Spanish rule, dies
D12301635 Jan Baptista van Helmont, physician, alchemist, dies
D12301573 Giambattista Giraldi, Italian novelist, poet, dramatist (Orbecche)
D12311977 Digit, Diane Fosse's mountain gorilla friend, killed by poachers
D12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, bible translator, dies
D1231 192 Commodus, Roman emperor, strangled by a professional wrestler
H1202     Landing of Granma Expeditionaries (Cuba)
H1204     Day of the Artisans (M‚xico)
H1205     St. Nicholas's Eve (Netherlands)
H12061534 Day of Quito (Ecuador)
H12071960 Ivory Coast National Day
H12101986 World Freedom Day (World Calendar - Sunday, December 10)
H1210     Constitution Day (Thailand), 1932
H1213     St. Lucia Day (Sweden)
H1213     St. Lucia National Day
H12141217 Festival of Mevlana - Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes) (Turkey)
H1215     Consualia in ancient Rome; a. d. xviij Kal. Jan.
H1216     Bahrain National Day
H1216     Posadas (Lodging) days begin (until 12/24) (M‚xico)
H1217     Ascension to the throne of the 1st King (Bhutan National Day)
H12211660 Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, Mass.)
H1222     International Arbor Day
H1224     Christmas Eve/Noche Buena
H12251946 Constitution Day in Republic of China (Taiwan)
H1225     New Year's Day observed in England before 1068
H1225     *Christmas Day/Navidad - peace on earth, good will towards men
H1226    4*Boxing Day celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1226    5*Boxing Day celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1226     1st day of Kwanzaa (First Fruits) - Umoja (Unity) (Afro-Americans)
H1226    3*Boxing Day celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1226     2nd Day of Christmas (West Germany)
H1226    6*Boxing Day celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1226    2*Boxing Day celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1227    2*Boxing Day celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1227     Day 2 of Kwanzaa - Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) (Afro-Americans)
H1228    2*Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
H1228     Day 3 of Kwanzaa - Ujima (Collective Work) (Afro-Americans)
H1229     Day 4 of Kwanzaa - Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) (Afro-Americans)
H1230     Day 5 of Kwanzaa - Nia (Purpose) (Afro-Americans)
H1231     Omisoka Day/Grand Purification (Japan)
H1231     Feed Yourself Day (Benin)
H1231     World Day (World Calendar)
H1231     New Year's Eve/Watch Night
H1231     Day 6 of Kwanzaa - Kuumba (Creativity) (Afro-Americans)
I12011581 Commemoration of St. Edmund Champion, English Jesuit, martyr (RC)
I1201 660 Commemoration of St. Eligius (St. Eloi), bishop, goldsmith (RC)
I1201     Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, deacon, 1637 CE (Ang)
I1201    1Advent Sunday - 4 Sundays till Christmas - start of church year
I120219912Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights); Kislev 25, 5752 AM
I1202     Commemoration of St. Bibiana (St. Vivian), virgin & martyr (RC)
I1202     Channing Moore Williams, missionary bp. in China & Japan, 1910 (Ang)
I1202    1Advent Sunday - 4 Sundays till Christmas - start of church year
I12031552 Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan (Luth, RC)
I1203 298 Commemoration of St. Cassian of Tangier, patron of stenographers (RC)
I1203    1Advent Sunday - 4 Sundays till Christmas - start of church year
I1204 760 Commemor. of St. John Damascene, priest, doctor, c. 760 CE (RC, Ang)
I1204 235 Commemoration of St. Barbara, virgin, martyr, c. 235 CE (RC)
I1204     Presentation in the Temple of Mary (Orth) (11/21 OS)
I1205 532 Commemoration of St. Sabbas, abbot (RC)
I1205 210 Commemoration of Clement of Alexandria, priest, c. 210 CE (Ang)
I1205     World Day of Peace (RC)
I120619966Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights); Kislev 25, 5757 AM
I1206 342 Mem of St Nicholas of Myra, patron of children, c. 342 (Ang, RC, Luth)
I12071881 Commemoration of St. Mary Josepha Rossello, foundress (RC)
I1207 397 Memorial of St. Ambrose, governor & bishop of Milan (RC, Ang, Luth)
I120819961Night of the Ascent (Moslem feast); Rajab 27, 1417 AH
I1208     Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady (RC)
I1208     Enlightenment of the Buddha celebrated in Japan
I120919935Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights); Kislev 25, 5754 AM
I12091640 Commemoration of St. Peter Fourier, French priest (RC)
I1209 304 Feast of St. Leocadia, virgin, martyr, c. 304 CE (RC)
I1209     Commemoration of the Conception of Anne, mother of Mary
I1210 314 Commemoration of St. Melchiades, 32nd pope (311-14), martyr (RC)
I1210    1Universal Bible Sunday (Meth) (2nd Sunday in December)
I1211 384 Memorial of St. Damasus I, 37th pope, confessor (366-84) (opt) (RC)
I1211     Commemoration of Lars Skrefsrud, missionary to India, 1910 (Luth)
I121219904Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights); Kislev 25, 5751 AM
I12121641 Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (opt) (RC)
I1212     Memorial of the Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of M‚xico (US RC)
I121319943Asarah B'Tevet (Jewish fast, Siege of Jerusalem); Tevet 10, 5755 AM
I1213 720 Commemor. of St. Odilia, abbess, patroness of the blind, c. 720 (RC)
I1213 304 Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin & martyr (RC)
I12141591 Memorial of St. John of the Cross, priest & doctor (RC, Luth)
I1214     Commemoration of Teresa of Avila (Luth)
I1214    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I12151855 Commemoration of St. Mary di Rosa
I1215 709 Commemoration of St. Offa of Essex, king, c. 709 CE
I1215    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1216    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1216    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I121719913Asarah B'Tevet (Jewish fast, Siege of Jerusalem); Tevet 10, 5752 AM
I1217 410 Feast of St. Olmpias, widow, c. 410 CE (RC)
I1217    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1217    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1217    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1217     Saturnalia, ancient Roman festival honoring Saturn (through 12/23)
I121819952Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights); Kislev 25, 5756 AM
I1218 300 Feast of St. Gatianus, bishop, confessor, c. 300 CE (RC)
I1218    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1218    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1218    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1218     Commemoration of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of the lonely
I1219 401 Feast of St. Anastasius I, Roman Catholic pope (399-401)
I1219    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1219    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1219     Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Orth) (12/6 OS)
I1219    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1219     Feast of St. Adam
I122019966Asarah B'Tevet (Jewish fast, Siege of Jerusalem); Tevet 10, 5757 AM
I122019954Night of the Ascent (Moslem feast); Rajab 27, 1416 AH
I122019921Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights); Kislev 25, 5753 AM
I1220     Feast of SS. Theophilus, Zeno & their companions
I1220    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1220    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1220    4Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I12211597 Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, priest & doctor (opt) (RC)
I1221    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1221    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1221     Commemoration of St. Thomas the apostle (RC, Luth, Ang, Cong)
I1222     Yule, witches' sabbat
I1222     Commemoration of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin, 1917 CE (RC)
I1222    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1222    6Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I12231473 Memorial of St. John of Kanty, Polish priest, theologian (opt) (RC)
I12231193 Commemoration of St. Thorlac, bishop, patron of Iceland (RC)
I1223    7Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I1223     Larentalia in ancient Rome, honoring Acca Larentia; a. d. x Id. Jan.
I122419936Asarah B'Tevet (Jewish fast, Siege of Jerusalem); Tevet 10, 5754 AM
I12241898 Commemoration of St. Sharbel Makhlouf, Lebanese monk, hermit (RC)
I122519964Night of Remembrance (Moslem feast); Sha'bƒn 14, 1417 AH
I12261896 Commemoration of St. Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuna, foundress (RC)
I1226 268 Feast of St. Dionysius, 25th pope (260-68)
I1226  33 Feast of St. Stephen, deacon, the 1st martyr, c. 33 (RC, Ang, Luth)
I1226    1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
I122719905Asarah B'Tevet (Jewish fast, Siege of Jerusalem); Tevet 10, 5751 AM
I1227     Feast of St. John, apostle & evangelist (RC, Luth, Ang)
I1227    1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
I1228     Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (Childermas) (RC, Ang, Luth)
I1228    1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
I1229     St. Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas … Beckett), bp., martyr, 1170 (RC)
I1229    1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
I123019946Night of the Ascent (Moslem feast); Rajab 27, 1415 AH
I1230 303 Feast of St. Sabinus, bishop, & his companions (RC)
I1230    6Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
I1230    1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
I1231 335 Memorial of St. Sylvester I, 33rd pope (314-35) (opt) (RC)
I1231    1Student Recognition Day (Meth) (Sun. after Christmas)
I1231    1Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph (RC)
R1200     Flowers - Narcissus, Poinsettia & Holly      Gems - Turquoise & Zircon
R12011988 World AIDS Day
R12011221 Astrological sign:  Sagittarius
R1201     Earth passes through sun's wake in interstellar medium (approximate)
R1201     Kalend. Dec. in the Roman calendar
R1202     Pan American Health Day
R1202     Trees (gymnosperms) appear (geoyear 370)
R1203     Amphibians (Labyrinthodonts) appear (geoyear 360)
R1203     Beginning of Carboniferous (Mississippian) Period (geoyear 360)
R12041969 Fred Hampton Day (Chicago)
R1204     1st reptiles appear (geoyear 338)
R1205     Sven name day in Sweden
R1206     Beginning of Pennsylvanian Period (geoyear 320)
R1207     Winged insects appear; Gondwanaland forms (geoyear 310)
R1208     "(BG)" after a Sherlock Holmes story = Baring-Gould calculated date
R12091214 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini, near Castor
R1209     Anna name day in Sweden
R1209     Beginning of Permian Period (geoyear 286)
R1210     Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance
R1210     Hercynian/Appalachian Ocean closes (geoyear 275)
R12111216 Human Rights Week (United Nations)
R1211     For other dates, type "TODAY mmdd" ("mmdd" = digits for month, day)
R1211     Therapsids (mammal-like reptiles) appear (geoyear 256)
R1212     National Ding-a-ling Day
R1212     Beginning of the Mesozoic Era & Triassic Period (geoyear 248)
R1212     Permian catastrophe; trilobites become extinct (geoyear 248)
R1213    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
R1213     English & American dates are Old Style to 1752, New Style thereafter
R1213     Dinosaurs & flowering plants appear (geoyear 235)
R12141228 Halcyon Days
R1214     Italian & French dates are Old Style to 1582, New Style thereafter
R1214     Norian catastrophe; mammals appear (geoyear 216)
R1214     Coccolithophyceae & Pterosaurs appear (geoyear 225)
R1215    6Underdog Day
R1215     Beginning of the Jurassic Period (geoyear 213)
R1216    6Underdog Day
R1217    6Underdog Day
R1217     Gondwanaland & Laurasia separate (geoyear 185)
R1218    6Underdog Day
R1218     For your own birthdays, events & reminders create file TODAY.OWN
R1218     Brachiosaurs appear (geoyear 175)
R1219    6Underdog Day
R12201223 Ursid (Umid) meteor shower, radiant near á Ursa Minor
R1220    6Underdog Day
R1220     1st birds appear (geoyear 150)
R1221     Winter Solstice in Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year
R1221    6Underdog Day
R1221     India/Madagascar, Africa, Antarctica separate (geoyear 138)
R12221231 Astrological sign:  Capricorn
R1222     Marsupials appear (geoyear 125)
R1223     Angiosperms appear (geoyear 113)
R1224     Eva name day in Sweden
R1224     Metatherian mammals appear (geoyear 90)
R1225     Quarter day in England & Ireland; quarterly rents due today
R1225     South America separates from Africa (geoyear 85)
R1226     National Whiner's Day
R1226     Eutheria (modern mammals) appear (geoyear 64)
R1226     Cenozoic (Tertiary) Era, Paleogene Period begin (geoyear 65)
R1226     Cretaceous catastrophe; dinosaurs, ammonites become extinct (geoyr 67)
R1227     Equidae (horse ancestors) appear (geoyear 53)
R1227     Grasses (geoyear 56) - Eocene Epoch begins (geoyear 55)
R1227     North America separates from Europe - Rockies begin to form - primates
R1227    Cappear (geoyear 60)
R1228     Considered the unluckiest day of the year
R1228     Proboscidea (elephant ancestors) appear (geoyear 38)
R1228     Rodents appear; India hits Eurasia (geoyear 45)
R1228     Australia & Antarctica separate (geoyear 50)
R1229     Antepenultimate Day
R1229     Japan splits from Eurasia (geoyear 30)
R1229     Oligocene Epoch begins (geoyear 38) - early cats & dogs (geoyear 35)
R1230     Hominids (human ancestors) appear, 8 p.m. (geoyear 15)
R1230     Apes & monkeys split, 8 a.m. (geoyear 21)
R1230     Neogene Period & Miocene Epoch begin (geoyear 25)
R1230     Red Sea opens (Arabia splits from Africa), 12:15 a.m. (geoyear 25)
R1231     Make Up Your Mind Day
R1231     Prid. Kal. Jan. in the Roman calendar
R1231     Industrial civilization, 11:59:58 p.m. (geoyear 0.0003)
R1231     Towns established, 11:58:45 p.m. (geoyear 0.0107)
R1231     Dogs tamed, 11:58:40 p.m. (geoyear 0.012)
R1231     1st calendars developed, Neandertals extinct, 11:56 pm (geoyear 0.034)
R1231     Human language develops, 11:14 p.m. (Geoyear 0.4)
R1231     Homo sapiens appears, 10:50 p.m. (geoyear 0.6)
R1231     Fire-making discovered, 9:20 p.m. (geoyear 1.4)
R1231     Pleistocene (Recent) Epoch begins; stone tools - 8:10 p.m. (geoyear 2)
R1231     Current ice ages begin, 5:50 p.m. (geoyear 3.25)
R1231     Pliocene Epoch begins, 2:15 p.m. (geoyear 5)
S12011989 6th coup attempt against Aquino government in the Philippines begins
S12011989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II, Roma
S12011989 Pitcher Mark Langston signs $16 million 5-year contract with Angels
S12011988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
S12011984 Nuclear Disarmament Party wins its 1st seat in Australian Parliament
S12011983 Rita Lavelle, Reagan's EPA head, convicted of perjury
S12011982 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" released in US
S12011978 Pres. Carter more than doubles national park system size
S12011973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2 million in a year
S12011971 EEOC report terms AT&T "largest oppressor of women workers in the US"
S12011967 Demolition begins on Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
S12011965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US begins
S12011963 NY Jets' 1st shutout, over Kansas City 17-0
S12011962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
S12011959 International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington by 12 nations
S12011959 1st color photograph of earth from outer space
S12011957 CalTech announces perfect flow (0 viscosity) in liquid helium II
S12011956 Bill Russell leads US to victory over USSR & Olympic basketball gold
S12011955 Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus, Ala.
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds
S12011948 Aureomycin antibiotic goes on sale
S12011944 1st US army missile launched, Private A, Barstow, Calif.
S12011937 "White's Conspectus of American Biography" (rev. ed.) published, NY  <
S12011930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the continent
S12011929 Bingo invented by Edwin S. Lowe
S12011922 1st skywriting over US - "Hello USA" - by Capt. Turner, RAF (NYC)
S12011921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
S12011918 Iceland becomes an independent state under the Danish crown
S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh
S12011909 1st kibbutz, Deganyah Alef, is founded in Palestine
S12011900 Last 11 quelilis (Mexican birds) sighted, by a hunter who kills 9
S12011899 Andrew Dawson forms world's 1st Labor Party government, Queensland
S12011896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates, New York
S12011893 Shell's ballet "Cinderella" 1st produced, St. Petersburg (12/13 NS)
S12011887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
S12011887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print:  "A Study in Scarlet"
S12011878 1st White House telephone
S12011860 1st installment of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is published
S12011840 1st installment of John Gould's "The Birds of Australia" appears
S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) proclaims independence from Spain
S12011783 Charles & M.N. Roberts ascend 600 m (2,000') in a hydrogen balloon
S12011750 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md.
S12011742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Great Russia
S12011640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
S12011590 Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is registered for publication
S12021989 Audrey McLaughlin chosen 1st woman head of a major Canadian party-NDP
S12021988 STS-27 (shuttle Atlantis) launched on secret all-military flight
S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (Barney Clark)
S12021980 4 US Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
S12021974 Soyuz 16 launched into earth orbit for 6 days
S12021972 E.G. Whitlam leads Labor to 1st Australian election victory in 23 yrs
S12021972 USC's Anthony Davis scores 6 TDs vs. Notre Dame (2 on kickoff returns)
S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 becomes 1st probe to soft land on Mars
S12021971CAbu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm al Qawain form United
S12021971CUnited Arab Emirates as British forces withdraw
S12021970 Environmental Protection Agency begins - William Ruckelshaus, director
S12021964 Free Speech Movement seizes Sproul Hall, Univ. of California, Berkeley
S12021961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism
S12021961 1st overtime Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
S12021957 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant begins generating, Penn.
S12021954 US Senate censures Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wisc.) for "conduct that tends
S12021954Cto bring the Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
S12021950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 15 times in a title fight
S12021949 Hanford nuclear weapons plant in Washington State intentionally
S12021949Creleases 7,780 curies of radioactive iodine into the atmosphere
S12021942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction, at University of Chicago
S12021941 1st around-the-world flight by a commercial plane takes off from SF
S12021939 NY's La Guardia Airport begins operations, as an airliner from Chicago
S12021939Clands at 1 minute after midnight
S12021934 Chicago Bears complete 13-0-0 season, win 18th straight game
S12021927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385 each
S12021916 12 IWW members convicted in Sydney, NSW of conspiracy & sedition
S12021911 Mawson Australasian Antarctic expedition leaves Hobart
S12021901 Supreme Court decides Puerto Ricans are not US citizens
S12021896 Ex-marshall Wyatt Earp, boxing referee, fixes a fight for gamblers
S12021883 Brahms' 3rd symphony (in F major) premiers, Vienna
S12021852 2nd French Empire is proclaimed with Napol‚on III as emperor
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine
S12021822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
S12021816 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
S12021808 Madrid retaken by the French, Joseph Bonaparte restored to the throne
S12021805 Napol‚on defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
S12021804 Napol‚on becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
S12021763 Oldest existing synagogue in US (Touro) dedicated, Newport, RI
S12031984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
S12031982 35.71 cm (14.06") of rainfall, Big Fork, Ark. (state 24-hour record)
S12031979 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert
S12031974 Pioneer 11 makes its closest approach to Jupiter (42,960 km)
S12031973 Pioneer 10 flies by Jupiter at 130,000 km (1st of an outer planet)
S12031971 Elgen Long completes 1st circumpolar airplane flight (62,597 km)
S12031967 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, S. Afr.)
S12031967 Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
S12031965 USSR launches Luna 8, which later crashes on the moon
S12031964 Police arrest 800 at University of California, Berkeley
S12031956 Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins record together for
S12031956CSun Records, but the LP is never released
S12031952 1st television broadcast in Hawaii
S12031950 Detroit Lion Cloyce Box gains 302 yards receiving vs. Baltimore
S12031950 Cleveland Browns become last NFL team with no pass attempts in a game
S12031950CThey beat Philadelphia 13-7
S12031949 Notre Dame football team goes undefeated for 4th straight year
S12031947 Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens
S12031933 Joe Lilliard quarterbacks the Chicago Cardinals; last black player in
S12031933CNFL until 1946
S12031933 Gil LeFebvre, Cincinnati, sets NFL record with a 98-yard punt return
S12031928 "Voice of Firestone" music show begins on NBC (later ABC) radio (-55)
S12031920 Turkish-Armenian treaty of peace - Armenia cedes territory
S12031910 1st neon sign, Paris
S12031907 World's longest cantilever bridge (549 m) opens, St Laurence R, Canada
S12031896 Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' ballet "Javotte" premiers, Lyon, France
S12031868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
S12031855 Longest bare-knuckle bout - 6¬ h, James Kelly & Jack Smith, Australia
S12031838 Joshua Giddings (Ohio) becomes 1st abolitionist elected to Congress
S12031835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy, RI
S12031834 1st US dental society organized in NY
S12031833 Oberlin College, 1st truly coeducational college in US, opens in Ohio
S12031818 Illinois admitted as 21st US state
S12031775 1st official American flag raised, aboard naval vessel Alfred
S12031642 Abel Tasman claims Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for Holland
S12031059 B.C. Earliest probable recorded observation of Halley's Comet
S12041989 USSR condemns 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
S12041989 US navy ship rams Greenpeace vessel in international waters
S12041983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
S12041981 Pres. Reagan allows the CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
S12041981 Dudley Kyzer sentenced to 10,000 years for 3 murders, Alabama
S12041981 Steady Eddy Wolf walks 31 steps on 11.24-m stilts, Hollywood, Calif.
S12041981 "Falcon Crest" premiers on CBS TV
S12041980 Colorado Rockies end Islanders' 15-game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
S12041979 Notre Dame of La. basketball coach assessed 12 technicals, loses 72-67
S12041978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
S12041978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF's 1st female mayor
S12041977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose their 26th consecutive game (to Bears)
S12041977 Cincinnati beats KC Chiefs 27-7 - NFL says this is their 5,000th game
S12041974 Brightest meteoric fireball ever photographed, Czechoslovakia
S12041965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
S12041957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" is published                  <
S12041947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
S12041945 Doc Blanchard of Army becomes 1st junior to win the Heisman Trophy
S12041943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign negroes
S12041942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
S12041942 US bombers strike Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
S12041935 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Phila.) enroll in anticommunism class
S12041933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
S12041932 "Walter Winchell's Journal" premiers on NBC Blue radio network (-1955)
S12041924 Erik Satie's ballet "Relƒche" premiers, Paris
S12041918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed
S12041918 Pres. Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France
S12041918CHe becomes 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
S12041915 SF's Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes
S12041909 1st Grey Cup football game (Univ. of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)
S12041875 William Marcy (Boss) Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
S12041867 The Grange is organized to protect farm interests
S12041843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass.
S12041836 Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Penn.
S12041812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Penn. patents a horse-drawn mower
S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
S12041680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great comet 1st seen
S12041680C12 days later
S12041674 Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
S12041619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Virginia)
S12051989 French TGV train sets world rail speed record - 481 kph
S12051988 US shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting
S12051988Csatellite; start digging your shelters
S12051985 1st time Dow Jones Industrial Average rises above the 1,500 level
S12051984 Helena Sukova beats Martina Navratilova, ending a 74-match win streak
S12051979 Sonia Johnson, feminist, is excommunicated by the Mormon Church
S12051974 Seattle Seahawks formed
S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
S12051970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from
S12051970CNHL hall of fame
S12051968 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
S12051965 Excommunication between Greek Orthodox & Roman Catholic Churches ended
S12051955 Montgomery bus boycott begins
S12051955 AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
S12051951 "Dragnet" pilot shown on NBC TV
S12051950 Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
S12051947 Jersey Joe Wolcott loses title bid to Joe Louis, NY
S12051941 Football Writers' Association of America organized
S12051936 Soviet constitution adopted
S12051936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR
S12051936Cbecome constituent republics of the Soviet Union
S12051935 1st commercial hydroponics operation established, Montebello, Calif.
S12051929 1st US nudist organization formed, New York
S12051913 British proclamation forbids sending arms to Ireland
S12051908 1st football uniform numerals used, University of Pittsburgh
S12051892 Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" premiers, St. Petersburg (OS)
S12051879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
S12051876 1st practical pipe wrench patented, by Daniel Stillson (Mass.)
S12051868 1st US bicycle school opens in New York
S12051865 Sir Henry Bessemer receives US patent for steel production process
S12051854 Folding theater chair patented by Aaron Allen of Boston
S12051848 Pres. Polk confirms Calif. gold discovery, triggers gold rush of '49
S12051846 Cellulose nitrate explosive patented by C.F. Schoenbein
S12051808 Royal family of Spain imprisoned by Napol‚on, Savoy
S12051792 Trial of King Louis XVI before the French Convention opens
S12051786 Forces of Shays' Rebellion capture Worcester, Mass.
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st US scholastic fraternity, founded
S12051496 King Manuel I orders the expulsion of all Jews from Portugal
S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espa€ola)
S12061989 Gunman kills 14 women at University of Montr‚al with automatic rifle
S12061988 Baltimore Orioles are sold for $70 million
S12061987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
S12061979 Bottle of 1748 Rudesheimer Rosewein brings œ260 ($570) at auction
S12061977 According to South Africa, Bophuthatswana gains independence; not
S12061977Crecognized as an independent country outside South Africa
S12061976 Kitty Hambleton sets official land speed record by a woman, 843 kph
S12061973 Gerald Ford sworn in as 1st unelected US VP, succeeding Spiro Agnew
S12061969 300,000 attend free Rolling Stones concert, Altamont Speedway, Calif.
S12061960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise - LA Angels
S12061960 Rafer Johnson, US, wins Olympic decathlon, Roma
S12061958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
S12061957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
S12061957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite (Vanguard TV-3) burns on pad
S12061955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers wins "$64,000 Question," on boxing
S12061947 Everglades National Park, Florida established
S12061929 World's highest bridge opens, 268 m long, 321 m above Arkansas R., CO
S12061925 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
S12061923 Calvin Coolidge broadcasts 1st presidential radio message
S12061922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
S12061921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
S12061917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
S12061917 1,600 die as 2 munitions ships collide at Halifax, Nova Scotia
S12061907 Coal mine explosion in Monongah, WV kills 361
S12061884 Aluminum capstone completes Washington Monument, Washington, DC
S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
S12061877 "Washington Post" publishes 1st edition
S12061876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn.
S12061873 1st international football game in US - Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
S12061866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
S12061846 Berlioz' opera "La Damnation de Faust" premiers, Paris
S12061830 US Naval Observatory established, Washington, DC
S12061790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
S12061771 1st Yiddish newspaper, a weekly, begins publication, Direnfurt, Ger.
S12061768 1st edition of "Encyclop‘dia Britannica" is published (Scotland)
S12061732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
S12061662 Oldest surviving banknote bears this date - 5 Swedish dalers
S12061631 1st predicted transit of Venus (by Kepler) is observed
S12061492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at M“le Saint Nicolas
S12061240 Mongols under Batu take & sack Kiev, Ukraine
S12071995 Space probe Galileo scheduled to arrive at Jupiter
S12071989 Earliest known reptile (338 million years) described in "Nature"
S12071988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in NYC
S12071988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
S12071988 Earthquake strikes Soviet Armenia (8 Richter); 55,000 die
S12071982 Utah Jazz sets NBA record with 39 free throws without a miss
S12071979 "Star Trek:  The Motion Picture" premiers
S12071978 Islander Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
S12071977 New England Whaler Gordie Hull scores his 1,000th goal, v. Birmingham
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo moon series, is launched
S12071968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into earth orbit
S12071968 M. Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823
S12071965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift
S12071965Cmutual excommunications that led to split of the 2 churches in 1054
S12071963 The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" enters British charts at #1
S12071963 CBS 1st uses instant replay, during Army-Navy football game
S12071946 1st Aloha Bowl, Honolulu - Denver defeats Honolulu Stars 26-7
S12071941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
S12071941C1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
S12071935 Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup, 18-12
S12071932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in NY
S12071917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria in WW I
S12071911 Chinese edict abolishes pigtails & orders calendar reform
S12071909 Thermosetting plastic patented by Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY
S12071907 1st US Christmas seals go on sale, Wilmington, Dela.
S12071891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
S12071877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph
S12071876 NY Mutuals & Phila. A's expelled from NL for not completing schedule
S12071872 "HMS Challenger" sets sail on 3«-year world oceanographic cruise
S12071842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
S12071835 Nrnberg-Frth railroad opens - 1st steam railroad in Germany
S12071829 British colonial law abolishes suttee (widow burning) in India
S12071787 Delaware becomes the 1st state to ratify the constitution
S1207 -36 Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
S12072348 B.C. Biblical deluge begins, according to Bishop Ussher's chronology
S12081990 Galileo space probe scheduled to encounter earth (1st time)
S12081989 Drug czar/addict William Bennett admits he has not given up nicotine
S12081988 Knicks set NBA record of 11 3-pointers, sink Bucks 113-109
S12081987 Flyer Ron Hextall becomes 1st NHL goalie to score a goal
S12081987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty
S12081987Celiminating medium-range nuclear missiles
S12081967 NHL California Seals change name to "Oakland Seals"
S12081966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
S12081966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
S12081962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
S12081961 Chamberlain scores 73, Baylor 63 as NBA Lakers defeat Warriors 151-147
S12081961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts. without a miss (NBA record)
S12081956 1st test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
S12081952 Louisiana St. beats Southwestern of Tenn. 124-33 in college basketball
S12081952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
S12081949 Chinese Nationalist gov't completes evacuation from mainland to Taiwan
S12081946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
S12081941 US & Britain declare war on Japan
S12081941 SF has 1st blackout, at 6:15 p.m.
S12081940 1st NFL championship on network (MBS) radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
S12081940C(NFL record high score)
S12081938 38ø C (100ø F), La Mesa, Calif. - 48-state record high for December
S12081931 Coaxial cable patented
S12081916 Migratory Bird Treaty between US & UK (for Canada) proclaimed
S12081915 Sibelius's 5th symphony (E flat major) premiers
S12081903 Samuel Langley's attempted manned airplane flight fails
S12081888 J.T. Williams makes 1st parachute jump in Australia, from a balloon
S12081886 Federation of Organized Trades & Labor Unions becomes AFL
S12081869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
S12081863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for reconstruction of the South
S12081863 Fire in Santiago, Chile kills 2,000
S12081854 Pope Pius IX proclaims the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
S12081845 German amateur astronomer Karl Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astr‘a
S12081813 Beethoven's 7th symphony premiers in Vienna
S12081776 George Washington's retreating army crosses the Delaware River from NJ
S12081487 Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz lands at Walvis Bay, Namibia
S12091988 NY Yankees sell all TV rights to cable network in $500 million deal
S12091987 Anti-Israel uprising ("intifadah") begins in West Bank & Gaza Strip
S12091985 5 Argentine ex-junta leaders found guilty in disappearances of 9,000
S12091985 Phoenix Arizona gets 3" of snow
S12091982 UN votes 111-1 to end nuclear testing - US casts only negative vote
S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
S12091978 Chicago Hustle beats Milw. Does - 1st Women's Pro Basketball Lea. game
S12091977 Rocket Rudy Tomjanovich slugged by Laker Kermit Alexander in NBA game
S12091975 Pres. Gerald Ford signs $2.3 billion loan authorization for NYC
S12091967 Jim Morrison arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
S12091967 30 whooper swans seen at 8,200 m (highest flying birds reported)
S12091963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
S12091963 Studebaker announces it will make no more cars in US
S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
S12091958 Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the
S12091958Canti-Communist John Birch Society
S12091953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
S12091949 NFL admits Cleveland Browns, SF 49ers & Baltimore Colts from AAFC
S12091948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
S12091941 1st US WW II bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines
S12091941 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America headquarters
S12091940 British deport illegal Jewish immigrants from Haifa to Mauritius
S12091940 1st major British offensive in North Africa during WW II
S12091940 Longine Watch Co. & W2XOR, NY sign 1st contract for FM commercials
S12091917 British forces capture Jerusalem from the Turks
S12091909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W. Walden, Long Island, NY)
S12091905 Richard Strauss's opera "Salome" premiers, Dresden
S12091905 French church & state separated; freedom of conscience guaranteed
S12091884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
S12091869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
S12091854 Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is published
S12091835 San Antonio falls to Texas rebels
S12091824 Battle of Ayacucho, Per£ - final victory of So. American independence
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, "American Minerva"
S12091786 400 free blacks sent from London to form a settlement in Sierra Leone
S12091775 American militia defeat British troops at Great Bridge, Va.
S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Massachusetts colony when he
S12091640Cdeclares himself to be free of original sin
S12091502 King Henry VII grants patent to Co. of Adventurers to the New World
S1209 536 Belisarius reconquers Rome for Byzantine Emperor Justinian
S12102368 Transit of Venus
S12101989 Salvadoran Catholic Church accuses US of cover-up in 6 Jesuits' murder
S12101989 1st human-powered helicopter flight - 15 cm altitude for 7 sec, Calif.
S12101989 Seahawk Steve Largent becomes 1st in NFL to catch 100 TD passes
S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
S12101983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to earth, 211 days after take-off
S12101982 Shortest heavyweight title bout, 63 s - Dokes beats Weaver
S12101978 Islanders end 15-game undefeated streak (12-0-3), lose to Canadiens
S12101977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S12101975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101974 Helios 1 launched by US & Germany; later makes closest flyby of sun
S12101970 Defense contends that Lt. William Calley had orders to "kill every
S12101970Cliving thing" in Mylai
S12101966 Governor-elect Reagan calls for "an all-out total effort" in Vietnam
S12101966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
S12101958 1st jet (707) service in US begun by National Airlines (NY-Miami)
S12101950 Ralph J. Bunche is 1st black American to win a Nobel Peace Prize
S12101948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
S12101941 Japanese sink "HMS Prince of Wales" & "HMS Repulse" east of Malaya
S12101936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for the woman he loves
S12101931 Jane Addams named corecipient of Nobel Peace Prize (1st US woman)
S12101931 John Philip Sousa conducts his last march, "Circumnavigator's Club"
S12101927 "Grand Ole Opry" makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tenn.
S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
S12101919 Ross & Smith complete 1st direct England-Australia flight, Darwin, NT
S12101915 1 millionth Ford, a Model T, is built
S12101906 Theodore Roosevelt becomes 1st American awarded Nobel Peace Prize
S12101901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes awarded, to Jean Henri Dunant & Fr‚d‚ric Passy
S12101898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam
S12101896 "Ubu roi," Jarry's Theatre of the Absurd masterpiece, premiers, Paris
S12101896 Yale & Wesleyan play 1st intercollegiate basketball game
S12101869 Women's suffrage granted in Wyoming Territory (1st in US)
S12101864 Sherman reaches Savannah, begins 12-day siege
S12101832 Pres. Jackson proclaims no state has the right to nullify a US law
S12101817 Mississippi admitted as 20th US state (not with present boundaries)
S12101810 Tom Cribb (UK) beats Tom Molineaus (US-negro) in 1st interracial
S12101810Cboxing championship (40 rounds)
S12101690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial gov't to borrow money
S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding that he recant
S12111985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp. & its subsidiary, NBC
S12111985 NHL record 62 points scored - Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9
S12111985C21 total goals ties the record
S12111983 1st visit to a Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
S12111981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight - he loses to Trevor Berbick
S12111975 First class postage rises from 10› to 13›
S12111972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on the moon
S12111972 Jet Don Maynard becomes all-time pro reception leader (632)
S12111970 John Lennon releases album containing songs with the word "fuck"
S12111961 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
S12111960 Baltimore QB Johnny Unitas's 47-game TD pass streak broken by LA Rams
S12111959 Walter Williams, last Confederate survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
S12111954 "USS Forrestal" christened in Newport News, Va.
S12111953 KTVA, Anchorage, becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
S12111946 Hank Williams' 1st recording session
S12111946 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
S12111941 Japanese occupy Guam
S12111937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
S12111932 San Francisco's coldest day - -3ø C (27ø F) & snow
S12111931 British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence
S12111931Cto Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland
S12111928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on pres.-elect Herbert Hoover
S12111919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala.
S12111917 German puppet state of Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
S12111914 Stockton Street tunnel (SF) completed
S12111909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
S12111905 49ø C (120ø F), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
S12111901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal (...), Cornwall to Nfld.
S12111897 Walter Camp's 1st All-America team published, "Harper's Weekly"
S12111888 French Panama Canal company fails
S12111882 Boston's Bijou Theatre becomes 1st US playhouse lit exclusively by
S12111882Celectricity - 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
S12111872 Pinckney Pinchback becomes 1st black governor of a US state, Louisiana
S12111866 1st yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean begins
S12111844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Conn.
S12111816 Citizens of Geneva thwart Savoyard invaders
S12111816 Indiana admitted as 19th US state
S12111792 France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of treason
S12111620 103 "Mayflower" pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
S12111192 Richard the Lion-Hearted captured near Vienna by Leopold of Austria
S12121989 US District Judge Robert Sweet calls for legalization of drugs
S12121989 White NYC billionaire Leona Helmsley sentenced to 4 yrs in prison for
S12121989Cmillions in tax evasion the day after black Larry Brown is released
S12121989Cafter 10 yrs in Ohio prison for charging $164 on a stolen credit card
S12121987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
S12121986 James (Bone Crusher) Smith kayos Tim Witherspoon for WBA hvywt title
S12121980 Leonardo's Codex Leicester manuscript auctioned for œ2.2 million
S12121980 "Zenyata Mondatta" by the Police goes gold
S12121980 Bruce Springsteen's "The River" goes platinum
S12121979 "Energy Determination" blows up, Straits of Hormuz; largest ship wreck
S12121976 QB Joe Namath's last game as a NY Jet - 42-3 loss to Cincinnati
S12121974 Mick Taylor leaves the Rolling Stones
S12121970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study x-rays
S12121967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
S12121965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
S12121963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S12121961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
S12121959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
S12121953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
S12121947 United Mine Workers union withdraws from AFL
S12121946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
S12121937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat "Panay" on Yangtze River in
S12121937CChina (Japan later apologizes & pays US $2.2 million in reparations)
S12121937 1st mobile TV news unit (NYC)
S12121936 Chang Hsueh-liang arrests Chiang Kai-shek, invites Mao to negotiate
S12121925 Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Reza Shah Pahlavi takes over
S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," opens one in San Luis Obispo
S12121920 Maurice Ravel's "La Valse" premiers
S12121917 543 die in world's worst train disaster, derailment at Modane, France
S12121915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown, Dessau, Germany
S12121913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre museum in 1911, is recovered
S12121899 Golf tee patented by George F. Grant, Boston
S12121897 Rudolph Dirks' "Katzenjammer Kids" comic strip premiers
S12121882 Rosh Pinnah, 1st Jewish settlement in the Galilee, is founded
S12121870 1st black US congressman, Joseph Rainey of SC, sworn in
S12121792 In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven receives his 1st lesson in
S12121792Cmusical composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
S12121792 First Bank of the US opens its main office in Philadelphia
S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
S12121189 Richard I the Lion-Hearted leaves England on the 3rd Crusade
S12131988 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
S12131983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
S12131983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game - Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
S12131982 NJ Devils' 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini
S12131981 Polish gov't declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
S12131976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
S12131974 Malta becomes a republic
S12131969 Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" is released
S12131967 Jet stream measured at 657 kph (402 mph), Outer Hebrides, Scotland
S12131964 In El Paso, Texas, LBJ & Mexican Pres. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an
S12131964Cexplosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-M‚xico border
S12131960 George Koltanowski plays 56 simultaneous blindfold chess games, wins
S12131960C50, draws 6, loses 0, San Francisco
S12131960 Italy beats US in Davis Cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
S12131946 Australian trusteeship of Papua & New Guinea approved by UN
S12131944 Japanese kamikaze plane crashes into US cruiser "Nashville," kills 138
S12131942 Stephan Stanis scores 16 soccer goals, France - 1st class match record
S12131930 Ballerina Anna Pavlova dances for the last time, Golders Green, Engl.
S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" premiers, NYC
S12131920 F. Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
S12131918 Wilson becomes 1st to visit a European country while pres. (France)
S12131918 US Army of Occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany
S12131862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.; South beats North
S12131816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
S12131774 1st incident of the Revolution - 400 attack Ft. William & Mary, NH
S12131769 Dartmouth College, New Hampshire receives its charter
S12131642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
S12131577 Francis Drake leaves on his 3-yr privateering voyage around the world
S12131570 Denmark recognizes Swedish independence; Sweden gives up Norway claim
S12131545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
S12141989 1st computer BBS in USSR goes on-line, Tallinn, Estonia - 0142-422-583
S12141989 Mt. Redoubt, Alaska erupts, spews ash 11 km high
S12141988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures
S12141988 NBA Miami Heat wins 1st game ever after 17 losses, 89-88 v. Clippers
S12141985 Wilma Mankiller becomes 1st Native American woman chief (Cherokee)
S12141981 Israel annexes Golan Heights
S12141977 1st formal Egypt-Israel peace conference opens, Cairo
S12141972 Ice skater Roger Wood jumps a record 8.89 m (29' 2") over barrels
S12141971 Golden Gate Bridge's lights are out all night from a power failure
S12141962 Mariner 2 makes 1st successful fly-by of Venus (34,827 km)
S12141962 Only inmate to swim away from Alcatraz is recaptured at Golden Gate
S12141961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" becomes 1st country single certified gold
S12141959 J.B. Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m
S12141958 Tom & Jerry (Simon & Garfunkel) release their 1st single, "The Diary"
S12141957 Neil Sedaka's 1st hit, "Hey Schoolgirl," is released
S12141952 Washington Redskin QB Sammy Baugh, 37, plays his last NFL game
S12141952 Dallas Texans (formerly Boston Yanks) play last game - last NFL team
S12141952Cto fold - also last NFL team with 0 field goals in a season
S12141950 UN Gen. Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
S12141941 1st NFL divisional playoff - Bears (10-1) beat Packers (10-1), 33-14
S12141939 League of Nations expels the Soviet Union for invasion of Finland
S12141934 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany, NY
S12141927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
S12141911 South pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
S12141910 1st reported American football game in Britain - "USS Georgia" wins
S12141901 1st table tennis tournament is held, at the London Royal Aquarium
S12141900 Max Planck announces the 1st formulation of quantum theory, Berlin
S12141894 Socialist Eugene Debs sentenced to 6 months in jail in railroad strike
S12141849 1st chamber music group in US gives its 1st concert, Boston
S12141825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins (OS)
S12141819 Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state
S12141793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky. to Cincinnati
S12141782 Charleston, SC evacuated by the British
S12141656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured, by M. Jacquin in Paris; made of
S12141656Cgypsum pellets covered with fish scales
S12141655 Jews readmitted into England by Cromwell
S12141542 6-day-old Mary Queen of Scots accedes to the Scottish throne
S12151989 70,000 Salvadorans demonstrate for democracy - hundreds disappear
S12151988 US & Palestine Liberation Org. hold 1st direct talks in 13 years
S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Venus & Halley's Comet
S12151980 Allen Ginsberg completes his poem "Capitol Air," Frankfurt & NY
S12151980 Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
S12151976 "Argo Merchant" spills then-record 7.6 million gal of oil off Mass.
S12151974 Baltimore Colt QB Bert Jones completes record 17 consecutive passes
S12151973 American Psychiatric Ass'n says homosexuality is not mental illness
S12151970 Soviet Venera 7 sends 1st data from surface of another planet (Venus)
S12151969 Jockey Chuck Baltazar rides 7 consecutive winners at Laurel Racecourse
S12151966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
S12151965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
S12151965 Gemini 6 launched, makes 1st rendezvous in space, with Gemini 7
S12151964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
S12151964 San Marco 1, 1st Italian satellite, placed in earth orbit by NASA
S12151962 Vaughn Meader's "First Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
S12151961 Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, Israel
S12151950 NYC's Port Authority opens
S12151948 Former State Dept. official Alger Hiss indicted for perjury
S12151947 Arab Legion of Jordan lays siege to Jerusalem
S12151946 NFL suspends NY Giants Frank Filchock & Merle Hapes for failing to
S12151946Creport a bribe attempt
S12151942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
S12151941 "USS Swordfish" becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
S12151939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
S12151939 World premiere of "Gone with the Wind" movie, Atlanta, Ga.
S12151935 Euwe beats Alekhine 15«-14« for world chess championship
S12151925 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden - Canadiens 3, Americans 1
S12151917 Revolutionary Russia signs armistice with Central Powers
S12151914 Battle of L¢dz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
S12151876 Rain of snakes, Memphis
S12151874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres. Grant
S12151854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used, in Philadelphia
S12151840 Napol‚on's ashes interred with great solemnity in H“tel des Invalides
S12151836 Patent Office burns in Washington, DC
S12151820 1st general pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
S12151815 Jane Austen's "Emma" is published
S12151792 1st life insurance policy issued in US, Philadelphia
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval
S12151612 Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy telescopically
S12161989 Army called out to suppress Romanian protesters - thousands die
S12161988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax & mail fraud
S12161987 Reagan aide Michael Deaver found guilty of perjury
S12161983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
S12161975 "One Day at a Time" with Valerie Bertinelli premiers on CBS TV (-1984)
S12161973 Buffalo's O.J. Simpson sets NFL seasonal rushing record of 2,003 yds
S12161972 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team in modern times (14-0-0)
S12161970 "Night Gallery" hosted by Rod Serling premiers on NBC TV (-1973)
S12161968 Ferdinand & Isabella's 1492 order banning Jews from Spain voided
S12161965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
S12161961 US planes allowed on combat missions, provided 1 Vietnamese is aboard
S12161954 H.T. Hall produces 1st synthetic diamonds
S12161950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
S12161944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium
S12161941 World's largest battleship, Japan's 72,809-ton "Yamato," completed
S12161937 Alekhine recaptures world chess championship from Euwe, 15«-9«
S12161935 World's longest railroad bridge (7.0 km) opens, Metairie, La.
S12161922 F.E. Allen becomes 1st woman judge of a state supreme court (Ohio)
S12161920 Estimated 180,000 killed by earthquake & landslide, Kansu, China
S12161914 German cruisers shell Hartlepool, Whitby & Scarborough, England
S12161912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20› parcel post, issued
S12161909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres. Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office
S12161908 1st credit union in US founded, Manchester, NH
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its world cruise
S12161907 Eugenia Farrar becomes 1st singer broadcast over radio, Brooklyn
S12161905 "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
S12161903 Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
S12161897 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
S12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premiers
S12161864 Civil War battle of Nashville
S12161838 Boers defeat Zulu chieftain Dingaan, Blood River, Natal, South Africa
S12161835 Fire destroys over 600 buildings in NYC
S12161811 Strong earthquake strikes Ohio & Mississippi valleys - only 2 die
S12161809 Napol‚on Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine in the French Senate
S12161773 Big tea party in Boston Harbor - Indians welcome
S12161769 Gluck's opera "Alceste" premiers in Vienna
S12161740 Frederick II of Prussia enters Silesia, begins 1st Silesian War
S12161702 "Moscow Gazette" is issued by order of Peter the Great
S12161653 Instrument of Gov't sets up Council of State & Cromwell as Protector
S12171988 "USS Tennessee," 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, is commissioned
S12171986 CIA mercenary Eugene Hasenfus pardoned by Nicaragua
S12171984 Miami's Dan Marino sets NFL records for TD passes (48) & yds (5,084)
S12171979 Stan Barrett rocket car reaches 1,190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
S12171974 Jockey Chris McCarron rides his 516th winner of the season (record)
S12171971 Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
S12171969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding there is no evidence of
S12171969Cextraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
S12171959 Movie "On the Beach" premiers in 18 cities worldwide
S12171954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary, Ind.
S12171946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
S12171944 Japanese-Americans released from US concentration camps after 3 years
S12171939 German pocket battleship "Graf Spee" scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
S12171938 Otto Hahn & Lise Meitner begin experiments leading to the atomic bomb
S12171936 Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy 1st heard on radio, "Royal Gelatin Hr"
S12171933 Chicago Bears defeat NY Giants 23-21 in 1st NFL championship game
S12171925 Col. William (Billy) Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
S12171924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
S12171922 Last British troops leave Irish Free State
S12171920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
S12171920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over S.W. Africa
S12171917 Robert Borden becomes Canadian PM after Unionist election victory
S12171903 At 10:35 a.m., for 12 seconds, Orville Wright makes 1st sustained,
S12171903Ccontrolled motorized aircraft flight
S12171898 Chekhov's "The Seagull" is revived in Moscow - a success
S12171895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
S12171875 Violent bread riots in Montr‚al
S12171865 1st performance of Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," Vienna
S12171862 Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant expels the Jews from Tennessee
S12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
S12171821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
S12171819 Greater Colombia gains independence from Spain
S12171807 Napol‚on declares blockade of England (Milan decree)
S12171798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (William Blount, TN) begins
S12171792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada, Qu‚bec City
S12171791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st US 1-way street
S12171790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII (2nd time)
S12171531 Pope Clement VII founds the Inquisition in Lisbon
S12171526 Ferdinand of Austria elected king of Bohemia; birth of Austria-Hungary
S12181989 US government sticks nose in transportation workers' urine
S12181988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title, with 9-7 record
S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
S12181981 James Watt opens Lassen National Park, Calif. to snowmobiles
S12181980 Bruce Springsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
S12181978 2.5-kg, 66-cm diameter mushroom found near Kitwe, Zambia
S12181973 Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
S12181972 US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
S12181971 Capitol Reef National Park, Utah established
S12181969 Britain abolishes the death penalty
S12181967 Protesters blockade military induction center, Oakland - 268 arrests
S12181965 Borman & Lovell splash down in Atlantic; 2-week Gemini 7 mission ends
S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
S12181961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs. LA
S12181958 1st voice from space - recorded Christmas message by Pres. Eisenhower
S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
S12181956 Israeli flag hoisted atop Mt. Sinai
S12181956 Japan admitted to the United Nations
S12181956 "To Tell the Truth" with Bud Collyer premiers on CBS TV (-1967)
S12181946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial, "Faraway Hill," ends 2-month run
S12181946 Damon Runyon's ashes scattered over Broadway by Eddie Rickenbacker
S12181944 Supreme Court allows concentration camps for Japanese-Americans
S12181944 Newspaper "Le Monde" publishes 1st issue, Paris
S12181936 1st giant panda imported into US
S12181932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
S12181915 Pres. Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
S12181914 British protectorate proclaimed over Egypt
S12181898 Automobile speed record set - 63 kph (39 mph)
S12181881 Trades unions legalized in New South Wales
S12181865 13th amendment ratified, abolishes slavery
S12181849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
S12181831 NYC's 1st horsecar (without tracks) begins operation, until 1908
S12181813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
S12181796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, "Baltimore Monitor"
S12181792 Thomas Paine is tried in absentia for publishing "The Rights of Man"
S12181789 Virginia releases Kentucky Territory from its jurisdiction
S12181777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
S12181621 British House of Commons denies King James I's right to imprison MPs
S12181398 Timur sacks Delhi
S12182347 B.C. Noah leaves arc, Mt. Ararat, according to Bp. Ussher's chronology
S12191989 Explosion on Iranian oil tanker begins 19 M-gal oil spill off Morocco
S12191989 M. Shauck & G. Zanin complete 1st alcohol-powered transatlantic flight
S12191989 Movie "Roger & Me" premiers, Flint, Mich.
S12191988 Oklahoma's college football team gets 3-year probation
S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
S12191982 Miami Dolphin Garo Yepremian kicks his 21st consecutive field goal
S12191980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts
S12191974 Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn in as 41st US vice-president
S12191972 Oil tanker collision releases 36 million gallons of oil, Gulf of Oman
S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp.
S12191962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
S12191957 "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
S12191950 Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander
S12191946 War breaks out in Indochina, as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
S12191932 British Broadcasting Corp. begins transmitting overseas
S12191928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
S12191924 -51ø C (-59ø F), Riverside R.S., Mont. - 48-state record low for Dec.
S12191922 Mrs. Theres Vaughn, 24, confesses in court to being married 62 times
S12191920 1st indoor curling rink in US opens in Brookline, Mass.
S12191917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice, Toronto
S12191917 Montr‚al Canadiens play their 1st NHL game, defeat Ottawa 7-4
S12191916 British government takes control of shipping and mines
S12191911 Association of American Sculptors & Painters organized
S12191910 Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn.
S12191907 239 workers die in coal mine explosion, Jacobs Creek, Penn.
S12191904 Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to
S12191904Ccatch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan. 13, 1905
S12191903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
S12191890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" (BG)
S12191871 Albert Jones, NYC, patents corrugated paper
S12191861 Civil War battle of the Black Water
S12191859 Grading started for Market Street Railroad, SF
S12191842 US recognizes independence of Hawaii
S12191828 South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws
S12191826 Treaty of commerce between Prussia & Mecklenburg-Schwerin - beginning
S12191826Cof the Zollverein
S12191795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Penn. for the winter
S12191732 Benjamin Franklin publishes "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
S12201999 As per agreement, Portuguese Macau returns to Chinese sovereignty
S12201989 US invades Panam  for the 6th time since 1902
S12201989 MP Capt. Linda Bray becomes 1st US army woman in combat
S12201989 "Born on the 4th of July" with Tom Cruise opens in selected cities
S12201988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
S12201987 Ferry & oil tanker collide in Philippines, 3,000 killed - worst
S12201987Cpeacetime shipping disaster
S12201987 SF 49er Jerry Rice catches a TD pass in his 12th consecutive game
S12201986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY, kill 1
S12201983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
S12201979 "Knots Landing" premiers on CBS TV
S12201973 AL pres. Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
S12201967 Salvador Dal¡ paints a picture with a water pistol on "Ed Sullivan"
S12201963 Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners
S12201962 The Osmond Brothers debut on "The Andy Williams Show"
S12201960 Hanoi announces formation of Nat'l Front for Liberation of So. Vietnam
S12201951 1st electricity generated by atomic power, near Idaho Falls, Idaho
S12201944 Battle of Bastogne; Nazis surround 101st Airborne (Nuts!)
S12201941 6 Italians in midget subs mine 3 British ships in Alexandria harbor
S12201939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
S12201938 V.K. Zworykin receives patent on the Iconoscope TV system
S12201928 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, ME for Montr‚al, PQ
S12201919 Canadian National Railways established
S12201894 7 midwest schools meet to form Big Ten athletic conference
S12201893 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
S12201892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around-the-world trip, according to Verne
S12201891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands the pull of 4 horses, Montr‚al
S12201883 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
S12201880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
S12201879 Edison privately demonstrates the electric light, Menlo Park, NJ
S12201872 Veracruz-Mexico City railroad completed
S12201860 SC passes Ordinance of Secession 169-0 - 1st state to secede
S12201841 Britain, France, Austria, Russia & Prussia sign treaty to suppress the
S12201841Cslave trade
S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
S12201803 US takes formal possession of Louisiana Territory from France
S12201669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection
S12201669C& sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
S12201606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
S12211988 NY-bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland - all 258 aboard die
S12211987 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
S12211985 "ARCO Anchorage" runs aground near Pt. Angeles, WA, spills 239,000 gal
S12211984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Venus & Halley's Comet
S12211981 Cincinnati defeats Bradley in 7 OT - longest college basketball game
S12211979 Experimental magnetically levitated Japanese train attains 517 kph
S12211979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
S12211975 John Riggins becomes 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yds rushing in a season
S12211975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points, beat Caps 14-2
S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
S12211972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
S12211968 Apollo 8 launched to cislunar space (6-day trip)
S12211968 Jim Benagh publishes "Incredible Athletic Feats"                     <
S12211966 USSR launches Luna 13; later soft-lands in Oceanus Procellarum
S12211965 Amateur radio satellite Oscar 4 launched (163/33,550 km)
S12211964 US Explorer 26 (S-3c) launched into earth orbit (311/26,220 km)
S12211955 Montgomery bus boycott ends after 16 days
S12211948 Rep. of ire (formerly Irish Free State) withdraws from Commonwealth
S12211937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White)
S12211933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania
S12211933 Newfoundland loses its status as a dominion, reverts to crown colony
S12211929 1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas
S12211923 Nep l changes from a British protectorate to an independent nation
S12211921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
S12211915 25.83 cm (10.17") of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
S12211914 1st feature-length silent-film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
S12211914Creleased (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
S12211913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in "NY World"
S12211909 Univ. of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to north pole
S12211898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium
S12211867 Ausgleich - Austria-Hungary organized as a dual monarchy
S12211849 1st US skating club formed (Philadelphia)
S12211829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
S12211784 John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of foreign affairs (state)
S12222012 Mayan calendar reaches 13.0.0.0.0 for 2nd time (GMT) (very ominous)
S12221989 Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu overthrown after 24 years
S12221989 OAS votes 20-1 for immediate withdrawal of US troops from Panam 
S12221989 Record cold in 128 cities in 30 US states
S12221988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
S12221988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 500 km of Wash. & BC coast
S12221985 KC Chief Stephone Paige sets NFL game record with 309 yds receiving
S12221984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train
S12221984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks
S12221983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
S12221982 World premier of Bruce Springsteen's 1st video, "Atlantic City" on MTV
S12221977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
S12221974 "NY Times" publishes Seymour Hersh's expos‚ of CIA domestic activities
S12221974 Referenda in Comoros - 3 islands vote for independence, 1 stays French
S12221972 Hanoi's largest hospital bombed by US planes
S12221969 Pete Maravich (La. St.) sets NCAA game record by making 30 free throws
S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
S12221962 1st song by an English band to hit #1 in US, the Tornadoes' "Telstar"
S12221959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
S12221947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
S12221944 Germans demand surrender of US troops at Bastogne, Belgium
S12221944 Vo Nguyen Giap sets up armed propaganda brigade - beginning of
S12221944CVietminh's resistance against the French
S12221943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member of Nat'l Inst. of Arts & Letters
S12221941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
S12221937 Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic
S12221936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Penn.
S12221934 Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record of 702 pins in 3 games
S12221910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
S12221905 Insurrections of workers in Moscow (-Jan. 1, 1906)
S12221894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggering
S12221894Cworldwide charges of anti-Semitism (he is later vindicated)
S12221894 United States Golf Association formed, NYC
S12221877 1st US bicycle magazine, "American Bicycling Journal," appears, Boston
S12221864 Gen. Sherman occupies Savannah, Georgia, ending his "March to the Sea"
S12221849 Fyodor Dostoevsky led out for execution, pardoned at the last minute
S12221808 Beethoven's 5th (in C minor) & 6th (in F major) symphonies premier
S12221807 Embargo Act passed; prohibits US ships in international commerce
S12221775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
S12221772 Moravian missionaries begin 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns.
S12231989 "Science News" reports depleted ozone levels in the arctic
S12231987 Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted
S12231987Cassassination of Pres. Ford, escapes from Alderson Prison
S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
S12231983 TTAPS article (1st to use term "nuclear winter") appears in "Science"
S12231982 Seiko TV-wrist watch goes on sale; weighs in at 320 grams
S12231978 Islanders score 7 goals in 1 period against the Rangers - Trottier
S12231978Cscores 8 points (5 goals), NHL record 6 points in 1 period
S12231977 British Home Office announces destruction of 13 million LSD tabs
S12231975 Ford signs Metric Conversion Act, calling for voluntary conversion
S12231975 Lightning bolt kills 21, Umtali, Rhodesia
S12231973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
S12231973 Labor arbitrator rules a baseball player cannot be bound to 1 team
S12231973Cindefinitely without his consent
S12231972 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua
S12231972 NY Islanders hockey team ends 15-game winless streak
S12231972 Franco Harris's "immaculate reception" gives Steelers playoff win over
S12231972COakland Raiders, 13-7
S12231968 82 members of US spy ship "Pueblo" released by North Korea
S12231967 Jimi Hendrix releases "Foxy Lady"
S12231951 LA Rams defeat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL title game
S12231951 1st nationally televised NFL game - Dumont pays $75,000
S12231947 Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley of Bell Labs 1st demonstrate transistor
S12231946 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University, because
S12231946Cthey may use a black player in their basketball game
S12231943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
S12231941 US forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
S12231928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network
S12231923 French dirigible "Dixmude" is struck by lightning, explodes
S12231920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
S12231919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
S12231913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
S12231907 1st all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona, Penn.
S12231901 Parliament adopts "White Australia policy" requiring literacy in a
S12231901CEuropean language
S12231852 1st train runs west of the Mississippi, St. Louis-Cheltenham, 8 km
S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
S12231806 Beethoven's "Violin Concerto in D Major" premiers
S12231788 Maryland votes to cede 26 kmý (10 miý) to US for District of Columbia
S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
S12241989 Seahawk Steve Largent's last game; his record of consecutive pass-
S12241989Ccatching games ends intact at 177
S12241980 Americans remember Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 sec
S12241977 Comadres (mothers of the disappeared) formed in El Salvador
S12241974 Worst Australian natural disaster - Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin - 50 die
S12241972 11th B-52 lost over North Vietnam in last 6 days
S12241972 US drops equivalent of 20 Hiroshima A-bombs on No. Vietnam in last 6 d
S12241970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
S12241968 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit the moon
S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from the Book of Genesis
S12241968 Hockey star Garry Unger plays 1st of record 914 consecutive games
S12241966 Luna 13 soft lands on moon
S12241963 LBJ tells Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Just let me get elected, & then you
S12241963Ccan have your war"
S12241951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN
S12241948 1st US house completely sun-heated is occupied, Dover, Mass.
S12241948 "The Perry Como Show" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV
S12241946 4th French republic established
S12241943 FDR appoints Gen. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
S12241942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemnde, Germany
S12241936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Calif.
S12241924 17ø C (63ø F) at noon to -29ø (-21ø) at midnight, Fairfield, Mont.
S12241920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
S12241906 Reginald A. Fessenden becomes 1st to broadcast music over radio, Mass.
S12241899 The Netherlands adopts proportional representation
S12241889 Bicycle with back-pedal brake patented by Daniel Stover, William Hance
S12241881 Oscar Wilde embarks for his US lecture tour
S12241866 Schleswig-Holstein is incorporated in Prussia
S12241865 Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tenn.
S12241852 Baltimore & Ohio RR reaches the Ohio River, at Wheeling
S12241851 Fire devastates Library of Congress, destroys 35,000 volumes
S12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812; news did not arrive until
S12241814Cafter battle of New Orleans
S12241813 Iturbide betrays the Mexican revolution, attacks Morelos
S12241784 Methodist Episcopal Church in America organized, Baltimore
S12251978 Vietnamese invade Cambodia to throw out Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge
S12251977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian Pres. Sadat
S12251971 Longest NFL game (82 m 40 s) - Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
S12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting the moon
S12251966 "NY Times" reports on extensive destruction of civilian targets by US
S12251966Cbombing raids over North Vietnam
S12251963 Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
S12251941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph, the 9th reindeer
S12251934 "A Christmas Carol" with Lionel Barrymore 1st broadcast, CBS radio
S12251931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
S12251930 1st US bobsled run open to the public (Lake Placid, NY)
S12251926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (until 1989)
S12251917 Ukrainian SSR proclaimed (established 12/1919)
S12251894 1st midwest football team to play on west coast, Chicago v. Stanford
S12251888 1st indoor baseball game played, at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Pres. Johnson grants unconditional pardon
S12251868Cto all persons involved in the Southern Rebellion (Civil War)
S12251866 "Henrietta" wins 1st transatlantic yacht race, 13 d 21 h 55 m
S12251862 40,000 watch the Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
S12251855 Probably the 1st hockey game played in North America, Kingston, Ont.
S12251843 1st US theater matin‚e (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
S12251831 La. & Ark. become 1st states to observe Christmas as a legal holiday
S12251818 1st US performance of Handel's "Messiah," Boston
S12251796 -27ø C (-16ø F), London, England
S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware to Trenton
S12251775 Pope Pius VI encyclical "On the problems of the pontificate"
S12251651 Massachusetts orders 5 shilling fine for observing Christmas
S12251471 Great Comet of 1472 discovered - later visible in daylight
S12251241 Batu & the Mongols take Buda, Hungary
S12251223 St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
S12251085 William the Conqueror orders the survey of England subsequently
S12251085Crecorded in the Domesday Book
S12251066 William I the Conqueror crowned king of England (-1087)
S1225 800 Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor
S1225 336 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 occurs in Rome
S1225   1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
S12262030 1st date in Rudy Rucker's sci-fi novel "Wetware"
S12262000 Beginning date of Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward, 2000-1887"
S12261988 "Legs Diamond," starring Peter Allen, opens on Broadway
S12261978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
S12261975 1st supersonic transport service (USSR - Tupolev-144)
S12261973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
S12261972 Most intense bombing of Hanoi ever - US loses 5 B-52s
S12261968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game
S12261968Cmisconducts in a game against the NY Rangers in NY's MSG
S12261967 BBC broadcasts the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour"
S12261954 Final episode of radio's "The Shadow," after 24 years
S12261950 Gillette & Mutual buy All-Star & World Series rights ($6 M for 6 yrs)
S12261948 Cardinal Mindszenty arrested by Hungarian Communist government
S12261943 Chicago Bears beat Wash. 41-21 for NFL title; Luckman passes for 5 TDs
S12261941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address US Congress
S12261933 US promises to end armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
S12261931 Pulitzer-Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Broadway
S12261925 1st East-West Shrine all-star football game, SF - West wins 6-0
S12261925 NHL-record 141 shots on goal, NY Americans (73) v. Pitts. Pirates (68)
S12261917 Fed. gov't takes over operation of US railroads for duration of WW I
S12261908 Jack Johnson KOs Tommy Burns, becomes 1st black heavyweight champ, NSW
S12261902 Most knockdowns in a fight - Christy Williams (42) v. Oscar Nelson (5)
S12261878 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
S12261877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
S12261865 1st US coffee percolator patented by James Mason, Mass.
S12261860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
S12261848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panam  (then in Colombia) en route to SF
S12261805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
S12261799 George Washington is eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st
S12261799Cin peace & 1st in the hearts of his countrymen"
S12261776 Battle of Trenton - Washington surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
S12261773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
S12261709 Handel's opera "Agrippina" premiers, Venice
S12261606 William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is performed at court
S12261492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
S12271988 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
S12271987 Seattle Seahawk Steve Largent's 752nd career reception sets NFL record
S12271986 1st time a ball player sells his autograph to an admiring child
S12271985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 in attack on El Al at Rome & Vienna
S12271983 Propane gas fire devastates 16 square blocks of Buffalo
S12271982 Yasuo Kato is 1st to reach summit of Everest by 3 different routes
S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afgh nist n, Pres. Hafizullah Amin overthrown
S12271979 Red Army hockey team beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG
S12271971 USSR launches Aureole 1 satellite for France
S12271970 "Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2,844 performances
S12271949 United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
S12271947 1st Howdy Doody show, "Puppet Playhouse," telecast on NBC
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
S12271943 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese gov't
S12271941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
S12271934 1st US youth hostel opens, Northfield, Mass.
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall opens in New York
S12271927 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotskyites expelled
S12271927 "Show Boat" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater (NYC)
S12271904 James Barrie's "Peter Pan" opens at the Duke of York's Theatre, London
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
S12271900 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita)
S12271892 Cornerstone laid for Episcopalian Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY
S12271892 N.C. Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
S12271887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
S12271871 World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
S12271867 Ontario & Qu‚bec legislatures hold 1st meetings
S12271860 SC occupies Castle Pinckney 1 day after federal troops withdraw
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established
S12271845 Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga.
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage on board "HMS Beagle"
S12271741 Prussian forces take Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
S12271660 British post office founded
S12281989 Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei index closes at record 38,915.87
S12281985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
S12281984 TV soap opera "The Edge of Night" ends 28-year run
S12281975 Red Army hockey team beats NY Rangers 7-3 at MSG
S12281973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelago"
S12281968 Beatles' "White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
S12281968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
S12281958 Colts beat Giants 23-17 in 1st NFL sudden-death championship game
S12281955 Little Richard's "Tutti Fruitti" makes the charts
S12281947 Chicago Cardinals beat Eagles 28-21 for NFL title; Cards' only title
S12281945 Congress officially recognizes the "Pledge of Allegiance"
S12281942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times
S12281935 WPA Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
S12281915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
S12281912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI was 1st
S12281912Cmunicipally owned transit system)
S12281908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
S12281902 1st indoor football game - Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (MSG, NYC)
S12281880 Victoria, Australia parliament passes the Rabbit Suppression Act
S12281879 Tay Bridge (Scotland) collapses in storm; 75 die on unsuspecting train
S12281878 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On socialism"
S12281869 Rubber chewing gum patented by William Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
S12281850 Rangoon, Burma destroyed by fire
S12281849 M. Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning by accidentally upsetting a
S12281849Clamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing
S12281846 Iowa admitted as 29th US state
S12281842 1st bathtub installed in US, according to H.L. Mencken (hoax)
S12281832 John Calhoun becomes 1st US vice-president to resign
S12281594 1st known Shakespearean production, "Comedy of Errors" at Gray's Inn
S1228 856 The Vikings burn Paris
S12291989 Vaclav Havel becomes 1st non-Communist Czechoslovak pres. since 1948
S12291987 Yuri Romanenko in Soyuz TM-3 returns after record 326 days in space
S12291984 Blues take 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
S12291983 US announces withdrawal from UN Educational, Scientific & Cultural Org
S12291978 Ohio State coach Woody Hayes punches Clemson player after interception
S12291975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
S12291962 Saigon reports 4,077 strategic hamlets have been constructed, housing
S12291962C39% of the South Vietnamese population
S12291954 Netherlands Antilles becomes coequal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
S12291952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford, NY
S12291950 "You Asked for It" premiers on DuMont (later ABC) TV
S12291949 Hungary nationalizes its industries
S12291940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
S12291938 Construction begins on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland (New Zealand) service
S12291934 Japan renounces Wash. Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
S12291931 Discovery of heavy water publicly announced, H.C. Urey, New Orleans
S12291930 Fred Newton completes a 176-day swim from Minneapolis to New Orleans
S12291927 Krakatoa erupts for 1st time since 1883; still active in the 1980's
S12291921 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington treaty to limit naval
S12291921Carmaments
S12291916 Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is published in NY
S12291913 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premiers in Chicago
S12291911 San Francisco Symphony formed
S12291908 4-wheel automobile brake patented, Clintonville, Wisc.
S12291891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
S12291890 Federal troops massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD; last
S12291890CIndian "war" in the west
S12291867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co., NY
S12291857 Canton, China captured by British & French
S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
S12291851 1st US chapter of Young Men's Christian Association opens, Boston
S12291848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
S12291845 Texas admitted as 28th US state
S12291843 British take Gwalior (India), the "Gibraltar of the East"
S12291837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
S12291823 Byron sails to join Prince Al‚xandros to fight for Greek independence
S12291813 British burn Buffalo, NY during the War of 1812
S12291782 1st nautical almanac in US published, by Samuel Stearns, Boston
S12291778 British take Savannah, Georgia in Revolutionary War
S12301988 Canadian Senate okays free trade pact with US
S12301988 Leonid Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-years for bribery
S12301983 Salvadoran rebels capture army base, hold it for 6 hours
S12301981 Giovanni Vigliotto arrested for record 104 bigamous marriages, Florida
S12301979 Rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer breaks up
S12301973 Skylab takes 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek)
S12301972 Pres. Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces new peace talks
S12301971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
S12301968 -44ø C (-48ø F), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
S12301967 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
S12301959 "George Washington," 1st ballistic missile sub, is commissioned
S12301952 Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 was 1st in 71 years with no lynchings
S12301951 "The Roy Rogers Show" premiers on NBC TV (-1957)
S12301947 King Michael abdicates; Romania becomes a people's republic
S12301944 King George II of Greece renounces his throne
S12301940 Los Angeles dedicates its 1st freeway, Arroyo Seco Parkway
S12301936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
S12301935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
S12301933 -46ø C (-50ø F), Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
S12301922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR,
S12301922CBelorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SFSR
S12301917 -38ø C (-37ø F), Lewisburg, West Virginia (state record)
S12301917 -36ø C (-32ø F), Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
S12301916 Lt. Wilfred Owen, poet, leaves England for the Western Front
S12301911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st president of Republic of China
S12301907 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
S12301907C(He didn't)
S12301906 Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
S12301903 602 die as flames sweep Iroquois Theater in Chicago
S12301877 Brahms' 2nd symphony (in D major) premiers, Vienna
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase - 120,000 kmý (45,000 miý) by Gila River from M‚xico
S12301853Cfor $10 million; area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
S12301835 After gold discovery in Ga., Cherokees forced to move across Miss. R.
S12301816 After his 1st wife drowns herself, Shelley marries Mary Wollstonecraft
S12301809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
S12311999 By treaty, control of Panama Canal reverts to Panam 
S12311999 Criswell predicts black rainbow will suck oxygen from face of earth
S12311989 "Khark 5" oil spill off Morocco reaches 280 kmý (108 miý)
S12311984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM - succeeds his mom, Indira
S12311983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
S12311982 Konstantin Kadhov (USSR) sets 10,000-m speed skating record - 14:17.61
S12311977 Serial murderer Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
S12311974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
S12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
S12311972 Leap second day; also 1973-79, 1987, 1989
S12311968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
S12311967 Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 for NFL championship in -13ø F (-25ø C)
S12311966 5,008 US servicemen killed in Vietnam this year - total to date, 6,664
S12311964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record - 448 kph (276 mph)
S12311961 Marshall Plan expires, after distributing more than $12 billion
S12311960 Last day the farthing, in use since 1279, is legal tender in Britain
S12311955 124 die in stampede to get rice balls at Shinto temple, Niigata, Japan
S12311951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
S12311950 2nd Communist invasion of South Korea, this time including Chinese
S12311947 Roy Rogers & Dale Evans are married
S12311946 Pres. Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
S12311946 French troops leave Lebanon
S12311945 Ratification of UN Charter completed
S12311935 Parker Brothers receive patent on the game "Monopoly"
S12311934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
S12311933 1st Rugby League game played in France - England vs. Australia, Paris
S12311923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
S12311917 Prohibition adopted in Canada
S12311899 Ship "Warrimoo," crossing Internat'l Date Line & Equator, skips this
S12311899Cday - stern is in northern hemisphere winter, 12/30/1899; prow is in
S12311899Csouthern hemisphere summer, 1/1/1900
S12311890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
S12311879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
S12311870 J.D. Schneiter patents rocket mail in France (not used)
S12311862 Civil War battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
S12311813 Prussians under Gebhard von Blcher cross the Rhine into France
S12311791 Empress Catherine begins restrictions on Jewish settlement in Russia
S12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation
S12311775 Battle of Qu‚bec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
S12311600 British East India Company chartered
S12311460 Margaret defeats York at Wakefield - beginning of Wars of the Roses
S1231 999 The world comes to an end, according to many medieval predictions
S1231 -46 Last day of the Year of Confusion, 445-day Roman year (OS)
S1232