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Today in History ~ December 1
World AIDS Day
National Day in Romania
Events1167 - Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1566 - Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alba
1626 - Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical gov of Jerusalem, driven out
1640: Portuguese revolt against Spanish rule began
1641 - Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1653 - An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
1742 - Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1804 - Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, of Martinique
1822 - Franz Liszt's (11) debut as pianist for Isabella Colbran
1824 - House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams, Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay. Adams eventually declared president [H]
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales
1864 - Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
1864 - Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
1868 - John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1887 - Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
1891 - James Naismith creates the game of basketball
1896 - 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
1903 - "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released
1909 - 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1913 - 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
1913 - Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
1917 - Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb
1918 - Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
1918 - Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
1918 - Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
1919 - AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By," premieres in Manchester
1921 - 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
1922 - 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
1924 - George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good," premieres in NYC
1929 - Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
1933 - Rudolf Hess & Earnest Roehm become ministers in Hitler government
1934 - Russian political assassination led to Stalinist Terror
1936 - Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
1936 - EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
1937 - Japan recognizes Franco government
1939 - Reichfuhrer-SS heinrich Himmler orders deportation of Polish Jews
1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941 - Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1942 - Gasoline rationed in US
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1944 - Bela Bartok's Concerto for orchestra, premieres
1945 - Burl Ives makes his concert debut.
1951 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London
1951 - Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus. [H]
1956 - Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
1958 - Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
1959 - The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1960 - Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
1964 - ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1965 - Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
1965 - South Africa government says children of white fathers are white
1967 - Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
1968 - Burt Bacharach & Hal David's musical "Promises, Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
1969 - US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
1974 - LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
1976 - Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
1978 - Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size
1980 - US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
1981 - Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed
1982 - Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
1986 - Musee d'Orsay opens in Paris
1987 - Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
1988 - 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1989 - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 - USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1990 - British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1990 - Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1990 - Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
1991 - Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991 - Ukrainian people vote for independence
1992 - Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
1994 - PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
1997 - Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
Birthdays Today
1605 - Juan de Padilla, composer
1671 - Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1709 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer
1729 - Giuseppe Sarti, composer
1886 - Rex Stout (mystery writer: Nero Wolfe)
1898 - Cyril Ritchard (actor)
1899 - Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
1905 - Charles Finney, US, author (Circus of Dr Lao)
1910 - Dame Alicia Markova, [Alicia Lilian Alice Marks], London, ballerina
1911 - Calvin Griffith (baseball owner: Senators, Twins)
1911 - Walter Alston (baseball: LA Dodgers manager)
1912 - Cookie (Harry) Lavagetto (baseball)
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, architect (World Trade Center, NY)
1913 - Mary Martin (actress, singer: South Pacific, Peter Pan; mother of actor, Larry Hagman)
1914 - Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)
1925 - Cal McLish (baseball)
1929 - Dick Shawn (Schulefand) (comedian, actor: Bewitched)
1934 - Billy Paul (singer: Me and Mrs. Jones)
1935 - Lou Rawls (singer: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, Budweiser commercials)
1935 - Lou Rawls, Chic Ill, vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man)
1935 - Woody Allen (Allen Konigsberg) (Academy Award-winning writer and director: Annie Hall [1977]; actor)
1939 - Diane Lennon (singer: group: The Lennon Sisters)
1939 - Lee Trevino (golf champion: US Open [1968], British Open [1971, 1972], PGA [1974, 1984])
1940 - Richard Pryor, Ill, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
1945 - Bette Midler (singer: The Rose; actress: From a Distance, Beaches)
1945 - John Densmore (musician: group: The Doors: Light My Fire)
1946 - Gilbert O'Sullivan (singer: Alone Again [Naturally], Clair)
1948 - George Foster (baseball: Cincinnati Reds: Baseball Writer's Award [National League - 1977])
1959 - Charlene Tilton (actress: Dallas)
1976 - Konerak Sinthasomphone, Milwaukee Wisc, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim
Famous deaths
1135 - Henry I Beauclerc, king of England (1st king that could read), dies
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor, dies at 77
1580 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit, hanged at 42
1635 - Melchior Teschner, composer, dies at 51
1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, composer, dies
1808 - Anton Fischer, composer, dies at 30
1842 - Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
1934 - Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
1947 - Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87
1986 - Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1989 - Alvin Ailey, US choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58
1997 - Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist
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