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Today in History ~ December 2
Christmas Lights Across Canada.
Events1697 - St Paul's Cathedral opens in London
1763 - Touro Shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
1777 - British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France in Paris while Pope Pius VII looks on
1805 - Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
1816 - 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
1823 - President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine" [H]
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris
1840 - William Henry Harrison elected president of US
1845 - Polk affirms Monroe Doctrine [H]
1852 - 2nd French Empire declares Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) Emperor
1864 - Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1877 - Camille Saint-Saens' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar
1883 - Johannes Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
1885 - Karl Goldmark's opera "Queen of Sheba," premieres in Vienna
1887 - Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
1901 - King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
1908 - Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1927 - 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1929 - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1932 - "Adventures of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1934 - 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
1939 - British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
1939 - NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight
1941 - Naval Intelligence ends bugging Japanese consul
1941 - Yamamoto orders his fleet to Pearl Harbor
1942 - The Atomic Age was born when scientists, led by Enrico Fermi, demonstrated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. It happened in a makeshift laboratory underneath the stands of the football stadium at the University of Chicago. This little event led to nuclear power and nuclear weapons and had an incalculable effect on geopolitics, the economy, and art.
1943 - 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
1944 - US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
1947 - 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
1952 - 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
1954 - US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute" [H]
1956 - Fidel Castro lands with on coast of Cuba
1961 - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
1968 - Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1969 - Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
1970 - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
1978 - Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters pour through Tehran
1978 - Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
1979 - Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
1980 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1982 - 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lives 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
1988 - "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
1988 - 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1990 - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
1991 - Muslim Shiites release American hostage held in Lebanon, Joseph Cicippio
1994 - Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
Birthdays Today
1859 - Georges Seurat (French painter: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte)
1885 - Nikos Kazantazakis, Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
1896 - Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moscow/Stalingrad
1899 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra)
1904 - Hy Gardner (journalist)
1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
1909 - June Clyde (actress)
1914 - Eddie Sauter (musician)
1914 - Ray Walston, Laurel MS, actor (My Favorite Martian)
1915 - Adolph Green (screen writer: collaborated with Betty Comden: Singin' in the Rain, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever)
1915 - Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
1917 - Ezra Stone (Feinstone) (actor, director)
1918 - Milton Delugg (bandleader: The Gong Show)
1923 - Maria M Callas, NYC, soprano (Carmen)
1924 - Alexander Haig Jr, Bala-Cynwyd Pa, US Sec of State
(1981-82)/General/advisor to Richard Nixon
1925 - Julie Harris (actress: Knots Landing, I Am a Camera, Member of the Wedding)
1929 - Lowell North (yachtsman)
1934 - Andre Rodgers (baseball)
1934 - Bill McCreary (hockey coach)
1940 - Gerald Cheevers (hockey: Boston Bruins goalie: longest undefeated streak [32 games])
1940 - Willie Brown (football: Oakland Raiders corner back: Super Bowl: II, XI)
1941 - Tom McGuinness (musician: bass: groups: Manfred Mann, McGuinness Flint)
1943 - Zeke Moore (football)
1946 - Gianne Versace, fashion designer (Versace)
1946 - Pedro Borbon (baseball)
1948 - Charlie Hall (football)
1948 - Wayne Simpson (baseball)
1949 - Cathy Lee Crosby (actress: Wonder Woman; TV host: That's Incredible!)
1960 - Rick Savage (musician: bass: group: Def Leppard)
1962 - Tracy Austin (tennis: US Open [and youngest] Singles champion [1979 and 1981])
1973 - Monica Seles, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
Famous deaths
1515 - Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies
1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian (La Foi), dies at 85
1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
1814 - Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74
1845 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer, dies at 82
1859 - John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
1880 - Josephine Lang, composer, dies at 65
1888 - Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1916 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69
1919 - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
1931 - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80
1935 - Albert Kessel, 1st to die in Calif gas chamber
1950 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist, dies at 33
1963 - Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
1967 - Francis J Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78
1969 - Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies
1972 - Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies
1981 - Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62
1982 - Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49
1986 - Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer
1990 - Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
1993 - Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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