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Today in History ~ December 6
Events1160 - Jean Bodel's "Jeu de St Nicholas," premieres in Arras
1240 - Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev
1424 - Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1527 - Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
1534 - Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1648 - Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 Presbyterians from sitting in English Parliament
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army retreats to Scotland
1756 - British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta, India
1790 - Congress meets in Philadelphia, temporary US capital
1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
1841 - Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres
1846 - Hector Berlioz' opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1862 - President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians at Mankato, MN
1865 - 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery [H]
1866 - Chicago water supply tunnel into Lake Michigan completed
1876 - 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
1876 - US Electorial College picks Republican Hayes as president (although Tilden won popular election)
1877 - 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
1877 - Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1884 - Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
1904 - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
1907 - In West Virginia's Marion County, an explosion in a network of mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah killed 361 coal miners. It was the worst mining disaster in American history.
1914 - German troops over run Lodz
1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
1917 - More than 1,600 people died in an explosion when a Belgian relief ship and the French munitions vessel "Mont Blanc" collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland [H]
1922 - The Irish Free State, forerunner of the modern Republic of Ireland, was officially proclaimed. [H]
1923 - 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge)
1929 - Turkey introduces female suffrage
1933 - Americans crowded into liquor stores, bars and cafes to buy their first legal alcoholic beverages in 13 years, following repeal of Prohibition.
1933 - Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US, lifted
1939 - Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in NYC
1940 - Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1941 - President Roosevelt telegrams Emperor Hirohito with the request that "for the sake of humanity," the emperor intervene "to prevent further death and destruction in the world." [H]
1941 - Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941 - NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1944 - US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
1955 - NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
1956 - Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
1957 - AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
1969 - An all-star concert headlined by the Rolling Stones
at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Calif., was marred by tragedy when a spectator was stabbed to death by members of the Hell's Angels, which had been hired as security guards for the event.
1971 - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew, who had resigned in the face of income tax evasion charges.
1975, the Senate authorized a $2.3 billion emergency loan to save New York City from bankruptcy.
1976 - War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1982 - 11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
1983 - A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, killing 6 Israelis
1986 - President Reagan admitted "mistakes were made" in executing U.S. policy involving arms sales to Iran.
1987 - 3 Satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
1988 - Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
1989 - Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at University Montreal
1990 - Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages being held by Iraq. The legislature acted the next day and all Americans who wished to leave were out a week later.
1990 - Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1991 - The Food and Drug Administration issued sweeping changes in food labeling rules that required more detailed listing of contents.
1992 - 300,000 Hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die but riots kill another 2,500 people.
1994 - Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1994 - Orange County Calif files for bankruptcy
1997 - The Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East was hit by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, measuring 8.5 to 9 in magnitude. Probably because the area is sparsely populated, there were no reported deaths.
Birthdays Today
1608 - George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland
1732 - Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
1743 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
1775 - Nicolas Isouard, composer
1822 - John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1833 - John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col ("Grey Ghost" of Confederate Army), died in 1916 (gave riding lessons to young George Patton)
1872 - William S. Hart (actor, director, silent screen star: Wild Bill Hickock)
1886 - Joyce (Alfred) Kilmer (poet: Trees)
1887 - Lynn Fontanne (actress: The Pirate with Alfred Lunt)
1896 - Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin) (musician, lyricist: Lady Be Good, The Man I Love, The Man That Got Away)
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist
1903 - Tony Lazzeri (Baseball Hall of Famer)
1906 - Agnes Moorehead (actress: Bewitched)
1913 - Eleanor Holm (swimmer)
1918 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, Concord CA, jazz pianist/composer (Gates of Justice)
1921 - Otto Graham (football: Cleveland Browns [1950-55)
1924 - Wally Cox (baseball)
1930 - Andy Robustelli (football)
1930 - Bobby Van (Stein) (actor, dancer: Small Town Girl)
1933 - Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, composer
1940 - Steve Alaimo (singer: Every Day I Have to Cry Some)
1941 - John Nelson, San Jose, Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
1941 - Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966)
1945 - James Naughton (actor)
1945 - Larry Bowa (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies shortstop)
1948 - Jonathan King (songwriter, singer: Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
1951 - Carl Summerell (football)
1951 - Gavin Kirk (hockey)
1953 - Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
Famous deaths
1531 - John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch Anabaptist leader, beheaded
1640 - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75
1779 - Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter, dies at 80
1793 - Marie Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, guillotined in Paris
1867 - Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71
1882 - Anthony Trollope, writer, dies
1889 - Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81
1892 - E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75
1926 - Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86
1949 - Leadbelly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64
1993 - Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85
1995 - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67
1995 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86
1996 - [Alvin] Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL), dies at 70
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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