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Today in History ~ December 9
Events1640 - Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1724 - Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London
1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia
1747 - England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1783 - 1st execution at English Newgate-jail
1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1824 - Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
1842 - Mikail Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
1854 - Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1884 - Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1903 - Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1905 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
1905 - Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
1907 - The first Christmas Seals to raise money to fight tuberculosis went on sale in the post office in Wilmington, Delaware.
1909 - 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
1917 - British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
1918 - French troops occupy Mainz
1920 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Woodrow Wilson.
1931 - Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in NYC
1931 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 - Spain becomes a republic
1939 - Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 - British troops 1st major offensive in North Africa at Sidi Barrani in northeastern Egypt during WW II
1940 - Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1941 - 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 - Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
1948 - UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 - Chiang finally lost control of Peking, and his Nationalist forces fled the Chinese mainland and settled on the island of Formosa, which would later become the independent Chinese republic of Taiwan.
1953 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1957 - 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1958 - Robert Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society [H]
1961 - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres
1967 - Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1971 - Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1974 - White House aide John Ehrlichman testified at the Watergate trial that President Nixon was responsible for the cover-up.
1975 - Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 - Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
1981 - Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1983 - Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
1984 - Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1985 - OPEC oil ministers abandoned the struggle to control production and prices, setting the stage for a global oil price war.
1987 - Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank [H]
1990 - Lech Walesa wins first direct presidential election in Poland
1992 - British Prime Minister John Major announces the formal separation of Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana. [H]
1992 - The U.S. Marines landed in famine-wracked Somalia to ensure the delivery of food and medicine.
1994 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
Birthdays Today
1561 - Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
1569 - Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice)
1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
1608 - John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
1717 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
1742 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist (lemon acid)
1837 - Charles Emile Waldteufel, Strasbourg France, waltz composer (Skaters)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
1882 - Joaquin Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye)
1898 - Emmett Kelly (clown: Ringling Bros.: hobo, Weary Willie)
1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, Cleveland OH, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
1906 - Freddy Martin ('Mr. Silvertone': musician: tenor sax; bandleader: I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts, April in Portugal)
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story)
1911 - Lee J. Cobb (actor: On the Waterfront, Twelve Angry Men, Death of a Salesman, Exodus, The Virginian)
1912 - Tip O'Neil (Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1916 - Kirk Douglas (Isidore Demsky/Issur Danielovitch) (actor: Young Man with a Horn, Spartacus; father of actor, Mike Douglas)
1922 - Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford) (comedian: Sanford & Son)
1928 - Dick Van Patten (actor: Eight is Enough)
1929 - John Cassavetes (actor: Shadows)
1930 - Buck Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart)
1932 - Billy Edd Wheeler (singer)
1933 - Orville Moody (golf champion: U.S. Open [1969])
1934 - Judi Dench, York England, actress (Henry V, Wetherby)
1938 - David Houston (Grammy Award-winning singer: Almost Persuaded [1966]; Mountain of Love)
1941 - Beau (Lloyd III) Bridges (director, actor: The Fabulous Baker Boys; son of actor, Lloyd Bridges, brother of actor, Jeff Bridges)
1942 - Dick Butkus (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears: NFL Defensive Player of the Year [1969, 1970])
1947 - Steve Owens (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Running back, 1969 Heisman Trophy winner)
1949 - Tom Kite (golf champion: U.S. Open [1992])
1953 - John Malkovich, Christopher Ill, actor/director (Killing Fields)
1957 - Donny Osmond (singer: Go Away Little Girl, Puppy Love; TV host: Donny and Marie)
Famous deaths
1165 - Malcom IV, king of Scotland (1153-65), dies at 24
1292 - Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies
1565 - Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
1641 - Anthonie "Antoon" van Dyck, Flemish painter, dies at 42
1767 - Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies
1770 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer, dies at 80
1971 - Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in NYC
1979 - Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster, dies in NYC at 84
1982 - Leon Jaworski, special prosecutor (Watergate), dies at 77
1988 - Roy Orbison, rocker (Pretty Woman), dies of a heart attack at 52
1995 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (aviator), dies
1996 - Mary Douglas Nichol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 83
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