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Today in History ~ December 11
Events1419 - Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1688 - King James II arrested
1719 - 1st recorded display of the Aurora Borealis took place in New England.
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.)
1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state
1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1872 - Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance
1872 - America's first black governor took office as Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor of Louisiana.
1882 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1888 - French Panama Canal company fails
1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1928 - Police in Buenos Aires thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.
1929 - Design was announced Empire State Building, 102 stories
1932 - Snow falls in San Fransico
1936 - Edward VIII, king of Great Britain and Ireland for 325 days, becomes the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily when
1936 - Eerie glow over Chicago - some believe rare display of Aurora Borealis
1937 - Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1939 - New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941 - Four days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the United States responded in kind.
1946 - Spain suspended from UN
1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established. [H]
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement
1953 - Alaska’s first TV station, KTVA Anchorage, signed on the air.
1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News Va
1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry Don Larsen Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
1961 - "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 - A U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon _ the first direct American military support for South Vietnam's battle against Communist guerrillas.
1967 - SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1972 - Apollo XVII astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed on the moon for a three-day exploration.
1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10cents to 13cents
1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George 'Doc' Medich
1978 - 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
1981 - The U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body.
1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1983 - 30,000 women tried to rip down fences around a U.S. cruise missile base at Greenham Common, England.
1984 - A nativity scene was displayed near the White House for the first time since courts ordered it removed in 1973.
1985 - The Unabomber kills his first victim [H]
1989 - Bulgarian leader Peter Mladenov set a May 31 deadline for free elections in the Eastern European country. He also called for a constitution stripping the Communist Party of its guaranteed dominant role in Bulgaria.
1990 - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
1991 - A jury in West Palm Beach, Fla., acquitted William Kennedy Smith of sexual assault and battery, rejecting the allegations of Patricia Bowman. Jury deliberated less than 77 minutes following a 10-day televised trial.
1991 - European Community leaders meeting in the Dutch city of Maastricht hammered out a compromise for a loose federation of their countries.
1992 - The three major TV networks agreed on joint standards to limit entertainment violence by the start of the next fall's season.
1993 - Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the ruling center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy won Chile's presidential election.
1993 - Parliamentary elections were held in Russia.
1994 - Largest Russian military offensive since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, up to 40,000 Russian troop and hundreds of tanks pour into the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya, a semi-autonomous republic on Russia's border with Georgia, to put down a secessionist rebellion.
1995 - Two Japanese cult members admitted they had released the toxic sarin gas in Tokyo subway trains the previous March that killed 12 people.
1996 - A China-organized committee of 400 Hong Kong notables elected shipping tycoon Tung Chee-hwa to be the first post-colonial leader of Hong Kong.
1996 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, was shot and wounded.
1997 - A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Microsoft Corp. could not bundle Microsoft Internet Explorer with Windows 95.
1998 - The International Olympic Committee began an internal investigation into rumors that bribes had been offered by cities seeking to be chosen as sites for the Olympic games.
2000 - Shortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million deal with the Texas Rangers, by far the most lucrative contract with any sports team.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from lawyers representing George W. Bush and Al Gore concerning the Florida presidential vote recount.
Birthdays Today
1781 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist inventor of kaleidoscope
1803 - Hector Berlioz, in France composer
1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist
1882 - Fiorello La Guardia ('Little Flower': politician: NYC mayor [1933-45]; LaGuardia Airport in NY bears his name)
1882 - Max Born, German physicist (Nobel 1954)
1905 - Gilbert Roland (Luis DeAlonso) (actor: Zorro, Barbarosa)
1913 - Carlo Ponti (producer, director )
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (dissident Russian writer: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970)
1926 - Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton (blues singer: pre-Elvis version of Hound Dog)
1931 - Pierre Pilote (hockey)
1931 - Rita Moreno (Rosita Alverio) (dancer, Academy Award-winning actress: West Side Story [1961])
1932 - Anne Heywood (Violet Pretty) , Engl, Miss Great Briton (1949)/actress (Brain)
1934 - Lee Maye (baseball)
1935 - Tom Brumley (musician: group: Buck Owens and the Buckaroos)
1936 - Brian Richard Boylan, author/adventurer/director
1936 - Hannibal Harris, man of letters/epic poet
1938 - Fred Cox (football: Minnesota Vikings: kicked field goals in 31 consecutive games [1968-70] - a record)
1940 - David Gates (singer: group: Bread: Make It With You, If, Baby I'm-A Want You, Diary, Aubrey)
1941 - Larry Stallings (football)
1943 - Donna Mills, Chicago Illinois, actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
1944 - Brenda Lee (Tarpley) (singer: I'm Sorry, All Alone Am I, I Want to be Wanted, Sweet Nothin's, That's All You Gotta Do)
1944 - Lynda Day-George, in Tennessee actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
1945 - Earlie Thomas (football)
1947 - Elizabeth Baur, in Cal
1950 - Christine Onasis, in NYC
1951 - Robert Cochran (skier)
1953 - Bess Armstrong (actress: All is Forgiven, On Our Own, Married People, My So-Called Life)
1955 - Jermaine Jackson (singer: Daddy's Home, Let's Get Serious; brother of Michael, Janet, La Toya, Tito, Randy, Marlon and Jackie)
1962 - Kim Linehan, swimmer
Famous deaths
0711 - Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1282 - Michael VIII Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1524 - Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1718 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
1902 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
1911 - Thomas Ball US sculptor/painter/singer, dies
1933 - Emile C Wauters Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
1974 - Reed Hadley actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
1979 - Claire Carleton NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
1984 - George Waggner director/writer dies at 90
1985 - Hugh Scrutton, first Unabomber victim [H]
1990 - Armand Hammer US businessman/philanthropist/diplomat (USSR), dies
1991 - Headman Tshabala musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
1992 - Vilma Banky silent film actress, dies at about 90
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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