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Today in History ~ December 13
Susuharai in Japan
Events1577 - Sir Francis Drake of England set out with five ships on a nearly three-year journey that would take him around the world. [H]
1621 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1642 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand.
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire receives its charter
1774 - 400 colonists attack Ft William & Mary, NH
1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1816 - The nation's first savings bank, the Provident Institution for Savings, opened in Boston.
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1861 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 - Union forces suffered a major defeat by the Confederates an estimated 11,000 Northern soldiers were killed or wounded in a battle with Confederate troops outside Fredericksburg, Va. [H]
1864 - Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1918 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918 - President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
1920 - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1928 - George Gershwin composition, "American in Paris", was presented to the public. The debut was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Walter Damrosch.
1937 - The Rape of Nanking begins [H]
1939 - Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German "pocket battleship," Graf Spee, which takes refuge in Montivideo, Uruguay.
1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1944 - During World War II, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze suicide attack that claimed 138 lives.
1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1961 - Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1963 - Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1978 - The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar,1st US coin to honor a woman, which went into circulation the following July.
1981 - Authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)
1982 - Sentry Armored Car Company in New York discovered the overnight theft of 11-million dollars from its headquarters. It was the biggest cash theft in US history.
1990 - The last of the U.S. hostages being held by Iraq, five diplomats in Kuwait, flew to freedom.
1990 - Troops were rushed to Soviet Georgia and a state of emergency was imposed after inter-ethnic violence killed three people.
1991 - Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union agreed to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States being organized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
1991 - North Korea and South Korea signed a non-aggression agreement aimed at eventual reconciliation.
1991 - The leaders of the Central American countries held a summit meeting and agreed to pledge $4.5 billion to fight poverty.
1993 - In Canada, Kim Campbell resigned as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
1994 - An American Eagle commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed short of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15.
1996 - President Clinton nominated Bill Daley to be commerce secretary and Bill Richardson to be United Nations ambassador.
1996 - The U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to become the world body's seventh secretary-general.
1996 - Trade ministers from 28 countries meeting in Singapore endorsed a U.S.- crafted trade pact to abolish import duties on computers, software and other high-tech products.
1997 - The Getty Center museum complex, built on a hilltop overlooking Los Angeles, was officially opened.
1998 - In a non-binding plebiscite giving Puerto Ricans the opportunity to express a preference as to the future of political status of the island, the "none of the above" option was supported by 50 percent of voters -- indicating that most wished to retain Puerto Rico's current status as a U.S. commonwealth.
2000 - President Clinton ended his last presidential visit to Northern Ireland after meeting for nearly three hours with members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency five weeks after Election Day and a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida. Democrat Al Gore conceded, delivering a call for national unity.
2001 - As the extensive manhunt continued for Osama bin Laden, the U.S. government released a tape of the suspected mastermind of the Sept.11 terrorist attacks in which he spoke of the attacks and voiced pleasure and surprise that so many of the "enemy" had died.
2001 - Calling it a Cold War relic, President George W. Bush announced the U.S. was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, opening the way for the Defense Department to test and deploy a missile defense system without restraints.
2001 - 14 people were killed when gunmen tried to storm the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi.
Birthdays Today
1553 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
1816 - E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln (First Lady: wife of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln)
1903 - Carlos Montoya (guitarist)
1910 - Van (Emmet) Heflin (Academy Award-winning actor: Johnny Eager [1942])
1914 - Larry Parks (Klausman) (actor: The Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again)
1918 - Bill Vukovich (race car driver: Indianapolis 500 winner [1953, 1954])
1920 - George Shultz (Secretary of State under U.S. President Ronald Reagan [1982-1988])
1923 - Larry Doby (baseball: Cleveland: 1954 RBI leader)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke (Emmy Award-winning actor/comedian: The Dick Van Dyke Show, [1959-60], [1963-64], [1965-66]; Diagnosis Murder)
1925 - Wayne Walker (country music composer)
1926 - Carl Erskine (baseball)
1929 - Christopher Plummer (Orme) (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Moneychangers [1976-1977], Madeline [1993-1994]; The Sound of Music)
1934 - Richard Darryl Zanuck (producer: Jaws, The Sting)
1935 - Karim Aga Khan, prince/billionaire/husband of Rita Hayworth
1941 - John Davidson (actor, singer; TV game show host: Hollywood Squares)
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins (baseball: Chicago Cubs: pitcher: Cy Young Award winner [1971])
1944 - Mike Mosley (auto racer)
1947 - Lemar Parrish (football)
1948 - Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (musician: guitarist: groups: Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)
1949 - Ted Nugent (musician: original group: Amboy Dukes; guitarist, singer: Cat Scratch Fever)
1950 - Brad Dusek (football)
1959 - Johnny Whitaker (actor: Family Affair)
Famous deaths
1048 - Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74
1250 - Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
1958 - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1958 - Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1958 - Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
1961 - Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101
1969 - Raymond A Spruance, US Admiral (Battle of Midway), dies at 83
1992 - Ricky Ray, 15, one of three hemophiliac brothers barred from attending a Florida school because they had the AIDS virus, died.
1993 - Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88
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