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Today in History ~ December 14
Events1287 - Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
1656 - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1782 - Charleston, SC evacuated by British
1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
1819 - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
1863 - Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
1863 - President Lincoln announces a grant of amnesty for Mrs. Emilie Todd Helm, Mary Lincoln's half sister and the widow of a Confederate general.
1900 - Birth of Quantum Theory - Through physical experiments, German physicist Max Planck, demonstrates that energy, in certain situations, can exhibit characteristics of physical matter. [H]
1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He use dog sleds that averaged fifteen miles a day in sub-zero temperatures. [H]
1915 - Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1927 - Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1934 - 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
1937 - Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
1939 - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1944 - Congress establishes rank of General of Army (5-star General), General Eisenhower will get his 5th star the next day.
1946 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to establish United Nations headquarters in New York.
1961 - Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" became the first country single certified "gold" by the Recording Industry Association of America.
1962 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approached Venus, transmitting information about the planet.
1967 - DNA created in a test tube
1975 - Six South Moluccan extremists surrendered after holding 23 hostages for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen.
1977 - "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC
1980 - Fans around the world paid tribute to John Lennon, six days after he was shot to death in New York City.
1981 - Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
1984 - Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1984 - Bank robbers killed four customers and wounded three others in Geronimo, Okla., to grab $17,000. Two suspects were arrested in San Francisco three days later.
1986 - Nicaragua announced the arrest of American Sam Hall as a spy. Hall, a former Ohio state lawmaker, was freed less than seven weeks later.
1986 - The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.
1987 - Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1988 - US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
1989 - Opposition candidate Patricio Aylwin easily won Chile's first democratic presidential election since the 1973 coup that brought military leader Augusto Pinochet to power.
1990 - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed - she dies 12 days later
1991 - President Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, meeting at Camp David, Md., renewed their commitment to conclude quickly the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1993 - Israel and the Vatican agreed to establish full diplomatic relations.
1993 - Members of the United Mine Workers union ratified a new five-year contract, ending a seven-month strike.
1995 - In a ceremony in Paris, the four-year civil war in Bosnia-Herznegovia officially came to an end with the signing of a peace treaty.
1995 - The American Civil Liberties Union announced that a federal judge a week earlier had ordered the FBI to disclose additional information from its files on John Lennon, including why the bureau investigated the ex-Beatle in 1971 and '72.
1996 - A freighter lost power on the Mississippi River and barreled into the Riverwalk complex in New Orleans (no one was killed).
1996 - Teamsters President Ron Carey won election to a second term (however, the results were later overturned and Carey barred from a rerun vote by a court-appointed monitor who ruled that Carey had used union money for his campaign).
1997 - With an eye to the planned visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II in early 1998, President Fidel Castro announced that Christmas would be an official holiday for the first time since 1968.
1998 - A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced Democratic Party donor Johnny Chung to five years' probation on charges that included $20,000 in illegal gifts to the Clinton-Gore campaign. The Democratic Party had returned nearly $400,000 in gifts from Chung that were of dubious legality.
2000 - U.S. businessman Edward Pope was pardoned and released by Russia after being convicted of espionage.
2000 - President-elect George W. Bush conferred by phone with congressional leaders of both parties and planned a goodwill tour of Washington, D.C.; he also received a flood of congratulatory calls from world leaders on his first full day as president-elect.
2001- The Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner.
Birthdays Today
1503 - Nostradamus, (Michael de Notredame), French astrologist/prophet/some say fraud, born in St. Remy, Provence, France.
1546 - Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)
1895 - George VI, king of England (1936-52)
1896 - James Doolittle (aviator: U.S. Army Air Force Lt. General awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for leading 1st U.S. aerial raid against Japan in WWII)
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith (politician)
1902 - Billy Burke (golf champion: US Open [1931])
1909 - Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
1911 - Spike (Lindley) Jones (musician: drummer; band leader: City Slickers: Cocktails for Two, Der Fuhrer's Face)
1914 - Joseph Cooper (hockey)
1914 - Morey Amsterdam (comedian, actor: The Dick Van Dyke Show; radio: NBC Monitor)
1917 - Dan Daily (singer, dancer, actor: When My Baby Smiles at Me, State Fair, There's No Business Like Show Business)
1918 - James Aubrey Jr. (movie executive)
1920 - Clark Terry (musician: trumpet, flugelhorn: with Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones)
1922 - Don Hewitt, NYC, CBS news executive producer (60 Minutes)
1932 - Abbe Lane (Lassman) (singer, glamour actress: photographed in bathtub filled with coffee [50s]; Xavier Cugat's ex)
1932 - Charlie Rich ('The Silver Fox': Grammy Award-winning singer: Behind Closed Doors [1973]; Lonely Weekends, The Most Beautiful Girl)
1935 - Lee Remick (actress)
1939 - Frank St. Marseille (hockey)
1942 - Dave Clark (singer: group: The Dave Clark Five: Bits and Pieces, Do You Love Me, Glad All Over, Everybody Knows, Red Balloon, Good Old Rock & Roll, Everybody Get Together; TV producer: Hold On It's the Dave Clark Five, Ready Steady Go!; actor: Time; stunt man)
1944 - James Sutorius (actor)
1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson (singer: group: Dawn)
1946 - Patty (Anna Marie) Duke (Academy Award-winning actress: The Miracle Worker [1962]; Emmy: Captains and the Kings [1976-77])
1946 - Stan Smith (tennis: Amateur US Open Champ [1969], US Open Men's Singles Champ [1971], Wimbledon Men's Singles Champ [1972])
1948 - Jon Staggers (football)
1949 - Bill Buckner (baseball: Chicago Cubs: 1980 NL batting champ)
Famous deaths
0872 - Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80
1542 - James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30
1799 - George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 67. Some believe from incompetence of physicians who bled him to death while fighting acute laryngitis. [H]
1861 - Albert, prince consort of England/husband of Queen Victoria, dies in London at 42 .
1903 - William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
1918 - Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
1926 - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64
1985 - Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
1989 - Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize (1975) winner for defending human rights, died at age 68.
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