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Today in History ~ December 16
Events0882 - Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
1431 - King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola (Haiti/Dom Rep)
1631 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroying 6 villages with lava & 9 others with mud flows. 4,000 people & 6,000 domestic animals die.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland & Ireland [H]
1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1773 - Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor, Indians welcome! (Boston Tea Party) [H]
1809 - Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine as approved by French Senate
1811 - Most violent and prolonged quakes in U.S. begin in Midwest region.
1835 - Fire in New York City consumes over 600 buildings does $22 million damage, bankrupting most insurance companies, contributing to Depression of 1837.
1838 - Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
1857 - Earthquake in Naples, Italy
1862 - Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
1864 - Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities
1890 - Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
1893 - Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
1897 - 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
1903 - Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
1905 - "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
1907 - Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
1908 - 1st credit union in US formed, Manchester, NH
1909 - US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office
1912 - Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
1913 - Charlie Chaplin begins his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
1920 - Over 180,000 die when one of the deadliest earthquakes at 8.6 causes destruction over 15,000 sq. miles. Shocks felt over 1.5 million sq. miles. (Kansu, China)
1940 - Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in Chicago
1941 - Sarawak occupied by Japanese
1943 - Collision between north and south-bound sections of the 'Tamiami Champion' trains killed 73 and injured 200.
1944 - Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium. The German counterattack out of the densely wooded Ardennes region took the Allies by surprise, and created a "bulge" 60 miles deep in the front. By January 21, the Germans had been pushed back to their original line, having lost some 120,000 men in the offensive. The Allies suffered 81,000 casualties, 77,000 of these were Americans. [H]
1945 - Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
1949 - Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
1950 - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
1953 - 1st White House Press Conference (Pres Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
1953 - Charles E Yeager set a new airborne speed record when he flew a Bell X-1A rocket-fueled plane over 1,600 miles an hour (2,575 kph)
1958 - Bogot warehouse fire kills 82
1960 - TWA flight 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, killing 128 aboard and 6 on the ground.
1962 - Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nep l adopts new constitution
1962 - NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
1965 - Gemini VI returns to Earth
1965 - Pioneer VI launched into solar orbit
1965 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga
1966 - Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
1969 - Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
1970 - 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
1972 - Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
1972 - Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
1973 - O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
1976 - Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
1976 - Government halts swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis
1980 - Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State
1983 - Riverside, Cal judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself to death in a county hospital
1983 - Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
1988 - Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
1990 - Rev Jean Betrand Aristide, a Roman Catholic priest, was elected president of Haiti in that nation's
first fully free vote since the 1986 fall of the "Baby Doc" Duvalier regime.
1991 - Fla Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
1991 - UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
1993 - President Clinton named Bobby Ray Inman to succeed Les Aspin as secretary of defense. Aspin's resignation had been announced the day before.
1996 - The Citadel was rocked when female cadets accused their male counterparts of harassment.
1997 - More than 700 children in Japan were hospitalized after a televised cartoon triggered a condition called "light epilepsy" or "Nintendo epilepsy," which is caused by intense flashes of light viewed from close to the source.
1997 - The highest wind speed ever measured -- 236 mph -- was recorded at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam as Typhoon Paka slammed into the Pacific island.
1998 - U.S. and British jetfighters began a four-night campaign of bombing more than 100 Iraqi military targets. The action -- long threatened -- came after the allies concluded Iraq would not cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors.
1998 - U.S. prosecutors indicted five more men in the August 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania.
2001 - Police in India said four suspects in custody had named Pakistan-based terrorist groups as being responsible for the Dec. 13 attack on the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi that left 14 dead.
Birthdays Today
1485 - Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of England's King Henry the Eighth
1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven (composer: although totally deaf, lead orchestra in premiere performance of his Ninth Symphony) studied with Haydn and Mozart
1775 - Jane Austen (author: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility)
1861 - Frank Hunt (politician)
1863 - George Santayana (philosopher/poet: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner effect)
1890 - Harlan Sanders, founder/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
1899 - Sir Noel Coward (actor, director, composer, playwright: Private Lives)
1900 - V.S. Pritchett, literary critic
1901 - Margaret Mead (anthropologist: studies of ancient people of the South Pacific) (Coming of Age in Samoa)
1906 - Leonid Brezhnev (Russian leader of the Communist Party)
1915 - Turk (Melvin) Murphy (trombonist: 1st to play jazz version of Mack the Knife)
1917 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke, sci-fi author (2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Childhood's End)
1920 - George Schaefer (director)
1926 - James McCracken, dramatic tenor
1929 - Wayne Connelly (hockey)
1931 - Tom Brookshier (football: Philadelphia Eagles; sportscaster: CBS Sports)
1932 - Shelby Singleton (record executive: SSS Records)
1937 - Jim Glaser (singer: group: Tompall and the Glaser Brothers: backup for Marty Robbins' El Paso; wrote Woman, Woman; solo: The Man in the Mirror)
1939 - Don Morrison (football)
1939 - Liv Ullman, in Tokyo Japan (Cries and Whispers)
1941 - Lesley Stahl (journalist: White House correspondent; reporter: CBS News, Face the Nation, 60 Minutes)
1943 - Steven Bochco, prod (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere, NYPD Blue)
1945 - Anthony Hicks (musician: lead guitar: group: The Hollies: Stop, Stop, Stop, The Air that I Breathe)
1946 - Bennie Andersson (pianist, singer: groups: Hep Stars [Sweden's Beatles]; Abba: Dancing Queen)
1951 - Jean Fugett (football)
1952 - Elayne Boosler, Comedian
1962 - William Perry, Chicago Bears (The Refrigerator)
Famous deaths
1944 - Glenn Miller, the world famous big band leader, presumably dies at 40 when the light aircraft in which he is a passenger disappears without a trace, possibly shot down over the English Channel.(held rank of Major)
1976 - George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies
1980 - Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
1985 - Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant
1989 - U.S. District appeals court Judge Robert Vance was killed by a package bomb at his Alabama home.
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