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Today in History ~ December 22
Events1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1783 - Washington resigns his military commission
1807 - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 - British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1815 - Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jos^Â Maria Morelos
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1862 - -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
1882 - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1894 - Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. . Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain on the General Staff, is accused of passing secret French military documents found in to the German embassy in Paris (Dreyfus later vindicated) [H]
1937 - Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic
1939 - 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany, 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1941 - Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1944 - Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1956 - Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1956 - 1st gorilla born in captivity (Columbus Ohio)
1964 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to four months in a New York jail for violating obscenity laws [H]
1972 - 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1977 - Jockey, Steve Cauthen at 16 years old, won his 355th race setting a new earnings record
1977 - Thomas Helms climbs to the edge of the observation deck on the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building, and jumps -- intending to kill himself on the streets 1000s of feet below. However, the lucky 26 year old only falls twenty feet before landing on a narrow ledge on the 85th floor. Helms suffers no major injuries but is knocked unconscious for half-an-hour--adequate time for an emergency crew to bring him safely inside.
1983 - Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1984 - Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
1988 - 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
1989 - After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1990 - Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
Birthdays Today
1428 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
1643 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)
1696 - James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)
1727 - William Ellery, US attorney/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1856 - Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer (La Boheme, Tosca)
1862 - Connie Mack (McGillicudy) (baseball: record for managing most games [7,755]: Pittsburgh Pirates [1894-96], Philadelphia Athletics [1901-50]: most wins [3,731] and most losses [3,948])
1868 - John Nance Garner, Texas, (VP-D-1933-41)
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson (Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1922], The Man Who Died Twice [1925], Tristram [1928], Richard Cory, Miniver Cheever)
1885 - Andre Kostelanetz (music conductor: with Perry Como: Prisoner of Love; arranger: Broadway show tunes)
1885 - Deems Taylor (music critic)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, Lille France, premier of France
1891 - Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent
1899 - Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer
1902 - Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, France, WW II hero (liberator of Paris)
1912 - Lady Bird (Claudia Alta) Johnson (1st Lady: wife of 36th U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson)
1917 - Frankie Darro (Johnson) (actor: Vanishing Legion, Westward the Women, Broadway Bill, Riding High, Black Gold, Irish Luck)
1917 - Gene Rayburn (Rubessa) (radio/TV host: Match Game)
1922 - Barbara Billingsley (actress: Leave It to Beaver, Back to the Beach, Eye of the Demon, Airplane)
1927 - Peggy Castle (Blair) (actress: The White Orchid, The Finger Man)
1934 - David Pearson (auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1976])
1936 - Hector Elizondo, NYC, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
1936 - Tom Hawkins (football)
1940 - Elrod Hendricks (baseball)
1944 - Barry Jenkins (drummer: groups: Nashville Teens, Animals)
1944 - Steve Carlton (Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies: Cy Young Award-winner [1972, 77, 80, 82]; St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox)
1945 - Diane Sawyer, Glasgow Ky, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)
1948 - Steve Garvey (baseball: L.A. Dodgers first baseman; National League Baseball Writers' Award [1974])
1949 - Maurice Gibb (musician: bass, songwriter: group: Bee Gees: score for Saturday Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love, Stayin' Alive; married to singer, Lulu)
1949 - Robin Gibb (musician, songwriter: group: Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart; see Maurice Gibb: twins)
1949 - Ray Guy (football: star punter for Southern Mississippi [1970-72], Oakland Raiders: Super Bowl XI, XV, XVII)
1950 - Bob Fitchner (hockey)
1951 - Jan Stephenson (golf champion: Du Maurier Classic [1981], LPGA [1982], U.S. Open [1983]; centerfold model)
1952 - Charles Phillips (football: Oakland Raiders safety: Super Bowl XI)
1953 - Bernadette Stanis (actress, singer)
1953 - Ian Turnbull (hockey)
Famous deaths
1440 - Bluebeard, pirate, executed
1745 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66
1668 - Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1939 - Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53
1940 - Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
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