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Today in History ~ December 27
Events0537 - St Sofia church in Constantinople consecrated
1825 - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
1831 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America
1845 - Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
1846 - Doniphan's Thousand take El Paso [H]
1862 - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
1862 - Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
1871 - World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle"
1900 - Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
1904 - Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
1927 - Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II "Show Boat," premieres in NYC
1927 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC) massive crowds forgot the woes of the Great Depression and attended [H]
1934 - 1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)
1937 - Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1939 - Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die
1941 - Japanese warplanes bombed Manila in the Philippines, even though it had been declared an "open city."
1942 - 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
1943 - German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
1945 - After World War II, foreign ministers from the former Allied nations of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain agree to divide Korea into two separate occupation zones and govern the nation for five years.
1945 - Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave," premieres in NYC
1945 - International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
1947 - 1st "Howdy Doody Show," under the title "Puppet Playhouse," was telecast on NBC.
1954 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint of Bleecker Street" premieres in NYC
1960 - The Beatles played a "welcome home" show in Liverpool, England, following the group's first extended trip to Hamburg, West Germany.
1961 - Styne/Comden/Green musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres
1963 - The Animals made the group's radio debut on the BBC's "Saturday Club."
1968 - Apollo-8 astronauts returned to Earth after orbiting the moon 10 times, paving the way for later moon-landing missions.
1968 - The MC5 debuted at the Filmore East in New York.
1969 - The Rolling Stones album "Let It Bleed" entered the U.S. charts.
1970 - "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St James Theater NYC after 2844 performances
1976 - Queen's "A Day At The Races" album was released.
1978 - King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
1979 - "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV
1979 - Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown
1983 - Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
1983 - Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo
1983 - Van Halen's "1984" album was released.
1983 - Walter Scott -- vocalist with the 1960s group Bob Kuban and the In-Men -- disappeared. His body was found three years later and his ex-wife and her husband were eventually convicted of his murder.
1985 - Jerry Lee Lewis, 50, filed for divorce from his sixth wife, 23-year-old Kerrie. The couple later reconciled.
1985 - Terrorists killed 20 people and wounded 110 in attacks on passengers of the Israeli airline El Al at the Rome and Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
1988 - Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
1991 - "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
1991 - A Scandinavian Airlines jet with 129 aboard crashed and broke apart after taking off from Stockholm. No one was killed.
1992 - A U.S. jet shot down an Iraqi fighter over southern Iraq's "no-fly" zone in the first such incident since the Persian Gulf War.
1992 - Harry Connick Jr. was arrested when he was caught at New York's JFK Airport trying to carrying an unloaded pistol aboard a flight to New Orleans.
1997 - Britain's Windsor Castle was reopened to the public following restoration work. 100 rooms of the palace were damaged in a fire in 1992.
1998 - The smallest of the Chukwu octuplets, born earlier in the month in Houston, died.
1999 - Rapper/record mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs and his girlfriend, singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, were arrested in New York City after fleeing the scene of a nightclub shooting in which three people were wounded. While charges against Lopez were later dropped, Combs was charged with weapons possession and witness tampering.
Birthdays Today
1571 - Johann Kepler, Wurttemberg Germany, astronomer (elliptical orbits)
1773 - George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
1822 - Louis Pasteur (chemist, scientist: developed pasteurization process, rabies vaccination)
1855 - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
1879 - Sydney Greenstreet (actor: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific, Passage to Marseilles, Malaya)
1901 - Marlene Dietrich (Maria von Losch) (actress: The Blue Angel, 1st German talkie; Morocco, Kismet, Destry Rides Again, Judgment at Nuremburg, Witness for the Prosecution)
1915 - William Howell Masters, sex author/physician
1931 - Walter Norris (pianist, composer: Drifting)
1933 - Dave Marr (golfer: PGA Champion [1965])
1936 - Lee Salk, doctor (CBS TV)
1940 - Jerry Lambert (horse jockey)
1941 - John Amos (actor: Good Times, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Coming to America, Future Cop)
1941 - Leslie Maguire (musician: piano: group: Gerry and The Pacemakers: Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, I Like It)
1941 - Phil Gagliano (baseball)
1943 - Roy White (baseball)
1946 - Rich Jones (basketball)
1947 - Bob McKay (football)
1947 - Mickey Redmond (hockey)
1948 - Gerard Depardieu, France, actor (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton, Green Card)
1952 - Craig Reynolds (baseball)
1952 - Tovah Feldshuh (actress: Holocaust, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, Brewster's Millions, Blue Iguana, A Day in October)
Famous deaths
0418 - Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies
1603 - Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68
1836 - Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43
1976 - Bluesman Freddie King died at age 42. He was a substantial influence on a generation of British blues guitarists, in particular, Eric Clapton.
1981 - Hoagy Carmichael died at age 82, US actor/songwriter dies at 82 Among other tunes, he wrote "Stardust" and "Lazy River."
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