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Today in History ~ December 28
Events1065 - Westminister Abbey opens in London
1694 - Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
1732 - The Pennsylvania Gazette carried the first known advertisement for the first issue of Poor Richard’s Almanack. The Almanack published by Richard Saunders (really Benjamin Franklin) and made a good amount of money allowing Ben Franklin the luxury of leisure time -- flying kites
1821 - Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.
1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico
1846 - Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1849 - M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his filthy clothing and sees cleaning effect
1850 - Rangoon, Burma destroyed by fire
1869 - William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
1877 - John Stevens applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill
1895 - World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris
1897 - Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris
1900 - Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon [H]
1903 - Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
1904 - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1908 - Nearly 80,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the ancient town of Messina, Sicily. [H]
1917 - The New York Evening Mail published a facetious _ as well as fictitious _ essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America.
1923 - George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC
1925 - George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC
1927 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC
1928 - Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
1928 - Louis Armstrong makes 78 rpm recording of "West End blues"
1941 - Rear Admiral Ben Moreell requests authority from the Bureau of Navigation to create the "Seabees" [H]
1942 - Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategic flights out of the Caucasus
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC
1944 - The musical "On the Town" opened on Broadway.
1945 - Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States.
1949 - 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs
1950 - Advancing Chinese troops crossed the 38th Parallel, dividing line between North and South Korea, to help the communist North Koreans fight American-led United Nations forces.
1958 - Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
1961 - Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC
1964 - Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins
1968 - Beatles' "White Album," goes #1 for 9 weeks
1968 - Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
1969 - Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC
1972 - Martin Bormann's skeleton allegedly found in Berlin (Hitler's deputy)
1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.
1975 - "Hail Mary Pass" -- Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
1975 - Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
1980 - Mexico terminates fishing agreements with US
1984 - Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders signed a peace agreement backed by Syria.
1987 - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
1989 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech Republic
1991 - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returned after being stolen
1991 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered state land privatized as he pushed ahead with his reforms.
1991 - A stampede at a New York charity basketball game killed eight people and injured three-dozen more.
1992 - A violent day in Lima, Peru. Car bombs exploded outside two embassies, police thwarted a bank raid and rebels launched a missile attack on a police station, leaving a total of five dead and 24 injured.
1993 - Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced the appointment of Strobe Talbott, a former journalist and an authority on Russia and the former Soviet Union, as deputy secretary of state.
1996 - Leftist rebels in Peru released 20 more hostages, including two ambassadors, from Japan's embassy residence, following the first face-to-face talks between guerrillas and the government's negotiator.
1997 - Officials in Hong Kong announced that all chickens in the territory would be killed in an attempt to eradicate carriers of the avian flu, which had killed several people.
2000 - The Census Bureau released its first numbers from the 2000 national count; they showed that America's population had risen to 281,421,906, up 13.2 percent from 1990.
Birthdays Today
1731 - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master
1763 - John Molson, founded Montreal brewery
1822 - William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1856 - [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (28 pres-D-1912-21, Nobel 1919)
1856 - Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President [1913-1921): asked Congress to declare war on Germany [April 2, 1917])
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema
1905 - Charley Weaver (Cliff Arquette) (entertainer: TV panelist: Hollywood Squares; father of actress, Roseanne Arquette)
1905 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines (musician: piano: classic duet with Louis Armstrong: Weather Bird; songwriter: Blues in Thirds, A Monday Date; bandleader)
1908 - Lew Ayres (actor: All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda, Advice and Consent, Of Mice and Men, Battle for the Planet of the Apes)
1911 - Sam Levinson (humorist: Today I Am a Fountain Pen)
1913 - Lou Jacobi (actor: Irma La Douce, Arthur, Avalon, The Diary of Anne Frank, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex)
1924 - Johnny Otis (Veliotes) ('Inventor of R&B': composer, song writer, musician: drums, vibes: group: The Johnny Otis Show: Willie and the Hand Jive, Every Beat of My Heart, Roll [Dance] with Me Henry)
1924 - Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
1925 - Hildegarde (Neff) (actress: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Three Penny Opera, Svengali, Bluebeard)
1927 - Martin Milner (actor: Surfside 6, Adam 12, Columbo, The Halls of Montezuma, Mr. Roberts, Valley of the Dolls)
1932 - Dorsey Burnette (singer: with brother, Johnny Burnette of You're 16 and Dreamin' fame; solo: Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
1934 - Dame Maggie Smith (Tony Award-winning actress: Lettice & Lovage [1990]; Academy Award: Best actress: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1969]; British Academy Award: A Room with a View [1986]; Sister Act)
1934 - Peggy Wilson (golfer)
1935 - Bruce Yarnell (actor, singer)
1943 - Bobby Comstock (entertainer)
1945 - Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief (Daily Telegraph)/historian
1946 - Hubie (Hubert) Green (golf champion: U.S. Open [1977]; PGA [1985])
1947 - Aurelio Rodriguez (baseball)
1948 - Jorge Velasquez (jockey: horse: Pleasant Colony: Kentucky Derby winner [1981], Preakness Stakes [1981])
1951 - Kenneth Pope (football)
1954 - Denzel Washington (Academy Award-winning actor: Glory [1989], Malcolm X, St. Elsewhere)
1962 - Keith Lee (basketball: Memphis State)
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American "test-tube" baby, was born in Norfolk, Va.
Famous deaths
1622 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55
1673 - Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77
1694 - Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32
1706 - Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
1859 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies
1870 - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72
1923 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty), dies at 91
1937 - Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
1947 - Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46), dies at 78
1963 - Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies
1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
1971 - Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83
1980 - Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1993 - William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89
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