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Today in History ~ December 30
Events0987 - French King Hugh Capet crowns his son Robert the Compassionate
1689 - Henry Purcell's opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chelsea
1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)
1835 - After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Mississippi River
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney
1853 - Gadsden Purchase, the United States bought 45,000 square miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico
1862 - The Union ironclad ship U.S.S. Monitor sinks in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 16 members of the crew were lost. [H]
1877 - Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in London
1884 - Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1903 - Fire swept the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, killing 602 people. The fire led to safety regulations for theaters around the world.
1911 - Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
1918 - John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
1922 - Soviet Union organized as a federation of Russia SSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
1929 - Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC
1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1936 - United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1938 - Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin)
1944 - King George II of Greece abdicates his throne
1947 - King Michael of Romania, forced by communists, abdicates his throne -- Romanian republic proclaimed
1948 - "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1950 - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
1952 - Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1953 - First color TV sets went on sale, an Admiral color set would have set you back about $1,175 in 1953 dollars! Color TV sets did not become affordable to the masses until the late 1960s.
1963 - Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
1964 - Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
1967 - Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1972 - President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks
1974 - Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1978 - Ohio State fires Woody Hayes as its football coach
1980 - "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
1986 - Exxon Corp. became the first major international oil company to withdraw from South Africa because of that nation's racial policies.
1988 - Oliver North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for trial
1990 - European nations called for an emergency European Community summit to find a solution to the Persian Gulf crisis.
1991 - A "seriously ill" Mother Teresa was hospitalized in La Jolla, Calif., with bacterial pneumonia and heart problems.
1993 - Israel and the Vatican signed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations.
1995 - North Korea released a U.S. Army pilot whose helicopter had been shot down 13 days earlier over North Korean territory.
1995 - Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who was to be the next House Speaker, announced he would give up the $4.5 million advance from HarperCollins Publishing Inc., but would go ahead with the two books.
1999 - A mentally ill man broke into George Harrison's mansion and attacked the former Beatle and his wife. Harrison suffered serious stab wounds but recovered.
Birthdays Today
0039 - Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
1566 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1741 - Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer
1847 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned some of Haymarket anarchists
1849 - Luther Burbank (naturalist: creator of new varieties of flowers, trees, edible fruits and vegetables)
1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1865 - Rudyard Kipling (novelist, short story author, poet: Nobel Prize for Literature [1907]; The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories, Gunga Din; died Jan 18, 1936)
1867 - Simon Guggenheim (philanthropist: established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation providing grants to scientists, scholars, artists; died Nov 2, 1941)
1873 - Al Smith (former governor of New York, 1928 Democratic Party presidential nominee; died Oct 4, 1944)
1875 - Maurice Ravel (composer: Bolero)
1884 - Hideki Tojo (Prime Minister of Japan; WWII war criminal, hanged Dec 22, 1948)
1904 - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1908 - Anna Magnani (actress: The Rose Tattoo, The Miracle, The Fugitive Kind, Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema)
1914 - Bert Parks (Jacobson) (radio/TV host: Miss America Pageant, Break the Bank, Stop the Music; died Feb 2, 1992)
1917 - Lee Young (jazz musician: drummer: Nat King Cole Trio, Lee Young Band)
1920 - Jack Lord (John Joseph Patrick Ryan) (actor: Hawaii Five-O, Stoney Burke, God's Little Acre, Dr. No, The Doomsday Flight; died Jan 21, 1998 [age 77])
1922 - Andy Phillip (Basketball Hall of Famer: Associated Press all-time All-American team [1950])
1923 - Mahlon Clark (musician: reeds: Lawrence Welk's band)
1927 - James Broderick (actor: Alice's Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon)
1928 - Bo Diddley (Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel) (singer: Bo Diddley, I'm a Man, Say Man, Diddey Wah Diddey)
1930 - Tom Acker (baseball)
1931 - Richard Christ, writer
1931 - Stephen Joyce (actor)
1932 - Frank Morelli (jazz musician)
1934 - Fred Lorenzen (auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1965])
1934 - Willard Herman Scott (weatherman: Today Show)
1935 - Sandy (Sanford Braun) Koufax (Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers, LA Dodgers: [World Series: 1959, 1963 (MVP), 1965 (MVP), 1966/all-star: 1961-1966/Baseball Writers Award: 1963/Cy Young Award: 1963, 1965, 1966/record: 382 strikeouts: 1965]; broadcaster: NBC)
1937 - Paul Stookey, singer/musician (Peter, Paul, & Mary)
1938 - Homero Blancas (golfer)
1938 - Janice Guthrie (auto racer: first woman in Indianapolis 500; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer)
1938 - Joseph Bologna, Brooklyn NY, actor (Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year)
1939 - Del Shannon (Charles Westover) (singer: Runaway, Hat's Off to Larry, Little Town Flirt, Keep Searchin' [We'll Follow the Sun]; songwriter: I Go to Pieces; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-99]; died Feb 8, 1990)
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti (Emmy Award-Winning actor: Hill Street Blues [1980-81, 1981-82], Weep No More My Lady)
1942 - Fred Ward (actor: Tremors series, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Short Cuts, Miami Blues, Henry and June, Big Business, Swing Shift, Silkwood, The Right Stuff, Escape from Alcatraz)
1942 - Michael Nesmith (guitarist: group: The Monkees; wrote: Different Drum; formed: The First National Band: Joanne; movie producer: Repo Man, Elephant Parts: the first Grammy-winning video)
1942 - Pete Beathard (football: Kansas City Chiefs QB: Super Bowl I)
1943 - Billy MacMillan (hockey)
1943 - Rick (Richard) Redman (football)
1945 - Davy Jones (David Thomas Jones) (singer: group: The Monkees: Last Train to Clarksville, I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer; actor: UK version: Godspell)
1946 - Peter Wolf (Blankfield) (singer: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold; Lights Out, Freeze-Frame; married Faye Dunaway)
1949 - Bob Cornell (football)
1950 - Bernie MacNeil (hockey)
1950 - Billy Joe DuPree (football: Dallas Cowboys TE: Super Bowl X, XII, XIII)
1950 - Franco Harris (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers RB: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1951 - Jeff Burroughs (baseball)
1952 - Lynn Swann (football: Pittsburgh Steelers WR: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; TV sportscaster)
1957 - Matt Lauer (TV host: Today, Esquire: About Men, For Women)
1959 - Tracey Ullman (Emmy Award-winning TV hostess: The Tracey Ullman Show [1988-89], entertainer: The Best of The Tracey Ullman Show [1989-90], Tracey Ullman Takes on New York [1993-94], actress: Love & War [1992-93]; I Love You to Death)
1961 - Ben Johnson (track: 100 meter world-record holder [9.79 - 1988]; AP Athlete of the Year [1987]; suspended from track competition for life for steroid use)
1963 - Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress (Ferragosto OK)
1975 - Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, golfer
Famous deaths
1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
1788 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45
1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1916 - Russian mystic/shaman/grubby peasant Grigori Rasputin, an influential favorite of the Romanov court, was shot and killed after a failed attempt to poison him, by Prince Felix Youssoupov at 45 [H]
1966 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), dies at 72
1979 - Richard Rodgers, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
1985 - Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45 [H]
1992 - 1st panda China gave US, Ling-Ling, the giant female panda, who delighted visitors to Washington's National Zoo for more than two decades, died of heart failure at 23
1993 - Irving Paul "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
1996 - Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
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