November 30th

EVENTS

306 – St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
722 – Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop
1016 – Cnut the Great (or Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’.
1215 – Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
1406 – Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1487 – The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1523 – Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1554 – England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1630 – 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1648 – English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
1678 – Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1700 – King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS]
1700 – Turkey declares war on Russia
1700 – Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar

The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot)

1731 –Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1735 – States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
1747 – Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women
United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

1753 – Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny
1776 – Captain Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1782 – Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1787 – Spanish governor leaves Philippines
1803 – Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 – Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1813 – Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1824 – First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
1838 – Mexico declares war on France
1861 – Harper’s Weekly publishes EE Beers’ “All quiet along the Potomac”
1863 – Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1864 – Battle of Franklin Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
1864 – Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
1866 – Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
1872 – First international soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1885 – Opera “El Cid” premieres (Paris)
1886 – First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY
1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1887 – 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
1891 – Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “Rerum novarum” published
1893 – 2nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 40-16 in Montgomery
1900 – A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1900 – The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route
1902 – American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1907 – Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1908 – 8th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)
1908 – The US Secretary of State and Japan’s ambassador to the US exchange notes in what becomes known as the Root-Takahira Agreement: they affirm support for an independent China with an ‘open door’ policy and for the status quo in the Pacific
1909 – 9th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Sydney (5-0)
1909 – The British House of Lords rejects the ‘People’s Budget’ prepared by David Loyd George; the budget tries to shift the tax burden to the wealthy
1912 – 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
1912 – 11th Davis Cup: British Isles beats Australasia in Melbourne (3-2)
1915 – St John Ervine’s “John Ferguson” premieres in Dublin
1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1922 – 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1922 – Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
1923 – Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
1924 – 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1924 – Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied
1924 – French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh
1928 – Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England
1929 – 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3
1931 – His Master’s Voice & Columbia Records merge into EMI
1933 – CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
1936 – London’s Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire
1937 – 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
1938 – Fascist coup in Romania, fails
1938 – Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1939 – 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1939 – Paul Osborn’s “Mornings at 7” premieres in NYC
1939 – USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1940 – 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
1940 – 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
1941 – 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
1941 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano
1942 – -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
1942 – 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)
1942 – 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
1942 – Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
1942 – German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama
1944 – Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
1945 – 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0
1946 – Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba
1947 – Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 – Baseball’s Negro National League disbands
1948 – Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
1948 – Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 – Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1949 – KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 – US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson

1952 – Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
1953 – French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 – 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1954 – 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB)
1954 – John Strydom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
1955 – “Pipe Dream” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1955 – Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1956 – 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)
1956 – Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 – “Happy Hunting” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances
1957 – 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7
1957 – Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8
1st President of Indonesia Sukarno

1957 – 22nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 40-0 in Birmingham
1958 – 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1958 – WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 – Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1959 – 1960 NFL Draft: Billy Cannon from LSU first pick by Los Angeles Rams
1960 – French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960 – Tad Mosels “All the Way Home” premieres in NYC
1961 – Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
1961 – USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
1962 – U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
1963 – 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10
1963 – Martin Walser’s “Überlebensgross Herr Krott” premieres in Stuttgart
1963 – 28th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 10-8 in Birmingham, Auburn’s first points in the series in five years
1964 – USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 – Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
1966 – Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
1967 – Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1967 – Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 – People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK
Politician and Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy

1967 – Senenator Eugene McCarthy annouces he will run for the US presidency on anti Vietnam war platform
1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1968 – 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21
1968 – A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
1968 – 33rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 24-16 in Birmingham
1969 – 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 – George Harrison releases his triple album set “All Things Must Pass”
1971 – TV movie “Brian’s Song” airs for 1st time on ABC-TV
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1971 – The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights
1972 – BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
1972 – Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
1973 – M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44
1973 – Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman
1974 – “Good Evening” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances
1974 – “Mack & Mabel” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances
1974 – 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
1974 – Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 – Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression.
1975 – Dahomey becomes Benin
1976 – 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB)
1978 – France performs nuclear test
1979 – Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iran Hostages (ABC)
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – “Banjo Dancing” closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances
1980 – “Perfectly Frank” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 16 performances
1980 – “West Side Story” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs
1980 – Uruguay’s new constitution rejected by referendum
MLB Pitcher and Coach Dave Righetti

1981 – NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award
1981 – Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1981 – South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested
1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
1982 – STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
1982 – US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1982 – USSR performs nuclear test
1982 – “Gandhi” directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley andJohn Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)
1983 – Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
1983 – Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1983 – Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election
Actor John Gielgud

1983 – Sam Shepards “Fool for love” premieres in NYC
1983 – Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1985 – 50th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 25-23 in Birmingham
1986 – “Flamenco Puro” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1986 – 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15
1986 – Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
1987 – Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1988 – Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1988 – France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1988 – NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
1988 – Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
1988 – UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO’s Arafat visa
Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ivan Lendl

1988 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1990 – Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1990 – US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein
1991 – 1st world championship of women’s soccer, US defeats Norway 2-1
1991 – 93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 – Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1991 – San Diego State’s Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing & scoring titles
1991 – 56th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 13-6 in Birmingham
1992 – David Boon’s 14th Test Cricket century, 111 v WI at Brisbane
1992 – Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
US President George H. W. Bush

1993 – NFL announces 30th franchise – Jacksonville Jaguars
1993 – President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1994 – Beatles’ 1st album in 25 years, “Live at the BBC”, is released in Britain
1994 – Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
1994 – Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1997 – “Eugene Onegin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 – 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps US in Gothenburg (5-0)
1998 – Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion USDdeal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
1999 – In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
42nd US President Bill Clinton

1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2003 – 92nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Melbourne (3-1)
2004 – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television’s all-time biggest game show haul.
2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
2005 – The Boston Bruins trade captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks
2007 – Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
2009 – Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation
2012 – At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo
2013 – 14th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 34-2
2013 – 78th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 34-28 in Auburn
2014 – Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
2014 – Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay
2014 – 102nd Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 20-16

BIRTHDAYS

538 – St Gregory of Tours, Auvergne, Gaul, chronicler/bishop (Historia Francorum), (d. 594)
1340 – John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector
1364 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
1373 – Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily
1427 – Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92)
1466 – Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1485 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess
1498 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 – Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect
1554 – Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1593 – Johann Dilliger, composer
1594 – John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
1622 – Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized
1625 – Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
1634 – Andres de Sola, composer
1637 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
1645 – Andreas Werkmeister, composer
Satirist Jonathan Swift(1667)

1667 – Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1745)
1670 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1683 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
1693 – Christoph Förster, German composer (d. 1745)
1699 – Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway
1719 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1722 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1726 – Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver
1753 – Johann Baptist Schenk, composer
1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1764 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1768 – Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 – Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1796 – Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer
1809 – Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer
1810 – Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1813 – Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer
1813 – Hermann Kurz, German author/poet
1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian and scholar (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902), born in Garding, Duchy of Schleswig (d. 1903)
1821 – Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secy War (Confederacy), (d. 1896)
1821 – Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1826 – George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 – Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator
1827 – Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1828 – Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), (d. 1899)
Author Mark Twain (1835)

1835 – Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1840 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1843 – Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok)
1847 – August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
1855 – Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance
1857 – Robert Abel, cricketer (The Guv’nor Surrey & England batsman)
1858 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1859 – Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
1861 – French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens)
1861 – Ludwig Thuille, composer
1863 – Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1863 – Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 – Cecil Forsyth, composer
1870 – Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
World War I Soldier & Poet John McCrae (1872)

1872 – John McCrae, Guelph Ontario, Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields)
1874 – Winston Churchill, (C) British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clifton Prince Edward Island, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables)
1885 – Albrecht (von) Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Poland/Netherland)
1889 – Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist (Nobel 1932)
1890 – John Tasker Howard, composer
1890 – Oege Bakker, Dutch economist
1895 – Johann Nepomuk David, composer
1897 – Andreas Nezertis, composer
1897 – Quinto Maganini, composer
1898 – Roy “Link” Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
Author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874)

1900 – Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian
1903 – Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist
1904 – Clyfford Still, US, abstract painter
1904 – Philip Burton, Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, Wales, director/acting teacher and mentor to Richard Burton
1906 – Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/husband of English prince George
1907 – Gyorgy Ranki, composer
1907 – Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect), (d. 2012)
1909 – Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 – Paul Cerutti, Monaco, trap shooter, disqualified for drugs in 76 oly
1911 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 – Constant Stotijn, Dutch oboist (Residence Orchestra)
1912 – Gordon Parks, Ft Scott KS, film director/author (Learning Tree)
1913 – John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please)
1915 – Angier Biddle Duke, US Ambassador (Spain), born in NYC, New York
1915 – Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1915 – Walter Brown “Brownie” McGhee, Knoxville Tennessee, American blues singer/guitarist
1916 – Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor (Village of Damned, Question 7)
1918 – Efren Zimbalist Jr, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples), born in NYC, New York (d. 2014)
1919 – Anne S Wadman, Frisian literary (Fioele & faem, Smearlappen)
1919 – Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Through the Night)
1920 – Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1922 – Robert Evett, composer
1924 – Allan Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
1924 – Klaus Huber, composer
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (1924)

1924 – Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st African American congresswoman and presidential candidate
1925 – Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician
1926 – Richard Crenna, LA Cal, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)
1927 – Robert Guillaume, [Williams], St Louis Mo, actor (Benson, Soap)
1928 – Chic Hecht, (Sen-R-NV, 1983- )
1928 – Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, Phoenix Az, TV exec (Children’s TV Workshop)
1930 – G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host
1930 – James Felton Boyd, Rocky Mount NC, light HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 – William H Dana, Pasadena California, test pilot (X-15)
1931 – Bill Walsh, NFL coach (San Fransisco 49ers), born in Los Angeles, California
1931 – Gunther Herbig, Usti-nad-Labem Czech, conductor (East Berlin Orch)
American Football Coach Bill Walsh (1931)

1931 – Jack Ging, Alva Ok, actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo)
1931 – Jack Sheldon, Jacksonville Fla, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin)
1932 – David Lincoln Lightbown, politician
1932 – Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
1933 – Linwood C Ivey, NC, (Mayor-Garysburg NC)
1933 – Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
1936 – Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)
1936 – Michael Jinks, child care pioneer
1937 – Jimmy Bowen, rocker
1937 – Paul Stookey, Balt, singer (Peter, Paul & Mary-Wedding Song)
1937 – Richard Threlkeld, newscaster (ABC-TV)
1937 – Ridley Scott, director (Alien, Blade Runner)
1937 – Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer
1937 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (d. 1967)
1938 – Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
1940 – Glenn English, (Rep-D-OK, 1975- )
1943 – J[ames] J[ay] Barnes, US gospel/singer (Please Let Me In)
1943 – Jerry Hunt, composer
1943 – Leo Lyons, Standbridge Beds, rock bassist (Ten Years After)
1943 – Oscar Harris, Surinames/Dutch singer (Try a Little Love)
1943 – Terrence Malick, film director (Badlands, The Tree of Life), born in Ottawa, Illinois
1944 – Dian Parkinson, [Dianna Lynn Batts], Camp LeJune NC, Miss USA (1965)
1944 – Luther T Ingram, US singer/songwriter (I’ll Be Your Shelter)
1944 – Rob Grill, rock bassist/vocalist (Grass Roots), born in Los Angeles, California
1945 – Michael Joyce, stage manager
1945 – Radu Lupu, Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco 1st prize-1967)
1945 – Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist (Episode Six-Deep Purple)
1946 – Ken Wadsworth, cricket keeper (NZ dashing batsman)
1946 – Marina Abramović, Belgrade Serbia, US based performance artist
1947 – David Mamet, playwright/dir (Speed the Plow, House of Games), born in Chicago, Illinois
1947 – Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
1949 – Arthur Lee Washington Jr, Neptune NJ, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1950 – Greg Gordon, rock vocalist (Boys Band)
1950 – Kathryn Witt, actress (Lenny, Pam-Flying High), born in Miami, Florida
1950 – Margaret Whitton, Balt Md, actress (Good & Evil, Major League)
1950 – Paul Westphal, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns)
1951 – Christian Bernard, mystic
1951 – June Chadwick, British actress
1952 – Mandy Patinkin, actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation), born in Chicago, Illinois
1952 – Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
1953 – Mike Espy, (Rep-D-Mississippi)
1953 – Shuggie Otis, rocker
1954 – George McArdle, rock bassist (Little River Band Melbourne
1954 – June Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I’m So excited)
1954 – Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian Actress (The Godfather)
1955 – Andy Gray, English soccer player
1955 – Billy Idol, [William Broad], rocker (White Wedding)
1955 – Brad Fabel, Louisville KY, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Gateway Classic)
1955 – Kevin Conroy, Westport CT, actor (Tour of Duty, Another World)
1955 – Richard Burr, American politician
1955 – Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
1957 – John Ashton, English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs)
1957 – Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
1957 – Andrew Calhoun, American musician
1957 – Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
1958 – Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
1958 – Stacey Q, American singer
Tennis Player Sylvia Hanika(1959)

1959 – Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982)
1959 – Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
1960 – Bob Tewksbury, Concord NH, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1960 – Dan Rashovich, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1960 – Danny Briggs, Abilene TX, Nike golfer (1986 Tallahassee Open-6th)
1960 – Gary Lineker, English soccer player (World Cup 1986)
1960 – Rich Fields, American television personality
1961 – Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1962 – Bo Jackson, baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders)
1962 – Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
1964 – David Wood, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1964 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 – Ben Stiller, actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Mike Zandofsky, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 – Aldair, Brazilian footballer
1965 – Lee Klein, American Writer
1965 – Prince Akishino of Japan
1966 – Phillipe Bozon, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1966 – Ed Kemper, American serial killer
1966 – Wil Mara, American author
1966 – David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter
1967 – Gary Jones, NFL safety (NY Jets)
1967 – Margaret Platt, New York City NY, golfer (1995 Healthsouth-9th)
1968 – Des’ree [Desirée Annette Weeks], English singer (Feel So High, You Gotta Be, Life)
1968 – Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
1969 – Carrie Jean Yazel, Huntington Beach California, playmate (May, 1991)
1969 – Larry Brown, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders)
1969 – Mark Lewis, Hamilton OH, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 – Corrina Kennedy, Saskatoon Saskatchawan, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1970 – James Brown, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 – John DeWitt, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1970 – Mario Bailey, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 – Natalie Williams, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-96), born in Long Beach, California
1970 – Ricky Powers, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1970 – Robert Griffith, NFL strong safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1970 – Yayuk Basuki, Yogyakarta Indonesia, tennis star (1996 Hobart doubles)
1971 – Bryan Proby, NFL/WLAF defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1971 – Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangy Davis, cricket bowler (NZ open v England 1994)
1971 – Ivan Rodriguez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, catcher (Texas Rangers)
1971 – John Anderson, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Ray Durham, Charlotte, North Carolina, American MLB infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1972 – Adeline Ong, Miss Universe-Malaysia (1996)
1972 – Spence Fischer, WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1972 – Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer
1972 – Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
1973 – Jay Hamilton, CFL running back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 – Ty Howard, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 – John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
1973 – Jason Reso (aka “Christian Cage”), Canadian professional wrestler
1974 – Luther Broughton, HB (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 – Marcellus Wiley, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1975 – Mindy McCready, country/western singer, (d. 2013)
1975 – Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
1976 – Shaneika Lightbourne, Miss Universe-Turks & Caicos (1996)
1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer
1976 – Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
1977 – Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer
1977 – Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer
1978 – Emil Steiner, American writer
1978 – Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 – Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
1979 – Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver
1979 – Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
1980 – Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
1981 – Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
1982 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
1982 – Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
1982 – Clémence Poésy, French actress
1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
1983 – Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter
1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
1984 – Omahyra Mota, Dominican model/actress
1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish Footballer
1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress (The Big Bang Theory), born in Camarillo, California
1986 – Jordan Farmar, National Basketball Association player
1987 – Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
1987 – Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
1987 – Ian Hecox, Part of the America Online comedy duo Smosh
1989 – Chanel Iman, American supermodel
1989 – Margaret Nales Wilson, Filipino model
1990 – Kara Crane, American actress
1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess Grandmaster, born in Tønsberg, Norway
1993 – Yuuri Chinen, Japanese singer
1994 – Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder

WEDDINGS

1940 – “I Love Lucy” actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut
1945 – Actress Bette Davis (37) weds artist William Grant Sherry
1973 – Sci-fi author Issac Asimov (53) weds second wife psychoanalyst and Sci-fi author Janet Jeppson (47)
1996 – Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey
1996 – “All My Children” actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii
Actress Bette Davis (1945)

2005 – “Only Fools and Horses” actor David Jason (65) weds Gill Hinchcliffe at Buckingham Palace in London

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1016 – Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1519 – Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1528 – Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded
1580 – Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 – Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1631 – Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
1646 – John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
1654 – John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 – Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1678 – Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67
1679 – Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1694 – Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1700 – Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/”the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75
1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31
1705 – Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 – Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway at 36
1761 – John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1764 – Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61
1765 – George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1777 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1792 – Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
1798 – Friedrich Fleischmann, German composer, dies at 32
1813 – Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60
1824 – Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87
1830 – Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Ital Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
1841 – Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
1864 – Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1864 – John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
1864 – Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1864 – Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1893 – Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
1897 – Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde(1900)

1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1901 – Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
1904 – Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64
1909 – Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
1931 – John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
1931 – Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1933 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 – Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47
1938 – Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1940 – Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
1944 – Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79
1944 – Albert B. Fall, New Mexico Senator (Teapot Dome Scandal), dies at 83
1947 – Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies
United States Senator Albert B. Fall (1944)

1948 – Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64
1954 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 – Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59
1957 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1961 – Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80
1964 – Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1967 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1972 – Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
1972 – Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
1972 – Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70
1973 – Bruce Yarnell, Los Angeles California, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1976 – Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
1977 – Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1979 – Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69
1979 – Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1981 – Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72
1983 – George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies
1987 – Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
Author James Baldwin(1987)

1987 – James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1987 – Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74
1989 – Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
1990 – Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78
1990 – Horst Bienek, German author, dies
1990 – Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1991 – P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
1992 – Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45
1993 – Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1993 – Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1994 – Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
1994 – Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
1994 – Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
1994 – Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1995 – Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies
1995 – June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66
1995 – William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
1995 – Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 – Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
1996 – Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89
1996 – Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
1996 – Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies at 71
1997 – Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
1997 – Kathy Acker, writer, dead Cancer Died, dies at 54
1997 – Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76
1999 – Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2002 – Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
Author Pierre Berton(2004)

2004 – Pierre Berton, Canadian author, dies of heart failure at 84
2005 – Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 – Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
2006 – Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
2007 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69
2007 – Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
2008 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)
2010 – Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (b. 1944)
2010 – Rajiv Dixit, Indian scientist and Swadeshi movement figure (b. 1967)
2010 – Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (b. 1914)
2010 – Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)
2011 – William L. Waller, American politician and ex-Governor of Mississippi, dies at 85
Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel (2007)

2011 – Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, referred to as King Leka I by Albanian monarchists (b. 1939)
2013 – Paul Walker, American actor (The Fast and the Furious), dies in a car accident at 40
2013 – Jean Kent, English actress, dies from complications from a fall at 92
2013 – Tabu Ley Rochereau, African musician, dies at 76

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1886 Folies Bergere stage first revue

• American Revolution

• 1776 Howe brothers offer amnesty

• Automotive

• 1965 Unsafe at Any Speed hits bookstores

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee

• Cold War

• 1981 The United States and U.S.S.R. open talks to reduce intermediate-range nuclear forces

• Crime

• 1989 “America’s First Female Serial Killer” strikes

• Disaster

• 1994 Achille Lauro sinks near Somalia

• General Interest

• 1874 Winston Churchill born
• 1954 Meteorite strikes Alabama woman
• 1993 Brady Bill signed into law

• Hollywood

• 2004 Jeopardy! contestant’s record winning streak ends

• Literary

• 1835 Mark Twain is born

• Music

• 1974 Elton John’s Greatest Hits hits #1

• Old West

• 1902 Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan sentenced

• Presidential

• 1950 Truman refuses to rule out atomic weapons

• Sports

• 1931 Football coach Bill Walsh is born

• Vietnam War

• 1965 McNamara warns Johnson that communists are gaining strength in South Vietnam
• 1966 South Vietnamese draft articles for new constitution
• 1967 McCarthy to enter Democratic presidential primary
• 1972 White House announces no full withdrawal until final truce agreement signed

• World War I

• 1917 German foreign minister celebrates revolution in Russia

• World War II

• 1939 USSR attacks Finland