*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B12011800 Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet, dramatist
B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
B12011899 Robert Welch, founded John Birch Society
B12011902 Morris (Red) Badgro, NFL end (Yankees, Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers)
B12011911 Walter Alston, baseball manager
B12011912 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NY)
B12011913 Mary Martin Weatherford Tx (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
B12011935 Lou Rawls, singer
B12011935 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) Bkln (Zelig, Annie Hall)
B12011936 Lee Trevino, pro golfer
B12011939 Dianne Lennon, singer
B12011940 Richard Pryor, comedian, actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
B12011945 Bette Midler in Patterson NJ
B12011958 Charlene Tilton in San Diego Calif
B12021859 Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
B12021885 George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
B12021885 Nˇkos Kazantazakˇs, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
B12021914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, Sting)
B12021915 Adolph Green songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
B12021915 Will Randolph Hearst publisher
B12021917 Ezra Stone, American actor, producer
B12021923 Maria Callas, NY opera singer
B12021924 Alexander Haig (R) sec of state
B12021925 Julie Harris in Michigan
B12021931 Edwin Meese III, AG
B12021940 Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
B12021949 Cathy Lee Crosby in LA
B12021962 Tracy Austin, tennis pro
B12031368 Charles VI (the Well-Beloved), king of France (1380-1422)
B12031729 Antonio Soler, Spain composer
B12031755 Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter, painted Washington
B12031857 Joseph Conrad in Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
B12031879 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp
B12031883 Anton von Webern, Austrian 12-tone composer
B12031895 Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter
B12031900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel '38)
B12031923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
B12031924 John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
B12031927 Ferlin Husky Country singer
B12031930 Andy Williams singer (Moon River)
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
B12031930 Phyllis Curtin in West Virginia
B12031931 Jaye P Morgan in Mancos Cal
B12031934 Viktor V. Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
B12031943 Jim Morrison, rock musician (Doors)
B12031948 Ozzy Osbourne, eat a bat
B12041443 Pope Julius II (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
B12041835 Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
B12041861 Lillian Russell, American singer, actress (The Great Mogul)
B12041875 Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (Duino Elegies)
B12041881 Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian (or 1795)
B12041908 A.D. Hershey, US biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
B12041922 Deanna Durbin, actress (100 Men and a Girl)
B12041943 Patti Chandler in Cal
B12041944 Dennis Wilson, drummer, Beach Boys
B12041949 Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry)
B12051782 Martin Van Buren (D), 8th pres (1837-41)
B12051839 George Armstrong Custer of Little Big Horn fame
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse
B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
B12051902 Strom Thurmond (D/R-Sen-SC)
B12051903 Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
B12051905 Otto Preminger, movie director, producer (Laura, Exodus)
B12051947 Jim Plunkett, NFL quarterback
B12051947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
B12051951 Morgan Brittany
B12061421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st large US pencil factory
B12061870 William S Hart, star of silent Westerns
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees)
B12061887 Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms and the Man)
B12061896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
B12061898 Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, economist
B12061906 Agnes Moorehead (Endorra-Bewitched)
B12061920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist
B12061921 Otto Graham, AAFC, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
B12061925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
B12061947 Chelsea Brown in Chicago Ill
B12071542 Mary Queen of Scots
B12071598 Gian Bernini, baroque sculptor
B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
B12071873 Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia)
B12071878 Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet
B12071888 Joyce Cary, writer
B12071905 Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer, discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune
B12071915 Eli Wallach, actor
B12071923 Ted Knight, actor (Ted Baxter, anchorman)
B12071924 Mário Soares (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983-  )
B12071928 Noam Chomsky, linguist, founder of transformational grammar
B12071932 Ellen Burstyn in Det
B12071947 Gregg Allman, singer
B12071947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher
B12071948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina
B12071956 Larry Bird, (Boston Celtics)
B12071956 Priscilla Barnes (3's Company)
B1208  65 BC Horace in Rome, poet
B12081626 Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
B12081765 Eli Whitney, inventor
B12081832 Bjřrnstjerne Bjřrnson, Norwegian writer (Nobel 1903)
B12081861 Aristide Maillol, French painter, sculptor
B12081861 William Crapo Durant, founded GM
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer
B12081886 Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist
B12081894 James  (Grover) Thurber in Columbus, Oh (Men, Women and Dogs)
B12081903 Adele Simpson, fashion designer
B12081906 Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
B12081908 John Volpe, former governor of Massachusetts, cabinet officer
B12081922 John B. (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
B12081925 Sammy Davis, Jr, singer, actor (Ocean's 11)
B12081927 Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
B12081930 Maximilian Schell, actor (Odessa File, Julia)
B12081933 Flip Wilson, comedian, actor (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh)
B12081936 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
B12081937 James MacArthur, actor -- "Book 'Em Danno!"
B12081953 Kim Basinger in Athens Ga (9 1/2 Weeks, Man Who Loved Women)
B120819?? Billy Hulsey
B12091561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Va colony
B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
B12091608 John Milton, poet and puritan (Paradise Lost)
B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus stories
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king
B12091897 Hermione Gingold
B12091898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
B12091902 Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch of the West)
B12091905 Dalton Trumbo, writer, film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor (Ghost Story)
B12091911 Broderick Crawford, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
B12091911 Lee J. Cobb, actor (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
B12091912 Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass-Rep) Speaker of the House
B12091915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
B12091922 Redd Foxx, actor and comedian (Sanford and Son)
B12091925 Dina Merrill in NYC
B12091926 Luis Miguel Dominguˇn, matador
B12091928 Dick Van Patten, actor (Eight Is Enough)
B12091929 Robert J.L. Hawke (Labor), prime minister of Australia (1983-  )
B12091938 David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
B12091942 Dick Butkus, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
B12091957 Donny Osmond singer
B120919?? Allison Smith
B12101787 Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf
B12101822 Cesar Franck in Belgium, composer
B12101824 George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith)
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, creator of Dewey Decimal System for libraries
B12101891 Nelly Sachs, German poet O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966)
B12101903 Una Merkel, actress (The Parent Trap)
B12101914 Dorothy Lamour in New Orleans (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth)
B12101946 Gloria Loring in NYC
B12101952 Susan Hallock Dey in Ill (First Love, LA Law)
B12101961 Nia Peeples
B12111781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope
B12111803 Hector Berlioz in France, composer
B12111863 Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist
B12111882 Fiorello La Guardia (R), mayor of NYC (1933-45)
B12111882 Max Born, German physicist (Nobel 1954)
B12111905 Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa)
B12111913 Carlo Ponti, director
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970)
B12111931 Rita Moreno, actress (The King and I, West Side Story) in Puerto Rico
B12111937 Anne Heywood
B12111944 Brenda Lee in Atlanta Georgia
B12111944 Donna Mills in Chicago Illinois
B12111945 Lynda Day-George in Tennessee
B12111947 Elizabeth Baur in Cal
B12111950 Christine Onasis in NYC
B12111962 Kim Linehan, swimmer
B12121745 John Jay, diplomat
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist (Madame Bovary)
B12121852 Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
B12121863 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream)
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (Old Blue Eyes)
B12121918 Joe Williams, jazz singer
B12121923 Bob Barker, game show host
B12121924 Edward Koch, mayor of NYC
B12121929 John Osborne, playwright
B12121938 Connie Francis in Newark NJ
B12121941 Dionne Warwick in East Orange NJ
B12121950 Billy Smith, goaltender (NY Islanders)
B12121962 Holly Gagnier in LA
B12131797 Heinrich Heine, German poet
B12131818 Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
B12131835 Phillips Brooks, clergyman, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
B12131871 Russell Porter
B12131903 Carlos Montoya, guitarist
B12131913 Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ
B12131915 Ross Macdonald, detective novelist
B12131920 George Schultz, secof state
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins)
B12131929 Christopher Plummer, actor
B12131930 Genevieve Page
B12131941 John Davidson, TV host
B12131948 Kathy Garver in Cal
B12141503 Nostradamus, astrologer and physician
B12141546 Tycho Brahe at Knudstrup, Denmark, astronomer
B12141895 George VI, king of England (1936-52)
B12141896 James H. Doolittle, former Air Force general
B12141897 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Sen-Maine)
B12141909 Edward L. Tatum, American molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, actor
B12141922 Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
B12141932 Abbe Lane in Bkln
B12141932 Charlie Rich, singer
B12141935 Lee Remick in Boston Mass (Days of Wine and Rose, Long Hot Summer)
B12141938 Janette Scott
B12141946 Jane Birkin
B12141946 Joyce Wilson (Dawn) in Detroit Michigan
B12141946 Patty Duke in Bkln  (Miracle Worker)
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris
B12151859 Ludwik Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, invented 1st auto built and operated in US
B12151892 J. Paul Getty, business tycoon
B12151933 Tim Conway, comedian (Carol Burnett Show)
B12151965 Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl)
B121519?? Don Johnson (Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment)
B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven Bonn Germany, composer
B12161775 Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice)
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist
B12161899 Sir Noël Coward, playwright
B12161900 V.S. Pritchett, literary critic
B12161901 Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author (2001, Childhood's End)
B12161926 James McCracken, dramatic tenor
B12161939 Liv Ullman in Tokyo Japan (Cries and Whispers)
B12161941 Leslie Stahl, TV newsperson
B12161952 Elayne Boosler Comedian
B12161962 William Perry, Chicago Bears (The Refrigerator)
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
B12171797 Joseph Henry, American scientist and inventor
B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
B12171853 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor, theater manager
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie King (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops conductor
B12171903 Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
B12171908 Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock"
B12171926 Patrice Wymore
B12171929 William Safire, political columnist
B12171930 Julia Meade
B12171936 Roland Sheldon Yankee Pitcher
B12171936 Tommy Steele, singer
B12181707 Charles Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
B12181709 Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I)
B12181779 Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist, "greatest clown in history"
B12181786 Carl Maria von Weber, German Romantic composer
B12181861 Edward MacDowell, composer
B12181879 Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter
B12181886 Ty Cobb, played in 3000 games, batted .367, stole 892 bases
B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM)
B12181910 Abe Burrows, Broadway impresario
B12181913 Willy Brandt (SD), chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
B12181916 Betty Grable in St Louis
B12181917 Lynn Bari, actress
B12181917 Ossie Davis
B12181927 Ramsey Clark, Attorney General
B12181934 Boris V. Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
B12181943 Keith Richard, singer (Rolling Stones)
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc)
B12181950 Leonard Maltin Movie reviewer
B12191683 Philip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
B12191790 Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
B12191821 Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer, women's suffrage leader
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
B12191865 Minnie Maddern Fiske, American stage actress
B12191906 H. Allen Smith, author
B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukraine
B12191910 Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright (The Blacks)
B12191920 David Susskind, TV producer
B12191926 Bobby Layne, pro quarterback (Detroit Lions)
B12191928 Galt MacDermot, Canadian composer
B12191933 Cicely Tyson in NYC (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
B12191941 Maurice White, Singer
B12191944 Tim Reid, Actor (WKRP)
B12191945 Elaine Joyce, Actress (Dating Game)
B12191946 Robert Urich, Actor  (Starman, Vega$, Spencer for Hire)
B12191947 Janie Fricke, Singer
B12191949 Claudia Kolb, swimmer
B12191963 Jennifer Beals in Chicago (Flashdance)
B12191972 Alyassa Milano (Who's the Boss)
B12201805 Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry
B12201819 John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
B12201833 Dr Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
B12201841 Ferdinand-Čdouard Buisson, French educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
B12201868 Harvey S Firestone, where the rubber meets the road
B12201894 Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
B12201895 Susanne Langer, US philosopher, educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
B12201904 Irene Dunne in Louisville Ky
B12201922 George Roy Hill, Movie director
B12201928 Dr Joyce Brothers
B12201928 Jack Christiansen, NFL defensive back (Det Lions)
B12201952 Jenny Agutter in London
B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British prime minister (1868, 1874-80)
B12211874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
B12211879 Joseph Stalin Russian dictator
B12211891 John W McCormack (D), Speaker of the House (1962-70)
B12211909 George Ball, former undersecretary of state
B12211911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth"
B12211917 Heinrich Böll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel '72)
B12211918 Donald Regan, White House staffer
B12211918 Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81), Austrian Pres, Nazi
B12211922 Paul Winchell, ventriloquist
B12211935 Phil Donahue, TV host
B12211937 Jane Fonda NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute)
B12211939 Diane Lennon in LA
B12211940 Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead)
B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
B12211948 Dave Kingman Baseball player
B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
B122119?? Khrystyne Haje
B12221696 James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
B12221727 William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind
B12221856 Frank Kellogg, sec of state, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer (La Bohčme, Tosca)
B12221862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager, executive (Phil A's)
B12221869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
B12221903 H Keffer Hartline, US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
B12221912 Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady
B12221917 Gene Rayburn, game show host
B12221922 James C Wright Jr (D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987-  )
B12221944 Steve Carlton, baseball player
B12221945 Diane Sawyer, TV news personality
B12221949 Maurice and Robin Gibb, (Beegees)
B12221951 Jan Stephenson in Australia golfer
B12231732 Sir Richard Arkwright, invented spinning frame
B12231777 Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
B12231805 Joesph Smith, founded Mormon church
B12231812 Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
B12231860 Harriet Monroe, American poet, editor of Poetry magazine
B12231918 José Greco, dancer
B12231924 Ruth Roman in Boston Mass
B12231925 Harry Guardino, actor (Hill Street Blues)
B12231935 Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman in Youngstown Ohio
B12231949 Susan Lucci, soap star
B122319?? Corey Haim
B12241745 Benjamin Rush, American physician, patriot, humanitarian
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout
B12241818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy
B12241822 Matthew Arnold, English poet (Dover Beach)
B12241868 Emanuel Lasker of Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
B12241881 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956)
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire
B12241907 I.F. Stone, American journalist, told it like it was
B12241921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
B12241922 Ava Gardner, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
B12241930 Robert Joffrey, Choreographer
B12241959 Madonna, rock singer, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
B12250000 Jesus Christ, Savior, philosopher
B12251642 Isaac Newton (sir) in Grantham, England
B12251752 Mithra
B12251821 Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder in Oxford, Mass
B12251865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
B12251876 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
B12251881 Joseph McCarthy Yank manager
B12251883 Maurice Utrillo, French painter
B12251887 Conrad Hilton, hotelman
B12251892 Dame Rebecca West, author, critic, feminist (or 12-21-81)
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, actor  Here's looking at you, kid
B12251899 Raphael Soyer, painter
B12251904 Gerhard Herzberg, Can physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel 1971)
B12251906 Lord Grade
B12251907 Cab Calloway, bandleader
B12251909 Mike Mazurki, actor, wrestler
B12251913 Tony Martin, singer
B12251918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81) (Nobel 1978)
B12251940 Phil Spector, rock producer
B12251945 Gary Sandy  Actor
B12251945 Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
B12251946 Larry Csonka Former football player
B12251948 Barbara Mandrell in Houston Tx
B12251949 Sissy Spacek in Quitman Tx (Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
B12251954 Annie Lennox Singer (Eurythmics)
B12251958 Rickey Henderson, baseball player
B12261194 Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman emperor
B12261716 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
B12261738 Thomas Nelson, merchant, signed Decl of Ind
B12261778 Juan Lovera, Venezuelan artist
B12261792 Charles Babbage, invented calculating machine
B12261837 Adm. George Dewey, the American naval hero of Manila
B12261891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame
B12261914 Richard Widmark, actor (Alamo, Judgement at Nuremberg)
B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
B12261921 Steve Allen, comedian
B12261927 Alan King comedian
B12261942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, president of Guatemala (1986-  )
B12261948 Chris Chambliss NY Yankee 1st baseman
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, at Weil-der-Stadt, Germany, Astronomer
B12271773 George Cayley founder of the science of aerodynamics
B12271822 Louis Pasteur French bacteriologist
B12271901 Marlene Dietrich in Berlin Germany (Blue Angel)
B12271939 John Amos, actor
B12271952 Tovah Feldsuh in NYC
B12271957 Caroline Kennedy
B12281763 John Molson, founder of a Montreal brewery
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson (D), 28th pres (1912-21) (Nobel 1919)
B12281882 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and cosmologist
B12281882 Sir Arthur Eddington, astronomer, physicist, mathematician
B12281894 Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
B12281896 Roger Sessions, American composer
B12281903 John Von Neumann
B12281905 Earl `Fatha' Hines jazz pianist
B12281908 Lew Ayres, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front)
B12281920 Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Eagles)
B12281925 Heldegarde Neff in Ulm Germany
B12281929 Owen Bieber, president of United Auto Workers
B12281931 Martin Milner (Adam-12)
B12281934 Maggie Smith in Ilford Eng (Death on the Nile, Clash of Titans)
B12291721 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
B12291776 Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
B12291808 Andrew Johnson (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone (Lib), British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
B12291859 Venustiano Carranza, president of Mexico (1915-20)
B12291879 Billy Mitchell WW I aviation hero Gen
B12291917 Tom Bradley LA Mayor
B12291920 Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
B12291921 Marla Powers
B12291934 Inga Swenson in Omaha Nebraska
B12291936 Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore in Bkln (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People)
B12291938 Barbara Steele
B12291938 Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
B12291946 Marianne Faithful Rocker
B12291947 Ted Danson (Cheers)
B12291949 Angel Tompkins
B12291952 Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel '07)
B12301867 Simon Guggenheim, sen
B12301869 Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, humorist
B12301876 Pablo Casals, Spanish violinist, conductor, composer
B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM in WWII
B12301911 Jeanette Nolan
B12301914 Bert Parks, Miss America emcee
B12301919 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral, East of Eden)
B12301928 Bo Diddley Rock `n' roll pioneer
B12301928 Jack Lord (Hawaii 5-0)
B12301929 Barbara Nichols
B12301931 Skeeter Davis in Dry Ridge Ky
B12301935 Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher
B12301942 Mike Nesmith (Monkees)
B12301959 Tracy Ullman
B123019?? Davy Jones (Monkees)
B12311869 Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter
B12311880 George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
B12311904 Nathan Milstein, concert violinist
B12311905 Jule Styne, English songwriter
B12311928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit)
B12311930 Odetta, folk singer
B12311932 George Schlatter TV producer
B12311937 Anthony Hopkins Actor
B12311941 Sarah Miles in England
B12311943 John Denver (Thank God he's a country boy)
B12311943 Ben Kingsley Actor
B12311946 Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer in Brussels Belgium
B12311946 Patty Smith in Chic
B12311947 Tim Matheson, actor (Animal House, To Be or Not to Be)
B12311948 Donna Summer in Boston (On the Radio)
B123119?? Deidra Hall

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S1201    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
S12011640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain
S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pitts
S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
S12011918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
S12011922 1st skywriting over US - "Hello USA" - by Capt Turner, RAF
S12011929 Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds
S12011954 Yanks & Orioles complete record 18 player deal Yanks send Miller,
S12011954CJohnson, Fridley and Del Guercio
S12011954CSegrist, Leppert and 2 minor leaguers for Kryhoski, Blayzka,
S12011955 Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus
S12011958 Central African Republic established (National Day)
S12011959 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
S12011959 International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington
S12011962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
S12011967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
S1202     Feast of St Bibiana, virgin and martyr
S1202     Pan American Health Day
S1202    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
S12021804 Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
S12021805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
S12021816 1st savings bank in US opens as Phila Savings Fund Society
S12021822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
S12021823 Pres Monroe declares his doctrine
S12021852 French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
S12021859 John Brown hung
S12021899 US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
S12021927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
S12021942 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago
S12021952 1st human birth televised to public, Denver, Co
S12021954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct
S12021957 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated, Pa
S12021961 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
S12021971 United Arab Emirates gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S12021972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
S12021974 Soyuz 16 launched
S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
S12021981 Moscone Convention Center in SF opens
S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted
S1203     Feast of St Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan
S1203    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
S12031621 Galileo invents telescope
S12031678 Edmund Halley receives  MA from Queen's College, Oxford
S12031818 Ill admitted as 21st state
S12031818 Illinois becomes 21st state
S12031828 Andrew Jackson elected pres
S12031833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
S12031866 Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies
S12031933 Joe Lilliard QBed Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
S12031947 Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire,' opens
S12031948 `Pumpkin Papers' came to light
S12031950 Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
S12031952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate
S12031964 Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley
S12031967 1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown, South Africa)
S12031967 `20th Century Ltd,' famed NY-Chic luxury train final run
S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
S12031980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
S12031985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
S1204     Feast of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna
S12041619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
S12041680 A hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great
S12041680Ccomet 1st seen on December 16, 1680
S12041682 1st Gen Assembly in Penn (Chester)
S12041783 Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
S12041909 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)
S12041912 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
S12041957 1st edition of Chase's Annual Events published
S12041965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
S12041980 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
S12041980 South Africa grants Transkei independence
S1205     Feast of St Sabbas, abbot
S1205     King's Birthday in Thailand (National Day)
S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded
S12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died
S12051876 Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench
S12051933 21st Amendment ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed
S12051935 1st coml hydroponics operation established, Montebello Ca
S12051947 Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
S12051951 Dragnet premiers
S12051955 AFL & CIO merge
S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
S12051974 Seattle Seahawks formed
S12051978 Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins
S12051978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
S12051978CPenguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders
S12051982 University Baptist Church, Seattle, declares sanctuary for refugees
S1206     Feast of St Nicholas, archbishop of Myra
S1206     Finland's Independence Day
S12061492 Haiti discovered by Columbus
S12061534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
S12061631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
S12061825 Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
S12061907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
S12061917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
S12061921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
S12061957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
S12061973 Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP
S12061977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
S1207     Feast of St Ambrose, governor & bishop of Milan
S12071787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
S12071842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
S12071935 Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
S12071941 Pearl Harbor attacked (a day that will live in infamy)
S12071941C1st Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward)
S12071953 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
S12071960 France grants Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo moon series, launched
S12071975 10th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
S12071977 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent - Black Hawks 4-0
S12071978 Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
S1208     Feast of Immaculate Conception
S12081845 German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
S12081863 Fire in Santiago, Chile kills 2,000
S12081869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
S12081886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
S12081893 Enlightment of Buddha
S12081913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
S12081931 Coaxial cable patented
S12081940 1st NFL championship on natl radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
S12081941 SF 1st blackout, at 6:15PM
S12081941CUS declares war on Japan
S12081952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
S12081966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
S12081974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
S12081980 John Lennon assassinated in NY by David Mark Chapman
S12081982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
S12081983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth
S12091792 1st cremation in US
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in Wilmington PO
S12091941 300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America HQ
S12091948 UN Gen Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
S1210     Feast of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr
S1210     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S1210     Human Rights Day, a UN observance
S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant
S12101817 Mississippi becomes 20th state
S12101830 Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Mass
S12101869 Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
S12101898 Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
S12101901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy)
S12101906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
S12101923 Harold Gould (Rhoda
S12101931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
S12101948 UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
S12101950 Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
S12101958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
S12101962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
S12101963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
S12101966 Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
S12101975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S12101978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
S12101984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
S1211     Feast of St Damasus, pope (366-384)
S1211     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state
S12111888 French Panama Canal company fails
S12111914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
S12111917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
S12111932 Snow falls in SF
S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves
S12111941 Japanese occupy Guam
S12111946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
S12111953 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
S12111954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
S12111958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
S12111959 Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm
S12111959CSeibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
S12111961 JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
S12111970 John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
S12111975 1st class postage rises from 10˘ to 13˘
S12111975CGreat Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett
S12111975Cfrom Pirates for George 'Doc' Medich
S1212     Feast of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of Mexico
S1212     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S1212     Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
S1212     National Ding-a-ling Day
S12121787 Penns becomes 2nd state
S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
S12121899 George F Grant patents golf tee
S12121901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
S12121937 1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
S12121963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S12121964 Russia launches Voshkod I, 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
S12121965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
S12121977 Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
S1213     Feast of St Lucy (St Lucia Day in Sweden)
S1213     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S1213    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
S12131862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North
S12131903 Wright brothers 1st airplane flight at Kittyhawk
S12131918 Wilson, 1st to make a foreign visit as Pres
S12131920 Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres
S12131968 Playland at the Beach reopens
S12131969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
S12131974 Maltese Republic Day
S12131976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
S12131978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
S12131981 Solidarity Day
S12131982 Devil's 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini
S12131983 Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
S1214     Halcyon Days begin
S12141782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British
S12141819 Alabama becomes 22nd state
S12141911 South Pole 1st reached by Roald Amundsen
S12141927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
S12141962 Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
S12141971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure
S12141974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent - Kings 3-0
S12141980 Anders Kailur scored in 6th Islander penalty shot
S1215     US Bill of Rights Day
S1215    6Underdog Day
S12151612 Simon Marius, namer of Jupiter's 4 inner satellites,
S12151612Cis 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Va gave its approval
S12151836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
S12151859 G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
S12151877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
S12151939 1st coml manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
S12151944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
S12151946 Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL failed to report bribe attempt
S12151964 American Radio Relay League founded
S12151965 1st rendevous in space: Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 link up
S12151966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
S12151966 Walt Disney passes away
S12151969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
S12151970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
S12151971 USSR's Venera 7 becomes the 1st craft to land on Venus
S12151973 Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
S12151973 Pirates of Caribbean opens
S12151980 Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
S12151985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
S1216     Bahrain National Day
S1216     Feast of St Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli
S1216    6Underdog Day
S12161689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor  Indians welcome
S12161857 Earthquake in Naples, Italy
S12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
S12161909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres José Santos Zelaya from office
S12161911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
S12161944 Battle of the Bulge began
S12161965 Gemini VI returns to Earth
S12161983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
S1217     1st day of Saturnalia, Roman festival honoring Saturn
S1217     Bhutan National Day
S1217    6Underdog Day
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
S12171777 France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies
S12171790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
S12171791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st one-way street
S12171792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
S12171843 Charles Dickens's classic: A Christmas Carol published
S12171852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
S12171860 Anaheim Township created in LA County
S12171875 Violent bread riots at Montreal
S12171903 At 10:35AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight, by Wright Bros
S12171920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
S12171933 1st professional NFL football game: Chicago Bears vs NY Giants
S12171944 M-OceanView streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
S12171954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In
S12171959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities - On The Beach
S12171975 1st time Islanders shut-out Rangers, 3-0 - Billy Smith's 5th
S12171979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
S1218     Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely
S1218     Saturnalia, celebrated with gifts, lights, closing of business
S1218    6Underdog Day
S12181787 NJ becomes 3rd state
S12181813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
S12181849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
S12181898 Auto speed record set -- 63 kph
S12181915 Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
S12181932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
S12181945 Uruguay joined UN
S12181956 Japan admitted to the UN
S12181958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
S12181958 1st voice from space:  recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
S12181965 Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII
S12181969 Britain abolished death penalty
S12181971 1st Candlelight Processional
S12181972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
S12181973 Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
S12181974 SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
S12181980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76
S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns `acts of hostage-taking'
S1219     Saturnalia
S1219    6Underdog Day
S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S12191776 Thomas Paine publishes his 1st `American Crisis' essay
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for the winter
S12191842 US recognized independence of Hawaii
S12191843 Charles Dickens publishes `A Christmas Carol,' in England
S12191859 Grading started for Market Street RR
S12191861 Battle of Black Water
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
S12191932 British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas
S12191933 Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
S12191946 War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French
S12191950 Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander
S12191957 `The Music Man,' starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
S12191962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
S12191972 Apollo 17 returns to Earth
S12191974 Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP
S12191984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
S1220     Saturnalia
S1220    6Underdog Day
S12201606 Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
S12201699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept 1 to Jan 1
S12201790 1st successful US cotton mill (Pawtucket, RI)
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US
S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
S12201850 Hawaiian PO established
S12201860 SC becomes 1st state to secede from US
S12201864 Union Gen. Sherman continued his `march to the sea.' Savannah, Ga
S12201879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
S12201883 Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
S12201892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented
S12201919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent
S12201919Cwith more than 50,000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
S12201922 14 republics formed USSR
S12201929 Mt Davidson dedicated as city park
S12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service
S12201944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
S12201963 Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners
S12201976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
S12201977 1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut
S12201983 Islanders scored 11 goals against Penguins
S1221     Feast of St. Thomas the apostle
S1221     Saturnalia
S1221     Ursid meteor shower
S1221     Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year
S1221    6Underdog Day
S12211620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
S12211790 Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US, in Rhode Island
S12211909 U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
S12211913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
S12211929 1st group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Tx
S12211933 Human blood serum 1st prepared
S12211937 1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White)
S12211952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
S12211954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn was murdered
S12211968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage
S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
S12211976 20th Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
S12211984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win - Whalers 1-0
S1222     Feast of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin
S1222     International Arbor Day
S1222     Saturnalia
S12221772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
S12221783 Washington resigns his milt commission
S12221850 Hawaiian PO established
S12221919 US deports 250 alien radicals
S12221937 Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
S12221983 Islanders scored 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
S12221984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train
S1223     Last day of Saturnalia
S12231569 St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
S12231690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its undiscovered
S12231783 Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
S12231913 US Federal Reserve system authorized
S12231920 Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
S12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
S12231948 PM Tojo, 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
S12231968 Borman, Lovell & Anders 1st men to orbit moon
S12231972 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua
S12231972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
S12231973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
S12231975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
S12231978 Islanders scored 7 goals in one period against the Rangers
S12231978CTrottier scores 8 pts vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL rec 6 pts in 1 pd
S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
S1224     Christmas Eve
S12241582 Vasco daGama Day
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (This news did not
S12241814Carrive until after Battle of New Orleans)
S12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Gruber, sung next day
S12241851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
S12241865 Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
S12241871 Giuseppe Verdi's `Aida' premiere in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
S12241906 1st radio program broadcast, in Brant Rock, Mass
S12241906 Reginald A. Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio
S12241910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
S12241920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
S12241936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
S12241943 FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
S12241951 Libya gains independence from Italy
S12241966 Luna 13 lands on moon
S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts, read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages
S12241970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
S12241980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
S1225     Christmas Day Peace on Earth, good will towards men
S1225     Constitution Day in Rep of China (Taiwan)
S1225     New Year's Day observed in England before 1068
S1225 336 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome
S12251066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
S12251758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
S12251776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises Hessians
S12251818 Silent Night by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon
S12251868Cto all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
S12251926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan
S12251931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
S12251941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
S12251963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
S12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
S12251977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
S12251983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
S1226     Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
S1226     Feast of St Stephen, martyr
S1226     National Whiner's Day
S12261492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
S12261773 Expulsion of tea ships from Phila
S12261848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
S12261860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
S12261865 James Mason patents 1st American coffee percolator
S12261917 Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
S12261919 Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
S12261925 1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
S12261933 US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
S12261973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
S1227     Feast of St John, apostle & evangelist
S12271741 Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
S12271825 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard HMS Beagle
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established
S12271867 Ontario & Quebec legislatures held 1st meeting
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
S12271927 "Show Boat" opens in NYC
S12271927 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall opens in NY
S12271934 1st youth hostel opened, Northfield, Mass
S12271941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an `open city'
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
S12271947 1st `Howdy Doody' show, (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
S12271968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
S12271972 LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
S12271972 Lester Pearson, Canadian PM (Nobel-1956)
S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
S12271983 Propane gas fire devastated 16 square blocks of Buffalo
S12271985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna
S12271985Cairports. President Reagan blamed Libyaner Moammar Gadhafi
S1228     Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (Childermas)
S1228     Halcyon Days end
S1228    3Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
S12281669 William Semple patents chewing gum
S12281832 John Calhoun, became the 1st Vice-president to resign
S12281846 Iowa becomes 29th state
S12281890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
S12281908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
S12281912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)
S12281915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
S12281950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
S12281978 30th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
S12281985 Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement
S1229     Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas ŕ Beckett)
S12291170 Archbishop Thomas A Becket, murdered by King Henry II supporters
S12291845 Texas becomes 28th state
S12291848 Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
S12291851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened in Boston
S12291864 Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
S12291890 Federal troops massacre 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
S12291911 SF Symphony formed
S12291916 Death of Rasputin
S12291921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
S12291937 Pan Am starts SF to Auckland, New Zealand service
S12291949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis, Bridgeport Ct
S12291949 Hungary nationalized its industries
S12291952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford NY
S12291975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
S12291983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
S12291984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
S12301809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
S12301817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico
S12301853Cfor $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
S12301916 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk, advisor to tsarina, is assassinated
S12301922 USSR organized as a federation
S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
S12301935 Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
S12301971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
S12301972 Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
S12301975 Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
S1231     Feast of St Sylvester I, pope (314-35)
S1231     Make Up Your Mind Day
S1231     New Year's Eve
S12311600 British East India Company chartered
S12311744 James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation
S12311775 Battle of Québec
S12311805 End of French Republican calendar
S12311852 Future Pres & Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes marry
S12311857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as new capital of Canada
S12311862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras, NC
S12311862 Pres Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
S12311890 Ellis Is opens as a US immigration depot
S12311921 Last SF firehorses retired
S12311943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
S12311946 Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
S12311951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
S12311958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
S12311961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
S12311974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
S12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
S12311981 Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
S12311984 Rajiv Gandhi took office as India's 6th PM
S12311984 Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
S12311999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama