Today in History for December 1991

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 88 of 88

1st - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 perfs
1st - "Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 469 perfs
1st - 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1)
1st - AIDS awareness day
1st - Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1st - Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
1st - US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1st - Ukrainian people vote for independence
2nd - Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
2nd - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
3rd - Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
3rd - Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
3rd - White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
4th - Judds final concert (Nashville)
4th - Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
4th - Pan American World Airways ceased operations
4th - Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
5th - "Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 perfs
5th - Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan 5th - NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
6th - "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
6th - "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
7th - A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
8th - "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
8th - "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
8th - Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
8th - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
8th - The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
9th - 2nd Billboard Music Awards
10th - "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
10th - IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
10th - Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
10th - Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
11th - William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner 12th - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
12th - NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
12th - Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
12th - Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
13th - Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
13th - NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
13th - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
14th - 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
14th - Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
15th - "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
15th - Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
16th - Fla Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
16th - UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
16th - Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
17th - Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
17th - NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
17th - Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
17th - Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
18th - DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
18th - General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
19th - "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs
19th - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
Russian President Boris Yeltsin 19th - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
19th - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
20th - NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
20th - Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
20th - A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
21st - 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
21st - El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
21st - Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
23rd - NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
24th - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
25th - Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
25th - Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of USSR
26th - Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
26th - Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
26th - Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
Murderer Jack Ruby 26th - NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
27th - "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
27th - Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
27th - Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
28th - 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
28th - Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
28th - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
28th - Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
28th - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
29th - "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 perfs
29th - 12th United Negro College Fund
29th - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
31st - CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
31st - Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
31st - Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
31st - J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner
31st - USSR, last day of existence

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 4 of 4

12th - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
13th - Jay Greenberg, American composer
15th - Eunice Cho, American actress
19th - Declan Galbraith, English singer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

12th - Actor Richard Gere (42) weds super model Cindy Crawford (25) in Las Vegas
21st - Actress Jane Fonda (55) weds CNN founder Ted Turner at the groom's home in north Florida

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58
1st - George Joseph Stigler, US economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80
3rd - Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
3rd - Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), after a stroke at 75
5th - Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
5th - Jill Browne, dies at 54
5th - Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
5th - Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921)
6th - Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62
6th - Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
7th - Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
8th - Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
8th - Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
10th - Berenice Abbott, US photographer, dies at 93
10th - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
11th - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
11th - Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71
11th - Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
11th - Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70
12th - Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
12th - Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
12th - Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
13th - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82
14th - John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies
14th - Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
15th - Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90
15th - Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55
16th - Fred D Scott, actor (2 Gun Troubador), dies
17th - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
18th - June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
18th - George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
19th - Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
19th - Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
19th - Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (b. 1961)
20th - Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies
20th - Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies
20th - Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86
20th - Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88
20th - Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54
20th - Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60
20th - Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67
20th - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
20th - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
22nd - Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91
23rd - Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73
24th - Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46
25th - Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90
25th - Mahmood Hussain, cricketer (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets), dies
25th - Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Caesar), dies at 87
25th - Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45
26th - Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70
26th - Sam Cresson, dies at 73
27th - Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43
27th - John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49
27th - W Hudson, US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies
28th - Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39
28th - Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure
29th - Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64