This Day in History for 22nd December

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 161

401 - St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
795 - Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 - Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 - Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 - English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 - Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 - Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 - Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 - Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 - Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1807 - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 - British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1851 - The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1862 - -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
1870 - Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 - "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
1882 - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 - August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1885 - Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1885 - Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1886 - 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
1888 - Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1890 - Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
1894 - -23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 - Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 - United States Golf Association forms (NYC)
1894 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
Inventor Thomas Edison 1907 - Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 - US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 - Federal Baseball League disolved
1915 - Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1917 - Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 - Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 - US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1922 - Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1923 - Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1924 - Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 - Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in NYC
1930 - 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 - 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 - Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1935 - Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 - 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1937 - Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic
1939 - 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939 - Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland
1939 - Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1939 - 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1940 - World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
1941 - Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 - Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1941 - Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference
1942 - World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1943 - Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 - WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1944 - Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 - Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1945 - Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 - "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1946 - Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1947 - Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1948 - KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1951 - Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
1952 - French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 - WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 - Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
1956 - "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1956 - Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
1957 - KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1958 - "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 - "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 - 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1959 - Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
1959 - NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 - Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 - Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 - Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
1963 - Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
1964 - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1964 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.
1964 - First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird).
1965 - Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 - Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago," premieres
1965 - Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1965 - Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1966 - WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 245

1095 - Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1400 - Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
1428 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
1459 - Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
1515 - Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland
1523 - Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1573 - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen
1624 - Tomas Micieres, composer
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1643 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1684 - Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
1696 - James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)
1700 - Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent
1702 - Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay)
1723 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer
1727 - William Ellery, US attorney/signer (Declar of Independence)
1728 - Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden
1744 - Abigail Adams, Weymouth Mass, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)
1753 - Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher (Scottish common sense)
1761 - Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress
1764 - Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility
1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
1767 - Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, rebellion leader (fought Napoleon's France)
1768 - John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher
1787 - Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar
1795 - Thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist (Twentse textile)
1803 - Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1805 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
1808 - Thomas Cook, England, tour director (Thomas Cook & Son)
1809 - Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, Fren psychologist (dementia praecox)
1812 - Johanne Luise Heiberg, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Romeo & Juliet)
1815 - Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian
1815 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader
1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor
1819 - George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede)
1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1826 - James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
1830 - Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope)
1831 - Mark Rutherford, writer
1831 - Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
1832 - Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1842 - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet
1842 - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer
1844 - Izydor Lotto, composer
1846 - Andreas Hallen, composer
1849 - Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism)
1853 - Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor
1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg (1856) 1856 - Frank Kellogg, Potsdam, New York, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929), (d. 1937)
1857 - George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy opera composer (La bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly), (d. 1924)
1859 - Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician
1860 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
1861 - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)
1862 - Connie Mack, East Brookfield, Massachusetts, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950), (d. 1956)
1863 - Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter
1863 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier/explorer (Sudan)
1866 - Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer
1867 - Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic
1867 - Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect (Wiener Sezession)
1867 - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, Germany. Soldier and politician
1868 - John Nance Garner, Texas, (VP-D-1933-41)
1869 - Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)
Baseball Legend Connie Mack (1862) 1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
1869 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1872 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
1873 - L[eopold] S[tennett] Amery, British politician
1873 - Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Austria-Hungary, linguist
1874 - Franz Schmidt, composer
1874 - Herman Harrell Horne, Clayton NC, philosopher (idealism)
1875 - Antoine Mariotte, composer
1875 - John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor (Dead Water)
1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ital writer (Futurism e Futurista)
1877 - Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet
1879 - Ralph Hawtrey, Buckinghamshire England, economist (multiplier)
1879 - Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion (1925)
1881 - Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician
1882 - Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright
1883 - Arthur James Cook, England, union leader (coal miners)
1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965)
1885 - Joseph Deems Taylor, NYC, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1888 - Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron
1889 - Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright
1889 - Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid)
1890 - Mark Tobey, US abstract painter (Broadway Norm)
1890 - Harry Pollitt, Droylsden United Kingdom, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain
1891 - Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent
1896 - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St Petersburg Russia, poet
1898 - Lionel Charles Robbins, Middlesex England, economist
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1899 - Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor/director (M)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1968 - Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
2000 - Pop singer Madonna (42) weds film director Guy Ritchie (32) at Skibo Castle in Scotland
2005 - "Ospreys" Rugby star Shane Williams (28) weds Gail Lacey at Twyn Church in Garnant, West Wales
2005 - Brazilian actress Danielle Winits (31) weds model Cassio Reis at Capela Santa Ines in Rio de Janeiro
2007 - Former "Saturday Night Live" host Jimmy Fallon (33) weds Hollywood producer Nancy Juvonen (40) on Necker Island in Caribbean
2011 - "Big Bang Theory" Indian actor Kunal Nayyar (30) weds Miss India 2006 winner Neha Kapur (28) in New Delhi, India

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2006 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sandra Oh (35) divorces Oscar-winning Sideways director Alexander Payne (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 107

69 - Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome
1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1337 - Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
1419 - John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
1440 - Bluebeard, pirate, executed
1550 - Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
1603 - Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1566) Reigned 1595-1603.
1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1668 - Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
1721 - Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
1723 - Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70
1738 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56
1738 - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed)
1745 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66
1767 - John Newberry, English publisher, dies
1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1797 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74
1806 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
1815 - Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1828 - Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies
1828 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
1832 - Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72
1863 - Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36
1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79
1870 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]
1874 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86
1875 - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75
1880 - George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday
1893 - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91
1893 - Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80
1899 - Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies
1902 - Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62
1908 - Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
1913 - Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69
1917 - Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
1918 - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83
1923 - Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67
1937 - Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55
1939 - Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53
1940 - Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
1941 - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83
1942 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
Children's Author Beatrix Potter (1943) 1943 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)
1944 - Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday
1944 - Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60
1945 - Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63
1947 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
1950 - Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88
1951 - Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61
1955 - Len Braund, cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wkts), dies
1958 - Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
1959 - Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60
1964 - Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66
1965 - Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62
1965 - Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913)
1967 - Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48
1968 - Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73
1969 - Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80
1969 - Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52
1969 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75
1971 - Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58
1971 - Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63
1973 - Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87
1973 - Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72
1974 - Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70
1974 - Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50
1974 - Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor), dies at 47
1977 - Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77
1980 - Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
1985 - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
1986 - Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84
1987 - Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
1987 - Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies
1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
1990 - Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76
1990 - Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies
1991 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91
1992 - Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
1993 - Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81
1993 - Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
1995 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84
1995 - James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907)
1996 - Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81
1997 - Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51
1997 - Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81
1997 - Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford, dies at 67
1997 - John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78
1997 - Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71
1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
1998 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
2002 - Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929)
2003 - Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950)
2006 - Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)