This day in history...

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:34 pm

Deaths which occurred on December 23:
0558 Childebert king of France (511-58), dies at about 62
0679 Dagobert II king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
0918 Conrad I East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies
1116 Ivo van Chartres French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies
1236 Philippus Cancellarius French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies
1502 Margaretha English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57
1569 St Philip metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1588 Hendrik de Guise French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37
1619 Johan Sigismund elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47
1652 John Cotton Massachusetts Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68
1688 Jean-Louis Lully composer, dies at 21
1696 Johann David Mayer composer, dies at 60
1789 Charles-Michel abbÃ© de l'EpÃ©Ã© (school for the deaf), dies at 77
1812 Michel Delalande composer, dies at 73
1891 Holger Simon Paulli composer, dies at 81
1908 Eduard Wachmann composer, dies at 72
1908 FranÃ§ois A Gevaert Belgian/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68
1909 King Leopold II of Belgium
1911 Karl L Hoschna composer, dies at 34
1913 James Middleton cricketer (24 wicket of lefty pace South Africa 1895-1903), dies
1915 Roland Leighton dies at 20
1925 A S C Wallis [AdÃ¨le von Antal-Opzoomer] writer (Vorstengunst), dies
1930 Johannes H Been Brielle archivist, dies at 71
1938 Robert Herrick US writer (Chimes), dies at 70
1939 Anthony H G Fokker Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49
1943 Theo[dorus J] Thijssen Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64
1945 Mogens Klitgaard Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39
1948 Hideki Tojo Japan PM & 6 other Japanese hanged for war crimes by US
1950 Vincenzo Tommasini composer, dies at 72
1951 Alfreds Kalnins composer, dies at 72
1951 Benito Lynch Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
1953 Lavrenti P Beria soviet minister of internal security, executed
1959 Lester Lonergan Jr actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
1959 Edward Halifax English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78
1959 Lord Irwin ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78
1962 George Saiko writer, dies at 70
1962 Luis Alberni actor (Topaze), dies at 76
1964 Arrigo Pedrollo composer, dies at 86
1966 Heimito von Doderer writer, dies at 70
1966 Robert Keith actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68
1967 Karen Verne actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49
1967 Richard Flury composer, dies at 71
1967 Ruth Fuller Sasaki head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75
1969 Donald Foster actor (Scaramouche), dies after long illness at 80
1970 Charlie Ruggles actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
1971 Carlo Jachino composer, dies at 84
1972 Andrej N Tupolev Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84
1973 Arthur Richardson cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies
1975 Richard S Welch CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
1976 Paul M Frank Forest actor (Big Broadcast

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:46 pm

In 1524, Portuguese navigator Vasco da gama--who had discovered a sea route around Africa to India--died in Cochin, India.

In 1871, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:51 pm

Birthdates which occurred on December 25:
0004 -BC- Jesus of Nazareth religious leader/philosopher (estimated date)
1583 Orlando Gibbons English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized
1601 Jose Ximenez composer
1624 Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffler] German mystic (St Seelenlust)
1628 Noel Coypel French painter
1642 [Sir] Isaac Newton Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer (Laws of Motion and Gravity)
1646 Harald Vallerius composer
1686 Giovanni Battista Somis composer
1698 Jacobus Houbraken Dutch engraver/illustrator
1711 Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville composer
1717 Pius VI [Giovanni A Braschi] Italy, Pope (1775-99)
1721 William Collins Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
1728 Johann Adam Hiller composer
1750 John "Christmas" Beckwith composer
1763 Claude Chappe French engineer (optical telegraph)
1765 Joseph Mazzinghi composer
1771 Dorothy Wordsworth
1775 Antun Sorkocevic composer
1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
1811 Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler German politician/bishop of Mainz
1813 Milledge Luke Bonham (Confederacy) died in 1890
1814 Jan de Liefde II Dutch vicar/founder (Co-op of Welfare of the People)
1815 Temistocle Solera composer
1821 Clara Harlowe Barton Oxford MA, nurse (founder-American Red Cross)
1823 Preston Smith Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1825 Esteban Salas y Castro composer
1829 Patrick S Gilmore composer
1831 Johann Herbeck composer
1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
1837 Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
1855 James Galvin pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
1859 Raoul Gunsbourg composer
1863 E FernÃ¡ndez ArbÃ³s Spanish violinist/conductor/composer
1865 Evangeline Cory Booth Salvation Army general (1904-34)
1867 Alfred Kerr writer
1868 Eugenie Besserer Watertown NY, actress (Jazz Singer)
1875 Theodor Innitzer cardinal/archbishop Vienna
1875 Walter Lees cricketer (Surrey pace bowler toured for England 1905-06)
1876 Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)/Governor (1947-58)
1878 W Starling Burgess yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
1881 Joseph V McCarthy baseball manager (New York Yankees)
1883 Fran Lhotka composer
1883 Maurice Utrillo France, painter (Port St Martin, Montmartre)
1887 Conrad Hilton hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels)
1887 Jacobus W G Balfoort Dutch actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1887 John Davidson New York NY, actor (Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat)
1891 Clarrie Grimmett cricketer (in Dunedin Great Australian leg-spinner)
1891 Earle Foxe Oxford OH, actor (Dance Fools Dance)
1891 Kenneth A N Anderson British general (Dunkerk, North Africa)
1892 Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield] English author
1893 Fred Hillebrand Brooklyn NY, actor (Martin Kane)
1893 Ropert L Ripley Santa Rosa CA, cartoonist

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:13 pm

In 1944,during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, the embattled U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne,Belgium, was relieved by units of the 4th Armored Division.

In 1957, the Ingmar Bergman film "Wild Strawberries," starring Victor Sjostrom, opened in Sweden.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:59 am

Deaths which occurred on December 27:
0418 Zosimus Greek Pope (417-8), dies
0975 Balderik bishop of Utrecht (918-75), dies
1065 Ferdinand I the Great, king of Castile, dies
1590 Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing marquis of Renty, dies at 33
1595 Pietro Pontio composer, dies at 63
1603 Thomas Cartwright English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68
1631 John Pijnas Dutch painter, buried at about 47
1641 FranÃ§ois van d'Aerssen ruler of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1805 Belle van Zuylen Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
1836 Stephen Fuller Austin founder of state of Texas, dies at 43
1858 Alexandre Pierre FranÃ§ois Boely composer, dies at 73
1877 Nikolai A Nekrasov Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
1880 Alessandro Nini composer, dies at 75
1916 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov composer, dies at 70
1919 Achilles Alferaki composer, dies at 73
1919 Theodoor H de Meester Dutch liberal premier (1905-08), dies at 68
1924 William Archer Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
1925 Louis Dosfel Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44
1930 William Courtleigh actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63
1931 Peter Christian Lutkin composer, dies at 73
1931 Walter Courvoisier composer, dies at 56
1936 Hans von Seeckt German general/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
1938 Emile Vandervelde Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72
1938 O Mandelstam writer, dies
1944 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach composer, dies at 77
1950 Max Beckmann German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
1952 Henri G Winkelman Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76
1957 Alan Bridge actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66
1959 Alfonso Reyes Mexican poet/historian/diplomat, dies at 70
1972 Lester B Pearson (L) 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1957), dies at 75
1974 Amy Vanderbilt US author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66
1974 Raymond Glenn actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76
1978 Bob de Lange Dutch actor/director (Daniel), dies at 62
1978 Chris Bell rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash
1978 Houari BoumÃ©diene Algerian President, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53
1979 Hafizullah Amin President of AfghÃ¡nistÃ¡n (1979), murdered
1981 Hoagy Carmichael US actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82
1982 John Leonard Swigert Jr astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
1983 Walter Scott rocker, dies
1985 Dian Fossey US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
1986 Cliff Burton bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24
1986 Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson composer, dies at 78
1987 Rewi Alley New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1987 Priscilla Dean actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
1988 Fox Harris actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid & Nancy), dies
1988 Hal Ashby academy-award winning director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies of cancer at 59
1991 Edward M Love choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43
1991 John Morgan Evans actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49
1991 W Hudson US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies
1992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:05 pm

In 1822, scientist Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France

In 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle

In 1904, James Barrie's play "Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow up" opened at the Duke of York's Theater in London.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:49 am

Deaths which occurred on December 28:
1446 Clemens VIII [Aegyd MuÃ±oz] Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies
1542 Albert Pigge [Pighius] Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52
1622 FranÃ§ois de Sales French bishop of GenÃ¨va/writer/saint, dies at 55
1673 Joan Blaeu Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77
1694 Queen Mary II of England dies after 5 years of rule at 32
1706 Pierre Bayle French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
1772 Ernst J Earl van/of Biron Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82
1775 Peter A van de Parra Governor-General of (Netherlands Indies), dies at 61
1779 Gennaro Manna composer, dies at 64
1793 Louis Earl of Bylandt Dutch admiral, dies at about 75
1830 Adrien-Joseph van Helmont composer, dies at 83
1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay English essayist/historian, dies
1860 Cornelius Broere Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman/poet, dies at 57
1862 Joaquim Casimiro Junior composer, dies at 54
1870 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov composer, dies at 72
1870 Peter van Schendel Dutch painter, dies at 64
1876 Frederik Paludan-MÃ¼ller Danish poet (Abels dÃ¶d), dies at 67
1878 Jose Bernardo Alcedo composer, dies at 90
1884 Gerben Colmjon Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56
1891 Alfred Cellier composer, dies at 47
1903 George [Robert] Gissing English novelist, dies at 46
1915 Gerrit Jan van Heek Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78
1916 Eduard Strauss Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
1918 George H White last post Reconstruction congressman (Pennsylvania), dies
1923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1932 John Blackham cricketer (35 Tests as Australia WK, caught 37), dies
1935 Clarence Day writer (Life with Father), dies
1937 Maurice J Ravel Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
1938 Florence Lawrence silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48
1945 Theodore Dreiser novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
1946 Carrie Jacobs Bond American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85
1947 Victor Emmanuel III king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha PM of Egypt, assassinated
1949 Jack Lovelock New Zealand/US surgeon/athlete (Olympics-gold-1936), dies at 39
1949 W Hervey Allen US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60
1956 Roelof Kranenburg Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76
1961 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
1963 Abbott Joseph Liebling American journalist/writer, dies
1963 Paul Hindemith German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
1967 BÃ©la Schick Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90
1969 Henry Oscar actor (Saint in London), dies at 78
1970 Charles "Sonny" Liston heavyweight boxer champion (1962-64), dies
1970 L Mendel Rivers (Representative-D-SC), dies at 65
1971 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner composer, dies at 83
1976 Freddie King rocker, dies at 42
1978 Harry Winston US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82
1980 Amir Elahi cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
1980 Jersey calf lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1982 Frederick Douglass Hall composer, dies at 84
1983 William Demarest actor ("Uncle Charlie" on My Three Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 92
1983 Dennis Wilson drummer

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:22 pm

In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.

In 1973, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:30 am

Birthdates which occurred on December 29:
1563 Francesco Maria Guaitoli composer
1586 Francisco de Moncada Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona
1678 Gotthard Wagner composer
1709 Elisabeth Petrovna tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great
1721 Madame De Pompadour mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1743 Alexander van Bylandt Dutch military officer
1767 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer
1776 Charles Macintosh Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
1792 Archibald Alison Scottish historian (History of Europe)
1800 Charles Goodyear inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
1808 Andrew Johnson Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th President (1865-69)
1808 GyÃ¶rgy Apponyi Hungarian Parliament member
1809 William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
1809 Albert Pike Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1813 Etienne-Joseph Soubre composer
1831 Adam Badeau Brevet Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1833 John James Ingalls (Representative-KS)
1843 Elisabeth queen of Romania/poet (RumÃ¤nische Dichtungen)
1850 Tomas Breton y Hernandez composer
1856 Thomas J Stieltjes mathematician (Stieltjes integral)
1859 Venustiano Carranza President of MÃ©xico (1915-20)
1866 Joseph Limburg liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19)
1869 Bill Howell cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century)
1876 Pablo Casals Vendrell Catalonia Spain, cellist/conductor/composer
1878 Felix M Abel French bible scholar (JÃ©rusalem Nouvelle)
1879 Billy Mitchell aviation hero general (WWI)
1880 Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin composer
1887 Kiyoshi Nobutoki composer
1888 Joseph Beran Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1890 Jozef CantrÃ© Flemish sculptor/wood carver
1892 Emory Parnell St Paul MN, actress (Rocket Man, County Fair)
1896 David Alfaro Siqueiros MÃ©xico, painter/muralist (Liberation of Chile)
1897 Hermann Heiss composer
1898 Jeanne Leleu composer
19-- Ronnie Younkins rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
19-- Susie Garrett Detroit MI, actress (Punky Brewster)
1900 Willie Humphrey jazz Clarinetist
1903 Clyde McCoy jazz trumpeter/bandleader
1904 Wendell Niles Twin Valley MN, TV announcer (It Could be You)
1907 James Gardner designer
1908 Claire Dodd Arkansas, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy)
1908 Gerben Sonderman Dutch test pilot (Fokker)
1912 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
1913 Laurence Gower academic
1915 Robert Ruark US writer (Something of Value)
1915 Charles L[eonard] Harness US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead)
1915 John P W Meefout Dutch sculptor (Laying Woman)
1917 Tom Bradley (Mayor-D-LA) (1973-93)
1919 Pieter Terpstra Dutch journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T)
1919 Roman Vlad composer
1920 Syd Dernley hangman
1920 Viveca Lindfors Uppsala Sweden, actress (Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
1921 Dobrica Cosic writer
1925 Dina Merrill New York NY, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield

1927 Jim Simpson Washington

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:21 pm

Religious History
1223 Pope Honorius III formally approved the Franciscan religious order. Properly called the Order of the Friars Minor, this Catholic order was founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi.
1841 Howard College was chartered in Marion, Alabama, under Baptist sponsorship. The campus relocated to Birmingham in 1887.
1849 The Christmas hymn by Edmund Sears, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," was first published in "The Christian Register." Sears' carol features the American emphasis in Christian living, that is, the social message of "peace on earth, good will toward men."
1876 Popular American hymnwriter Philip P. Bliss, 38, died when the train in which he and his wife were riding plunged off a bridge into a ravine 60 feet below. Bliss had penned such enduring hymns as: "Wonderful Words of Life, "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning," "I Will Sing of My Redeemer" and "I Gave My Life for Thee."
1938 In Tambaram, South India, the second world meeting of the International Missionary Council closed at Madras Christian College (having opened Dec. 12th). It was afterward called the IMC's Tambaram Conference.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:41 pm

In 1857, Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.

In 1978,Taiwanese diplomats struck their colors for the final time from the embassy flagpole in Washington, marking the end of diplomatic relations with the U.S.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:56 am

Birthdates which occurred on January 02:
1642 Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey)
1647 Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676)
1699 Osman III sultan (Turkey)
1713 Mademoiselle Dumesnil Paris, tragic actress (Racine's Phadre, Hermione)
1727 James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured QuÃ©bec)
1728 Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium
1732 Franz Xaver Brixi composer
1752 Philip Freneau poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1777 Christian D Rauch German sculptor
1803 Gugliemo Libri [della Somaia], Italian/French mathematician/book collector
1807 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki composer
1809 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns composer
1822 Rudolph J E Clausius Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1830 Henry Kingsley English/Australian writer
1831 Justin Winston historian/librarian (Harvard)
1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1837 Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1842 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury French reformed theologist
1846 Sandor Erkel composer
1857 Frederick Opper cartoonist (Willie and His Papa, Maud the Mule, Alphonse & Gaston)
1857 Martha Carey Thomas educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
1860 William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 Helen Herron Taft 1st lady (1909-13)
1861 Wilhelm BÃ¶lsche writer
1863 Lucia Zarate became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1870 Ernst Barlach writer
1873 Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
1879 Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Grimaces)
1879 Pieter Tesch Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
1880 Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer
1884 Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
1885 Johannes Ringers Dutch water engineer (dikes)
1886 Moyshe Leyb Halpern Galican/US poet (In New-York)
1889 Tito Schipa Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
1889 Walter Baldwin Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
1892 Lura Anson Nebraska, entertainer
1894 Robert Nathan New York City NY, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
1895 Count Folke Bernadotte Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
1896 Dziga Vertiv [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
1896 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr composer
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer
1899 Paul-Henri Spaak Belgium, Premier/Secretary-General of NATO (1957-61)
19-- John Bedford-Lloyd New Haven CT, actor (Peter-Hometown)
19-- Ron Hale actor (Michael Corbin-General Hospital, Dr Roger Coleridge-Ryan's Hope)
1901 Robert Marshall founder (Wilderness Society)
1901 Rex O'Malley London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
1901 Torsten Ralf Swedish tenor (Daphne)
1903 Anton van Duinkerken [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
1904 James Melton Moultrie GA, opera tenor (Ford Festival)
1904 Sally Rand Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
1905 Michael Kemp Tippett English composer/conductor (Child of our Time)
1907 Edward Albert Radice economist
1907 Salvador Ley composer
1908 Ben Grauer New York City NY, newscaster (Big Story)
1908 Janis Kepitis composer
1909 Rene Etiemble French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)
1910 Ulrich Becher writer
1912 Anna Lee Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)
1912 Barbara Pentland Winnipeg Canada, composer
1912 Renato Guttuso Italian painter (The Flight from Etna, Crucifixion)
1912 Andre Ameller composer
1913 Gardner Read Evanston, Illinois, composer
1913 Ernest Sidey British air marshal
1913 Juanita E Jackson Mitchell US head (NAACP)
1913 LÃ©on P Teisserenc de Bort France, meteorologist
1915 John Hope Franklin historian
1920 Isaac Asimov Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1920 Duke of Devonshire English large landowner

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:13 pm

In 1492, Muhammad XI, the sultan of Granada, the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to Spanish forces.

In 1929, the United States and Canada reached agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara falls.

In 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila was capture by Japanese forces during World War II

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:08 am

Deaths which occurred on January 03:
1322 Philip V the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies
1501 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani] Turkish poet/author, dies at 59
1543 Juan Cabrillo conqueror of Central America, discoverer of California, dies
1552 Henry II of Bavaria bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at 64
1560 Peder Palladus Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56
1570 Bartholomeus Latomus [Steinmetz], Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies
1571 Joachim II Hector elector (Brandenburg), dies at 65
1628 Francesco Maria Guaitoli composer, dies at 64
1641 Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22
1661 Maria HenriÃ«tte Stuart (of Orange) English Princess Royal/eldest daughter of the English king Charles I/mother of English king William III, dies of smallpox at 29
1670 George Monck English General (-to the-sea), dies at 61
1759 Marquis & Marquess of Tavora Portuguese nobles, executed
1761 Willem de Fesch Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73
1795 Josiah Wedgwood British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1829 Robert Archibald Smith composer, dies at 48
1835 Willem F RÃ¶ell Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67
1836 Friedrich Witt composer, dies at 65
1841 Wilhelmus Kist writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
1853 Theodor Uhlig composer, dies at 30
1858 Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel-FÃ©lix], French singer/actress (Muse), dies at 36
1865 Jozef Lies Flemish painter, dies at 43
1868 Moritz Hauptmann composer, dies at 75
1870 Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educationalist, dies at 46
1873 John Lodge Ellerton composer, dies at 71
1875 George Bizet composer, dies
1875 Baldassare Galuppi Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
1882 William H Ainsworth English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
1898 James Wimshurst British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70
1900 Edwin George Monk composer, dies at 80
1907 Josef Foerster composer, dies at 73
1912 Felix Dahn writer, dies at 77
1914 Stephane Raoul Pugno composer, dies at 62
1915 James E Flecker British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
1923 Jaroslav Hasek Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39
1931 Joseph J C Joffre French marshal, dies at 78
1933 Wilhelm Cuno German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56
1938 Arthur Boon Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54
1942 Pauline Beersmans [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress, dies at 70
1945 Fyodor Akimenko composer, dies at 68
1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1951 Fred Barlow composer, dies at 69
1956 Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov Russian/US composer, dies at 91
1960 Victor Seastrom entertainer, dies at 80
1963 Oscar Backing Austria/Netherlands viola player, dies at 83
1965 Betty Harte entertainer, dies at 82
1965 Julius Tannen comedian, dies at 84
1966 Rex Lease actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at 62
1967 Jack Ruby assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55
1967 Mary Garden opera star, dies at 92
1969 Howard McNear actor (Irma La Douce), dies after long illness at 63
1972 Frans Masereel Flemish WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82
1974 Gino Cervi actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at 72
1975 Milton J Cross TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87
1975 Robert Neumann Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77
1975 Walter Linck Swiss sculptor, dies at 71
1976 Mal Evans Beatles' roadie, dies
1976 Mateusz Glinski composer, dies at 83
1976 Michael V Love US test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at 37
1977 Avraham Ofer Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide
1977 Benno Stokvis Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75
1979 Conrad Hilton US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
1980 Amos Milburn rocker, dies at 52
1980 Axel Springer Jr German photographer, commits suicide at 38
1980 Ivan Triesault actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox), dies at 81
1980 Joy Adamson author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69
1982 Derek Sealy cricketer (West Indies 1930-39), dies
1985 Lucien Cailliet composer, dies at 93
1986 Jens Bjerre composer

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:45 pm

In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.

In 1833, Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

In 1990, ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:18 am

Religious History
1527 Swiss Anabaptist reformer Felix Manz, 29, was drowned in punishment for preaching adult (re-)baptism. Manz's death made him the first Protestant in history to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants.
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'There is nothing like a calm look into the eternal world to teach us the emptiness of human praise.'
1949 U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Our Father in heaven, give us the long view of our work and our world. Help us to see that it is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.'
1922 Following her sensational divorce, popular American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, 32, resigned her denominational ordination and returned her fellowship papers to the General Council of the Assemblies of God.
1964 Following an unprecedented pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI met with Greek Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem. It was the first such meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches in over 500 years (since 1439).

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:55 am

Deaths which occurred on January 07:
0312 Lucianus of Antioch theologist/saint, dies
1130 Baldricus Burgoliensis French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83
1285 Charles I of Anjou king of Naples/brother of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1325 Dionysius the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1451 Amadeus VIII last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1529 Peter Vischer the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1536 Catherine of Aragon 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies
1537 Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1566 Ludovicus Blosius [Louis de Blois "Dacrianus"], wrtier, dies
1590 Jacob Andreae German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1591 Jacobus de Kerle French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1598 Theodorus I [Fedor Ivanovitch], czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1655 Innocentius X [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at 80
1678 Johannes Flittner composer, dies at 59
1695 Mary II Stuart queen of England, dies at 32
1721 Rochus Aerts Flemish sculptor, dies
1722 Antoine Coypel French painter/poet, dies at 60
1736 Ceslav Vanura composer, dies at 41
1755 Gallus Zeiler composer, dies at 49
1758 Allan Ramsay Sr Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1790 Antonio Corbisiero composer, dies at 69
1810 Joseph Lipavsky composer, dies at 37
1830 Charlotte J T infant of Portugal's ex, dies at 53
1833 Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba composer, dies at 55
1843 Franz Schoberlechner composer, dies at 45
1858 Willem Broes vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
1868 William Batchelder Bradbury composer, dies at 51
1870 Karl Schwencke composer, dies at 72
1887 Abraham I van Lier Dutch actor/director (Gran ThÃ©Ã¢tre), dies at 74
1890 Augusta Maria L Katharina wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1890 Hans Matthison-Hansen composer, dies at 82
1891 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer, dies at 79
1892 Tewfik Pasja viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1907 Anton Urspruch composer, dies at 56
1921 Benno Erdmann German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1922 Antonio Scontrino composer, dies at 71
1929 Henry Arthur Jones English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1930 Rudolf HÃ¤pke historian (Entstehung HollÃ¤nd Wirtschaft), dies at 45
1932 Henri Stroethoff Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
1936 Howard Francis cricketer (2 Tests South Africa vs England 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
1942 Henry Count of Baillet-Latour, president of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
1943 Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944 J Verleun Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1948 Raoul Auernheimer writer, dies
1951 Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
1955 Gerald Hartigan cricketer (South African batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies
1957 Al White choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
1958 Dr Petru Groza premier of Romania, dies at 74
1960 Luis da Costa composer, dies at 80
1961 Clarice Baright 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association dies at 74
1964 Colin C McPhee composer (H2O, Mechanical Principles), dies at 62
1967 Carl Schuricht composer, dies at 86
1967 Sid Emery cricket leg-spinner (New South Wales & Australia, 5 wicket in 1912 series), dies
1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1971 Dick Kollmar actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60
1971 Madame Spivy [LeVoe] actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64
1972 Clarence Passailaigue cricketer (487 for 6th wicket for Jamaica), dies
1972 John Berryman US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies
1979 Zbigniew Turski composer, dies at 70
1980 Carl White rocker, dies
1980 Sarah Selby actress (Tower of London), dies at 74
1981 Jose Ardevol composer, dies at 69
1982 Bert Oosterhuis Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1983 August Cool Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1985 Johnny Guarnieri jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1986 Juan Rulfo writer, dies
1986 M Rooi editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79
1987 Larry Carr pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1988 Trevor Howard UK actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71
1989 Hirohito Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies of duodenal cancer at 87 after 62-year reign (1/2 Million line Tokyo streets)
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990 Horace Stoneham baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990 Joseph Robbie lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1990 Gail Lucas entertainer, dies
1991 Joe Hicks baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
1992 Jhean Burton entertainer, dies
1992 Richard Hunt puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
1993 Richard Branda actor (2

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:15 pm

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei began observing three of Jupiter's moons.

In 1942,the Japanese siege of Bataan began during World War II

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:16 am

Religious History
1800 In London, the first soup kitchens were opened for the relief of the poor.
1954 The State Convention of Baptists in Ohio was formed, representing 39 Southern Baptist churches in that state.
1956 In Ecuador, Plymouth Brethren missionaries Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully and Pete Fleming were killed by the Auca Indians, while attempting to evangelize their tribe. Elliot's widow Elisabeth later published the story of their work and martyrdom in her book "Through Gates of Splendor" (1953).
1966 Stephen Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland, was barred by the Polish government from attending the Vatican celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
1979 American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is a person who has the possibility of innumerable new starts.'

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:42 pm

In 1908, French philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris.

In 1945, during World War II, American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines.