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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on December 15:
0037 Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus 5th emperor of Rome (54-68)
1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower)
1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
1863 Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
1882 Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer
1892 J Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil)
1918 Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel) (actor)
1920 Eddie Robinson (baseball)
1922 Alan Freed (disc jockey: WJW, Cleveland, WMGM & WABC, New York coined the phrase rock and roll)
1928 Ernest Ashworth (Country Music Hall of Famer: Talk Back Trembling Lips; Member of Grand Ole Opry)
1933 Tim Conway (actor, comedian: McHale's Navy, The Tim Conway Show, The Carol Burnett Show, various Dorf Does videos)
1940 Nick Buoniconti (football)
Deaths which occurred on December 15:
1025 Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies
1230 Ottokar I king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies
1626 Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
1817 Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies
1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), is killed by Indian police.
1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller jazz pianist, dies in Kansas City MO at 39
1944 Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 Shot down(?) over English Channel (held rank of Major)
1966 Walt Elias Disney, animator, dies at 65
1978 Chill Wills actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
1997 Lillian Disney widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1965 CLARK JERRY P.---DAVENPORT IA.
1969 SCHUMACHER JAMES K.
1970 DEUSO CARROLL J.---RICHFORD VT.
1970 MC COY MERIL O JR.---NORTH SACRAMENTO CA.
1970 OWEN CLYDE C.---ELKLAND MO.
1970 PIERSANTI ANTHONY J. JR.---PENNSAUKEN NJ.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
1488 Bartholomeo Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
1811 Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
1864 Battle of Nashville, TN
1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1899 3rd defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Colenso South Africa (Boers-British army)
1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta it was the first movie premiere ceremony to be televised. The governor of Georgia proclaimed the day a state holiday in commemoration of the event and the holiday celebrations continued for three days.
1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
1948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1973 American Psychiatric Assn declares homosexuality is not mental illness
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1997 SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
1998 President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at an Israeli border point.
2000 First Lady and Senator-elect Hillary Clinton signed an $8 million book deal to write a memoir of her years in the White House.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Turkey : Festival of Mevlana-Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes) (thru 12-17)
Esperanto League : Zamenhof Day (1859)
Malaysia : Hol Al-Marhom Sultan Ibrahim of Johore
Netherlands Antilles : Kingdom Day/Statute Day (1954)
Pakistan : Quaid-i-Azam's Birthday
US : Bill of Rights Day (1791)
US : Firefighters Day
US : Quarterly Income Tax Due.
Art and Architecture Books Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of St Nio, virgin
Christian : Commemoration of St Offa of Essex, king
Christian : Commemoration of St Paul of Latros, hermit
Christian : Commemoration of St Mary di Rosa
Religious History
1558 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'Wherever there is a pulverized and penitent heart, there grace also is, and wherever there is a voluntary confession not gained by pressure, there love covereth a multitude of sins.'
1629 In England, proto_Baptist minister and founder of Rhode Island, 26_year_old Roger Williams married Mary Barnard, daughter of a Puritan clergyman. Two years later, he and his wife sailed from Bristol to Massachusetts.
1739 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'My brother, entreat the Lord that I may grow in grace, and pick up the fragments of my time, that not a moment of it may be lost.'
1957 British apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'May it please the Lord that...faith unimpaired may strengthen us, contrition soften us and peace make us joyful.'
1990 More than 400 American Roman Catholic theologians charged that the Vatican had been throttling church reforms and imposing "an excessive Roman centralization." They contended that the Vatican had undercut a greater role for women, slowed the ecumenical drive for Christian unity and undermined the collegial functioning of national conferences of bishops.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home."
Modern Lies...
I've never done anything like this before.
How to tick off Santa Claus...
While he's in the house, go find his sleigh and write him a speeding ticket.
The Rules of Chocolate...
A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place.
Isn't that handy?
Famous Last Words...
It's probably just a rash
