On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on December 13:
1521 Sixtus V [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"] bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)
1553 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
1816 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
1818 Mary Todd Lincoln (First Lady: wife of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln)
1903 Carlos Montoya (guitarist)
http://www.deflamenco.com/articulos/carlosmontoya/indexi.jsp
1910 Van (Emmet) Heflin (Academy Award-winning actor: Johnny Eager [1942])
1918 Bill Vukovich (race car driver: Indianapolis 500 winner [1953, 1954])
1920 George Shultz (Secretary of State under U.S. President Ronald Reagan [1982-1988])
1922 Rex Allen Wilcox AZ, cowboy actor
1925 Dick Van Dyke (Emmy Award-winning actor/comedian:
1925 Wayne Walker (country music composer)
1929 Christopher Plummer (Orme) (Emmy Award-winning actor)
1930 Robert Prosky Philadelphia PA, actor (Christine, Sergeant Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
1934 Richard Darryl Zanuck (producer: Jaws, The Sting)
1935 Karim Aga Khan, prince/billionaire/husband of Rita Hayworth
1941 John Davidson (actor, singer; TV game show host: Hollywood Squares)
1948 Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (musician: guitarist: groups: Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)
http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/Content.aspx?ID=20226181&SectionID=1
1949 Ted Nugent (musician: original group: Amboy Dukes; guitarist, singer: Cat Scratch Fever)
1950 Brad Dusek (football)
1967 Jamie Foxx comedian
1972 GiGi Gordon Butler PA, Miss America-Pennsylvania (1997)
2003 William Roth Jr. (82), former Delaware Senator, died
Helped created the popular Roth retirement account and the Kemp-Roth tax cuts. Wrote "The Power to Destroy" (1999), a look at the IRS.
Deaths which occurred on December 13:
0838 Pippijn I King of Aquitania, dies
1048 Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74
1124 Callistus II [Guido di Borgogna] Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
1250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
1557 Niccoló Tartaglia Italian mathematician, dies
1672 Jan II Kazimierz king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
1738 Gotthard Wagner composer, dies at 59
1862 Conrad Feger Jackson US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49
1862 Maxcy Gregg US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48
1862 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39
1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1961 Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101
1969 Raymond A Spruance, US Admiral (Battle of Midway), dies at 83
1974 Rufe Davis actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
1993 Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
13-Dec-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Brent T. Vroman Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Richard D. Warner Babil Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Tina Safaira Time CSC Cedar 2 (near, nr. Nasiriyah) - Dhi Qar Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
1294 Pope Coelestinus V ends term
1545 Pope Paul III opens Council of Trente (19th ecumenical council)
1572 Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under Admiral Lumey
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1759 1st music store in America opens (Philadelphia)
1769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1774 1st incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William & Mary, New Hampshire
1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1861 Battle of Alleghany Summit WV
1862 Battle of Fredericksburg VA (Marye's Heights) (11,000 Northern soldiers were killed or wounded)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/fredrick.htm (See "Gods and Generals" Jeffery M. Shaara)
1864 Battle of Fort McAllister GA
1879 1st federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington DE)
1895 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey)
(You scream, I scream, we all scream for Ice Cream)
1906 German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow disbands the Parliament
1907 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol
1916 French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany
1918 Woodrow Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as President (France)
1919 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
(Note: It's big...really really big. Almost as big as Howard "the duck" Deans ego)
1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
1920 Netherlands breaks contact with kingdoms of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
1922 Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)
1928 Clip-on tie designed
(Dweebs of the world rejoice)
1930 Theodore Steeg forms French government
1936 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Washington DC
1936 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1937 The Rape of Nanking begins
http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/ (Warning: The archive contains extremely gruesome pictures)
1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28ºF
1939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
1941 German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherlands Union
1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-n/cl43.htm 1946 Léon Blum elected French premier
1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1947 "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 performances
1949 American League votes down proposal to revive the spitball
1949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem
1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
1959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st President of Cyprus
1960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1961 Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music's 1st million $ seller
1962 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1963 Capitol records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with the Beatles
1964 In El Paso TX, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border
1965 Algerian President Boumédienne visits Moscow
1966 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1967 United Soccer Association & National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1968 President Da Costa e Silva of Brazil disbands parliament/grabs power
1969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1969 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1973 MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1974 Malta becomes a republic
1974 Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
1975 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13 hours 14 minutes)
(Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?)
1977 Entire University of Evansville basketball team (14 players) die in plane crash
1978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
(Ok, how many people have actually used one of these coins?)
1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1982 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1983 Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
1983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
1987 Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
1988 Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1989 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong
1989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1991 New York assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5) lands
1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15
2000 Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency five weeks after Election Day and a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida. Democrat Al "Alpha Male" Gore conceded, delivering a call for national unity.
(a call for national unity Translation: We was robbed!)
2001 Calling it a Cold War relic, President George W. Bush announced the U.S. was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, opening the way for the Defense Department to test and deploy a missile defense system without restraints.
2002 Monsignor Ignatius Wang (68) of SF named as an auxiliary bishop for the SF Archdiocese, the 1st US bishop of Asian ancestry.
2003 American forces captured a bearded and haggard-looking Saddam Hussein in an underground hide-out on a farm in Adwar near his hometown of Tikrit. 2 other Iraqis were arrested.
"I Punched Saddam in the Mouth"
River Front Times ^ | April 13, 2005 | CHAD GARRISON
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1391805/posts Posted on 04/26/2005 10:30:35 PM CDT by West Coast Conservative
2004 Google announced plans to digitally scan the book collections of 5 major libraries, including the Univ. Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, NY Public Library and Oxford, which agreed to books published before 1900
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Malta : Republic Day
Upper Volta : National Day
Ice Cream Day
Violins Day
Friday the 13th falls on a Tuesday day
International Calendar Awareness Month
Religious Observances
Moslem : New Year
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Lucy, virgin & martyr (St Lucia Day in Sweden)
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Odilia, abbess, patroness of the blind
Religious History
1204 Death of Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon), 69, medieval Jewish scholar and author. His greatest writing, "Guide of the Perplexed" (1190) attempted to harmonize Aristotelian philosophy with rabbinic Judaism.
1823 Birth of William W. How, Anglican clergyman. Shunning the glory of higher ecclesiastical positions, How was known for his work among the poor in East London. He also wrote 50 hymns, of which "We Give Thee But Thine Own" and "For All the Saints" remain two of his most popular.
1835 Birth of Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal clergyman. Though he produced ten volumes of sermons, he is better remembered today as author of the Christmas carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," written in 1868 for the children of his Sunday School.
1851 Birth of E.O. Excell, American sacred chorister. Excell published 50 gospel songbooks and wrote and composed 2,000 hymns, including "Since I Have Been Redeemed, "Count Your Blessings" and "I'll Be a Sunbeam for Jesus."
1950 American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'I think God is to be glorified by asking the impossible of Him.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
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Thought for the day :
"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."
Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
