On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on December 01:
1566 Philip earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, Governor of Fort Gorinchem/Nijmegen
1634 John-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien] Flemish painter
1671 Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1671 John Keill mathematician
1726 Eggert Olafsson Icelandic writer
1726 Oliver Wolcott US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1743 Martin H Klaproth German chemist (uranium)
1826 William Mahone Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1832 Archibald Gracie Jr Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1835 Micah Jenkins Brigadier-General (Led Hoods Division at Chickamauga), died in 1864
1844 Alexandra Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
1850 Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller composer
1878 Arthur B Spingarn US NAACP-chairman (1940-65)
1886 Rex Stout mystery writer (Nero Wolf)
1898 Cyril Ritchard Sydney Australia, actor (Peter Pan, Hans Brinker)
1899 Robert Welch found John Birch Society
1902 Morris "Red" Badgro Washington, NFL hall of famer (Yankees, Giants, Dodgers)
1904 W A "Tony" Boyle United Mine Workers president
1905 Charles Finney US, author (Circus of Dr Lao)
1911 Walter Alston baseball manager (Dodgers)
1912 Minoru Yamasaki architect (World Trade Center, New York)
1912 Terence Beckles pianist/teacher
1913 Mary Martin Weatherford TX, actress (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
1917 William Tracy Pittsburgh PA, actor (To the Shores of Tripoli)
1918 Kirby Laing English contractor/multi-millionaire
1919 Ike Isaacs guitarist
1921 Ralph Manza San Francisco CA, actor (Banacek, Mama Malone, Newhart)
1922 Paul Picerni New York NY, actor (Agent Lee Hobson-Untouchables)
1923 Stansfield Turner CIA director
1926 Keith Michell Adelaide Australia, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
1929 Dick Shawn Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
1932 Robert T Herres Denver CO, USAF/astronaut
1934 Billy Paul Philadelphia PA, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
1935 Woody Allen [Allen Stuart Konigsberg] Brooklyn (Zelig Annie Hall)
1935 Lou Rawls Chicago IL, vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man)
1938 Sandy Nelson Santa Monica CA, 50s rocker (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
1939 Lee [Buck] Trevino Dallas TX, PGA golfer (US Open 1968, 71)
1940 Richard Pryor Illinois, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
1942 Peter Kalikow Queens NY, real estate developer/publisher (New York Post)
1942 John Crowley US, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty)
1944 John Densmore Los Angeles CA, drummer (Doors-Light My Fire)
1945 Bette Midler Aiea HI, singer (Wind Beneath My Wings, Do You Want to Dance?)/actress (Beaches, First Wives Club)
1946 Ho-Jun Li Korea People's Republic, rifle (Olympics-gold-1972)
1949 Pablo Escobar Gaviria Colombian drug baron
1950 Richard Keith Lafayette LA, actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy)
1951 Alexander Panayotov Aleksandrov Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-5)
1951 Eric Bloom rock vocalist/guitarist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1951 Jaco Pastorius US jazz guitarist (Weather Report-Word of Mouth)
1958 Charlene Tilton San Diego CA, actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas)
1967 Reggie Sanders Florence SC, outfielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1968 Anders Holmertz Swedendish free style swimmer (world record 400 meter)
1970 Todd Steussie NFL guard/tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 Alya Rohali Miss Universe-Indonesia (1996)
Deaths which occurred on December 01:
0660 Eligius/Eloy French bishop of Tournay-Noyon/saint, dies
1135 Henry I Beauclerc king of England (1st king that could read), dies
1374 Magnus Eriksson king of Norway/Sweden, dies
1417 Walraven I van Brederode viceroy of Holland, dies
1455 Lorenzo Ghiberti Italian sculptor, dies at 77
1515 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba [el Gran Capitán] Spanish general, dies at 62
1521 Leo X [Giovanni de' Medici] Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45
1580 Edmund Campion English jesuit, hanged at 42
1635 Melchior Teschner composer, dies at 51
1797 Oliver Wolcott US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 71
1808 Anton Fischer composer, dies at 30
1825 Aleksandr I P Romanov czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at 47
1842 Philip Spencer 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
1892 Joseph Lippens Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered
1916 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld French explorer, dies at 58
1934 Sergei M Kirov Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
1935 Bernard Schmidt inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
1971 Arthur B Springarn US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93
1972 Antonio Segni Italian PM/President (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81
1973 David Ben-Gurion founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87
1974 Lajos Zilahy Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83
1980 Sam Levene actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
1987 Donn Fulton Eisele Colonel USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57
1987 James Arthur Baldwin writer (Another Country), dies at 63
1989 Alvin Ailey US choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58
1991 George Joseph Stigler US economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80
1994 Lionel Stander actor (Max-Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1996 Barbak Karmal President of Afghanistan , dies at 67
1997 Stephane Grappelli French jazz violinist, dies at 89
2002 Edward Latimer "Ned" Beach (b.1918), former Navy captain and author "Run Silent, Run Deep" dies
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
01-Dec-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Uday Singh Habbaniyah (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
01-Dec-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Bryan S. Wilson Al Anbar Province Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Corporal Zachary A. Kolda Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Gunnery Sergeant Javier Obleas-Prado Pena Landstuhl Reg. Med. Ctr. Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist David M. Fisher Baghdad (western part) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0772 Pope Adrian I elected
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1566 Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1626 Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, driven out
1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1641 Massachusetts becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
1656 Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
1742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1750 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Maryland
1783 Charles & M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon
1804 Emperor Napoleon marries Joséphine of Martinique
1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) proclaims independence from Spain
1822 Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
1822 Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran
1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales
1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
1861 The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000
1864 Skirmish at Millen Brutal GA
1868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1878 1st White House telephone installed
1881 Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.
1887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"
1887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
1891 James Naismith creates the game of basketball
1896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (New York)
1903 "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western film, released
1906 Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Captain of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 years
1909 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Company, Pennsylvania
1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)
1913 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2 38)
1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan, west of Omaha NE
1918 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
1918 Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1921 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
1921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1922 Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns
1924 George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good" premieres in New York NY
1925 Treaty of Locarno signed
1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1929 Game of BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
1930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
1930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the continent
1933 Rudolf Hess & Earnest Röhm become a minister in Hitler government
1935 Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
1936 EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
1936 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale
1937 Japan recognizes Franco government
1938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City UT
1939 SS-Führer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1941 Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years
1942 Gasoline rationed in US
1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1944 Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres
1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine
1948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
1949 WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1951 Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
1954 Yankees send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus
1956 Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympic marathon (2:25:00.0)
1956 Frank Robinson (National League) & Luis Aparicio (American League) voted Rookie of the Year
1956 Indonesian Vice-President Mohammed Hatta, resigns
1957 Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show
1958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chicago)
1959 12 nations sign a treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
1959 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
1964 Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros
1964 Martin Luther King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
1965 South Africa government says children of white fathers are white
1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
1967 Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
1968 Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
1968 Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
1968 Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela
1969 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WWII
1970 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1970 NHL takes control of the Pittsburgh Penguins
1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as President of México
1971 Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach
1973 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
1973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2 million in a year
1973 Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champion
1974 Los Angeles Skid Row slasher kills first of 8
1974 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville VA, 92 die
1974 Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
1976 Angola admitted to UN
1976 Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
1978 President Carter more than doubles national park system size
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 US Justice Department sues Yonkers citing racial discrimination
1980 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
1980 IBM delivers its 1st prototype PC to Microsoft
1981 Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed
1982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of México
1982 Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"
1983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
1984 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
1984 France performs nuclear test
1984 Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
1985 Noraly Beyer becomes Netherlands' 1st black TV newscaster
1987 Digging begins to link England & France under the English Channel
1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 NBC bids record $401 million to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
1988 New York Islanders greatest shutout loss (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
1989 East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract
1989 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1990 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1990 Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
1990 New York Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
1990 Hissene Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
1991 AIDS awareness day (or keep your pants on day)
1991 Ukranian people vote for independence
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1991 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as President of Kazakhstan
1992 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
1992 Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
1994 Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as President of México
1994 PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
1996 Colin Montgomerie of Scotland wins Million Dollar Challenge, the richest first prize in golf - $1 million
1997 GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo
1998 Granma, Cuba’s only daily newspaper, recommended that Christmas be re-established as a permanent holiday.
2000 US Supreme Court hears arguments by attorneys of Al Gore and George W. Bush on the legality of a vote extension by the Florida Supreme Court. The Florida Supreme Court turned down 2 Democratic pleas for an immediate count of disputed ballots and for a new election in Palm Beach County where a “butterfly ballot” drew protests from Democratic voters.
2000 Iraq halts oil production due to the UN’s refusal to authorize a new payment arrangement for the oil-for-food program. Production was resumed after 2 days.
(Someone didn't get their kickback)
2001 Farida Afzali (21) became the 1st woman in 5 years to enroll at Kabul Univ.
2002 Viet-Nam veteran and HEro Sen. John "kill em all" Kerry of Massachusetts announces that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president.
2003 North Korea said the US military conducted at least 150 spy flights against it in November and accused Washington of "watching for an opportunity to crush" the communist regime.
(What? You got a problem with that?)
2004 Encore Software Ltd., one of the makers of India's cheap hand-held computer, the Simputer, forecast a surge in orders to 50,000 units next year.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Azores, Portugal : Independence Day (1640)
Cape Verde : Restoration Day (1968)
Central African Republic : Republic Day (1958)
Iceland : Independence Day (1918)
Liberia : Matilda Newport Day (1822)
Portuguese Guiana : Mocidale Day/Youth Day
Romania : National Day
US : Nebbish Pride Day
US : Christmas Lights Day
Hi Neighbor Month
Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Eligius, bishop/goldsmith
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Edmund Champion, English Jesuit, martyr
Anglican : Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, deacon
Religious History
1145 Pope Eugene III sent a papal bull to the French King, Louis VII, proclaiming the Second Crusade. Led by Louis and Emperor Conrad III from 1147_49, the crusade failed to accomplish its goal.
1764 The French government abolished the Jesuit order in that country. (The Society of Jesus was completely suppressed by Clement XIV in 1767, but was restored again by Pius VII in 1814.)
1798 Birth of Albert Barnes, American Presbyterian clergyman and Bible commentator. An active supporter of revivalism, Christian education and social reform, Barnes is best remembered today for his "Notes on the Old Testament" and "Notes on the New Testament."
1909 Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for Bob Jones College (University), in Panama City, FL. This Protestant Fundamentalist college later relocated its campus to Greenville, SC.
1950 American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Baby, you make my "love molecule" soar!
Nov.30
ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.
The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.
The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.
But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.
The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship.
My Love Is Chemical
Lou Reed
When I see the way you paint your lips and I smell your perfume
when I see the brand new color that you've dyed your hair, too
I know, you know, it's more than physical
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical
Well, i know the siying goes that all in love and war is fair,
but I've never stood a chance against your chemical war-fare
The polish your fingernails, the mascara on your eyes
the lotion you rub on a night to make sure your hands aint dry
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical
My - ah - ah, love is chemical
my - ah - ah, love is chemical
I know, I know, it's more than physical, hey, baby
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical
Well, I hope that you don't take offenses
it's not that you're not pretty
it's only that I feel like I'm in love with test tube city
I know, with you, I'm on the pinnacle
come on, pinnacle, baby
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical
when I just talk ...
My - ah - ah, love is chemical
my - ah - ah, love is chemical
I know, with you, it's more than physical
watch ... just ...
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical
My, my love, oh, love is chemical
my, my, my, love is chemical
It's so much more than physical
it's much more than physical
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical
My, my, my, my love is chemical
hey, baby, my-my-my, my love is chemical
So much more than physical, honey, ... me
my love is chemical
I like the music ...
my love is chemical
Thought for the day :
"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
John B. S. Haldane
