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| DECEMBER is . . . Winter Month, Hi Neighbor Month, National Closed Caption TV Month, National Stress-Free Family Holidays Month, Read A New Book Month, Safe Toys and Gifts Month, Universal Human Rights Month, Bingo's Birthday Month |
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| 1st Week | 2nd Week | ||
| Christmas Tree Week Flossie Beadle Week |
Civil Rights Week Human Rights Week National Drunk Drivers Awareness Week | ||
| 3rd Week | 4th Week | International Language Week Tell Someone They're Doing a Good Job Week Halcyon Days (7 days before & after winter solstice) |
Orange Bowl Week (12/25-1/3) |
| December Movable Daily Holidays | |
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| Day | Holiday |
| 1st Thursday | Lover's Fair (Belgium) Festival of Trees begins (Topeka, Kansas) |
| Thursday after the 1st Tuesday | Apple Pie Day (Winchester College) |
| 3 Thursdays before Christmas | Klopfelnachte (Germany) |
| Thursday after the 1st Tuesday | Apple Pie Day (Winchester College) |
| 2nd Saturday | Army & Navy Union Day (Massachusetts) |
| 2 Thursdays before Christmas | Klopfleisnachte (Germany) |
| 1st Day of Winter | California Kiwifruit Day |
| 3rd Monday | Nuts Fair (Belgium) |
| 3rd Friday | Underdog Day |
| Thursday before Christmas | Anklopfnachte (Germany) |
| December Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| Time Period | Holiday |
| 9th Day of Dhul-Hijjah, 12th Islamic month | Waqfat Arafat |
| 10th Day of Dhul-Hijjah, 12th Islamic month | Eid al-adha (Feast of Sacrifice) |
| Full Moon Day of the 1st lunar month | Sangamitta Day (Sri Lanka) |
| Sometime during 11th or 12th Chinese month (@ Dec/Jan) | Ta Chiu (Hong Kong) |
| Sometime in early December | MADD International Candlelight Vigil of Remembrance and Hope |
| Sometime between Advent & January 6th | Midwinter Horn Blowing (Netherlands) |
| Sometime during a deep snowfall after Christmas but before Easter | Kulig (Poland) |
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| 1 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Woody Allen Giuseppe Sarti Richard Pryor Carol Alt Oliver Willcott Mary Martin Lee Trevino Alicia Markova Rex Stout Minoru Yamasaki Kristeen Arnold Julia A. Davis Moore Morris "Red" Badgro Gary Panter Stephen Poliakoff John Densmore Walter Alston Steve Walsh Roynell Young Bette Midler Charlene Tilton Lou Rawls George Foster |
Theatre Day Festival of Poseidon (Greek God of Sea & Rebirth) National Pie Day Festival of Poseidon Carnival of Celendonia (Fairy) St. Edmund Campion's Day (patron of printers) International Prisoners for Peace Day Macau Independence Day Iceland Independence Day Central African Republic Independence Day Portugal Independence Day Mocidade Day (Portugal) Bizarre Bazaar Eat A Red Apple Day Kalends of December Becky Thatcher Day Romania National Day World AIDS Day (UN) Rosa Parks Day St. Eloy's Day (patron of coin collectors, garage & gas station workers, horses, smiths) Matilda Newport Day (Liberia) St. Eligius' Day (patron of jewelers, veterinarians, cutlers, locksmiths, clockmakers, toolmakers, cab drivers, farmers, jockeys, carriage makers, labourers) |
| December 1 Events | Oxygen atmosphere formed on Earth (Sagan
calendar) X-Rays discovered 1st Gas Station opened (1913) Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus (1955) 1st Skywriting demonstration Candide published Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin eloped (1960) 1st Corn Husking Contest held Civil Air Patrol founded Yukon Order of Pioneers founded (1894) 1st Neon Lights lit up Archie comic strip began (1941) Chunnel workers met in the middle (1990) La Guardia Airport opened 1st Christmas Club established (1909) Henry I died from a fish overdose (1135) Gone with the Wind premiered (1939) Iceland became an independent state from Denmark (1918) Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle reached No. 1 (1974) 1st Land speed record set (39.24 mph; 1898) British Cape Colony's slaves freed, outraging Boer farmers (1834) 1st Woman sworn in as Member of Parliament (UK; 1919) Portugal expelled Spain and regained its independence (1640) 12 nations signed a treaty preserving Antarctica for scientific research (1959) Muhammed Ali saw a UFO while jogging in Central Park (1971) Tunnel under the English Channel connected (1990) Denmark passed an act giving independence to Iceland (1918) Felix & Oscar appeared on Password (on the Odd Couple; 1972) Lincoln Saving & Loan Board of Directors approved acquisition by Charles Keating (1983) East Germany voted to end the Communist Party's monopoly of power (1989) |
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| 2 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Georges Seurat Peter Goldmark John Barbirolli Maria Callas John Bentley Monica Seles Julie Harris Tracy Austin William Randolph Hearst Sharry Konopsko (Pb 8/87) T. Coraghessan Boyle Chretien De Troyes Walter Plinge Ray Walston Adolph Green Stone Phillips Willie Brown Renee Tenison (Pb 11/89) Heinrich Barkhausen William Wegman Gary Meier Randy Gardner Charlie Ventura Alexander Haig Pedro Borbon Julio Cruz O.J. McDuffie Brian Habib Cathy Lee Crosby Harry Reid Edwin Meese III |
Lovers' Fair (Belgium) Atomic Day Pan American Health Day St. Chromatius' Day Feast of Pirate Utopias Laos Republic Day Festival of the Finger-Stalls (Fairy) United Arab Emirates Independence Day Sugarplum Festival Walter Plinge Day (UK) National Fritters Day St. Bibiana's Day (patron against hangovers) |
| December 2 Events | St. Paul's Cathedral opened (London; 1697) 1st Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction made (1942) Monroe Doctrine signed (1823) Red Telephone Boxes 1st appeared (London; 1928) 1st permanent artificial heart transplant performed (on Barney Clark; 1982) US built the 1st atomic pile (1942) Ford Model A 1st for sale (1927) 1st English-language newspaper pubnlished (1620) Napoleon crowned himself Emperor (1804) Safety Razor with disposable blades 1st for sale (1901) 1st Televised child birth Abolistionist John Brown hanged (1859) Sam Cooke's You Send Me reached No. 1 (1957) Marquis de Sade died in a lunatic asylum (1814) Pu-Yi ascends to the throne of China (1908) Chinese republicans captured Nanking (1911) Michael Jackson's video Thriller premiered (1983) British Intelligence deciphered a Japanese message regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) Senator Joseph McCarthy finally condemned by Congress for "conduct unbecoming to a senator" (1954) Mercenary coup to overthrow Seychelles by posing as golfer on vacation failed when a golf bag was dropped at the airport and a gun fell out (1981) |
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| 3 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Anton Webern Jean Luc Goddard Charles A. Pillsbury Joseph Conrad Gilbert Stuart Katerina Witt Anna Freud William Gropper Cleveland Abbe John Ringling Anna Chlumsky Carl Koller Bobby Allison Charles VI (1368) Sven Vilhem Nykvist Joe Collins Laura Dean Carlos Montoya Rowland Hill Tom Fears Keith Dorney Toi Cook Victor Pasmore Jaye P. Morgan Ozzy Osbourne Ferlin Husky Rick Mears Kathy Jordan Andy Williams |
Jazz Day Bona Dea Festival (Roman Good Goddess) National Ice Cream Box Day Grange Day National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day Feast of Liu-Hsing (Stellar God of Happiness; China) St. Francis Xavier's Day (patron of Australia, Borneo, China, Goa, India, missionaries, Outer Mongolia, tourism) Fairy and Goblin Taunt-and-Tease Saturnalia (Fairy) International Day of Disabled Persons (UN) Singapore Independence Day Day Without Crime (Illinois) Reinvigorate Your Brain by Reading Something Today Day St. Cassian of Tangier's Day (patron of stenographers) |
| December 3 Events | Cold War ended (1989) 1st Co-ed College opened (Oberlin; 1833) Illinois became the 21st state (1818) 1st Technicolor film shown Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared for 11 days (1926) 1st Fire Insurance policy written Gershwin's Concerto in F premiered (1925) 1st Successful heart transplant performed (1967) Union Carbide killed 1,000's in Bhopal, India (1984) Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee published 1st Official US flag raised (1775) Longest lease signed (10 million years; Ireland, 1888) That Darn Cat premiered Mommie Dearest reached the best-seller list (1978) 1st Anti-Slavery Newspaper, North Star, founded (1847) Panama Canal Zone 1st issued license plates (1910) Hawaii became 1st state to legally recognize same-sex marriages (1996) King Edward VII dissolved UK Parliament because no budget was passed (1905) 11 trampeled to death at Who concert (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1979) Will to Powers Baby I Love Your Way & Freebird Medley reached No. 1 (1988) Federal District Court in Pennsylvania ruled a man could not sue "Satan and His Staff" for making his life miserable and "causing his downfall" based on lack of personal jurisdiction over Satan (1971) [54 F.R.D. 282 (W.D. Penna. 1971)] |
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| 4 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Wassily Kandinsky Samuel Butler Rainer Maria Rilke Max Baer Jr. John Portman Thomas Carlyle Crazy Horse Jeff Bridges Horst Bucholz Deanna Durbin Rudolf Hausner A.D. Hershey John Cotton Patricia Wettig John Cotton Freddy Cannon Edith Louisa Cavell Chris Hillman John Giorno Stewart Rawlings Mott Lillian Russell Jesse Burkett Stan Gelbaugh Harvey Kuenn Francisco Franco Pope Julius II |
Presentation Day St. Barbara's Day (patron of firemen, architects, mathematicians, fireworks, miners, sailors; against lightning, fire, explosions, sudden death) Comet Day Day of the Artisans (Mexico) Pallas Athena Celebration (Goddess of Wisdom) Wind Whirling Bacchanalia (Fairy) National Cookie Day St. Osmund's Day (patron against rupture, paralysis) Kris Kringle's Fair (Nuremburg, Germany) St. Maruthas' Day (patron of Iran) Wear Brown Shoes Day St. John Damascene's Day Wear a Beard of Bees Today Day |
| December 4 Events | Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto premiered Power Lawn Mower patented Manila patented London Sunday Observer 1st published (1791) Chase's Calendar of Events 1st published (1957) Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on broadway (1947) National Grange founded Comic strip Dandy 1st published (UK; 1937) USS Marie Celeste found floating in Atlantic Ocean without its crew (1872) Patrons of Husbandry formed (aka Grange; 1867) 1st Man killed by a bowling ball (1982) Original Fuller Brush Man, Alfred Fuller, died (1973) Black Panther leader, Fred Hampton, murdered by Chicago police (1969) Last American hostage released by Lebanon (1991) Nicholas Breakspeare became 1st English Pope (1154) Byrds' Turn! Turn! Turn! reached No. 1 (1965) 2nd Ecumenical Council began (Roman Catholic; 1963) Whig Party held 1st National Convention in US (1839) Fatty Arbuckle acquitted of rape and manslaughter (1921) Polly and Her Pals comic strip began (1912) Elizabeth Taylor married Senator John Warner (1976) Georgia officially recognized the Ku Klux Klan (1915) Pan American Airlines went out of business (1991) Turkey reached an armistice with all its Balkan allies except Greece (1912) Matisse painting discovered hanging upside down at NYC Museum of Art |
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| 5 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Walt Disney Strom Thurmond Werner Heisenberg Martin Van Buren Otto Preminger Fritz Lang David Bromberg Jim Plunkett George Armstrong Custer J.J. Cale Little Richard Joan Didion Calvin Trillin Morgan Brittany Jim Messina Carrie Hamilton Art Monk Gary Roenicke Victor Jones Jose Carreras Chad Mitchell |
King's Birthday (Thailand) Festival of Faunus (Old Roman) St. Nicholas' Eve (Belgium) Key Night (David Letterman) St. Saba's Day National Sacher Torte Day St. Clement of Alexandria's Day International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (UN) Dingle-Fritter, Gooseberry Humple, Tiger-Get-By, Lone Folding, and Zimber Quattor's (Multiple Squashing of Celebration; Fairy) |
| December 5 Events | Prohibition repealed in US (1933) 1st Nudist Colony opened Numbers 1st used on football jerseys Folding Theatre Chair patented Channels on Mars formed (Sagan calendar) Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker premiered Death of Smaug (Hobbitt) Phi Beta Kappa fraternity founded Graduate premiered 1st Bicycle School opened Paul McCartney & Wings' Band On the Run released Death of MacBeth Pipe Wrench patented Frankenstein premiered Mozart died (1791) Columbus discovered Haiti (1492) 1st Female Judge in UK appointed (1956) Gerardus Mercator died (1594) Steel manufacturing process patented (1865) Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott began (1955) AFL and CIO labor unions merged (1955) Clarke County, Georgia founded (home of Athens; 1801) Japanese Navy destroyed Russian fleet at Port Arthur (1904) Greeks voted to reinstate ex-King Constantine (1920) Dinah Shore married George Montgomery (1943) 1st Scholastic fraternity founded (Phi Beta Kappa; William & Mary; 1776) Flight 19 vanished off coast of Florida (1945) 6 US Navy Airplanes disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle (1945) Shay's Rebellion (Massachusetts; 1786) USSR signed 20-year treaty of friendship with Afghanistan (1978) At 3:32 p.m., Utah voted to repeal prohibition giving enough states to repeal the 21st Amendent (1933) Rev. Algernon Crapsey convicted of heresy for questioning Jesus' divinity (1906) |
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| 6 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Steven Wright Dave Brubeck Muhammed Joyce Kilmer Alfred Eisenstaedt Ira Gershwin Janine Turner Zeno the Stoic Charles Hall Agnes Moorehead Catherine Smith Tom Hulce Henry VI John Singleton Mosby Leon Kroll Stuart Davis Dwight Stones F.C. Cadell Otto Graham John Eberhard William S. Hart Steve Bedrosian Tony Lazzeri Andy Robustelli George Trafton Larry Bowa Warren Hastings Mike Smith Wally Cox Chelsea Brown Walter Perkins John Cobb Don Nickles "Baby Face" Nelson |
St. Nicholas' Day (patron of bakers, barrel makers,
bootblacks, brides, brewers, children, dockworkers, fishermen, Greece,
pawnbrokers, perfumers, Russia, Sicily, spinsters, thieves,
travelers) Bophuthatswana Independence Day Days of Reckoning begin (Fairy) Ireland Independence Day Denmark Independence Day Thor's Day St. Emilian's Day (patron of duggists) Finland Independence Day Day of Quito (Ecuador) National Gazpacho Day |
| December 6 Events | 1st Sound Recording made (Mary Had A Little Lamb;
1872) Beatles' Rubber Soul released Washington Monument finished Alcohol for sale again in the US (1933) 1st Crematorium opened Columbus discovered Haiti (1492) Monet died (1926) Impossible Years premiered Denmark became 1st nation to establish education system (1774) Florida Everglades Park dedicated Rolling Stones' played Altamont Speedway (1969) Christine Keeler convicted of perjury (1963) Thief of Bagdad premiered Mongolia declared protectorate of Russia (1911) Cuban Communist Revolution began (1956) Montgomery County, Alabama founded (1816) Haymarket anarchists trial began (1889) 13th Amendment ratified, supposedly abolishing slavery in US (1865) Saddam Hussein released 3,400 hostages held since invasion of Kuwait (1990) 1st Concert given by the New York Philharmonic US ban on James Joyce's Ulysses finally lifted (1933) Cromwell refused admittance of 200 Presbyterian MP's to Parliament (1648) Austria became 1st nation to establish a state education system (1774) Madame Du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV, guillotined (1793) Steam's Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye reached No. 1 (1969) Finland declared itself independent from Russia (1917) Mont Black munitions ship exploded off Halifax, killing thousands (1917) AFL-CIO voted to separate from International Brotherhood of Teamsters due to competition (1957) Altamont concert-goer stabbed to death by Hell's Angels security after he pulled a gun (1969) |
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| 7 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Mary Queen of Scots Rudolf Friml Tom Waits Willa Cather Theodor Schwann Richard Drew (inventor of Scotch Tape) Larry Bird Ted Knight Gian Lorenzo Bernini Johnny Bench Pietro Mascagni Richard W. Sears Angel Kelly Joyce Cary C. Thomas Howell Noah Chomsky Gian Lorenzo Bernini Harry Chapin Johan Huizinga Maris Tussaud Jacob Kainen Eli Wallach Louis Prima Johnny "Whiz" Gee Priscilla Barnes Gary Morris Lilian Westcott Hale Ellen Burstyn Gregg Allman Thad Cochran Ozzie Virgil Ricky Young Victor Kermit Kiam II |
Festival of Primordial Beings Enlightenment Day Lebanon Independence Day Bodhi (Buddhist Celebration) St. Ambrose's Day (patron of beekeepers, geese, orators) Moravian Christmas Putz begins (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Ivory Coast Independence Day Day of Mourning for Dingle-Fritter, Gooseberry Humple, Tiger-Get-By, Lone Folding, but not Zimber Quattor (Fairy) National Cotton Candy Day |
| December 7 Events | Delaware became the 1st state (1787) Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (1941) Pigtails Abolished (China) Gas Refrigerator patented US declared war on Austria (WW 1; 1917) National Fire Safety Council founded (1979) A Night At the Opera premiered Covent Garden Opera House opened (1732) Mr. Mister's Broken Wings reached No. 1 (1985) 1st US execution by lethal injection (Texas; 1982) William Pitt became UK Prime Minister at 24 (1783) Armenian Earthquake killed 100,000 (1988) US declared war on Austria (1917) New York Philharmonic Symphony performed their 1st concert (1842) Lewis & Clark made winter camp in Oregon (1805) Cicero executed for writing against Mark Anthony (43 BCE) General Marshall Ney executed for treason, for helping Napoleon at Wateloo (1815) Wacko massacres 14 women at the University of Montreal before killing himself (1989) Serbs bombed Dubrovnik's historic Old Town breaking the 14th ceasefire agreement (1991) |
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| 8 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jean Sibelius Horace James Thurber Richard Fleischer Eli Whitney Jim Morrison Diego Rivera Sam Kinison Bohuslav Martinu Kim Basinger Sinead O'Connor Elzie Segar Neil Innes Mary, Queen of Scots Wilfredo Lam Lucien Freud James Hoban Padrai Colum James MacArthur William C. Durant James Galway Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christina (1626) Lee J. Cobb Maxmillian Schell Elihu Burritt Marina Augustus Baker (Pb 3/87) Jerry Butler David Carradine Red Berenson Edwin Sandys Barry Foster George Rogers Jans-Joachim Stuck Donna Michelle (PB 12/63) Sammy Davis Jr. Ed Brinkman Andrew W. Daga Flip Wilson |
Astraea's Day (Greek Goddess of Justice) National Brownie Day Feast of the Immaculate Conception Afflux (Discordian) Take It In the Ear Day Winter Flowers Day Beach Day (Uruguay) Israa W Miiraj (Night Journey) Bodhi Day Lady of Camarin Day (Guam) Nightwatch Illumination Ceremony Tanzania Independence Day St. Mary, the Immaculate Conception's Day (patron of the USA) |
| December 8 Events | John Lennon assassinated (1980) Livingstone left for Africa Washington crossed the Delaware River (1776) 1st Bird-banding society established Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour released China moved to Taiwan (1949) Sibelius' 5th Symphony premiered USSR dissolved (1991) A.F. of L. established 1st Heavyweight Boxing Championship fought (1863) Richard Strauss' Salome premiered (1911) Clifton Suspension Bridge opened (Bristol, UK; 1864) Marx Brothers' Coconuts premiered on Broadway (1925) Largest illegal Ivory Tusk stockpile discovered (1991) US, Britain, and Australia declared war on Japan (WW 2; 1941) Chinese Nationalist government fled to Taiwan (1949) Abraham Lincoln announced the beginning of the Reconstruction (1863) Pope Pius IX declared Virgin Mary was "preserved from all sin the moment she was born" (1854) |
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| 9 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Joel Chandler Harris Clarence Birdseye John Milton Kirk Douglas Jean de Brunhoff Michael Dorn Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Buck Henry John Malkovich Neil Innes Mark Gestler Broderick Crawford Fritz Haber Edwin Sandys Deacon Jones Margaret Hamilton Worf (2340) Dick Butkus John Cassavantes Hermione Gingold Beau Bridges Michael Ondaatje David "Deacon" Jones Joan Armatrading Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Dick Van Patten Otis Birdsong Tom Kite George "Doc" Medich Joe Kelley Redd Foxx Grace Hopper Robert J.L. Hawke Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Donny Osmond Gustavus II Adolphus Bob Hawke Junior Wells Thomas A. Daschle Bill Wilburn Emmett Kelly |
Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico) National Pastry Day Tanzania Independence Day End of Days of Reckoning (Fairy) Upper Volta National Holiday St. Leocadia's Day (patron of Toledo; against plague) Ozcanabans of Oz Convention (@) |
| December 9 Events | 1st Christmas Cards sent A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted (1965) Ball-bearing roller skates patented Virgin of Guadlupe appeared to indian boy (1531) 1st Christmas Seals issued (1907) William de Kooning married Elaine Fried (1943) 12th US Amendment passed (1803) NYC's 1st Newspaper (by Noah Webster; The American Minerva; 1793) John Birch Society founded (1958) Chicago Auditorium opened (1889) 1st Formal Cremation in US (1792) Carmel, California banned high heels (1982) Newgate Prision held its 1st execution (London; 1783) Pioneer Venus 1 reached Venus (1978) Xerces Society founded (to protect endangered insects) Poland's 1st free elections held (1990) Germany and UK seized the Venezuelan Navy (1902) Turkey stopped an Arab revolt in Palenstine (1910) UK captured Jersusalem from the Turks (1917) Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis married (1948) Nicholae Ceausescu became president of Romania (1967) General Patton paralyzed from the neck down in auto accident (1945) Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire reached No. 1 (1989) Kramer came up with his idea for a coffee table book about coffee tables (Seinfeld; 1993) 300 children killed when Indian planes bombed an orphanage in Pakistan (1971) Argentina General Jorge Videla sentenced to life imprisonment (1985) Henry VII granted exclusive exploration patent to English & Portugese merchants called "the Company of Adventurers of the New World" (1502) |
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| 10 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Emily Dickinson Cesar Franck Otis Redding John Hammond Oliver Messaien Morton Gould Dorothy Lamour Chet Huntley Holly Witt (Pb 11/95) Kenneth Branagh Louis Lozowick Melvil Dewey Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Oliver Messiaen Victor McLaglen Mark Aguirre George MacDonald Dennis Morgan Una Merkel Harold Gould Gloria Loring Brian Henesey Steve Renko Nia Peeples Susan Dey John Hammond Sr. |
National Lager Day Lux Mundi (Light of the World; Roman Goddess of Liberty) International Human Rights Day Nobel Prize Day Constitution Day (Thailand) Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales (Inuit Eskimos) St. Eulalia's Day (patron of Barcelona, childbirth, sailors, travelers, calm waters; against miscarriage) Burma National Day St. Miltiades' Day |
| December 10 Events | Mighty Mouse debuted 1st Nobel Peace Prize awarded (1901) Monkees' I'm A Believer released Pennies From Heaven premiered Mississippi became the 20th state (1817) Wings Over America released 1st Traffic Light erected Chief Red Cloud died (1909) Aswan Dam on the Nile River finished (1902) Women got the vote in Wyoming (1869) Dr. Livingstone arrived back in England Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West premiered (1910) Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1921) National began US domestic jetliner service (1958) Society for Human Rights, 1st gay rights organization, founded (1924) Australian newspaper empire, The Fairfax Group, declared bankruptcy (1990) Beach Boys' Good Vibrations reached No. 1 (1966) Randy Newman's Short People hit the charts, many complained (1977) Davy Jones played at Marcia Brady's prom (on the Brady Bunch; 1971) Roman Strauss sentenced to the death penalty (1949; in film, Dead Again) |
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| 11 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Hector Berlioz Alexander Solzhenitsyn Elliot Carter Max Born Big Mama Thornton Fiorello La Guardia Annie Jump Cannon Susan Seidelman Teri Garr Brenda Lee Fiorello La Guardia Carlo Ponti Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh Victoria Fuller (Pb 1/96) Jean-Louis Trintignant Mark Toby Jim Harrison Marjorie Buell David Brewster Kemal Bey Curtis Williams Donna Mills Lynda Day-George Rita Moreno Laurie Carr (Pb 12/86) Jay Bell Christine Onasis Grace Paley John F. Kerry Danan Hughes Max Baucus Jermaine Jackson |
Scaling Day (aka Escalade; Switzerland) Upper Volta Independence Day St. Daniel's Day National Noodle Ring Day St. Damasus' Day (patron of archeologists) Most Boring Celebrities of the Year Convention Nose-Scrambling and Hair-Hiking Events (Fairy) St. Gentian's Day (patron of innkeepers) |
| December 11 Events | Laughing Gas 1st used to pull a tooth UNICEF established (1946) 1st Theatrical performance illuminated by incandescent bulbs (1882) US Declared War on Germany & Italy (WW 2; 1941) Sonderbund established Indiana became the 19th state (1816) King Edward VIII abdicated to marry divorced American (1936) Prince Albert crowned King George VI Magnum P.I. debuted (1980) Venetian Blinds patented (1769) 1st Automobile Show held (Paris; 1894) Battle of the Falklands (WW1; 1914) King James II fled England (1688) Delage automobile introduced (1905) Edward R. Murrow died (1965) Joe DiMaggio retired (1951) 1st Transatlantic radio signal transmitted (1902) Alaska's 1st TV station went on the air (KTVA; 1953) Martial Law declared in Ireland due to rebellion by Republican army (1920) Enterprize, Alabama unveiled its monument to the Boll Weevil (1919) John D. Rockefeller donated the land for the United Nations (1946) Marvelettes' Please Mr. Postman reached No. 1 (1961) Edward Muybridge solved the riddle of horses by photographing them running proving all 4 feet are off the ground while running (1877) Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their 1st game after 26 straight losses (1977) Frank Sinatra Jr. freed from kidnapping after Frank Sr. paid $240,000 ransom (1963) Muslim death sentence on Salman Rusdie renewed after the author asked for paperback publication (1991) Edith Thompson sentenced to death for murdering her husband along with her new lover (1922) Derek Bentley sentenced to death for murder even though accomplice Christopher Craig pulled the trigger (1952) |
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| 12 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Frank Sinatra Jennifer Connelly Edvard Munch John Jay Alfred Werner Ed Koch Joe Williams Andie MacDowell Edward G. Robinson Bob Barker Gustave Flaubert Erasmus Darwin William Lloyd Garrison Sondra Theodore (Pb 7/77) John Osborne Erasmus Darwin Helen Frankenthaler Cathy Rigby Tracy Austin Connie Francis Albert Terhude Dan Dailey Carrie Westcott (Pb 9/93) Emmerson Fittipaldi Steve Farr Haywood Jeffries Grover Washington Sheila E. Dionne Warwick Fuu Hououji (Rayearth Magic Knight) |
National Ambrosia Day Switzerland Independence Day Unmentionable Thoughts Festival (Goblins, Imps, and naughty Fairies) Farewell to Autumn Festival begins (Hopi) Guadalupe Day (Mexico) Feast of Rekareka (God of Pleasure; Polynesia) Poinsettia Day Fiesta of the Virgin of Guadalupe (Mexico) Kenya Indepedence Day (aka Jamhuri) St. Vicelin's Day Runic half-month of Is ends Toronto Peace Festival Miracle of the Roses Yuletide Lads begins (Iceland) St. Spyridon's Day (Eastern) Festival of Our Lady Guadalupe Bonza Bottler Day St. Cury's Day (patron against blindness, deafness, demonic possession) National Ding-A-Ling Day St. Jane Frances de Chantal's Day |
| December 12 Events | Pennsylvania became the 2nd state (1787) 1st Motel opened (Milestone Mo-Tel, San Luis Obispo, CA; 1925) Labrador Duck declared extinct 1st Bank of the US opened (1792) Guess Who's Coming To Dinner premiered 1st Trans-Atlantic Wireless sent Ravel's La Valse premiered 1st Mobile TV Unit went on the air Hovercraft patented (1955) Golf Tee patented 1st Crossword Puzzle in a newspaper Worst Train Wreck occurred (France; 1917) Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker premiered in the US (San Francisco; 1944) Marconi sent 1st radio signal across Atlantic Ocean (1901) Katzenjammer Kids comic strip began (1897) Beethoven received his 1st music lesson (from Haydn) South African Transvaal given full authority with white male suffrage (1906) Experimental aircraft Voyager completed an around-the-world flight without refueling (1986) Leona Helmsley sentenced to jail for tax evasion (1989) 543 died in the worst train wreck ever (France; 1917) Zulu King Dinizulu surrendered to British troops (Natal; 1907) Smokey Robinson's Tears of a Clown reached No. 1 (1970) Mona Lisa, stolen and missing for 2 years, rediscovered under a hotel bed in Florence (1913) Elton John awarded $1.85 million against The Sun for libel (1988) Russian Parliament voted to replaced USSR with Commonwealth of Independent States (1991) 29,000 British women linked hands arounds Greenham Common airbase to protest plans to house US cruise missiles there (1982) New York passed a rule forcing women to sign an affidavit attesting to their age and good character before marrying (1907) George Michael's Faith reached No. 1 (1987) |
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| 13 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Rick Reynolds Dick Van Dyke Phillip Brooks Kristine Simoni William Drummond Clark Mills Diego Rivera Emily Carr Heinrich Heine Christopher Plummer Mary Todd Lincoln Ross MacDonald Karen Witter (Pb 3/82) Van Heflin Marianne Gravatte (Pb 10/82) Fergie Jenkins Laurens van der Post Tim Conway Kenneth Patchen Richard Lamar Dent Edward Koren Carl "Disk" Erskine John Davidson Larry Doby Eleanor Bradley (Pb 2/59) Joel Williams Gary Zimmerman Deborah Driggs (Pb 3/90) Carlos Montoya Scott Zolak Ted Nugent |
St. Lucy's Day (patron of writers, lights, people with
eye trouble, glass workers, lamplighters; against dysentary, throat
disease, blindness, hemorrhage) Malta Republic Day Ice Cream & Violins Day Runic half-month of Jara (year) begins Santa Lucia Namibia Independence Day Little Yule (Festival of Lights) National Coccoa Day St. Odilia's Day Luciadagen (Sweden) St. Jose's Day (patron of harvests, ships; against fire, fever, storms) |
| December 13 Events | 1st Incident in the American Revolutionary War George Gershwin's An American in Paris premiered (1938) 1st US Savings Bank opened (1816) New Zealand discovered (1642) The Mauretania ran aground at Liverpool (1907) Pope Celestine V abdicated (1294) 1st Abdominal Operation performed Virus released killing 5 billion people (1996; 12 Monkeys) Battle of Fredericksburg (1862) Ice Cream Cone patented (1903) Jerry Maguire premiered (1996) Porsche begins making cars (1930) Grandma Moses died at age 101 (19610 Vanna White turned over her 1st letter (a "T"; 1982) Mars Attacks premiered (1996) 1st Electric Train went into service on London's Metropolitan Railway (1904) Lightnin' Hopkins recorded I'm A Crawlin' Black Snake Coca-Cola's 1st Headquarters opened (Atlanta, Georgia; 1898) Sir Francis Drake set sail on 2nd around-the-world journey (1577) Brown Death smog killed 160 (London; 1952) Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks premiered (1971) Vietnam refugees 1st repatriated from Hong Kong by riot police (1989) North and South Korea signed a formal treaty ending Korean War (1991) Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is reached No. 1 (1986) Nelson Mandela and South African presdient F.W. de Klerk 1st met (1989) Council of Europe's Torture Committee declared UK's prision system of "inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners" (1991) |
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| 14 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Nostradamus Ginger Lynn Allen Spike Jones Patty Duke William Bendix Helen Slater Inga Orozdova (Pb 11/97) Tycho Brahe James Doolittle Morey Amsterdam Errico Malatesta George VI Stan Smith Margaret Chase Smith Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Cynthia Gibb Leonardo Boff Bill Buckner Dan Dailey Abbe Lane "Sad Sam" Jones Bill Buckner Charlie Rich Lee Remick Charlie Trippi Roderick Green Lester Bangs Don Hewitt Michael Ovitz |
Ozcanabans of Oz Convention (Oz Christmas) St. John of the Cross' Day (patron of poets) Mid Shaaban Unreturned Library Books Sale (Imp) National Bouillabaisse Day St. Spyridon's Feast (patron of Corfu, Dalmatia, Greece) |
| December 14 Events | Clarence Darrow handled his 1st big case (Eugene Debs;
1894) Max Planck unveiled Quantum Mechanics (1900) 1st Table Tennis Tournament Paul Revere's Ride sounded the alarm (1774) 1st Miniature Golf course opened (1929) Respighi's Pines of Rome premiered George Washington died (1799) Alabama became the 22nd state (1819) Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole (1911) Screw patented Agatha Christi found (at a health spa; 1926) 1st Railroad in London Nut & Bolt Machine patented 1st Coin-operated weight machine built Mariner II sent back 1st close-up photos of Venus (1962) Canadian rebellion crushed by British troops (1837) 4-H Club founded 1st Airline Disaster Prince Willian took his 1st steps 1st German submarine, the U1, launched (1906) Plot to assasinate Czar Nicholas I failed (1825) European energy industry blocked carbon dioxide tax stupidly placing money ahead of life (1991) 1st Barbara Walters Special aired (1976) Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine reached No. 1 (1968) 38n soldiers are sentenced to life for surrendering to overwhelming Japanese forces at Port Arthur (St. Petersburg; 1907) Yassar Araft annouced Isreal's right to exist within secure borders (1988) ANC president Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa after 30 years' exile (1990) Teen John Paul Getty II set free by kidnappers after receiving $750,000 ransom after his ear had been cut off and mailed to his father (1973) |
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| 15 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Nero Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel George Romney Maxwell Anderson Helen Slater Friedrich Hundertwasser Alan Freed Betty Smith Willard Libby Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel Dr. LL Zamenhof (developed Esperanto) Kimberly Donley (Pb 3/93) Josef Hoffman Antoine Becquerel Hundertwasser J. Paul Getty Jim Moore III Dave Clark Charles E. Duryea Eddie Palmieri Nick Buoniconti Joe Walton Edna O'Brien Don Johnson William Hinton Art Howe Jerry Ball Carlton Baily Daryl Turner |
Bill of Rights Day Kingdom Day (Netherlands) Audobon Christmas Bird Count Nepal Constitution Day Alcyone (Greek Kingfisher Goddess) National Lemon Cupcake Day Kingdom Day and Antillean Flag Day (Curacao) St. Nino's Day (patron of Georgia) Navidades begins (Puerto Rico; @) Centipede Boot-Making and Shoe-Repair Season begins (Fairy) St. Valerian's Day (patron against cold, exposure) Men's Society of Piu Festival of Mirth, Peace, Honesty, Joyousness and Love (14th Century London) |
| December 15 Events | US Bill of Rights adopted (1791) Sitting Bull killed by Federal troops (1890) 1st Insurance Policy written Beatles' Beatles '65 released 1st Laserdisk Player for sale National Velvet premiered Walt Disney rushed to the cryogenic refrigerator (1966) 1st Street Cleaning machine built Tillamook County, Oregon founded (1853) Battle or Verdun ended with 70,000 dead (WW1; 1916) Charlie Rich's The Most Beautiful Girl reached No. 1 (1973) Former Nazi leader, Adolf Eichmann, sentenced to death (1961) Sidonio Paes, Presidemt of Portugal, assassinated (1918) Austria and China admitted to League of Nations (1920) HMS Tiger, largest battleship in its time, launched (1913) Ferry sank in Red Sea killing 476 commuters (1991) South Africa government's funding of Inkatha movement revealed (1991) Columbian cocaine cartel leader Gonzalo Gacha killed by police (1989) Adrian Tomine had a dream which became the story Haircut in Optic Nerve (1992) 50,00 demonstrated for end of communism at parliament building in Sophia (Bulgaria; 1989) American Psychiatric Ass'n finally declared homosexuality not a mental illness (1973) |
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| 16 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Bill
Hicks Ludwig Von Beethoven Jane Austen Arthur C. Clarke Jo Anne Stamm Philip K. Dick Zoltan Koadaly Magaret Mead Vladimir Tatlin Remedios Varo Hans Buchner Noel Coward George Santayana John Greenleaf Whittier Catherine of Aragon Maria Luisa Gil (Pb 6/98) George Santayana Kelly Tough (Pb 10/81) Bruce N. Ames Steve Bochco Ben Cross Elayne Boosler Liv Ullman Pete "Monkey" Hotaling Lesley Stahl William "Refrigerator" Perry Lesley Stahl Billy Ripken Tony Hicks Moe Elewonibi |
Eat What You Want Day Sophia (aka Sapinetia; Celtic Goddess of Wisdom) Covenant Day (South Africa) Nepal Independence Day Canterbury Day Day of the Covenant (fka Day of the Vow) Posadas begins (Mexico) Bahrain Independence Day St. Eusebius' Day Dingaan's Day Victory Day (Bangladesh) National Chocolate Covered Anything Day Bhutan National Day Day of the Republic (Kazakhstan) Simbang Gabi begins (Philippines) Fiesta of the Virgin of the Lonely (Mexico) St. Adelaide's Day Man Will Never Fly Society Annual Meeting |
| December 16 Events | Boston Tea Party (1773) Variety 1st published (1903) Battle of the Bulge began (WW 2) Night Gallery debuted 1st Concert given in US Dragnet debuted (1951) Battle of Ardennes (General Patton; 1944) Fellowship set out on its quest (Hobbit) 1st Worms appeared (Sagan calendar) Harum Scarum premiered Saturday Night Fever premiered (1977) 1st Female head of MI5 named (1991) Napoleon divorced Josephine (1809) Disney's Pete's Dragon premiered (1977) Glenn Miller's plane went missing over English Channel (1944) Dvorak's New World Symphony premiered (1893) Oliver Cromwell named Lord Protector of England (1653) 1st Westerner landed at Monterey, California (1602) Pat Boone's April Love reached No. 1 (1957) France and Italy agreed to respect each other's rights in North Africa (1900) US Marines forced resgination of Nicaragua President Jose Zelaya (1909) New York City fire destroyed 600 buildings (1836) Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz assassinated (1922) 1st European immigrant ship arrived in New Zealand (1850) Rod Stewart married model Rachel Hunter (1990) National Shrine to South Africa's Boers dedicated (1949) Wojo's hippie girlfriend baked a batch of special brownies for the precinct (on Barney Miller; 1976) Missouri earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi River (1811) San Carlos, Venezuela residents saw UFO's and small, hairy apelike aliens (1954) Philip Morris cigarettes declared illegal in Italy to stop mafia smuggling (1991) |
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| 17 December | |
|---|---|
| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Domenico Cimarosa Mike Mills Bob Guccione Milla Jovovich Joseph Henry William Floyd Paul Cadmus James McGraw Erskine Caldwell Paracelsus John Greenleaf Whittier Venice Kong (Pb 9/85) Humphrey Davy Arthur Kennelly William Safire Deborah Sampson Paul Butterfield Carlton Barrett Willard Frank Libby Earl Dotson Tommy Steele William Lyon King Albert King Eugene Levy Sy Oliver Jerry Adair Leo Cardenas Humphrey Davy Arthur Fiedler |
Day of Ancient Briton Saturnalia begins Feast of the Fairy Godmothers (Fairy) International Shareware Day Oman Independence Day National Maple Syrup Day Bhutan National Day Pan American Aviation Day Wright Brothers Day St. Lazarus' Day (patron of housewives, lepers, sextons) |
| December 17 Events | Wright Brothers take the 1st airplane flight at Kitty
Hawk, NC (1903) Aztec Calendar discovered (1790) Twine patented 1st One-Way Street France Recognises the US Journey To the Center of the Earth premiered A Christmas Carol published 1st Bowler Hat made Bomb exploded at Harrod's Henry comic strip began (1934) Columbus brought back to Spain as a prisoner Tiny Tim married on the Tonight Show (1969) Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy 1st performed (1936) Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker premiered (St. Petersburg, Russia; 1892) Australian Prime Minister disappeared while scuba diving (1967) German battleship Admiral Graf Spree scuttled near Montevideo (1939) 2,000 anti-government protesters massacred in Timisoara (Romania; 1989) Billy Mitchell court-martialed for suggesting a separate Air Force (1925) Precambrain Peiord ended, Paleozoic Era and Cambrian Period began (Sagan calendar) |
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| 18 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Carl Maria Von Weber Edward MacDowell Paul Klee Stephen Speilberg Fletcher Henderson Antonio Stradivarius Joseph Thomson Ty Cobb Edwin Armstrong Betty Grable Steve Biko Keith Richards Leonard Maltin Charles Wesley Philip Farmer Abe Burrows Charles Wesley Ray Liotta Ossie Davis Charles Oakley William Allen Jules Dassin Elizabeth (1709) Fawna MacLaren (Pb 1/89) Don Beebe Jerry Robinson Willy Brandt Joseph Grimaldi Lorenzo Bandini Ramsey Clark Brad Pitt Janie Frickie |
Fiesta of the Virgin of the Lonely (Mexico) Niger Republic Day Dames Ball St. Flannan's Day Misa de Aguinaldo Feast of Our Lady of Solitude (Mexico) St. Frumentius' Day (Coptic) Wear a Plunger On Your Head Today Day National Roast Suckling Pig Day |
| December 18 Events | 1st Sunday Newspaper published Slavery abolished in US (1865) Candy premiered New Jersey became the 3rd state (1787) To Tell the Truth debuted Graf Spee scuttled (WW 2) 1st Incandescent Electric Light lit Tsar Nicholas I became ruler of Russia (1825) British Rail nationalized (1946) To Tell the Truth debuted (1956) Pope Pius XI denounced the USSR (1924) Ex-President Gerald Ford appeared on Dynasty (1983) International Project to save the rainforest launched (1991) Trilobytes 1st appeared on Earth (Sagan calendar) 1st International project to save Brazilian rainforests launched (1991) UK Railways and ports voted to become nationalized (1946) Hall & Oates' Maneater reached No. 1 (1982) A Sloop began the 1st American voyage to China (1785) 13th US Amendment passed, abolishing slavery (1865) Swing Rioters' Trial began because they asked for a minimum wage (1830) |
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| 19 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jean Genet Fritz Reiner Jennifer Beals Phil Ochs Henry Clay Frick Steve Biko David Susskind Richard Leakey Tim Reid Nathan Oliveira Al Kaline Edith Piaf Leonoid Brezhnev William Parry Robert Urich Alyssa Milano Mrs JimJr Liz Glazowski (Pb 4/80) Christopher Fry Albert Michelson Henry Clay Frick Ralph Richardson Mary Ashton Livermore Bobby Layne Miguel Pinero Reggie White Sean Jones Bernice Pauahi Bishop Maurice White Claudia Kolb Kevin McHale Santana Dotson Minnie Fiske Gordon Jackson Cicely Tyson Philip V |
Underdog Day Riddle-Making Trials (Fairy) Feast of Goddess of Sankrant (Hindu) St. Adam's Day (1st Man) National Oatmeal Muffin Day Big Sisters of "Off the Street Club" Yule Party St. William of Fenoli's Day Fiesta of Santo Tomas begins (Guatemala; until 25th) Pennsylvania Gingerbread House Inn-Vitational |
| December 19 Events | Poor Richard's Almanac 1st published (1732) Colonists left for Jamestown Robinson Crusoe rescued Music Man premiered Vietnam "conflict" began 1st Dental anaesthesia used Battle of Valley Forge began Tomorrow Never Dies premiered (18th James Bond film; 1997) Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of USSR (1991) Corrugated Paper patented 1st Christmas Greeting from space (1958) US invaded Panama (1989) A Christmas Story premiered 9 to 5 premiered (1980) James Cameron's Titanic premiered (1997) Motorized Ambulance Service 1st started (1905) UK abolished capital punishment (1969) Henry II became King of England (1154) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day premiered (1968) Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon panel 1st published (1918) Association of American Sculptors and Painters established (1911) Bart Starr stepped down as Green Bay Packer's head coach Supremes' Come See About Me reached No. 1 (1964) 1st Fish and vertebrates appeared in Ordovician Period (Sagan calendar) |
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| 20 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edwin Abott Harvey Firestone Jethro Tull Walter Adams Irene Dunne George Roy Hill Max Lerner Joey Silvera Sacagawea Bob Hayes Susanne K. Langer Wendy Hamilton (Pb 12/91) David Levine Sidney Hook Ambroise Pare Peter Criss Thomas Graham Shibasaburo Kitasato Jeff Lynne Samuel Kirkwood Maud Gonne Bonnie Marino (Pb 6/90) Mitsuko Uchida Joyce Brothers Uri Geller Branch Rickey John Hillerman Erol John Jenny Agutter David Levine Jack Christiansen Charles "Gabby" Hartnett Jenny Agutter Rich Gannon Anita Baker Tom Newberry Robert Menzies Charlie Callas Mahathir bin Mohamed |
Games Day Halcyon Days of Calm Seas begin Chinese Feast of Winter Solstice Mother Night St. Ignatius of Antioch's Day National Sangria Day Pongol of the Sun (Hindu) Snowflake-Riding Championships Mudd Day (Dr. Mudd gave aid to John Wilkes Booth) St. Dominic of Silos' Day (patron of shepherds & captives) |
| December 20 Events | Phileas Fogg completed his 80-day journey Trivial Pursuit invented Gone With the Wind premiered Dating Game debuted Louisiana Purchase (1803) Edison 1st publicly demonstrated his lightbulb Doctor Doolittle premiered 1st Built-in bath tub (1842) Fulton County, Georgia founded (home of Atlanta; 1853) Judgment At Nuremberg premiered Pneumatic Tire patented Sacagawea died (1812) 1st US Scientist received Nobel Prize (1907) American Poet Laureate established (1985) Montgomery Bus Boycott ended (1956) Knots Landing debuted (1979) A Clockwork Orange premiered (1971) South Carolina seceded from the Union (1860) Broadway 1st illuminated by electric lights (1880) 1st Successful Cotton Mill opened (1790) Mississippi began imposing a Bachelor Tax (1820) Flying Down to Rio premiered (1933) Arafat and PLO forced to retreat from Lebanon (1983) John Steinbeck died (1968) Cherokees gave up their land in Arkansas and agreed to migrate west of Mississippi River (1828) Polish Ambassador to US granted political asylum (1981) Allied forces retreated from the Dardanelles (WW1; 1915) Virginia Company Expidition left UK for Jamestown (1606) Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptian reached No. 1 (1986) Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced Russia wanted to join NATO (1991) Operation Just Cause began to oust Manuel Noriega from Panama Plants began colonizing Earth's land in Silurian Period (Sagan calendar) C.I.A. classified a report on greater openess as "secret" (1991) |
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| 21 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jack Daniels Frank Zappa Masaccio (Tommaso di Giovanni) John McCormack Phil Donahue Kiefer Sutherland Andor Foldes Kemal Bay Jean Henri Fabre Benjamin Disraeli Chris Evert Jane Fonda Michael Tilson Thomas Joe Paterno Alan Freed Franz Boaz Paul Winchell Heinrich Boll Dave Kingman Florence Griffith Joyner Henrietta Szold Carl Wilson Donald Regan Barbara Roberts Andy James Van Slyke Pyotr Kropotkin Chuck Smith Anthony Powell Kurt Waldheim Joseph Stalin |
Forefather's Day (New England) Chaos Day Humbug Day St. Thomas' Day, the Doubting Thomas Look At the Bright Side Day Alban Arthuan (Druid Festival; 4th Station) National French Fried Shrimp Day Feast of St. Peter Canisius National Flashlight Day Yalda (Iran) Doleing Day (fka Gooding Day; Sussex, UK) Pongol of the Cows (Hindu) Mumping Day St. Peter Canisius' Day (patron of Germany) Nepal Independence Day Sagittarius zodiac sign ends |
| December 21 Events | Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock (1620) 1st Animated Feature Film, Disney's Snow White, premiered (1937) Phileas Fogg won his bet (1872) 1st Blood Bank opened Getaway Car 1st used in bank robbery 1st Crossword Puzzle published (in New York World; 1913) Apollo 8 launched (1968) 1st German Air Raid on England (WW 1) Wobblies outlawed (Australia; 1916) General George S. Patton died after car crash (1945) Record set for consecutive days in space (365 days; 1988) Jane Fonda married Ted Turner (1991) Giovanni Boccaccio died (1375) 1st Co-Operative Store opened Anesthetic 1st used (to amputate a leg; 1846) Ibsen's The Doll's House premiered (1879) Edison 1st demonstrated his lightbulb (1879) 2 Soviet Cosmonauts returned to Earth after 1 year in space (1988) US Troops invaed Panama to oust Manuel Noriega (1989) Tillie's Punctured Romance premiered Elvis Presley visited Preseident Richard Nixon at the White House (1970) US Supreme Court approved 6-week divorces granted in Nevada World was supposed to end (1952; according to entity Sanada) Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland (1988) Serial killer John Gacy arrested after the remains of 33 men and boys were found on his property (1978) Devonian Period began, 1st insects appeared and began colonizing Earth's land (Sagan calendar) |
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| 22 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Sir Gawain Edgar Varese Franz Schmidt Joseph Bloomingdale Barbara Billingsly Jean Racine Luca della Robbia Giacomo Puccini Theodoros Stamos Hector Elizondo James Edward Oglethorpe Marcy Hansen (Pb 10/78) William Ellery Connie Mack Steve Carlton Erica Boyer Lauralee Bell Gene Rayburn Andre Kostelantz Edwin Arlington Robinson Kenneth Rexroth Diane Sawyer Peggy Ashcroft Larry Shlim Maurice & Robin Gibb Steve Garvey Jan Stephenson Mike Sullivan Robin & Maurice Gibb Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson |
International Arbor Day Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere @) Yule (Wiccan @) Capricorn zodiac sign begins St. Anastasia's Day (Eastern) Celtic tree month of Ruis ends Beetle Banquet and Badger Ball (Fairy) St. Chrysogonus' Day (Eastern) National Date-Nut Bread Day St. Chaeremon's Day |
| December 22 Events | Thunderball premiered Loaf of Bread Standardized (1680) One, Two, Three premiered Christmas Tree lights 1st for sale (1882) 1st Golf Association established Goldfinger premiered 1st X-Ray taken (1895) Thermometer invented Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet premiered 1st Revolving Stage built Liquid Oxygen patented Blondie premiered Embaro Act passed Dreyfus found guilty of treason and sent to Devil's Island (1894) Jacobite Rebellion, led by James Edward Stuart, began at Peterhead (1715) Merthe Morisot married Eugene Manet, artist Edouard's brother (1874) 1st US Soldier died in Vietnam (James Davis; 1961) Library at Alexandria destroyed (640 CE) Motley Crue singer Nikki Sixx died of a heroin overdose (1987) Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu overthrown (1989) Madonna's Like a Virgin reached No. 1 (1984) Yves Montand & Simone Signoret married (1925) Passenger liner Lakonia sank in the Atlantic Ocean (1963) Kenney Jones replaced Keith Moon as the Who's drummer (1978) Muir Woods' "Walk Thru Tree" in Cathedral Grove fell during windstorm (1971) UK announced Ireland would have self-government with 2 parliaments (1919) 350 Died in Lancashire mining disaster (1910) Palestinian terrorists seized over 70 hostages at OPEC summit (Vienna; 1975) UK Officers Lt. Trench & Capt. Brandon found guiltyof spying in Leipzig (1910) Michael Jackson denied allegations that he sexually molested a 13-year old boy (1993) South Africa, Angola, and Cuba signed treaty withdrawing Cuban troops from Angola (1988) Amphibians and winged insects 1st appeared (Sagan calendar) |
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| 23 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Paul Hornung Eddie Vedder Chet Baker Jose Greco Richard Arkwright Martin Opitz Willie Wood Dan Devine Harriet Monroe Robert Bly Joseph Smith Bill Rodgers Samuel Smiles Harriet Monroe Cornelius McGillicuddy Al "Cheese" Schweitzer John Marin Harry Guardino Alexander I of Russia Jack Ham Denise McConnell (Pb 3/79) Bobby Jackson Jose Greco Elizabeth Hartman Susan Lucci Tim Hardin Corey Haim Jerry Koosman Holly Ryder James Gregory Gerald O'Loughlin Ruth Roman Jim Harbaugh Dave May Jorma Kaukonen Ron Bushy Maurice Denham Yousuf Karsh Otto Soglow Helmut Schmidt Emperor Akihito of Japan |
Fools Day Secret of the Unhewn Stone (Celtic) John Canoe Day (Jamaica) Metric Conversion Day St. John of Kanti's Day (patron of Lithuania, Poland) Acca Larentis (Celtic Goddess who guards the dead) St. Servulus' Day (patron against paralysis) Feast of the Radishes (Mexico) Mouse-Marketing Day (Fairy) St. Thorlac's Day (patron of Iceland) National Pfeffernuesse Day Saturnalia ends |
| December 23 Events | Charles Hire made the 1st Root Beer Van Gogh cut off his ear (1888) US Federal Reserve System established (1913) It's a Wonderful Life premiered Debussy's Afternoon Of A Faun premiered Transistor invented (1947) Boogie Woogie 1st played at Carnegie Hall (1938) Duke made Ambassador to China (Doonesbury) Stars and Stripes Forever premiered Cotton Spinning Frame invented US Metric Conversion Act passed (1975) Free Agent System in professional sports began (1973) Jeu de Paume Museum opened (Paris; 1933) Tojo hanged as war criminal (1948) Hansom patented the safety cab (1834) General Lavalette escaped from French prison (1885) Dr. Andrei Sakharov returned from exile (1986) Thomas Paine's Crisis published (1776) Multnomah County, Oregon founded (home of Portland; 1854) Shah of Iran doubled oil prices (1973) Death of the "Gibson Girl" with illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's death (1944) BBC's 1st regular entertainment broadcasts began (1922) Andrew Jackson stopped British troops at New Orleans (1814) NBC Radio established a permanent coast-to-coast radio network (1928) 21 US POW's in Korea refused to come home (1953) Yugoslavia voted to become an independent state (1990) Andrei Sakharov returned to Moscow after 6 years exile in Gorky (1986) Trees and reptiles 1st appeared during Carboniferous Period (Sagan calendar) Steelers beat Raiders 13-7 in playoff game by last minute catch known as the "Immaculate Reception" (1972) |
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| 24 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Howard Hughes Matthew Arnold Juan Ramon Jimenez I.F. Stone Benjamin Rush Kit Carson John I (1167) Ignatius Loyola Joseph Cornell Madonna Ciccone James Prescott Joule Robert Joffrey Ava Gardner Jill Bennett Ad Reinhardt Mary Higgins Clark Judy Tyler (Pb 1/66) Emanuel Lasker Anthony Fauci Bill Dudley Nicholas Meyer Frank Taveras A.P. Lutali Winston Moss |
Christmas Eve Adam & Eve Day (Hungary) Zerowork Season begins Celtic tree month of Beth (Birch) begins St. Adam's Day (patron of gardeners) National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day Utter Day (Fairy) St. Ignatius of Loyola's Day Tom & Jerry Night (David Letterman) Mid Shaaban Libya Independence Day St. Levan's Day (patron of malformed children) National Egg Nog Day |
| December 24 Events | 1st Weather Chart made Silent Night published After the Fox premiered 1st Solar House built (1948) John Muir died (1914) Disney's The Aristocats premiered (1970) Bicycle Pedal Brake patented Verdi's Aida premiered (1871) Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (1814) 1st German Bomb landed on British soil (WW I; 1914) Beatles' partnership legally dissolved (1974) Tommy James' I Think We're Alone Now released 1st Surface-to-Surface Guided Missile launched (1942) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea premiered Bart Starr made head coach of the Green Bay Packers Pearl Jam's album Vitalogy reached No. 1 (1994) Library of Congress, and part of the US Capitol, destroyed by fire (1851) Piped-in-water 1st installed in homes (London; 1508) 1st International Air Show held (1908) Burl Ives' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer reached No. 1 (1949) New York International Airport changed its name to JFK International Airport (1963) Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love? reached No. 1 (1977) King Idris I declared Libya's independence (1951) Dinosaurs 1st appeared during Permian Period (Sagan calendar) Eisenhower appointed Commander-in-Chief of Eropean invasion (WW2; 1943) 73 killed when "Fire!" yelled in crowded movie theatre (Michigan; 1913) Lorin Maazel conducted his 1st orchestra professionally (1953) Ku Klux Klan formed in Tennessee (1865) Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega gave himself up to US troops after hiding in Papal Nuncio, Panama City (1989) 72 miner's children died in fire panic caused by "copper boss thugs" at Christmas Party (Calumet, Michigan; 1913) Former UK Labour Minister John Stonehouse, thought to have drowned, discovered hiding in Australia (1974) |
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| 25 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Isaac Newton Rod Serling Carlos Casteneda Jesus Christ (observed) Mohammed Ali Jinnah Humphrey Bogart Clara Barton Nellie Fox Cab Calloway Maurice Utrillo Rebecca West Missy Cleveland (Pb 4/79) Raphael & Moses Soyer Helena Christiansen Conrad Hilton Annie Lennox Sissy Spacek Kenny Everett Little Richard Robert Ripley Ken Stabler Larry Csonka Ricky Henderson Tony Martin Barbara Mandrell Gary Sandy Evangeline Booth Ken Stabler Tim Conway Hanford Dixon Jimmy Buffett Anwar Sadat Joseph McCarthy |
Birth of the Sun Christmas 'Id El-Milad Heathen's Fasting Day (Puritan) Carol Day Family Day (Sao Tome) Birthday of Mithras Multitude's Idle Day (Puritan) Superstitious Man's Idol Day (Puritan) Fiesta of Santo Tomas ends (Guatemala) Goddess Month of Astraea ends PUSH Day Children's Day (Congo) Roman Winter Solstice St. Eugenia's Day Papist's Massing Day (Puritan) National Pumpkin Pie Day |
| December 25 Events | Washington crossed the Delaware River
(1776) Charlemagne crwoned King of the Holy Roman Empire (800 CE) Against All Flags premiered William the Conqueror crowned King of England (1066) Lambs Club founded (1875) Adventures of Don Juan premiered Pal Joey, 1st modern musical, premiered 1st Bobsled run made Treaty of Dresden signed Disney's Sword in the Stone premiered (1963) Wreck of the Santa Maria Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart married (1949) 1st States made Christmas a legal holiday (Arkansas & Louisiana; 1831) Silent Night (Stille Nacht) 1st performed (1818) Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, Tibet (1950) 1st US Rail service began (South Carolina; 1830) Scottish Coronation Stone stolen from Westminster Abbey (1950) Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu executed (1989) 1st Christmas tree put up in UK (Windsor Castle; 1800) Couple arrested for "kissing in the street" (New York; 1913) Massachusetts imposed a fine on anyone caught "observing any such day as Christmas" (1651) 1st Unlawful Games Act (only archery allowed on Christmas Day) Paleozoic Era ended; Mesozoic Era began (Sagan calendar) Nicaragua capitol, Managua, destroyed by earthquake (1972) Israeli troops cracked down on Arab rioters (1987) British and German troops observed impromptu ceasefire (WW1; 1914) Cyclone Tracy flattened much of Darwin, Australia (1974) Florentin friar Giralomo Savonarola deounced Pope for corruption & accused Leonardo Da Vinci of sodomy (14970 Birth of Jesus Christ obervance day fixed by church leaders, because date coincided with Roman celebration of winter solstice (440 CE) |
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| 26 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Henry Miller Charles Babbage Steve Allen Juan Lovera Thomas Nelson Jr. "Admiral" George Dewey Thomas Gray Jean Toomer Richard Widmark Alan King Phil Spector Juan Lovera Chris Chambliss Susan Butcher Ozzie Smith Evan Bayh Carlton Fisk Lynn Martin Ricky Dixon Tony Covington Willie Williams Mao Tse-Tung |
Boxing Day Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God Day of Our Theotokos (Byzantine) St. Joseph's Day Family Day (Namibia) Day of the Wren (Ireland) Junkanoo (Bahamas) Day of Goodwill (South Africa) Goddess Month of Hestia begins Day of the Wren (Ireland) Feast of St. Stephen (Western; patron of stonecutters, bricklayers, builders, horses) Kwanzaa begins (US, Africa) Kwanzaa, Day 1: Umoja (Unity) Blessing of the Wine (Luxembourg) Unfairies' Gathering (Fairy) Recyclable Packaging Day National Candy Cane Day Round the Walls Running Race (Chester, UK) National Whiner's Day |
| December 26 Events | Wood Pulp Paper 1st exhibited Coffee Percolator patented (1865) 1st Charity Walk Magical Mystery Tour premiered Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven released Adam's Rib premiered Battle of Trenton (1776) 1st Pantomine Harry S. Truman died (1972) Exorcist premiered (1973) Strindberg's play, Dance of Death premiered (1900) George Harrison's My Sweet Lord reached No. 1 (1970) British Navy sank German battlecruiser Scharnhorst (WW2; 1943) US President Wilson ordered the government to seize the railroads (1917) Mammals 1st appeared during Triassic Period (Sagan calendar) |
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| 27 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Johannes Kepler Anders Celsius Louis Pasteur Oscar Levant Pierluigi Da Palestrina George Cayley Sydney Greenstreet Caroline Kennedy Gerard Depardieu Marlene Dietrich Bernard Lanvin William Howell Masters Anna Russell Lee Salk Andre Tippett Randy Kirk Steve Wallace Tovah Feldshuh Roy White Mick Jones |
St. John the Divine's Day (patron of Turkey, writers;
against poison) Feast of Marimba (Goddess of Muscial Happiness; South Africa) Kwanzaa, Day 2: Kuichagulia (Self-Determination) St. Stephen's Day (Eastern) Visit the Zoo Day Runic half-month of Jara ends St. Fabiola's Day National Fruitcake Day |
| December 27 Events | Captain Blood premiered 1st Youth Hostel opened Radio City Music Hall opened (1932) Philadelphia Story premiered Charles Darwin set sail in the HMS Beagle (1831) Bell, Book & Candle premiered World Bank formed (1945) 1st Glamour Girl Debutante Ball held (1938) Virus 1st recognized, eventually killing 5 billion people (1996; 12 Monkeys) USSR invaded Afghanistan (1979) Howdy Doody Show debuted (1947) Peter Pan (the play) premiered (1904) HMS Beagle set sail (with Darwin aboard; 1831) 1st State-subsidized theater opened (Dublin; 1904) Morgan 4/4 automobile introduced (1941) Showboat premiered on Broadway (1927) 1st State-subsidized theatre opened (Abbey Theatre, Dublin; 1904) John Lennon's (Just Like) Starting Over reached No. 1 (1980) UN International Monetary Fund established (1945) Sweet Adeline premiered on Broadway (1903) Thimble Theater comic strip featuring Olive Oyl began (1919) UN International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) established (1945) Marvel Comics filed for relief under Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws (1996) 13 Drowned when Sea Gem oil rig collapsed in North Sea (1965) Birds 1st appeared during Jurassic Period (Sagan calendar) Rock ALH 84001 discovered, which turned out to be the meteorite from Mars in which evidence of life on Mars was found 9 years later (1984) Trial began of 4 Policemen began accused of murdering Father Jerzy Popieluszko (Poland; 1992) |
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| 28 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| John Molson Stan Lee Earl "Fatha" Hines John von Neumann Denzel Washington Jenny Kieran Lou Jacobi Felix Vallotton Maggie Smith Johnny Otis Fran Allison Martin Milner Joe Hernandez Edgar Winter Lou Jacobi Manuel Puig Roger Sessions Lew Ayres Hubie Green Carlos Carson David Peterson Martin Branner Ted Lyons Ed Healey Steve Van Buren James Brooks Zane Smith Wendolene John Akers Woodrow Wilson |
Card Playing Day National Chocolate Day Cross Day (Ireland) Inocentes (Mexican April Fool's Day) Holy Innocents Day (Childermas; patron of Belgium, babies, choirboys) Proclamation Day (South Australia) Childermas Day Runic half-month of Eoh (yew tree) begins Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) Bairns' Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year) Nepal National Day Dyzemas Day Eat Vegetarian Day Fairy Academy of Window-Frosting Winter Exhibition (Fairy) Indonesia Independence Day Throw Away Your Subliminal Motivation Tapes Today Day |
| December 28 Events | Iowa became the 30th state (1846) Herod slaughtered all the male jewish children Birth of the Cinema Chewing Gum patented (1869) Rob Roy killed (1734) Messina Earthquake (Sicily; 1908) Heavy Water, or Deuterium, discovered (1931) 1st Advertisement for Poor Richard's Almanac appeared (1732) Queen Isabella freed Columbus 1st Commercial showing of a movie (Lumiere brothers; 1895) Helen Reddy's Angie Baby reached No. 1 (1974) Queen Mary II of England died of smallpox (1694) Last episode of That Was The Week That Was broadcast (1963) Tay Bridge collapsed as Dundee train passed, killing 300 all aboard (Scotland; 1879) Irish Free State changed its name to State of Eire (1937) US Pledge of Alligience officially recognized (1945) Netherlands signed protocol granting Indonesia independence (1949) Flowers 1st appeared, dinosaurs became extinct during Cretaceaous Period (Sagan calendar) |
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| 29 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| William MacIntosh Ray Nitschke Charles Goodyear Billy Mitchell Andrew Johnson Pablo Casals William Gladstone Mary Tyler Moore Kalin Olin (Pb 8/97) David Alfaro Sisqueiros William Gaddis Ted Danson Marianne Faithful Ed Flanders Jon Voight Marquise de Pompadour Charles Macintosh Inga Swenson Mervyn Fernandez Tom Bradley Alexander Farrelly Devon White Ray Thomas William Gaddis Henry Jones Darren Perry Thomas Edwin Jarriel |
Broadway Day Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury (aka Thomas a Beckett; patron of the blind) King's Day (Nepal) Pepper Pot Day Festival of Autonomous Media St. Trophimus of Arles' Day Kwanzaa, Day 4: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economy) Paternoster Row Day St. Tropez's Day (patron of children; against gout) National Chocolate Again Day |
| December 29 Events | Movie Serial debuted (Adventures of Kathleen;
1913) Texas became the 28th state (1845) Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890) Auto Brake patented US YMCA established Rasputin assassinated (1916) Jacques Louis David died in exile (1825) Only recorded wolf attack on a human Jim Croce's Time in a Bottle reached No. 1 (1973) Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash published 1st Iron warship, HMS Warrior, launched (1860) Philadelphia Pepper Pot dish invented by George Washington (1777) Jane Pauley left the Today Show (1989) Ashtabula Bridge collapsed, killing 82 (Ohio; 1876) Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by 4 of King Henry II's knights (1170) Cetaceans and Primates 1st appeared as Mesozoic Era ended, Cenozioc Era and Tertiary Period began (Sagan calendar) USSR launched a photo-reconnaissance satellite (1987) Dr. Sun Yat-sen became 1st President of Republic of China (1911) Vietnamese boat people battled with Hong Kong riot police (1989) Britain, Austria, Russia, Naples, and Portugal formed an alliance against Napoleon (1798) At a press conference, Rugby team survivors of Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Andes, admitted to cannibalism for survival (1972) |
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| 30 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Rudyard Kipling Mike Nesmith Dmitri Kabalevsky Simon Guggenheim John Milne Davy Jones Sandy Koufax Tracy Ullman Stephen Leacock Jack Lord Bert Parks Jeff Lynne Del Shannon Stephen Leacock Bo Diddley Asa Griggs Candler Skeeter Davis Ben Johnson Carol Reed Paul Bowles Jo Van Fleet Frank Torre Devon Mitchell Tojo Hideki |
Miracle Day Festival of Enormous Changes At the Last Minute Romania Republic Day Madagascar Independence Day Kwanzaa, Day 5: Nia (Purpose) Fairy Frequent Fliers' Awards (Fairy) Rizal Day (Philippines) St. Sabinus' Day National Bicarbonate of Soda Day |
| December 30 Events | 1st Color TV for sale (Admiral; 1953) Gadsen Purchase (1853) Let's Make a Deal debuted 1st Public Concert given Boer War began American Meterological Society established Bruckner's 7th Symphony premiered Los Angeles dedicated its 1st Freeway (1940) USS Monitor sank in storm (1862) Tokyo Subway dedicated (1927) Roy Rogers Show debuted (1951) Transvaal became a republic (1880) Soviet Russia renamed Union if Soviet Socialist Republics (1922) 1st Female law student admitted to Lincoln's Inn (London; 1919) Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance premiered in London (1879) UAW (United Auto Workers) held their 1st sit-down strike (1936) Olover North subpoenaed US President Ronald Reagan and George Bush to testify in Iran-Contra trial (1988) 1st "Black-Face" act performed (1799) Primate brain's frontal lobes 1st developed and 1st hominids and giant mammals appeared (Sagan calendar) |
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| 31 December | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Henry Matisse Tim Matthieson (voice of Jonny Quest) Steve Rude Andy Summers Jacques Cartier Anthony Hopkins Ben Kingsley Tim Matheson Val Kilmer Bebe Neuwirth Lord Leighton John Wycliffe Lord Cornwallis George C. Marshall Sarah Miles Patti Smith John Denver Diane Von Furstenburg Odetta Mike "King" Kelly Hugh McElhenny Rich Baldinger Ed Simmons Rick Aguilera Marie Wilson Donna Summer "Bonnie Prince" Charles Edward Stuart |
New Year's Eve Hogmanay Day (Scotland) World Peace Meditation Day Make Up Your Mind Day Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night) Omisoka Day (Japan) Congo Republic Day St. Sylvester's Day Watch Night Namahge (Japan) Comoros Independence Day Unlucky Day (Astronomy) National Champagne Day Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity) Fairy Eve's Year News (Fairy) Check the Smoke Alarms Day Revolution Day (Ghana) Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama) No Resolution Day Samoan Fire Dance (Western Samoa) You're All Done Day Allendale Baal Fire Festival |
| December 31 Events | 1st Humans appeared (10:30 p.m.) Martin Luther excommunicated Calvin & Hobbes last comic strip (1995) Monopoly patented (1935) Inspector General premiered 1st Transatlantic voice broadcast Three Men In a Boat debuted East India Company chartered (1600) Czech-Slovak split at midnight (1992) Ellis Island opened Monkees' I'm a Believer reached No. 1 (1966) Government of Ghana overthrown (1981) Paul McCartney knighted (1996) Trafalgar Square's giant Christmas tree attacked by Norwegian man with a chainsaw (1990) Esso Oil announced it was divesting in South Africa (1986) Frank Sinatra debuted solo at NYC's Paramount Theatre Panama will take over the Panama Canal (1999) MBE awarded to Eric Bristow, darts' world champion (1988) 1st Huguenot emigrants to South Africa left France with grapevines (1687) Michigan J. Frog debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1955) Little Match Girl froze to death (Hans Christian Anderson) Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance premiered on Broadway (1879) France turned down a non-aggression pact from Germany (1922) Pliocene Period ended, Quatenary (Pleistocene and Holocene) Period began; humans 1st appeared at 10:30 p.m. (Sagan calendar) Other Sagan calendar events:
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