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1285 Ferdinand V, king of Castili & Leon 1421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71) 1732 Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84) 1808 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future) 1809 Stephen Thomas, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 1816 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US 1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 1833 John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), died in 1916 1843 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher 1857 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Lord Jim, Secret Affiliate) 1870 William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds) 1886 Joyce Kilmer, US, (male) poet (Trees) 1887 Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man) 1892 F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame) 1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960) 1896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears) 1896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm) 1898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974) 1898 Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine) 19-- Gina Hecht, Houston Tx, actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy) 19-- Lindsey Alicy 1906 Agnes Moorehead, Clinton Mass, actress (Endora-Bewitched) 1906 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician 1913 Eleanor Holm, NYC, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932) 1920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist (Take 5) 1921 Nicolas A Pi€a, Venezulian/Aruban songwriter 1921 Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns) 1924 Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares) 1925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants) 1932 Don King, boxing promoter (Mike Tyson) 1938 David Ossman, comedian (Firesign Theater) 1939 Tom s Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude) 1940 Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes) 1941 Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road) 1941 John Nelson, San Jos Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz) 1941 Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966) 1942 Len Barry, Phila, rocker (Bristol Stomp) 1942 Peter Handke, Austrian songwriter (Ritt ber den Bodensee) 1943 Mike Smith, London Engld, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over) 1945 James Naughton, Middletown Ct, actor (Trauma Center, Making the Grade) 1945 Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies) 1948 Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla) 1948 Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon) 1950 Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad) 1952 Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere) 1953 Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals) 1953 Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park) 1953 Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show) 1954 Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse) 1955 Steven Wright, droll comedian (Steven Wright Live) 1957 Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980) 1962 Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood) 1962 Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure) 1967 Spanky Marcus, Hollywood Calif, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman) Back to GREGSITE Passings for December 061185 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76 1352 Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies 1550 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies 1562 Jan van Scorel, painter/architect, dies 1799 Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies 1865 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies 1889 Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5), dies 1892 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officier, dies 1914 Eduard Jacobs, cabaret artist, dies at 47 1926 Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies 1941 Anthony G Krller, entrepreneur/govt advisor, dies 1943 Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies 1959 Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66 1963 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philological (Language Boundary), dies 1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies 1984 Ruth Cummings, actress dies at 90 1985 Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92 1985 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68 1988 Roy Orbison, singer, dies of a massive heart attack at 52 1989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry) dies at 86 1989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77 1989 Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87 1991 Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies Back to GREGSITE Holidays for December 06[Bahrain] Ruler's Ascension Day [Ecuador] Day of Quito (1534) [Finland] Independence Day (1917) Back to GREGSITE Interest events for December 06342 [Ang, RC, Luth] Mem of Nicholas, Archbp of Myra patron of children 1996 [Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights Back to GREGSITE Special events for December 06Feast of St Nicholas 1491 King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne 1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mle Saint Nicolas 1534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish 1631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC 1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) 1790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital 1820 US president James Monroe re-elected 1825 Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory 1846 Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris) 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland 1862 Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 1864 Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC 1865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery 1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed 1870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC) 1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1 1875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes 1876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn 1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time 1876 US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won) 1877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition 1882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit 1884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC 1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #378 Holmia 1899 J E Keeler discovers asteroid #452 Hamiltonia 1904 Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) 1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361 1912 China votes for universal human rights 1914 German troops over run Lodz 1917 1,600 die as 2 munitions ships collide at Halifax, Nova Scotia 1917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) 1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 1921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain 1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation 1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY 1923 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge) 1925 Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy) 1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1063 Aquilegia 1925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7 1929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1187 Afra 1929 Turkey votes for female suffrage 1930 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia 1933 James Joyce' "Ulysses" banned in US 1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) 1941 King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels 1941 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens 1942 Queen Wilhelmina proclaims Dutch Commonwealth 1942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) 1952 Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona nun grata 1954 Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt 1955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing 1956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr 1956 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2789 1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up 1957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) 1957 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions 1958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back 1960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels 1962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program 1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans 1964 KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting 1965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125 1968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years 1968 WKID (now WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 1969 300,000 attend Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones 1970 Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106 1971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1973 Bahrain's constitution goes into effect 1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew 1973 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen) 1974 George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" 1975 Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry 1977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence 1978 Spain adopts constitution 1980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn 1980 NASA launches Intelsat V 1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis 1984 Hackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 1986 Vinny Testaverde of Minn wins Heisman Trophy 1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" 1988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden 1988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest) 1989 Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at U of Montral 1989 mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogot , kills 52 1990 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning 1990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages 1991 "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Conuntry" premieres 1992 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die 1992 SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown 1992 SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds 1992 US beats Switzerland for Davis Cup Back to GREGSITE Facts for December 06340th day of year with 25 days left (Numerology = 9) 1926 13øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1982 68øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on December 0612/06/40 --- Down Argentine Way --- Crosby, Bob 12/06/45 --- White Christmas --- Crosby, Bing 12/06/45 --- Symphony --- Goodman, Benny 12/06/45 --- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief --- Hutton, Betty 12/06/45 --- Symphony --- Martin, Freddy 12/06/46 --- Old Lamplighter, The --- Derwin, Hal 12/06/46 --- Christmas Song, The --- Cole, Nat King 12/06/52 --- Till I Waltz Again With You --- Brewer, Teresa 12/06/69 --- I Want You Back --- Jacksons 12/06/69 --- Whole Lotta Love --- Led Zeppelin 12/06/69 --- La La La (If I Had You) --- Sherman, Bobby 12/06/69 --- Jam Up Jelly Tight --- Roe, Tommy 12/06/75 --- You Sexy Thing --- Hot Chocolate 12/06/80 --- I Made It Through The Rain --- Manilow, Barry 12/06/80 --- I Love A Rainy Night --- Rabbitt, Eddie 12/06/86 --- At This Moment --- Vera, Billy |
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