December 10......

December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 741 - Zacharias becomes Pope

● 1294 - Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)

● 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.

● 1508 - The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

● 1520 - German reformer Martin Luther publicly burned Pope Leo X's bull, "Exsurge Domine," which had demanded that Luther recant his "protestant" heresies, including that of justification by faith alone rather than through purchased indulgences or other papal favors. The Pope demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521.

● 1582 - France begins use of Gregorian calendar

● 1593 - Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio first descended into the subterranean Christian burial chambers, located under the streets of Rome. Bosio was dubbed the "Columbus of the Catacombs," and his books long remained the standard work on the underground tombs of the early Roman Church.

● 1652 - Sea battle at Dungeness: Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet

● 1672 - New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston

● 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

● 1688 - King James II flees London

● 1690 - Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money

● 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester

● 1768 - The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in London by George III. Joshua Reynolds was its first president.

● 1787 - Thomas H. Gallaudet, a pioneer of educating the deaf, was born in Philadelphia.

● 1799 - Metric system established in France

● 1805 - Birth of abolitionist, proto-feminist, indigenous rights agitator William Lloyd Garrison.

● 1810 - Tom Cribb (Great Britain) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)

● 1816 - Dutch regain Sumatra

● 1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state

● 1830 - Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA. Only seven of her works were published while she was alive.

● 1831 - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

● 1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

● 1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.

● 1851 - Settlers begin 21-day cut to fill the brig Leonesa with 30- foot-long logs, beginning of the clearcut industry in Seattle.

● 1851 - American librarian Melvil Dewey was born. He created the "Dewey Decimal Classification" system.

● 1854 - The second construction of the structure known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was consecrated. The church is one of four major basilicas in Rome. The original edifice was erected by Roman emperor Constantine in 324, and rebuilt as a larger basilica in the late fourth century by the Emperor Honorius (395).

● 1861 - American Civil War: Kentucky becomes the 13th state admitted to the Confederacy.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia beginning 12 day siege.

● 1865 - Birth of August Spies, one of the Haymarket anarchists, victim of anti-anarchist repression.

● 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

● 1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)

● 1869 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.

● 1887 - Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan

● 1896 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel died in San Remo, Italy. He was a Swedish chemist who invented dynamite. In his in his will he stipulated that income from his $9 million estate be used for annual prizes for people judged to have made valuable humanitarian deeds.

● 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam. The U.S. granted the Philippines its independence in 1948, but retains the other two "territories."

● 1899 - 1st defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Stormberg South Africa - Boers vs British army; nearly 3000 British troops killed

● 1899 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.

● 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The awards were devised by Alfred Nobel, who regretted the damage he had done mankind through his inventions of dynamite and other explosives.

● 1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)

● 1902 - Birth of Vito Marcantonio, fighter for Puerto Rican independence and American Labor Party Congressman.

● 1902 - Elie Ducommun awarded Nobel Peace Prize for creating International Peace Bureau.

● 1903 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

● 1904 - King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime

● 1904 - The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.

● 1905 - "The Gift of the Magi," a short story by William Sydney Porter, 43, was first published. Known by his pen name, O. Henry, Porter's writings were characterized by trick endings, making him a master of short story telling.

● 1906 - IWW sponsors first sit-down strike in U.S., at a General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York.

● 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

● 1907 - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature

● 1910 - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics

● 1911 - Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)

● 1911 - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace

● 1913 - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

● 1914 - French government returns to Paris

● 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt

● 1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled

● 1918 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

● 1919 - National League votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers

● 1919 - New York, Boston, & Chicago, oppose American League resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties

● 1920 - President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize

● 1922 - Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards

● 1922 - Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein

● 1923 - Polish government of Grabski, forms

● 1924 - Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years, since replace with league winning All Star game getting home field advantage.

● 1924 - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine

● 1925 - George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel

● 1926 - 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

● 1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN

● 1931 - Jane Addams, founder of Hull House and leader of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

● 1931 - Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora President of Spain

● 1932 - King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.

● 1934 - Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp

● 1934 - Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite

● 1935 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. This award was given to the best college football player east the Mississippi River.

● 1936 - England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

● 1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson

● 1936 - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry

● 1938 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood

● 1939 - The National Football League's attendance exeeded 1 million in a season for the first time.

● 1940 - British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)

● 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.

● 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.

● 1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam

● 1942 - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"

● 1942 - North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim

● 1943 - British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy

● 1944 - 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis

● 1944 - German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar

● 1945 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists first published.

● 1945 - Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car

● 1946 - Baseball hall-of-famer Walter Johnson died at age 59.

● 1947 - USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement

● 1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

● 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

● 1950 - 42nd national Congress of the Anarchistic Federation Italian held, Ancine, Italy.

● 1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.

● 1952 - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel

● 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.

● 1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.

● 1954 - Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium

● 1954 - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

● 1956 - English Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'In so far as the things unseen are manifested by the things seen, one might from one point of view call the whole material universe an allegory.'

● 1956 - Establishment of MPLA in Angola

● 1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.

● 1958 - University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates

● 1961 - Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony; Alfred Luthuli, leader of the banned African National Congress, attacks South Africa's regime as he receives the Nobel peace prize.

● 1961 - Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer

● 1961 - US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad NM (underground)

● 1961 - Clouds of radioactive steam escape underground nuclear test, closing several New Mexico highways.

● 1961 - SNCC Freedom Rider test of ICC ruling in Albany, Georgia leads to five days of arrests, beginning on this day, of 469-500 students for marching around city hall. Some 350 choose to stay in jail as part of the Albany movement.

● 1961 - USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations

● 1962 - Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years

● 1962 - Frank Gifford (New York Giants) was on the cover of "Sports Illustrated."

● 1963 - The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara. The evil bastard needed some way to pay for the war in Vietnam.

● 1963 - 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show

● 1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth

● 1964 - Several whites sprinkle gasoline over a Ferriday, Louisiana shoe shop, and making certain the black man inside had no possible means of escape, set fire to the place. He subsequently dies.

● 1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.

● 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

● 1965 - Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia

● 1966 - U.S. planes over South Vietnam accidentally drop two 250-pound bombs on U.S. Marine company, killing 16, wounding 11.

● 1966 - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

● 1966 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken

● 1967 - Singer Otis Redding died at age 26 in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.

● 1967 - The first "commercial" atomic bomb is detonated under the New Mexico desert as part of an experiment in natural gas recovery.

● 1968 - Trappist monk, writer, poet, pacifist Thomas Merton accidentally electrocuted, Bangkok, Thailand. Inspiration to much of the Catholic Worker movement.

● 1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

● 1970 - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, "father of the Green Revolution", is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

● 1971 - Jim Hart throws a football for a record 98 yards, the longest recorded throw.

● 1971 - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

● 1971 - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

● 1972 - The American League votes to adopt the Designated Hitter position for the following season. The American League has been the inferior league ever since.

● 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1974 - Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun

● 1974 - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament

● 1974 - Representative Wilbur D. Mills (D-AR) resigns as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the aftermath of the first truly public sex scandal in American politics; in October, Washington, D.C. police stopped Mills' car at the Tidal Basin for driving at night with his lights off, finding him "intoxicated, scratched, and bleeding." While questioning him, Annabel Battistella, a stripper who was known as "Fanne Fox, the Argentine Firecracker," jumped out of his car and leaped into the water.

● 1975 - Fourteen acquitted of "incitement to disaffection" of soldiers over Northern Ireland, Britain.

● 1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

● 1976 - Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"

● 1977 - First 61 of 300 Americans held in Mexican prisons on drug charges released in prisoner exchange.

● 1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

● 1978 - In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

● 1979 - Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament

● 1979 - Daredevil Kidd's 80ft river jump; Stuntman Eddie Kidd has accomplished a "death-defying" motorcycle leap.

● 1980 - Second instance of surrogate motherhood reported (Tennessee).

● 1980 - South Carolina Representative John W. Jenretter resigned to avoid being expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives following his conviction on charges to the FBI's Abscam investigation.

● 1980 - Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth

● 1980 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

● 1981 - Mystery disease kills homosexuals; Mystery disease is causing increasing concern among medical practitioners in the United States. Called GRID, for Gay Related Immune Deficiency, at this time it would later be renamed AIDS for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

● 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.

● 1981 - El Salvador army kills 900

● 1982 - Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off

● 1982 - The Law of the Sea Convention was signed by 118 countries in Montego Bay, Jamaica. 23 nations and the U.S. were excluded.

● 1983 - Raul Alfonsin was inaugurated as Argentina's first civilian president after nearly eight years of military rule.

● 1983 - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

● 1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

● 1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered

● 1985 - Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress

● 1985 - Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires

● 1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

● 1986 - Two police stations firebombed in Paris after an Arab is killed by an off-duty policeman.

● 1986 - France performs nuclear test

● 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares the date Human Rights Day in the United States.

● 1987 - "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time

● 1988 - Massive Earthquake in Armenia kills 100,000 in cities of Leninakan & Spitak

● 1989 - Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.

● 1989 - President Gustav Husák of Czechoslovakia, resigns

● 1990 - Iraq frees British hostages; The first of the hostages held in the Gulf for four and a half months have arrived in Britain after their release by Saddam Hussein.

● 1990 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die

● 1990 - Soyuz TM-10 lands

● 1990 - Industrialist Armand Hammer died at age 92.

● 1990 - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved Norplant, a long-acting contraceptive implant.

● 1991 - The play Revival "The Crucible" opened.

● 1991 - Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

● 1992 - Oregon Senator Bob Packwood apologized for what he called "unwelcome and offensive" actions toward women. However, he refused to resign.

● 1993 - The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.

● 1993 - First release of the videogame DooM.

● 1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3740.67

● 1994 - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

● 1994 - Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ, was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber.

● 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize. They pledged to pursue their mission of healing the Middle East.

● 1995 - The first U.S. Marines arrived in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to join NATO soldiers sent to enforce peace in the former Yugoslavia.

● 1995 - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

● 1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

● 1996 - South Africa's President Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country's transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.

● 1997 - Twelve arrested at protest of Lockheed-Martin arms exports. Nashua, New Hampshire.

● 1998 - Six astronauts opened the doors to the new international space station 250 miles above the Earth's surface.

● 1998 - The Palestinian leadership scrapped constitutional clauses that rejected Israel's existence.

● 1999 - After three years under suspicion of being a spy for China, computer scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested. He was charged with removing secrets from the Los Alamos weapons lab. Lee later plead guilty to one count of downloading restricted data to tape and was freed. The other 58 counts were dropped.

● 2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomacy in the Middle East in the 1970s.

● 2002 - The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.

● 2003 - Iranian democracy activist Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted the award in Oslo, Norway.

● 2004 - A tombstone commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Brazilian guerrilla Carlos Marighella is inaugurated in Salvador, Bahia.

● 2003 - Mother cleared of murdering babies; The Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of Angela Cannings, jailed for life for the murder of her two baby sons.

● 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld new restrictions on political advertising in the weeks before an election. The court did strike down two provisions of the new law that involved a ban on political contributions from those too young to vote and a limitation on some party spending. (McConnell v. FEC, 02-1674)

● 2003 - The U.S. barred firms based in certain countries, opponents of the Iraq war, from bidding on Iraqi reconstruction projects. The ban did not prevent companies from winning subcontracts.

● 2005 - Microsoft releases xbox 360 console in Japan.

● 2005 - Actor-comedian Richard Pryor died at age 65.

● 2005 - Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., died at age 89.

● 2005 - Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes in Nigeria.

BIRTHS

● 1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)

● 1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)

● 1538 - (Giovanni) Battista Guarini, Italian poet and dramatist (d. 1612)

● 1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)

● 1610 - Adriaen von Ostade, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1685)

● 1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)

● 1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)

● 1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)

● 1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)

● 1815 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (d. 1852)

● 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)

● 1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)

● 1824 - George MacDonald, British writer and preacher (d. 1905)

● 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)

● 1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian and inventor of the Dewey Decimal classification system, (d. 1931)

● 1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)

● 1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)

● 1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)

● 1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)

● 1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)

● 1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)

● 1886 - Marco Minghetti, Italian statesman (b. 1813)

● 1891 - Sir Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis. (d. 1969)

● 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German-born writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

● 1903 - Mary Norton, English children's author (d. 1992)

● 1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)

● 1907 - Rumer Godden (Margaret Rumer Godden), British writer (d. 1998)

● 1907 - Lucien Laurent, French international footballer (d. 2005)

● 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)

● 1909 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)

● 1911 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)

● 1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)

● 1913 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)

● 1913 - Harry Locke, British character actor (d. 1987)

● 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)

● 1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)

● 1918 - Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)

● 1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian hockey coach (d. 1995)

● 1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer

● 1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)

● 1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)

● 1923 - Harold Gould, Actor

● 1925 - Carolyn Kizer, American poet

● 1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)

● 1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)

● 1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)

● 1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor

● 1941 - Chad Stuart, British folk singer (Chad and Jeremy)

● 1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress

● 1941 - Tommy Kirk, Actor

● 1941 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)

● 1944 - Steve Renko, American baseball player

● 1946 - Gloria Loring, Actress-singer

● 1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet

● 1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)

● 1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician and chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party.

● 1947 - Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player

● 1948 - Jessica Cleaves, R&B singer (Friends of Distinction)

● 1948 - Ralph Tavares, R&B singer

● 1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)

● 1951 - Johnny Rodriguez, Country singer

● 1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer

● 1952 - Clive Anderson, British television host

● 1952 - Susan Dey, American actress (''L.A. Law,'' ''The Partridge Family'')

● 1956 - Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois

● 1957 - Paul Hardcastle, Jazz musician

● 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor

● 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director

● 1961 - Nia Peeples, Actress

● 1964 - Bobby Flay, TV chef

● 1965 - J Mascis, American musician

● 1966 - Mel Rojas, Major League Baseball pitcher

● 1967 - Harland Williams, Canadian actor

● 1969 - Rob Blake, Canadian hockey player

● 1970 - Kevin Sharp, Country singer

● 1971 - Scot Alexander, Rock musician (Dishwalla)

● 1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)

● 1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)

● 1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer

● 1978 - Kuniva, Rapper (D12)

● 1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets

● 1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress

● 1978 - Brandon Novak, skateboarder

● 1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler

● 1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist

● 1980 - Ledley King, English footballer

● 1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer

● 1981 - Fabio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer

● 1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer and Commonwealth Games Gold medalist

● 1982 - Tim Deegan, MuchMusic VJ

● 1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor

● 1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer

● 1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer ("That's So Raven," "The Cosby Show")

● 1993 - Rachel Trachtenburg, American drummer and singer (Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players)

DEATHS

● 1041 - Michael IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)

● 1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)

● 1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)

● 1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (b. 1544)

● 1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer

● 1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)

● 1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer

● 1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)

● 1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)

● 1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)

● 1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)

● 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)

● 1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (b. 1817)

● 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)

● 1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)

● 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)

● 1936 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer (b. 1857)

● 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

● 1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)

● 1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)

● 1946 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)

● 1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)

● 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b. 1869)

● 1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)

● 1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)

● 1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)

● 1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)

● 1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)

● 1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician

● 1978 - Ed Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)

● 1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)

● 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)

● 1986 - Susan Cabot, American actress (murdered) (b. 1927)

● 1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist (b. 1901)

● 1990 - Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)

● 1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)

● 1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b. 1905)

● 1994 - Keith Joseph, British politician (b. 1918)

● 1996 - Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)

● 1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)

● 1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)

● 2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)

● 2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)

● 2005 - Eugene J. McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)

● 2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)

● 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile (b. 1915)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Pope Saint Gregory III
● St. Melchiades, Pope (311-14) & martyr
● St. Eulalia of Merida
● St. Thomas of Farfa
● St. Carpophorus & Abundius
● St. Deusdedit
● St. Edmund Genings
● St. Florentius of Carracedo
● St. Gemellus
● St. Guitmarus
● St. Hildemar
● Bl. John Mason
● St. Julia of Merida
● St. Lucerius
● St. Mennas
● St. Mercurius
● St. Peter Duong
● St. Polydore Plasden
● Bl. Peter Tecelano
● Bl. Thomas Somers
● Bl. Sebastian Montanol

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 28 (Civil Date: December 10)
● Nativity Fast.
● Martyr Stephen the New
● St. Auxentius.
● Martyrs Basil, Stephen, two Gregories, John, Andrew, Peter, Anna, and many others
● Martyr Hierenarchus and Seven Women Martyrs at Sebaste.
● Martyrs Timothy and Theodore, bishops; Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore and Nicephorus, presbyters; Basil and Thomas, deacons; Hierotheus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius and Eusebius, monks; and Etymasius, at Tiberiopolis.
● Blessed Theodore, Archbishop of Rostov.

● Khmer Republic : Rights of Man Day

● Mississippi : Admission Day (1817)

● Stockholm, Sweden : Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)

● Thailand : Constitution Day (1932)

● UN, Equatorial Guinea : Human Rights Day (1948)

● World : World Freedom Day

● Wyoming : Wyoming Day (women's suffrage) (1869)


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Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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