December 11......

December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 359 - The first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, Honoratus, took office.

● 384 - St. Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1282 - Llywelyn ap Gruffydd or Gruffudd (b. c. 1228) the last native Prince of Wales, was killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. He was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by King Edward I of England. Some would say he was the penultimate, but in effect he was the last ruler. In Welsh, he is remembered by the alliterative soubriquet Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf (Llywelyn, Our Last Leader).

● 1419 - Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence

● 1477 - Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilege

● 1518 - Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli, 34, was elected People's Preacher at the Old Minster Church in Zurich, where he continued as pastor for the remaining 13 years of his life.

● 1572 - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem

● 1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (This actually takes place after midnight, in the early morning of December 12, but commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend.)

● 1618 - Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino

● 1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

● 1640 - English Puritans introduced the "Root and Branch" petition to the Long Parliament in London. It demanded the English episcopacy, "with all its dependencies, roots and branches, be abolished." (The imagery comes from Malachi 4:1.)

● 1665 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna

● 1688 - King James II arrested

● 1710 - Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)

● 1718 - Battle at Frederikshall Norway

● 1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)

● 1730 - Voltaire's "Brutus" premieres in Paris

● 1769 - Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds.

● 1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January.

● 1792 - Birth of Joseph Mohr, the Austrian Roman Catholic vicar who, along with the Oberndorf Church organist Franz Gruber, on Christmas Eve of 1818, authored the enduring Christmas hymn, "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night").

● 1812 - 1st newspaper on Curaçao (Curaçao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)

● 1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state

● 1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.

● 1866 - 1st yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean

● 1872 - 1st black US Governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (Louisiana) OR P.B.S. Pinchback, mulatto, sworn in as first black member of U.S. House of Representatives. Sources can’t seem to decide which one it was.

● 1882 - Fiorello H. La Guardia, the former mayor of New York City for three consecutive terms, was born.

● 1882 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"

● 1888 - French Panamá Canal company fails

● 1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed

● 1894 - The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine exhibitors.

● 1899 - 2nd defeat of "Black Week" - Battle of Magersfontein - Boer leader Cronjé vs General Methuen

● 1901 - Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland

● 1903 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet

● 1905 - 120º F (49º C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)

● 1905 - British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms

● 1906 - US President Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo

● 1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York NY

● 1911 - Mexico: Yaquis in Sonora, influenced by the anarchist Ricardo Flores Magin ("Tierra y Libertad"), reclaim stolen communal lands. Their war with government lasts, officially, until 1929.

● 1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed

● 1916 - David Lloyd George forms British war government

● 1917 - British troops take Jerusalem from the troops of the Ottoman Empire

● 1917 - Thirteen black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in a riot in Houston, Texas.

● 1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia

● 1919 - Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise AL

● 1920 - Martial law declared in Ireland due to Republican Army rebellion.

● 1925 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas

● 1926 - Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam

● 1927 - Soviet-style Canton Commune in China begins. Wiped out after three days fighting by the Russian-supplied Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai Shek.

● 1928 - Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover

● 1928 - National League President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers

● 1930 - Sixty-branch Bank of the United States suspends payments -- largest bank failure to date in New York State history.

● 1931 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

● 1931 - Japan leaves the Golden Standard

● 1932 - San Francisco's coldest day (27ºF) - snow falls

● 1934 - Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League

● 1934 - A fire at the Hotel Kerns in Lansing, Michigan, kills 34 people.

● 1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, he became the Duke of Windsor and Nazi sympathizer. Duke of York becomes King George VI

● 1937 - The Fascist Council in Rome, withdrew Italy from the League of Nations.

● 1939 - New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed

● 1940 - Russian General Zhukov warns of German assault

● 1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Hitler and Mussolini announce they are at war with America which retaliates with its own declaration of war on "the forces of savagery and barbarism".

● 1941 - Japanese occupy Guam

● 1941 - Dutch government in London declares war on Italy

● 1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WWII-landing)

● 1942 - Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia

● 1943 - The City Center of Music and Drama was dedicated in New York by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

● 1944 - Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed

● 1945 - Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip

● 1946 - UNICEF (United Nations' International Children's Education Fund) founded. Would later become a centerpiece of anti-U.N. sentiment by U.S. government due to alleged anti-American, pro- Third World curricula.

● 1946 - Spain suspended from UN

● 1947 - Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected

● 1950 - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract

● 1951 - Illinois State mine inspector approve coal dust removal techniques at New Orient mine in West Frankfort. Ten days later, largely because of coal dust accumulations, the mine exploded, killing 119 workers.

● 1951 - Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) announced his retirement from major league baseball. DiMaggio only played for the Yankees during his 13-year career.

● 1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News VA

● 1956 - Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland

● 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra

● 1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France

● 1958 - 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls

● 1960 - French paratroopers fire on civilians in Algiers, Algeria, killing 114.

● 1960 - Thousands protest segregation in Atlanta.

● 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

● 1961 - Pres. Kennedy sends 425 U.S. air cavalry helicopter units to Vietnam; first U.S. helicopters and army personnel involved in that war.

● 1961 - Melvin Calvin Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for process of photosynthesis.

● 1962 - American missionary and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.'

● 1964 - Anti-Castro protesters attempt to assassinate Che Guevara during his speech at the United Nations in New York City.

● 1967 - Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit

● 1967 - SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)

● 1967 - 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed

● 1967 - People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established

● 1969 - Leaking nerve gas necessitates the evacuation of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Test Center near Dugway, Utah.

● 1969 - Libya adopts constitution

● 1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed. Since then have accomplished very little of value.

● 1971 - Third retrial of Black Panther head, Huey Newton, ends in mistrial.

● 1972 - New Zealand Prime Minister Kirk announces withdrawal of his country's troops from Vietnam, and phase-out of draft.

● 1972 - James Brown is arrested after a show in Knoxville, Tenn., and charged with "disorderly conduct." Brown and two members of his entourage were talking to fans about narcotics use when a white man told police the singer was trying to incite a riot. However, after Brown threatens to sue to city for $1 million, the event is then termed a "misunderstanding."

● 1972 - Astronauts Cernan & Harrison of Apollo 17 become 11th & 12th on the Moon

● 1973 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Czech Prime Minister Lubomir Strougal formally nullified the 1938 Munich pact when they signed a treaty sanctioning Hitler's seizure of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. This normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia

● 1975 - Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War; An Icelandic gunboat opens fire on unarmed British fishery support vessels in the North Atlantic Sea.

● 1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10¢ to 13¢

● 1975 - The Central American Mission changed its name to CAM Intentional, after expanding its missionary efforts into Latin America. (This evangelical mission group was founded in 1890 by C.I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Bible.)

● 1978 - 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 million in cash & jewelry

● 1979 - Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

● 1980 - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.

● 1981 - El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war.

● 1981 - Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick

● 1981 - Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center

● 1981 - UN Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General

● 1981 - Argentine President/General Roberto Viola flees

● 1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)

● 1984 - Twenty thousand women turn out for anti-nuclear demonstration at Greenham Common, England.

● 1984 - Mauretania military coup under Colonel Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya

● 1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate by giving final congressional approval to the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law.

● 1985 - General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC

● 1985 - Computer store owner in Sacramento CA killed by package bomb

● 1985 - Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)

● 1986 - South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone treaty comes into effect.

● 1986 - BBC AIDS slogan angers church; Church leaders have condemned a radio campaign about AIDS for "condoning promiscuity.”

● 1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League

● 1986 - The government of South Africa expanded its media restrictions by imposing prior censorship and banning coverage of a wide range of peaceful anti-apartheid protests.

● 1987 - Charlie Chaplin's trademark cane and bowler hat were sold at Christie's for £82,500.

● 1988 - 62 people were killed in a Mexico City marketplace when tons of illegal fireworks exploded.

● 1990 - Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage.

● 1990 - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga TN (I-75), due to fog

● 1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space

● 1991 - Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.).

● 1991 - William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape

● 1992 - Solidarity convoy of 500 peace activists arrives in the beseiged city of Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzogovina.

● 1992 - Nor'easter storm hits New York, doing $650 million+ worth of damage

● 1993 - Eduardo Frei elected President of Chile

● 1993 - Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

● 1994 - First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders ground troops into Chechnya after a two-week bombing campaign fails to bring the break-away territory to heel.

● 1994 - A bomb assembled by Ramzi Yousef explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman.

● 1994 - The world's largest free trade zone was created when leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration known as "The Miami Process."

● 1995 - Forty thousand workers go on general strike in London, Ontario (pop. 300,000).

● 1996 - In Crystal City, VA, "The Art of the Toy" opened. The exhibit was at the Patent and Trademark Office Museum.

● 1997 - Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows

● 1997 - Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years. He conferred with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.

● 1997 - More than 270 Tutsi refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo were killed by Juto guerillas in Mudende, Rwanda.

● 1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases."

● 1997 - Henry Cisneros, President Bill Clinton's first housing secretary, was indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstructing justice and making false statements about payments to his former mistress. One of Clinton’s lasty acts as president would be to pardon Cisneros.

● 1998 - A Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101.

● 1998 - Scientists announced that they had deciphered the entire genetic blueprint of a tiny worm.

● 1998 - The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.

● 1998 - Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton.

● 2000 - Mario Lemeiux, owner of Pittsburgh Penquins, announced that he would end his three-plus year retirement and become an active National Hockey League (NHL) player again. When Lemieux returned officially he became the first owner/player in NHL history.

● 2000 - Shortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million deal with the Texas Rangers, the most lucrative sports contract in history.

● 2000 - Real Madrid football club is awarded 20th Century's Best Club award by FIFA.

● 2001 - 30,000 postal jobs 'to be cut'; Up to 30,000 British Post Office workers could lose their jobs over the next 18 months, Consignia, the company which runs the service, has announced.

● 2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.

● 2001 - U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft announced the first federal indictment directly related to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Zacarias Moussaoui was charged with six conspiracy charges. Moussaoui was in custody at the time of the attacks.

● 2001 - Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches.

● 2001 - It was announced that U.S. President George W. Bush would withdraw the U.S. from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.

● 2001 - Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities as part of "Operation Buccaneer." The raids were used to gain evidence against an international software piracy ring.

● 2002 - A congressional report found that intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001, were poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might have prevented that day's terrorist attacks.

● 2004 - Doctors in Austria determined that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin, which caused the severe disfigurement and partial paralysis of his face.

● 2005 - The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire.

● 2005 - 2005 Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed up by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

● 2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, Holocaust denier and a true nut case for George W to play off of.

BIRTHS

● 1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)

● 1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)

● 1566 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)

● 1680 - Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736)

● 1712 - Francesco Algarotti. Italian philosopher and art critic (d. 1764)

● 1725 - George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)

● 1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)

● 1781 - Sir David Brewster, British physicist (d. 1868)

● 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)

● 1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)

● 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)

● 1838 - John Labatt, Irish-Canadian businessman and brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (d. 1915)

● 1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910)

● 1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)

● 1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)

● 1873 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)

● 1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)

● 1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)

● 1882 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)

● 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City mayor (d. 1947)

● 1883 - Victor McLaglen, British-born American actor (d. 1959)

● 1889 - Walter Knott, American farmer (d. 1981).

● 1890 - Carlos Gardel, tango singer, composer, and actor (d. 1935)

● 1890 - Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)

● 1905 - Erskine (Hamilton) Childers, Irish statesman and fourth president (1973-74) (d. 1974)

● 1905 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1905 - Robert Henriques, British writer (d. 1967)

● 1908 - Elliott Carter, American composer

● 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

● 1911 - Val Guest, British film director (d. 2006)

● 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer

● 1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)

● 1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)

● 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

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

● 1922 - Grace Paley, American writer

● 1922 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor

● 1923 - Betsy Blair, American actress

● 1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1926 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)

● 1929 - Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Scottish-English choreographer (d. 1992)

● 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor

● 1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican / American actress

● 1931 - Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru (d. 1990)

● 1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician

● 1935 - Ron Carey, American actor (''Barney Miller'')

● 1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician

● 1935 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)

● 1936 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician

● 1937 - Jim Harrison, American writer

● 1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist

● 1938 - Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer

● 1939 - Tom Hayden, American politician

● 1939 - Thomas McGuane, American writer

● 1940 - David Gates, American musician (Bread)

● 1941 - Max Baucus, U.S. senator, D-Mont.

● 1942 - Donna Mills, American actress (''Knots Landing'')

● 1943 - John Kerry, American politician

● 1944(48? NYT) - Teri Garr, American film actress

● 1944 - Lynda Day George, American actress

● 1944 - Brenda Lee, American singer

● 1946 - Tony Brown, Country music producer

● 1950 - Christina Onassis, American heiress (d. 1988)

● 1952 - Susan Seidelman, Director

● 1953 - Bess Armstrong, American actress

● 1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American musician (The Jackson 5)

● 1954 - Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic engineer

● 1958 - Nikki Sixx, American bassist (Mötley Crüe)

● 1959 - Lisa Gastineau, American reality show star

● 1961 - Darryl Jones, Rock musician

● 1962 - Ben Browder, American actor

● 1962 - Nele Karajlić, singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina

● 1964 - Michel Courtemanche, Quebec comedian and actor

● 1964 - John Mark Karr, American who claimed involvement in JonBenét Ramsey case

● 1964 - David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)

● 1964 - Justin Currie, Rock musician (Del Amitri)

● 1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer

● 1964 - Carolyn Waldo, Canadian synchronized swimmer

● 1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor (''C.S.I.'')

● 1966 - Leon Lai, Cantopop singer/actor

● 1967 - DJ Yella, American music producer

● 1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster

● 1969 - Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer

● 1969 - Sean Grande, American sportscaster

● 1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player

● 1972 - Dana Macsim, Romanian television news reporter

● 1973 - Mos Def, American emcee and actor

● 1974 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler

● 1974 - Ben Shephard, English TV personality

● 1975 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist

● 1977 - Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player

● 1979 - Rider Strong, American actor

● 1980 - Arya, Indian actor

● 1981 - Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)

● 1981 - Nikki Benz, Canadian actress

● 1981 - Hamish Blake, Australian comedian

● 1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer

● 1988 - Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess prodigy

DEATHS

● 384 - Pope Damasus I

● 1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)

● 1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)

● 1282 - Llywelyn the Last, King of Gwynedd

● 1282 - Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)

● 1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)

● 1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)

● 1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)

● 1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. 1675)

● 1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)

● 1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)

● 1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)

● 1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)

● 1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)

● 1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)

● 1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)

● 1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist and recipient of Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

● 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)

● 1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)

● 1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)

● 1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)

● 1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)

● 1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)

● 1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)

● 1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)

● 1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

● 1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)

● 1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)

● 1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)

● 1991 - Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host and actor (b. 1921)

● 1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)

● 1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)

● 1996 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist (b. 1937)

● 1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)

● 1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (b. 1968)

● 2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)

● 2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Côte d'Ivoire writer (b. 1927)

● 2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)

● 2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Pope St. Damasus I (Pope 366-384)
● St. Daniel the Stylite
● St. Damasus
● St. Barsabas
● St. Victoricus, Fuscian, and Gentian
● St. Trason
● St. Sabinus
● St. Sabinus
● St. Cian
● St. Fidweten
● St. Pens

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 29 (Civil Date: December 11)
● Nativity Fast.
● Martyr Paramon and 370 Martyrs in Bithynia.
● Martyr Philumenus of Ancyra, and with him Martyrs Valerian and Phaedrus.
● St. Acacius of Sinai who is mentioned in The Ladder.
● St. Nectarius the Obedient of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth.
● St. Pitirim of Egypt, disciple of St. Anthony the Great.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Thessalonica.
● Hieromartyr John of Persia.
● St. Urban of Macedonia, Bishop St. Pancosmius, monk.
● Repose of Blessed Abel "the Prophet" of Valaam (1831).

● Lutheran:
● Commemoration of Lars Skrefsrud, missionary to India

● Roman festivals:
● One of the four Agonalia, this day in honour of Sol Indiges
● also the Septimontium festival

● Argentina - Tango Day, Buenos Aires

● Burkina Faso - Republic Day (1958, Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community.)

● Geneva Switzerland : Scaling Day/Escalade (1602, 1816)

● USA - Admission day for Indiana (19th state, 1816)

● Wales - Remembrance Day of Llywelyn II


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

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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