December 3......

December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 741 - St. Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III

● 1170 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, 52, returned to England after six years of exile in France. (Becket would be martyred on December 29th of this year killed by soldiers sent by his former friend, English King Henry II.)

● 1347 - Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics

● 1557 - 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form

● 1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia

● 1621 - Galileo perfects the telescope

● 1639 - 1st annulment by court decree passes

● 1676 - Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen

● 1678 - Edmund Halley receives Master of Arts degree from Queen's College, Oxford

● 1685 - Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden

● 1694 - English parliamentary election set for every 3 years

● 1699 - Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-General of the Hague

● 1775 - 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)

● 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.

● 1818 - Illinois admitted as 21st US state

● 1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th President of US beating incumbent John Quincy Adams, John C Calhoun Vice-President

● 1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio, 1st truly coeducational college opens

● 1834 - 1st US dental society organized (New York)

● 1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.

● 1841 - Birth of Clara H. Scott, American music teacher and composer. A contributor to the collections published by Horatio R. Palmer, she is best remembered today as author and composer of the hymn, "Open My Eyes, That I May See."

● 1844 - Roman Catholic Society Apostole of Prayer forms

● 1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"

● 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.

● 1863 - Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville TN

● 1864 - Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia

● 1866 - Textile strikers win ten-hour work day, Fall River, Mass.

● 1866 - Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies

● 1868 - Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury

● 1878 - Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel

● 1881 - Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa

● 1883 - 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes

● 1893 - Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia

● 1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

● 1901 - Milwaukee is dropped from the American League & replaced by St Louis Browns

● 1902 - Birth of Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who flew the lead plane in Japan's air attack on Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941). Following WWII, through representatives of the Pocket Testament League, Fuchida was converted to Christianity in 1950.

● 1903 - Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh

● 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

● 1906 - U.S. Supreme Court jails Samuel Gompers and other worker-union organizers for violating an injunction against Buck's Stove & Range Co.

● 1907 - George Cohan's musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in New York NY

● 1908 - Birth of C.F.D. Moule, Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar. He authored numerous autographs on Biblical studies, including "The Phenomenology of the New Testament" (1967).

● 1908 - Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres

● 1910 - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Brotherhood of Timber Workers Union organized.

● 1910 - The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges Claude.

● 1912 - Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer

● 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.

● 1914 - Netherlands army shoots up geïnterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed

● 1917 - The Quebec Bridge opened for traffic after almost 20 years of planning and construction. The bridge had suffered partial collapses in 1907 (August 29) and 1916 (September 11).

● 1919 - General strike against American railway in Puerto Rico.

● 1920 - Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty

● 1921 - Anti-authoritarian educator A.S. Neill establishes his school, Summerhill, with Lyme Regis, in England. Moves it three years later to Leiston (Suffolk). Proponent of children sharing in running schools, Neill told of this anarchist experiment in numerous books. The A.S. Neill Summerhill School is still in operation.

● 1921 - 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0

● 1922 - 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York NY

● 1923 - 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington DC)

● 1925 - George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F is premiered at Carnegie Hall.

● 1926 - Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)

● 1929 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.

● 1929 - Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak

● 1930 - Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)

● 1930 - Otto Ender forms Austrian government

● 1930 - Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London

● 1931 - Alka Seltzer goes on sale

● 1932 - 20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6

● 1932 - General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany

● 1933 - Joe Lilliard QBs Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946

● 1933 - Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Detroit Tigers for $100,000

● 1934 - KYW-AM in Chicago IL moves to Philadelphia PA

● 1934 - Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya

● 1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune founds National Council of Negro Women.

● 1936 - New York City radio station WQXR is officially founded.

● 1937 - The Dandy, the world's [citation needed] longest-running comic, is first published.

● 1938 - AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric

● 1939 - Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony, premieres

● 1941 - Hitler views Poltava Ukraine

● 1942 - Renewed mass arrest of Jews, Berlin.

● 1943 - 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)

● 1943 - Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins

● 1943 - Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres

● 1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists.

● 1944 - NFL Cardinals-Pittsburgh merger dissolves

● 1944 - British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece

● 1944 - Hungarian death march of Jews ends

● 1944 - Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe

● 1944 - US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hürtgenwald

● 1946 - Beginning of three-day general strike of more than 130,000 workers from 142 AFL unions in Alameda County (Oakland) CA, opposing police brutality and in support of striking Oakland department store workers.

● 1946 - 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)

● 1946 - US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain

● 1947 - The Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.

● 1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.

● 1948 - 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

● 1948 - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100

● 1948 - Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial

● 1949 - KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (CBS) begins

● 1950 - Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7)

● 1950 - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts

● 1950 - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast

● 1950 - Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers. Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) broke the record with 20 catches for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears on December 17, 2000.

● 1952 - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii

● 1952 - Marcos Perez Jiménez elected President of Venezuela

● 1953 - "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances

● 1953 - Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party

● 1953 - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th String Quartet

● 1954 - Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard" premieres

● 1954 - William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida" premieres in London

● 1955 - KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado LA (NBC) begins broadcasting

● 1956 - Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)

● 1956 - England & France pull troops out of Egypt

● 1956 - KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Fort Smith AR (CBS) 1st broadcast

● 1957 - 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)

● 1958 - Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses

● 1959 - State of emergency on Cyprus ends

● 1960 - Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot" premieres Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances

● 1961 - George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal

● 1961 - Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion

● 1961 - Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein

● 1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge

● 1962 - Pravda criticizes western art

● 1964 - Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at Sproul Hall in protest at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. A student strike the next day closes the school.

● 1964 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV

● 1964 - KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion NE (ABC) begins broadcasting

● 1965 - White jury convicts Ku Klux Klansmen; For the first time an all-white jury convicts members of the KKK over the murder of a white civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo.

● 1965 - USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon

● 1965 - The Beatles release the album Rubber Soul.

● 1965 - Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow

● 1967 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christian Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky. Washkansky lives 18 days.

● 1967 - The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).

● 1967 - Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)

● 1967 - Ex-President Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia

● 1968 - The rules committee of Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that in 1969 the pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits. This was done in order to "get more batting action."

● 1969 - Protesters destroy files at eight New York draft boards.

● 1969 - John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar

● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1970 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.

● 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: After Pakistan launches airstrikes on Indian airfields, India retaliates by invading East Pakistan, what would later become Bangladesh and independent of Pakistan.

● 1971 - The Montreaux Casino burns to the ground during a show by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. The incident is immortalized by Deep Purple in their song "Smoke on the Water."

● 1971 - Miss Teenage America Pageant

● 1971 - President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term

● 1972 - Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die

● 1973 - Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter sends back the first close-up images of an outer planet. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972.

● 1976 - Seven gunman spray bullets into Bob Marley's house in Kingston, Jamaica, where he and the Wailers are rehearsing. The shots hit Marley, his wife Rita, a friend, and Wailer manager Don Taylor. None are severely hurt. The shooters are never caught.

● 1976 - A 40-foot long inflatable pig being photographed for the cover Pink Floyd's "Animals" breaks loose from the guide wires and takes off from the Battersea Power Station outside London. It heads east, attaining a height of 18,000 feet before coming down in Kent.

● 1976 - In Chicago, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) was formally organized. The bulk of membership derived from former affiliates of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.

● 1976 - Patrick Hillery becomes the sixth President of Ireland.

● 1976 - The Sex Pistols begin their controversial UK tour, where they are banned from performing at many venues.

● 1978 - "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances

● 1978 - Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

● 1979 - Eleven Who fans are trampled to death in stampede to get into Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum. Festival seating itself is universally blamed for the tragedy, except by Walter Cronkite, who on tonight's "CBS Evening News" blames it on "a drug-crazed mob of kids."

● 1979 - Shadow Traffic begins broadcasts in the New York City metropolitan area.

● 1979 - Christie's auctions a thimble for a record $18,400

● 1979 - 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB)

● 1979 - Iran accepts constitution

● 1980 - New York Federal jury finds Representatives Frank Thompson D-NJ & John Murphy, D-NY, guilty on Abscam charges.

● 1981 - Beth Daniel/Tom Kite win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

● 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1982 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

● 1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark. The retired dentist had become the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart only one day before.

● 1982 - 1st New Jersey Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4

● 1982 - 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork AR (state record)

● 1982 - 77ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in December

● 1982 - Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez

● 1983 - 3-foot-high concrete barriers were installed at two White House entrances.

● 1983 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 performances

● 1983 - 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)

● 1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1984 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000-600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. U.S. blocks extradition of Union Carbide officials facing criminal prosecution in India.

● 1984 - Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin

● 1985 - 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB

● 1986 - Sri Lanka all out 55 vs West Indies in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs

● 1987 - U.S. President Reagan said there was a good chance of progress toward a treaty on long-range weapons with Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

● 1988 - Egg industry fury over salmonella claim; Claims by a British health minister that eggs contain salmonella are branded alarmist and incorrect.

● 1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners were slain in Natal Province in an attack blamed on security forces.

● 1988 - 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)

● 1988 - New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)

● 1989 - East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee resigned.

● 1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over).

● 1989 - Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

● 1990 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members aboard flight 1482.

● 1990 - Marine Jeff Paterson begins court martial after refusing to board a plane bound to Saudi Arabia as part of the buildup to the Gulf War.

● 1990 - Government of Pakistan formed National Highway Authority.

● 1990 - National League batting champion Willie McGee signs as a free agent with San Francisco Giants

● 1991 - Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion

● 1991 - After nearly five years, Shiite Muslim radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Allen Sutten.

● 1991 - White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns

● 1992 - Bomb explosions in Manchester; Emergency services are dealing with casualties at the scene of two bomb blasts in the centre of Manchester.

● 1992 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.

● 1992 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tons of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills 21.5 million gallons of crude oil.

● 1993 - Britain's Princess Diana announced she would be limiting her public appearances because she was tired of the media's intrusions into her life.

● 1993 - Angola's government and its rebel enemies agreed to a cease-fire in their 18-year war.

● 1994 - Rebel Serbs in Bosnia failed to keep a pledge to release hundreds of UN peacekeepers.

● 1994 - AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser died at the age 47. She and her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion.

● 1995 - Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan was arrested for his role in a 1979 coup.

● 1995 - "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances

● 1995 - "Holiday" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 49 performances

● 1995 - 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)

● 1995 - Beth Daniels/Davis Love III win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

● 1995 - Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket vs South Africa, a record

● 1995 - Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar

● 1995 - Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864

● 1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

● 1997 - Pierce Brosnan received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

● 1997 - South Korea received $55 billion from the International Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.

● 1997 - "1776" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC

● 1997 - Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo

● 1998 - In Manilla, 28 people were killed in an orphanage that caught fire. Most of the victims were children.

● 1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

● 1999 - Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

● 1999 - The World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded a four-day meeting in Seattle, WA, without setting an agenda for a new round of trade talks. The meeting was met with fierce protests by various groups.

● 2002 - Thousands of personnel files released under a court order showed that the Archdiocese of Boston went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, including clergy who allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns.

● 2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.

● 2006 - Explosive demolition of 337 metre tall chimney of former Westerholt Power Station in Germany. Chimney of Westerholt Power Station was the tallest chimney in Germany and the tallest free-standing structure ever demolished by explosives in a controlled way.

BIRTHS

● 1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)

● 1560 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627)

● 1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)

● 1684 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)

● 1755 - Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter (d. 1828)

● 1776 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)

● 1800 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849)

● 1826 - George McClellan, U.S. Civil War general (d. 1885)

● 1838 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)

● 1838 - Octavia Hill, British housing and open-space activist (d. 1912)

● 1842 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American flour miller and food products manufacturer (d. 1899)

● 1842 - Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911)

● 1857 - Carl Koller, Czech-born American eye surgeon (d. 1944)

● 1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)

● 1880 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)

● 1883 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)

● 1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)

● 1884 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)

● 1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)

● 1887 - Prince Naruhiko, Japanese prince (d. 1990)

● 1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who pioneered the field of child psychoanalysis (d. 1982)

● 1899 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (1960-64) (d. 1965)

● 1900 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)

● 1900 - Richard Kuhn, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

● 1903 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 1957)

● 1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)

● 1921 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano

● 1921 - RHD (Bob) Phillips, Canadian journalist and writer

● 1922 - Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer

● 1925 - Ferlin Husky, American singer

● 1928(27? NYT) - Andy Williams, American singer

● 1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director

● 1931 - Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author and singer

● 1931 - Jaye P. Morgan, American singer (''The Gong Show'')

● 1932 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer

● 1933 - Paul J. Crutzen, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut

● 1937 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver

● 1937 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili literateur

● 1941 - Mary Alice, Actress

● 1942 - Alice Schwarzer, German journalist

● 1946 - Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist

● 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, British singer (Black Sabbath)

● 1949 - Heather Menzies, Actress

● 1949 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (d. 1997)

● 1949 - Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship)

● 1951 - Ray Candy, American wrestler (d. 1994)

● 1951 - Riki Chōshū, Japanese professional wrestler

● 1951 - Rick Mears, American race car driver

● 1953 - Franz Klammer, Austrian skier

● 1954 - Paul Gregg, Country musician (Restless Heart)

● 1955 - Steven Culp, American actor

● 1955 - Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist

● 1959 - Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter

● 1960 - Daryl Hannah, American actress

● 1960 - Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player

● 1960 - Julianne Moore, American actress

● 1960 - Mike Ramsey, National Hockey League defenseman

● 1963 - Terri Schiavo

● 1965 - Steve Harris, American actor

● 1965 - Katarina Witt, German figure skater

● 1968 - Montell Jordan, R&B singer

● 1968 - Brendan Fraser, American actor

● 1969 - Royale Watkins, Actor-comedian

● 1970 - Christian Karembeu, French footballer

● 1971 - Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress

● 1971 - Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer

● 1972 - Bucky Lasek, professional skateboarder

● 1973 - Bruno Campos, Actor

● 1973 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress (''Charmed'')

● 1973 - Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler

● 1975 - Lauren Roman, Actress

● 1976 - Byron Kelleher, New Zealand and Waikato Rugby Player

● 1977 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper

● 1978 - Trina, American rapper

● 1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer

● 1979 - Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor

● 1980 - Anna Chlumsky, American actress (''My Girl'' movies)

● 1980 - Jenna Dewan, American actress

● 1981 - Brian Bonsall, Actor

● 1981 - David Villa, Spanish footballer

● 1982 - Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer

● 1983 - Sherri DuPree, American vocalist

● 1985 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress

● 1985 - Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player

● 1987 - Michael Angarano, American actor

● 2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

DEATHS

● 1154 - Pope Anastasius IV

● 1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist

● 1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)

● 1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)

● 1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)

● 1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)

● 1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)

● 1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)

● 1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)

● 1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)

● 1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)

● 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850)

● 1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)

● 1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science (b. 1821)

● 1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)

● 1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)

● 1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)

● 1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)

● 1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)

● 1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)

● 1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)

● 1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)

● 1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)

● 1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1905)

● 1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)

● 1981 - Walter Knott, farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)

● 1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)

● 1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)

● 1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)

● 1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)

● 1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)

● 1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress/comedian (b. 1942)

● 1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)

● 2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)

● 2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)

● 2003 - David Hemmings, British actor (b. 1941)

● 2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)

● 2005 - Herb Moford, baseball player (b. 1928)

● 2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. John of Damascus
● St. Abbo
● St. Agricola
● St. Attalia
● St. Birinus
● St. Cassian of Tangier, patron of stenographers
● Bl. Edward Coleman
● St. Eloque
● St. Lucius
● St. Mirocles

● Traditional Catholic Calendar and Lutheran:
● St. Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 21 (Civil Date: December 3)
● Nativity Fast.
● The Entry Of The Most Holy Theotokos Into The Temple
● St. Yaropolk Peter, prince of Vladimir in Volhynia.
● St. Columban of Ireland, abbot and founder of Luxeuil Abbey in France.

● International Day of Disabled Persons

● International Day of the Basque language

● Illinois : Admission Day (1818)

● Philatelists : Sir Rowland Hill Day (1795/1840)

● World : Heart Transplant Day (1967)


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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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