December 7......

December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 36 - -BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo

● 43 - -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head & right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers

● 185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)

● 283 - St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 374 - Early Church Father, Ambrose, 34, was consecrated Bishop of Milan, Italy. His influential works on theology and ethics made Ambrose (along with Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great) one of the "four doctors" of the Western (Latin) Church.

● 430 - At the Synod of Rome, Cyril of Alexandria, 54, formally condemned the doctrine of the Antiochene monk Nestorius, who had claimed that there were two separate Persons in the Incarnate Christ (one Divine, the other Human).

● 1354 - Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty

● 1431 - In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France.

● 1646 - Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry

● 1661 - Under pressure from the British Parliament, the American Colony of Massachusetts suspended its Corporal Punishment Act of 1656, which had imposed harsh penalties on Quakers and other religious Nonconformists.

● 1682 - "Great Law" abolishes war in colony of Pennsylvania. Except, of course, against Indians.

● 1724 - Thorn Blood tribunal (de:Thorner Blutgericht), execution of protestant who attacked and demolished Jesuit Church by Poland in Toruń(Thorn)

● 1732 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) was opened.

● 1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia

● 1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.

● 1783 - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London

● 1783 - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British premier

● 1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.

● 1792 - The Mississauga tribe cedes a portion of South Ontario, bordering Lake Erie, for 1,180 British pounds.

● 1796 - Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.

● 1808 - James Madison elected US President, George Clinton Vice-President

● 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad after having been convicted of treason for his support of Napoleon I.

● 1822 - Birth of Emile Digeon, French socialist and anarchist journalist.

● 1835 - German railway Neurenberg-Fürth opens

● 1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.

● 1842 - New York Philharmonic's 1st concert

● 1861 - Birth of Han Ryner, Nemours, Algeria. Teacher,anti-clerical, pacifist, anarchist, philosopher.

● 1862 - Battle of Hartsville TN

● 1862 - Battle of Prairie Grove AR

● 1864 - Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia

● 1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin MO, kills 1

● 1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 1/2 year world oceanographic cruise

● 1873 - Willa Cather, the American novelist famous for her descriptions of life on the American frontier including strong pioneer women, was born.

● 1874 - Seventy African Americans killed after protesting the ejection of a carpetbag sheriff, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

● 1875 - Natives Sons of the West organized

● 1876 - New York Mutuals & Philadelphia A's expelled from National League for not completing schedule

● 1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone

● 1885 - 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes

● 1891 - 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session

● 1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies

● 1896 - Cuban revolutionary Antonio Maceo killed.

● 1905 - General uprising begins, Moscow (fails 23 days later, leaving over 1,000 dead.) Over 150,000 workers in a general strike. By the 9th, workers erect barricades throughout the city and fight against the soldiers.

● 1907 - At London's National Sporting Club, Eugene Corri became the first referee to officiate from inside a boxing ring.

● 1909 - Leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)

● 1911 - National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver & Victoria

● 1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt

● 1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM

● 1916 - British government of David Lloyd George forms

● 1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria-Hungary Empire during World War I

● 1918 - One hundred thousand textile workers strike in Lancashire, England.

● 1920 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany

● 1924 - German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis & Communists lose)

● 1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies.

● 1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.

● 1929 - Birth of linguist and radical political analyst Noam Chomsky.

● 1931 - One thousand national hunger marches arrive in Washington, D.C.

● 1932 - 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in New York

● 1934 - Wiley Post discovers the jet stream

● 1937 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work

● 1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams

● 1939 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

● 1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under General O'Connor

● 1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed. Despite an official warning by U.S. officials, on November 27, that an attack might be imminent. (a date that will live in infamy).

● 1941 - World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.

● 1941 - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)

● 1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon

● 1941 - Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu

● 1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends

● 1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps

● 1943 - Cairo: President Roosevelt travels back to the US

● 1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago

● 1944 - General Radescu forms Romanian government

● 1945 - Microwave oven patented

● 1946 - Fire guts the supposedly "fireproof" 15-story Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, taking 119 lives. It was America's worst hotel fire disaster at the time. The hotel founder, W. Frank Winecoff, was also killed in the fire.

● 1949 - Chinese Civil War : The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.

● 1949 - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions founded, London.

● 1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires

● 1954 - Japanese government of Joshida resigns

● 1955 - Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party and is made an Earl hours later by the Queen.

● 1958 - Rómulo Bétancourt elected President of Venezuela

● 1960 - Ivory Coast claims independence from France

● 1961 - Military police hold civilians at Peterson Field, Colorado at gunpoint as Tibetan commandos, who'd been secretly trained by the CIA, are smuggled aboard a C-124 Globemaster.

● 1962 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.

● 1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1963 - Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast as CBS re-showed a touchdown run during the Army-Navy football game.

● 1964 - Mario Savio, leader of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, arrested. Univ. of California-Berkeley administration makes a presentation at the Greek Theatre to 18,000 students; followed by strike by 9,000 of the 27,000 students, and a faculty resolution (824 to 115) supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement.

● 1964 - George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs

● 1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I formally reconciled themselves by reversing a mutual excommunication of each other, dating back (over 900 years!) to July 1054.

● 1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.

● 1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather borrowed in 1823 to the University of Cincinatti; the $22,646 fine went unpaid

● 1970 - Rube Goldberg dies, New York City. Not entirely clear how his coffin was lowered into the ground.

● 1970 - West Germany & Poland normalize relations

● 1970 - The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise are held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.

● 1971 - Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's assets.

● 1971 - Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

● 1972 - The National Organization of Women (NOW) issues 78-page booklet, "Ted & Jane as Victims." Written to criticize sexism in elementary school textbooks.

● 1972 - Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant. The man was then shot and killed by her bodyguards.

● 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.

● 1973 - In Atlanta, the Presbyterian Church in America formally instituted its missionary organization, PCA Mission to the World. It was an outgrowth of the newly established denomination.

● 1974 - Archbishop and President Makarios returned to Cyprus after five months in exile.

● 1975 - In his campaign to free boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter from prison, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue does a show at the Correctional Institution For Women at Clinton, NJ, where Carter was temporarily imprisoned.

● 1975 - With U.S. and British assistance, Indonesia invades and annexes East Timor, overthrowing the popularly elected government. The resulting decades of occupation resulted in the genocide of an estimated one-third of the East Timorese population.

● 1976 - UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for 2nd 5 year term

● 1979 - Lord Soames to govern Rhodesia; Lord Soames is named transitional governor of Rhodesia to oversee its progress into legal independence.

● 1980 - General Antonio Ramlho Eanes was reelected president of Portugal. His right-wing opposition was thrown into disarray by the death of Premier Francisco Sa Carneiro in a plane crash.

● 1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO

● 1982 - Denmark: Parliament votes to suspend NATO payments for Pershing and cruise missiles.

● 1982 - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

● 1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX.

● 1983 - Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff. The collision resulted in the death of all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 on the Iberia jet.

● 1983 - Tomcat halts steeplejack; A cat has climbed to a height of 160ft up an industrial chimney holding up the work of chief chimney-toppler Fred Dibnah.

● 1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1985 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.

● 1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

● 1986 - President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haïti

● 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

● 1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.

● 1987 - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank

● 1988 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the unilateral reduction of the number of Soviet military troops by half a million (10%) during speech at the UN.

● 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall Street crowds upon arrival in NYC

● 1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.

● 1988 - Earthquake in Armenia - 6.9 on the Richter scale (>100,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)

● 1989 - In their third and final fight, Sugar Ray Leonard retains the WBC Super Middleweight Championship of the World, defeating Roberto Duran.

● 1989 - East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the plan for free elections and a revised constitution.

● 1990 - Iraqi parliament endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages

● 1990 - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement

● 1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law which, required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their pregnancies.

● 1992 - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)

● 1993 - Four Plowshares activists arrested for disarming an F-15E Strike Eagle nuclear war jet at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina.

● 1993 - In South Africa, the Transitional Executive Council is established.

● 1993 - Activists lose battle over chestnut tree; Protesters lose a 20-year fight to save a 250-year-old chestnut tree in east London, making way for a motorway extension.

● 1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.

● 1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S. government had conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in secret at its Nevada test site.

● 1993 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggested that the U.S. government study the impact of drug legalization.

● 1993 - Henri Konan Bédié names himself President of Ivory coast

● 1993 - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery

● 1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide

● 1995 - Up to 1.75 million striking French workers demonstrate in marches shutting down the country as part of an escalating series of general strikes protesting government cutbacks and global exploitation of workers.

● 1995 - NBA settles strike of referees, referees to return on December 12

● 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

● 1995 - A 746-pound probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.

● 1995 - 20 people are killed in the Port-au-Prince air disaster

● 1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes, STS 80 (Columbia 21).

● 1997 - Eighteen Australian activists and one East Timorese refugee arrested inside Canungra Land Warfare Centre, south of Brisbane, Australia, in a protest on the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Canungra serves as a training center for Indonesian and other Southeast Asian militaries.

● 1998 - The U.N. evacuated 14 peacekeepers that were trapped by fighting between army and rebel forces in central Angola.

● 1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.

● 1999 - A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a former convict in the 1995 disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

● 2001 - Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.

● 2002 - Iraq denied it had weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the United Nations.

● 2002 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison each.

● 2002 - In Mymensingh, Bangladesh, four movies theaters were bombed within 30 minutes of each other. At least 15 people were killed and over 200 were injured.

● 2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

● 2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.

● 2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.

● 2004 - John Kufuor is re-elected as President of Ghana.

● 2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

● 2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London seriously damaging around 150 properties.

BIRTHS

● 521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)

● 1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)

● 1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)

● 1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1680)

● 1637 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)

● 1670 - John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)

● 1764 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)

● 1784 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet (d. 1842)

● 1801 - Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)

● 1810 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)

● 1810 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)

● 1823 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891)

● 1847 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)

● 1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14) (d. 1947)

● 1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)

● 1863 - Richard W. Sears, American merchant and founder of Sears, Roebuck retail company (d. 1914)

● 1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)

● 1879 - Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972)

● 1887 - Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964)

● 1888 - Heywood Broun, American journalist (d. 1939)

● 1888 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957)

● 1888 - Hamilton Fish III, American politician (d. 1991)

● 1903 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)

● 1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)

● 1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973)

● 1907 - Fred Rose, Canadian communist politician (d. 1983)

● 1910 - Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)

● 1912 - Daniel Jones, British composer (d. 1993)

● 1915 - Eli Wallach, American actor

● 1916 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)

● 1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cylist

● 1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal

● 1924 - Bent Fabric, Danish pop pianist and composer

● 1927 - Helen Watts, British contralto

● 1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer

● 1930 - Hal Smith, American baseball player

● 1931 - Bobby Osborne, Bluegrass singer

● 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress

● 1937 - Thad Cochran, U.S. senator, R-Miss.

● 1940 - Gerry Cheevers, National Hockey League goaltender and Hall of Fame member

● 1940 - Carole Simpson, Broadcast journalist

● 1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1981)

● 1942 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006)

● 1942 - Alex Johnson, American baseball player

● 1943 - Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department

● 1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist

● 1944 - Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker

● 1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer

● 1947 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1947 - Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1947 - Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer

● 1948 - Gary Morris, American singer and actor

● 1948 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist

● 1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor

● 1952 - Susan Collins, U.S. senator, R-Maine

● 1954 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber

● 1954 - Mike Nolan, Irish singer (Bucks Fizz)

● 1955 - Priscilla Barnes, American actress

● 1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1957 - Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator

● 1958 - Tim Butler, British musician (Psychedelic Furs)

● 1958 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)

● 1965 - Jeffrey Wright, American actor

● 1966 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor

● 1967 - Tino Martinez, American baseball player

● 1968 - Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player

● 1970 - Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and fashion model

● 1971 - Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player

● 1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress

● 1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier

● 1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler

● 1973 - Damien Rice, Irish musician

● 1973 - Terrell Owens, American football player

● 1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer (All Saints)

● 1975 - Jamie Clapham, British footballer

● 1976 - Alan Faneca, American football player

● 1976 - Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1977 - Eric Chavez, Baseball player

● 1977 - Dominic Howard, British drummer (Muse)

● 1978 - Shiri Appleby, American actress

● 1979 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress

● 1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress

● 1980 - John Terry, English footballer

● 1984 - Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver

● 1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player

● 1986 - Megan Kanka, American rape and murder victim, basis of Megan's Law (d. 1994)

● 1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor

● 1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress

● 1992 - Barny Barnsworthe, Australian Pharthole

● 2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

DEATHS

● 43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)

● 283 - Pope Eutychian

● 1254 - Pope Innocent IV

● 1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)

● 1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)

● 1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist

● 1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer

● 1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)

● 1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)

● 1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)

● 1683 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)

● 1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)

● 1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)

● 1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral

● 1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)

● 1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769)

● 1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer (b. 1745)

● 1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)

● 1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (Suez Canal) (b. 1805)

● 1902 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840)

● 1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)

● 1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)

● 1941 - Isaac C. Kidd, American rear admiral (b. 1884)

● 1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)

● 1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)

● 1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)

● 1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)

● 1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)

● 1969 - Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)

● 1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)

● 1975 - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)

● 1977 - Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (b. 1906)

● 1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)

● 1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock lengend (b. 1958)

● 1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)

● 1985 - Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895)

● 1985 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)

● 1989 - William Calhoun, Professional wrestler (b. 1934)

● 1990 - Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)

● 1990 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec stage, television and film actor (b. 1923)

● 1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904)

● 1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)

● 1993 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

● 1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)

● 1998 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)

● 2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)

● 2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)

● 2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)

● 2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)

● 2003 - Raúl Vale, Venezuelan entertainer (b. 1944)

● 2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)

● 2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)

● 2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926)

● 2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. ca. 1910)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Ambrose, governor/bishop of Milan
● St. Victor of Piacenza
● St. Servus
● St. Anianas
● St. Maria Giuseppe Rossello, foundress
● St. Polycarp and Theodore

● Anglican, Lutheran:
● St. Ambrose, governor/bishop of Milan

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 25 (Civil Date: December 7)
● Nativity Fast.
● Apodosis of the Entry into the Temple
● Hieromartyr Clement, pope of Rome
● Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria.
● St. Peter Galata of Syria.
● St. Clement of Ochrida.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Porphyrius the soldier and 200 with him.
● Martyr Mercurius.

● US - Pearl Harbor Day (1941)

● International Civil Aviation Day

● Cuba : Day of National Mourning

● Delaware : Ratification Day (1787)

● Ivory Coast : National Day (1960)


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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