December 9......

December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters in Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.

● 656 - Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion

● 1212 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king

● 1315 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)

● 1425 - Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven

● 1531 - First supposed apparition of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Guadalupe) to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on Tepeyac Hill

● 1570 - Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein

● 1594 - Gustavus II of Sweden was born.

● 1608 - English poet John Milton was born in London.

● 1625 - The Treaty of the Hague was signed by England and the Netherlands. The agreement was to subsidize Christian IV of Denmark in his campaign in Germany.

● 1640 - Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Massachusetts colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin

● 1658 - Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India

● 1688 - King James II's wife & son flee England for France

● 1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia

● 1747 - England & Netherlands sign military treaty

● 1762 - British parliament accept Treaty of Paris

● 1783 - The first executions at English Newgate Prison took place.

● 1793 - "The American Minerva" was published for the first time. It was the first daily newspaper in New York City and was founded by Noah Webster.

● 1803 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.

● 1805 - Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

● 1824 - Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian nationalists led by Antonio José de Sucre defeat Spanish colonial forces and secure the independence of Peru.

● 1835 - The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.

● 1840 - Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone, 27, set sail on his first journey to Africa. (He had been accepted to serve under the London Missionary Society two years earlier.)

● 1848 - American author and creator of "Uncle Remus and Brier Rabbit," Joel Chandler Harris was born.

● 1851 - The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

● 1854 - Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade" published

● 1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.

● 1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.

● 1861 - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)

● 1863 - Birth of G. Campbell Morgan, English congregational clergyman and Bible expositor. Morgan authored more than 60 Bible commentaries and books of sermons many still be in print.

● 1868 - 1st British government of Gladstone forms

● 1869 - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia

● 1870 - The Society of Biblical Archaeology was founded in London "for the investigation of the archaeology, history, arts, and chronology of ancient and modern...biblical lands...."

● 1872 - In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.

● 1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.

● 1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500

● 1879 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Ore Milling Company.

● 1883 - New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)

● 1884 - Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate

● 1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his self-designed computing device at the United States War Department.

● 1889 - President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium

● 1893 - France: Auguste Vaillant throws small bomb into Chamber of Deputies. A symbolic gesture, meant to wound rather than kill, Vaillant is condemned to death. The deputies use the event to suppress the anarchist press.

● 1894 - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium

● 1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.

● 1900 - Dutch President Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession

● 1902 - American League announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in New York

● 1903 - Norwegian parliament vote unanimously for female suffrage

● 1905 - Birth of Dalton Trumbo, writer ("Johnny Got His Gun"), film director, one of the blacklisted "Hollywood Ten." He was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months in prison. After his blacklisting, he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms.

● 1905 - An Act for the Separation of Church and State became law in France, rescinding Napoleon's Concordat of 1801. The new law guaranteed freedom of conscience, but also severed all religious groups from any further economic support by the national government.

● 1906 - New York American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo

● 1907 - Christmas Seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Del., post office. The proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.

● 1907 - Gustav Mahler departs Vienna

● 1909 - Great Lakota leader Red Cloud dies, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

● 1909 - 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island NY)

● 1910 - French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir

● 1913 - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League

● 1913 - Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris

● 1914 - The Edison Phonograph Works was destroyed by fire.

● 1917 - Turkish troops surrendered Jerusalem to British troops led by Viscount Allenby.

● 1918 - French troops occupies Mainz

● 1922 - Birth of African American comedian and actor Redd Foxx.

● 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish President

● 1924 - Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed

● 1924 - Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian President

● 1925 - American League extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000

● 1926 - The United States Golf Association legalized the use of steel-shafted golf clubs.

● 1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

● 1931 - Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & National League continues to prohibit uniform numbers

● 1931 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol

● 1933 - Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard

● 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing - Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.

● 1939 - Russian air raid on Helsinki

● 1940 - Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius

● 1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

● 1940 - The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.

● 1941 - World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.

● 1941 - World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attack Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.

● 1941 - 300 Montgomery, San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ

● 1941 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy

● 1941 - Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"

● 1941 - Hitler orders US ships torpedoed

● 1942 - The Aram Khachaturian ballet "Gayane" was first performed by the Kirov Ballet.

● 1945 - General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.

● 1946 - The "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.

● 1948 - UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

● 1949 - Representative J. Parnell Thomas, former chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), sentenced to 6 to 18 months in federal prison for "padding" Congressional payrolls and using the money himself.

● 1949 - NFL merges Cleveland Browns, San Francisco '49ers & Baltimore Colts from AAFC

● 1949 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty

● 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

● 1951 - Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

● 1952 - Four white resisters arrested for using "non-European" booths in post office, Cape Town, South Africa.

● 1952 - London fog clears after days of chaos; The sunshine returns following four days of thick fog that brought the capital to a standstill.

● 1953 - Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company

● 1954 - Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honored guest of Swedish Royal Music Academy

● 1955 - Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Carl Olson and regained his world middleweight boxing title.

● 1957 - British Post Office issues Christmas warning; The Post Master General kicks off a campaign urging the public to send their Christmas cards in good time.

● 1957 - 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel

● 1958 - Red Scare: Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society

● 1960 - Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled a new computer, known as "Univac 1107."

● 1960 - The first episode of ITV soap-opera Coronation Street is aired.

● 1961 - Committee of 100, including Bertrand Russell, hold demonstrations at various U.S. air and nuclear bases in Britain.

● 1961 - The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

● 1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania

● 1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia," by David Lean had its world premiere in London.

● 1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth

● 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped

● 1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Britain

● 1965 - Nikolai V. Podgorny replaced Anastas I. Mikoyan as president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

● 1965 - Kecksburg UFO incident

● 1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres

● 1965 - Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles

● 1966 - Seven hundred Tuskegee (Alabama) Institute students riot after acquittal of a white for killing a black student.

● 1967 - Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace

● 1967 - Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House

● 1967 - Nicolae Ceausescu becomes President (dictator) of Romania

● 1968 - Underground blast in Nevada breaks through ground, releasing fallout and violating Test Ban Treaty.

● 1968 - Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford

● 1969 - Groundbreaking of Washington, D.C.'s Metrorail system.

● 1970 - Dutch Antilles: Government of Petronia falls

● 1971 - Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to the Supreme Court

● 1973 - "Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School" first aired over CBS television. This religious series was broadcast on Sunday mornings until August 1977.

● 1973 - Sunningdale Agreement signed; Tripartite talks on Northern Ireland end in an historic agreement to set up a Council of Ireland.

● 1974 - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail

● 1974 - Dow Jones index hits 570.01

● 1975 - U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Disabled.

● 1975 - U.S. President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan authorization to prevent New York City from having to default.

● 1975 - Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize

● 1977 - Kermit Washington of the Los Angeles Lakers punches Rudy Tomjanovich of the Houston Rockets. The punch nearly kills Tomjanovich and leads to major rules changes in the National Basketball Association.

● 1978 - The first game of the Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) was played between the Chicago Hustle and the Milwaukee Does.

● 1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

● 1980 - 61ºF in Boston at 1 AM

● 1981 - Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner is shot to death in the early morning hours; black Philadelphia journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal is arrested and charged with the murder.

● 1981 - Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders

● 1982 - Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce

● 1983 - Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it"

● 1983 - NATO foreign ministers called on the Soviet Union to join in a "comprehensive political dialogue" to ease tensions in the world.

● 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1984 - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends

● 1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1984 - Iranian security men seized control of the plane ending a five-day hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner, which was parked at the Tehran airport.

● 1985 - In Argentina, five former military junta members received sentences in prison for their roles in the "dirty war" in which nearly 9,000 people had "disappeared."

● 1985 - Phoenix AZ, gets 3" of snow

● 1987 - Gatting row halts play in Pakistan; The England cricket tour hangs in the balance as a row erupts between England captain Mike Gatting and the umpire Shakoor Rana.

● 1987 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank

● 1987 - In the Gaza Strip, an Israeli patrol attacked the Jabliya refugee camp.

● 1988 - New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with Madison Square Garden for $500 million

● 1990 - Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential election in the country's history by a landslide.

● 1990 - Slobodan Milosovic was elected president in Serbia's first free elections in 50 years.

● 1990 - The first American hostages to be released by Iraq began arriving in the U.S.

● 1991 - Maurice Joyeux, outstanding figure of French anarchism, dies. In and out of prison for his activities, including the Committee of the Unemployed, l'Union Anarchiste, the occupations of factories, prison revolt.

● 1991 - European Community leaders agreed to begin using a single currency in 1999.

● 1992 - Clair George, former CIA spy chief, was convicted of lying to the U.S. Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. U.S. President George Bush later pardoned George.

● 1992 - Prince Charles & Princess Diana separation announced by British PM, John Major

● 1992 - Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks

● 1992 - U.S. Marines wade ashore in Somalia at 2 A.M. (on live evening network television in the U.S.) in "Operation Restore Hope." U.S. forces would retreat in disarray and disgrace within the year.

● 1992 - Protesters evicted from UK's first anti-road camp at Twyford Down.

● 1993 - The U.S. Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II missile silos that were marked for elimination under an arms control treaty.

● 1993 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.

● 1993 - At Princeton University in New Jersey, scientists produced a controlled fusion reaction equivalent to 3 million watts.

● 1993 - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns

● 1994 - 5 meter meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth

● 1994 - Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.

● 1994 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after her masturbation comments are criticized by jerkoffs.

● 1995 - Four activists are arrested for leafletting, holding a banner and "ruining peoples' day" at the public commissioning ceremony for a new aircraft carrier. Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia.

● 1995 - Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., was chosen to head the NAACP.

● 1996 - Guilty verdict on school machete attacker; A man who attacked three children and four women with a machete is found guilty of attempted murder.

● 1996 - UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali approved a deal allowing Iraq to resume its exports of oil and easing the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq in 1990.

● 1999 - The U.S. announced that it was expelling a Russian diplomat that had been caught gathering information with an eavesdropping device at the U.S. State Department.

● 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt in the Florida presidential vote count.

● 2000 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced he would resign and call a special election.

● 2002 - President George W. Bush tapped railroad executive John W. Snow to be his new Treasury secretary, three days after firing Paul O'Neill.

● 2002 - United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing $4 billion in the previous two years. It was the sixth largest bankruptcy filing.

● 2003 - In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-portait and a depiction of the artist's mother, were valued around $518,000.

● 2003 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

● 2003 - Former Sen. Paul Simon died in Springfield, Ill., at age 75.

● 2004 - Canada's Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was constitutional.

● 2006 - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug addict rehabitational center.

● 2006 - Shuttle Discovery launches on the STS-116 mission at 8:45 P.M., the first night launch in 4 years (STS-113 being the last).

BIRTHS

● 1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)

● 1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)

● 1561 - Sir Edwin Sandys, British-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)

● 1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)

● 1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)

● 1594 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)

● 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)

● 1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)

● 1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)

● 1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)

● 1742 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (d. 1786)

● 1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)

● 1806 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)

● 1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)

● 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)

● 1847 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. 1912)

● 1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)

● 1868 - Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)

● 1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)

● 1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)

● 1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)

● 1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)

● 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)

● 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish Olympic gold medalist (d. 1966)

● 1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)

● 1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)

● 1897 - Hermione Gingold, British actress (d. 1987)

● 1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)

● 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)

● 1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)

● 1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)

● 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)

● 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)

● 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)

● 1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer and admiral (d. 1992)

● 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)

● 1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)

● 1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1977-896 (d. 1994)

● 1914 - Frances Reid, American Actress

● 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)

● 1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor

● 1917 - James Rainwater, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

● 1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author

● 1919 - William Lipscomb, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic

● 1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)

● 1925 - Dina Merrill, American actress

● 1926 - Henry Way Kendall, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

● 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)

● 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer

● 1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor (''Eight is Enough'')

● 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)

● 1929 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia

● 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor

● 1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor

● 1931 - William Reynolds, American actor

● 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)

● 1934 - Judi Dench British actress

● 1934 - Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998)

● 1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)

● 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1938 - David Houston, American country music singer (d. 1993)

● 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor

● 1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician

● 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1943 - Pit Martin, National Hockey League player

● 1945 - Michael Nouri, Actor

● 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician

● 1947 - Tom Daschle, Former U.S. senator, D-S.D.

● 1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician

● 1949 - Tom Kite, American golfer

● 1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born British singer

● 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor (Worf on Star Trek shows)

● 1952 - Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician

● 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor

● 1953 - Monique Miller, French Canadian actress

● 1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian

● 1956 - Sylvia, Country singer

● 1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor

● 1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)

● 1960 - Juan Samuel, Major League Baseball Player

● 1961 - Joe Lando, Actor

● 1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor

● 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress

● 1963 - Masako, Crown princess of Japan

● 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)

● 1965 - Jerry Hughes, Country musician (Yankee Grey)

● 1966 - Toby Huss, American actor

● 1967 - Thomas Flowers, Rock musician (Oleander)

● 1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist

● 1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer

● 1968 - Kurt Angle, American wrestler

● 1968 - Dave Harold, British snooker player

● 1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)

● 1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)

● 1969 - Allison Smith, Actress

● 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer

● 1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor

● 1970 - David Kersh, Country singer

● 1971 - Petr Nedved, National Hockey League player

● 1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)

● 1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress

● 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player

● 1974 - Canibus, Rapper

● 1976 - Eric Zamora, Saxophonist (Save Ferris)

● 1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player

● 1977 - Imogen Heap, British singer and songwriter

● 1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor (Desperate Housewives)

● 1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer

● 1980 - Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist

● 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress

● 1982 - Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist

● 1983 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer

● 1990 - LaFee, German Singer

● 1991 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian Prince

DEATHS

● 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland

● 1292 - Sheikh Saadi, Persian sufi poet

● 1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)

● 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)

● 1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)

● 1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)

● 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)

● 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)

● 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)

● 1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)

● 1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)

● 1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist

● 1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)

● 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)

● 1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)

● 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)

● 1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757)

● 1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)

● 1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)

● 1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader

● 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)

● 1916 - Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)

● 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. 1879)

● 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

● 1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)

● 1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)

● 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887)

● 1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball commissioner (b. 1884)

● 1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan

● 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

● 1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)

● 1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)

● 1975 - William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)

● 1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (b. 1895)

● 1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)

● 1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)

● 1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)

● 1990 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born professional wrestler and actor (b. 1907)

● 1992 - Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1922)

● 1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b. 1926)

● 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)

● 1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)

● 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)

● 1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (b. 1913)

● 2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)

● 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)

● 2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)

● 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)

● 2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)

● 2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Leocadia
● St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
● St. Peter Fourier, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame
● St. Balda
● St. Budoc
● St. Valeria
● St. Cyprian
● St. Francis Fasani
● St. Gorgonia
● St. John Roberts
● St. Julian of Apamea
● St. Restitutus
● Marytrs of Samosata
● Marytrs of Saragossa
● St. Peter

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 27 (Civil Date: December 9)
● Nativity Fast.
● Great Martyr James the Persian
● St. Palladius of Thessalonica.
● St. James, Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov.
● St. Romanus the Wonderworker of Cilicia.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Vsevolod (Gabriel) of Pskov.
● St. Pinuphrius of Egypt.
● St. Nathaniel of Nitria.
● St. Diodorus, abbot of Yuriev Monastery (Solovki).
● Seventeen Holy Fathers Martyred In India
● Commemoration of the miracle of the Weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Sign" at Novgorod in 1170.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Sign": Kursk Root
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Of Abalek.

● Christian : Commemoration of the Conception of Anne, mother of Mary

● Scandinavia (specifically Sweden): Anna's Day. Recognizes everyone named Anna, and marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve.

● Tanzania - Independence Day (of Tanganyika from Britain, 1961)


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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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