This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 29

Charles Goodyear
invented vulcanized rubber (1800)

William Gladstone
statesman (1809)

Pablo Casals
virtuoso cellist (1876)

William "Billy" Mitchell
aviator, soldier (1879)

Vera Brittain
novelist, poet (1893)

Mary Tyler Moore
actress (1936)

Jon Voight
actor, director, writer (1938)

Patricia Clarkson
actor (1959)

Jude Law
actor (1972)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 30

Titus
emperor (39)

John Milne
seismologist (1850)

Alfred E. Smith
political leader (1873)

Paul Bowles
writer and composer (1910)

Jack Lord
actor (1920)

Bo Diddley
singer, guitarist, and songwriter (1928)

Sandy Koufax
baseball player (1935)

Jeff Lynne
singer and songwriter, and music producer
(1947)

Tracey Ullman
comedian, actor, singer (1959)

Bennett Miller
filmmaker (1966)

Tiger Woods
golfer (1975)

Eliza Dushku
actor (1980)

Ryan Sheckler
skateboarder (1989)

 

[Dinesh jain]

December 31

1879
Thomas Edison gave the first public
demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.

1938
The first breath test for drivers, " drunkometer ,"
was introduced in Indianapolis.

1946
President Truman officially proclaimed the end
of hostilities in World War II .

1961
The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more
than 12 billion in foreign aid.

1963
Central African Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland was formally dissolved.

1964
The al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launched
their first terrorist raid on Israel .

1987
Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's
president.

This Day in History: December 31 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 31

Jacques Cartier
explorer (1491)

Charles Cornwallis
general (1738)

Elizabeth Arden
beautician, business executive (1878)

George C. Marshall
general and cabinet member (1880)

Simon Wiesenthal
writer, activist (1908)

Anthony Hopkins
actor (1937)

Ben Kingsley
actor (1943)

John Denver
entertainer (1943)

Connie Willis
writer (1945)

Gong Li
actor (1965)

December 31 Birthdays: Henri Matisse | Infoplease.com

 

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January 1

1863
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Proclamation.

1908
The ball signifying the New Year was dropped for
the first time at Times Square in New York City.

1914
The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa
Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg,
Florida.

1959
Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over
Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime.

1975
John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John
Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of
justice in the Watergate affair.

1993
Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech
Republic and Slovakia.

1994
The North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) went into effect.

2002
Euro coins and notes went into circulation in
twelve European nations.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 1

Lorenzo de' Medici
merchant prince (1449)

Huldreich Zwingli
Protestant reformer (1484)

Anthony Wayne
general (1745)

Betsy Ross
seamstress (1752)

Pierre de Coubertin
father of the Modern Olympic Games (1863)

Alfred Stieglitz
photographer (1864)

J. Edgar Hoover
director of FBI (1895)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 2

1492
Muhammad XI , the leader of the last Arab
stronghold in Spain , surrendered to King
Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.

1788
Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th
state.

1839
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first
photograph of the Moon.

1905
The Russo-Japanese war ended.

1923
The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla. ,
was burned by a white mob.

1935
The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the
kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.

1959
The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also
to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched
by the USSR .

1994
Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York
City's mayor.
This Day in History: January 2 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 2

James Wolfe
British general (1727)

Rudolf Clausius
mathematical physicist (1822)

Henry Flagler
financier (1830)

Ernst Barlach
expressionist sculptor, graphic artist (1870)

Saint Theresa
Carmelite nun (1873)

Michael Tippett
composer (1905)

Dennis Hastert
congressman (1942)

Cuba Gooding, Jr.
actor (1968)

Taye Diggs
actor (1972)

January 2 Birthdays: Isaac Asimov | Infoplease.com

 

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January 3

1521
Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X .

1777
George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces
at the Battle of Princeton.

1833
Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands.

1870
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.

1920
The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and
so began the "curse of the Bambino" that
haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.

1947
Congressional proceedings were televised for the
first time.

1958
Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole
overland.

1959
Alaska became the 49th state in the United
States.

1962
Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.

1967
Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's
assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald , died.

1987
Aretha Franklin became the first woman to be
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

1990
Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.

This Day in History: January 3 | Infoplease.com