A date that will live in infamy . . . Happy Birthday Kat! - TopicsExpress



          

A date that will live in infamy . . . Happy Birthday Kat! Happy Birthday Wiley! December 7: 9000 die when the Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall; in 1732 the Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England; in 1776 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general; in 1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution; in 1869 Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri; in 1917 the United States declares war on Austria-Hungary; in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; in 1946 a fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history; in 1972 the Apollo 17 mission is launched; in 1993 passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others in the Long Island Railroad Massacre in New York; in 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. Birthdays: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (husband of Mary, Queen of Scots - 1545); actor Eli Wallach (1915); actor Ted Knight (1923); philosopher Noam Chomsky (1928); actress Ellen Burstyn (1932); singer/guitarist Harry Chapin (1942); baseball player Johnny Bench (1947); singer/guitarist Tom Waits (1949); basketball player Larry Bird (1956); Chelsea F.C. centre back/captain John Terry (1980). Music: In 1964 The Beach Boys Brian Wilson suffers a nervous breakdown on a flight from L.A. to Houston; in 1968, in Britains New Musical Express magazine, the Hollies recently-departed Graham Nash announces the formation of Crosby, Stills, and Nash; in 1968 The Animals lead singer, Eric Burdon, announces that the group will officially disband after a December 22 concert at Newcastle City Hall; in 1957 Sam Cookes You Send Me hits #1, in 1963 The Singing Nuns Dominique hits #1.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 13:39:38 +0000

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