Dec 13 • • • • Holiday Observances Today: Republic Day (Malta-1974) Santa Lucia Day (Sweden) ָ¤ Day Of The Horse Gingerbread Decorating Day Ice Cream Day Pick A Pathologist Pal Day International Shareware Day Noughts and Crosses Day (aka Tic Tac Toe Day) Violin Day Observances This Week: 7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness Week Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week Computer Science Education Week 10-17 Human Rights Week • • • • • • • Historical Highlights for Today 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard 1759 - First music store in America opens (Phila) 1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter 1774 – 1st incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, NH 1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone mound (NJ) 1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk 1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol 1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions 1928 - Clip-on tie designed 1928 - George Gershwins An American In Paris premieres (NYC) 1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F 1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial 1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi 1967 - San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours. 1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases Alices Restaurant 1988 - Arafat addresses UN in Geneva 1990 - South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid 1995 - US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (Operation Red Dawn). • • • • • • • Birthday’s Today George Shultz, US Secretary of State is 94 Dick Van Dyke, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show) is 89 Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music) is 85 John Davidson, TV host (Hollywood Squares, Thats Incredible) is 73 Ted Nugent, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever) is 66 Wendie Malick, actress (Just Shoot Me) is 64 Steve Buscemi, actor (Fargo) is 57 Billy Van Zandt, playwright\actor is 57 John Whitaker, actor (Family Affair) is 55 Jamie Foxx, comedian (In Living Color) is 46 Taylor Swift, singer/songwriter (Our Song) is 25 Remembered for being born today Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty) [1810-1893] Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady [1818-1832] Phillips Brooks, bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem) [1835-1893] Carlos Montoya, Madrid, guitarist [1903-1993] Van Heflin, actor (Madame Bovary) [1910-1971] Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ, [1916-1998] Yitzhak Zuckerman, Jewish resistance hero WWII [1915-1989] Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive, [1934-2012] • • • • • • • Historical Obits Today Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), diabetes, 1924, @74 Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, 1934, @83 Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos n Andy), TB, 1958, @70 Grandma Moses [Anna Moses], US painter, 1961, @101 Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II), cancer, 1983, @60 Allen Breed, US inventor (automotive airbag sensor), heart attack, 1999, @ 72 Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Sioux actor/singer, leukemia, 2007, @71 Park Tae-joon, South Korean founder of steel giant Posco, 2011, @84 • • • • • • •
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