Dec 19 • • • Holiday Observances Today: Look for an Evergreen Day Oatmeal Muffin Day UN Day For South-South Cooperation Underdog Day Observances This Week: 14-20 Gluten-free Baking Week 14-28 Halcyon Days 15-31 Christmas Bird Count Week 16-24 Posadas 17-24 Chanukah Saturnalia • • • • • • • Historical Highlights for Today 1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of Poor Richards Almanack 1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, These are the times that try mens souls 1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter 1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US 1854 - Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams 1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan 1910 - 1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Balt) 1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto) 1919 - American Meteorological Society found 1948 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3) 1971 - Stanley Kubricks X-rated A Clockwork Orange premieres 1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP 1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice 1984 - China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & British PM Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty 1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: US House forwards articles of impeachment to Senate. 2007 - The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. • • • • • • • Birthday’s Today Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer is 93 Cicely Tyson, actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman) is 81 Barbara Bostock, American actress is 79 Tim Reid, actor and comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP) is 70 Marianne Faithfull, singer (As Tears Go By) is 68 Criss Angel [Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos], magician\illusionist is 47 Alyssa Milano, TV actress is 42 Jake Plummer, quarterback (Cardinals\Broncos) is 40 Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (Jarhead) is 34 • • • Remembered for being born today Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator (PTA) [1836-1920@83] Ralph Richardson, actor (Dr Zhivago), [1902-1983@81] Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR [1906-1982@75] Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], chanteuse, [1915-1963@45) David Susskind, TV host (David Susskind Show) [1920-1987@66] Phil Ochs, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over) [1940-1976@35] Jeanne Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN [1926-2006@79] • • • • • • • Historical Obits Today Robert Bork, American legal scholar/jurist, 2012, @85 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (Q in Bond movies), 1999, @85 Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923), 1953, @85 Norman Thomas, founder Socialist Party, 1968,@84 Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8½), cancer, 1996, @72 Hope Lange, American actress, colitis, 2003, @70 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, 1813, @69 Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist/neurologist (Alzheimer), rheumatic fever, 1915, @51 Emily Jane Bronte, English novelist, TB, 1848, @30 • • • • • • •
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:44:38 +0000
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