Happy birthday and many happy returns Jack Tuan Nguyen, Andrew Ridgway, Pio Johann Pamintuan, Duc Vo and Michael Le born on the same day, across the years, as 1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487) 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555) 1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635) 1608 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674) 1787 – John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (d. 1865) 1883 – Joseph Pilates, German physical culturist, developed Pilates (d. 1967) 1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (d. 1956) 1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992) 1909 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000) 1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor 1917 – James Jesus Angleton, American CIA counterintelligence chief (d. 1987) 1934 – Judi Dench, English actress 1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician, President of the Indian National Congress 1950 – Joan Armatrading, Kittitian-English singer-songwriter 1953 – John Malkovich, American actor 1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer, actor, and television and radio personality (The Osmonds) 1963 – Masako, Crown Princess of Japan 1995 – McKayla Maroney, American gymnast December 9 Mayor Hussein al-Husayni of Jerusalem surrendering to the British 1872 – P. B. S. Pinchback took office as Governor of Louisiana, the first African American governor of a U.S. state. 1917 – First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered (pictured) the city to the British. 1931 – The approval of the Spanish Constitution by the Constituent Cortes paved the way to the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic. 1958 – The John Birch Society, named after John Birch, an American missionary who was killed in China by communists, was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States. 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature. You are first! You have the city. You have the constitution to succeed. You have birched the opposition. You have eliminated that disease. Now let us party.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:39:24 +0000
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