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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2009-01-8
Births
1717-12-20 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
1786-12-20 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1792-12-20 - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1833-12-20 - Samuel Mudd, American physician (d. 1883)
1838-12-20 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
1841-12-20 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1860-12-20 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
1861-12-20 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865-12-20 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1868-12-20 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1881-12-20 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
1886-12-20 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (d. 1974)
1890-12-20 - Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958)
1890-12-20 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1894-12-20 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
1898-12-20 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
1901-12-20 - Robert Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor (d. 1967)
1902-12-20 - Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
1902-12-20 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1904-12-20 - Spud Davis, baseball player (d. 1984)
1907-12-20 - Paul Francis Webster, musician (d. 1984)
1911-12-20 - Hortense Calisher, American author
1916-12-20 - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
1917-12-20 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918-12-20 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian trade unionist and politician (d. 1988)
1918-12-20 - Audrey Totter, American actress
1922-12-20 - George Roy Hill, American film director (d. 2002)
1924-12-20 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980)
1926-12-20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician
1926-12-20 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician
1927-12-20 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1933-12-20 - Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator
1933-12-20 - Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist
1938-12-20 - John Harbison, American composer
1944-12-20 - Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1945-12-20 - Peter George Criscoula, American drummer and singer (KISS)
1946-12-20 - Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
1946-12-20 - John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
1946-12-20 - Dick Wolf, American television series creator
1947-12-20 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
1948-12-20 - Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist
1949-12-20 - Soumaïla Cissé, Malian politician
1949-12-20 - Cecil Cooper, Major League baseball player
1951-12-20 - Gilbert Montagné, French musician
1951-12-20 - Peter May - Writer, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter
1952-12-20 - Jenny Agutter, English actress
1954-12-20 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
1954-12-20 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
1956-12-20 - Junji Hirata, Japanese professional wrestler
1957-12-20 - Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter
1957-12-20 - Mike Watt, American bassist
1957-12-20 - Joyce Hyser, American actress
1957-12-20 - Anna Vissi, Greek singer
1960-12-20 - Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer
1963-12-20 - Infanta Elena of Spain, Duchess of Lugo
1965-12-20 - Rich Gannon, American football player
1966-12-20 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)
1968-12-20 - Karl Wendlinger, Austrian racing driver
1970-12-20 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
1973-12-20 - Cory Stillman, National Hockey League forward
1974-12-20 - Die, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1975-12-20 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1975-12-20 - Jaydy Michel, Mexican model
1976-12-20 - Jang Hyuk, Korean actor
1976-12-20 - Aubrey Huff, baseball player
1976-12-20 - Adam Powell, Neopets creator
1977-12-20 - Jon Armstrong, American magician
1977-12-20 - Saukrates, Canadian rapper.
1978-12-20 - Njitap Geremi, Cameroon footballer
1978-12-20 - Andrei Markov, National Hockey League defenceman
1979-12-20 - Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
1980-12-20 - Ashley Cole, English footballer
1981-12-20 - Roy Williams, American football player
1982-12-20 - David Wright, baseball player
1983-12-20 - Lucy Pinder, British model
1990-12-20 - JoJo, American singer
1494-12-20 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)
1537-12-20 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1566-12-20 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)
1579-12-20 - (baptized) John Fletcher, English playwright (d. 1625)
1626-12-20 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
1629-12-20 - Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
Bizarre
2007-12-20 - Louisiana Purchase Day
Deaths
1022-12-20 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1355-12-20 - Stefan Dušan, Serb king and tsar (b. circa 1308)
1494-12-20 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
1524-12-20 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
1539-12-20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
1590-12-20 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
1722-12-20 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1723-12-20 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
1740-12-20 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
1768-12-20 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
1783-12-20 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
1917-12-20 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882)
1921-12-20 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
1929-12-20 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838)
1935-12-20 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
1937-12-20 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1941-12-20 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1954-12-20 - James Hilton, American author (b. 1900)
1956-12-20 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
1961-12-20 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
1961-12-20 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1968-12-20 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1973-12-20 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1903)
1973-12-20 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
1974-12-20 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
1976-12-20 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)
1982-12-20 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (b. 1887)
1984-12-20 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946)
1986-12-20 - Joe DeSa, baseball player (b. 1959)
1988-12-20 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (b. 1908)
1989-12-20 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
1991-12-20 - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
1994-12-20 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
1996-12-20 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
1997-12-20 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (b. 1923)
1997-12-20 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
1998-12-20 - Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)
1998-12-20 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
1999-12-20 - Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914)
1999-12-20 - Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
2000-12-20 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Indian statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2001-12-20 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)
2001-12-20 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906)
Events
2069-12-20 - Vespasian, a former general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
1192-12-20 - Richard the Lion-Heart was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the crusade.
1522-12-20 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1606-12-20 - The Virginia Company loaded three ships with settlers and set sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
1803-12-20 - Louisiana Purchase completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1860-12-20 - South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States.
1915-12-20 - World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
1917-12-20 - Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded.
1941-12-20 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1942-12-20 - World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
1951-12-20 - Nuclear power first harvested when EBR-1 powers four light bulbs.
1952-12-20 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
1960-12-20 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1973-12-20 - The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid
1981-12-20 - The first ever on-stage performance of the award-winning Broadway musical Dreamgirls at Imperial Theatre on Broadway.
1984-12-20 - The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
1988-12-20 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1989-12-20 - United States invasion of Panama: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.
1991-12-20 - Paul Keating becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
1995-12-20 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1995-12-20 - An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
1996-12-20 - NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
1999-12-20 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
2001-12-20 - Argentine economic crisis (1999-2002): President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa is forced out of office.
2002-12-20 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
2005-12-20 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
2005-12-20 - US District Court Judge John E. Jones III ruled against mandating teaching "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
2006-12-20 - A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle.
2006-12-20 - A blizzard hit Colorado causing closure of airports, schools and entire cities. More than 3.5 feet of snow fell in Denver and up to 6-7 feet of drifts.
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