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On this day...
1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Massachusetts colony when he declares himself to be free of
original sin
1793 Noah Webster establishes NY's First daily newspaper, American Minerva
1824 Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1907 First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Delaware post office)
1909 First US monoplane flown (Henry W. Walden, Long Island, NY)
1913 John K. Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1917 British forces capture Jerusalem
1925 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1926 USGA legalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1931 Spain becomes a republic
1934 NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
1940 British troops first major offensive in North Africa during WW II
1941 First US WW II bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 NFL merges Cleveland Browns, SF '49ers & Baltimore Colts from AAFC
1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1958 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr. & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the
anti-Communist John Birch Society
1961 SS Col. Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania
1961 Wilt Chamberlain of scores 67 points vs NY
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House
1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1971 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. appointed to the Supreme Court
1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City
1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1981 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1982 Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
1985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
1987 Larry Bird ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
1987 Palestine uprising begins in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988 NY Yankees sell all TV rights to cable network in $500 million deal
1990 Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland
1990 NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000 yards
1992 Prince Charles & Princess Diana separation announced by British PM, John Major
Birthdays which occurred on December 9th:
1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, King who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
1608 John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
1848 Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
1853 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884)
1868 Fritz Haber, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1918)
1882 Joaqu¡n Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
1884 Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak President (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
1886 Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegetable king (Birdseye)
1894 Eddie Dowling, actor (Anywhere USA)
1897 Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
1898 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
1899 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author
1902 Margaret Hamilton, Cleveland, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
1905 Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
1906 Freddy Martin, Cleveeland, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin)
1909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., New York, actor (Ghost Story)
1911 Broderick Crawford, Philadelphia, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
1911 Lee J. Cobb, actor (Virginian, Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
1912 Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass)/Speaker of the House
1915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germany, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
1922 Redd Foxx, St Louis, comedian (Sandford & Son)
1925 Dina Merrill, New York, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
1928 Dick Van Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
1929 John Cassavetes, New York, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
1934 Junior Wells, Memphis, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
1938 David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
1941 Beau Bridges, Los Angeles, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
1942 Dick Butkus, Chicago, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)
1942 Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of the President 1968)
1943 Rick Danko, Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
1945 Michael Nouri, Washington DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
1949 Tom Kite, McKinney TX, PGA golfer
1953 John Malkovich, Christopher Illinois, actor/director (Killing Field)
1953 World B. Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
1957 Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1963 Barbara Palacios, Caracas Venezuela, Miss Universe (1986)
1965 Brad Savage, Livdnia Michigan, actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1968 Michael Foster, Richmond Virginia, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1969 Allison Smith, Bronx NY, actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
1975 Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & the Hendersons)
Deaths which occurred on December 9th:
1292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden)
1944 Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
1957 Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special)
1959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
1971 Ralph J. Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67
1979 Fulton J. Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster dies at 84
1982 Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at 53
1982 Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor, dies at 77 in Texas
1983 David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53
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