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Birthday December 12, 1745 John Jay, diplomat |
Birthday December 12, 1805 Henry Wells, founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo |
Birthday December 12, 1806 Stand Watie born |
Birthday December 12, 1821 Flaubert is born |
Birthday December 12, 1821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist (Madame Bovary) |
Birthday December 12, 1852 Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903) |
Birthday December 12, 1863 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream) |
Birthday December 12, 1915 Frank Sinatra, singer, Actor (Old Blue Eyes) |
Birthday December 12, 1918 Joe Williams, jazz singer |
Birthday December 12, 1923 Bob Barker, game show host |
Birthday December 12, 1924 Edward Koch, mayor of NYC |
Birthday December 12, 1929 John Osborne, playwright |
Birthday December 12, 1938 Connie Francis, in Newark NJ |
Birthday December 12, 1941 Dionne Warwick, in East Orange NJ |
Birthday December 12, 1950 Billy Smith, goaltender (NY Islanders) |
Birthday December 12, 1962 Holly Gagnier, in LA |
History December 12, 1787 Penns becomes 2nd state |
History December 12, 1787 Pennsylvania ratifies the Constitution |
History December 12, 1871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum |
History December 12, 1899 George F Grant patents golf tee |
History December 12, 1901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal England to US |
History December 12, 1901 Marconi sends first Atlantic wireless transmission |
History December 12, 1913 Mona Lisa recovered in Florence |
History December 12, 1914 Stocks tank as NYSE trading resumes |
History December 12, 1917 Father Flanagan establishes Boys Town |
History December 12, 1917 French soldiers killed in train accident |
History December 12, 1921 Henrietta Leavitt cepheid period-luminosity relation discover dies |
History December 12, 1929 Cattle pioneer Charles Goodnight dies |
History December 12, 1937 USS Panay sunk by Japanese |
History December 12, 1937 1st mobile TV unit (NYC) |
History December 12, 1941 United States seizes French liner Normandie |
History December 12, 1963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
History December 12, 1963 JFK memorial album sets record for sales |
History December 12, 1964 Russia launches Voshkod I 1st multi-crew in space (3 men) |
History December 12, 1965 NFL rookie Gale Sayers ties single-game TD record |
History December 12, 1965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs ties NFL record |
History December 12, 1967 Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner |
History December 12, 1968 Procedural questions cause difficulty at the peace talks |
History December 12, 1969 Philippine soldiers depart South Vietnam |
History December 12, 1970 Tears Of A Clown gives Smokey Robinson & The Miracles their first #1 pop hit, finally |
History December 12, 1977 Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves |
History December 12, 1987 Shultz calls on European allies to increase defense spending |
History December 12, 1989 The Queen of Mean is sentenced to the slammer |
History December 12, 1997 A young murderer is indicted |
History December 12, 2000 GM announces phase-out of Oldsmobile |