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Birthday December 31, 1869 Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter |
Birthday December 31, 1880 American general and diplomat George C. Marshall is born |
Birthday December 31, 1880 George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953) |
Birthday December 31, 1904 Nathan Milstein, concert violinist |
Birthday December 31, 1905 Jule Styne, English songwriter |
Birthday December 31, 1927 Henry Ford publishes the last issue of the Dearborn Independent |
Birthday December 31, 1928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit) |
Birthday December 31, 1930 Odetta, folk singer |
Birthday December 31, 1932 George Schlatter, TV producer |
Birthday December 31, 1937 Anthony Hopkins born |
Birthday December 31, 1937 Anthony Hopkins, Actor |
Birthday December 31, 1941 Sarah Miles, in England |
Birthday December 31, 1943 John Denver born in New Mexico |
Birthday December 31, 1943 John Denver, Country Singer (Country Roads, take me home) |
Birthday December 31, 1943 Ben Kingsley, Actor |
Birthday December 31, 1946 Patty Smith, in Chic |
Birthday December 31, 1946 Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer in Brussels Belgium |
Birthday December 31, 1947 Tim Matheson, Actor (Animal House, To Be or Not to Be) |
Birthday December 31, 1948 Donna Summer, in Boston (On the Radio) |
History December 31, 1384 John Wycliffe English religious reformer died |
History December 31, 1600 Charter granted to the East India Company |
History December 31, 1600 British East India Company chartered |
History December 31, 1719 John Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal dies at 73 |
History December 31, 1744 James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation |
History December 31, 1775 Battle of Qu‚bec |
History December 31, 1775 Patriots are defeated at Quebec |
History December 31, 1775 Patriots defeated at Quebec |
History December 31, 1805 End of French Republican calendar |
History December 31, 1852 Future Pres & Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes marry |
History December 31, 1857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as new capital of Canada |
History December 31, 1862 Battle of Parker's Crossroads |
History December 31, 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras NC |
History December 31, 1862 Pres Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union |
History December 31, 1879 Edison demonstrates incandescent light |
History December 31, 1879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp |
History December 31, 1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US) |
History December 31, 1890 Ellis Is opens as a US immigration depot |
History December 31, 1921 Last SF firehorses retired |
History December 31, 1943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater |
History December 31, 1944 Hungary declares war on Germany |
History December 31, 1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden Utah |
History December 31, 1946 Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II |
History December 31, 1951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced |
History December 31, 1958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X |
History December 31, 1961 Kennedy and Khrushchev exchange holiday greetings |
History December 31, 1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion |
History December 31, 1968 Bloodiest year of the war ends |
History December 31, 1968 Soviets test supersonic airliner |
History December 31, 1971 U.S. annual casualty figures down |
History December 31, 1972 Pete Hamill quits drinking |
History December 31, 1972 U.S. and communist negotiators prepare to return to the Paris talks |
History December 31, 1972 Baseball star dies in plane crash |
History December 31, 1972 Plane carrying Roberto Clemente crashes |
History December 31, 1974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years |
History December 31, 1974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract |
History December 31, 1978 United States ends official relations with Nationalist China |
History December 31, 1981 Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana |
History December 31, 1984 Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH |
History December 31, 1984 Rajiv Gandhi took office as India's 6th PM |
History December 31, 1984 Subway vigilante turns himself in |
History December 31, 1985 Rick Nelson dies in a plane crash |
History December 31, 1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama |