1) Historic Events; 2) Famous Stiffs; 3) Famous Birthdays; 4) Select List - Historic Events & Birthdays with Pics; Each pic has the Select List entry as description {Click on 5th photo & scroll right to see remaining photos} Historical Events on 3rd December 1557 - 1st Covenant of Scottish Protestants forms 1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia 1676 - Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000 1678 - Edmund Halley receives MA from The Queens College, Oxford 1685 - Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden 1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newtons theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere 1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President 1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio, 1st truly coeducational college opens 1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper North Star 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses. 1863 - longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN 1868 - 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial 1881 - Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville/Kinshasa 1910 - Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show) 1926 - Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days 1931 - Alka Seltzer goes on sale 1943 - Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins 1944 - Hungarian death march of Jews ends 1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists. 1946 - US government asks UN to order Dictator Franco out of Spain 1948 - Chinese refugee ship Kiangya explodes in E China Sea killing 1,100 1953 - Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party 1956 - Britain and France pull troops out of Egypt 1961 - Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein 1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US Black female judge 1966 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss 1967 - 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa) 1967 - Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica 1969 - John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 - US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffas jail term 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. 1975 - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao Peoples Democratic Rep proclaimed 1979 - 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 - 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declare the Cold War over 1992 - UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia Happy Birthday to famous stiffs Andy Williams, singer who released seventeen Gold- and Platinum-certified albums and sang This Moon River (87), Gilbert Stuart, painter responsible for the unfinished portrait of George Washington, known as The Athenaeum, that appeared on the one-dollar bill and a variety of U.S. Postage stamps. His work was displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts (259), Rowland Hill, reformer of the postal system and inventor of the first postage stamp (219), Jack Judge, British singer and songwriter who wrote the popular song Its a Long Way to Tipperary in 1915 (142) and Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English author who wrote Lord Jim (1900) and Heart of Darkness (1899). The latter work was adapted into the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film, Apocalypse Now (157). Ozzy Osbourne, rock n roll performer who gained fame as the lead singer of Black Sabbath and became known as the Prince of Darkness and the Godfather of Heavy Metal (66), Amanda Seyfried, who gained fame for her leading roles in Big Love, Mean Girls, and Jennifers Body, and won a ShoWest Breakthrough Female Star of the Year Award in 2010. She played the titular character in the 2013 film, Lovelace (29), Jenna Dewan, dancer who gained fame for her roles in Step Up and Take the Lead. Her television credits include American Horror Story: Asylum (34), Brendan Fraser, who became a big hit with moviegoers for his roles in George of the Jungle and Encino Man, although he is best known for his portrayal of Rick OConnell in The Mummy trilogy. His other films include Crash, Inkheart, and Journey to the Center of the Earth (46), Julianne Moore, beautiful and versatile actress who appeared in Boogie Nights and Far from Heaven. In 1997, she starred in the blockbuster film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (54), Daryl Hannah, Splash star who dated John F. Kennedy, Jr. for five years and starred in Wall Street. She appeared in a number of prominent films, including Blade Runner and Kill Bill, Volume 2 (54), Katarina Witt, East-Berlin-born figure skater and model who won gold medals in the 1984 Sarajevo and 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics (49), Melody Anderson, American actress best known for her role as Dale Arden in the 1980 film adaptation of Flash Gordon. She has also appeared on television in shows such as The Fall Guy, Dallas, and St. Elsewhere AND Steven Culp, known to audiences as Rex Van De Kamp on ABCs Desperate Housewives, in 2004, he became the first actor to appear in four TV series simultaneously as a recurring character for roles in ER, JAG, Star Trek: Enterprise, and The West Wing (59), Jean Luc Godard, French New Wave director best known for such films as Pierrot le Fou, Breathless, and My Life to Live. His cinematic awards include an Honorary Cesar, an Honorary Academy Award, and the Prix Jean Vigo (84) and Sean Parker, the music industrys number-one enemy after he co-founded the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program Napster (35) are celebrating because theyre not dead yet. 1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newtons theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere 1755 - Gilbert Stuart, painter responsible for the unfinished portrait of George Washington, known as The Athenaeum, that appeared on the one-dollar bill and a variety of U.S. Postage stamps. His work was displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts (259) 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses. 1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English author who wrote Lord Jim (1900) and Heart of Darkness (1899). The latter work was adapted into the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film, Apocalypse Now (157) 1930 - Jean Luc Godard, French New Wave director best known for such films as Pierrot le Fou, Breathless, and My Life to Live. His cinematic awards include an Honorary Cesar, an Honorary Academy Award, and the Prix Jean Vigo (84) 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, rock n roll performer who gained fame as the lead singer of Black Sabbath and became known as the Prince of Darkness and the Godfather of Heavy Metal (66) 1961 - Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein 1979 - Sean Parker, the music industrys number-one enemy after he co-founded the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program Napster (35) 1984 - 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declare the Cold War over
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