Dec 11 • • • • Holiday Observances Today: Admission Day (Indiana-1816-19th) National Day (Burkina Faso-[Upper Volta]-1958-self-governing colony of France) ¤ ¤ International Mountain Day- to raise awareness about the relevance of mountain forests and the role they play within a green economy National Noodle Ring Day UNICEF Birthday -1946 Observances This Week: 7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness Week Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week Computer Science Education Week 10-17 Human Rights Week • • • • • • • Historical Highlights for Today 1282 - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last, last native Prince of Wales, killed at Cilmeri 1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1620 - Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the First Encounter 1833 - Captain Page, and almost 700 Choctaw, reach their destination at Fort Towson, in eastern Indian Territory 1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct 1882 - Bostons Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivans Iolanthe 1888 - French Panama Canal Company fails 1902 - The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products 1906 - US president Teddy Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo 1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC 1913 - Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered 1928 - Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover 1936 - Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson 1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) 1946 - Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label 1961 - JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam 1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in NYC 1967 - Peoples front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established 1968 - Northern Ireland PM sacks Home Affairs Minister 1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed 1986 - South Africa censors press 2001 - The Peoples Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization 2012 - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world • • • • • • • Birthday’s Today Rita Moreno, [Rosita Dolores Alverío], singer, dancer actress (West Side Story) is 83 David Gates, rock vocalist (Bread-Baby Im A Want You) is 74 Donna Mills, actress (Knots Landing, Incident) is 74 Teri Garr, actress (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein) is 67 Lynda Day George, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible) is 70 Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe) is 55 MoNique, comedian/actress is 47 Rider Strong, actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World) is 35 Remembered for being born today David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope) [1781-1868] Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905) [1843-1910] Max Born, Germany, physicist (Nobel 1954) [1882-1970] Carlo Ponti, Italian producer (Doctor Zhivago) [1912-2007] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer (Nobel 1970), [1918-2008] Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain) [1926-1984] Ferdinand A. Porsche, car designer (Porsche 911), [1935-2012] • • • • • • • Historical Obits Today Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, 2012, @92 Bettie Page, American Playboy pin-up model, 2008, @85 Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member, emphysema, 1991, @71 Maurice Mac McDonald, American fast-food pioneer, 1971, @69 Kamehameha V, Hawaii’s last king. internal abscess, 1872, @42 Sam Cooke, musician (A Change is Gonna Come) shot, 1964, @33 • • • • • • •
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:11:05 +0000
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