Dec 9 • • • Holiday Observances Today: Independence Day (Tanzania-1961-from UK) Republic Day (Tanzania-1962) ¤ ¤ Christmas Card Day International Anti-corruption Day National Pastry Day National Salespersons Day Weary Willie Day-Emmett Kelly’s birthday-1898 Observances This Week: 3-9 Clerc-Gallaudet Week 7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness Week Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week Computer Science Education Week • • • • • • • Historical Highlights for Today 1778 - Virginia annexes Indian land 1793 - Noah Webster establishes NYs 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva 1851 - 1st Young Mens Christian Association in North America (Montreal) 1854 - Alfred Tennysons poem Charge of the Light Brigade published 1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds 1st feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris. 1903 - Norwegian parliament votes unanimiously for female suffrage 1905 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state 1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) 1953 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1960 - 1st broadcast of Coronation Street on British ITV 1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) 1st publicly demonstrated 1973 - Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland 1975 - US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan-authorization for NYC 1985 - Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 of snow 1990 - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland 1994 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns - comments about masturbation 2008 - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, arrested by feds for alleged crimes 2013 - Mike Ditkas #89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears • • • • • • • Birthday’s Today Kirk Douglas, [Issur Danielovitch], actor (Gunfight at OK Corral) is 98 Dick Van Patten, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough) is 86 Buck Henry, screenwriter/comedian (SNL) is 84 Judi Dench, film, stage, TV actress is 80 Beau Bridges, actor, director is 73 Dick Butkus, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster is 72 John Malkovich, actor/director (Killing Fields) is 61 Donny Osmond, singer (Donnie & Marie) is 57 Joe Lando, actor (Byron Sully-Dr Quinn) is 53 Felicity Huffman, film, stage, TV actress is 52 Jesse Metcalfe, TV actor is 36 • • • Remembered for being born today John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), [1608-1674] Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories) [1845-1908] Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye) [1886-1956] Hermione Gingold, London, actress (Gigi, Music Man) [1897-1987] Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie) [1898-1979] Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz) [1902-1985] Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor (Ghost Story) [1909-2000] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol) [1911-1986] Thomas P Tip ONeill, (Rep- Mass)/Speaker of the House [1912-1994] Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford), comedian (Sandford & Son) [1922-1991] John Cassavetes, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemarys Baby) [1929-1989] [David] Deacon Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington), [1938-2013] • • • • • • • Historical Obits Today Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist, 1972, @91 Eleanor Parker, actress (Caged), 2013, @91 Gene Barry, actor (Burke’s Law), 2009, @90 Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster, 1979 , @84 Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, 1996, @83 Archie Moore, American boxer, 1998, @81 Ralph Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, long illness, 1971, @68 Marty Robbins, country singer, after cardiac surgery, 1982, @57 Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, plane crash, 2012, @43 • • • • • • •
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