Historical Events of Dec 29.. 1170 - Assassination inside Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church. 1503 - Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France 1539 - St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning 1541 - Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu 1558 - Charles V, German Emperor, buried 1705 - Prosper Jolyots Idomenée, premieres in Paris 1708 - Great Alliance occupies Gent 1778 - English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia 1782 - 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston 1786 - French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked 1812 - The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle. 1813 - British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812 1835 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. 1837 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo 1837 - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine 1841 - King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon 1845 - Texas admitted as 28th state 1848 - Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polks administration) 1851 - 1st American Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston Massachusetts. Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas BecketArchbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket 1852 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants 1857 - Franz Liszts Die Hunnenschlacht, premieres in Weimar 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched. 1862 - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman 1862 - Bowling ball invented 1864 - Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball 1867 - 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY 1876 - 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany) 1890 - US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD 1891 - Edison patents transmission of signals electrically (radio) 1895 - Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg 1899 - English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up 1900 - General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia 1903 - French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari Composer/Pianist Franz LisztComposer/Pianist Franz Liszt 1906 - Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906) 1908 - Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc 1911 - Proclamation restores Dei Gratia from Canadas coins 1911 - SF Symphony formed 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China. 1911 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty. 1913 - 1st movie serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, premieres in Chicago 1920 - The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations 1920 - Yugoslav government bans communist party 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM 1922 - Dutch Constitution proclaimed 1922 - Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage 1926 - Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras work on the index 1926 - Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs 1929 - Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders 1930 - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans 1931 - Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey 1931 - Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1933 - Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds 1934 - 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden) 1934 - Federico Garcia Lorcas Yerma, premieres in Madrid 1934 - Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930 1937 - 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie 1937 - Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire) 1937 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ 1937 - Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1938 - Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated B-24. 1940 - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) 1940 - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14 1944 - Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced 1944 - Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles 1947 - Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine 1948 - Rape of Lucretia opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances 1948 - Canada recognizes Israel 1948 - US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit 1949 - 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct) 1949 - Hungary nationalized its industries 1951 - Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal 1952 - 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY) 1954 - Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra StreisandSinger-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand 1955 - Barbra Streisands 1st recording Youll Never Know at age 13 1957 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game 1957 - Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas 1958 - Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game 1958 - TV soap Young Dr Malone debuts 1959 - Saul Levitts Andersonville Trial, premieres in NYC 1962 - Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days 1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2) 1965 - Thunderball premieres in US 1965 - CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year 1965 - Supremes release My World is Empty Without You 1965 - 54th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Sydney (4-1) 1966 - Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass) 1967 - Star Treks Trouble With Tribbles 1st airs 1967 - Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus 1968 - Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game 1968 - Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes 1968 - NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game 1969 - NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause 1972 - Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1972 - Life magazine ceases publication 1972 - Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG 1974 - Murray Schisgals All Over Town, premieres in NYC 1975 - 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC 1977 - Ronald Ribmans Cold Storage, premieres in NYC Famous Birthdays 1563 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer 1586 - Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona 1678 - Gotthard Wagner, composer 1709 - Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], Kolomenskoye, Moscow, tsarina of Russia (1741-62) and daughter of Peter the Great 1721 - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th 1743 - Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer 1767 - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer 1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric 1792 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe) 1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877) 1800 - Charles Goodyear, New Haven, Connecticut, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber), (d. 1860) 1808 - Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69) 1808 - Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament member 1809 - Albert Pike, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal British PM (1868-74, 80-86, 92-94), (d. 1898) 1813 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer 1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895) 1831 - Adam Badeau, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 1833 - John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks) British Prime Minister William GladstoneBritish Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809) 1843 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916) 1850 - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer 1856 - Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes integral) 1859 - Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20) 1866 - Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19) 1869 - Bill Howell, cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century) 1876 - Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer 1879 - Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I) 1880 - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer 1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968) 1887 - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer 1888 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal 1892 - Emory Parnell, St Paul MN, actress (Rocket Man, County Fair) 1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile) 1897 - Hermann Heiss, composer 1898 - Jeanne Leleu, composer 1899 - Nie Rongzhen, Peoples Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992) 1900 - Willie Humphrey, jazz Clarinetist 1902 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957) 1903 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter/bandleader 1907 - James Gardner, designer 1908 - Claire Dodd, AR, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy) 1908 - Gerben Sonderman, Dutch test pilot (Fokker) 1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate 1912 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad) 1913 - Laurence Gower, academic 1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989) 1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999) 1915 - Charles L[eonard] Harness, US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead) 1915 - John P W Meefout, Dutch sculptor (Laying Woman) 1915 - Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value) 1915 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996) American Politician Tom BradleyAmerican Politician Tom Bradley (1917) 1917 - Tom Bradley, Calvert Texas, American politician (Mayor-D-LA) (1973-1993) 1919 - Pieter Terpstra, Dutch journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T) 1919 - Roman Vlad, composer 1920 - Syd Dernley, hangman 1920 - Viveca Lindfors, Uppsala Sweden, actress (Way We Were, Welcome to LA) 1921 - Dobrica Cosic, writer 1921 - Mala Powers, SF California, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac) [or 12/20/31] 1921 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006) 1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998) 1925 - Pete Dye, American golf course architect 1927 - Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball) 1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985) 1928 - Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show) 1930 - Willy Giefer, composer 1931 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005) 1932 - Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson) 1933 - Prez Kidd Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist 1934 - Ed Flanders, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere) 1934 - Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20) 1935 - Tony Bramall, England, auto dealer/multi-millionaire (Harrogate) 1936 - Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers) 1936 - Vitaly Alexeyevich Godzyatsky, composer Actress Mary Tyler MooreActress Mary Tyler Moore (1937) 1937 - Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People) 1937 - Barbara Steele, Birkenhead, Cheshire, English actress (Black Sunday, 8½) 1938 - Jon Voight, Yonkers, NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy) 1938 - Wayne Huizenga, CEO (Waste Management, Blockbuster, Miami Dolphins) 1939 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives (1978- ) 1940 - Brigitte Kronauer, writer 1940 - Ed Buce, Keiser Ar, country singer (Texas) 1940 - Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist (Come off that Roof) 1941 - Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 1942 - Jerry Summers, rocker 1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, (d. 2012) 1943 - JHR Maij-Wegge, Dutch traffic minister (19..-94) 1944 - Rodney Redmond, NZ cricket (opener scored century in Test v Pak 1973) 1945 - Adje Roland, Dutch disc-jockey 1946 - Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Ky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale) 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, vocalist (Money) 1946 - Paul Trible, (Sen-R-Va) 1947 - Cozy Powell, England, rock drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, ELP) 1947 - Ted Danson, SD California, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby) 1947 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998) 1949 - Syed Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer) 1950 - Jon Polito, Phila, actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide) 1951 - Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator) 1951 - Yvonne Elliman, US actress/singer (I Dont Know How to Love Him) 1951 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007) 1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, Bethlehem Pa, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker) 1952 - Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80) Famous Weddings 1876 - Frederic A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie 1957 - Steve and Eydie singer duo Steve Lawrence (22) weds Eydie Gorme (29) at the home of Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas 1990 - Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley 1994 - Billionaire J. Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados 2004 - Former X-Files Gillian Anderson (36) weds former journalist and documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne (42) on Shella island in Lamu, Kenya 2005 - One Life To Live actress Bree Williamson (26) weds surfer Josh Evans near the Flor Blanca Resort in Mal Pais, Costa Rica 2006 - Comedian Jay Mohr (36) weds Las Vegas actress Nikki Cox (28) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California 2012 - The Glades actress Kiele Sanchez (36) weds Friday Night Lights actor Zach Gilford (31) in Napa Valley, California Famous Divorces 2006 - One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush (24) divorces actor Chad Michael Murray (25) for the reason of fraud after 5 months of marriage 2006 - NBA basketball star Michael Jordan (43) divorces Juanita Vanoy (47) due to irreconcilable differences after 17 years of marriage Famous Deaths 721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) 1141 - Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed 1170 - Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52 1558 - Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) 1619 - Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies 1630 - Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612) 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) 1689 - Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624) 1731 - J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) 1785 - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742) 1815 - Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris 1821 - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61 1822 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67 1825 - Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas BecketArchbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (1170) 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77 1835 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 1836 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 1847 - William Crotch, composer, dies at 72 1871 - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 1877 - Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies 1890 - Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet, dies at 64 in London 1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812) 1898 - Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 1915 - Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) 1925 - Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 1926 - Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) 1933 - Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered 1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878) 1942 - Frank D Adams, Canadian geologist, dies at 83 1943 - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75 1947 - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 1952 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54 1953 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887) 1956 - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christs Church), dies at 73 1957 - Tom Richmond, cricketer (Notts leg-spinner took 2-86 in Eng Test), die 1958 - Doris Humphrey, US dancer/choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63 1959 - Robin Humphrey Milford, composer, dies at 56 1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862) 1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895) 1964 - Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63 1964 - Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73 1965 - Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79 1967 - Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77 1968 - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904) 1970 - John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58 1970 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909) 1971 - Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87 1972 - Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83 1975 - Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911). 1976 - Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter (Oly-silver-76), dies at 22 1980 - Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 1980 - Tim Hardin, American singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899) 1981 - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41 1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893) 1982 - Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at 79 1984 - Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84 1986 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 1986 - John Antill, composer, dies at 82 1986 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92 1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940) 1991 - Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64 1992 - LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87 1992 - Vivienne Segal, US actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies at 95 1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930) 1994 - Eugene Tanner Jr, singer, dies at 58 1994 - Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68 1995 - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85 1995 - Louise Chaplin, actress, dies at 87 1995 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86 1995 - Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81 1996 - Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77 1996 - Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 1996 - Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90 1996 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83 1996 - Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89 1996 - Robert Morris, lawyer, dies at 81 1996 - Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67 1996 - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 1997 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist, dies at 82 1997 - Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82 1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930) 1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906) 2001 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908) 2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942) 2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932) 2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928) 2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947) 2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915) 2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
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