Dec 4 • • • Holiday Observances Today: Ashura: Tenth Day (Islamic - begins at sundown)-more on Ashura en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Ashura ¤ ¤ National Cookie Day National Dice Day World Wildlife Conservation Day Santas List Day- he makes his lists today Wear Brown Shoes Day Observances This Week: 1-7 Cookie Cutter Week International Coelenterate Biology Week Older Driver Safety Awareness 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 1110 - Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders 1534 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad 1674 - Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby 1791 - Britains Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published 1816 - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King 1829 - Britain outlaws suttee in India (widow burning herself to death on her husbands funeral pyre) 1844 - James K. Polk elected 11th US President 1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published 1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms 1923 - Cecil B DeMilles 1st version of Ten Commandments premieres 1927 - Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem 1942 - FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration 1952 - Killer fogs begin in London, England; Smog becomes a word 1954 - The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA 1968 - Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march 1981 - Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence 1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers 1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations 1996 - NASAs 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral • • • • • • • Birthday’s Today Max Baer Jr, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies) is 77 Freddy Cannon, [Picariello], rocker (Palisades Park) is 74 Jeff Bridges, actor (Against All Odds) is 65 Marisa Tomei, Brooklyn, actress (My Cousin Vinny) is 50 Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter), Brooklyn, rapper (Reasonable Doubt) is 44 Tyra Banks, model/actress (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) is 41 • • • Remembered for being born today Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) [1795-1881] Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], , Oglala Sioux chief [1840-1877] Francisco Franco [ y Bahamonde], Spanish General\Dictator [1892-1975) Victor French, actor (Highway to Heaven) [1934-1989] Dennis Wilson, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-My Room) [1944-1983] • • • • • • • Historical Obits Today Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher, 1679, @91 Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher, 1123, @82ish Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), pneumonia, 1967, @72 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center, 1971, @67 Frank V Zappa, musician/composer (Mothers of Invention), cancer, 1993, @52 Charles Dow, journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal), 1902, @51 John Gay, English poet (Beggars Opera), 1732, @47 • • • • • • •
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:31:44 +0000
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