1702 - (Dec, 14 according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 by the new calendar) - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master, Asano Takumi no kami Naganori, by beheading Kira Kōzukenosuke Yoshinaka. Later 46 of the surviving ronin would commit seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment), and would later achieve heroic status as the embodiments of the ideals of the samurai. 1713 - Thomas Rymer dies (b. 1641). English historian.1715 - Thomas Tenison dies (b. 1636). Archbishop of Canterbury.1720 - Justus Möser was born (d. 1794). German statesman.1735 - Thomas Tanner dies (b. 1674). English bishop and antiquarian.1741 - Charles Rollin dies (b. 1661). French historian.1766 -
José Acúrsio das Neves was born (d. 1834). Portuguese politician, historian, essayst and pioneer about Portuguese economic studies.
1775 -
Philander Chase was born (d. 1852). American founder of Kenyon College.
1782 - The
Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifted on its very first test flight.
1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented a nut and bolt machine.
1799 -
George Washington dies at his Mount Vernon home (b. 1732). He was the first president of the United States (1789-97).
1818 -The pirate Hippolyte Bouchard demanded gunpowder and other supplies from the padres at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Ca. The padres refused and the pirate sent 140 men to destroy the mission and the town was stripped of its provisions.
1819 -
Alabama becomes the 22nd state in the United States, making 11 slave states and 11 free states.
1822 - John Christie, English patron of music, was born. He founded the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
1853 - Salvador Diaz Miron was born. Mexican Poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas).
1855 - Ice hockey originated. The first game was played by 2 military teams.
1861 -
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of
Queen Victoria and one of the Union’s strongest advocates, dies in London (b. 1819); he was cousin of King D. Fernando II of Portugal husband of Queen D. Maria II; The book “Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert” was later written by Stanely Weintraub.
1863 -The widow of Confederate General B.H. Helm was given amnesty by President Lincoln after she swore allegiance to the Union. Mrs. Helm was the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln.
1866 -
Roger Fry was born (d. 1934). British artist and art critic.
1873 -
Louis Agassiz dies (b. 1807). Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist.
1884 -
Jane Cowl was born (d. 1950). American actress and playwright.
1896 -
Jimmy Doolittle was born (d. 1993). American Air Force general, he commanded the first bombing mission over Japan. His Tokyo raid was a great boost for American war morale.
1900 -
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist, presented the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin. Planck, demonstrated that energy, in certain situations, can exhibit characteristics of physical matter. Planck was rewarded the Nobel Prize (1918) in Physics for his work on blackbody radiation.
1903 - William Ennis became the 1st cop to die in electric chair.
1906 - First U1 submarine was brought into service in Germany.
1907 - The schooner
Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the
Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 able seamen are lost.
1908 - The first truly representative Turkish Parliament opened.
1909 -The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ended with a "declaration of war" on U.S. Steel.
1909 - Leopold II, King of Belgium, dies.
1911 - Hans von Ohain was born (d. 1998). German/American aerospace engineer.1911 - Spike Jones was born (d. 1965). American comedian and musician.1912 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis dies (b. 1887). British Army lieutenant.1913 -
Dan Dailey was born (d. 1978). American actor.
1914 -
Rosalyn Tureck was bon (d.2003). American pianist and harpsichordist.
1915 - Jack Johnson became the 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion.
1917 - Elyse Knox was born. American actress.1917 - June Taylor was born (d. 2004). American choreographer.
1918 -
Sidónio Pais dies assassinated. Fourth President of Portugal/ Sidónio Pais, 4º. Presidente da Republica de Portugal, foi assassinado em Lisboa, na Estação do Rossio, baleado por um sargento do exército.
1920 -The League of Nations created a credit system to aid Europe; U.S. export trade was threatened.
1920 - George Gipp dies (b. 1895). American football player.1924 -
Raj Kapoor was born (d. 1988). Indian actor.
1925 -
Sam Jones was born (d. 1971). American baseball player.
1926 - Theo van Rysselberghe died at 64. Belgian painter (pointillism).
1927 - Iraq gained independence from Britain, but British troops remained.
1928 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, by David Herbert Lawrence, is first published.
1929 - Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece.
1931 -
Jon Elia was born (d. 2002). Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher.
1933 -
Eva Wilma was born. Brazilian actress.
1934 - 1st streamlined steam locomotive was introduced in Albany, NY.
1935 -
Lee Remick was born (d. 1991). American actress.
1935 -
Lewis Arquette was born (d. 2001). American film actor, writer and producer.
1935 -
Luís de Magalhães dies in Porto (b. 13 Sep. 1859). Portuguese poet, essayst and politician.
1937 - Japanese troops conquered and plundered Nanjing.
1939 - Ernie Davis was born (d. 1963). American football player.
1940 - Lex Gold was born. Scottish football administrator.1941 - US Treasury Sec. Henry Morgenthau asked his assistant Harry Dexter White to prepare a paper outlining the possibilities for coordinated monetary arrangements between the US and its allies. White’s proposal said the primary goal should be to stabilize the exchange rates of the Allied countries to encourage the flow of capital. The later led to the establishment of the gold standard at Bretton Woods, N.H., in 1944.
1941 - German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel ordered the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline.
1941 -
German military commander of
Kharkiv,
Ukraine issued an order, according to which the
Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15.000 Jews were shot at
Drobitsky Yar.
1941 -
Ellen Willis was born (d. 2006). American journalist.
1944 - Congress established the rank of General of Army, the 5-star General.
1946 -
Patty Duke was born. Americn actress who started her career at seven and won an Oscar for her portrayal of Helen Keller in
"The Miracle Worker." He went on to star in television's "The Patty Duke Show".
1946 -The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish the U.N. headquarters in New York City. The UN adopted a disarmament resolution prohibiting the A-bomb.
1946 -
Jane Birkin was born in London (d. 1946). British-born actress (Mrs Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust).
1946 -
Stan Smith was born. American tennis player.
1948 -
Lester Bangs was born (d. 1982). American music journalist.
1949 - Bulgarian ex-Premier Traicho Kostov was sentenced to die for treason in Sofia.
1950 - El coronel Osorio asume la presidencia de El Salvador.
1951 -
Jan Timman was born. Dutch chess grandmaster.
1952 - Teixeira de Pascoaes dies (b. 8 Nov. 1877). Portuguese poet/ Faleceu em Amarante
Teixeira de Pascoaes, poeta, defensor do Saudosismo como estética literária.
1953 -
René Eespere was born. Soviet-born Estonian composer.
1954 -
Alan Kulwicki was born (d. 1993). American race car driver.
1955 -
Albania,
Austria,
Bulgaria,
Finland,
Hungary,
Ireland,
Italy,
Jordan,
Laos,
Portugal,
Romania and
Spain join the
United Nations.
1956 - John Diefenbaker was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative party in Canada. he succeeded John Drew.
1958 - Mike Scott was born. British singer and songwriter (The Waterboys).1960 - Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms.
1960 - A U.S. B-52 bomber set a 10,000 mile non-stop record without refueling.
1960 -
Bob Paris was born. American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate.
1962 -
Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen) was born. American adult film actress.
1965 -
Ken Hill was born. Baseball player.
1966 -
Tim Skold was born. Swedish/American musician.
1967 -
DNA synthesized for the first time.
1971 -
Dick Tiger dies (b. 1929). African-born boxer.
1972 - Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor.
1972 - Astronauts
Harrison Schmitt and
Eugene Cernan blasted off from the moon to join the command module America in lunar orbit, thus ending America’s manned lunar exploration for the 20th century.
1973 -
Thuy Trang was born (d. 2001). American actress.
1973 -
Tia Texada was born. American actress and singer.
1974 -
Billy Koch was born. American baseball player.
1975 - Six South Moluccan extremists surrendered after holding 23 hostages for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen.
1975 - Arthur Treacher dies (b. 1894). English actor.1976 - Karl Carstens is elected Presuident of Germany.
1976 -
Leland Chapman was born. Bounty Hunter, son of Duane "Dog" Chapman.
1977 - War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years.
1978 - Dean Brogan was born. Australian rules footballer.1978 - Kim St-Pierre was born. Canadian ice hockey player. 1978 - Patty Schnyder was born. Swiss tennis player.1979 -
Michael Owen was born. English football (soccer) star.
1979 -
Sophie Monk was born. Australian actress, singer, and model.
1980 - After four days of meetings, members of NATO warned the Soviets to stay out of the internal affairs of Poland, saying that intervention would effectively destroy the détente between East and West.
1980 - Fans around the world paid tribute to John Lennon, six days after he was shot to death in New York City.
1980 - Didier Zokora was born. Ivorian footballer.1981 -
Amber Chia was born. Malaysian model and actress.
1981 -
Johnny Jeter was born. American professional wrestler.
1982 - Gerardo Iglesias es elegido secretario general del PCE (Partido Comunista de España) en sustitución de Santiago Carrillo.
1983 – The 3rd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.1983 -
Sara Afonso dies (b. 1899). Portuguese painter and ilustrator.
1984 -
Chris Brunt was born. Northern Irish football player.
1985 -
Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1985 -
Tom Smith was born. Welsh Rugby Union Player.
1986 - The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world. (The trip took nine days).
1987 - Supreme Court nominee Anthony M. Kennedy told his confirmation hearing he had no hidden agenda for abortion and privacy cases.
1987 - Chrysler pleaded no contest to federal charges of selling several thousand vehicles as new even though they'd been driven by employees with the odometer disconnected.
1987 - In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed.
1988 - In a dramatic policy shift, President Reagan authorized the United States to enter into a "substantive dialogue" with the Palestine Liberation Organization, after chairman Yasser Arafat said he was renouncing "all forms of terrorism."
1988 – Nicolas Batum was born. French basketball player.1988 – Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born. American singer and actress.1989 - Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho was born. Brazilian footballer.1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov dies (b. 1921). Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989 - Jock Mahoney dies (b. 1919). American actor and stuntman.
1990 - President Bush said he would nominate Lynn Martin to succeed Elizabeth H. Dole as labor secretary. 1990 - President Bush prodded Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to agree to talks on the Persian Gulf crisis by January third.
1990 - Right to Die case permitted Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed she died 12 days later.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin lost a battle with hard-liners as he was forced to abandon his reformist prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, in favor of Communist-era technocrat Viktor Chernomyrdin.
1992 - Tori Kelly was born. American singer.1993 - A Colorado judge struck down the state's voter-approved Amendment Two prohibiting gay rights laws, calling it unconstitutional.
1993 - United Mine Workers approved a five-year contract, ending a strike that had reached seven states and involved some of the nation's biggest coal operators.
1993 -
Jeff Alm dies (b. 1968). American football player.
1993 -
Myrna Loy dies in New York (b. 1905). American actress.
1994 - Former Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus, died at age 84. His refusal to let nine black students into Little Rock's Central High School in 1957 forced President Eisenhower to send in federal troops.
1994 - Orval Faubus dies (b. 1910). Governor of Arkansas.
1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. The experimental procedure at a San Francisco hospital was criticized by animal rights activists.
1995 - A way to genetically improve resistance to leaf blight in rice plants was reported found by scientists.
1995 -
Yugoslav Wars:
Dayton Agreement: An agreement for peace in Bosnia, reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, was formally signed. Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia signed the Bosnian peace treaty in Paris. The agreement divided Bosnia into 2 autonomous territories and granted 51% of Bosnia to the Muslim-Croat federation and 49% to the Serbs. Elections were scheduled and a force of 60,000 Western troops was planned for deployment. A 3-member presidency and a national parliament was also part of the plan.
1996 - Teamsters President Ron Carey won election to a second term. Later, the results were overturned, and Carey was barred from a rerun vote by a court-appointed monitor who ruled that Carey had used union money for his campaign.
1996 - In New Orleans, the 700-foot freighter, Bright Field, lost power on the Mississippi River, went out of control and slammed into a riverfront structure and then hit a crowded mall. No one was killed.
1996 -
Gaston Miron dies (b. 1928). French Canadian poet and editor.
1997 - Astronomers detected the brightest explosion ever detected in a galaxy 12 billion light-years away.
1997 - Cuban President Fidel Castro declared Christmas 1997 an official holiday to ensure the success of Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit in Jan.
1997 - From India it was reported that Bombay film studios churn out 900 features a year in Hindi and other Indian languages at an average cost of $2.24 million.
1997 - Iran's new president, Mohammad Khatami, called for a dialogue with the people of the United States - a nation reviled by his predecessors as "The Great Satan."
1997 - In Mexico the 500-seat Chamber of Deputies approved Pres. Zedillo’s $108.9 billion budget for 1988. The secret budget was reduced to $6.25 million.
1997 -From Mexico it was reported that the Korean owners of the Han Young plant in Tijuana have agreed to cut ties with the government union and recognize the independent Unidad Obrera (Worker Unity) that was elected on Oct 6.
1998 - Researchers reported that the protein IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor type1, was found to sustain muscle maintenance and repair when injected into muscle cells. The protein was packaged in the shell of a virus that causes no disease.
1998 - The peak of the Geminid meteor shower.
1998 - In Algeria Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia resigned.
1998 - In Angola UNITA rebels launched an offensive at Cuito and Huambo and claimed to have shot down a government jet.
1998 - In Brazil legislators proposed to give themselves a 59% pay raise as the economy slipped into recession.
1998 - The British human rights group, Global Witness, reported that in Angola UNITA was selling diamonds to finance its battles against government forces.
1998 - In China the armed forces completed the hand over of their commercial holdings to civilian control.
1998 - In Guinea Lansana Conte was re-elected president to a 7-year term with 54.1% of the vote.
1998 - In Iran authorities arrested several suspects in the recent string of murders of opposition figures. Pirouz Davani, leader of the United Left, and Rostami Hamedani, an activist with Davani, were reported missing.
1998 - In Mexico the Senate approved a new law that ended restrictions limiting foreign ownership of the nation’s top banks.
1998 - In Kosovo Serbian border guards killed 31 ethnic Albanian guerrillas on the Albanian border.
1998 - In Pec masked Albanian rebels opened fire in the Panda barroom and killed 6 young Kosovo Serbs.
1998 -
Annette Strauss dies (b. 1924). American philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
1999 - Jorge Edwards es galardonado con el Premio Cervantes.
1999 - In Seattle Ahmed Ressam (32) was arrested after crossing the border at Port Angeles from Canada with a car trunk with over 150 pounds of bomb-making materials that included 200 pounds of urea, timing devices and a bottle of RDX, cyclotrimethylene trinitramine. Canadian authorities later issued an arrest warrant for Abdelmajed Dahoumane for possessing or making explosives. Dahoumane was arrested in Algeria In Oct, 2000. In 2001 Ressam admitted that he planned to detonate a bomb at the LA Int’l. Airport. Mokhtar Haouari provided fake ID and $3,000 to Ressam. Haouari was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2002.
1999 - US and German negotiators agreed to establish a $5.2 billion fund for Nazi-era slave and forced laborers.
1999 - Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts cartoon, announced that he would retire and that the last Peanuts cartoon would appear Feb 13, 2000.
1999 - In Germany the government and industry officials agreed to establish nearly $5.2 billion fund to compensate slave laborers of the Nazi regime.
1999 - It was reported that Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa had recently announced a $3.75 billion environmental crusade in an effort to reduce pollution. An 80% reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions by 2005 was planned. Hong Kong's yearly emissions for sulfur dioxide was 80,000 tons. Guangdong Province on the Chinese mainland put out 630,000 tons.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.1999 - In Jammu-Kashmir, India, at least 6 people were killed in clashes between secessionist guerrillas and security forces.
1999 - In Mexico a passenger bus collided head-on with a gas truck and at least 26 people were killed near Salvatierra in Guanajuato.
1999 - In Panama former US Pres. Jimmy Carter symbolically turned over the Panama Canal. The official ownership transfer date was Dec 31.
1999 -In Romania Pres. Constantinescu fired Prime Minister Radu Vasile, though the constitution did not grant him that power. Alexandru Athanasiu, the Labor and Social Welfare minister, was named to replace Vasile. The average monthly salary was down to $89.
1999 - In South Africa Clarence Mlokoti (69), co-founder of the Kaizer Chiefs soccer team, was killed during an attempted car-jacking in Soweto.
1999 - Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian national, was arrested after authorities allegedly found nitroglycerin in the trunk of his car as he arrived from Canada by ferry at Port Angeles, Wash. (Ressam was convicted in April 2001 of terrorist conspiracy and eight other charges).
2000 -Pres. Clinton spoke in England and urged the US and other rich countries to end farm subsidies, spend money on fighting disease in the 3rd World and to cut emissions to thwart global warming.
2000 President-elect George W. Bush conferred by phone with congressional leaders of both parties and planned a goodwill tour of Washington, D.C.; he also received a flood of congratulatory calls from world leaders on his first full day as president-elect. ref#62190
2000 U.S. businessman Edward Pope was pardoned and released by Russia after being convicted of espionage.
2000 -The Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner.
2000 - In the southern Philippines Muslim extremists killed 3 passengers on a motorcycle taxi.
2000 - In Zimbabwe Pres. Mugabe claimed that his government has no control over the economy and blamed the “white man” as the real enemy during an address to a Congress of the ruling Zanu-PF Party.
2001 - The US vetoed a UN Security council vote that condemned all “acts of terror” against Israelis and Palestinians.
2001 - American and British commandos behind a screen of local Afghan fighters contained the last remnants of al Qaeda forces in the White Mountains of Tora Bora. American Marines occupied Kandahar airport.
2001 - The US shipped a load of corn to Cuba, the 1st American food shipment there since 1963.
2001 - European leaders agreed to send 4,000 troops to Afghanistan.
2001 - European nations began distributing a “Eurokit” of euro coins in advance of the Jan 1 day when the euro becomes legal tender.
2001 -The German parliament approved a plan to shut down all nuclear power plants within 20 years.
2001 -
W. G. Sebald dies in a car accident (b.1944). German-born British author. His books included “The Emigrants” (1996), “The Rings of Saturn” (1998) and “Austerlitz” (2001). The National Books Critics Circle awarded “Austerlitz” top honors in 2002.
2003 -
President of Pakistan, Gen.
Pervez Musharaf [b. 11 Aug 1943, ~] escapes an assassination attempt when a powerful bomb explodes a couple of minutes after his highly-guarded convoy crossed a bridge in Rawalpindi. There are no casualties.
2003 -
Blas Ople dies (b. 1927). Foreign minister of the Philippines.
2004 –
Cuba and
Venezuela founded the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
2004 -
Rod Kanehl dies (b. 1934). American baseball player.
2006 -
Ahmet Ertegün dies (b. 1923). Co-founder of Atlantic Records.
2006 -
Sivuca dies (b. 1930). Brazilian musician.
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