Today’s Important Historical Events
1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore at in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [OS=Dec 11]
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
1968 Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders
1988 Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; kills all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground [1]
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
Today’s Historical Events
1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
1561 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Archbishop of Mechelen, made Cardinal
1582 Flanders adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days making the next day Jan 1, 1583
1598 Battle of Curalaba: the Mapuche people led by Pelentaru revolt and inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile
1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore at in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [OS=Dec 11]
1650 Johan de Witt installed as Dutch Pensionary of Dordrecht
1784 John Jay becomes acting US Secretary of State (1789-90)
1788 Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
1925 “Battleship Potemkin”, Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
1933 Fox Films signs Shirley Temple aged 5, to a studio contract
1934 French film “Zouzou” premieres in Paris, starring Josephine Baker; 1st black woman to star in a major motion picture
1937 The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre
1949 “Samson and Delilah”, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York
1952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
Today’s Historical Music Events
1920 Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva’s musical “Sally” premieres in NYC
1941 David Diamond’s 1st Symphony premieres
1945 “Billion Dollar Baby” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
1946 “If the Shoe Fits” closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
1950 Cole Porter‘s musical “Out of this World” premieres at New Century Theater NYC; runs for 157 performances
1960 Ornette Coleman records his influential album “Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation”, establishes the name for the Free Jazz sound
1961 Beatles record “Sweet Georgia Brown” & “Ready Teddy”
1968 Glen Campbell‘s album “Wichita Lineman” goes to #1 in the US
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts
1918 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
1925 Test batsman Hunter “Stork” Hendry scores career best unbeaten 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in drawn tour match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1936 Bradman‘s 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out for 80
1937 O’Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust
1937 Chicago Black Hawks left wing Paul Thompson becomes first player in NHL history to score a goal against his brother; scores on bro Cecil of the Boston Bruins with just 9 seconds left in regulation; Bruins win though, 2-1
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