1617 – Saint Rose of Lima dies
1797 – Writer Mary Shelley born
1835 – City of Melbourne founded in Australia
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run, American Civil War
1893 – Louisiana politician Huey “The Kingfish” Long born
1918 – Fanya Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Lenin
1941 – Siege of Leningrad begins, World War I
1959 – Mark “Jacko” Jackson, Australian footballer best-known in the USA for an Energizer battery commercial, and I are both born
1963 – Hotline linking USA and USSR leaders becomes operational
1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first Negro/black/African-American justice of United States Supreme Court
196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031) is born.
1513 (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
1863 - Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer, born (d. 1933)
1942 - Michael York, English actor, born
1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934), died (this is on my actual birthday).
1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.
1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor (Mal !!) is born. :D:cool:
1972 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898) died.
Well shoot, Dolores took most of the good stuff. That’s what I get for showing up to the thread a week late! However, I’ll throw in that I share the exact same birthday with Cary Elwes.
On my birthday
1985 Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
1985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Momar Qadhafi
10 others from Dec 27
0537 The Hagia Sophia is completed.
1822 Louis Pasteur born
1850 Hawaiian Fire Department established
1932 Radio City Music Hall opens (New York NY)
1939 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
1945 Allied Powers Agree to Divide Korea
1945 The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1951 The Crosley car was put into use by the U.S. Postal Service in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the first right-hand-drive car designed specifically for mail delivery
1968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
1978 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
