From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
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Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on December 22
Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:25:49 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on December 22: 
1951  41 Jan Stephenson NSW, golfer (1974 LPGA rookie of the year)
1949  43 Maurice & Robin Gibb twin Bee Gees (I Started a Joke, Holiday)
1948  44 Steve Garvey 1st baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
   and   Noel Edmonds British TV personality (Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
1945  47 Diane Sawyer  Glasgow, Ky., CBS news personality (60 Minutes)
1944  48 Steve Carlton  Phillie pitcher (Cy Young 1972, 1977, 1980, 1982)
1936  56 Hector Elizondo actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
1922  70 James C. Wright Jr. (D-Texas), speaker of the House (1987-89)
1918  74 Frank Hampson  Manchester, England, cartoonist (Dan Dane, Eagle)
1917  75 Gene Rayburn India, game show host (The Match Game)
1912  80 Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson first lady
1908  84 Giacomo Manzy  Bergamo, Italy, sculptor (Francesca)
1903  89 H. Keffer Hartline  US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
   and   Dr. Barbara Moore who walked across US in 86 days in 1960
1901  91 Andri Kostelanetz St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor
1900  92 Arie Jan Haagen-Smit  Neth., US biochemist, air pollution expert
1887 105 Srinivasa Ramanujan Indian number theorist
1885 107 Joseph Deems Taylor NYC, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
1883 109 Edgard Varhse Paris, composer (Hyperprism, Diserts)
1869 123 Edwin Arlington Robinson  Maine, poet (Richard Corey)
1862 130 Connie Mack HOF baseball manager (Phila. A's 1900-50), executive
1858 134 Giacomo Puccini  Lucca, Italy, composer (La Bohhme, Tosca)
1856 136 Frank Kellogg US secretary of state; tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
1815 177 Lucien Petipa  Marseille, France, ballet choreographer
1807 185 Johan S.C. Welhaven Bergen, Norway, poet, critic (The Dawn of Norway)
1765 227 Johann Friedrich Pfaff  German mathematician (differential equations)
1727 265 William Ellery signer of the Declaration of Independence
1696 296 James Oglethorpe English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
1639 353 Jean Racine French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
1400 592 Luca della Robbia Italy, sculptor (Madonna of the Rose Garden)

 Deaths Which Occured December 22: 
1988   4 Chico Mendes rubber tapper leader, politician, murdered, Brazil
1815 177 Josi Maria Morelos Mexican rebel priest, executed by the Spanish
1767 225 John Newberry English merchant, children's publisher, dies at c. 54
1721 271 Nathaniel Hawes robber, tortured & executed in England
1440 552 Bluebeard pirate, is executed

 Holidays Which Occur December 22: 
         International Arbor Day

 Religious Observances on December 22: 
         Yule, witches' sabbat
         Commemoration of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin, 1917 CE (RC)

 Things to Remember for December 22: 
         Flowers - Narcissus, Poinsettia & Holly      Gems - Turquoise & Zircon
  6 Days Halcyon Days
  1 Day  Ursid (Umid) meteor shower, radiant near _ Ursa Minor
  9 Days Astrological sign:  Capricorn
         Marsupials appear (geoyear 125)

 Highlights in History Which Occur December 22: 
1939  53  125 died in a train wreck at Magdeburg, Germany.
          99 died in second wreck at Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1950  42  2 self-propelled trains of the Long Island RR collided
          at Richmond Hill, New York, killing 77, injuring 318.
  2012   Mayan calendar reaches 13.0.0.0.0 for 2nd time (GMT) (very ominous)
1989   3 Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu overthrown after 24 years
   and   OAS votes 20-1 for immediate withdrawal of US troops from Panama
   and   Record cold in 128 cities in 30 US states
1988   4 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
   and   Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 500 km of Wash. & BC coast
1985   7 KC Chief Stephone Paige sets NFL game record with 309 yds receiving
1984   8 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train
   and   Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1983   9 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1982  10 World premier of Bruce Springsteen's 1st video, "Atlantic City" on MTV
1977  15 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1974  18 "NY Times" publishes Seymour Hersh's exposi of CIA domestic activities
   and   Referenda in Comoros - 3 islands vote for independence, 1 stays French
1972  20 Hanoi's largest hospital bombed by US planes
1969  23 Pete Maravich (La. St.) sets NCAA game record by making 30 free throws
1964  28 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1962  30 1st song by an English band to hit #1 in US, the Tornadoes' "Telstar"
1959  33 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1947  45 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1944  48 Germans demand surrender of US troops at Bastogne, Belgium
   and   Vo Nguyen Giap sets up armed propaganda brigade - beginning of
         Vietminh's resistance against the French
1943  49 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member of Nat'l Inst. of Arts & Letters
1941  51 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
1937  55 Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic
1936  56 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Penn.
1934  58 Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record of 702 pins in 3 games
1910  82 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1905  87 Insurrections of workers in Moscow (-Jan. 1, 1906)
1894  98 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggering
         worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (he is later vindicated)
  1894   United States Golf Association formed, NYC
1877 115 1st US bicycle magazine, "American Bicycling Journal," appears, Boston
1864 128 Gen. Sherman occupies Savannah, Georgia, ending his "March to the Sea"
1849 143 Fyodor Dostoevsky led out for execution, pardoned at the last minute
1808 184 Beethoven's 5th (in C minor) & 6th (in F major) symphonies premier
1807 185 Embargo Act passed; prohibits US ships in international commerce
1775 217 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1772 220 Moravian missionaries begin 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns.

 That's all for TODAY!




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