From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
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Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on December 18
Date: 18 Dec 1992 19:16:51 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on December 18: 
1966  26 Kiefer Sutherland actor (Lost Boys, Stand by Me, Young Guns)
1951  41 Joe Barnes CFL quarterback (Montrial Alouettes, Saskatchewan)
1950  42 Leonard Maltin movie reviewer (Entertainment Tonight)
1949  43 Joni Flynn  Assam, India, actress (Octopussy)
1947  45 Steven Spielberg Cincinnati, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
1946  46 Hubie Green Birmingham, Ala., PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
1945  47 Carolyn Wood US 4 x 100-m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1960)
1943  49 Keith Richard  Rolling Stone guitarist, singer
1939  53 Harold E. Varmus  Oceanside, NY, medical researcher (Nobel 1989)
1934  58 Boris V. Volynov Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
1932  60 Roger Smith Calif., actor (Never Steal Anything Small)
1930  62 Theodore C. Freeman Penn., astronaut
1927  65 Ramsey Clark US attorney general (1967-69)
1926  66 Peggy Cummins  North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
1919  73 Anita O'Day  Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton)
1917  75 Ossie Davis actor, playwright (Hot Stuff, A Man Called Adam)
   and   Lynn Bari actress (Earthbound)
1916  76 Betty Grable St. Louis, actress (Gay Divorcee) with great gams
1915  77 Dario Mangiarotti Italy, fencer (Olympic gold, silver 1948, 1952)
1913  79 Ray Meyer basketball coach (DePaul University)
   and   Willy Brandt (SD) chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel 1971)
1911  81 Jules Dassin director (Circle of 2, Never on Sunday)
1910  82 Abe Burrows NYC, Broadway impresario (Guys & Dolls, Can-Can)
1909  83 Mona Barrie actress (Dawn on the Great Divide)
1890 102 Edwin H. Armstrong NYC, radio pioneer, inventor of FM
1888 104 Robert Moses power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
1886 106 Ty Cobb who played in 3,000 games, batted .367, stole 892 bases
1879 113 Paul Klee Swiss abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
1870 122 Saki [H.H. Munro]  Burma, English short-story writer, humorist
1860 132 Edward A. MacDowell NYC, composer (Indian Suite)
1856 136 Sir Joseph J. Thomson Engl., discoverer of the electron (Nobel 1906)
1803 189 Gov. William Allen (Ohio)
1779 213 Joseph Grimaldi English pantomimist, "the greatest clown in history"
1707 285 Charles Wesley cofounder of the Methodist movement
1610 382 Charles Du Fresne sieur Du Cange, French scholar, philologist

 Deaths Which Occured December 18: 
1737 255 Antonio Stradivari violin-maker, dies at about 93, Cremona, Italy
1541 451 Culpeper & Dereham alleged paramours of Katherine Howard, executed

 Religious Observances on December 18:
   300   Feast of St. Gatianus, bishop, confessor, c. 300 CE (RC)
         Ember Day (RC, Ang)
         Commemoration of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of the lonely

 Things to Remember for December 18: 
         Flowers - Narcissus, Poinsettia & Holly      Gems - Turquoise & Zircon
  3 Days Astrological sign:  Sagittarius
 10 Days Halcyon Days
         Underdog Day
         For your own birthdays, events & reminders create file TODAY.OWN
         Brachiosaurs appear (geoyear 175)

 Highlights in History Which Occur December 18: 
1944  48  Destroyers 'Hull', 'Spence' & 'Monaghan' sink in typhoon 500
          miles off Luzon, Phillipines with loss of 769 lives.
1989   3 US government sticks nose in transportation workers' urine
1988   4 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title, with 9-7 record
1985   7 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1981  11 James Watt opens Lassen National Park, Calif. to snowmobiles
1980  12 Bruce Springsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
1978  14 2.5-kg, 66-cm diameter mushroom found near Kitwe, Zambia
1973  19 Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
1972  20 US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1971  21 Capitol Reef National Park, Utah established
1969  23 Britain abolishes the death penalty
1967  25 Protesters blockade military induction center, Oakland - 268 arrests
1965  27 Borman & Lovell splash down in Atlantic; 2-week Gemini 7 mission ends
1961  31 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
   and   Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs. LA
1958  34 1st voice from space - recorded Christmas message by Pres. Eisenhower
   and   Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1956  36 Israeli flag hoisted atop Mt. Sinai
   and   Japan admitted to the United Nations
   and   "To Tell the Truth" with Bud Collyer premiers on CBS TV (-1967)
1946  46 TV's 1st network dramatic serial, "Faraway Hill," ends 2-month run
   and   Damon Runyon's ashes scattered over Broadway by Eddie Rickenbacker
1944  48 Supreme Court allows concentration camps for Japanese-Americans
   and   Newspaper "Le Monde" publishes 1st issue, Paris
1936  56 1st giant panda imported into US
1932  60 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
1915  77 Pres. Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1914  78 British protectorate proclaimed over Egypt
1898  94 Automobile speed record set - 63 kph (39 mph)
1881 111 Trades unions legalized in New South Wales
1865 127 13th amendment ratified, abolishes slavery
1849 143 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
1831 161 NYC's 1st horsecar (without tracks) begins operation, until 1908
1813 179 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
1796 196 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, "Baltimore Monitor"
1792 200 Thomas Paine is tried in absentia for publishing "The Rights of Man"
1789 203 Virginia releases Kentucky Territory from its jurisdiction
1777 215 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1621 371 British House of Commons denies King James I's right to imprison MPs
1398 594 Timur sacks Delhi
  2347   B.C. Noah leaves arc, Mt. Ararat, according to Bp. Ussher's chronology

 That's all for TODAY!



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