From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
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Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on December 14
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:24:57 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on December 14: 
1963  29 Sergey Bubka  Ukraine, world champion pole vaulter
1958  34 Mike Scott rocker (Blues Inc., Waterboys - Rainbow Warrior)
1956  36 Hanni Wenzel  of Liechtenstein, slalom skier (2 Olympic gold 1980)
1953  39 Vijay Amritraj India, tennis player, actor (Octopussy)
   and   Joe Toplyn Boston, comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
1949  43 Cliff Williams bass player (AC/DC - Highway to Hell)
   and   Bill Buckner  Andover, Mass., 1st baseman (Boston, Kansas City)
1947  45 Christopher Parkening LA, guitarist, transcriber of sacred music
1946  46 Joyce Wilson Detroit, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
   and   Jane Birkin actress (Mr. Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
   and   Patty Duke [Astin] Bkln., actress (Miracle Worker, Patty Duke Show)
   and   Stan Smith tennis pro (Wimbledon 1972)
1942  50 Rex Thompson NYC, actor (Young Bess, The King & I, Her 12 Men)
1939  53 Ernest Davis 1st black to win football's Heisman Trophy (1961)
1938  54 Leonardo Boff  Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian
   and   Janette Scott actress (The Day of the Triffids)
1936  56 Robert Allan Ridley Parker Ph.D., NYC, astronaut (STS-9)
1935  57 Lee Remick Boston, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Long Hot Summer)
1932  60 Abbe Lane Bkln., a.k.a. Mrs. Xavier Cugat, singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
   and   Charlie Rich  Colt, Arkansas, singer (Behind Closed Doors)
   and   George Furth actor, director (Good Guys, Tammy)
1924  68 Siiri Rantanen Finland, cross-country skier (Olympic gold 1956)
1922  70 Charlie Trippi  Pittston, Penn., NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
1919  73 Shirley Jackson US writer (The Road Through the Wall)
1918  74 Jack Cole New Castle, Penn., cartoonist (Plastic Man)
1917  75 Elyse Knox  Hartford, Conn., actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
   and   Dan Dailey dancer, actor (The Gov. & JJ, It's Always Fair Weather)
1914  78 Rosalyn Tureck  Chicago, pianist (Bach & Rock)
   and   Morey Amsterdam actor, comedian (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
1911  81 Spike Jones Long Beach, Calif., bandleader
1909  83 Edward L. Tatum US molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
1901  91 Paul I king of the Hellenes (1947-64)
1897  95 Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine)
1896  96 James H. Doolittle air force general
1895  97 George VI king of England (1936-52)
1883 109 Morihei Ueshiba founder of Aikido
1829 163 John Mercer Langston 1st black to hold US political office
1640 352 Aphra Behn 1st professional Englishwoman writer (baptized)
1546 446 Tycho Brahe  Knudstrup, Denmark, astronomer with a silver nose
1503 489 Nostradamus  Saint-Rimy, France, astrologer, seer, physician

 Deaths Which Occured December 14: 
1989   3 Andrei Sakharov  Soviet physicist, politician, dies at 68
1945  47 Josef Kramer known as the "beast of Belsen," & 10 others hung for
         crimes committed at the Belsen & Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps
1799 193 George Washington 1st US president, dies at Mount Vernon, Va. at 67

 Holidays Which Occur December 14:
1217 775 Festival of Mevlana - Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes) (Turkey)

 Religious Observances on December 14: 
1591 401 Memorial of St. John of the Cross, priest & doctor (RC, Luth)
         Commemoration of Teresa of Avila (Luth)

 Things to Remember for December 14: 
         Flowers - Narcissus, Poinsettia & Holly      Gems - Turquoise & Zircon
  7 Days Astrological sign:  Sagittarius
Last Day Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini, near Castor
  2 Days Human Rights Week (United Nations)
 14 Days Halcyon Days
         Italian & French dates are Old Style to 1582, New Style thereafter
         Norian catastrophe; mammals appear (geoyear 216)
         Coccolithophyceae & Pterosaurs appear (geoyear 225)

 Highlights in History Which Occur December 14: 
1287 705  Zuider Zee seawall collapses with the loss of 50,000 lives.
1989   3 1st computer BBS in USSR goes on-line, Tallinn, Estonia - 0142-422-583
   and   Mt. Redoubt, Alaska erupts, spews ash 11 km high
1988   4 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures
   and   NBA Miami Heat wins 1st game ever after 17 losses, 89-88 v. Clippers
1985   7 Wilma Mankiller becomes 1st Native American woman chief (Cherokee)
1981  11 Israel annexes Golan Heights
1977  15 1st formal Egypt-Israel peace conference opens, Cairo
1972  20 Ice skater Roger Wood jumps a record 8.89 m (29' 2") over barrels
1971  21 Golden Gate Bridge's lights are out all night from a power failure
1962  30 Mariner 2 makes 1st successful fly-by of Venus (34,827 km)
   and   Only inmate to swim away from Alcatraz is recaptured at Golden Gate
1961  31 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" becomes 1st country single certified gold
1959  33 J.B. Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m
1958  34 Tom & Jerry (Simon & Garfunkel) release their 1st single, "The Diary"
1957  35 Neil Sedaka's 1st hit, "Hey Schoolgirl," is released
1952  40 Washington Redskin QB Sammy Baugh, 37, plays his last NFL game
   and   Dallas Texans (formerly Boston Yanks) play last game - last NFL team
         to fold - also last NFL team with 0 field goals in a season
1950  42 UN Gen. Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1941  51 1st NFL divisional playoff - Bears (10-1) beat Packers (10-1), 33-14
1939  53 League of Nations expels the Soviet Union for invasion of Finland
1934  58 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany, NY
1927  65 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1911  81 South pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1910  82 1st reported American football game in Britain - "USS Georgia" wins
1901  91 1st table tennis tournament is held, at the London Royal Aquarium
1900  92 Max Planck announces the 1st formulation of quantum theory, Berlin
1894  98 Socialist Eugene Debs sentenced to 6 months in jail in railroad strike
1849 143 1st chamber music group in US gives its 1st concert, Boston
1825 167 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins (OS)
1819 173 Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state
1793 199 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky. to Cincinnati
1782 210 Charleston, SC evacuated by the British
1656 336 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured, by M. Jacquin in Paris; made of
         gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1655 337 Jews readmitted into England by Cromwell
1542 450 6-day-old Mary Queen of Scots accedes to the Scottish throne

 That's all for TODAY! 




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