From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
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Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on December 21
Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:46:34 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on December 21: 
1968  24 Khrystyne Haje Santa Clara, CA, actress (Head of the Class - Simone)
1960  32 Roger McDowall NY Met pitcher
1954  38 Chris Evert Lloyd Mills Ft. Lauderdale, tennis pro; "Miss Pokerface"
1953  39 Andras Schiff Budapest, Hungary, pianist
1948  44 Dave Kingman baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
1946  46 Christopher Keene  Berkeley, Calif., conductor
   and   Carl Wilson  rock singer, guitarist (Beach Boys - Barbie)
1944  48 Michael Tilson Thomas Los Angeles, conductor
1940  52 Frank Zappa rock musician (Mothers of Invention - Catholic Girls)
   and   Paul a.k.a. Ray Hildebrand, Texas, singer (Hey Paula)
1938  54 Larry Bryggman  Concord, Calif., actor (As the World Turns)
1937  55 Jane Fonda NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute, China Syndrome, Workout)
   and   Claire Renie Eliane Motte French ballerina (Paris Opira Ballet)
1935  57 Phil Donahue TV host (The Phil Donahue Show)
1931  61 David Baker  Indianapolis, composer (Reflections)
1928  64 Ed Nelson actor (Capitol, Peyton Place, Along Came a Spider)
1926  66 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez  Aguilares, Texas, actor (Rio Bravo)
1922  70 Paul Winchell ventriloquist (invented artificial heart)
1921  71 Jean Gascon Montrial, theater actor, director
1918  74 Kurt Waldheim 4th UN sec.-gen. (1972-81), Austrian pres, Nazi officer
   and   Donald Regan Reagan's treasury sec. (1981-85), White House staffer
1917  75 Heinrich Bvll German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel 1972)
   and   Andri Eglevsky  Moscow, ballet dancer, choreographer (Limelight)
1911  81 Josh Gibson pro baseball player, the "Negro Babe Ruth"; hit 800+ HRs
1909  83 George Ball  Iowa, lawyer, undersecretary of state
1892 100 Dame Rebecca West London, journalist, novelist, critic, feminist
   and   Walter Hagen  Rochester, NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 1919)
1891 101 John W. McCormack (D) speaker of the House (1962-70)
1889 103 Sewall Wright Mass., cofounder of population genetics
1874 118 Juan Bautista Sacasa president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1872 120 Albert P. Terhune US novelist (Lad a Dog)
1860 132 Henrietta Szold founder of Hadassah
1859 133 Gustave Kahn France, poet; claimed to have invented vers libre
1836 156 Mily A. Balakirev  Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (1/2/1837 NS)
1823 169 Jean Henri Fabre France, entomologist
1804 188 Benjamin Disraeli (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
1795 197 Leopold von Ranke German historian, father of modern historiography
1773 219 Robert Brown Scottish botanist, discoverer of Brownian motion

 Deaths Which Occured December 21: 
1954  38 Marilyn Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife, is murdered (crime he is accused of)
1940  52 F. Scott Fitzgerald author, dies in Hollywood at 44, leaving "The
         Last Tycoon" unfinished
1375 617 Giovanni Boccaccio author of "The Decameron," dies at about 62

 Holidays Which Occur December 21: 
1660 332 Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, Mass.)

 Religious Observances on December 21:
1597 395 Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, priest & doctor (opt) (RC)
         Commemoration of St. Thomas the apostle (RC, Luth, Ang, Cong)

 Things to Remember for December 21: 
         Flowers - Narcissus, Poinsettia & Holly      Gems - Turquoise & Zircon
Last Day Astrological sign:  Sagittarius
  7 Days Halcyon Days
  2 Days Ursid (Umid) meteor shower, radiant near _ Ursa Minor
         Winter Solstice in Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year
         India/Madagascar, Africa, Antarctica separate (geoyear 138)

 Highlights in History Which Occur December 21: 
1988   4 NY-bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland - all 258 aboard die
1987   5 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1985   7 "ARCO Anchorage" runs aground near Pt. Angeles, WA, spills 239,000 gal
1984   8 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Venus & Halley's Comet
1981  11 Cincinnati defeats Bradley in 7 OT - longest college basketball game
1979  13 Experimental magnetically levitated Japanese train attains 517 kph
   and   Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
1975  17 John Riggins becomes 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yds rushing in a season
   and   Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points, beat Caps 14-2
1973  19 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
1972  20 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1968  24 Apollo 8 launched to cislunar space (6-day trip)
   and   Jim Benagh publishes "Incredible Athletic Feats"                     <
1966  26 USSR launches Luna 13; later soft-lands in Oceanus Procellarum
1965  27 Amateur radio satellite Oscar 4 launched (163/33,550 km)
1964  28 US Explorer 26 (S-3c) launched into earth orbit (311/26,220 km)
1955  37 Montgomery bus boycott ends after 16 days
1948  44 Rep. of Iire (formerly Irish Free State) withdraws from Commonwealth
1937  55 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White)
1933  59 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania
   and   Newfoundland loses its status as a dominion, reverts to crown colony
1929  63 1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas
1923  69 Nepal changes from a British protectorate to an independent nation
1921  71 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
1915  77 25.83 cm (10.17") of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
1914  78 1st feature-length silent-film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
         released (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
1913  79 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in "NY World"
1909  83 Univ. of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to north pole
1898  94 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium
1867 125 Ausgleich - Austria-Hungary organized as a dual monarchy
1849 143 1st US skating club formed (Philadelphia)
1829 163 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1784 208 John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of foreign affairs (state)

 That's all for TODAY!