This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
03/12/1336 Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern 
03/12/1515 Caspar Othmayr, composer 
03/12/1685 George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne 
03/12/1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia) 
03/12/1758 Leopold earl van Limburg Stirum, general/politician 
03/12/1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer 
03/12/1788 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor 
03/12/1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer 
03/12/1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian 
03/12/1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57) 
03/12/1808 Gerrit van de Linde Jz, 'Principal', poet 
03/12/1816 David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 
03/12/1818 John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897 
03/12/1821 John Abbott, Qu‚bec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92) 
03/12/1821 Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern 
03/12/1823 William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 
03/12/1824 Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen) 
03/12/1826 Robert Lowry, composer 
03/12/1827 John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 
03/12/1827 William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897

03/12/1830 William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 187

03/12/1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer 
03/12/1832 Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts 
03/12/1835 Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer 
03/12/1837 Alexandre Guilmant, composer 
03/12/1838 William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye) 
03/12/1848 Cyrill Kistler, composer 
03/12/1855 John White, composer 
03/12/1859 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer 
03/12/1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer 
03/12/1862 Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher, founded Red Cross 
03/12/1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon, Cura‡aos poet 
03/12/1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder) 
03/12/1874 Edmund Eysler, Austria composer 
03/12/1874 Edmund Eysler, composer 
03/12/1875 Julio Garreta, composer 
03/12/1877 Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia 
03/12/1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint 
03/12/1878 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer 
03/12/1881 Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee) 
03/12/1881 Kemal Atatrk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey 
03/12/1881 V„in” A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27) 
03/12/1883 Judge Jackson, composer 
03/12/1888 Hall Johnson, composer 
03/12/1889 Johannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89) 
03/12/1889 Philip Guedalla, historian 
03/12/1890 A Evert Taube, Swedish writer 
03/12/1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (Petroesjka) 
03/12/1891 Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist 
03/12/1898 Fredrik J 'Frits' Bakker Jr, actor (Grandfather) 
03/12/1953 Ron Jeremy, XXX actor (Babe, Bad Girls, Caught From Behind) 
03/12/1900 David Croll, QC senator 
03/12/1900 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer 
03/12/1910 Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant) 
03/12/1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico 
03/12/1912 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh 
03/12/1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven) 
03/12/1912 Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour) 
03/12/1914 Jan Kapr, composer 
03/12/1917 Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing

03/12/1917 Tom Normanton, British MP 
03/12/1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer 
03/12/1921 Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers) 
03/12/1921 Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel) 
03/12/1921 Max de Metz, publisher/interpreter 
03/12/1921 Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals) 
03/12/1922 Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business) 
03/12/1922 Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico blues) 
03/12/1922 Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO) 
03/12/1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer 
03/12/1923 Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952)

03/12/1923 Norbert Brainin, violinist 
03/12/1923 Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7

03/12/1925 Georges Delerue, composer 
03/12/1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy) 
03/12/1925 Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973

03/12/1925 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55) 
03/12/1925 William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va) 
03/12/1926 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE) 
03/12/1926 George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii) 
03/12/1926 Gudrun Ure, actress 
03/12/1926 Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth) 
03/12/1926 John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn) 
03/12/1926 Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer 
03/12/1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery) 
03/12/1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist/conductor (3/27 NS) 
03/12/1927 Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina) 
03/12/1928 Edward Albee, US playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story) 
03/12/1928 Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music) 
03/12/1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority) 
03/12/1929 Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956) 
03/12/1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to US 
03/12/1930 Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda) 
03/12/1930 Stanko Horvat, composer 
03/12/1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection) 
03/12/1932 Andrew Young, US Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta) 
03/12/1934 Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields) 
03/12/1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu) 
03/12/1935 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century) 
03/12/1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co) 
03/12/1936 Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight) 
03/12/1936 Patrick Procktor, painter 
03/12/1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano 
03/12/1938 Dimitri Terzakis, composer 
03/12/1938 Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael 
03/12/1938 Norman Hogg, British MP 
03/12/1938 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer 
03/12/1939 Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart) 
03/12/1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director 
03/12/1940 Al Jarreau, jazz singer (Moonlighting) 
03/12/1940 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)

03/12/1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's) 
03/12/1942 Paul Kantner, US rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane) 
03/12/1942 Salvatore 'the Bull' Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti) 
03/12/1945 Hans van Emden, guitarist (Les Baroques) 
03/12/1946 Liza Minnelli, LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret) 
03/12/1947 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!) 
03/12/1948 James Taylor, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof) 
03/12/1948 Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota) 
03/12/1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health 
03/12/1949 Bill Payne, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero) 
03/12/1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury 
03/12/1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV) 
03/12/1949 Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian) 
03/12/1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player 
03/12/1951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties) 
03/12/1953 Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains) 
03/12/1956 Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP) 
03/12/1957 Marlon D Jackson, US singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow) 
03/12/1957 Steve Harris, English hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss) 
03/12/1958 Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978) 
03/12/1962 Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers) 
03/12/1963 Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)

03/12/1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984) 
03/12/1963 Paul Way, British golfer 
03/12/1966 Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/12/ 417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies 
03/12/ 604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies 
03/12/1209 Djamal al-din Aboe Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies 
03/12/1471 Dionysius de Kartuizer/van Rijkel, scholastic theologist, dies 
03/12/1496 Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philospher, dies 
03/12/1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed 
03/12/1570 Jacob van den Eynden, land advocate of Holland, dies 
03/12/1628 John Bull, organist/composer, dies 
03/12/1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45 
03/12/1734 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], lawyer, dies 
03/12/1753 George Berkeley, English/Irish philosopher/bishop of Cloyne, dies 
03/12/1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48 
03/12/1831 Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64 
03/12/1832 Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, dies at 45 
03/12/1834 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle/posing F), dies at 33

03/12/1840 Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61 
03/12/1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75 
03/12/1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52 
03/12/1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76 
03/12/1902 John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54 
03/12/1908 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61 
03/12/1909 Johanna M 'Lena' Bakker, actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34 
03/12/1913 Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61 
03/12/1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric Corp), dies 
03/12/1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies 
03/12/1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, dies 
03/12/1932 Ivar Kreuger, 'Swedish Match King' industrialist, commits suicide 
03/12/1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, composer, dies at 93 
03/12/1937 Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78 
03/12/1941 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72 
03/12/1942 Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76 
03/12/1949 Maria E 'Beppie' Bakker, actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95 
03/12/1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Zwischen the Racial), dies 
03/12/1955 Charlie 'Bird' Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC 
03/12/1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79 
03/12/1973 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57 
03/12/1973 Frankie 'Fordham Flash' Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74 
03/12/1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies 
03/12/1974 Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated 
03/12/1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies 
03/12/1982 Elisabeth Zernike, writer (Barrel of Things), dies at 90 
03/12/1983 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 

03/12/1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies 
03/12/1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarians/Us conductor, dies at 85 
03/12/1992 Charles Poons, of Paul Deen, dies 
03/12/1992 Hans G Kresse, cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies 
03/12/1992 Ida Oosterbaan, founder (Women Action Committee), dies 
03/12/1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Danish, dies 
03/12/1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/parliament leader (chr-dem), murdered 
03/12/1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, mayor (Ship bell), dies at 62 
03/12/1993 Cheek Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China 
03/12/1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies at 64 of cancer 
03/12/1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83 
03/12/1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/12/ 417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
03/12/ 604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
03/12/1000 Odo van Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III 
03/12/1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome 
03/12/1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected as Pope Lucius II, as Callistus II 
03/12/1350 Orvieto city government beheads Jewish-Christian relatives 
03/12/1365 University of Vienna mental home opens 
03/12/1496 Jews are expelled from Syria 
03/12/1572 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes publishes 'Bullock Lus¡ados' in Portugal 
03/12/1609 Bermudas becomes an English colony 
03/12/1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand 
03/12/1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies 
03/12/1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony 
03/12/1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 
03/12/1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine 
03/12/1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicag

03/12/1789 US Post Office established 
03/12/1848 2nd republic established in France 
03/12/1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif 
03/12/1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued 
03/12/1857 Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra' 1st preformed (Venice Italy) 
03/12/1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists 
03/12/1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri 
03/12/1867 Last French troops leave Mexico 
03/12/1868 British create Basutoland in Africa 
03/12/1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax 
03/12/1871 R Luther discovers asteroid #113 Amalthea 
03/12/1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa 
03/12/1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women 
03/12/1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die) 
03/12/1888 Blizzard hits NY; about 800 die 
03/12/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #362 Havnia 
03/12/1896 1st movie in Netherland (Kalverstr 220) 
03/12/1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein 
03/12/1903 AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees) 
03/12/1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport) 
03/12/1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund 
03/12/1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast 
03/12/1908 Mont Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908) 
03/12/1910 Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup 
03/12/1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane 
03/12/1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Lo

03/12/1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid 
03/12/1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3 
03/12/1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 
03/12/1925 British govt of Baldwin ratifies Genevea agreement 
03/12/1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament 
03/12/1926 Pope Pius XI named archbishop of Mechelen 
03/12/1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt ta

03/12/1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) 
03/12/1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1308 Halleria 
03/12/1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1221 Amor 
03/12/1933 FDR conducts his 1st 'fireside chat' 
03/12/1934 Pres Constantine P„ts sees coup in Tallinn Estonia 
03/12/1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages 
03/12/1936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2331 Parvulesco 
03/12/1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) 
03/12/1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies 
03/12/1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus 
03/12/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #2738 
03/12/1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands 
03/12/1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 
03/12/1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3446 
03/12/1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma 
03/12/1945 CPI calls on for armed uprising in Italy 
03/12/1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment 
03/12/1945 The British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day 
03/12/1945 USSR gives Transylvania to Romania 
03/12/1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 
03/12/1947 Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns 
03/12/1947 Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism 
03/12/1950 Belgium agrees (58%) for return of king Leopold III 
03/12/1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical 'On combating atheistic propaganda' 
03/12/1951 Communistic troops driven out of Seoul 
03/12/1954 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1970 
03/12/1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions 
03/12/1958 British Empire Day is renamed 'Commonwealth Day' 
03/12/1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins Second-Parliamentary election 
03/12/1959 House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood 
03/12/1962 Dutch Premier De Quay has secret talks with Indonesia 
03/12/1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 
03/12/1963 Bob Dylan cancels 'Ed Sullivan Show' television appearance 
03/12/1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentence to 8 years 
03/12/1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam 
03/12/1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting 
03/12/1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record 
03/12/1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) 
03/12/1966 Love's 1st album released 'Love' 
03/12/1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?] 
03/12/1967 Austrtia's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet 
03/12/1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority 
03/12/1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) 
03/12/1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home 
03/12/1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London 
03/12/1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18 
03/12/1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P‚rez Morena de Macias 
03/12/1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 
03/12/1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army 
03/12/1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons 
03/12/1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash 
03/12/1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2577 Litva 
03/12/1975 Vietcong conquer Ben me Thuot 
03/12/1976 South African troops leave Angola 
03/12/1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party 
03/12/1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3319 Kibi 
03/12/1977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrority from Israel 
03/12/1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) 
03/12/1978 T Urata discovers asteroid #2090 Mizuho 
03/12/1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago 
03/12/1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin 
03/12/1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 
03/12/1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA 
03/12/1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on 'Nightline' 
03/12/1984 National Union of Mineworkers in England begin a 51 week strike 
03/12/1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points 
03/12/1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 
03/12/1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley 
03/12/1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 
03/12/1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game 
03/12/1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North 
03/12/1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) 
03/12/1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election 
03/12/1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland 
03/12/1993 317 killed by bomb attack in Bombay 
03/12/1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show 
03/12/1993 Inkhata leider Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech 
03/12/1994 Church of England select 1st 33 women priests 
  
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