1591 – Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), dies at 72
1828 – Waldemar Thrane, Norwegian composer, dies at 38
1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician and 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1946-52), dies at 72
1989 – Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
1995 – Doris Grau, American script supervisor, actress and voice artist (Point Blank, King Kong), dies from respiratory failure at 71
1996 – (Marvin John) “Jack” Nance, American stage and screen actor (Eraserhead; Twin Peaks), dies at 53
1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
2005 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (Mazes and Monsters), dies at 74
2014 – Erik Hansen, Danish canoeist (Olympic gold K-1 1000m 1960; World C’ship gold 1963), dies at 74
2014 – Yolande Donlan, British-American actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess), dies at 94
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Historical Events for 30th December 2022
1813 – Danzig surrenders to allied armies
1908 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC, 14-9 in 2 game challenge series
1929 – Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
1941 – Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
1970 – The financial cost of the disturbances and riots in Northern Ireland during 1969 and 1970 are today estimated to be £5.5 million
1973 – NFC Championship, Texas Stadium, Irving: Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys, 27-10
1975 – Ballon d’Or: FC Dynamo Kyiv forward Oleg Blokhin claims award for best European football player ahead of former winners, Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer and Ajax forward Johan Cruyff
1982 – Anthony Shaffer’s “Whodunnit” premieres in NYC
1995 – Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982
2006 – Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
Today in History for 30th December 2022
Historical Events
1926 – Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
1929 – Cole Porter’s musical “Wake Up And Dream” opens at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC; runs for 136 performances
1956 – National Football League Championship, Yankee Stadium, NYC: New York Giants beat Chicago Bears, 47-7; Giants’ 4th NFL title
1990 – 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin
2017 – 84th Orange Bowl: #6 Wisconsin beats #11 Miami (Florida), 34-24
Famous Birthdays
1859 – Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech composer, born in Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1951)
1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon
1940 – Jerry Granelli, American-Canadian jazz drummer (Vince Guaraldi Trio; Mose Allison), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2021)
1963 – Milan Srejber, Czech tennis star
1969 – Michelle McGann, American golfer (7 LPGA Tour wins), born in West Palm Beach, Florida
Famous Deaths
1525 – Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1591 – Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), dies at 72
1899 – James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1952 – Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1998 – George Webb, British actor (Keeping Up Appearances), dies of natural causes at 86
Famous Deaths for 29th December 2022
1170 – Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury (1162-70), assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52
1785 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
1933 – Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1958 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63
1975 – Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1981 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1996 – Oswald Szemerényi, Hungarian linguist, dies at 83
1998 – Donald “Don” Taylor, American director and actor (Father’s Little Dividend, Escape from the Planet of the Apes), dies of hear failure at 78
2005 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2020 – John Paul Jr., American auto racer (IMSA GT C’ship 1982; 24 Hours of Daytona 1982, 92; 12 Hours of Sebring 1982), dies from Huntington’s disease at 60
Historical Events for 29th December 2022
1705 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon’s play “Idoménée” premieres in Paris
1911 – Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China
1920 – Yugoslav government bans communist party
1922 – Dutch Constitution proclaimed
1933 – New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
1947 – Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1967 – Star Trek’s “Trouble With Tribbles” 1st airs
1968 – Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
1993 – Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
1996 – “Dreams and Nightmares” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
Today in History for 29th December 2022
Historical Events
1566 – Danish student and future astronomer Tycho Brache loses part of his nose in a sword duel over who is the better mathematician (he wore a prosthetic nose the rest of his life)
1926 – Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 and 230) by an innings 656 runs
1947 – Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1978 – Spain constitution goes into effect
1997 – Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
2013 – Chaparrastique volcano erupts in El Salvador
Famous Birthdays
1859 – Jack Simpson, Scottish golfer (British Open 1884), born in Earlsferry, Fife (d. 1895)
1903 – Clyde McCoy, American jazz trumpeter (“Sugar Blues”; the wah-wah sound), bandleader and co-founder of “Down Beat” magazine, born in Ashland, Kentucky (d. 1990)
1950 – Géza Csapó, Hungarian sprint canoeist (6 x World C’ship gold; Olympic silver K-1 1000m 1976, bronze 1972), born in Szolnok, Hungary (d. 2022)
1955 – Neil “Spyder” Giraldo, American rock guitarist, arranger, and producer (Pat Benatar Band), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1979 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, born in Toluca, Mexico
1989 – Jane Levy, American actress (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1661 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1929 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
1967 – Paul Whiteman “The King of Jazz”, American orchestra leader (Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue”; Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77
1975 – Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1995 – Schlomo Joffe, Polish-Israeli folk and classical musician and composer, dies at 86
2008 – Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 28th December 2022
1367 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (2nd shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate), dies at 37
1862 – Joaquim Casimiro Jr., Portuguese composer, dies at 54
1891 – Alfred Cellier, British conductor (Glibert and Sullivan) and composer (Dorothy), dies at 47
1918 – George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (Rydberg formula), dies at 65
1985 – Benny Morton, American jazz trombonist (Teddy Wilson Sextet), dies at 78
1991 – Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure
1999 – Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone Ranger), dies at 85
2003 – Benjamin T. Hacker, American naval aviator (first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank), dies at 68
2021 – Nikolay Shirshov, Uzbekistani soccer defensive midfielder (64 caps; FC Pakhtakor Tashkent, FC Rostov), dies at 47
Historical Events for 28th December 2022
1921 – The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state
1944 – Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1961 – 50th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Melbourne (5-0)
1967 – Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
1968 – 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1985 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 – Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
1994 – David Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
1997 – Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
2009 – Scarlett Johansson makes her debut on Broadway in the Arthur Miller play “A View from the Bridge”
Today in History for 28th December 2022
Historical Events
801 – Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
1912 – National Council of Young Israel convenes
1918 – Montreal’s Georges Vezina becomes the first NHL goalie to record an assist during the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas
1975 – Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
2007 – Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
2018 – UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes of Brazil moves up in weight and KOs dominant featherweight Cris “Cyborg” Justino just 51 seconds into the opening round at the Forum, Inglewood, CA; first female to win UFC titles in multiple weight classes
Famous Birthdays
1914 – Bernard Youens [Popley], British actor (Coronation Street, Somewhere in Politics), born in Hove, East Sussex, England (d. 1984)
1971 – Melvin Nieves, Puerto Rican professional baseball outfielder (Detroit Tigers), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
1979 – Senna Guemmour, German singer-songwriter (Monrose), born in Frankfurt, Germany
1980 – Lomana LuaLua, Congolese football player, born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1980 – Vanessa Ferlito, American actress, born in Brooklyn, New York City
1989 – Mackenzie Rosman, American actress, born in Charleston, South Carolina
Famous Deaths
1795 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
1915 – Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer and politician, dies at 78
1962 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer’s World), dies at 68
1976 – Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman, dies at 73
2016 – Gregorio Alvarez, Uruguayan dictator and President of Uruguay (1981-85), dies in prison at 91
Famous Deaths for 27th December 2022
1065 – Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castile, dies
1631 – John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47
1737 – William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
1812 – Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745)
1880 – Alessandro Nini, Italian composer, dies at 75
1991 – Edward M Love, American Broadaway dancer and choreographer, dies of AIDS at 43
2002 – George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922)
2003 – Ivan Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1991; Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), dies from multiple firearm wounds at 41
2006 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley and Chairman of the Board of Governors of BBC (1986-96), dies at 83
2019 – (Beryl) “Jack” Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter (Merv Griffin), singer (Schoolhouse Rock), and actor (Run Buddy Run), dies at 88