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Today in History for 23rd December 2022

Historical Events

1862 – Union General Ben “Beast” Butler is proclaimed a “felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind” by Jefferson Davis
1939 – South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1941 – British troops overrun Benghazi, Libya
1948 – “Cinderella” the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Sergei Prokofiev is first presented by Sadler’s Wells Ballet at Covent Garden, London
1953 – Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 – Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia

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Famous Birthdays

1699 – Joseph Gibbs, English composer and organist, born in Colchester (d. 1788)
1869 – Hugh Allen, British organist, conductor (Bach Choir; Leeds Festival), and educator (Oxford, 1918-46-; Royal College of Music, 1918-37), born in Reading, Berkshire, England (d. 1946)
1903 – Fredericka “Fredi” Washington, American actress (Black and Tan), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1994)
1918 – Kumar Pallana, Indian character actor and vaudevillian (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore), born in Indore, India (d. 2013)
1946 – Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano, born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 2021)
1970 – Shannon Bream [DePuy], American Journalist (Fox News) Miss Virginia (1991), born in Lynchburg, Virginia

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Famous Deaths

1575 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1789 – Charles-Michel de l’Épée, French philanthropist and developer of ‘Signed French’, dies at 77
1805 – Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1925 – A S C Wallis [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer (Vorstengunst), dies at 69
1967 – Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), dies at 75
1973 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt is named, dies at 68

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Famous Deaths for 22nd December 2022

1738 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer, dies at 56
1832 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer, dies at 72
1918 – Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author and painter, dies at 83
1944 – Harry Langdon, American comedian (The Strong Man, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), dies at 60
1964 – Bonifacio Gil Garcia, Spanish composer and folklorist, dies at 66
1985 – D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
1996 – Hetta Empson, South African-British artist, dies at 81
1998 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
2009 – Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian politician (b. 1940)
2021 – Bob Keselowski, American auto racer (ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series 1989) and team owner (K Automotive Racing), dies from cancer at 70

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Historical Events for 22nd December 2022

1939 – Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 – Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 – Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1965 – Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour
1966 – WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1980 – MLB St. Louis Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1989 – Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution
1990 – Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games
1990 – Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait

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Today in History for 22nd December 2022

Historical Events

1135 – Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1688 – Earl of Danby occupies York for King William III, Prince of Orange
1935 – Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1967 – “The Graduate”, American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres (Best Director, 1968)
1971 – UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1977 – 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes

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Famous Birthdays

1546 – Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō, born in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan (d. 1604)
1929 – Leonard “Red” Balaban, American jazz tuba and sousaphone player, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2013)
1945 – Joris J. C. Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister (1994-, VVD), born in the Hague, Netherlands
1948 – Steve Garvey, American baseball player (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres), born in Tampa, Florida
1963 – Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer, born in Milan, Italy
1972 – Mike Thompson, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Portage, Wisconsin

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Famous Deaths

1660 – André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1809 – William Cooper, American judge and developer (founded Cooperstown, New York), dies at 55
1986 – Celius Dougherty, American pianist and composer, dies at 84
1987 – Leonidas Zoras, Greek conductor and composer, dies at 82
2002 – Kenneth Tobey, American actor (The Thing from Another World, Innerspace, Whirlybirds), dies of natural causes at 85
2006 – Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer, dies at 87

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Famous Deaths for 21st December 2022

1549 – Marguerite of Navarre, Queen of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre, dies at 57
1824 – James Parkinson, English physician (First description of Parkinson’s disease) and political activist, dies at 69
1864 – William Henry Fry, American composer, dies at 51
1889 – Friedrich August Quenstedt, German geologist and paleontologist, dies at 80
1907 – Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
1959 – Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1974 – James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
1986 – Willy Coppens, Belgian WW I fighter ace, dies at 94
1993 – Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
2006 – Sydney Wooderson, English athlete dubbed “The Mighty Atom” (world record 1937), dies at 92

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Historical Events for 21st December 2022

1900 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Michael Kramer” premieres in Berlin
1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1944 – Cards’ Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1949 – “Samson and Delilah”, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York
1959 – Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
1975 – Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Stockholm, Sweden: Home town hero Björn Borg beats Czech Jan Kodeš 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give Sweden unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
1975 – “Very Good Eddie” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
1978 – Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ musical “A Broadway Musical” opens and closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 1 performance
2005 – Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with singer Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union
2020 – Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley

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Today in History for 21st December 2022

Historical Events

1933 – Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1983 – NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men’s basketball free throw rule
1988 – Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; kills all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground
1997 – Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game

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Famous Birthdays

1928 – Thomas Rajna, British-Hungarian pianist, and composer (Amarantha; Stop All The Clocks), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2021)
1935 – Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician (Premier of Manitoba), born in Beausejour, Canada
1937 – Jane Fonda, American stage and screen Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress (Barbarella; Klute, 9 to 5), exercist (Jane Fonda’s Workout), and political activist, born in NYC, New York
1940 – Paul [Ray Hildebrand], American singer (Paul and Paula), born in Joshua, Texas
1944 – Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor, born in Aomori, Japan
1969 – Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer, born in Riga, Latvia

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Famous Deaths

1824 – James Parkinson, English physician (First description of Parkinson’s disease) and political activist, dies at 69
1979 – Mac Anderson, New Zealand cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five and one), dies at 60
1997 – Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64
2006 – Sydney Wooderson, English athlete dubbed “The Mighty Atom” (world record 1937), dies at 92
2017 – Roswell Rudd ,American free-jazz trombonist (Archie Shepp), and avant-garde composer (New York Art Quartet), dies of prostate cancer at 82
2020 – K. T. Oslin, American country singer (80’s Ladies), dies at 78

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Famous Deaths for 20th December 2022

860 – King Ethelbald of Wessex
1812 – Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies at 24
1815 – Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75
1981 – Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
1988 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer and president of the CBC, dies at 80
1991 – Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of a heart attack at 67
1991 – Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies
1995 – Adone Zecchi, Italian composer and conductor (Corale Euridice; Orchestra Bolognese de Camera), dies at 91
2005 – Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
2018 – Donald Moffat, British actor (Logan’s Run), dies at 87

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Historical Events for 20th December 2022

1823 – Play “Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus” by Helmina von Chézy with incidental music by Franz Schubert premieres in Vienna
1862 – Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi
1921 – AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9; Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1926 – St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to NY Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring; concerns over Hornsby’s gambling
1937 – Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O’Reilly takes career best 9-41 for NSW in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval
1966 – Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1970 – Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland’s communist party leader
1991 – NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators
2001 – 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2)
2017 – Lady Gaga signs Las Vegas residency deal for $75m at MGM Park Theatre

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Today in History for 20th December 2022

Historical Events

1900 – Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1939 – Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1985 – Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1992 – Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo “Worldwide Reliability”
1995 – Revival of Phillip Hayes Dean’s drama “Paul Robeson” opens at Longacre Theater, NYC; runs for 14 performances
2019 – United States Space Force founded, an armed forces branch dedicated to space warfare

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Famous Birthdays

1906 – Irving Krick, American meteorologist and inventor, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
1922 – Charita Bauer, American actress (The Guiding Light, Aldrich Family), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1985)
1944 – Jean Fergusson, English actress, born in Wakefield, United Kingdom
1961 – Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor, born in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt
1972 – Jonathan Wyatt, New Zealand 5000m runner (Olympics 1996), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1998 – Dylan Wang [Wang Hedi], Chinese actor and singer (Meteor Garden), born in Chengdu, Sichuan

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Famous Deaths

1494 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
1749 – Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
1876 – Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1986 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
2012 – Eagle Keys, American Canadian Football Hall of Fame linebacker and coach (Grey Cup champion 1949, 54-56, 66; Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan R’riders), dies at 89
2015 – Patricia Elliott, American actress (Renee-Empire, One Life to Live), dies at 77

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