1669 – Clement IX [Giulio Rospigliosi], Italian Pope (238th: 1667-69), dies allegedly of broken heart at 69
1767 – Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies
1956 – Hans Barth, German-born American composer, dies at 59
1965 – Branch Rickey, American Baseball HOF catcher (St. Louis Browns), manager (St. Louis Browns, Cardinals) and executive (GM St.Louis Cardinals 4 x World Series), dies of heart failure at 83
1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
1974 – Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Portuguese composer, dies at 64
1983 – David Rounds, American actor (Terence-Beacon Hill, Alice, The Blue and The Grey), dies of cancer at 53
2009 – Gene Barry [Eugene Klass], American actor (The Atomic City, Bat Masterson), dies of congestive heart failure at 90
2020 – Paolo Rossi, Italian soccer striker (48 caps; FIFA World Cup 1982 [Golden Boot, Golden Ball]; L.R. Vicenza, Juventus), dies at 64
2020 – Alex Olmedo, American/Peruvian tennis player (Australian C’ships, Wimbledon 1959), dies from brain cancer at 84
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Historical Events for 9th December 2022
536 – Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire
1738 – Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1854 – Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” is published in “The Examiner”
1941 – Adolf Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed
1975 – Yelena Bonner accepts Soviet dissident Andrei Sacharov’s Nobel Prize in Oslo
1978 – 1st game of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
1990 – NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
1993 – Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
2012 – 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
2021 – Chicago Black Hawks Marc-Andre Fleury becomes 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal
Today in History for 9th December 2022
Historical Events
1931 – Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1949 – NFL merges with AAFC; Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts join league intact, other teams in New York and Los Angeles are merged with existing units
1961 – Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania – with Ukuru (Freedom) Torch lit on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro
1967 – Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes President of Romania (overthrown in 1989)
1968 – KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana
Famous Birthdays
1787 – John Dobson, English architect, born in High Chirton, North Shields, England (d. 1865)
1899 – Howard Freeman, American actor (Studio One, Double Dynamite), born in Helena, Montana (d. 1967)
1934 – Alan Ridout, British composer, born in West Wickham, England (d. 1996)
1944 – Bob O’Connor, American politician (Mayor of Pittsburgh, 2006), born in Greenfield, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2006)
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor (The Killing Fields; Dangerous Liaisons), born in Christopher, Illinois
1973 – Stacey Abrams, American politician, lawyer and voting rights activist, born in Madison, Wisconsin
Famous Deaths
1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian macaronic poet, dies at 53
1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (naturalist on James Cook’s second Pacific voyage), dies at 69
1814 – Jose Angel Lamas, Venezuelan composer, dies at 39
1940 – Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
1992 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Moonstruck, Little Shop of Horrors), dies of a heart attack at 71
2021 – Demaryius Thomas, American football wide receiver (Super Bowl 2015; 4 × Pro Bowl; Denver Broncos), dies at 33
Famous Deaths for 8th December 2022
899 – Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
1643 – John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
1864 – George Boole, English mathematician (Boolean algebra), dies at 49
1914 – Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
1938 – Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
1945 – Richard M. Jones, American jazz pianist, accompanist, songwriter (“Trouble In Mind”), record producer (Louis Armstrong) and label manager (Okeh; Decca; Mercury), dies at 53
1955 – Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), dies at 69
1963 – Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1982 – Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1990 – Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger’s Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
Historical Events for 8th December 2022
1326 – Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1864 – Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura (“Syllabus errorum”)
1915 – Jean Sibelius’ 5th Symphony in E premieres
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “Atoms for Peace” speech at the United Nations in New York
1973 – 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1977 – 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1984 – Ringo Starr hosts “Saturday Night Live”; Herbie Hancock is the musical guest
1993 – 4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win
1997 – 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win
1998 – Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
Today in History for 8th December 2022
Historical Events
1914 – Boers rebelling against the British in South Africa suffer several defeats, with one of their leaders, General Beyers, accidentally drowning
1952 – French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1963 – Frank Sinatra, Jr is kidnapped at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
1972 – United Airlines crashes at Chicago’s Midway Airport killing 45
1990 – Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
2018 – US President Donald Trump announces John Kelly will be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff at the end of the year
Famous Birthdays
1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (Hansen hypothesis), born in Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark (d. 1874)
1905 – Charles Cushing, American composer, born in Oakland, California (d. 1982)
1908 – John Volpe, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts) and U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1969-73), born in Wakefield, Massachusetts (d. 1994)
1942 – Bobby Elliott, British rock drummer (The Hollies), born in Burnley, Lancashire
1949 – Mary Gordon, American author
1959 – Jim Yong Kim, South Korean-American physician, anthropologist and President of the World Bank, born in Seoul, South Korea
Famous Deaths
1907 – Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
1940 – George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
1952 – Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
1958 – Tris Speaker, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1912, 15, 20; AL MVP 1912; career batting average .345 [6th all-time]; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland Indians 1919-26), dies at 70
1982 – Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered
1984 – Luther Adler, American actor (D.O.A., The Desert Fox), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 7th December 2022
1775 – Charles Saunders, British admiral, First Lord of the Admiralty, dies at about 60
1862 – Sylvester Churchill, US Union brigadier general, dies
1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian, dies at 68
1941 – Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1956 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor, dies at 77
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist whose carttoons inspired the Rube Goldberg contests (Pulitzer Prize 1948), dies of cancer at 87
1979 – Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran’s nephew, murdered in Paris
1988 – Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar’s Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
1990 – Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka), dies at 60
2005 – Lucy d’Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)
Historical Events for 7th December 2022
1727 – Physician Sir Hans Soane becomes President of the Royal Society, succeeding Sir Isaac Newton
1916 – David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister
1917 – The USA’s 42nd ‘Rainbow’ Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)
1980 – PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf, Turnberry Isle CC: Arnold Palmer wins with a birdie on the 1st playoff hole against Paul Harney
1988 – Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1989 – C Coleman and D Zippel’s musical “City of Angels” premieres in NYC
1994 – 5th Billboard Music Awards: Ace of Base and Mariah Carey win
2016 – 6.5 earthquake in Aceh province, Indonesia kills at least 97 people
2017 – Australia’s parliament votes to legalize gay marriage
2020 – Breaking, the competitive form of breakdancing, confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games
Today in History for 7th December 2022
Historical Events
1741 – Elisabeth Petrovna becomes Tsarina of Russia
1916 – David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister
1937 – Russian chess player Alexander Alekhine recaptures his final world title from Dutch grand master Max Euwe by a large margin (+10−4=11)
1978 – Islander’s Mike Bossy’s 1st career hat trick
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
2007 – The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.
Famous Birthdays
1860 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England (d. 1947)
1863 – Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party), born in Scuol, Switzerland (d. 1952)
1878 – Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet (Tangled Hair), born in Sakai, Ōsaka, Japan (d. 1942)
1971 – Ben Atkins, American fencer-epee (Olympics 1996), born in NYC, New York
1987 – Aaron Carter, American singer, rapper and songwriter, born in Tampa, Florida (d. 2022)
1989 – Nicholas Hoult, English actor (The Favourite; Tolkien; Peter III-The Great), born in Wokingham, England
Famous Deaths
1881 – Julius FA Bahnsen, German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51
1946 – Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
1984 – Jeanne Cagney, American stage, screen, and radio actress (Lion is in the Streets; Quicksand; Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies of lung cancer at 65
1990 – Peter Mieg, Swiss composer, dies at 84
1990 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet and novelist (Pentagonia), dies at 47
2019 – Ron Saunders, English soccer striker (Portsmouth) and manager (Manchester City, Aston Villa, Birmingham City), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 6th December 2022
1793 – Marie Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV, beheaded at 50
1799 – Joseph Black, Scottish chemist and physicist known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat and carbon dioxide, dies at 71
1890 – Joe Coburn, Irish boxer (Heavyweight C’ship of America 1863-65), dies from tuberculosis at 55
1920 – Karel Kovařovic, Czech composer, dies at 57
1934 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 71
1951 – J Edward Bromberg, Hungarian actor (The Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags), dies from a heart attack at 47
1956 – B.R. Ambedkar [Baba Saheb], Indian politician, jurist (architect of the Constitution of India) and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement, dies after suffering from diabetes at 65
1965 – Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90
1997 – Alan Mouncer, film director and producer, dies at 68
2020 – Petras Bingelis, Lithuania conductor, founder and artistic director (Kaunas State Choir, 1969-2020), dies of Covid-19 at 77