1887 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1922 – Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies
1940 – Jan Kubelik, Czech composer, dies at 60
1974 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1909-11, 19), dies at 87
1986 – Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 – John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68
1992 – Felipe Padilla de León, Filipino composer, dies at 80
1995 – Victor Collin Matthews, British businessman, dies on 76th birthday
2012 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (Brasilia), dies from a respiratory infection at 104
2020 – Peter Alliss, English golfer (Ryder Cup 1957 GB winners) and author, course designer and television presenter, commentator (BBC, ESPN, ABC Sports), dies at 89
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Historical Events for 5th December 2021
1815 – Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
1936 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Sarnia Imperials defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20 for their 2nd Championship
1950 – Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 – American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merge to form the AFL-CIO, with George Meany as President
1974 – Airport terminal roof in Tehran collapses killing 17
1984 – French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
1990 – Iraq announces willingness to speak with US about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis
1991 – “Catskills on Broadway” opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 performances
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2017 – Netflix fires actor Danny Masterson from “The Ranch” after allegations of rape
Today in History for 5th December 2021
Historical Events
1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1925 – CFL Grey Cup, Landsdowne Park, Ottawa: Ottawa Senators win first title; beat Winnipeg Tammany Tigers, 24-1
1957 – NYC is first US city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
1974 – 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1982 – PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Don January wins his lone Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke over Julius Boros
1991 – “Catskills on Broadway” opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 performances
Famous Birthdays
1820 – Afanasy Fet, Russian poet, born in Mtsensk, Russia (d. 1892)
1852 – Thomas Laub, Danish organist and composer, born in Langå, Denmark (d. 1927)
1875 – Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (fought in WWI), born in Napperton, Ontario (d. 1933)
1901 – Walt [Walter Elias] Disney, American animator, (Mickey Mouse), producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Co., born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1966)
1966 – Niege Dias, Brazilian tennis star, born in Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
1984 – Chris Solinsky, American distance runner, born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Famous Deaths
1955 – Paul Harvey, American actor (Spellbound, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
1974 – Henry Wadsworth, American actor (The Thin Man, Applause, Fast and Loose), dies at 77
1984 – Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1991 – Richard Speck, American mass murderer (raped and killed 8 student nurses in 1966), dies a day before his 50th birthday
2016 – Mogens Camre, Danish politician (Folketing (Danish Parliament), 1968-1987, 3 days in 2007; European Parliament, 1999-2009, dies at 80
2017 – Johnny Hallyday [Jean-Philippe Smet], French singer and actor known as the “Elvis Presley of France,” dies from lung cancer at 74
Famous Deaths for 4th December 2021
1676 – Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, dies at 39
1893 – Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
1959 – Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1976 – Ace Gutowsky, Russian/American football fullback (Portsmouth Spartans, Brooklyn Dodgers; NFL C’ship 1935, Detroit Lions), dies of cancer at 67
1988 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist, dies at 89
1991 – Alex Graham, Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip “Fred Basset”, dies at 78
2000 – Colin Cowdrey, England cricket batsman (114 Tests, 7,624 runs @ 44.06), dies of a heart attack at 67
2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2011 – Sócrates [Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Sousa Vieira de Oliveira], Brazilian soccer midfielder and manager (60 caps, 22 goals Brazil; Corinthians), dies of septic shock at 57
2015 – Rodney Milne [Blumer], British opera critic (Opera magazine, 1971-99), musicologist, and libretto translator, dies at 79
Historical Events for 4th December 2021
1864 – Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek), Georgia
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published
1949 – Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
1977 – NFL’s 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
1981 – “Falcon Crest” premieres on CBS-TV
1988 – Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
1996 – 7th Billboard Music Awards: Alanis Morissette win
2011 – 100th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Seville (3-1)
2017 – New York’s Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct
Today in History for 4th December 2021
Historical Events
1489 – Battle of Baza – Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
1955 – Bernardus Johannes Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
1986 – US launches its Fleet Satellite Communications System (Fltsatcom-7)
1993 – Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
2014 – Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Blackpool, England: Team Europe beats US, 11-5 for 5th straight title; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
Famous Birthdays
1713 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist, born in Venice (d. 1786)
1913 – Robert Adler, Austrian-American inventor (remote control for television), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2007)
1944 – Dennis Wilson, American drummer and vocalist (Beach Boys), born in Hawthorne, California (d. 1983)
1956 – Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgarian weightlifter (World C’ship gold – 90kg 1991, 92, 93; Olympic silver – 82.5kg 1976), born in Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria
1974 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball second baseman and manager (first Japanese position player to win World Series 2005, Chicago White Sox; Chiba Lotte Marines), born in Tokyo, Japan
1975 – Marci Miller [Jobson], American soccer midfielder and coach (17 caps; coach Baylor), born in St. Charles, Illinois
Famous Deaths
1371 – Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1954 – Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies
1994 – Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1996 – Willard Parker, American actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman), dies at 84
1997 – Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
2007 – Friedrich Zehm, German pianist and composer, dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 3rd December 2021
1845 – Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
1902 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
1961 – Mary Charleson, Irish-American silent film actress (Upstairs And Down), dies at 71
1967 – Annette Kolb, German writer and pacifist, dies at 97
1978 – William Grant Still, American composer (“Afro-American” Symphony), dies at 83
1981 – (Nicolaas) “Cola” Debrot, Dutch lawyer, doctor.author and politician (Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, 1962-70), dies at 79
1984 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
2006 – Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
2009 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident), dies at 90
2020 – Noah Creshevsky, American electroacoustic composer, dies of cancer at 75
Historical Events for 3rd December 2021
1910 – Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
1939 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 6th Symphony premieres
1949 – 14th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 14-13 in Birmingham
1956 – Britain and France pull troops out of Egypt
1964 – Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
1979 – Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1985 – 7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for “Faerie Tale Theatre”
1988 – NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1995 – England cricket wicket-keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
2007 – Devastating winter storms cause Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, closing 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days, resulting in at least eight deaths and billions of dollars of damage
Today in History for 3rd December 2021
Historical Events
1833 – Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens
1883 – 48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes
1926 – Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
1960 – Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner’s “Camelot” opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 873 performances
1971 – India invades West Pakistan claiming hundreds of lives and starting the full scale Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
1980 – Don Sutton, the winningest pitcher in Los Angeles Dodgers history, signs a 4-year contract with Houston; Astros career shortened by a patellar fracture; returns to Dodgers in 1988 after stints with 3 other MLB clubs
Famous Birthdays
1838 – Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement, born in London, England (d. 1912)
1926 – Hans Otte, German composer and pianist (The Book of Sounds, Book of Hours), born in Plauen, Germany (d. 2007)
1951 – Riki Choshu [Mitsuo Yoshida], Japanese pro wrestler (NJPW/All-Japan), born in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, Japan
1979 – Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor (Stargate Atlantis), born in Toronto, Ontario
1982 – Michael Essien, Ghanaian soccer midfielder (58 caps; Chelsea, Lyon), born in Accra, Ghana
1990 – Christian Benteke, Belgian soccer striker (93 caps; Genk, Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Aston Villa), born in Kinshasa, Zaire
Famous Deaths
1890 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricket all-rounder (8 Tests Australia, 4 England), dies of insanity at 39
1905 – John Bartlett, American writer and publisher (compiled Familiar Quotations), dies at 85
1949 – Elin Pelin, Bulgarian writer (The Gerak Family; Earth), dies at 72
1957 – Frank Gannett, American newspaper publisher (Gannett), dies at 81
1992 – Harry Ellerbe, actor (House of Usher, Magnetic Monster), dies at 91
2001 – Grady Martin, American country music guitarist (The Nashville A-Team), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 2nd December 2021
1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico), dies of pleurisy at 61 or 62
1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
1719 – Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
1944 – Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
1980 – Richard Pindle Hammond, American composer dies at 83
1990 – Robert Cummings, American actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder), dies of kidney failure at 80
1997 – Shirley Crabtree Jr. [Big Daddy], English pro wrestler (record-breaking 64-inch chest), dies from a stroke at 67
1999 – Joey Adams [Joseph Abramowitz], American comedian, actor and columnist (ABC’s Back That Fact), dies at 88
1999 – Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado), dies of lung cancer at 74
2020 – Pat Patterson, Canadian pro wrestler (WWE Hall of Fame; creator Royal Rumble), dies from cancer at 79