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| 1840 |
John Boyd Dunlop - Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire) |
| 1840 |
Hiram Stevens Maxim - inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) |
| 1848 |
Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley] - US female outlaw (wild west) |
| 1900 |
Adlai E. Stevenson - (Governor-D-IL), presidential candidate (D) (1952, 1956) |
| 1906 |
John Carradine - Greenwich Village, NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling) |
| 1914 |
William S Burroughs - St. Louis, MO, novelist (Naked Lunch) |
| 1917 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor - [Zsa Sari], Budapest, Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space) |
| 1918 |
Robert Brown - Hebrides Islands, Scotland, actor (Here Come The Brides, Primus) |
| 1918 |
Charles John "Tim" Holt - Beverly Hills, CA, actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Stagecoach, Hitler's Children) |
| 1919 |
Andrea George Papandreou - Greek premier (1981-89, 93- ) |
| 1919 |
Red Buttons - [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx, New York, NY, comedian/actor (Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure) |
| 1940 |
H.R. Giger - artist, special effects designer (Alien) |
| 1941 |
Rick Laird - jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece) |
| 1941 |
Barrett Strong - Detroit MI, singer (Money, That's What I Want) |
| 1941 |
Stephen J. Cannell - producer (Rockford Files) |
| 1942 |
Cory Wells - Buffalo, NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) |
| 1943 |
Charles Winfield - Pennsylvania, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel) |
| 1943 |
Michael Mann - Chicago, IL, actor/director/producer (Sexpot, Close Friends) |
| 1943 |
Nolan Bushnell - founder (Atari)/creator (Pong) |
| 1944 |
Al Kooper - rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die) |
| 1947 |
David Ladd - Los Angeles, CA, actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline) |
| 1947 |
Mary Louise Cleave - Southampton, NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30) |
| 1948 |
Barbara Hershey - [Herzstein], Atlanta, GA, (Stuntman, Shy People, A World Apart) |
| 1948 |
Christopher Guest - New York, NY, actor (Saturday Night Live, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride) |
| 1948 |
Nigel Tufnel - rocker (Spinal Tap) |
| 1954 |
Roseanne Katan - Jamaica, playmate (September 1978) |
| 1955 |
Debra Jo Fondren - Los Angeles, CA, playmate of year (September 1977) |
| 1962 |
Jennifer Jason Leigh - [Morrow], Los Angeles, CA, actress (Single White Female) |
| 1964 |
Laura Linney - New York, NY, actress (Man of the Year, Love Actually) |
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| 1881 |
Thomas Carlyle - historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 |
| 1937 |
Lou [Andreas-]Salomé - Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75 |
| 1965 |
Irving Bacon - actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71 |
| 1972 |
Marianne Moore - US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84 |
| 1973 |
L.C. William Nolde - last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral |
| 1993 |
Tip Tipping - [Tim], stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34 |
| 1993 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83 of heart failure |
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Disaster Day |
| 1631 |
Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder, arrives in Boston from England |
| 1649 |
Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II |
| 1778 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina |
| 1783 |
Sweden recognizes US independence |
| 1861 |
Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA |
| 1861 |
1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati |
| 1870 |
1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia |
| 1887 |
Snow falls on San Francisco |
| 1918 |
1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson |
| 1922 |
Reader's Digest magazine 1st published |
| 1936 |
National Wildlife Federation forms |
| 1937 |
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed |
| 1937 |
1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, Modern Times, is released |
| 1940 |
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction" |
| 1945 |
US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
| 1953 |
Peter Pan by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC |
| 1962 |
Suit to bar Englewood, NJ, from "racial segregated" schools is filed |
| 1967 |
Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua |
| 1967 |
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) |
| 1969 |
US population reaches 200 million |
| 1971 |
Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro; Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours |
| 1972 |
US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage |
| 1973 |
Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War |
| 1973 |
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
| 1981 |
Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane |
| 1983 |
Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
| 1986 |
Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" |
| 1988 |
Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham |
| 1991 |
A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
| 1992 |
Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case |
| 1994 |
"Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego" debuts on Fox TV |
| 1994 |
Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, MS, 30 years after the crime |
| 1997 |
3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund |
| 1998 |
Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd) |
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