Post by Rhonda on Dec 4, 2007 6:57:13 GMT -5
what happened
1818
Illinois became the 21st state of the United States.
1912
An armistice was signed by Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, ending the first Balkan War.
1922
1 "The Toll of the Sea", the first successful Technicolor motion picture, was shown at New York City's Rialto Theatre.
1931
The Statute of Westminster was passed, under which British dominions gained complete legislative independence.
1944
Virtual civil war broke out in Athens, Greece, between the government backed by Britain and the National Liberation Front (EAM).
1967
Dr. Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant operation in Cape Town on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky lived for 18 days.
1968
For 1969, the rules committee of Major League Baseball announced the pitchers mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches in order to "get more batting action." They didnt know that batters would get taller in 1969.
1971
The Pakistani air force attacked Indian airfields and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency.
1984
Miss America 1971, the wife of Kentucky's Governor and heiress of the Kentucky Fried Chicken fortune, Phyllis George signed a multiyear contract with CBS-TV to be coanchor of the "CBS Morning News" begining in January 1985.
1984
A gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed at least 3,000 people and disabled thousands.
1989
Presidents Bush and Gorbachev hailed their first summit as the start of a new era in United States-Soviet relations.
1995
Former South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was arrested over charges of military rebellion stemming from a 1979 coup and a later army massacre.
1998
Directed by John Madden, the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love opened in United States theaters. The film was a runaway hit, and leading actress Gwyneth Paltrow earned an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her performance as Viola. The film also starred Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare, a young, poor playwright with writer's block who meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write his most famous love play, "Romeo and Juliet". Also in the superb cast were Judi Dench (who earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar), Ben Affleck, Geoffrey Rush, and Colin Firth. The film earned a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture
Birthdays
1907
Connie Boswell
singer: see Connee Boswell Day [above] d: 1976
1923
Maria Callas
artist d: 1977
1925
Harry [Suitcase] Simpson
baseball d: 1979
1927
Ferlin Husky [Simon Crum, Terry Preston]
singer
1930
Andy Williams [Howard Andrew]
entertainer, singer
1932
Jaye P. [Mary Margaret] Morgan
singer
1937
Bobby Allison
Motorsports Hall of Famer
1948
Ozzy [John] Osbourne
songwriter, singer
1960
Julianne Moore
actress
1960
Daryl Hannah
actress
1965
Katarina Witt
Olympic Gold Medal figure skater
1982
Brian Bonsall
actor
Music
1967
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
The Rain, the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills
I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick
It's the Little Things - Sonny James
1975
Fly, Robin Fly - Silver Convention
Island Girl - Elton John
The Way I Want to Touch You - Captain and Tennille
It's All in the Movies - Merle Haggard
1983
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
Say It Isn't So - Daryl Hall and John Oates
A Little Good News - Anne Murray
Today's Quote
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
- Joseph Hall