Historical Events In December - 04

1921  On December - 04 deanna Durbin, Winnipeg Manitoba, actress/vocalist (100 Men & a Girl)  

1922  Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service on December - 04.  

1922  On December - 04 lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service  

1922  Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps) on this day in history.  

1923  On December - 04 cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres  

1923  On this day in history charles Keating, district attorney (LA Calif)  

1924  On this day in history john Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)  

1925  On December - 04 maurice Binder, NYC, photographer/film titler (James Bond)  

1926  14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of Toronto, 10-7 on December - 04.  

1926  On December - 04 lee Doraey, rocker  

1927  On December - 04 duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem  

1927  Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow on December - 04.  

1928  On December - 04 walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in NYC  

1928  Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20) on December - 04.  

1930  French govt of Tardieu falls on December - 04.  

1930  Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953) on December - 04.  

1931  On this day in history "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair  

1931  On December - 04 alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player  

1932  The birth of Maria Callas, Greek/American operatic soprano on this day in history.  

1932  On this day in history edgar Valcarcel, composer  

1932  Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64 on December - 04.  

1933  FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration on December - 04.  

1933  Horst Buchholz, Berlin Germany, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe) on this day in history.  

1933  On December - 04 stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65  

1934  On this day in history victor French, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Highway to Heaven)  

1935  1,200 at St Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class on December - 04.  

1935  1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class on December - 04.  

1935  Fred Rumsey, England, cricket lefty pace bowler (5 Tests 1964-65) on this day in history.  

1935  Hylton Philipson, cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies on December - 04.  

1936  On this day in history larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist  

1937  On this day in history max Baer Jr, Oakland Calif, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies)  

1938  On this day in history dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54  

1941  Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts on this day in history.  

1942  FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration on December - 04.  

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1443  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on December - 04.  

1555  Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.  

1580  On this day in history birth of samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)  

1584  On this day in history birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony  

1595  Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) was born on December - 04.  

1646  Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) was born on December - 04.  

1660  Andre Campra, composer was born on December - 04.  

1667  On this day in history birth of michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer  

0765  Death of Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702) on this day in history.  

0771  Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 on this day in history.  

0811  On December - 04 charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39  

1075  Death of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne on December - 04.  

1123  On this day in history death of omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)  

1137  Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 on December - 04.  

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on this day in history.  

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on December - 04.