Page 6: Historical Events In December - 05

1940  Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60.   

1941  USS Lexington (CV-2) sails with Task Force 12 to ferry Marine aircraft to Midway, leaving no carriers at Pearl Harbor.   

1941  Football Writers Association of America organized.   

1941  David Wilson, English contractor/multi-millionaire.   

1942  CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto.   

1942  Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried.   

1943  NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves   

1944  German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht   

1945  Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle.   

1945  In the 'Bermuda Triangle' five US Navy bombers, on a training flight, disappear without trace   

1945  "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)   

1946  Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808.   

1947  Jersey Joe Walcott beats Joe Louis.   

1947  Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title   

1948  NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions.   

1949  Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title   

1950  Ships of the RAN participate in the evacuation of Chinnampo, Korea.   

1950  Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

1951  "Dragnet" premiers.   

1951  "Dragnet" premieres   

1951  "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies   

1952  -8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8000 die   

1954  KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting.   

1955  The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous trade unions in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, is formed.   

1955  AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president   

1955  Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73.   

1956  Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in NYC.   

1957  NYC is recorded as becoming inaugural city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law).   

1957  William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in NYC.   

1958  Ferdinand Bruckner, writer, dies at 67   

1959  K S Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), dies.   

1963  Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies   

1964  The inaugural Medal of Honor awarded to a U.S. serviceman for action in Vietnam is presented to Capt. Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York, for his heroic action earlier in the year.   

1964  Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70   

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1377  Jianwen emperor of china: Jianwen emperor of china (d. 1402)   

1443  Pope julius ii: Pope julius ii (d. 1513)   

1495  Nicolas cleynaerts: Flemish grammarian   

1537  Ashikaga yoshiaki: Japanese shogun   

1539  Fausto paolo sozzini: Italian theologian   

1545  Janus dousa: [johan van de does], dutch politician/poet   

1547  Ubbo emmius: [van embden], dutch-frisian humanist/historian   

1661  Robert haley: Earl of oxford/english premier (whig, 1710-14)   

0749  Saint john of damascus: Theologian   

1082  Death of Ramon berenguer ii: Count of barcelona   

1212  Death of Derek ii of are: Bishop of utrecht (1197-1212),   

1244  Death of Johanna of constantinople: Countess of flanders (1205-44),   

1355  Jan iii: Duke of brabant/limburg,   

1560  Death of Francois ii: King of france (1559-60),   

1570  Johan friis: Danish statesman (b. 1494)   

1594  Death of Gerardus mercator: Flemish philosopher/cartographer,