Page 7: Historical Events In December - 06

1974  In this year, George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"   

1975  H-46 Sea Knight helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island began search and rescue operations in the northwestern Washington state areas flooded by heavy rains.   

1977  South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence   

1980  Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn   

1980  NASA launches Intelsat V   

1982  11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.   

1982  Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce.   

1983  A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, results in the deaths of 6 Israelis   

1984  Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage.   

1984  Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90.   

1985  John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert.   

1985  UK joins US Star Wars project.   

1985  Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92   

1986  Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22.   

1987  3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"   

1987  James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies   

1988  Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden.   

1988  Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown.   

1988  STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission   

1988  Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63   

1989  Worst Canadian mass murder - man results in the deaths of 14 women at University of Montreal.   

1989  Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86   

1990  Saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages   

1990  Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies   

1991  "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country" premieres   

1991  Brooke Ashley Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah   

1991  Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62.   

1992  Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque in India.   

1992  Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural leads to at 91   

1993  Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85.   

1994  Apple filed a lawsuit against a San Francisco software firm called Canyon Co., alleging the company had stolen thousands of lines of code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows   

1994  AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80.   

1995  After a long and heated debate, House and Senate committee members agreed on the final wording of the Communications Decency Act, which made it a crime to provide pornography to minors over the Internet   

1995  Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67   

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0846  Hasan al-askari: Shia imam   

1285  King ferdinand iv of castile: King ferdinand iv of castile (d. 1312)   

1421  Henry vi: King of england (1422-61, 1470-71)   

1478  Baldassare castiglione: Italian diplomat and author   

1550  Orazio tiberio vecchi: Composer   

1586  Niccolò zucchi: Italian astronomer   

1608  George monck/monk: English general/gov of scotland   

1637  Sir edmund andros: English governor in north america   

0343  Saint nicholas: Saint nicholas   

1185  Afonso i: The conqueror, king of portugal (1143-85),   

1352  Death of Clement vi: [pierre roger], pope (1342-52),   

1531  Death of John volkertsz trimaker: Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded   

1550  Pieter coecke van aelst: Flemish painter,   

1562  Jan van scorel: Dutch painter/architect,   

1598  Death of Elbertus leoninus: Dutch lawyer/politician,   

1618  Death of Jacques-davy duperron: French cardinal (b. 1556)