Page 5: Historical Events In December - 09

1932  Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician   

1933  21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3   

1933  Milt Campbell, Plainfield NJ, hurdler/decathlete (Olympics-gold-56).   

1933  Morice Bird, cricketer (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies.   

1934  Dame Judi Dench, British actress is born   

1934  NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship.   

1935  Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder   

1936  AL OKs night baseball for St Louis.   

1939  27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7   

1940  British troops inaugural major offensive in North Africa during WW II.   

1940  Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius.   

1940  British assault on Banghazi Libya.   

1940  Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle   

1941  China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy   

1941  Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester".   

1941  The inaugural US WW II bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines.   

1941  1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines   

1941  Leonard "Leo" Polak, Dutch philosopher, dies in Sachsenhausen at 61.   

1944  Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28.   

1948  UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide   

1948  Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies   

1949  Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty   

1951  Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Worttemberg, W Germany   

1951  Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ   

1953  General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired   

1954  Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad.   

1956  Hans Barth, composer, dies at 59.   

1957  1st Japanese ambassador to Israel   

1957  Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies   

1958  Robert H.W. Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society   

1958  Robert H W Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society   

1959  Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47.   

1960  1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV   

1961  SS Colonel Adolf Eichman are discovered guilty of war crimes in Israel.   

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1392  Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria) was born on this day in history.   

1447  On this day in history birth of chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)   

1561  On December - 09 birth of edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony   

1569  On this day in history birth of martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice)   

1571  Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect was born on December - 09.   

1579  On December - 09 birth of martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)   

1579  Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice) (d. 1639) was born on December - 09.   

1581  On December - 09 birth of emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange   

1165  Malcom IV, king of Scotland (1153-65), dies at 24 on December - 09.   

1292  On this day in history sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies   

1437  On December - 09 sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70   

1544  Death of Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491) on December - 09.   

1565  Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66 on December - 09.   

1603  On December - 09 death of william Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)   

1625  Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1636  Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90 on this day in history.