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)   

1447  Chenghua: Emperor of china   

1561  Edwin sandys: A founder of virginia colony   

1569  Martinus de porres: Peru, saint (patron of social justice)   

1571  Adrian a metius: Dutch mathematician/fort architect   

1579  Martin de porres: Peruvian saint   

1579  Martinus de porres: Peruvian saint (patron of social justice)   

1581  Emilia secunda antwerpiana: Daughter of willem of orange   

1165  Death of Malcom iv: King of scotland (1153-65),   

1292  Sa'di: Great persian poet (orchard, rose garden),   

1437  Sigismund: German emperor/king of hungary/bohemia,   

1544  Teofilo folengo: Italian poet (b. 1491)   

1565  Death of Pius iv: [gianangelo de' medici], italian pope (1559-65),   

1603  Death of William watson: English conspirator (b. 1559)   

1625  Death of Ubbo emmius: [van embden], frisian humanist/historian,   

1636  Giovanni b aleotti: Ital writer/theater architect,