Historical Events In December - 11

1954  USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va on this day in history.  

1954  On December - 11 phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium  

1955  Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51 on December - 11.  

1956  Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland on this day in history.  

1957  On December - 11 jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra  

1958  On this day in history upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France  

1958  On December - 11 4th (last) Dutch govt of Drees falls  

1959  On December - 11 yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri  

1960  On December - 11 black Sunday  

1961  On December - 11 adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel  

1961  On this day in history elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 wks  

1961  On December - 11 jFK provides US military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam  

1961  On December - 11 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released  

1964  Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1967  On December - 11 beatles' Apple Music signs its first group-Grapefruit  

1967  SST prototype "Concorde" first shown (France) on this day in history.  

1967  Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC on December - 11.  

1968  On this day in history the Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years.  

1968  Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 on December - 11.  

1969  On this day in history the secretary of the Moscow writer's union declares that nudity as displayed in the popular play "Oh! Calcutta!" is a sign of decadence in Western culture  

1972  Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon on this day in history.  

1972  John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies on December - 11.  

1973  On this day in history karen and Richard Carpenter received a gold record for their single, Top of the World.  

1974  On December - 11 reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63  

1975  First class postage rises from $0.10 to $0.13 on this day in history.  

1978  On this day in history 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry  

1979  On this day in history claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66  

1981  Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick on December - 11.  

1981  Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center on this day in history.  

1981  UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General on December - 11.  

1983  On December - 11 first visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)  

1983  On this day in history szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82  

1984  On December - 11 george Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90  

1985  General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC on December - 11.  

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1465  On December - 11 birth of ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)  

1475  On this day in history birth of leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21)  

1475  Pope Leo X (d. 1521) was born on December - 11.  

1566  On this day in history birth of manuel Cardoso, composer  

1676  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer was born on this day in history.  

1709  Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742) was born on this day in history.  

1712  On December - 11 birth of francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)  

1725  On December - 11 birth of george Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)  

0384  On this day in history death of pope Damasus I  

0711  On December - 11 justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42  

1121  On December - 11 death of al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)  

1226  Death of Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177) on this day in history.  

1282  On December - 11 llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies  

1282  On this day in history death of llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.  

1524  On December - 11 death of henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake  

1532  Death of Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455) on December - 11.