Page 6: 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 this day in history.   

1956  On this day in history anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland   

1957  Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra on December - 11.   

1958  On December - 11 upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France   

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

1959  Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri on this day in history.   

1960  On December - 11 black Sunday   

1961  Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel on December - 11.   

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

1961  JFK provides US military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam on this day in history.   

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

1964  On December - 11 percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76   

1967  Beatles' Apple Music signs its first group-Grapefruit on this day in history.   

1967  SST prototype "Concorde" first shown (France) on December - 11.   

1967  Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC on this day in history.   

1968  The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years on December - 11.   

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

1969  On December - 11 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  On this day in history astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon   

1972  John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies on this day in history.   

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

1974  On this day in history reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63   

1975  On December - 11 first class postage rises from $0.10 to $0.13   

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  Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1981  On December - 11 muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick   

1981  On this day in history spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center   

1981  On December - 11 uN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General   

1983  First visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) on this day in history.   

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

1984  George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history general Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC   

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1465  On this day in history birth of ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)   

1475  On December - 11 birth of leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21)   

1475  On December - 11 birth of pope Leo X (d. 1521)   

1566  Manuel Cardoso, composer was born on December - 11.   

1676  On December - 11 birth of johann Georg Weichenberger, composer   

1709  On December - 11 birth of louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)   

1712  On this day in history birth of francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)   

1725  George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792) was born on December - 11.   

0384  Death of Pope Damasus I on this day in history.   

0711  Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42 on December - 11.   

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  Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies on December - 11.   

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

1524  On this day in history death of henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake   

1532  On this day in history death of pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)