Page 5: Historical Events In December - 13

1928  W Gordon Smith, playwright.   

1929  Christopher Plummer, Stage and screen actor is born   

1929  Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital).   

1929  Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42   

1930  George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him.   

1930  Genevieve Page, actress (Day and the Hour)   

1934  Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC.   

1934  Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive.   

1935  Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)   

1935  John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies.   

1936  Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC.   

1938  "Aryanization" decree is enacted, all Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession   

1938  Los Angeles freezes at 28°F.   

1939  Battle at La Plata   

1940  Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4 and 1 in only S Af Test), dies.   

1941  German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union.   

1942  Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader.   

1942  Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78   

1943  150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol   

1944  Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, results in the deaths of 138.   

1944  Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34.   

1945  Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide   

1946  Leon Blum elected French premier   

1947  Maine Turnpike opens to traffic   

1947  "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs   

1949  Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem.   

1949  AL votes down proposal to revive spitball.   

1950  "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs.   

1951  Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher   

1951  Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73   

1953  KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting.   

1956  Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35000 Robinson retires.   

1958  Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed   

1959  Archbishop Makarios elected inaugural president of Cyprus.   

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1521  Sixtus v: [felice peretti/"montalto"], bishop of fermo/pope (1585-90)   

1533  Erik xiv wasa: King of sweden (1560-69)   

1553  Henry iv: 1st bourbon-king of navarre/france (1572/89-1610)   

1585  William drummond of hawthornden: Scottish poet   

1640  Robert plot: English naturalist   

1662  Francesco bianchini: Italian philosopher and scientist   

1678  Yongzheng emperor of china: Yongzheng emperor of china (d. 1735)   

1720  Carlo gozzi: Italian dramatist   

0838  Death of Pippijn i: King of aquitania,   

1048  Al-biruni: Arabic royal astrologer,   

1124  Callistus ii: [guido di borgogna], italian pope (1119-24),   

1126  Hendrik ix: The black, duke of bayern (1120-26),   

1204  Maimonides: Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar,   

1250  Death of Frederick ii: German emperor (1212-1250),   

1404  Death of Albrecht: Duke of bavaria,   

1466  Death of Donatello: Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)