Page 6: Historical Events In December - 13

1956  On December - 13 dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires   

1958  On this day in history ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed   

1959  Archbishop Makarios elected first president of Cyprus on December - 13.   

1959  Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus on this day in history.   

1960  On December - 13 italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)   

1961  On December - 13 beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein   

1961  Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101 on December - 13.   

1962  On this day in history relay 1 communication satellite launched   

1963  On this day in history capitol records signs right of first refusal agreement with the Beatles   

1963  On this day in history capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles   

1963  On this day in history hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79   

1964  On this day in history in El Paso, TX, LBJ and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border   

1964  On December - 13 shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf   

1965  Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow on December - 13.   

1966  On December - 13 1st US bombing of Hanoi   

1966  On December - 13 charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer   

1967  On December - 13 united Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL   

1968  On December - 13 playland at the Beach reopens   

1968  On this day in history playland at Beach reopens   

1968  On this day in history siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52   

1969  Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant" on December - 13.   

1969  Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1970  Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA on December - 13.   

1971  On December - 13 john Sinclair (sentence 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed   

1971  John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed on this day in history.   

1971  On this day in history max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88   

1972  On December - 13 an HC-1 Detachment Five SH-3G Sea King helicopter, stationed aboard Oriskany, rescued a VFP-63 pilot involved in operations in the Tonkin Gulf while on Yankee Station. This was the fifteenth pilot rescued by HC-1   

1974  Malta becomes a republic on this day in history.   

1974  Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66 on December - 13.   

1975  Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1976  Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur on December - 13.   

1976  On December - 13 longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m)   

1976  Eduard Claudius, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1977  Entire University of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash on December - 13.   

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1521  On December - 13 birth of sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)   

1533  On this day in history birth of erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69)   

1553  On December - 13 birth of henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)   

1585  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

1640  On this day in history birth of robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)   

1662  Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729) was born on December - 13.   

1678  Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735) was born on December - 13.   

1720  Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804) was born on this day in history.   

0838  On December - 13 pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies   

1048  Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1124  Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies on this day in history.   

1126  Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies on this day in history.   

1204  Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 on December - 13.   

1250  On December - 13 frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55   

1404  On this day in history albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74   

1466  Death of Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386) on this day in history.