Page 6: Historical Events In December - 13

1956  On this day in history dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires   

1958  On December - 13 ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed   

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

1959  On December - 13 archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus   

1960  Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals) on December - 13.   

1961  Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein on this day in history.   

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

1962  On December - 13 relay 1 communication satellite launched   

1963  Capitol records signs right of first refusal agreement with the Beatles on December - 13.   

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

1963  Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 on December - 13.   

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 this day in history shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf   

1965  On this day in history algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow   

1966  1st US bombing of Hanoi on December - 13.   

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

1967  United Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history playland at the Beach reopens   

1968  Playland at Beach reopens on this day in history.   

1968  Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 on December - 13.   

1969  On December - 13 arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"   

1969  On December - 13 raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83   

1970  On December - 13 greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA   

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

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

1971  On December - 13 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  On this day in history malta becomes a republic   

1974  On this day in history rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66   

1975  Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 on December - 13.   

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

1976  On this day in history longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m)   

1976  On December - 13 eduard Claudius, writer, dies   

1977  Entire University of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash on this day in history.   

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

1533  On December - 13 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  On this day in history birth of william Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)   

1640  Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696) was born on this day in history.   

1662  On this day in history birth of francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)   

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

1720  Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804) was born on December - 13.   

0838  Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies on this day in history.   

1048  On December - 13 al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74   

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

1126  On December - 13 hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies   

1204  On December - 13 maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69   

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

1404  On December - 13 albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74   

1466  On this day in history death of donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)