Page 6: Historical Events In December - 17

1941  Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor   

1942  Allies condemn the Nazis for murdering Jews.   

1942  Allies in London sentence German war criminals   

1943  Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany   

1944  Japanese-Americans released from detention camps   

1944  US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast   

1944  Green Bay Packers win NFL championship   

1944  Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26.   

1946  US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM   

1946  Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea.   

1946  Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84.   

1947  New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow.   

1947  NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow   

1948  Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68.   

1949  "Regina" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances   

1949  David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72.   

1951  Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants   

1953  Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad   

1954  British Petroleum Company (BP) formed   

1954  fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary IN).   

1955  Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it at the Sun Studios in Memphis   

1956  Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48   

1957  The Atlas U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile makes its inaugural test flight   

1957  Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64.   

1959  On the Beach premiered this day at the Astor Theatre in New York City -- and in 17 other cities. It was the inaugural motion picture to debut simultaneously in major cities around the world.   

1961  Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil   

1961  India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies.   

1961  Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53   

1962  Current constitution of Monaco promulgated   

1962  Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70.   

1963  The U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act, a sweeping set of laws designed to protect the environment from air pollution. It was the inaugural legislation to place pollution controls on the automobile industry   

1965  Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages ($0.50).   

1965  Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76   

1966  Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68   

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1239  Kujo yoritsugu: Japanese shogun   

1267  Emperor go-uda of japan: Emperor go-uda of japan (d. 1324)   

1493  Philippus a paracelsus: Swiss physician/alchemist (liber paramixum)   

1554  Ernst of bayern: Prince/bishop of liege/archbishop of cologne   

1619  Ruprecht: Prince of palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician   

1619  Prince rupert of the rhine: Commander in the english civil war   

1632  Anthony wood: English antiqurian   

1638  Johann ulrich sultzberger: Composer   

0535  Death of Emperor ankan of japan: Emperor ankan of japan (b. 466)   

0695  Death of Begga: Ancestress of the carolingians/saint,   

0942  Death of William longsword: William longsword   

1187  Death of Gregory viii: [alberto de morra], italian pope (1187),   

1195  Boudouin v: Count of hainault/flanders (boudouin viii),   

1213  Death of Jean de matha: French saint,   

1273  Death of Rumi: Rumi (b.1207)   

1471  Isabella of portugal: Duchess of burgundy,