Page 5: Historical Events In December - 28

1925  George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC   

1925  Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough   

1926  Imperial Airways begins England-India mail and passenger service   

1926  Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic.   

1926  Donald Carr, cricketer (England player in 50's, later MCC honcho).   

1927  George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC.   

1927  Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK)   

1928  Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made.   

1928  Kamillo Lendvay, composer.   

1929  Wilfred Wop May 1896-1952 flies inaugural official air mail north to Aklavik NWT.   

1929  Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars).   

1931  Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China.   

1931  Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance.   

1932  Henry Vernon 'Harry' Howell hockey player, defenseman, was born at Hamilton, Ontario.   

1932  John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies.   

1934  Stalin used the assassination of an aide as an opportunity to execute more than one hundred officials, beginning a series of purges that eliminated most of the old Bolsheviks.   

1935  W.P.A. Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC   

1935  Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies   

1937  Fascist Octavian Goga is recorded as becoming PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism.   

1937  Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62.   

1938  Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa   

1938  Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48   

1939  inaugural flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype   

1940  Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148.   

1941  State of siege comes into force in Bohemia/Moravia   

1942  Robert Sullivan is recorded as becoming inaugural pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times.   

1942  Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus   

1943  Canadian troops enter the medieval town of Ortona after a week of battling enemy paratroopers in house to house fighting; Germans moved out quickly the night before when they were in danger of being cut off   

1943  All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70000 killed.   

1944  The Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City   

1944  Eisenhower and Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium.   

1945  Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"   

1945  The President directed that the Coast Guard be transferred from the Navy and returned to the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department   

1945  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74.   

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1484  Joachim vadianus: [von watt], swiss physician/mayor of sankt gallen   

1522  Margaret of austria: Regent of the netherlands   

1619  Antoine furetière: French writer   

1631  Ludolf backhuysen: Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

1635  Princess elizabeth of england: Princess elizabeth of england (d. 1650)   

1655  Charles cornwallis: 3rd baron cornwallis, first lord of the british admiralty   

1665  George fitzroy: 1st duke of northumberland, british general   

1694  Ceslav vanura: Composer   

0300  Theonas: Patriarch of alexandria   

1367  Ashikaga yoshiakira: Japanese shogun (b. 1330)   

1446  Death of Clemens viii: [aegyd munoz], spanish anti-pope (1423-29),   

1503  Death of Piero di lorenzo de' medici: Ruler of florence (b. 1471)   

1542  Death of Albert pigge: [pighius], dutch theologist/astronomer,   

1622  Death of Francois de sales: French bishop of geneva/writer/saint,   

1663  Death of Francesco maria grimaldi: Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)   

1671  Johann friedrich gronovius: German classical scholar (b. 1611)