Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Today in History for 24th December 2014

Historical Events


1930 - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid

1932 - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile

1935 - Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six

1956 - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt

1971 - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later

1992 - US President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair


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Famous Birthdays


1745 - Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician/general/signer (Decl of Indep)

1829 - Benjamin Ipavec, composer

1900 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)

1904 - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.

1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor

1982 - Robert Carmine, American singer


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Famous Deaths


1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)

1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)

1994 - John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65

1994 - Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57

1996 - Nguyen Huu Tho, Pres of Vietnam (1980-81), dies

2009 - Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (b. 1916)


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